The National - Little Faith

Little faith, follow me
I set a fire in blackberry field
Make us laugh or nothing will
I'll set a fire just to see what it kills

Now I'm stuck in New York and the rain's comin down
I don't feel like we're goin anywhere
Stuck in New York and the rain's comin down
Still blindfolded Vanity Fair

Leave our red southern souls
Head for the coast
Leave our red southern swords
Everything goes

All our lonely kicks are gettin harder to find
We'll play nuns versus priests until somebody cries
All our lonely kicks they make the insanely thing
We'll play nuns versus priests until somebody wins

Awesome prince hit your sleeve
Lose your high history
Make us laugh or nothing will
I'll set a fire just to see what it kills

Don't be bitter Anna
I know how you think
You're waiting for Radio City to sink
You'll find commiseration in everyone's eyes
The storm will suck the pretty girls into the sky

All our lonely kicks are gettin harder to find
We'll play nuns vs priests until somebody cries
All our lonely kicks they make the insanely thing
We'll play nuns vs priests until somebody wins

Leave our red southern souls
Head for the coast
Leave our red southern souls
Everything goes

The National - Terrible Love

[Note: this is a tricky one, and is a bit of a work in progress. If you have some more ideas, let me know]

It's terrible love and I'm walkin with spiders
It's terrible love and I'm walkin in
It's terrible love and I'm walkin with spiders
It's terrible love and I'm walkin in
This square company
This square company

It's terrible love and I'm walkin with spiders
It's terrible love and I'm walkin in
It's terrible love and I'm walkin with spiders
It's terrible love and I'm walkin in
It's quite a company
This square company
Square company

There, can't fall asleep without a little help
It takes a while to settle down my shiver
Until the hurt is set (?)

It takes a notion not to pray
It takes a notion not to break
It takes an ocean not to pray
It takes an ocean not to break
Square company
This square company

But I wont follow you
Into the redly home (?)
I said I won't but then I saw your shiver come
They didn't want me to
It's terrible love and im walkin with spiders
It's terible love and I'm walkin in
It's terrible love and I'm walkin with spiders
It's terrible love and I'm walkin in

It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break
It takes an ocean not to break

The National - Lemonworld

So happy I was invited
Gimme a reason to get out of the city
See you inside watchin swans on TV
Livin and dyin in New York means nothing to me
I gave my heart to the army
the only sentimental thing I could think of
Cousins and cousins somewhere overseas
But it'll take a better war to kill a college man like me

I'm too tired to drive anywhere
Anyway right now
Do you care if I stay
You can put on your bathing suits
And I'll try to find to find something on this thing that means nothing
and I'm losing my breath do do do do do...
Losing my breath do do do...

You and your sister live in a lemonworld
I wanna sit in and die
You and your sister live in a lemonworld
Do do do do...
You and your sister live in a lemonworld
I wanna sit in and die
You and your sister live in a lemonworld
Do do do..

This pricey stuff makes me dizzy
I guess I've always been a delicate man
It takes me a day I remember a day
I didn't mean to let it get so far out of hand
I was a comfortable kid
But I don't think about it much anymore
Lay me on the table put flowers in my mouth
And we can say that we invented a summer lovin torture party

I'm too tired to drive anywhere
Anyway right now
Do you care if I stay
You can put on your bathing suits
And I'll try to find something on this thing that means nothing

You and your sister live in a lemonworld
I wanna sit in and die
You and your sister live in a lemonworld
Do do do do...
You and your sister live in a lemonworld
I wanna sit in and die
You and your sister live in a lemonworld
Do do do..

Losin my breath
Do do do...

