I Must Belong Somewhere

Album: Cassadaga (2007)
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  • Leave the bright blue door on the whitewashed wall
    Leave the death ledger under City Hall
    Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today

    Just leave the lilac print on the linen sheet
    Leave the birds you killed at your father's feet
    Let the sideways rain and the crooked street remain

    'Cause everything, it must belong somewhere
    There's a train off in the distance, a bicycle chained to the stairs
    Everything, it must belong somewhere
    I know that now, that's why I'm staying here

    Leave the ocean's roar in the turquoise shell
    Leave the widower in his private hell
    Leave the liberty in that broken bell today

    Just leave the epic poem on its yellow page
    Leave the gray macaw in his covered cage
    Let the traveling band on the interstate remain

    'Cause everything, it must belong somewhere
    Soundstage in California, televisions in Times Square, yeah
    Everything, it must belong somewhere
    I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
    Yeah, I know that now, that's why I'm staying here

    In truth, the forest hears each sound
    Each blade of grass as it lies down
    The world requires no audience, no witnesses, no witnesses

    Leave the novelist in his daydream tune
    Leave the scientist in her Rubik's Cube
    Leave the true genius in the padded room today

    Leave the hot, white trash in the shopping malls
    Leave the hawks of war in their capitals
    Let the organ's moan in the cathedral remain

    'Cause everything, it must belong somewhere
    They locked the devil in the basement, threw God up into the air, yeah
    Everything, it must belong somewhere
    I know it's true, I wish you'd leave me here
    Yes, you know it's true, why don't you leave me here? Writer/s: Conor Oberst
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Lena from Portland, Ora great song and band
  • Laura from Knoxville, Tnthis song is the best ever!
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