Dreams & Boxes - Watsky

I never really had the guts to look under that log

I need them all, all, all to love me

But they see through me so easy

I wish I could believe in your God

Sounds fun!

We could throw rocks out of heaven

I get these dark thoughts every day now

I never thought I’d be that one

Good news I’m way too scared to do it

And I have too much fun being scared

I’m in this for life

Like it or not

I’m not going anywhere, anywhere

I’m in this for life

Like it or not

You will have to drag me by the neck

I’m not gonna bail

Writing on the ceiling of the box while the coffin the nailed

California dreamin while the demons are hot on our tail

Hop a curb, yes that was me offa the trail officer

No, I don’t have a good reason

I was just in a mood to go seeking

Heard a hard poem, it had my heart thumpin

Start my blood pumping again

This one is for the people who raised me up

It’s for the people who raised me up

If you remember one thing then remember how it felt

When you felt for the first time

This one is for the people who raised me up

It’s for the people who raised me up

If you remember one thing then remember how it felt

I’m in this for life

I’m not going anywhere, anywhere

I’m in this for life

Drag me by the neck

You want your holy grail

Try not to overthink it

I try but always fail

But I want it so damn bad

I’m addicted to life

If I lived how I thought that you want me to live

I don’t think you’d like what you got

If I shot my poetry out of a cannon

Would it make it any better?

If you fill a gun with glitter

What’ll become of the bullet

If you’re only suffering under a vail

I’m in this for life

Like it or not

I’m not going anywhere, anywhere

I’m in this for life

Like it or not

You will have to drag me by the neck

This one is for the people who raised me up

It’s for the people who raised me up

If you remember one thing then remember how it felt

When you felt for the first time

This one is for the people who raised me up

It’s for the people who raised me up

If you remember one thing then remember how it felt

I dreamed I understood myself completely

We were having a party in a house falling out of the sky

Every clique showed up

The ones who love the small of gasoline

The shy beautifuls

The microphone eaters

The gimme gimme gimmes

The maybe next years

The boring childhooders who trashed their lives for fun

The house rotated as it made it through a storm,

Eyeball-sized hail sailed sideways through the windows

As the single pane, survived-the-great-fire hundred-year-old glass all smashed

We laughed and dropped the hailstones in our drinks and danced

We started chanting some optimistic that we knew that it was maybe mostly

bullshit

But that if we even still felt one tenth of one percent how we felt in that

moment in the morning that it would be an energy could shake neighborhoods from

their foundations

We dragged ourselves on a twenty-mile mission to fill our goblets in the kitchen

Got stopped by a hallway goblin named Frank who said he once dreamed Karl Marx

and Rosa Parks were beating the shit out of him which gave him a full body

orgasm

I told him my dad analyzes dreams for a living and believes they’re portals to

the subconscious

I don’t judge you we’re all weirdos,

My dad still refuses to drive beamers because they made cars for Hitler

But I always suspected that was convenient logic for a family that could only

afford used station wagons

I told him in a drawer in my house I found a matchbook from my dad’s 1955 Bar

Mitzvah

It still has nine dry unused matches that haven’t been torn from the cardboard

It’s a time machine and remains my second most precious possession

Do you understand this Frank?

You’re in presence of a motherfucker who owns

fire from the past

Can you imagine getting high with a flame from 1955?

Can you?

Do you feel connected to your ancestors?

Do you?

Do you ever feel strange?

Wonder how the world’s gaze has shaped you?

Do you fear being shaken by the shoulders like an etch a sketch

Being mugged for your memories?

I do

They are my first most prized possession

My very first memory was sitting in high chairs with my brother the day the Bay

ripped in two

The earthquake shook the china from the shelves and we clapped because we

didn’t understand

I told him my mother’s father died in a plane crash

I told him my brother grew up to be a pilot

The captain, which apparently the apparently the building had and was my

brother, came over the intercom, which apparently the building had,

and alerted the party that house was starting the spin faster and soon it

would be time to hit the ground, so either buckle your seatbelts say your

prayers or find someone to fuck

It was all true, China was smashing against the ceiling

Me and Frank said our goodbyes easily once I realized I’d been having a

conversation in the mirror.

I climbed out a window and hung onto a drain pipe

and watched the stars paint the sky

Little boxes

On the hillshide

Elbows ass and my knees and toes

I got my elbows ass and my knees and toes

Little boxes

On the hillshide

Elbows ass and my knees and toes

I got my elbows ass and my knees and toes

I see the ghosts on every corner

Of the people that we used to be

So many that they sit upon the shoulders

Of their brothers and their sisters

While our city slips into the sea

Danny in DC Tee getting stomped in the head on Clement St

Kids in the black boots

Dad’s got the long hair, dad’s hired, getting fired

Everybody waveMe in the ambulance!

Mom’s got my pills in the paper bag, bills on the table

That was before they were really real people

And the punks grabbed my bike in the Safeway parking lot

Chased em for five blocks, never got it back

We were already fading I just didn’t know it yet

Holding onto the lie of my perfection tucked under my arm like a late

Blockbuster cassette

And fuck yeah I was hard for miss popular

Been jockin her but she couldn’t see where I sat with binoculars

Binaca stashed in my pocket, shot the good shot, the good lord, she blocked it

Cherish the small the tragedies

The big ones are smoking out in the bathroom and loitering for the moment when

nobody sees em coming, an opening they can jump in make a total catastrophe

My family tried to hold it together

But now that we can’t hold it together

We hold each other closer instead

Danny in the deep blue Sea getting wasted on the MUNI out to DP

Kids with the tall cans

Dad’s got the short hair, dad’s not retired quite yet

Every wavebodyMe in the ambulance!

Mom’s plays guitar and she sings to us near to us

That was before we were really real people

And the Punks grabbed my bike in the Safeway parking lot,

Chased em for five blocks, never got it back

Little boxes

On the hillside

There’s a blue one and a yellow one

And they all look just the same