I Will Be Grateful For This Day lyrics

Song information

Artist: Bright Eyes
Album: Noise Floor (Rarities 1998-2005)

Lyrics

I had girl I knew she grew became a woman
Now I think that she teaches at one of the schools downtown
We used to roll the windows down
And play the music loud
Smoking out in her car
Lost in west omaha
And we'd get drunk and kiss
Our bodies twist like shoe laces
And we never came untied;
I guess you were just my type
You know that summer never stopped
I still pretend i'm there
Bands in the living room
Neighbors ain't never cared
So when I sat behind the drum set
Your heartbeat's what I tried to play
With kick and snares so careless not in time
So you got ahead of me
And I guess i'm still dragging behind

I had a friend who changed his name
But couldn't change himself
Never quite figured out
How to do with what life had dealt
He put a needle in his arm
To calm his handsome hell
Who would have imagined it?
Could've worked out so well
Now he's a shape that moves
Like echoes through my empty room
And there's a voice that speaks
Like someone's right behind me
I turned around and found
Exactly what you would expect
Clothes I left on my floor
The papers piled on my desk
But where the ink is
Where the cause effect what's meant by it
The story is incomplete
The pictures' left unfinished
So I am writing my own ending
I'll let my pen bleed black or blue
And I will color in the meaning
It will be gold and green and true
And i'll learn to love my new discovered proof
I'll be grateful for this day
I will be grateful for each day to come