The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

The Postal Service The District Sleeps Alone Tonight Lyrics
1.The District Sleeps Alone Tonight

Lyricist:Ben Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello

Smeared black ink, your palms are sweaty
And I'm barely listening to last demands
I'm staring at the asphalt wondering
What's buried underneath
Where I am, where I am

Wear my badge, a vinyl sticker
With big block letters adhered to my chest
Tells your new friends, I am a visitor here
I am not permanent
And the only thing keeping me dry is

You seem so out of context in this gaudy apartment complex
A stranger with your door key explaining that I'm just visiting
And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving
D.C. sleeps alone tonight

You seem so out of context in this gaudy apartment complex
A stranger with your door key explaining that I'm just visiting
And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving

The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their
lights
And send the autos swerving into the loneliest evening
And I am finally seeing why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving


2.Suddenly Everything Has Changed

Lyricist:Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins

Putting all the vegetables away
That you bought at the grocery store today
And it goes fast, you think of the past

Suddenly everything has changed


Ahh
Ahh
Ahh

Driving home the sky accelerates
And the clouds all form a geometric shape
Then it goes fast, you think of the past

Suddenly everything has changed


Ahh
Ahh
Ahh

Putting all the clothes you washed away
And as you're folding up the shirts you hesitate
Then it goes fast, you think of the past

Suddenly everything has changed


3.The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (DJ Downfall Persistent Beat Mix)


Smeared black ink.
Your palms are sweaty,
and I'm barely listening
to last demands.
I'm staring at the asphalt wondering
What's buried underneath where I am?
(Where I am)

I'll wear my badge:
a vinyl sticker with big block letters
adhered to my chest.
It tells your new friends
I am a visitor here... I am not permanent
And the only thing keeping me dry is...

You seem so out of context,
in this gaudy apartment complex.
A stranger with your door key,
explaining that I'm just visiting.
And I am finally seeing
why I was the one worth leaving.
(I was the one worth leaving)

D.C. sleeps alone tonight.

(Where I am)
You seem so out of context
in this gaudy apartment complex.
(Where I am)
A stranger with your door key
explaining that I'm just visiting.
(Where I am)
And I am finally seeing
why I was the one worth leaving.
(I was the one worth leaving)

(Where I am)
The District sleeps alone tonight
after the bars turn out their lights.
(Where I am)
And send the autos swerving
into the loneliest evening.
(Where I am)
And I am finally seeing
why I was the one worth leaving.
why I was the one worth leaving.
why I was the one worth leaving.
why I was the one worth leaving.


4.Such Great Heights (Remix by John Tejada)

I am thinking it's a sign
that the freckles in our eyes are mirror images
and when we kiss they're perfectly aligned

And I have to speculate
that God himself did make
us into corresponding shapes
like puzzle pieces from the clay

And true, it may seem like a stretch
but its thoughts like this that catch
my troubled head when you're away
when I am missing you to death

When you are out there on the road
for several weeks of shows
and when you scan the radio
I hope this song will guide you home

They will see us waving from such great heights,
'Come down now', they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away,
'Come down now', but we'll stay...

I tried my best to leave
this all on your machine
but the persistent beat it sounded thin upon listening

And that frankly will not fly
you will hear the shrillest highs
and lowest lows with the windows down
when this is guiding you home

They will see us waving from such great heights,
'Come down now', they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
'Come down now', but we'll stay...


They will see us waving from such great heights,
'Come down now', they'll say
But everything looks perfect from far away
'Come down now', but we'll stay...

They will see us waving from such great heights,
'Come down now'
They will see us waving from such great heights,
'Come down now'