Half a Million

Half a Million - The Shins

Written by：James Mercer

I make myself a promise

Then break it every night

I'm feeling loose and life don't make no sense

I use my brains to build a fence

'Round the claim I stake

I take the drugs but the drugs won't take

I took a pledge to grow up

Then drank enough to make me throw up

On all my dearly disappointed friends

I'm just too lazy to make amends

With you anyway

That's why the pattern still remains

There's half a million things that I'm supposed to be

A shelter in the nighttime

A punk running free

And if it gets too deep

I reach for my guitar

And if I try hard

I find something I can really drop into

And everything that was is just a thing that I can sing

Everything is something next to nothing

As crazy as it seems you give it up and you are free

Another candle to blow out

New set of dark thoughts to shut out

And everybody's got their remedies

But nothing works like chemistry

So raise a toast

No more sipping from the fire hose

There's half a million things that I'm supposed to be

A shelter in the nighttime

A punk running free

And if it gets too deep

I reach for my guitar

And if I try hard

I find something I can really drop into

And everything that was is just a thing that I can sing

Everything is something next to nothing

As crazy as it seems you give it up and you are free

There's half a million things that you're supposed to be

A virgin in the moonlight

A freak on the scene

And if it gets too deep

You reach for your guitar

And if you try hard

There's half a million things that I'm supposed to be

A shelter in the nighttime

A punk running free

And if it gets too deep

I reach for my guitar

And if I try hard

There's half a million things that I'm supposed to be

A shelter in the nighttime

A punk running free

And if it gets too deep

I reach for my guitar

And if I try hard