"Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?" (2019)

Death In Midsummer lyrics -Deerhunter

Come on down from that cloud
And cast your fears aside

You're all here and there
And there's nothing inside

May God's will be done
In these poisoned hills

And let the devil be cast out on his jail
Hey!

There was a voice that called me
There was a light that burned me

Come on and let's be sure
Let's not pave the way

Your friends have died
And their lives, they just fade away

Some worked the hills
Some worked in factories
Worked their lives away

And in time, you will see your own life fade away

There was no time to go back
There was no time to go back
Come on!

They were in hills
They were in factories
They are in graves now

They were in debt to themselves
And what is it made of now?

I go around and feel how it fades
I walk around and I see what's fading
Walk around and you'll see how it fades
Walk around and you'll see what's faded

No One's Sleeping lyrics - Deerhunter


No one's sleeping
Great unrest
In the country
There's much duress
Violence has taken hold
Follow me
The golden void

No one's sleeping
The village green
Is nocturnal
Finally
Follow me
To golden pond
There is peace
The great beyond




Element lyrics - Deerhunter

The wind was stained
Orange clouds laid out for a toxic view
Of endless time, endless time
Let it wash over your body

The wind was stained
Orange clouds laid out for the last time
There would come a time, radar flashed
Indoors we go

And it said
"Do you go?"
(Elemental, elemental)
Completely gone
(Elemental, elemental)
Element (Elemental)
Element (Elemental)
Elemental (Elemental)
Elemental (Elemental)
Elemental (Elemental)
Elemental (Elemental)

Comes a time
Reborn until you die
Lay these plans out on the paper
They said he was gone
Never coming home
I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone

Cancer words
Laid out in lines
The road was wide
The road was silent
Curtain call for all those lives
Expensive lighting for that final day

Come on down
(Elemental, elemental)
Fire, wind, water
(Elemental, elemental)
There will be time to see
(Elemental, elemental)
Just watch me shocked

It's elemental how I move
It's elemental how I move
It's elemental how I move
It's elemental how I move

What Happens To People? lyrics - Deerhunter

What happens to people?
Their lives up in arms
What happens to people?
They quit holding on
What happens to people
And what can they do?
They're only returning
The powers of youth
What happens to people?
What happened to you?
What happens to people?
They fade out of view

I can't remember
Your face
It's lost to me
It's lost to me
Now it's ending
The wounds remain
On the page
On the page

What happens to people?
They quit holding on
What happens to people?
Their dreams turn to dark
The rust in your castle
You're trying to fill

Old lady
Let me into your rotting house
Your rotting house
Old man
Take a step back
And figure it out, out
Figure it out

Old lady
Cover your branches
Winter is coming
Beware
Old man
Oil your engine
You're rusting out
You're rusting out

What happens to people?
They quit holding on
And they're locked out
They get locked out
Locked out
They get locked out
Locked out
They get locked out

Détournement lyrics - Deerhunter

Good morning to Japan
And the eastern sunrise
Over these majestic cliffs
And the vultures circling
Hello to salt water and good times
And there is not much left to go
Your struggles won't be long
And there will be no sorrow on the other side
Only three freedoms and range of texts
[?], old times coming back
Hello to Europe and your gardens wet with rain
Hello to Spain
There is some form of art left
That we can imagine a world drawn piece for piece
And we can contact the higher spirits from our electronic brains
Hello to America and many lines drawn across America
Hello to California, with your mists of driftwood and rock
And giant redwoods casting shadows on the past

(Hello)

Hello Russia
Hello Australia
Eternal jet lag
And time starts to run backwards
Hello eternal return
Eternal détournement

Futurism lyrics - Deerhunter (feat. Tim Presley)

Your cage is what you make it
If you decorate it
It goes back faster
Goes quick, laughter
Permeates the carnage
Laying out in sunlight
At daybreak, oh
Daybreak, oh
Oh

You look cute in plastic
My existence drastic
And lake of flowers
Burning flowers
Try to make it faster
Crayons in the laughter
A screen of gel
Patient hell

Call it what you want, dear
I call it fear
And I am an expert
Laying out brick by brick
Call it what you need to
I left behind reason
Faith I take, I, faith I take, I

Plains lyrics - Deerhunter

I was listening to the trains
I was up all night
And something glistened in the strange
Blood diffuse light
My friend was missing
And I was ghost
I was flame, I was bright
I was listening to the trains
I was up all night

Oh, James
You've got no reason to stay
In these plains

I was racing against time
With this friend of mine
Collapsing just before
We reached the end of the line
He was lifting diamonds straight
Straight was cold, cold was black
And black was glistening
All the night the sound remained

Oh, James
You've got no reason to stay
In these plains
These plains
Are barren and hateful to rain
And what remains
Is the sound of trains

"Fading Frontier" (2015)

All The Same lyrics - Deerhunter

My home, anywhere expect no comforts save for air
Take it anyway I could leave or I could stay
Wouldn't matter much to me, much to me
My home, it's so cold, air-conditioned to the bone
Take me anywhere, I could see a light out there
I could see a light up these, a light up these
A light up these, a light up these

It's all the same, it's all the same, it's all the same

My friend's dad got bored, changed his sex and had no more
No more wife, no more kids, nothing left
To live with to exist, so, so, so, so
You should take your handicaps, channel them and feed them back
Till they become your strengths, hollowed out it's all the same

It's all the same, it's all the same, it's all the same
It's all the same, it's all the same, it's all the same

Living My Life lyrics - Deerhunter

I'm living my life, I'm living my life
I'm living my life, I'm living my life
I'm living my life, I'm living my life
I'm living my life, I'm living my life

