"Exodus (Take What You Can Carry)" lyrics
Down the aisle
I don't think I can take another bad movie
Why do they make them this way?
Think of the great ones, desert island films
I'll take a few favorites any day
I'll say, "Fuck it," I don't need another broken promise
I'm at the end of my rope
I haven't changed my clothes this entire vacation
Imagining a son as I walk through the station
Saying, "Look at that steam, dad, look at what my camera shows."
But I've got my hands full, I can't follow every little thing my mind suggests
I'll take what I can carry and bury the rest
I'll take what I can carry and bury the rest
For the next generation, take what they can carry
Take what they can carry
Manager hissed
At the waitress who messed up
While I was falling asleep at The Cheesecake Factory
There was something in his voice
Unshaven and screaming
"If you can't make it here, if you can't make it here."
I hear women in my head with ordinary names
That ring like magic through some malfunction in my brain
Oh, your hands were warm, though you came in from the cold
I took one and held it, and without a reason
Thought of the faces I left
And how I loved them to death
Oh, it's too late to remember
So why is this shit so hard to forget?
I'll take what I can carry and bury the rest
Take what I can carry and bury the rest
With the next generation, take what they can carry
Won't be long, you come too
I was alone in the wilderness
Watching your hand in the Exodus
I was alone in the wilderness
Watching your hand in the Exodus
I was alone in the wilderness
Watching your hand in the Exodus
I was alone in the wilderness
Watching your hand in the Exodus
I was thinking in stone, speaking in chalk
I was thinking in stone, speaking in chalk
(I said)
I was thinking in stone (Cover my eyes) (My mind said a little thing)
Speaking in chalk (Cover my eyes) (My mind said a little thing)
I was thinking in stone (Cover my pure eyes) (My mind said a little thing)
Speaking in chalk (Cover my eyes) (My mind said a little thing)
(Cover my pure eyes) (My mind said a little thing)
I cover my eyes, take me away (My mind, mind, little thing)
The back of my head, the palm of your hand (My mind, mind, little thing)
Cover my eyes, take me away (My mind, mind, little thing)
The palm of your hand, the back of my head
I was living in the delta (Cover my eyes)
I was living in the delta (Cover my eyes)
I was living in (Cover my pure eyes)
I was living in (Cover my eyes)
I was living in (Cover my eyes)
(Cover my pure eyes)
I don't think I can take another bad movie
Why do they make them this way?
Think of the great ones, desert island films
I'll take a few favorites any day
I'll say, "Fuck it," I don't need another broken promise
I'm at the end of my rope
I haven't changed my clothes this entire vacation
Imagining a son as I walk through the station
Saying, "Look at that steam, dad, look at what my camera shows."
But I've got my hands full, I can't follow every little thing my mind suggests
I'll take what I can carry and bury the rest
I'll take what I can carry and bury the rest
For the next generation, take what they can carry
Take what they can carry
Manager hissed
At the waitress who messed up
While I was falling asleep at The Cheesecake Factory
There was something in his voice
Unshaven and screaming
"If you can't make it here, if you can't make it here."
I hear women in my head with ordinary names
That ring like magic through some malfunction in my brain
Oh, your hands were warm, though you came in from the cold
I took one and held it, and without a reason
Thought of the faces I left
And how I loved them to death
Oh, it's too late to remember
So why is this shit so hard to forget?
I'll take what I can carry and bury the rest
Take what I can carry and bury the rest
With the next generation, take what they can carry
Won't be long, you come too
I was alone in the wilderness
Watching your hand in the Exodus
I was alone in the wilderness
Watching your hand in the Exodus
I was alone in the wilderness
Watching your hand in the Exodus
I was alone in the wilderness
Watching your hand in the Exodus
I was thinking in stone, speaking in chalk
I was thinking in stone, speaking in chalk
(I said)
I was thinking in stone (Cover my eyes) (My mind said a little thing)
Speaking in chalk (Cover my eyes) (My mind said a little thing)
I was thinking in stone (Cover my pure eyes) (My mind said a little thing)
Speaking in chalk (Cover my eyes) (My mind said a little thing)
(Cover my pure eyes) (My mind said a little thing)
I cover my eyes, take me away (My mind, mind, little thing)
The back of my head, the palm of your hand (My mind, mind, little thing)
Cover my eyes, take me away (My mind, mind, little thing)
The palm of your hand, the back of my head
I was living in the delta (Cover my eyes)
I was living in the delta (Cover my eyes)
I was living in (Cover my pure eyes)
I was living in (Cover my eyes)
I was living in (Cover my eyes)
(Cover my pure eyes)
