Rylan, you should try to get some sun
You remind me of everyone
Rylan, did you break your mother's heart?
Every time you tried to play your part

Is it easy to keep so quiet?
Everybody loves a quiet child
Underwater you're almost free
If you wanna be alone, come with me

Rylan, we can take the quick way out
You can turn blank-white in a blank-white house
Say that you're a pervert, you're a vulture
Don't you wanna be popular culture?

Is it easy to keep so quiet?
Everybody loves a quiet child
Underwater you're almost free
If you wanna be alone, come with me
Is it easy to live inside yourself?
All the little kids are high and hazy
Everybody got nowhere to go
Everybody wants to be amazing

Rylan, California's rotten
Dress light-blue to be forgotten
Eat your pearls on Sunday morning
Keep your conversations boring
Stay with me among the strangers
Change your mind and nothing changes
Don't let show any emotion
When you climb into the ocean

Rylan, you should try to get some sun
There's a little bit of hell in everyone
Rylan, you should try to get some sun
You remind me of everyone
Rylan, you should try to get some sun
There's a little bit of hell in everyone
Rylan, you should try to get some sun


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Rylan Lyrics as written by Matthew D. Berninger Aaron Dessner

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    I see Rylan as a place not a person. A small town somewhere in California, where something terrible happened but that terrible thing just got buried and kept quiet and never really dealt with properly. The line 'you remind me of everyone' is how this town is a reflection of repressed humanity thats stuck in a certain mode.

    I think this is probably the nationals best song, the drums and strings are superb and the lyrics do make you think about different scenarios.

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