Bright Eyes - At the Bottom of Everything Lyrics

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So there was this woman and 
she was on an airplane and 
she's flying to meet her fiancé 
sailing high above the largest ocean 
on planet earth and she was seated 
next to this man who you know 
she had tried to start a conversation 
but really the only thing 
she heard him say was to order his bloody mary
and she's sitting there and she's reading 
this really arduous magazine article about this 
third world country that she couldn't 
even pronounce the name of and 
she's feeling very bored and very despondent
and then uh suddenly there's this huge mechanical failure and one of the engines gave out 
and they started just falling thirty thousand feet 
and the pilots on the microphone and he's saying, 
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Oh My God, I'm Sorry" 
and apologizing and she looks at the man and she says,
 "where are we going" and he looks at her and he says, 
"We're going to a party, it's a birthday party. 
It's your birthday party, happy birthday darling. 
We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much."
and then he starts humming this little tune and it kind of goes like this: 

One, Two, One, Two, Three, Four 
We must talk in every telephone, get eaten off the web 
We must rip out all the epilogues from the books we have read 
And to the face of every criminal strapped firmly in a chair 
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare 

We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell 
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell 
And in the ear of every anarchist who sleeps but doesn't dream 
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing 

And it'll go like this 
While my mother waters plants my father loads his gun. 
He says, "Death will give us back to god, 
just like the setting sun 
is returned to the lonesome ocean." 

And then they splashed into the deep blue sea 
It was a wonderful splash 

We must blend into the choir, sing as static with the whole 
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul 
And to this endless race for property and privilege to be won 
We must run, we must run, we must run 

We must hang up in the belfry where the bats in moonlight laugh 
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past 
And in the caverns of tomorrow with our flashlights and our love 
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge 

And then we'll get down there, 
way down to the very bottom of everything 
and then we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it 

Oh my morning's coming back 
The whole worlds waking up 
Oh the city bus is swimming past 
I'm happy just because 
I found out I am really no one

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lyrics submitted by moderator, Jaclyn on 04-01-2005
lyrics corrected on 28-07-2006