Tourist

Tourist - Julian Casablancas

I wish that clouds could hold me up

Like I thought as a child growing up

I wish I could sound as soothing as the rainfall

But I am only a drop from the storm

I feel like a tourist out in the country

Once this small world was all countryside

Feel like a tourist in the big city

Soon I will simply evaporate

I took the strings up north

The drums down south

I take it across to Afghanistan

A long time ago

Shuffling your feet into the next dimension

Soon skyscrapers will be everywhere

I feel like a tourist lost in the suburbs

Soon the whole world will be urban sprawl

Feel like a lover out on the ocean

Feel like a tear drop streamin' off your chin

Some will bet against you try even to prevent you

But not many can stop you man if you got a perfect plan

Can they possibly try or demand to know why they would doubt you

In this sand a thousand generations

Feel like a tourist out in the desert

So hot it feels like the Devil's breath

Feel like a tourist out in the swampland

This world is just patches of water and land

Everywhere I go I'm a tourist

But if you stay with me I'll always be at home