We Were Animals

When you wake up in the morning and you're feeling low

And you know a cup of coffee won't get you going

Shut your eyes and pretend you're thirty-two

We didn't know it then but we had it all

Our money hidden in a dresser drawer

A couple lovers in a basement shooting pool

We wanna go to where the getting's good

To plant some green and maybe chop wood

Have a baby and a plot of land

And in 2037 when she's twenty-one

With the moon still sickle and the yucca sun

Tattoo forgiveness on her hand

It feels like a song from the earth

To pull out a sword from a stone

Raise it high

Let it go

I thought I was gonna be the one that got away

But you held tight so I stayed

I can be the flower to your honeybee

I'll prop you up when you need it

I'm figuring out how to feed it

A hungering for what I used to be

It feels like a song from the earth

To pull out a sword from a stone

Raise it high

Let it go

A kingdom made of trees

Douglas firs and evergreens

Is it home or a dream?

If I leave and you wanna know the reason why

Look yourself in the weary eyes

You can't be wondering anymore

We stand in the eye of the storm

To pull out a sword from a stone

We sing in a song from the earth

Sing it loud

Let it go

A kingdom made of trees

Douglas firs and evergreens

Where the lines we've drawn between

What's home and a dream

Are fading

We were animals when we grew this

We're just animals going through this