The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness - The National

I am beautiful (I hate you) I love you (How can you even love yourself?) I'm worthy (You disgust me) I'm pure (Where do you go now?) Please don't go (You'll burn in hell) I will fall to mortality (There is no god) God is inside of me (No wonder your Father left you) He should've protected me (Just take your clothes off) I will not (You're a whore) I forgive you

You can meet me in the hotel lobby But you can't be here to stay Only in the night, she wants me You can find another way And you know all this liquor got me fucked up And I'm sleeping through the day 'Cause only in the night, she wants me You can find another way Do-do do-do-do-do Do-do, do-do Do-do do-do-do-do Doo-doo-ooh-ooh-ooh Do-do do-do-do-do Do-doo, do-do-do-do Do-doo, do-doo You can meet me in the hotel lobby But you can't be here to stay Only in the night, she wants me You can find another way And you know all this liquor got me fucked up And I'm sleeping through the day 'Cause only in the night, she wants me You can find another way Do-do do-do-do-do Do-do, do-do Do-do, do-do-do-do Doo-doo-ooh-ooh-ooh Do-do do-do-do-do Do-doo, do-do-do-do Do-doo, do-doo

When the cold of winter comes Starless night will cover day In the veiling of the sun We will walk in bitter day. But in dreams But in dreams I can hear your name And in dreams And in dreams We will meet again. When the seas and mountains fall And we come, to end of days In the dark I hear a call Calling me there, I will go there And back again.

Another sun sets down behind me Another day comes crashing in There's a whispering wind that's blowing There's a storm that's closing in I can hear the trains, they're rolling To a place I've never been And I can feel her breath beside me With an empty glass of gin As the darkness settles in I can hear her voice again I can hear your voice again Waiting for someone to save me But everyone just runs away Waiting for someone to change me But no one ever comes I'm breaking down the walls that cage me But nothing ever falls in place Waiting for the end to take me Blinded by the sun All the ghosts that live inside me Always waiting in the wind I can see through my reflection What I've become and what I've been You see, your Heaven doesn't want me And your Hell won't let me in It's like I'm holding all the aces But I know I'll never win Waiting for someone to save me But everyone just runs away Waiting for someone to change me But no one ever comes I'm breaking down the walls that cage me But nothing ever falls in place Waiting for the end to take me Blinded by the sun You can take it away, tear it all down Spit in my face, pushed to the ground Look what I've become I've fallen from grace, bloodied and bound Taking up space, lost and I'm found Look what I've become I can hear the snakes, they're winding Singing songs of pain and sin There's an anger overflowing From this empty glass of gin As the darkness settles in And the darkness settles in Waiting for someone to save me But everyone just runs away Waiting for someone to change me But no one ever comes I'm breaking down the walls that cage me But nothing ever falls in place Waiting for the end to take me Blinded by the sun (You can take it away) And the darkness settles in (You can take it away) And the darkness settles in (You can take it away) As the darkness settles in

متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف وتفوت أيام وتمر سنين وانا حالي غريب انا مين انا مين مشدود في الساقية وعايش مبسوط وحزين ومحبط وجرئ ورزين مشدود في الساقية وعايش مبسوط وحزين ومحبط وجرئ ورزين على غفلة اتحول بركان جبار انا ضلمة وليل أنا نار ونهار متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف ماشي على طريق مكتوب مرسوم بس انا مسؤول وعليا اللوم ماقدرش أقول من الذنب برئ لا انا ابليس ولا هبقى رسول ماقدرش أقول من الذنب برئ لا انا ابليس ولا هبقى رسول قدامي طريق همشيه همشيه نفهم في الآخر كل ده لية متكتف مهموم موجوع وضعيف وشجاع مليان أحلام وعشان مربوط مكسور وبكسر في المآديف

فوسط زحمة وناس كتير وطريق أنا ماشي فيه عكس السير وسط الطموح والأمل والتمني فاضلي خطوة توصلني فوسط حاجات ومكيفات بحاول أنسى كل اللي فات في وسط صدري ضلعي مكسور ومن خلاله قلبي شايف نور أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع فوسط الليل وأنا بعيد عن البشر شفت نور يشبه نور القمر بس القمر مسيره يفارق ويسيبني تاني مع الوحدة أحارب فوسط قصة حب يعني وهمية كان لازم أصدق اصل الوحدة قوية مش كل المشاعر حقيقية أنا شفت نور معرفتش اغمض عنيا أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع أنا كنت فاكر اني طاير وأتاريني على وشي بقع أنا كنت فاكر إني هوصل لكني بهرب من الوجع