The National - Runaway

There's no saving anything
Now we're swallowing the shine of the sun
There's no saving anything
How we swallow the sun
But I wont be no runaway
Cos i wont run

No I won't be no runaway
What makes you think I'm enjoyin bein led to the flood
We got another thing comin undone
And it's takin us over
We don't bleed
And we don't fight
Go ahead, go ahead, throw your arms in the air tonight
We don't bleed
And we dont fight
Go ahead go ahead lose our shirts in the fire tonight
What makes you think I'm enjoyin being led to the flood
We got another thing comin undone

But I won't be no runawany
Cos I won't run
No I won't be no runaway
Cos I won't run
No I won't be no runaway
What makes you think I'm enjoin being led to the flood
We got another thing comin undone
That's takin us over
We don't bleed when we don't fight
Go ahead go ahead throw your arms in the air tonight
We don't bleed when we don't fight
Go ahead go ahead lose our shirts in the fire tonight
What makes you think I'm enjoyin bein led to the flood
We got another thing comin undone
We got another thing comin undone
And it's takin forever

Ill go braving everything
With this swallowin the shine of the sun
I'll go braving everything
Through the shine of the sun

But I won't be no runawany
Cos I won't run
No I won't be no runaway
Cos I won't run
No I won't be no runaway
What makes you think I'm enjoin being led to the flood
We got another thing comin undone
And it's takin us over
We don't bleed when we don't fight
Go ahead go ahead throw your arms in the air tonight
We don't bleed when we don't fight
Go ahead go ahead lose our shirts in the fire tonight
What makes you think I'm enjoyin bein led to the flood
We got another thing comin undone
We got another thing comin undone
And it's takin us over
And it's takin forever

The National - Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks

Leave your home
Change your name
Live alone
Eat your cake

Vanderlyle cry baby cry
Oh the waters are risin
Still no surprisin you
Vanderlyle cry baby cry
Man it's all been forgiven
The swans are a'swimmin
I'll explain everything to the geeks

All the very best of us string ourselves up for the
All the very best of us string ourselves up for the
All the very best of us string ourselves up for the
All the very best of us string ourselves up for the
Vanderlyle cry baby cry
For the waters are risin
Still no surprisin you
Vanderlyle cry baby cry
Man it's all been forgiven
The swans are a'swimmin
I'll explain everything to the geeks

Hangin from
Chandeliers
Same small wall
At your heels

All the very best of us string ourselves up for the
All the very best of us string ourselves up for the
All the very best of us string ourselves up for the
All the very best of us string ourselves up for the
Vanderlyle cry baby cry
For the waters are risin
Still no surprisin you
Vanderlyle cry baby cry
Now its all been forgiven
Swans are a'swimmin
I'll explain everything to the geeks
I'll explain everything to the geeks
I'll explain everything to the geeks

The National - Anyone's Ghost

Say you stay home
Alone with the food
Find out from friends
That wasn't true
Go out at night with your headphones on again
Walk through the Manhattan valleys of the dead

Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost

But I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else

Said I came close
As anyone's come
To livin underwater
For more than a month
Sitting at night inside my heart, it was
Said it should tear a kid apart, it does

Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost

But I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else
But I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else

I had a hole in the middle where the lightning went through
I told my friends not to worry
I had a hole in the middle someone's slide show to do
I told my friends not to worry

Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost

The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio

Stand up straight at the foot of your love
I lift my shirt up
Stand up straight at the foot of your love
I lift my shirt up

I was carried to a Ohio in a swarm of bees
I never married but Ohio don't remember me

Lean my head on the hood of your car
I take it too far
Lean my head on the hood of your car
I take it too far

I still owe money to the money to the money to the money I owe
I never thought about love when I thought about home
I still owe money to the money to the money
The floors are fallin out from everybody I know
I'm on a bloodbuzz, yes I am
I'm on a bloodbuzz, God I am
I'm on a bloodbuzz

I was carried to Ohio in a swarm of bees
I never married but Ohio don't remember me

I still owe money to the money to the money to the money I owe
I never thought about love when I thought about home
I still owe money to the money to the money to the money I owe
The floors are fallin out from everybody I know

I'm on a bloodbuzz... Yes I am
I'm on a bloodbuzz
I'm on a bloodbuzz, God I am
I'm on a bloodbuzz

