Walk It Back (Explicit) - The National

Written by：Bryce Dessner/Aaron Dessner/Matt Berninger

I'm always thinking about useless things

I'm always checking out

I'm always mothering myself to bits

I'm always checking out

Forget it nothing I change changes anything

I won't let it I won't let it ruin in my hair

I only take up a little of the collapsing space

I better cut this off

Don't wanna f**k it up

I only take up a little of the collapsing space

I better cut this off

Don't wanna f**k up the place

I better walk it back walk it back

Oh I better walk it back walk it back

Walk it back walk it back

I try to save it for a rainy day

It's raining all the time

Until everything is less insane

I'm mixing w**d with wine

Forget it nothing I change changes anything

I won't let it I won't let it ruin my hair

I only take up a little of the collapsing space

I better cut this off

Don't wanna f**k it up

I only take up a little of the collapsing space

I better cut this off

Don't wanna f**k it up

I only take up a little of the collapsing space

I better cut this off

Don't wanna f**k up the place

I better walk it back walk it back

Oh I better walk it back walk it back

Walk it back walk it back

Oh I better walk it back walk it back

Walk it back walk it back

People like you are still living in what we call the reality based community

You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality

That's not the way the world really works anymore we're an empire now

And when we act we create our own reality

And while you are studying that reality

Judiciously as you will

We'll act again creating other new realities

Which you can study too and that's how things will sort out

We're history's actors and you all of you

Will be left to just study what we do

Apparently that was written on a whiteboard with a red sharpie in the Roosevelt bedroom

Sometime around Christmas 2007 yeah so I can't stay

I can't stay and I can't come back

I'll just keep awake

And I won't react

I'll walk through Lawrencetown

Along the tracks

My own body in my arms

But I won't collapse

So don't go dark on me

It's all alright

If I'm gonna get back to you someday

I'll need you light