Demons

Album: Trouble Will Find Me (2013)
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  • When I think of you in the city
    The sight of you among the sights
    Get this sudden sinking feeling
    Of a man about to fly
    Never kept me up before
    Now I've been awake for days
    I can't fight it anymore
    I'm going through an awkward phase

    I am secretly in love with
    Everyone that I grew up with
    Do my crying underwater
    I can't get down any farther
    All my drowning friends can see
    Now there is no running from it
    It's become the crux of me
    I wish that I could rise above it

    But I stay down
    With my demons
    I stay down
    With my demons

    Bats and buzzards in the sky
    Alligators in the sewers
    I don't even wonder why
    Hide among the younger viewers
    Huddle with them all night long
    The worried talk to God goes on
    I sincerely tried to love it
    Wish that I could rise above it

    But I stay down
    With my demons
    I stay down
    With my demons
    I stay down
    With my demons
    I stay down
    With my demons

    Can I stay here? I can sleep on the floor
    Paint the blood and hang the palms on the door
    Do not think I'm going places anymore
    Wanna see the sun come up above New York
    Oh, everyday I start so great
    Then the sunlight dims
    Less I look the more I see the pythons and the limbs
    Do not know what's wrong with me
    Sours in the cut
    When I walk into a room
    I do not light it up
    Fuck

    So I stay down
    With my demons
    I stay down
    With my demons
    I stay down
    With my demons
    I stay down
    With my demons Writer/s: Aaron Brooking Dessner, Matthew Donald Berninger
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Histoire et Chansons, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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