A Distant History
Idlewild

This fascination, where did it come from?
What does it mean when you're fascinated
by things that you know you'll never see?
I overheard this conversation as it started to belong to me

You're convinced that where you're born is where you're from
No, You're convinced that where you're born is not where you're from

It's only where you're waiting to see it through
And not understanding why I have to
Be reminded that I'll tell you when I've
Waited for longer than I have to
Oh could you just tell me now, couldn't you tell me now?

With even more than money spent
There's nothing left of your life
With even more than money spent
There's nothing left of your life

All these descriptions, where did they come from?
Do they describe what we mean perfectly?
And how can I explain to you how I know that?
It's a natural order of the things that I believe

You're convinced that where you're born is where you're from
No, You're convinced that where you're born is not where you're from

It's only where you're waiting to see it through
And not understanding why I have to
Be reminded that you'll tell me when I've
Waited for longer than I have to
Oh could you just tell me now, couldn't you tell me now?

With even more than money spent
There's nothing left of your life
With even more than money spent
There's nothing left of your life
There's nothing left of your life
There's nothing there left of your life


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  (I Am) What I Am Not   (The Night Will) Bring You Back To Life   1903-70   1990 Nightime   4 People Do Good   A Film For The Future   A Ghost In The Arcade   A Modern Way Of Letting Go   Actually It's Darkness   Actually It's Darkness   All Over The Town   American English   Annihilate Now!   Apron Strings   As If I Hadn't Slept   As If I Hadn't Slept   Blame It On Obvious Ways   Blame It On The Obvious Ways   Boys Don't Cry (Cover)   Boys Don't Cry (live)   Broken Windows   Captain   Century After Century   Chandlelier   Circle In Stars   Circles In Stars   City Hall   Close The Door   Disconnected   Don't Let Me Change   Don't Let Me Change   Dreams Of Nothing   El Capitan   El Capitan   El Captain   Everyone Says You're So Fragile   Everyone Says You're So Fragile   Everything (as It Moves)   Everything Flows   Faster   Film for the Future   Finish It Remains   Finished It Remains   Forgot To Follow   Future Works   Ghost in the Arcade   Gone Too Long   Goodnight   Great Times Wasted   Hold On To Your Breath   House Alone   I Don't Have The Map   I Don't Have The Map   I Found That Essence Rare   I Never Wanted   I Understand It   I Understand It [Multimedia Track]   I Understand It [Radio Edit]   I Want A Warning   I Want To Be A Writer   I Was Made To Think It   I'm A Message   I'm Happy To Be Here Tonight   I'm A Message   I'm Happy To Be Here Tonight   Idea Track   If It Takes You Home   In Competition For The Worst   In Competition For The Worst Time   In Remote Part / Scottish Fiction   In Remote Part/Scottish Fiction   In Remote Part\/Scottish Fiction   It'll Take A Long Time   It'll Take A Long Time   Last Night I Missed All the Fireworks   Let Me Sleep (Next To The Mirror)   Listen To What You've Got   Listen To What You've Got   Little Discourage   Live In A Hiding Place   Love Steals Us From Loneliness   Love Steals Us from Loneliness [Acoustic]   Low Light   Make Another World   Meet Me At The Harbour   Meet Me at the Harbour [*]   Mince Shower Cap (Part 2)   Mince Showercap (Part 1)   Mistake Pageant   Modern way of letting go   No Emotion   No Generation   Not Just Sometimes But Always   Once In Your Life   Out Of Routine   Paint Nothing   Palace Flophouse   Paranoid   Pleasure And Pain   Poor Thing   Post-Electric   Queen Of The Troubled Teens   Quiet Crown   Readers & Writers   Readers and Writers   Rescue   Roseability   Rusty   Safe And Sound   Satan Polariod   Satan Polaroid   Self Healer   Stay The Same   Take Me Back In Time   Take Me Back To The Islands   Take Me Back To The Islans   Tell Me 10 Words   Tell Me Ten Words   The Bronze Medal   The Night Will Bring You Back To Life   The Nothing That I Know   The Space Between All Things   The Weight of Years   The Work We Never Do   Theory Of Achievement   There's Glory In Your Story   There's Glory In Your Story   These Are Just Years   These Wooden Ideas   This Is Worse   To Be Forgotten   Too Long Awake   Too Long Awake (reprise)   We Always Have To Impress   Welcome Home   West Haven   What Am I Going To Do?   When I Argue I See Shapes   Winter Is Blue   You & I Are Both Away   You And I Are Both Away   You Don't Have The Heart   You Don't Have The Heart   You Held The World In Your Arms   You Just Have To Be Who You Are   You've Lost Your Way   You've Lost Your Way   Younger Than America

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