Okay, okay. I really just like transcribing lyrics. It forces me to listen to them, to really pay attention to them, which is something I've been wont to bypass (probably since I started listening to techno music and taking the ancient path of "Seek the Pop Hook" instead of "Seek the Perfect Song." Lucky for me Jeff Mangum drew me along the right path all along. "Everything Is", which you can find as studio version on the Everything Is EP (whoda thunkit...) is, to me, a much happier song than the other two Jeff Mangum tracks we've seen tonight. These lyrics are from some live recording of the song (probably Jittery Joes.) Lyrics:
Growing sleepy as the rain falls,
As children draped in flowers form a chain.
They sing a song with jelly jars and bird calls,
As night falls into dusk and it's day again.
I'm not afraid of love parades in my daydreams,
Old men with kazoos and beating drums.
When I awake I see the streets are made of ice cream.
It's just you and me, and, oh dear, our life has just begun.
Everything is beautiful here
It's spinning circles around my ear
I'm finally breaking free from fear
And it's fading....
Oh beautiful smiles, won't you stay a while?
We could close the door and sleep all day.
It's a September sky with pretty pictures in my mind.
It's lost its feelings of so afraid.
Everything is beautiful here
It's spinning circles around my ear
I'm finally breaking free from fear
And it's fading....
Growing sleepy now as the rain falls,
As children draped in flowers form a chain.
They sing a song with jelly jars and bird calls,
As night falls into dusk and it's day again.
Everything is beautiful here
It's spinning circles around my ear
I'm finally breaking free from fear
And it's fading....