I’m off the grid, I’m out of range
And the amber waves of grain are turning grey again
The darkened stage and the infinite waves
Distance can change fate, I'm out of range again

And I'm living my life, I'm living my life

Will you tell me when you find out how to conquer all this fear
I've been spending too much time out on the fading frontier
Will you tell me when you find out how to recover the lost years
I’ve spent all of my time chasing a fading frontier

I'm living my life, I'm living my life
I'm living my life, I'm living my life
I’m off the grid (I'm living my life)
I’m out of range (I'm living my life)
And the amber waves of grain (I'm living my life)
Are turning grey again (I'm living my life)
The darkened stage (I'm living my life)
And the infinite waves (I'm living my life)
Distance can change fate (I'm living my life)
It's happening again (I'm living my life)
I'm living my life, I'm living my life
I'm living my life, I'm living my life
I'm living my life, I'm living my life
I'm living my life, I'm living my life

Breaker lyrics - Deerhunter

Christ
Or credit
What's the price?
What's the edit?
I'm alive
I don't credit
The source
I just drive
And then the fog rolls in
And then they're blind
My enemies
They're just trying
Trying to kill me

Breaking the waves
Again and though I try
The ocean is strong
I cannot stem the tide
Breaking the waves
Again and though I try
I can't seem to stem
The tide and though I try
I try

Try me two touch

I've got the time
And it's been too long
Since I've been
Driving all night
On the back roads winding
Under the stars
That are slowly dying
Oh no

Breaking the waves
Again and though I try
The ocean is strong
I cannot stem the tide
Breaking the waves
Again and though I try
I can't seem to stem
The tide and though I try
I try

Jack-knifed
On the side-street crossing
I'm still alive
And that's something
And when I die
There will be nothing to say
Except I tried
Not to waste another day
Trying to stem the tide

Duplex Planet lyrics - Deerhunter

I don't ever want to go
Back again to the old folks' home
I don't want to have to stay
Where they don't remember love's adjacent home

But I've seen you
You looked right through me
Those ropes can't keep you away
There's no ropes on Tuesdays

Dreaming on the way to work
Dreaming all the way across the road

Don't you see
In your head you will fall asleep
And then you won't remember me
And then you won't remember me

I'm out of memory
I'm losing shape
After the body's gone
The scent remains
And down the hall
The time's erased
You'll find they're gone
Without a trace

Take Care lyrics - Deerhunter

Take care
Lift the guard and you might find
Your place in that life
A place where you found hope

There’s nothing more than the fog from the dry ice burning
Corpses turning

Take care
Lift the guard you won’t be lonely
Too much longer
Too much longer…

Raise your crippled hand into the clouds and
Wave bye bye now
Wave bye bye bye

Raise your hands around and you can’t tell it’s the last thing you’ll see
Last thing you’ll play
Hopeless when you call “Hi! Hi.”
What is it you’re after? don’t just stand there

Oh…
Oh

Leather And Wood lyrics - Deerhunter

I believe my head is on straight
I've been given this chance
To make things great
I believe I can focus
Reel in the air
I know I can
I can

I believe the sun will rise
In the east now
I believe we will find
That elusive peace now
I can't believe there is
No hope

I drove my car over the edge
The leather and the wood
Formed a ledge

I believe we can fly
I believe anything is real
I believe we can die
I believe we can live again

Snakeskin lyrics - Deerhunter

I was born already nailed to the cross
I was born with a feeling, I was lost
I was born with the ability to talk
I was born with a snake-like walk

I was trippin' now on a city cloak
They were separated then with sunlight shrouds
I was born with a crippled man on my back
I was natural, I was geographic black

I was dreaming of a man with a neon back
I was dreaming of a man with a heart attack
I lost my marbles all over the pink, pink cage
I tried to find a cable that was engaged

I was lost in that home for the aged and lonely
I cried and I choked, I was sick and I was boney
I was feelin' kinda ill, I was feelin' kinda lonely
And time was erased, yes but, I was so homely

Ad Astra lyrics - Deerhunter

Many years ago
I happened on a place
The shadows hanging low
I could make out his face
In an ancient mist
They gazed into the flame
Around a dying one
They chanted out a name

They looked up to the sky
Reciting ancient rites
The trees began to sway
Bathed in fluorescent light
The embers in their eyes
Fixed on the living dead
Motionless he rests
His skin was glowing red

"And as sure as we stand
When we call
With our four hands
For the one from above
Who will heal us
With a touch"

I wish I was a mole in the ground
Yes, I wish I was a mole in the ground
If I's a mole in the ground I'd root that mountain down
And I wish I was a mole in the ground

Carrion lyrics - Deerhunter

Even though you're gone I still carry on
It's the same big sea, it's the same to me
To carry on, carry on I will stay strong, I will stay strong
I set you free, I set you free, now run along, now run along
In the midnight hour I will lose my power
I will dig my hole, I will become a mole
In the ground, in the ground, it's much too deep, it's much too deep

What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?
What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?

Everywhere I go I'm reminded
Long ago, it's so long ago
But it won't leave, please, leave me, leave me alone, I am along
Deep in the ground, looking around trying to find my home, trying to find a home
But I dug too deep, I dug too deep, I cannot see, I cannot see

What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?
What's wrong with me? What's wrong with me?

