The War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore Album Lyrics

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Living Proof

Banging on a drum
You turn me lose
Maybe I'm the living proof
What have I been runnin' from?

I went down to the corner
They're building at my block
Maybe I've been gone too long
I can't go back
Oh, lonesome
I will protect
I'll keep improving
Taking me home
I'm always changing
Now I suppose
I'm only moving
I'm in Chicago
Come to me now
I know the path
I know it's changing
I know the pain
The pain you've been feeling
I've been to the place
That you've tried escaping
I can't recall
What I believe in
I'm always changing
Love overflowing

But I'm rising
And I'm damaged
Oh, rising
Ooh

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Harmonia's Dream

I can't escape this memory
It's like a dream, it's got me up all night again
And you're all that I can see
But I've been here before
I've crossed so many roads
Never needed more than I could hold

Running and returning
In a vision, you're a ghost in black and white
A silhouette in blue and green
I lay awake at night and wait for you to call
Been hanging on so hard and now I can't let go

Ooh, I'm in a rolling wave
That moves across the line
Am I losing my faith?
We're gonna lose it in time

Leaves are falling down like rain
In the morning, I just stand alone outside
And I watch 'em blow away
It's so hard to find a friend these days
Oh, babe, I'm sinking

Summer comes and rain gets in
It's like I'm looking through the glass on the other side
I'm not trying to make you wait
But I don't need it anymore
And I can't turn back
And give it all away
When it's all I have

I'm in a rolling wave
That moves across the line
Am I losing my faith?
We're gonna lose it in time

Sometimes forward is the only way back
To reach you in time

I was lost in a light that can't be seen
Don't know the realm in front of me
I'm on the sea, I'm on a drive
You lay awake, you know the way
You know the path I'm walking on
Are we the cast you're leaving on?
You know the cost, you're on your own

Where I'm goin' like a light that can't be seen
Don't look away, it's just a dream
I'm out of touch, so out of reach

It's coming back and I'm moving fast
Just one more day and I'm home at last
I need the love I'm dreaming on
I know the cost
You're on your own
Oh

You're on your own
Oh

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Change

I've been running from the white light
To try and get to you
Tell me everything that you need
I've been trying so hard
Ain't got no time to lose
Tell me anything that you'll need
To open the door
To a desperate man
Easily could run from the start
When you're falling

I've been driving on the west side again
And the rain keeps pouring down
Finally figured out my way
I've been living on the run 'cause I can't find
That thing that holds and binds us tight
I'm out here dying in the heat
Oh, what am I to find?
Yeah, when I open the door
To desperate men
Easily could run from the start
Sheltered and dead
I hear your call
Crawl inside and wait for the fall

Shelter in the doorway
From rising storms
Caution in the darkness
Where we have fallen
How can I replace, babe
What can't be lost?
I don't wanna change
I'll rise above it

There are so many ways
Our love could make it through
But it's so damn hard to make that change
Maybe I was born too late
For this lonely freedom fight
Maybe I was born in the wrong way
Maybe born on the wrong day

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I Don't Wanna Wait

I don't wanna wait
I'm lying on the floor
You're a prisoner of love, mm
I don't wanna change
I'm right behind the door
I'm bloodied but I'm yours, mm

I don't wanna wait
But I'm turning to you
I starve, am I breaking you down? Oh, mm

I don't wanna break everything
Let me off of my only hope
Like a snowflake dancing down an empty road

I don't wanna take, but I'm running out of time
I got lost in the darkness, thought I'd get somewhere
But I slowly disconnected from my own best friend

I don't wanna wait
Yeah, but I'm running to you
I'm starving
Am I breaking you down?
Over nothing
Show a little faith
Yeah, but I'm running to you, baby
I'm starving, am I breaking you down
Over nothing?

All I've lost, and all I've found
Would you understand?
All I really needed was a pair of hands

All this feeling lonesome
Tired of some struggling
Would you carry me lonely?
And it carries me back to you

I don't wanna wait
Yeah, when I'm running to you
I'm starving
Am I breaking you down?
Over nothing
Show a little faith
Yeah, when I'm running to you
I'm starving, am I breaking you down
Over nothing?

