Belle and Sebastian
I wrote a letter on a nothing day.
I asked somebody, “Could you send my letter away?”
“You are too young to put all of your hopes in just one envelope.”
I said goodbye to someone that I love.
It’s not just me, I tell you it’s the both of us
And it was hard,
Like coming off the pills that you take to stay happy
Someone above has seen me do alright.
Someone above is looking with a tender eye.
Upon your face, you may think you’re alone but you may think again
If I could do just one near perfect thing I’d be happy
They’d write it on my grave, or when they scattered my ashes
On second thoughts, I’d rather hang around and be there with my best friend,
If she wants me
And far away somebody read the letter
He condescends to read the words I wrote about him.
And if he smiles, it’s no more than a genius deserves
For all your curious nerve and your passion
I’m going deaf, you’re growing melancholy
Things fall apart, I don’t know why we bother at all
But life is good and it’s always worth living at least for a while
If you think to yourself, “What should I do now?”
Then take the baton, and girl, you better run with it
'Cause there is no point in standing in the past cause it’s over and done with
I took a book and went into the forest
I climbed the hill, I wanted to look down on you
But all I saw was twenty miles of wilderness so I went home
If I could do just one near perfect thing I’d be happy.
They’d write it on my grave, or when they scattered my ashes.
On second thoughts, I’d rather hang around and be there with my best friend,
If she wants me.
I never really listened to the lyrics before, even though Brittany put this on a mix cd for me in...10th grade.
But it's a really great song.
I asked somebody, “Could you send my letter away?”
“You are too young to put all of your hopes in just one envelope.”
I said goodbye to someone that I love.
It’s not just me, I tell you it’s the both of us
And it was hard,
Like coming off the pills that you take to stay happy
Someone above has seen me do alright.
Someone above is looking with a tender eye.
Upon your face, you may think you’re alone but you may think again
If I could do just one near perfect thing I’d be happy
They’d write it on my grave, or when they scattered my ashes
On second thoughts, I’d rather hang around and be there with my best friend,
If she wants me
And far away somebody read the letter
He condescends to read the words I wrote about him.
And if he smiles, it’s no more than a genius deserves
For all your curious nerve and your passion
I’m going deaf, you’re growing melancholy
Things fall apart, I don’t know why we bother at all
But life is good and it’s always worth living at least for a while
If you think to yourself, “What should I do now?”
Then take the baton, and girl, you better run with it
'Cause there is no point in standing in the past cause it’s over and done with
I took a book and went into the forest
I climbed the hill, I wanted to look down on you
But all I saw was twenty miles of wilderness so I went home
If I could do just one near perfect thing I’d be happy.
They’d write it on my grave, or when they scattered my ashes.
On second thoughts, I’d rather hang around and be there with my best friend,
If she wants me.
I never really listened to the lyrics before, even though Brittany put this on a mix cd for me in...10th grade.
But it's a really great song.