We Are Free Men
Well, the future spills its intangibles
An unknown set of variables
A path that's splitting infinitely up ahead
So tell me what's the use to pick and choose
From what you should or shouldn't do?
That's time spent better sleeping in your bed
Or wide awake in a shopping mall
Trying clothes on from off of the wall
Yeah, anything to entertain yourself
'Cause a costume can be quite comfortable
It can make you feel more beautiful
It can even make you look like someone else
But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do
Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick
There it always is
And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix
They pat your back bruised with their accolades
And all four walls are a trophy case
But that doesn't make it any less of a cage
But you can make it all less difficult
By embracing the ephemeral
Then you'd never have to worry or explain
'Cause if it's really all just physical
Then my memory's immaterial
So why then do I remember you at all?
But I do, I do, my friend, I've seen your face
We shared a cup, I know the taste
It's sweetness is relentless on my lips
So help me drink in everything that is
Like a freed convict, drunk on redemption
From the way I've been
Well, I swear this time that things will be different
Well, right and wrong, they have never been that far apart
For those who'd write that sentence where you hang
We will be lifted up from all of this
Yeah, we will transcend the insignificance of our existence
Yeah, your body's gone, but angel, you will live
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, but angel you will live
An unknown set of variables
A path that's splitting infinitely up ahead
So tell me what's the use to pick and choose
From what you should or shouldn't do?
That's time spent better sleeping in your bed
Or wide awake in a shopping mall
Trying clothes on from off of the wall
Yeah, anything to entertain yourself
'Cause a costume can be quite comfortable
It can make you feel more beautiful
It can even make you look like someone else
But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do
Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick
There it always is
And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix
They pat your back bruised with their accolades
And all four walls are a trophy case
But that doesn't make it any less of a cage
But you can make it all less difficult
By embracing the ephemeral
Then you'd never have to worry or explain
'Cause if it's really all just physical
Then my memory's immaterial
So why then do I remember you at all?
But I do, I do, my friend, I've seen your face
We shared a cup, I know the taste
It's sweetness is relentless on my lips
So help me drink in everything that is
Like a freed convict, drunk on redemption
From the way I've been
Well, I swear this time that things will be different
Well, right and wrong, they have never been that far apart
For those who'd write that sentence where you hang
We will be lifted up from all of this
Yeah, we will transcend the insignificance of our existence
Yeah, your body's gone, but angel, you will live
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, now your body's gone
Now your body's gone, but angel you will live
Credits
Writer(s): Conor Oberst
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Other Album Tracks
Altri album
- Five Dice, All Threes
- Bells and Whistles
- Christmas in Prison (feat. John Prine) - Single
- Pan and Broom (Eve Maret Remix)
- Cassadaga: A Companion
- Noise Floor: A Companion
- The People's Key: A Companion - EP
- Middleman (Companion Version)
- I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning: A Companion
- LIFTED or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A Companion
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