I don't wanna wait

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Victim

I surrender, baby, help me understand
I've given everything when I had to give
Maybe I'm a victim of my own desire
I can't change it, mm, yeah

I remember walking through the fields of glass
I remember darkness overhead
Honey, I'm a victim of my own desire
I can't change it, mm, yeah
Should I keep moving?

But you took it all, and you threw it all away
You never wanted nothing I had to give
Honey, I'm a victim of my own desire
Who are you?

I remember looking through the photographs
I can't wait on some things that change
Honey, I'm a victim of my own desire
I keep changing you, mm, yeah

Maybe stop pretending you need to be somewhere
'Cause I keep chasing everything through the dark
Honey, I'm a victim of my own desire
But I keep changing you, ooh, yeah
Should I keep moving you? (Ooh)

Honey, I'm a victim of my own desire
Never mind the darkness overhead
When you feel alone, do you really feel alive?
Who are you?
Yeah, I took it all, but I threw it all away
Never wanted nothing you had to give
Honey, I'm a victim of my own desire
Who are you?

Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you?
Who are you, babe?
Who are you?
Who are you, babe?

Honey, I'm a victim of my own desire
Never mind the darkness overhead
When you feel alone, can you really feel alive?
Who are you?
Yeah, I took it all, but I threw it all away
Never wanted nothing you had to give
Honey, I'm a victim of my own desire
Who are you?

(Who are you?) Who are you, babe?
(Who are you?) Who are you, babe?
(Who are you?) Who are you, babe?
(Who are you?) Who are you, babe?
(Who are you?) Who are you?

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I Don't Live Here Anymore

I was lying in my bed
A creature void of form
Been so afraid of everything
I need a chance to be reborn
I never wanted anything that someone had to give
I don't live here anymore
I went along with you

When I think about the old days, babe
You're always on my mind
I know it ain't like I remember
I guess my memories run wild
Like when we went to see Bob Dylan
We danced to Desolation Row
But I don't live here anymore
But I got no place to go

Beating like a heart
I'm going to walk through every doorway I can start
I need some time, I need control, I need your loving
I want to find out everything I need to know
I'm going to say everything that there is to say
Although you've taken everything I need away
I'm going to make it to the place I need to go
We're all just walking through this darkness on our own

Time surrounds me like an ocean
My memories like waves
Is life just dying in slow motion
Or getting stronger every day?
I never took our love for granted
You never left me wanting more
But you never recognized me, babe
I don't live here anymore

Beating like a heart
I'm going to walk through every doorway I can start
I need some time, I need control, I need your loving
I want to find out everything I need to know
I'm going to say everything that I need to say
Although, you've taken everything I need away
I'm going to take you to the place I need to go
We're all just walking through this darkness on our own

Beating like a heart
I'm going to walk through every doorway I can start
I need some time, I need control, I need your loving
I want to find out everything I need to know
I'm going to say everything that I need to say
Although, you've taken everything I need away
I'm going to take you to the place I need to go
We're all just walking through this darkness on our own

We're all just walking through this darkness on our own
We're all just walking through this darkness on our own
We're all just walking through this darkness on our own
We're all just walking through this darkness on our own

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Old Skin

I was born in a pyramid
By an old interstate
Been down at the yard, workin' my whole life
To follow my father's dream
Then watch it fade away
Wrapped in our old tired skin
Peelin' away

All the flowers lately in our window lay in disarray
The shadows are scattered like rings of gold
And I'm watching the warm lights fade away
God, I am in love with leavin'
Like a fadin' dream
Call out in the darkest moments of our love
For the rest of my days, why let it linger?
Come along we're the same
Let's suffer through the change

Oh my God, where do I belong?
Can I make it day to day?
I was all alone at the startin' line
When I watched you slip away

