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The National – Walk It Back Lyrics

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Im always thinking about useless things
Im always checking out
Im always mothering myself to bits
Im always checking out

Forget it, nothing I change changes anything
I wont let it, I wont let it ruin my hair

I only take up a little of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Dont wanna fuck it up
I only take up a little of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Dont wanna fuck up the place

I better walk it back, walk it back
Oh, I better walk it back, walk it back
Walk it back, walk it back

I try to save it for a rainy day
Its raining all the time
Until everything is less insane
Im mixing weed with wine

Forget it, nothing I change changes anything
I wont let it, I wont let it ruin my hair

I only take up a little of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Dont wanna fuck it up
I only take up a little of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Dont wanna fuck it up
I only take up a little of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Dont wanna fuck up the place

I better walk it back, walk it back
Oh, I better walk it back, walk it back
Walk it back, walk it back
Oh, I better walk it back, walk it back
Walk it back, walk it back
People like you are still living in what we call the reality-based community.
You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.
Thats not the way the world really works anymore.
Were an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.
And while you are studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – well act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and thats how things will sort out.
Were historys actors, and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

Apparently that was written on a whiteboard with a red sharpie in the Roosevelt bedroom, sometime around Christmas 2007. Yeah, so I cant stay…

I cant stay and I cant come back
Ill just keep awake
And I wont react
Ill walk through Lawrencetown
Along the tracks
My own body in my arms
But I wont collapse
So dont go dark on me
Its all alright
If Im gonna get back to you, someday
Ill need you light

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