Amy In The White Coat lyrics

Song information

Artist: Bright Eyes
Album: There Is No Beginning To The Story

Lyrics

You take your clothes off
Right after school
The tea is on, the flame is blue
And you hope it won't take all afternoon
The tv's waitingt to talk to you
It's your naked body on white velour
But there's no feeling
Just weight on you
But you get nauseous now
As he speaks to you
Such proper language
For acts so cruel
He says "we all follow the rules
We can't very well go and break them now can we?
For you, for you, for you.
Your older sisters, I had them too
But you're my favorite you know it's true
You look like your mother
In that thin disguise
Your parting mouth, your shining eyes
And the way that you hate me
And the length of your hair
It's the reason I made you
It's the bond that we share
You see we're all trying to endure it
You could easily go and make your own life somewhere
Couldn't you? couldn't you? couldn't you, couldn't you, couldn't you, couldn't you, couldn't you?"

With the sun beams bright
You keep your eyes shut
Your alarm clock lies
Get to school on time
Where you're a bag of warm fluid
You're the corpse in the class
You walk so near to your locker
You lay so low in the grass
Did you get that coat from the principal?
Did you get that bruise on the bus?
You should wash your hair more
You should look more like us
But I saw you walking once
Under powder blue skies
You looked cold still, your collar was high
And I tried to talk to you
But you walked right by
I don't know which I said then
"Hello" or "goodbye"
And yet we're all trying to be pure
But it isn't a very easy thing, now is it?
To do, to do, to do, to do, to do, to do
Isn't it, isn't it, isn't it, isn't it
Isn't it, isn't it, isn't it, isn't it?