Now I'm on the run baby, and I don't know why
But the fear it gets too much to take
Doesn't matter just how hard you try
When you feel so far away
I'm talkin' of the old time
Feeling dead this way
Tired of the old life
Feeling dead this way

When you're lost and you're runnin'
But the roads have changed
And the forces surround you
But you lost control
And you think that nobody's walkin' by your side
When you're lost in some valley
Runnin' far behind
Yeah, you don't need nobody, yeah

Well there's a price for everything
They'll try to kill you from the start
So take control of anything that tries to pull us all apart
I ain't sure of nothing, babe, 'til I can feel it in my heart
So I keep movin' on
Yeah, keep holdin' on, mm
Yeah

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Wasted

I'm coming down again, across the yellow room
Our lives are disconnected much too soon
I understand that I'm not the one you need
But we're tied to the things that we can't control
And now it's washin' over me

I don't need to make you mine
I don't need to compromise
I don't need to magnify what's lost
And I don't wanna drag you in
To what you can't escape, my friend
I just wanna turn inside, in here

Yeah, the bees fly by like a chaos in the slats
I need a dream, I can't escape
Got no place to run and hide
And I need your kiss
Like a drifting morning mist
I get sucked into the theater
Alright, I can't resist
Babe, I know it's getting late
I don't wanna hesitate
Never want to make you wait so long
'Cause you got to fight to win
You know I can't let go again
I just wanna turn inside and peer
You won't interfere

I'm not asking you, I'm returning
Wake me up when the lights go low
I'm just wasted, but you're lost in London
Sometimes you just ain't getting enough

You've been on my mind
The days you move so slow
I'm just tired in a way that I can't explain
It's like I'm losing all control
I was laying and
My hands are cold as you lost your metal wings
I'm alive and I'm trying not to think too hard
About it coming back again

I just wanna learn to fly
Under these romantic skies
I don't need to compromise our love
But I'm about to drag you in
And no you can't go home again
I just wanna learn in time to heal

I'm not asking you
I'm returning
Wake me up when you're lights go low
I'm just wasted and you
Are lost in London
Sometimes you just ain't good enough
I just want to learn to turn it off and
I just wanna run to town

"Um, lets do that again"

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Rings Around My Father's Eyes

I've never really known which way I'm facing
But I feel like something's changed
There's a storm outside, my walls are aging
They're coming back down in the hardest way

There's a reign protecting me
Rings around my father's eyes
Light above the morning sea
Into darkness I will reach
Fall into the ocean deep
Just to bring you back

Babe, it's almost five
I've been gone since the moonlight faded
And punishing rain washed me away
How can I give back what once was stolen?
How can I stay all day?
Well, it's all a lie, I'm just hiding the memory
Yeah, what awaits for you?
What awaits for me?

There's a bridge connecting me
Rings around my father's eyes
Light above the morning sea
Fill the gray into the song
Feel the wings across your arms
Under the way it moves its own
Mm-mm, mm-mm

As I ride into the wind
What a restless feeling
One I've tried to hide so long
Fill the gray into the song
To feel the wings across your arms
Cut the wing in two

No one really knows which way they're facing
'Til they're coming back down

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Occasional Rain

Into the mouth of control
Take me down where the river strays
Where it flows outside the lines
Where it's picked apart and thrown away
Now I'm finally feeling free
I'm living down by an old par three
You know I'll be playing

Come around, don't take it hard
Don't let 'em stone you when the comedown starts
You've been moving much too fast
You never know just where it ends
What would I find living this life without you?

I got swept up in a world so strange
One you'd never even recognize
Oh, but I slipped away
Now I'm a stranger and I don't know why
It's killin' me, but your words
They brought me out onto steady ground
When I was wounded and ashamed

And now that my heart is empty
Where should I go?
You've always been a constant
My loathing star, where do I go
Yeah, without you?

Feel the storm coming on
Feel the darkness at your gate
Live the loneliness of life
Keep on moving at your pace
Ain't the sky just shades of gray
Until you seen it from the other side?
Oh, if loving you is the same
It's only some occasional rain

It's only some occasional rain
It's only some occasional rain