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This is why you don’t feed the animals
that live inside my head
This is why you don’t encourage me
mingling with the dead

I won’t remove guards from my wall
I won’t shed my outer shell and expose my heart
I’ll die long before you get to me
And dark and dismal was my song
But I will never again sing along
I swear I've been cowardly for quite some time
now this melancholy boy is gonna shine

Let’s go, arrows out
I'm gonna go
Let's go
Gonna go
Arrows out

And when it gets dark
Sometimes my heart leads me into the woods
There I drink a sinister mead
That drives away the good

I'm gonna go
Arrows out

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gravityconquers On Apr 10, 2011

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by gravityconquers

15y ago

i can't believe nobody has added this yet! it's really grown on me and i think it's my favorite new original song on arrows! (clearly i love live there, turn off this song, tunnels aka new version of ramshackle house, we sing in time, etc)

the phrase "arrows out" is so powerful to me. i feel like this song is basically an awesome way to say "shit sucks now, but i'm going to keep going and it's going to get better."

i wish they played this song live -- and i mean, i guess they can't considering the time restraints of being an opener -- but i can't wait for the lonely forest to blow up. i'm thrilled that they're going to tour with death cab...i was talking to john and he described it as "shit your pants exciting"

overall, i freakin love this song and this band and i hope everyone is as moved by this song as i am!

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