Bright Eyes Lyrics
"Carrot Diamond"

My serotonin's rationed, I'm coughing

I kind of caught the blues

But you won't catch me complaining

to the super or the news

Cause the carrot's gonna dangle

'Til the diamond is appraised

And all that talk made me feel rich baby,

but tell me, who is gonna pay

For braces to make straight,

All that Colgate keep my white tooth-innocence?

My smile's in sad shape,

All the dead weight I got tired of carrying

Yeah it's got me looking for a friend

or a crutch I can depend on

Well there's endless entertainment

In thinking the world is gonna end

And I live some nights convinced of it

but I keep waking up again

With my girl wrapped 'round my body

and a towel wrapped 'round my head

She says, you passed out in the bathtub,

Angel, I thought that you were dead

Don't die on me, don't tread on me

My love, my love is not the enemy

And you don't have to be no-one's biography

Yeah they try and write you down and hope you go crazy

So don't

So don't

Don't fall for that Christ-bait it's about as passé
as rock star arrogance

Tomorrow's a new day but it's that same face and you'll be wearing it

Now you don't have to be content! but you do have to get on with it