Map of the World

Monsters Of Folk - Map Of The World


Theres a map of the world on the wall in your room
Green pins where you want to go
White pins where youve been, there isnt even ten
and your already feeling old

Pretty faces stare back from a magazine stack
That you read when youre feeling bored
Look through a telescope lens it doesnt make sense
You think youve been there before

Some far off feeling, some up close kind of ache
A wide screen reason to look the other way

Theres a place by the lake that you go when its late
In the summer when the crowds are gone
You sit all alone with your thoughts getting stoned
Just waiting for some peace to come

Like the thing that you tried
that you thought that you liked
For a minute then it all felt wrong
So you change it again all your clothes,
all your friends
Its the same as it ever was

That far off feeling, that up close kind of ache
Some wide screen reason to look the other way

Its the road that you paved over indian graves
and you wonder why your dreams are crazed
So you cling to wife, your kids, your life
Theres nothing that your gonna save

Put the razor to your face, hot water for a shave
Kill the shadow of yesterday
Clean shirt, clean pants, clean slate, second chance
Youre going by another name

Some far off feeling, an up close kind of ache
That instant karma always comes to late