Zigzagging Toward The Light

(album: Upside Down Mountain - 2014)

I'm blessed with a heart that doesn't stop
My mind is a weather vane it spins around just like a top
Knows what the winds of fortune bring in the season of the witch
Home is a perjury, a parlor trick, an urban myth

Oh how the circumstances change (ooooohhhhhh)
This world is smoke and steel and compromise and meter maids
I'm going to leave here for too long
Zigzagging toward the light I'm off to sing my bounder song

True love it hides like city stars
Nothing to gaze upon or contemplate how near or far
If it comes it comes quite unannounced, a momentary glance
Lit up by sun or moon by bonfire or ambulance

Then how the circumstances change (ooooohhhhhh)
Feels unmistakable with no idea from where it came
But you will know it when it's gone
Zigzagging through the night half dead you sing your bounder song

Save for the bounder whose word is never kept
A bandeau of flowers to stave his mind and bloom when he forgets

It's true that shadows tell the time
On sunny afternoons, on crowded sidewalks passersby
I'm in a queue that stretches out far as the eye can see
It forms a figure eight and goes on for eternity

Oh how the circumstances change (ooooohhhhhh)
I fly by interstate across a purple mountain range
I'll find a place to come undone
Zigzagging toward you now I sing out loud my bounder song

[Conor Oberst Voice, guitar]
[Jonathon Wilson Guitars, bass, percussion, keyboards, voice]