Even though you're gone I still carry on
It's the same big sea, it's the same to me

"Monomania" (2013)

Neon Junkyard lyrics - Deerhunter

Finding the fluorescence in the junk
By night illuminates the day
Finding ancient language in the blood
Fading a little more each day

And if you've got a lot of pain
You remember how to speak
And if you gather all the rain
Yeah it's still coming down in sheets

Neon rust puts color in the blood
Call upon the words to speak
Everything is the same as it was
But now there's nothing left to change

And if you gather it you won't
Be drowned by rain
And if you memorize the words
They will show you the way

Leather Jacket II lyrics - Deerhunter

Well I was sick and dangerous
I am the queen of bass
And I was suffering
But I was a regular

Bored to death
Then I was luck I was arrested
I would make an arrest
I threw the blood spots
Across the moon

I was just bones
Yeah I barely tried
They always cut my head off

My life in blood
If you come on back
Maybe I'd scream
I'd take one last shot
But my one and only
Left me here to die
I was a goldmine
I was cult
I was too kind
I was too kind
I was a goldmine

The Missing lyrics Deerhunter

Open up my thoughts
tell me if you see
some meaning.
Take me all apart.
So that I can see
the pieces.

And I could walk for miles.
And on every street
is the same scene.
Follow the telephone wires
until I feel this air beneath me.

Oh and if you don't mind,
would you show to me
the missing?
With my weak eyes
I would only see
the missing.

Open up my thoughts
Tell me if you see some meaning.
Take me all apart,
So that I can see the bleeding.

Oh if you don't mind,
could you show to me
the missing?
With my weak eyes
I would only see
the missing.
The missing.
The missing.
The missing.
The missing.
The missing.

And I would understand
(I could understand)
if you show to me
the missing.

And I could understand
(I could understand)
if you showed to me
the missing.

And I would understand
(I could understand)
if you show to me
the missing.

Pensacola lyrics - Deerhunter

Take me on a trip, man
I'll never get sick
Take wherever you go
and I won't complain along the way
Well I've been waiting so long
to say bye! bye! bye!
This town ain't give me nothing but
bald head and trouble

Well if it can't be better,
if it can't be tried
Doesn't matter much boy
and I will dry me eyes
I could be your boyfriend
or I could be your shame
'Till I see your eyes and
they're filled with pain

I came from the delta down to the bay
well I came from the delta right through plains
right through the plains

I came from the delta
down to the plains
when I got back home
there was nothing I'd arranged
the woman that I love had
took another man
well nothing ever ends up
quite like what you planned

Take me to the Central station
and I'll jump on board of that bus the long way
Time to take my trip
give me that ticket man
straight to Pensacola
Straight to Pensacola, straight to Pensacola straight to Pensacola...

Dream Captain lyrics - Deerhunter

Dream captain take me on your ship
I've been feeling like I'm goona be sick
I've been landlocked for too many weeks
I've been feeling like I'm weak, yeah

I'm a poor boy from a poor family
There's nobody left to take care of me, so

Dream captain take me on your ship
Dream captain take me if you wish
I'll do anything that you need
There's nothing that's left of me

I'm a poor boy from a poor family
I can see where I come from easily
I don't need anybody to tell me what I'm worth
I've already been giving up from my birth

Could you be, for me, what I see in you
Or would you give me wings so I could fly, fly, or sink and die please!

Dream captain take me on your ship
If you feel that I am fit
To belong in the company grip
I want to be on the company ship

I'm a poor boy from a poor family
I ain't got nobody left to take care of me
I can't feel any of my extremities
They're going numb
and I don't know how long I can breathe

Dream captain take me on your ship
It's my only, my only wish
I can do whatever you command
I'm a boy, man
and you're a man, man

I'm a poor boy from a poor family
I ain't got nobody left to take care of me
I'm a poor boy, I'm so dirty
I'm a poor boy, well look into my eyes, look into my eyes...

Blue Agent lyrics - Deerhunter

When your range is off
When you call that complete
Your finished task was a burden
I'll give you that to concede

If you wear a mask
If you wear a badge
If you're lost in the curtains of time
You'll be erased

Sleep tight, gold night
Protect my brain
I was bright, I was right
All the time

If you ever need to talk
I won't be around
If you ever need to fight for life
I'll make no sound

I completed your task
It was much too tough
Your burdens now were twice removed
It must be rough

I use my golden light to find a way
Your bones they were always, they were always in my way
The fire finds a way to completely erase
I followed you out
You threw up and you complained
And I bide my time, and I hide my glory away
In the basement room where you used to kneel and pray

If you need a friend now
Better look some place else
You burned this bridge long ago
Here's to your health
I'm a blue light, I'm a crippled coward
Shining out in the night
The sky is clearer now that I'm filled with fright

T.H.M. lyrics - Deerhunter

I tried to keep him straight
Ever since the day he was born
He came out a little late
Maybe that's where frustration's born

My head was like a wound
When they called me and said
"it's happened much too soon"
Took two bullets to the brain
My kid brother, he was insane
Was insane

When you find a way
Call and tell me when the time's erased
I had no cause to be awake
The phone rang, it was 3am
Oh it was T.H.M.
Where is T.H.M?

Ever since I was born
I have felt so forlorn
I always knew this day would come
Hey you lose and you win some

T.H.M.
T.H.M.
T.H.M.
T.H.M.

Sleepwalking lyrics - Deerhunter

I'm not mad about anything
You forced on me a hopeless dream
I'd been looking for one true thing
Too numb to see I'd been sleepwalking

Too horrified to see

When a decade doesn't get you down
You're flying now but you'll come back down
And with both your feet on the ground
You'll look around, yeah, you'll look around

Too horrified to see

I'd been looking for some harmonies
Some words to sing that could really bring
The lonely-hearted some company
All the people that were just like me, yeah
When a decade is spent searching
For something time will never bring
Something starts to shut down inside
My body and my tired mind

Too horrified to see

Can't you see
Your heart is hard now
Your heart is hard now
Can't you see
We've grown apart now
We've grown apart now

Back To The Middle lyrics - Deerhunter

Back to the middle
This is where love has left me
It's an endless cycle
Please don't take it away from me

Look at me
Your hair is falling out now
Your two by four
You left me doubting

Back in the middle
Everyone knows your name now
It's all accidental
Your love is such a sick, sick game

How could he?
The basic way you used me
Why does it have to be so brutal?

