When I was young, lying in the grass
I felt so safe in a warming bath
Of sunlight
Of sunlight.

Vast open sky
Could do no harm
Like an embrace
From mother's arms
In sunlight
In sunlight.

In sunlight
In sunlight.

With every year that came to pass
More clouds appear until the sky went black
And there was
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
And there was
No sunlight,
No sunlight anymore.

You disappeared at the same speed
The idealistic things I believed
The optimist died inside of me
No sunlight,
No sunlight.

No sunlight,
No sunlight.

You disappeared with the same speed
The idealistic thing I believed
The optimist died inside of me
No sunlight,
No sunlight.

No sunlight,
No sunlight.

No sunlight,
No sunlight,
No sunlight,
No sunlight anymore.


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No Sunlight Lyrics as written by Christopher Walla Benjamin Gibbard

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    I agree with alanbwells. Its either how he grows up and sees the bad in the world but i think it can also be more about Just having a bad experience and how it changes your perception of what happens to you. But the tone is very decieving, in the same way that Thrash unreal is by Against Me. Very upbeat tone but dark lyrics. Loves it.

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