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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Aaron Dessner
Piano
Bryce Dessner
Electric Guitar
Matt Berninger
Lead Vocals
Bryan Devendorf
Drums
Scott Devendorf
Bass Guitar
Arianna Tessier
Violin
Barbara Liepvre
Cello
Benachir Boukatem
Viola
Charlotte Juillard
Violin
Domitille Gilon
Violin
Ella Jarrige
Cello
Emilie Duch Sauzeau
Violin
Grégoire Dubruel
Bass Trombone
Juliette Salmona
Cello
Justin Vernon
Synthesiser
Leslie Boulin Raulet
Violin
Marc Desjardins
Violin
Marine Gandon
Viola
Matthias Piccin
Violin
Nikolai Spassov
Violin
Pauline Hauswirth
Violin
Sarah Chenaf
Viola
Thomas Bartlett
Keyboards
Thomas Garoche
Bass Trombone
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Aaron Dessner
Songwriter
Bryce Dessner
Orchestrator
Matt Berninger
Songwriter
Ron Suskind
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Bryce Dessner
Producer
Aaron Dessner
Producer
Andi Toma
Additional Engineer
Greg Calbi
Mastering Engineer
Jan St. Werner
Additional Engineer
Jonathan Low
Mixing Engineer
Peter Katis
Mixing Engineer
Steve Fallone
Mastering Engineer
Lyrics
I'm always thinking about useless things
I'm always checking out
I'm always mothering myself to bits
I'm always checking out
Forget it, nothing I change changes anything
I won't let it, I won't let it ruin my hair
I only take up a little of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Don't wanna fuck it up
I only take up a little of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Don't wanna fuck up the place
I better walk it back, walk it back
Oh, I better walk it back, walk it back
Walk it back, walk it back
I try to save it for a rainy day
It's raining all the time
Until everything is less insane
I'm mixing weed with wine
Forget it, nothing I change changes anything
I won't let it, I won't let it ruin my hair
I only take up a little of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Don't wanna fuck it up
I only take up a little of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Don't wanna fuck it up
I only take up a little of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Don't wanna fuck up the place
I better walk it back, walk it back
Oh, I better walk it back, walk it back
Walk it back, walk it back
Oh, I better walk it back, walk it back
Walk it back, walk it back
"People like you are still living in what we call the reality-based community.
You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.
That's not the way the world really works anymore.
We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.
And while you are studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.
We're history's actors, and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.
Apparently that was written on a whiteboard with a red sharpie in the Roosevelt bedroom, sometime around Christmas 2007. Yeah, so I can't stay..."
I can't stay and I can't come back
I'll just keep awake
And I won't react
I'll walk through Lawrencetown
Along the tracks
My own body in my arms
But I won't collapse
So don't go dark on me
It's all alright
If I'm gonna get back to you, someday
I'll need you light
Writer(s): Bryce David Dessner, Matthew D. Berninger, Aaron Brooking Dessner, Ron Suskind
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