Back in the middle
Take me where I can see some stars
Take me to your cabin
Like you promised so many times

You and me
You broke free
You broke me
And you left me these little pieces

Monomania lyrics - Deerhunter

My only boy couldn't leave his lady well
Come on boy let me tell you that
If you wanna be with me
I can be your home away

Come on god hear my sick prayer
If you can't send me an angel
If you can't send me an angel
Send me something else instead

Send my heart to the sea
Oh the empty sea
Well there's a light in the core
And there's nothing left no more
No more no

If you can't choose me
If you can't see
Well there's a light in my heart
And it' won't be there tomorrow

There is a man
There is a mystery whore
And in my dying days
I can never be sure
Well never mind
And then they take me away
And then they take you away
They'll never take me away
And in my mind
There is something rotting dead
I can't compete with her
Let me be released from this

Mono-monomania

Nitebike lyrics - Deerhunter

I was spinning my big wheels
They were stuck and I was stuck to them
The night was clear
and I was queer
And I was only of age one year

I was on the cusp of a breakthrough
When they took me out
and stuck it in
It went so deep, man
it leaves scars you relate to
Are only burdens to me

I was a dream, a dream, a dream of my self
I was no longer in good health

Have you ever been here?
Or someplace else you can relate to
Out of fear,
out of trials and error

I was no longer mine
I had pantomimed
I had felt for lights
I had grown to find
I had no place in mind
When I began to drive
No destination
No destination

You can feel my pain?
You want to relate,
you want to stay

I was feeling real bad
And I had found all my problems
I had found all my problems
They came flying up to me

Punk (La Vie Antérieure) lyrics - Deerhunter

For a month I was punk
I remembered all my drunk
Younger days in a daze
I would spend my empty days

For a week I was weak
I was humbled on my knees
Pray to God: "Make it stop
Help me find some relief"

For a year I was queer
I had conquered all my fears
Not alone anymore
But I found it such a bore

For a month I was punk
For a month I had no luck
For a drunk I was young
For a kid right to the

For a month I was punk
I remembered all my junk
Younger days in a daze
I would spend my useless days

For a week I was weak
I was down on my knees
Pray to God: "Make it stop
Help me find some relief"

For a month I was punk
For a month I was

"Halcyon Digest" (2010)

Earthquake lyrics - Deerhunter

Do you recall
Waking up on
A dirty couch
In the gray fog?
And the gray dog
Barking down the street?

Columns shake your feet
Beneath your feet
Beneath your feet
Beneath your feet

Do you recall?
Your face was white as all
Do you bone the sheets?
Do you think of me?
Your long lost friend from the sea

How long was heat?
How long was he?
How long was he?
How long was he?
How long was heat?
How long was he?

Don't Cry lyrics - Deerhunter

Come on, little boy
I am your friend
And I understand
The pain you're in

You've seen your mom come
Come home dreaming
In the rain, when you wash
You can't fade it

Come on, little boy
You don't need to cry
You don't need to cry your eyes out, cry your eyes out
Come on, kid
Keep your head up and sigh
You don't need to understand
The reasons why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh

Why, oh why, oh why, oh why, oh

Revival lyrics - Deerhunter

I am saved, I'm saved
And, oh, would you believe it?
On the third day
I felt his presence near me

I know they won't believe me, but
I've got favorite memories

I am saved, I'm saved
And, oh, could you believe it?
You won't regret
If you choose to believe it

Freedom, silence, always, yeah
All these darkened hallways

Darkness always
It doesn't make much sense
Darkened hallways
Away from me, calling: "Stay"

Sailing lyrics - Deerhunter

Wind in my sails
I lived for days
No water, no food
It was good

I didn't mind, no
Nowhere to be
Nothing to see
Except me

Only fear
Can make you feel lonely out here
You learn to accept
Whatever you can get

When there is no law
You've done nothing wrong
You can't take too long
Making up songs

Only fear
Can make you feel lonely out here
You learn to accept
Whatever you can get
Whatever you can get

Only fear
Can make you feel lonely out here
You learn to accept
Whatever you can get
Whatever you can get

Memory Boy lyrics - Deerhunter

Did you stick with me?
Let me jog my memory
I see you leaving
Oh, don't forget your TV

It's not a house anymore
It's not a house anymore
It's not a house anymore
It's not a house anymore

That October
he came over every day
The smell of loose-leaf
joints on jeans and we would play

"It's not a house anymore."
It's not a house anymore
It's not a house anymore
It's not a house anymore

Try to recognize your son
In your eyes he's gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
Is there anyone who
Wants to see the sun go down, down, down, down, down
Down, down, down, down, down, down

Desire Lines lyrics - Deerhunter

When you were young
And your excitement showed
But as time goes by is it outgrown?

