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Capital City

from Ornithology by The Adelaide Crows

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lyrics

Dance the waltz, and sing along baby
I've been thinking of running away lately
I’ll pack up my bag
Turn this dirt race into drag
and head to your mother country

But while I was dreaming of the unknown and highlights
You were dreaming of warmer nights
So you hijacked a northern plane
Went to 7/11 along the way
and went to South America

I’ll be thinking of you more than I fear
I’ll be watching your direction, while you watch me disappear

Explore the world, get yourself lost with me
But your heart still lies in the capital city
and it’s way damn far and it ain’t that pretty
come on waste your life rest your head on mine

While I showing Shiites their human rights
You were up by the northern lights
So I took my new friends on the way,
ended up going a different way
and starting a holy order

But then I heard, you’d escaped to south China,
You know I couldn't think of too much finer
But I missed you by an eye, got arrested as a spy
and was interviewed all night

And while they were questioning me on all these faces
I told them I’d been to 700 different places looking for...

I’ll register my plans with A-S-I-O
But if I'm pushed to the ground, the longer I go
Oh holy man, I'm a drink my way up the north coast
the further I go, the further I grow

I’d spend my time at your university
But I ain’t that smart, and I ain’t that witty
instead I'm going somewhere Facebook won’t get me
I'm gonna waste my life then come racing back this the southern city

She said ooh, let’s move right away from the sea
And for a little while the thought appealed to me

Hey middle class life, I ain’t going to need ya
I'm heading up north to Indonesia
Promote refugee rights
meet Australians all night
then buy me a motorbike

(Then I'm gonna) Lose my way, head to Burma
Find and meet Aung Sun Suu Kyii
She’s going to dignify me
Gonna be a revolutionary
You know it ain’t that scary
I’ll sell melons by day and fight the government by night
Ooh, doesn't that sound alright.

Let’s explore the world get yourself lost with me
But your heart still lies in the capital city
and it’s way too far and it ain’t that pretty
come on waste your life rest your head

I’d spend all my time at your university
But I ain’t that smart, and I ain’t that witty
I'm simply going somewhere Facebook can’t get me
Come on waste your life, rest your head on mine

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from Ornithology, released June 5, 2013

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