Make a Picture Songtext
von Andrew Bird

Oh, I don′t wanna ride on your shoulders
And put you in the hospital
I just wanna roll away boulders
That they said it wasn't possible
Don′t you know that I'm an irrepressible optimist
Awoken with the fatal flaw?

Running in the streets like Feral cats will be hard
To mistaken me in ways apart
Tell us what you think you saw
What you think you saw
Tell us what you think you saw

Make a picture
Make it snappy
Make a picture
Don't look so happy


All those scowling faces
All those furrowed brows
All those burned-out cases
Make ′em take a bow (make ′em take)
A bunch of smiling faces
Come on and show us out
Never mind the braces
Love you anyhow
We love you anyhow

I don't wanna hear what′s impossible
Falling with the shepherd's dome
And if we′re ever gonna get out of this hospital
You will never sleep alone
Listen to the cries of the wounded metropolis
Standing since like tenterhooks
I listen to the cries of the pliable populist
Giving us a dirty look
They're giving us the dirty looks, dirty looks now
They′re giving us the dirty looks

Make a picture
Make it snappy
Make a picture
Don't look so happy


All those scowling faces
All those furrowed brows
All those burned-out cases
Make 'em take a bow (make ′em take)
A bunch of smiling faces
Come on and show us out
Never mind the braces
Love you anyhow
We love you anyhow, ah-ah-ah

Love you anyhow, ah-ah-ah
Love you anyhow, ah-ah-ah
(We never sleep alone)
Love you anyhow, ah-ah-ah
(We never sleep alone)