Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect - The Decemberists

You won't notice me I'll be leaving my mark Like initials carved in an old oak tree You wait and see Maybe I'll write like Twain wrote Maybe I'll paint like Van Gough Cure the common cold I don't know But I'm ready to start 'cause I know in my heart I wanna do something that matters Say something different Something that sets the whole world on its ear I wanna do something better With the time I've been given And I wanna try to touch a few hearts in this life Leave nothing less than Something that says I was here I will prove you wrong If you think I'm all talk, you're in for a shock 'Cause this drink's too strong And before too long Maybe I'll compose symphonies Maybe I'll fight for world peace 'Cause I know it's my destiny To leave more than a trace of myself in this place I wanna do something that matters Say something different Something that sets the whole world on it's ear I wanna do something better With the time I've been given And I wanna try to touch a few hearts in this life Leave nothing less than Something that says I was here And I know that I, I will do more than just pass through this life I'll leave nothing less than something that says I was here I was here (I was here) I was here (Oh, something that matters) (Something that says I was here) Wanna do something that matters Something that says I was here I was here

I want to leave my footprints on the sands of time Know there was something that, something that I left behind When I leave this world, I'll leave no regrets Leave something to remember, so they won't forget I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here I did, I've done, everything that I wanted And it was more than I thought it would be I will leave my mark so everyone will know I was here I wanna say I lived each day, until I died I know that I had something in somebody's life The hearts I have touched, will be the proof that I leave That I made a difference and this world will see I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here I did, I've done, everything that I wanted And it was more than I thought it would be I will leave my mark so everyone will know I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here I did, I've done, everything that I wanted And it was more than I thought it would be I will leave my mark so everyone will know I was here I just want them to know That I gave my all, did my best Brought someone some happiness Left this world a little better just because I was here I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here I did, I've done, everything that I wanted And it was more than I thought it would be I wanna leave my mark so everyone will know I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here I did, I've done I was here, I lived, I loved, I was here I did, I've done I was here

All in all I don't know what to believe But I told my friends I'm not sure if they're real And I'm peering in mirrors for proof that I'm here Half in half out of this broken machine Sick to the bone with some spectral disease Came back from the void with the void still in me Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Watching my life on a de-tuned TV The pictures I see are just shapes on a screen Come shake me out of my slow motion dream Here comes another day lost within the fade out And I'm freaking out Don't let this be what I'm about, I'm about Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Oh How I wish I was here How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Oh All it would take, is a whisper or a kiss To seal my fate, within the abyss Anesthesia All is seeing, self-deceiving I'll find a way home A way home How I wish I was here How I wish I was here Acid mother Resin father I am blind

River run And brother row And the ease between us, The calm below The rings, these twisted things cast off in the arms of those long low aways The lights, the river's striped, and will we not belong to those long low and lazy Surround us Oh, drown us A wailing whine, a Wendigo A waltzing night, oh bending road Me, I couldn't sleep, caught in some long that would seem to all but all the song But here, we river swim to wash away the light that seems to all but all be found Surround me Oh, drown me

O Philomena You in a tawdry gown Lean to your window Let slip a ribbon down A cure to your boredom If only you'd let me go down Down down Long summer days Can lead to lazy vices Boys all at idle Left to their own devices Open up your linen lap And let me go down Down down All that I wanted in the world Was just to live to see a naked girl But I found I quickly bored I wanted more I wanted more So I'll be your candle I'll be your statuette. I'll be your lashing Loop of leatherette O Philomena if only You'd let me go down. Down down All that I wanted in the world Was just to live to see a naked girl But I found I quickly bored I wanted more Oh so much more So I'll be your candle I'll be your statuette. I'll be your lashing Loop of leatherette O Philomena if only You'd let me go down. Down down Go down down down Go down Go down

So we already wrecked the rental car And I've already lost my way But feet entombed in this tourist bar For today, anyway So lay me down on the cobblestone And unfurl this aching [?] The streets are built on ancient bones And the crib of the rest Won't the mistral Blow it all away? Won't the mistral Blow away? Won't the mistral Blow it all away? Won't it blow, won't it blow, won't it blow So it's me and you and the baby boy And a ford to share the weight Breaking out a little joy Blown aways, back to space Won't the mistral Blow it all away? Won't the mistral Blow away? Won't the mistral Blow it all away? Won't it blow, won't it blow, won't it blow Won't the mistral Blow it all away? Won't the mistral Blow away? Won't the mistral Blow it all away? Won't it blow, won't it blow, won't it blow Won't the mistral Blow it all away? Won't the mistral Blow away?