We Could Be Brave Songtext
von Michael Cera Palin

Should we confine ourselves to confidants′ intervals?
So bent about our shelters, blinds to open windows

Would it all be cut losses and squandered farewells?
We Could Be Brave and see how it ends?

Oh, the ways
I've forgotten how to stop
Flinching, inching
Distance me from earshot
Exhausted, my options
Take what time l′ve got

Breakthrough at half past 5 in the morning
Don't feel much better, better than nothing

It's moving at a glacier′s pace, I need a higher dosage
Each catalyst more cataclysmic, crashing in slow motion
Still not quite sure how I never seem to catch it comin′

Misusing all my languid strength for all this shit I'm hauling
I know these things by name
I often wish they′d just stop calling
Just to justify my Sisyphean crawling


I'm losing all my saving grace
But saving face I′d take
Or some way to savor
My never-ending ache

It's moving with an anxious gait
I need a higher dosage
Don′t say it's more than I can take
Some pressures never let
As much to overcome as left to comprehend

Close enough to grab it
"I don't wanna know"
Scattershot habits
Ricochet in echoes
We deal in distance, in hypotheticals
The shoulds, coulds, and woulds

I know these depths so well
Carved in the image of their maker
Despite how it might feel
Like the presence of another

If you mirror me, hate your reflection too, I′d hardly blame you
If you mirror me, hate your reflection too, I′d hardly blame you


Oh, the ways
I've forgotten how to stop
(We could be brave, we should be safe here)

Lunging at my own tail, flesh for me to gnaw
(We could be brave, and just wait to see how it ends)

If this breaks, then it′s a wound that I can gauze
(We could be brave, we could wait out the end of days)

Not numbered, but bulletpointed
And some days that's all I think about
My ache is forever
My ink′s running out

This ache is forever
At least tonite's just for now
This week′s just for now
This month's just for now

Could this ache be much longer?
Where the fuck's my way out?

′Cause God knows I′ve tried to go outside
At least once or twice this month

Looked down, in, and out
Still came up at loss for answers
We could be brave
Try to set our eyes back forward

But perhaps I hesitate because I'd rather stay
Fuck better than nothing, for 5am there′s nothing better

Wash yr face, brush yr teeth
Make yr bed, take yr vitals

All you can do is wait in that skin
To see how it ends (just like the rest of us)
Potential was squandered, no energy wasted
If you see to the end (just like the rest of us)

Should you feel beside yourself
You're still right by the rest of us
We could be brave, we should be safe here

Would it be so far off-course to live because you will it?
Couldn′t be a lesser force than the spirit that permits it

We could be brave, we should be safe here
We could be brave, if we just wait to see how it ends
We could be brave, we should be safe here
We could be brave, if we just wait to see how it ends
We could be brave, we should be safe here
We could be brave
We could be brave
(No matter what it took
For you to be here to listen to this now
Thank You For Being Brave)