Lenders in the Temple Lyrics

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Cover art for Lenders in the Temple lyrics by Conor Oberst

A short delay The parrot blues Little voices mimic you It’s not so hard to make that sound So watch your back The ides of March Cut your hair like Joan of Arc Disguise your will They’ll find you out And when they do Look out There’s money lenders inside the temple That circus tiger's going to break your heart Something so wild turned into paper If I loved you, well, that’s my fault A bitch in heat The alpha male Not something she’d ever tell Except when she got deafly high Then out it came like summer rain Washed the cars and everything Felt clean for just a little while A telethon we drunk dialed Those starving children They ain’t got no mother Theres pink flamingos living in the mall I’d give a fortune to your infomercial If somebody would just take my call Take my call Hello? Patterns in my mind now moving slow Sorrow all across the surface roads Smoothing out the edges of the stone The lights are out where’d everybody go alone Erase yourself and you’ll be free Men dull are destroyed by the sea All we are is colored sand So pay to ride the Ferris wheel Smile All that you can feel is gratitude for what has been Because it did not happen There’s money lenders inside the temple That circus tiger's going to break my heart Something so wild turned into paper If you love me, well, that’s your fault There’s money lenders inside the temple This crystal city’s going to fall apart When all their power turns into vapor If I miss you, well, that’s my fault That’s my fault