Demons - The National

When I think of you in the city, the sight of you among the sites

I 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

But 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

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

But 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

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