Why I Can't Draw-The Smith Street Band

[ti:Why I Can't Draw] [ar:The Smith Street Band] [al:Sunshine and Technology] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Why I Can't Draw - The Smith Street Band [00:27.57]I found an old notebook filled up with pictures [00:30.97]Found my friends in hospital beds with [00:33.50]Facial stitches [00:34.44]We sat around the table drinking [00:36.89]Hoping no one would ever die [00:38.76] [00:41.19]A scribble of an elephant with [00:44.55]Why I can't draw and why everyone is evil [00:47.94]Written above it in faded black ink [00:50.95] [00:54.50]Heated debate about the legal system [00:57.77]Let's have a rally [00:58.69]Let's start a revolution [01:00.57]Set fire under our feet [01:02.67]Do our best not to stamp it out [01:04.73] [01:07.50]And all I can see through the rooftops [01:09.36]And the chimneys is the top of a billboard [01:12.42]That reads love [01:13.85]And I think It's an advert for [01:15.71]Nasal spray technology [01:16.88]But in my current state it doesn't matter much [01:19.45] [01:20.68]And these things are consuming [01:22.99]But there's more to me than [01:25.29]Lack of sleep and anxiety [01:27.19]And darling [01:27.79]You've befriended drop-outs and drifters [01:30.56]So why would you expect anything different [01:34.18]This is a summer song [01:36.41] [01:37.31]And I want you all to sing along [01:39.58] [01:57.05]And a woman with a face [01:58.05]That slid right down to the top of [01:59.49]Her dress told me [02:00.59]I'd succeed because [02:01.65]I'd been touched by a goddess [02:03.24]If society's taught me anything [02:05.01]It's that writing is much easier than speaking [02:07.58] [02:10.25]That walking is best done in silence [02:13.28]And rooftops are best left leaking [02:15.67]And as we boarded up the walls [02:18.16]Where our fists had fell the night before [02:19.57]I said I'm sorry that I shout [02:21.45]I'm not sorry but I don't put out [02:22.92]I'm sorry [02:23.58]I don't understand things unless [02:25.49]I find music in them [02:27.41] [02:29.78]And I know that you feel like I left you [02:32.28] [02:33.10]But you left me without much of a choice [02:35.76] [02:37.25]I haven't learn to draw but at least [02:39.82]I've never lost [02:42.29]Never lost my voice [02:43.77]These things are consuming [02:46.13]But there's more to me than [02:48.44]Lack of sleep and anxiety [02:50.17]And darling [02:50.95]You've befriended drop-outs and drifters [02:53.64]So why would you expect anything different [02:57.23]This is a summer song [02:59.42] [03:00.35]And I want you all to sing along