Demons

When I think of you in the city,

the sight of you among the sights,

get this sudden sinking feeling

of a man about to fly.

Never kept me up before.

Now I’ve been awake for days.

I can’t fight it anymore,

I’m going through an awkward phase.

I am secretly in love with

everyone that I grew up with.

Do my crying underwater...

I can’t get down any farther.

All my drowning friends can see, 

now there is no running from it. 

It’s become the crux of me, 

I wish that I could rise above it.

But I stay down,

With my demons

I stay down,

With my demons.

Bats and buzzards in the sky,

Alligators in the sewers.

I don’t even wonder why,

Hide among the younger viewers,

I huddle with them all night long.

The worried talk to God goes on.

I sincerely tried to love it,

wish that I could rise above it.

But I stay down,

With my demons

I stay down,

With my demons.

I stay down,

With my demons

I stay down,

With my demons.

Can I stay here? I can sleep

on the floor

Paint the blood and hang the palms,

on the door

I do not think I’m going places anymore.

Wanna see the sun come up above New York.

Oh, every day I start so great,

then the sunlight dims.

The less I look, the more I see

the pythons in the limbs.

Do not know what’s wrong with me...

The sour is in the cut.

When I walk into a room,

I do not light it up.

Fuck.

So I stay down,

With my demons

I stay down,

With my demons.

I stay down,

With my demons

I stay down,

With my demons.

by "The National"