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Bright Eyes are back with a homage to ska, new single '1st World Blues'
Bright Eyes release ska-inspired new single with star-studded music video featuring skaters and dogs in Brooklyn setting.
Jul 22, 2025 • 3:47 PM
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If you walk away, I'll walk away First tell me which road you will take I don't want to risk our paths crossing some day So if you walk that way, I'll walk this way And the future hangs over our heads It moves with each current event Until it falls all around like a cold steady rain Just stay in when it's looking this way The moon's laying low in the sky Forcing everything metal to shine And the sidewalk holds diamonds like the jewelry store case They argue walk this way, no, walk this way And Laura's asleep in my bed As I'm leaving, she wakes up and says "I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave Baby, don't go away, just come here" And there's kids playing guns in the street One's pointing his tree branch at me So I put my hands up, I say "Enough is enough If you walk away, I'll walk away" And he shot me dead I found a liquid cure From my landlocked blues It'll pass away like a slow parade It's leaving but I don't know how soon All this words got me dizzy again You'd think after 41 years I'd be used to the spin With it only feels worse when I'm stock in one place So I'm always pacing 'round or walking away I keep drinking the ink from my pen And I'm balancing history books up on my head But it all boils down to one quotable phrase "If you love something, give it away" A good woman, she will pick you apart A box full of suggestions for your possible heart You may be offended and your power was afraid But don't walk away, don't walk away We made love on the living room floor With the noise in the background from a televised war And in the deafening pleasure, I thought I heard someone say "If we walk away, they'll walk away" But she knows greed is a bottomless pit Our freedom's a joke, we're just taking a piss And the whole world must watch the sad comic display If you're still free, start running away 'Cause we're coming for ya! I've grown from tired of holding this pose I feel more like a stranger every time I come home So I'm making a deal with the devils of fame Saying, "Let me walk away, please" You'll be free, child, once you have died From the shackles of language and measurable time And then we can trade places, play musical graves 'Til then walk away, walk away, walk away So I'm up at dawn, putting on my shoes I just want to make a clean escape I'm leaving but I don't know where to Baby, I know I'm leaving, but I don't know where to
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Bright Eyes release ska-inspired new single with star-studded music video featuring skaters and dogs in Brooklyn setting.

Bright Eyes announce extensive summer tour across UK and Europe, featuring rescheduled shows and festival dates from June to July.

It follows the release of 'Bells & Whistles' in June.

It follows the release of 'Bells & Whistles' in June.

Out September 20th via Dead Oceans, it features Cat Power, Matt Berninger, and Alex Orange Drink.

The track is taken from their 'Letting Off The Happiness: A Companion' EP.
