Tired and wired we ruin too easy

Apartment Story
The National

Be still for a second while I try and try to pin your flowers on.
Can you carry my drink? I have everything else.
I can tie my tie all by myself.
I'm getting tied, I'm forgetting why.

Oh we're so disarming darling. 
Everything we did believe
Is diving diving diving diving
Off the balcony.

Tired and wired we ruin too easy.
Sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave.

Hold ourselves together with our arms around the stereo for hours.
When it sings to itself, or whatever it does,
When it sings to itself of its long lost loves
I'm getting tied, I'm forgetting why.

Tired and wired we ruin too easy.
Sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave.
But I'll be with you behind the couch when they come
On a different day just like this one.

We'll stay inside till somebody finds us,
Do whatever the TV tells us,
Stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days.

We'll stay inside till somebody finds us,
Do whatever the TV tells us,
Stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz.

So worry not.
All things are well.
We'll be all right.
We have our looks and perfume.

Stay inside till somebody finds us,
Do whatever the TV tells us,
Stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz.

So worry not.
All things are well.
We'll be all right.
We have our looks and perfume.


I am exhausted, but I still have a paper to finish. The National has been the band getting me through this last stretch of insanity. This song seemed appropriate tonight as I slammed into the wall of exhaustion and had my end-of-semester meltdown. The lines "Tired and wired we ruin too easy / Sleep in our clothes and wait for winter to leave" are a perfect expression of this time of year. I'm tired and stressed so I fall apart easily. I have been tempted on more than one occasion to just collapse into bed fully clothed. I am impatiently waiting for winter to leave (sadly, it is supposed to snow the next couple of days).