[ti:The Calendar Hung Itself] [ar:Bright Eyes] [al:Fevers And Mirrors] [offset:0] [00:01.77] [00:06.08]Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning when you start to raise your head [00:13.37]And does he sing to you incessantly from the space between your bed and wall [00:18.19]Does he walk around all day at school with his feet inside your shoes [00:21.87]Looking down every few steps to pretend he walks with you [00:26.11]Oh does he know that place below your neck that is your favorite to be touched [00:30.35]And does he cry through broken sentences that I love you far too much [00:34.60] [00:35.70]Does he lay awake listening to your breath [00:38.82]Worried you smoke too many cigarettes [00:43.31]Is he coughing now on a bathroom floor [00:47.74]For every speck of tile there's a thousand more [00:51.98]You won ever see [00:53.91]But you must hold inside yourself eternally [00:59.16]Well I drug your ghost across the country and we plotted out my death [01:13.01]In every city memories would whisper Here is where you rest [01:17.26]I was determined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees [01:21.76]And I settled for a telephone and sang into your machine [01:25.74]You are my sunshine my only sunshine [01:31.36]You are my sunshine my only sunshine [01:39.78]And I kissed a girl with a broken jaw that her father gave to her [02:01.63]She had eyes bright enough to burn me They reminded me of yours [02:05.26] [02:05.91]And In a story told she was a little girl in a red-rouge sun-bruised field [02:09.63]And there were rows of ripe tomatoes where a secret was concealed [02:14.07]And it rose like thunder clapped under our hands [02:18.39]And it stretched for centuries to a diary entry end [02:27.74] [02:29.31]Where I wrote [02:31.44]You make me happy [02:33.37]Oh when skies are gray [02:36.48]You make me happy oh when skies are gray and gray and gray [02:46.98]Well the clock heart it hangs inside its open chest [02:52.16]With its hands stretched towards the calendar hanging itself [02:57.04]But I will not weep for those dying days [03:00.71]For all the ones who've left there's a few that stayed [03:05.20]And they found me here and pulled me from the grass where I was laid