Zigzagging Toward the Light

Song Zigzagging Toward the Light
Artist Conor Oberst
Album Upside Down Mountain

Lyrics

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[00:16.55] I'm blessed with a heart that doesn't stop
[00:22.12] My minds a weathervane it spins around just like a top
[00:27.46] Knows what the winds of fortune bring
[00:30.80] In the season of the witch
[00:32.77] Home is a perjury, a parlor trick, an urban myth
[00:37.99] Oh how the circumstances change (ooooohhhhhh)
[00:43.27] This world is smoke and steam
[00:45.57] Compromise and metermaids
[00:48.51] I'm going to leave here before to long
[00:53.84] Zigzagging toward the light
[00:55.83] I'm off to sing my boundless song
[01:09.73] True love it hides like city stars
[01:15.04] Nothing to gaze upon or contemplate
[01:18.39] How near or far
[01:20.38] If it comes, it comes quite unannounced
[01:23.95] A momentary glance
[01:25.58] Lit up by sun or moon
[01:27.61] Or bonfire or ambulance
[01:30.95] Oh how the circumstances change (ooooohhhhhh)
[01:36.17] Feels unmistakable with no idea from where it came
[01:41.53] But you will know it when it's gone
[01:46.76] Zigzagging through the night
[01:48.76] I've heard you sing your boundless song
[01:54.29] How did you sing the boundless song?
[01:59.31] How did you sing? How did you sing?
[02:03.05] Sing for the founders his word is never kept
[02:13.29] A bindle of flowers to state his mind
[02:20.88] And bloom when he forgets
[02:34.40] It's true that shadows tell the time
[02:39.70] On sunny afternoons, on crowded sidewalks, passersby
[02:44.99] I'm in a queue that stretches out
[02:48.40] Far as the eye can see
[02:50.29] It forms a figure eight and goes on for eternity
[02:55.58] Oh how the circumstances change (ooooohhhhhh)
[03:00.83] I fly by interstate across a purple mountain range
[03:06.22] I find a place to come undone
[03:11.41] Zigzagging toward you now
[03:13.47] I sing out loud our boundless song