Is that the way things go?
Forever reaching for the gold?
Forever fading black and comes up cold

Walking free, wooh
Come with me, wooh
Far away, wooh
Every day, wooh

Walking free, wooh
Come with me, wooh
Far away, wooh
Every day, wooh

When you were young
You never knew which way you'd go
What was once grace now undertows

Well, every day do what you can
And if you let them turn you 'round
Whatever goes up must come down

Walking free, wooh
Come with me, wooh
Far away, wooh
Every day, wooh

Walking free, wooh
Come with me, wooh
Far away, wooh
Every day, wooh

Basement Scene lyrics - Deerhunter

Dream, a little dream
All about the basement scene
I don't wanna wake up, I don't wanna wake up
I don't wanna wake up, no

If you've seen the light turn gold
Come out tonight and we'll get stoned
I don't wanna get old, I don't wanna get old
I don't wanna get old, no

Dream, a little dream
About your friends and their endings
Now I wanna wake up, I wanna wake up
I wanna wake up now

It could be the death of me
Knowing that my friends will not remember me
I wanna get old, I wanna get old
I wanna get old

In the bluffs they know my name
In the bluffs they know
In the bluffs they know my name
In the bluffs they know

In the bluffs they know my name
In the bluffs they know
In the bluffs they know my name
In the bluffs they know

Oh, shit

Helicopter lyrics - Deerhunter

Take my hand and pray with me
My final days in company
The devil now has come for me
And helicopters circling the scene

And I pray for rest
Could you pray for us?
We know he loves you the best
We know he loves you the best

The light's inside my cave
I'm tired of my cave

Oh, these drugs they play
On me in these terrible ways
They don't pay like they used to pay
I used to make it day to day

No one cares for me
I keep no company
I have minimal needs
And now they are through with me

Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me

Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me
Now they are through with me

Fountain Stairs lyrics - Deerhunter

I forgot my book
At the fountain stairs
At a chapter on symmetry
Nobody cares

And I had a smoke
While I traced the squares
Put my finger to concrete
Felt the autumn air

When I look around
I can feel it spinning
Feet on the ground
Head on the ceiling

Sun on my shirt
Sweat on my hands
All falling in retrograde
Cancel all my plans

And I had to look
At the marching band
Skip across the pavement
Nobody's there

When I look around
I can feel it spinning
Feet on the ground
Head on the ceiling

Coronado lyrics - Deerhunter

I was sick, I was dead
Lay my head on the cement bed, I had a
A few good years
But they don't know

Come on now, don't leave me hanging
Cuz I wanna get down or I
I'll start believing
What they said

In my heart I don't believe it
And if I go ahead I know that you're leaving and I
I can't wait to see you go
I can't wait to see you go

In my heart I feel so high
I wanna know the answers why
I ask so many questions, they let me go
They hang up the telephone

And if I die before I wake
I know that it must frustrate
Some people that need a paycheck
Well, they need their blood let

He Would Have Laughed lyrics - Deerhunter

Only bored as I get older
Find the ways to cult, cult of time
Only bored as I get older
Find new ways to spend my time

I'm a gold digging man
Find my money, find my land
I'm a gold, gold digging man
I won't rest 'til I buy your land

Sweetness comes suffering
In sweetness comes suffering
I won't rest till I can't breathe
I can't breathe with you looking at me

I get bored as I get older
Can you help me figure this out?

Come on, dream on

"I lived on a table
I don't know where to go
I know my friends would
I know where my friends are now

I lived on a farm, yeah
I never lived on a farm
Where did my friends go?
Where did my friends go?"

What do you do when you're sleeping?
Where did you go when you said:
"I don't need nobody on my bond"
"I don't need nobody on my bond"

Where do your friends go?
Where do they see you?
What did you want to be?
Ah, shut the hell, shut your mouth

EP: "Rainwater Cassette Exchange" (2009)

Rainwater Cassette Exchange lyrics - Deerhunter

Two weeks of misery
Capture my heart and destroy me
Destroy my mind and my body
Invade like a disease and conquer me

My wild exchange could not believe
I know I can't stop breathing
I've seen the light I want to see
I hold the hand that beckoned me

Do you believe in love at first sight?
Oh yes, my son, I did the first time
Oh yes, my son, I did before I died
And now it does me no good here on the other side

I know my ways when other phase
A cold embrace, then all is waste
'Til I can find a new escape
Reborn again in some other place

Disappearing Ink lyrics - Deerhunter

I got a message
Can you guess what it said?
Drive alone
Drive straight home

I did as instructed
Closed my door and locked it
Disappearing ink
But the words still sting

Sat and wrote a letter
I described the weather
And the scene
Remembering

I forget tomorrow
All sickness and sorrow
Disappearing ink
But the words still sting

What was I thinking?
What was I thinking?

Famous Last Words lyrics - Deerhunter

Ollie off the sidewalk
Watch your brother bleeding

Take him by the hand and
Lead him to the slipstream

Famous last words
Famous last words
Famous last words
Famous last words

Bring you to the vortex
Watch your skin erupting

Nothing can be said now
Nothing can be changed, oh

Famous last words
Famous last words
Famous last words
Famous last words

Game Of Diamonds lyrics -Deerhunter

No one ever talked to me
Now I've forgotten how to speak
A problem with my chemistry
Now I can't sleep and I won't eat

As soft as a strangers hand
I counted every grain of sand
I walked every inch of land, I know

So strong, I know
So strong, I know
So strong, I know
So strong, I know

No one ever walked with me
I got so tired on my feet
I lay drunk on the bowery
Time never meant much to me

As soft as a strangers hand
I counted every grain of sand
I walked every inch of land, I know

So strong, I know
So strong, I know
So strong, I know
So strong, I know

So strong, I know
So strong, I know
So strong, I know
So strong, I know
So strong, I know

Circulation lyrics - Deerhunter

Bad circulation
Become impatient
Too long we've waited
For an end for me

Shame on your doctors
Oh, how they fooled us
Oh, how they lured us
Into their trucks, oh

Cold cave in winter
Ice swings would splinter
Ashes and cinder
Caressed and [?]

