How to Rent a Room - Silver Jews

No I don’t really want to die

I only want to die in your eyes

I’m still here below the chandelier

Where they always used to read us our rights

I want to wander through the night

As a figure in the distance even to my own eye

Have you ever rented a room?

Have you even ever rented a room?

An anchor lets you see the river move

Now that your evil dreams came true

There on your face

A row of teeth will come to replace

I know you laughed

When I left

But you really only hurt yourself

You see your curtains move in the wind

You can bet I’m betting against you again

'Cause I’m a man who has a wife who has a mother

Who married one but she loved another

You’re a tower without the bells

You’re a negative wishing well

Should have checked the stable door

For the name of the sire and dame

You were always at the dog track

With your brother and all his friends

Chalk lines around my body

Like the shore line of a lake

Your laughter made me nervous

It made your body shake too hard

Now there’s a lot of things that I’m gonna miss

Like thunder down country and the way water drips

When you’re running for the door in the rain

Read the metro section

Read the metro section

Read the metro section

See my name

No I didn’t really want to die

I only wanted to die in your eyes

Grant me one last wish

Life should mean a lot less than this

Grant me one last wish

Life should mean a lot less than this