I don't really need to see
So I don't need to see so I'll paint...
I don't know, I'll paint it black
I don't need to see
I don't see how you see out of your window
Well I don't need to see, I'll paint mine black
I don't need to see
I don't see how you see out of your windows
I don't need to see, I'll paint mine black

I don't know me and, you don't know you
So we, fit so good together
'Cause I knew you like I knew myself
We clung on like
Barnacles on a boat
Even though the ship sinks you know you can't let go
I was talking like, two hands knocking
Yelling, "Let me in. Let me in. Please come out!"

Black glass, dirt-based soap
Tell yourself, what you know
My friends, oh my friends
Bury your head, I'll help you bury your hands
Hard hit, hard to miss
The problems are, what a problem is

My light came off quick, call it your asterisk
It's buried in a boys in a boys first book of the stars
Saw it, a satellite, constant unblinking as
Buried at the bottom of the bottom of a brackish lake

I don't really need to see
So I don't need to see so I'll paint...
I don't know, I'll paint it black
I don't need to see
I don't see how you see out of your window
But I don't need to see, I'll paint mine black
I don't need to see
I don't see how you see out of your windows
I don't need to see, I'll paint mine black


Lyrics submitted by prod, edited by judotoss, cecioce89

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    "my light, it came up quick, call it your asterisk. buried boys, first book of the stars. saw it as a satellite... constant unblinking as... buried in the bottom of a brackish lake."

    i love this part of the song. i like, absolutely love it. the kid's first book of the stars stuff is so damn nostalgiac for me.

    Snevikon April 13, 2005   Link

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