Taking a Page - Devendra Banhart

I can see it in the way

That you are the painted

Flowers in the big parade

Flowers in the big parade

Deep inside your heart

Staring at the sky

Calling out the shapes

Clouds make as they pass by

And first they thank you by pulling out your tongue

And you apologize for being where you’re from

I could hear the animals painted on the cave

And I was taking a page

From my own mistakes

It was an empty book

Until I took a look

I was taking a page

From all the time I spend

With a vanity

That knows no end

The many unknown thrills

Hard to translate

Time yer all the time

Elegant heart rate

She would look at her

Non-linear

As she reaches in her pocket to find

All of human-kind

I’m in my Free Tibet shirt that’s made in China

With evolution’s last jumping off point behind ya

But I’ve got an infinity of things left to refuse

And I was taking a page from Carole King

You’re so far away

Doesn’t anybody stay?

I was taking a page from remembering

There’s so many things

Right there under my skin

Wandering through a world

Neither of us understands

And when you think you just can’t stand it

Zoom out and see the planet

Cause love is a little like

Crowd surfing in an empty club

Oh that’s a little bit like

Something a lot like love

But things could really be much worse

At least there’s smiley face

But I can’t take no more

Guitar solo or car chase

Words tend to mean the most in songs that are just music

Do you ever think that colors say

«Hey who’s your favorite human?»

But I was stranded in the place of my favorite details

I was taking a page

From my imaginary life

Where I’m a good housewife

Yeah that sounds nice

I was taking a page

From never feeling like I

Was a girl or a guy

But I had to try