Done with the highlights
Mirror wives and low lives
And reach for my light
When it gets dark

"Weird Era Cont." (2008)

Backspace Century lyrics - Deerhunter

Send my regards
To those who suffer endlessly
Send my regards
To those who suffer hopelessly

Operation lyrics - Deerhunter

Operation, cover your ears
You're not gonna like what you're gonna hear

I hate you, I hate you
I hate you, I hate you

Operation, you're not here
You can't love what you can't like

What you fear, what you fear
What you fear, what you fear

Operation, cover your eyes
I don't wanna see you, I don't wanna feel you

Not near me, not near me
Not near me, not near me

Operate, operate
Operate, operate
Operation, operation
Operation, operation

Operation, cover your ears
You're not gonna like what you're gonna hear

I hate you, I hate you
I hate you, I hate you

Operation, you're not here
You can't love what you can't like

What you fear, what you fear
What you fear, what you fear

Oh
How did you know
It was so easy
To destroy her

Oh
How did you know
It was so easy
To destroy her

Operation, cover your eyes
I don't wanna see you, I don't wanna feel you

Not near me, not near me
Not near me, not near me

Operation, cover your ears
You're not gonna like what you're gonna hear

I hate you, I hate you
I hate you, I hate you
I hate you, I hate you
I hate you, I hate you
I hate you, I hate you
I hate you, I hate you
I hate you

Vox Celeste lyrics - Deerhunter

Stay, I don't want you to stay
Stay, I need you to stay
Stay, I don't want you to stay
Stay, I need you to stay

In my room, oh, it's true

Stay, I don't want you to stay
Stay, I need you to stay
Stay, I don't want you to stay
Stay, I need you to stay

In my room, oh, it's true

Start over, start over
Start over, start over

Start over, start over
Start over, start over

Start over, start over
Start over, start over

Vox Humana lyrics - Deerhunter

I haunted a basketmaker's shop
Spending days ripping pictures from magazines
Taping them to the walls of my prison
I remember walking by the sand
Each knob represented a different frequency range
And I remember holding the hand of the skeleton prince
And he swept me into his arms
And he, he had tremolo deep
In the back of his black eye sockets
And he said, "Do you want to come away with me
Into the pitch black pool?"
And I said, "I don't know, I don't know, I don't know"
Photocopied, the wind ripped through the trees
And all the stained-glass windows rattled
I haunted a basketmaker's shop in 1927
And on the beach in the summer there were thunderstorms constantly
And they were unpredictable
Nobody knew when they would come and nobody knew how long they'd last
Sometimes they'd only last five minutes and sometimes weeks
I haunted a basketmaker's shop
Because I had nowhere to go one long weekend
Stained-glass windows turning off and on
And the tremolo in the back dark corners
Cobwebs stripped, mildewed
I remember acoustic guitars and bells
I remember the cathedral
I remember cassettes, cathedral
I remember cassette, cathedral
I remember cassette, cathedral

VHS Dream lyrics - Deerhunter

I've looked
I've seen, I've seen
I've looked
I will always see, I've seen

For the miracles
Of youth
I've looked
I will always see, I've seen

When friends go
Away for a while
They always
Come back

But now if friends
Go away for a while
Then they
Never come back

Calvary Scars II / Aux Out lyrics - Deerhunter

Crucified on a cross
In front of all my closest friends
Crucified on a cross
In front of all my closest

Crucified on cross revealed
With finest wood and rope so thick
My arms, my wrists would bleed for weeks
My arms, my wrists would bleed for

Crucified on a cross
In front of all my closest friends
Crucified with backstage pass
Crucified on drum throne

"Microcastle" (2008)

Agoraphobia lyrics - Deerhunter

Cover me, cover me
Come for me, come for me
Cover me, cover me
Comfort me, comfort me

I had a dream
No longer to be free
I want only to see
Four walls made of concrete

6 by 6 enclosed
Soon we're on video, oh, oh, oh
Feed me twice a day
I want to fade away, away

Cover me, cover me
Come for me, come for me
Cover me, cover me
Comfort me, comfort me

And after some time
I know I would go blind
But seeing only binds
The vision to the eye

I'd lose my voice, I know
But I've nothing left to say
It is nothing left to pray
No echo in this place

Never Stops lyrics - Deerhunter

I had dreams
That frightened me awake
I happened to escape
But my escape

Would never come
Would never come
Would never come
Would never come

I had plans
To go away for days
To try and risk a pace
That haunts my days

That haunts my days
Haunts my days
Haunts my days
Haunts my days

I love
I love
I love

Winter
In my heart
It never stops
It never stops

Oh, winter
Oh, winter
Oh, winter
Oh, winter

It never stops
It never stops
It never stops
It never stops
It never

I love
I love
I love

Little Kids lyrics - Deerhunter

Kids drinking gin on the
The front lawn
The kids see that man walking down
The dirt road

These kids see the sky and they think of him
Dressed in flames
Kids walk behind, slowly stalk
That old man

To get older still
To get older still
To get older still
To get older still

These kids followed him in
Into his shed
Where he turns on the radio
And smokes a cig
These kids come with gasoline
And they strike a match