The National - England

Summer sun a'runnin through the weather and a mother
For the feelin that I lost today
Summer sun a'runnin for the feelin I lost today

Summer started runnin through the weather and a muddle
For the feelin that I lost today
Summer started runnin for the feelin I lost today

You must be somewehere in London
You must be lovin your life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Walkin every lane

I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make
Corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need
Arm in arm Los Angeles cathedral
Minor singin airheads sing for me

Put emotion in a river between everybody else and everything yourself and home
Put an ocean in a river between everything you said and home

You must be somewehere in London
You must be lovin your life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Walkin every lane

I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make
I don't even think to make
Corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need
Arm in arm Los Angeles cathedral
Minor singin airheads sing for me

Frail the heights stay alive with the city
Fail the heights stay alive with the city
Frail the heights
Cos they're desperate to entertain
(x4)

The National - Conversation 16

I think the kids are in trouble
Do not know what all the troubles are for
Give them ice for their fevers
You're the only thing I ever want anymore
Live on coffee and flowers
Try not to wonder what the weather will be
Figured out what we're missing
Tell you miserable things after you are asleep

Now we'll leave the silver city all the silver girls
Gave us black dreams
Now we'll leave the silver city to all the silver girls
Everything means everything

It's a Hollywood summer
You'd never believe the shitty thoughts I think
Meet our friends out for dinner
When I said what I said I didn't mean anything
We belong in a movie
Try to hold it together till our friends are gone
We should swim in a fountain
Do not want to disappoint anyone

Now we'll leave the silver city all the silver girls
Gave us black dreams
Leave the silver city to all the silver girls
Everything means everything

I was afraid I'd eat your brains
I was afraid I'd eat your brains
Cos I'm evil, cos I'm evil
I'm a confident liar
Had my head in the oven so you'll know where I'll be
I try to be more romantic
I wanna believe in everything you believe
If I was less than amazing
Do not know what all the troubles are for
Fall asleep in your branches
You're the only thing I ever want anymore

Now we'll leave the silver city all the silver girls
Gave us black dreams
Leave the silver city to all the silver girls
Everything means everything

I was afraid I'd eat your brains
I was afraid I'd eat your brains
Cos I'm evil
Cos I'm evil
Cos I'm evil

The National - Afraid of Everyone

Then I'm radio and
Then I'm television
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone

There the young blue body
With the old red body
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone

With my kid on my shoulders I try
Not to hurt anybody I like
But I don't have the drugs to sort
I don't have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out

I defend my family
With my orange umbrella
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone

With my shiny new star-
Spangled tennis shoes on
I'm afraid of everyone
I'm afraid of everyone

With my kid on my shoulders I try
Not to hurt anybody I like
But I don't have the drugs to sort
I don't have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out

I don't have the drugs to sort
I don't have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out

Your voices all in my soul soul soul
Your voice is swallowin my soul soul soul
Your voices swallowin my soul soul soul
Your voices all in my soul soul soul

Your voices all in my soul soul soul soul
Your voice is swallowin my soul soul soul soul
Your voices swallowin my soul soul soul soul
Soul soul soul soul soul soul soul soul soul soul

Your voices all in my soul soul soul soul
Your voice is swallowin my soul soul soul soul
Your voices swallowin my soul soul soul soul
Soul soul soul soul soul soul soul soul soul soul

The National - Sorrow

Sorrow found me when I was young
Sorrow weighted sorrow on
Sorrow they put me on the pill
'Sin my honey, 'sin my milk
Don't leave my hyper heart alone on the water
Cover me in rag and bones, sympathy
Cos I dont wanna get over you
I dont wanna get over you

Sorrow's my body on the waves
Sorrow's a girl inside my cage
I live in a city sorrow-built
It's my honey, it's in my milk
Don't leave my hyper heart alone on the water
Cover me in rag and bones, sympathy
Cos I don't wanna get over you
I don't wanna get over you

Don't leave my hyper heart alone on the water
Cover me in rag and bones, sympathy
Cos I don't wanna get over you
I don't wanna get over you