Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Bright Eyes
Canonical path: /bright-eyes/ship-in-a-bottle
Related lyric paths: 6
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Ship in a Bottle
Read Ship in a Bottle lyrics by Bright Eyes on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Curated by Ethan Walker
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Ship in a Bottle
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I wanna be the surgeon that cuts you open
That fixes all of life's mistakes
I wanna be the house that you were raised in
The only place that you feel safe
I wanna be a shower in the morning
That wakes you up and makes you clean
I know I'm just the weather againt your window
As you sleep through a winter's dream
Someones churning the earth
Someone's stirring the sky
Every color at once in a column of lights
Bacteria breeds on a microscope slide
The worm in my heart's the apple of your eye
Don't adore what is impossible
We have built this ship in a wine bottle
But if you knew how it worked
We'd have to grow old
Someone's eating at you, wakes you up in the night
If you're digging the past, who knows what you'll find
Read the newspaper print off the microfiche slide
And you're holding your breath for the rest of your life
Don't you love what is intangible
I have built this ship in a wine bottle
But if you knew who I was
You would never grow old
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