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Show Yourself Lyrics
And I will skim, my little sail,
my friends all shivering on the rails.
Show yourself.
Floating ten feet off of the ground,
twelve millionaires coughing up clouds.
Get them out.
Show yourself.
Show yourself.
(Oh, show yourself, no harm in it.)
Train across the island, spitting steam.
Six stations of a snowy screen.
Show yourself.
Outside, the fields of silver trash,
the city trembles on its slab.
Come on out.
Show yourself.
Show yourself.
(Oh, show yourself, no harm in it.)
I've had enough.
I can see in on loose snow
that there is no one there to help you.
There is no one there to hold you. Let it go.
I've felt enough.
Can't really feel it anymore.
And I know I'm closing off as it gets colder,
Can I call out like before?
Show yourself.
my friends all shivering on the rails.
Show yourself.
twelve millionaires coughing up clouds.
Get them out.
Show yourself.
(Oh, show yourself, no harm in it.)
Six stations of a snowy screen.
Show yourself.
the city trembles on its slab.
Come on out.
Show yourself.
(Oh, show yourself, no harm in it.)
I can see in on loose snow
that there is no one there to help you.
There is no one there to hold you. Let it go.
I've felt enough.
Can't really feel it anymore.
And I know I'm closing off as it gets colder,
Can I call out like before?
Show yourself.
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A lot of the new lyrics you posted are inaccurate. :/
I'm sorry for any inaccuracies, and sorry I didn't respond sooner. The lyrics that I posted were the official lyrics that came in the PDF that came with the pre-order of the album, and I copy and pasted to post them well before the album came out, before I had heard any of the songs...except a live version of Weave Room Blues, I think. Some of them are inaccurate, yes, I guess due to changes since they were written. The lyrics in the PDF are identical to the lyrics in the booklet that came with the album. Except, for some...
I'm sorry for any inaccuracies, and sorry I didn't respond sooner. The lyrics that I posted were the official lyrics that came in the PDF that came with the pre-order of the album, and I copy and pasted to post them well before the album came out, before I had heard any of the songs...except a live version of Weave Room Blues, I think. Some of them are inaccurate, yes, I guess due to changes since they were written. The lyrics in the PDF are identical to the lyrics in the booklet that came with the album. Except, for some reason, the lyrics to Show Yourself are not in the album booklet (and Weave Room Blues is), but they were in the PDF, and this is what they were.
I didn't know at the time, but there is a whole second part to the song that is missing in these lyrics! I will, at some point, do my best to transcribe them and add on. Of course, if anyone else wants to take a shot at it, go ahead. :)
The other lyrics are mostly not far off (though there's an intriguing additional part to Lay of the Last Survivor that is not in the song, which I posted, assuming that it would be in the studio version). Anyway, if anyone has any corrections to any of the songs, they're welcome to post them, and hopefully, I will go through all of them eventually. And I want to know what's up with the songs that haven't been released at all. They better be released! I just checked, and it seems that I Guess We Lost is out now as a B-side. Must acquire.
By the way, if anyone has a copy of that PDF and wants to send it to me, I would love you! Because I think I lost mine. :( My hard drive died a couple weeks ago. (PM me, and I'll give you my e-mail address next time I happen to check songmeanings.)
Long story short: THERE ARE A WHOLE BUNCH OF LYRICS MISSING FROM THIS SONG THAT I DIDN'T KNOW OF AT THE TIME, AND I AM SORRY.
I think "show yourself" might have double meaning in this song.
The first would be what someone might yell out in a dark forest when they hear a sound and think someone is there: "show yourself!"
The second would be what someone might recommend to another person in order to teach them how to do something: "I don't know, show yourself how to do it."
As such, I think the song might be saying to both "show" (reveal) your true identity and to "show" (teach) yourself how to do things. Be proud and independent?