Jeffrey Lewis – Depression! Despair! (2019) | Track profile | Dork

Jeffrey Lewis – Depression! Despair! (2019) | Track profile | Dork

Lyrics

Depression! Despair!

I haven’t got the leeway to be falling too behind

And there's a lot of little warnings in the corners of my mind

And there’s a lot of things that need to work with no margin of error

So the only thing I see ahead is entropy and terror

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

And the list of your convictions is an old outdated loop

And then you see the other angle where your concepts all look stupid

And you see your broken certainties from oldest up to newest

And the things that seem the worst are all the things that seem the truest

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

The sun is always shining on rocks in the dark

The rocks are always flying and breaking apart

(The sun is always shining on rocks in the dark)

(The rocks are always flying and breaking apart)

And relationships are worthless if it’s not like his or hers

And plus my body isn’t perfect and each day it’s getting worse

And now the culture these new kids are in is not made for you is it

And the stuff you used to love is worse each time that you revisit

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

And the garbage piles higher and the relatives are older

And the papers to be filed are exploding from the folder

And you thought that being shy meant a sweet guy who just needs work

But you're quiet and you're awkward and you're also still a jerk

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

The sun is always shining on rocks in the dark

The rocks are always flying and breaking apart

(The sun is always shining on rocks in the dark)

(The rocks are always flying and breaking apart)

And it’s been a crazy highway to get here from where you started

And the ending's out of reach and then you're broke or broken-hearted

Like a flower losing petals as the challenge gets more devious

You always have to settle for a little less than previous

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

And the things you want to do are not the ways where you excel

And even factors in your favor have all wavered straight to hell

Until the place you thought you held to dig your heels adhere at least

Is sliding helpless to the cliff as if the safety brake released

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

The sun is always shining on rocks in the dark

The rocks are always flying and breaking apart

(The sun is always shining on rocks in the dark)

(The rocks are always flying and breaking apart)

And it even isn’t obvious to take it on the chin

When all the ocean is anonymously shaking in the wind

Into a million new directions every time you get a bearin'

Pulling you and your reflection underwater in the air

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

Horrible comparisons of history unfolded

If miraculous humanity as really if they told it

If we are defiantly proceeding through a maze we feared and hated

I am just deciding on a meeting point in case we are separated

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

(Depression! Despair! I'll see you there)

The sun is always shining on rocks in the dark

The rocks are always flying and breaking apart

(The sun is always shining on rocks in the dark)

(The rocks are always flying and breaking apart)

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