To get older still
To get older still
To get older still
To get older

To get older still
To get older still
To get older still
To get older still

Microcastle lyrics - Deerhunter

All I've seen
All I've seen

Try to
Describe it
In the time
Of all of it

Try not to
Come to bed
Warm me and
I might slip
I might do
I might

Try to
Describe it all
In your time
End it all

All I do
It may be not it
On and on, it could
Be my beginning

All through time
All through time

Calvary Scars lyrics - Deerhunter

Crucified on a cross
In front of all my closest friends

Green Jacket lyrics - Deerhunter

I take
What I can
I give
What I have left

I take
By the hand
What I need
What I see

Activa lyrics - Deerhunter

Wasted our lives
We wasted our time
I trickled out
Creek would run dry

Steam would rise
I tried
I tried
I tried
I tried

Nothing Ever Happened lyrics - Deerhunter

Only when I dream but there's no way out
You learn to talk, you learn to shout
Focus on the depth that was never there
Eliminate what you can't repair

Nothing ever happened to me
Nothing ever happened to me
Nothing ever happened to me
Life just passed and flashed right through me

Sleep through the winter, awake in spring
Adjust your eyes to the state of things
Focus on the depth that was never there
Nothing's easy, nothing's fair

Nothing ever happened to me
Nothing ever happened to me
Nothing ever happened to me
Life just passed and flashed right through me

I never saw it coming
Waiting for something, for nothing
I never saw it coming
Waiting for something, for nothing

Saved By Old Times lyrics - Deerhunter

Mrs. Hemmings was OAO
Pretty soon we were all OAO
We were captured by Victorian vampires
With elaborate designs, with elaborate designs

This is the land of OAO
This is the land of OAO
This is the land of OAO
This is the land of OAO

We are a Romanian sound collage (old black bandit)
Searching for the ghost of past [?] (I can't stand it)
But this futile coffin will not let us gain entry (I'm your planet, old black bandit)
Into the immortal soul of the redneck (I can't stand it)
You are trapped in your basement for a war of 16 years (I'm your planet, old black bandit)
To combat prevention and in combat with yourself
We are in combat with these cultural vampires
We were trapped in the basement
We were trapped in the basement of the fucking teenage halfway hell

I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times

I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times
I was saved by old times

Neither Of Us, Uncertainly lyrics - Deerhunter

So long to the
The days you grow sad of
And you try to find
Not much for you to hold
The more that you hold the
The more you feel alone

And wait
Until you can wait
Until you can wait
Until you can wait
No more

So long to the
The days you come to know
So you had to
To get there on your own

To wait
To grow old
You're waiting
To grow old

Until you can wait
Until you can wait
Until you can wait
Until you can wait
No more

Until you can wait
Until you can wait
Until you can wait
Until you can wait

Until you can wait
Until you can wait
Until you can wait
Until you can wait
No more

Twilight At Carbon Lake lyrics - Deerhunter

Go to the shore and
Pray for the sea
Go towards the mirror and
Pray that you'll see
Someone else
Downtown
Go downtown

Go to the waves of grain
In the center of the state
Go away
Go to a parking lot
Sit on the ground and cry
You'll never know why

Start over

Go to the ocean
On a ship
Wave goodbye to the waves
And the
Frozen shit
That was in your heart

So long
Time slows when it goes away
Go away
Time Slows
So long

EP: "Fluorescent Grey" (2007)

Fluorescent Grey lyrics - Deerhunter

I woke up
In the middle of the night
I called out
I called your name

Patiently, patiently

I called out

Why do I dream
So often of
His body when
His body will decay

His flesh will be fluorescent grey
His flesh will be fluorescent grey

Patiently, patiently

You were my god
You were my god in high school

People never really know

Patiently, Patiently

Dr. Glass lyrics - Deerhunter

In the world
So many
Useless bodies
So much traffic

In the world
So many
Useless bodies
Please consider

All the couples kissing
The children missing
The corpses rotting
In the cities spotting the globe

In the world
So many
Useless bodies
So much sorrow

All the couples kissing
The children missing
The corpses rotting
In the cities spotting the globe

In the world
So many
Useless bodies
So much sorrow

All the couples kissing
The children missing
The corpses rotting
In the cities spotting the globe

Like New lyrics - Deerhunter

I opened up my aim
I put cotton to flame
I saw the city lanes
Mirrored in falling rain

Seems like new
Seems like new

And so the skeletons
Had left their work undone
Nowhere to hide their skin
Back to the crypt again

Be like you
Be like you

Wash Off lyrics - Deerhunter

We had some conflicts
With Prince Erudite
Laid out on spreadsheets
And

In the parking lot
Of my high school
Cheap acid
Soft focus

I was sixteen
I was sixteen
I was sixteen
I was sixteen

And in the parking lot
Of my high school
Cheap acid
Soft focus

And in the parking lot
Of my high school
Cheap acid
Soft focus

I was sixteen
I was sixteen
I was sixteen
I was sixteen

"Cryptograms" (2007)

Cryptograms lyrics - Deerhunter

My greatest fear I fantasized
The days were long, the weeks flew by
Before I knew I was awake
My days were through, it was too late

My greatest fear I organized
Into something more realized
And now what's left I get to spend
Knowing that it's about to end

My greatest fear I can't decode
A cryptogram whose seeds weren't sewn
My last few months I arised out
My vision blurred, there was no sound

There was no sound, there was no sound

Lake Somerset lyrics - Deerhunter

It pays to kill anyone who has information
In the park we hide behind rocks
We urinate on rocks until the sun comes up

Encrypted in flesh, concrete soaked in sweat
We lived in Lake Somerset
It was south of Dallas Highway, just east of a drained lake

Orchids dissolve, equations solved, psychic landscape
To know there is a limit to what you can experience
These walls I know, I grew up here

