Map of the World

Album: Monsters of Folk (2009)
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  • There's a map of the world
    On the wall in your room
    Green pins where ya wanna to go
    White pins where ya been
    There isn't even ten,
    You're already feeling old
    Pretty face stair back
    From a magazine stack
    That you read when
    You're feeling bored
    Look through a telescope lens
    It doesn't make sense
    You think you've been there before

    Some far off feelings
    Some up close kind of ache
    White screen reason to
    Look the other way

    There's a place by the lake
    That you go when it's late
    It was summer and the crowds were gone
    And you sit all alone with
    With your thoughts, gettin' stoned
    Just waitin' for some peace to come

    Like the thing that'cha
    Tried that you thought you liked
    For a minute then it all felt wrong
    So your changin' again
    All your clothes, all your friends
    Just the same as it ever was

    That far off feeling
    That up close kind of ache
    Some white screen reason to
    Look the other way

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    Ouu

    Iahh
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    It's a road that you've paved
    Over Indian graves and
    You wonder why your dreams are crazed
    So you cling to your wife,
    Your kids, and you life
    There's nothin' that you're gonna save
    Put the razor to your face,
    Hot water for a shave
    Kill the shadow of yesterday
    Clean shirt, clean pants,
    Clean sleet second chance
    You're goin' by another name

    Some far off feeling
    Some up close kind of ache
    That instant karma
    That always comes too late

    Iahh

    Ouu

    Iahh
    La dum

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    La dum Writer/s: CONOR M OBERST
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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