Conor Oberst - A Perfect Sonnet lyrics

[Verse 1] Lately I've been wishing I had one desire Something that would make me never want another Something that would make it so that nothing mattered All would be clear then But I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief moments And watch it all dissolve into a single second And try to write it down into a perfect sonnet Or one foolish line Cause that's all that you'll get so you'll have to accept You are here then you're gone But I believe that lovers should be tied together Thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather And left there to drown Left there to drown in their innocence But as for me I'm coming to the final chapter I read all of the pages and there is still no answer Only all that was before I know must soon come after That is the only way it can be [Bridge] So I stand in the sun And I breathe with my lungs I'm trying to spare me the weight of the truth [Verse 2] Saying everything you've ever seen was just a mirror Spent your whole life sweating in an endless fever And now you're laying in a bathtub full of freezing water Wishing you were a ghost But once you knew a girl and you named her Lover Danced with her in kitchens through the greenest summer Autumn came, she disappeared You can't remember where she said she was going to But you know that she's gone cause she left you a song That you don't want to sing Singing I believe that lovers should be chained together Thrown into a fire with their songs and letters And left there to burn Left there to burn in their arrogance But as for me I'm coming to my final failure k**ed myself with changes trying to make things better Ended up becoming something other than what I had planned to be Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers And laid entwined together on a bed of clover And left there to sleep Left there to dream of their happiness