No satisfaction, no satisfaction, no satisfaction

Octet lyrics - Deerhunter

I was the corpse that spiraled out

I was the corpse that spiraled out
Into phantom hallways

I was the corpse that spiraled out

Spring Hall Convert lyrics - Deerhunter

So I woke up in a radio freeze
Occupied by a
Couple of girls I knew from
Way back when where

Oh, I had my face like the ocean
So I'd radiate but
Too much radiation
I walk around like a walker

Always choosing where to go
And where to be
Oh, radiation
Oh, radiation

Oh, so long
Oh, so long, so long

So long loneliness, so long loneliness
So long loneliness, so long, so long

So long, yeah, so long, yeah
So long, yeah, so long

So far from home, so far from home
So far from home, so far from home

Strange Lights lyrics - Deerhunter

What direction should we choose?
We're lost and still confused
I walk into the sun
With you, the only one

Who understood the ways
The hours become days
The weeks turn into months
We walk into the sun

So glad to have a guide
Less lonely for the ride
And should this car ascend
At least I'm with a friend

In space all things are slow
No sound with speakers blown
The silence fits the scene
The prince is now the king

We walk into the sun
We walk but cannot run
Because walking's half the fun
We walk into the sun

And neon blurs my sight
I'm guided by strange lights
And I'm rattled and I'm stunned
As I walk into the sun

Hazel St. lyrics - Deerhunter

There was no connecting my actions with words
In the bright sunlight the movement of birds
The car ride home was blinded again
The light would not focus, the light would not bend

There's no use calling, I know what you'd say
Over and over, it ended today
Words lost their meaning and could not explain
Why the subject was always just out of frame

I was sixteen
I lived on Hazel Street
Protect me from the scene
And guide me with your heat

I was sixteen
I lived on Hazel Street
Protect me from the scene
And guide me with your heat

Ice forms in sheets
They're melting in the street
The ice forms in sheets
They're melting in the street

Heatherwood lyrics - Deerhunter

In the beginning the world was a map
Out through the back door and into the trap
Home is an echo reflecting a place
I disappeared then and without a trace

I was arranged to leave on that day
There were complications, I've chosen to stay
I saw the curtains and it was the end
When one life is over a new one begins
When one life is over a new one begins
When one life is over a new one begins

Was not seen again, was not seen again
Was not seen again, was not seen again

Was not seen again, was not seen again
Was not seen again, was not seen again
Was not seen again, was not seen again
Was not seen again, was not seen again

Was not seen again, was not seen again
Was not seen again, was not seen again

Was not seen again, was not seen again
Was not seen again, was not seen again
Was not seen again, was not seen again
Was not seen again, was not seen again
Was not seen again

"Turn It Up Faggot" (2005)

N. Animals lyrics - Deerhunter

I was born of concrete, born out of chemistry
It comes out of chaos, blooms in infinity
New animals born of concrete, born out of chemistry
New Animals, concrete, born in to circuitry

I was six when six was surface
Yeah, time moves forwards and backwards in currents
I was eight underneath the surface of the Earth which became a furnace
Animals, go

A-B-C-D, we've got no history
A-B-C-D, we've got no history
A-B-C-D, we've got no history, A-B-C-D, we've got no history
A-B-C-D, we've got no history, A-B-C-D, we've got no history (A-B-C-D, you're no use to me)
A-B-C-D, we've got no history (A-B-C-D, we've got no chemistry),
A-B-C-D, we've got no history (A-B-C-D, we've got no chemistry)
A-B-C-D, we've got no history (A-B-C-D, we've got no chemistry)

A-B-C-D, we've got no history (A-B-C-D, we've got no chemistry)
We are animals, you know us
We are animals, and ghosts
We are animals, you know us
We are animals, you know us
Attack, attack

Adorno lyrics - Deerhunter

I lived twice after my suicide
In the future or the past, I could not decide
Which one I hate the most
My body has become a sacramental host

When you're once the son of god and you're still unemployed
Offered up salvation, surrender to the void
Perspectives crushed
I might be living in two places at once

Cross these world, it's self-destructive

So am I sleeping on a floor or am I nailed to a cross
Tales, cross, tales, cross
Am I sleeping on a floor or am I nailed to a cross
Tales, cross, tales, cross
Am I sleeping on a floor or am I nailed to a cross
Tales, cross, tales, cross
Am I sleeping on a floor or am I nailed to a cross
Tales, cross, tales, cross

No subside, I attempted suicide
I could not die, no matter how hard I tried
So I was bored
I wanted to die, so I spilled out on the ground
They put me in a hospital, they said I need to rest
After all, now father knows best for all
I can't say
Tales speak day after day

Am I sleeping on a floor or am I nailed to a cross
Am I sleeping on a floor or am I nailed to a cross
Am I sleeping on a floor or am I nailed to a cross
Tales, cross, tales, cross

Tales, cross, tales, cross

(Self-destructive)
(So self-destructive)

Tech School lyrics - Deerhunter

No cigarette breaks, no sex, parking lot
Play by weakness, play academic rock

Tech school
Tech school

So sick of tech school, can't play by the rules
Vacate forum, no sex, bus stop

Tech School
Tech School
Tech School

No cigarette breaks, no sex, parking lot
Play academic rock

Tech school, drop out

No pornography, rebuild history
Fight for the family, restore heredity

Tech school
So sick of tech school
So sick of tech school

I want university
Where they rebuild culture in their sleep

Tech school, drop out

He sits by the TV, he's history
He sits by the TV, he's history
He sits by the TV, he's history
He sits by the TV, he's history

No cigarette breaks, no sex, parking lot
Play by weakness, play academic rock

Tech school

So sick of tech school, can't play by the rules
I want university where they rebuild culture in their sleep

Tech school, drop out

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