Lover I Don't Have To Love
Bright Eyes

I picked you out
Of a crowd and talked to you
Said I liked your shoes
You said, Thanks, can I follow you?
So it's up the stairs
And out of view, no prying eyes
I poured some wine
I asked your name, you asked the time

Now it's two o'clock
The club is closed and we are up the block
Your hands are on me
Pressing hard against your jeans
Your tongue in my mouth
Trying to keep the words from coming out
You didn't care to know
Who else may have been you before

I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a girl who's too sad to give a fuck
Where's the kid with the chemicals?
I thought he said to meet him here
But I'm not sure
I've got the money
If you've got the time
You said, It feels good
I said I'll give it a try

Then my mind went dark
We both forgot where your car was parked
Let's just take the train
I'll meet up with the band in the morning

Bad actors with bad habits
Some sad singers, they just play tragic
And the phone's ringing
And the van's leaving
Let's just keep touching
Let's just keep, keep singing

I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
And where's the kid with the chemicals?
I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full
I need some meaning I can memorize
The kind I have always seems to slip my mind

But you, but you...

You write such pretty words
But life's no storybook
Love's an excuse to get hurt
And to hurt
Do you like to hurt?
I do, I do
Then hurt me
Then hurt me
Then hurt me


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Ward cover)   Make A Plan To Love Me   Make War   Make War (Short)   Make War (Short)   Make War Short   Man Named Truth   Messenger Bird's Song   Method Acting   Middleman   Mirrors And Fevers   Moab   Motion Sickness   Movement of a Hand   Mushaboom   Mushaboom (Feist cover)   N'en Parlons Plus   Napoleon's Hat   Neely O'Hara   No Lies Just Love   No Lies, Just Love   No One Would Riot For Less   No Prayer   North Of The City   Nothing Gets Crossed Out   Nothing Has Changed   Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem   Oh You Are The Roots That That Sleep Beneath My Fe...   Oh, You Are The Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet A...   Old Soul Song   Old Soul Song (For The New World Order)   On My Way to Work   One Foot In Front Of The Other   One for You, One for Me   One Straw (Please)   Out On The Weekend   Padraic My Prince   Papa Was A Rodeo   Papa Was a Rodeo (The Magnetic Fields cover)   Patient Hope In New Show   Patient Hope in New Snow   Pioneer's Park   Poison Oak   Puddle Stomper   Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra   Pull My Hair   Racing Towards The New   Reinvent The Wheel   Road To Joy   Roosevelt Room   Saturday As Usual   Scale, a Mirror, and These Indifferent Clocks   Seashell Tale   Seashell Tale (M. Ward cover)   Shell Games   Ship In a Bottle   Silent Night   Silver Bells   Singing a Song in the Morning   Singularity   Smoke Without Fire   Solid Jackson   Something Vague   Song to Pass the Time   Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man   Soon You'll Be Leaving Your Man   Soul Singer In A Session Band   Southern State   Spent On Rainy Days   Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace   Spring Cleaning   Stray Dog Freedom   Sunrise, Sunset   Supriya   Susan Miller Rag   Take it Easy (Love Nothing)   Tereza And Thomas   Tereza And Tomas   The 'Feel Good' Revolution   The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat   The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweet   The Big Picture   The Biggest Lie   The Biggest Lie (Elliott Smith cover)   The Calendar Hung Its Self   The Calendar Hung Itself   The Calendar Hung Itself...   The Calender Hung Itself   The Callendar Hung Itself   The Center of the World   The City Has Sex   The Difference In The Shades   The First Noel   The Invisible Gardener   The Joy In Discovery   The Joy In Forgetting / The Joy In Acceptance   The Joy in Forgetting \/ The Joy in Acceptance   The Movement of a Hand   The Night Before Christmas   The Trees Get Wheeled Away   The Vanishing Act   Theme from Pinata   Theme to Pinata   Time Code   Touch   Tourist Trap   Train Under Water   Trees Get Wheeled Away   Trees Get Wheeled Away [#]   Triple Spiral   True Blue   Type Of Nigga U Need   Untitled (Lovers Turn into Monsters)   Walls (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover)   Waste Of Paint   We Are Free Men   We Are Nowhere And It's Now   We Are Nowhere And It's Now - (with Emmylou Harris...   We Are Nowhere, And It's Now   Weather Reports   Well Whiskey   When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass   When The President Talks To God   White Christmas   You Will. You? Will. You? Will   You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will   You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.   You WillYou? WillYou? WillYou? Will

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