Leave your home
Change your name
Live alone
Eat your cake

Vanderlyle crybaby cry
Oh, the water's a-rising
There's still no surprising you
Vanderlyle crybaby cry
Man, it's all been forgiven
Swans are a-swimmin'
I'll explain everything to the geeks

All the very best of us
String ourselves up for love
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for love
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for love
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for love

Vanderlyle crybaby cry
Oh, the water's a-rising
There's still no surprising you
Vanderlyle crybaby cry
Man, it's all been forgiven
Swans are a-swimmin'
I'll explain everything to the geeks

Hanging from
Chandeliers
Same small world
At your heels

All the very best of us
String ourselves up for love
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for love
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for love
All the very best of us
String ourselves up for love

Vanderlyle crybaby cry
Oh, the water's a-rising
There's still no surprising you
Vanderlyle crybaby cry
Man, it's all been forgiven
Swans are a-swimmin'
I'll explain everything to the geeks
I'll explain everything to the geeks
I'll explain everything to the geeks


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Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks Lyrics as written by Aaron Brooking Dessner Matthew Donald Berninger

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    Memory

    Hah, I saw The National live last December in San Francisco and they sang this song last. It was totally unplugged - no microphones or anything, just two acoustic guitars and the audience was told to sing along. Someone somewhere behind me kept singing, "swans are for swimming" and it just killed me. WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN

    nothingeveron September 21, 2012   Link

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