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Spent on Rainy Days Lyrics
I wish I saved it for rainy days,
'Cause they're the hardest to stay dry.
Got no self control,
I'm always beggin' into telephones.
And then I,
I bought a little from my brother's friend,
Yeah, well just to get me by.
I don't trust his cut,
The effect's never as high as the markup.
I think I'll print it in the personals,
That I'm looking for a match.
Someone to light me up,
Someone to burn the proof of the things that I've done.
Each day there's hours,
skip like a stone.
I just crawl in a bag,
I'm gonna live my life like somebody's shadow.
I know I'm lazy with the little things,
I mean I never held a door.
But I still loved you more,
Then anyone; Since or before
You're always saying that I owe you one,
Well lets consolidate this debt.
Get on a payment plan,
I'll pay compliments, you can still treat me bad.
But, now this isn't getting easier,
to leave you and this town behind.
I'll do some travelin',
Once I'm gone tell all our friend you've got even
I felt like an object, been set aside
You know, I'm back on the shelve.
Not locked in the drawer.
I'm mint in the box,
But you'd still sell me for cost.
Pull out a parachute.
A blanket on top of you.
The window you're looking through.
Pull out a parachute.
Pull out a parachute.
'Cause they're the hardest to stay dry.
Got no self control,
I'm always beggin' into telephones.
And then I,
I bought a little from my brother's friend,
Yeah, well just to get me by.
I don't trust his cut,
The effect's never as high as the markup.
I think I'll print it in the personals,
That I'm looking for a match.
Someone to light me up,
Someone to burn the proof of the things that I've done.
Each day there's hours,
skip like a stone.
I just crawl in a bag,
I'm gonna live my life like somebody's shadow.
I know I'm lazy with the little things,
I mean I never held a door.
But I still loved you more,
Then anyone; Since or before
You're always saying that I owe you one,
Well lets consolidate this debt.
Get on a payment plan,
I'll pay compliments, you can still treat me bad.
But, now this isn't getting easier,
to leave you and this town behind.
I'll do some travelin',
Once I'm gone tell all our friend you've got even
I felt like an object, been set aside
You know, I'm back on the shelve.
Not locked in the drawer.
I'm mint in the box,
But you'd still sell me for cost.
Pull out a parachute.
A blanket on top of you.
The window you're looking through.
Pull out a parachute.
Pull out a parachute.
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" i'm lazy with the little things, i mean i never held a door. but i still loved you more than anyone since or before. "
i can't believe i'm the first to comment.
this is bright eyes AND britt daniels of spoon. give a little credit eh?
This song is so awesome on so many different levels...
I like the beginning...about drugs Im assuming.
I'm gonna live my life like somebody's shadow
I love that line....
this song is badass...
thats exactly what i got from the song. its one of the best. but then again, my list of favorite songs is in the hundreds. what can i say? there are tons of wonderful songs. but the majority of them are bright eyes songs.
fucking amazing
does anyone have the tabs for this?
i get a lot of different things from this song. yesterday i was listening to it and i realized it was a story about a hopeless boy in life. it starts off by showing his desperate drug addiction, and how he tried to get clean, but he just can't take it without being high. in the first verse, it seemed to me that the match he was looking for is an actual match, like a flint, to light his joint ("something to light me up"). he's depressed and he just wants to forget about all the things he's done or hasn't done ("burn the proof of the things i've done"). he goes on to say that he basically gets high everyday so that he can just forget. he skips the hours because he can't remember them. the bag is like a bag of drugs, whatever it is he may be taking. and when you're always blazed, you're not really living. he's just living his "life like somebody's shadow." and then it seems to me that he's reflecting.. because he has a broken heart to add to his broken soul. he's saying that he tried, but his best wasn't good enough, and that he can't measure up. he's saying that this realization is helping him to leave everything behind. he knows he has some worth, but the girl can't see it, and just sees him as an object, something that she can use to her benefit (maybe to support her own drug addiction?). and then he seems to be killing himself. he's leaving town for good. he's doing some travelling (to heaven or hell). it seems like he's jumping off of her building, and he's free-falling by her window. and he's saying that she could have saved him, if she had wanted to. she could have shown him his own worth. but it's too late now. he's not the cord of a parachute. that's just the way i saw it.
i love the lyrics w/ the 'trying to find the fucking drug' references. excellent song. i have a good live version of it, Britt Daniels is in it.