El Captain
Idlewild

By the harbour I harbor
The strangest memories
Older than I could ever be
Stranded in nostalgia
So tonight i'll try harder
But it's hard to fix this spotlight on me
In a cast that's taking places
I'm not sure of where I want to be
Stand up, stand up and stand out
Applaud El Captain
And jump up to cheers from the crowd
Stand up, stand up and stand out
And I hope you take your camera
To photograph my tears as they hit the ground

No one even listens
The same way that no one ever laughs
I'm taking the car out of the snow
I'm wondering where the summer went to
Circled by your secrets
I'm hoping that they don't include me
At least I'm in good company
Because there's no one else around except me

Stand up, stand up and stand out
Applaud el captain
Just to watch the world slow itself
Stand up, stand up and stand out
And I hope you took your camera
The silence makes the loudest sound

It seems far too easy to say the same things
I'll choose my own way to use my life up
And finally I found a new way to say the same things in imaginary ways
I use my life up

You were looking at pictures in the distance
Hoping to see the future
In your pictures of the distance
Hoping to see the future

Looking at pictures in the distance
Hoping to see the future
Through your pictures of the distance
Hoping to see the future

Looking at pictures in the distance
Hoping to see the future
In your pictures of the distance
Hoping to see the future

Looking at pictures in the distance
Hoping to see the future
In your pictures of the distance
Hoping to see the future


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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 Distant History   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   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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