Time Will Wait For No One Album Lyrics by Local Natives

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Time Will Wait For No One

(Two, three)

Ooh, ah, ooh
'Cause time'll wait for no one
But I'll wait for you

(Yeah, right)

Ooh, ah, ooh
'Cause time'll wait for no one
But I'll wait for you

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Just Before The Morning

Just before the morning
Starting all over
You go
Just before the morning
Starting all over
You go

Always on your mind
Soon as you awake
'Til you close your eyes
Nobody ever explains
But somehow you learn

Just before the morning
Starting all over
You go
Just before the morning (not another soul around)
Starting all over (Heaven falling from the clouds)
You go
Just before the morning (either way you go without)
Starting all over (no, you don't need it now)
You go
Just before the

Man, it's been a while
She laughs and exhales
The car's waiting outside
The years stain like melting wax
Called a sad curse
We always arrive
A moment too late
And I can't help feeling like
It couldn't be any other way

Just before the morning
Starting all over
You go
Just before the morning
Starting all over
You go

Not another soul around
Heaven falling from the clouds
Either way you go without
No, you don't need it now

Just before the morning (not another soul around)
Starting all over (Heaven falling from the clouds)
You go
Just before the morning (either way you go without)
Starting all over (no, you don't need it now)
You go
Just before the

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Empty Mansions

Is it ever really no one's fault
The history is cloudy, memories I'm doubting
But I'm remembering the curtain call
Holding your umbrella underneath the waterfall
Ooh

But I blame it on myself
Blame it on myself
Oh, ooh
You never needed my help
I never asked why
Oh, I blame it on myself
Blame it on myself
Oh, ooh
You never needed my help
I never asked why

You stumbled in as it was winding down
I didn't think you'd make it out this way
We're just empty mansions on eroding shores
Falling down to slowly
No one notices it all

And I blame it on myself
Blame it on myself
Oh, ooh
You never needed my help
I never asked why
Oh, I blame it on myself
Blame it on myself
Oh, ooh
You never needed my help
I never asked why

And I blame it on myself
Blame it on myself
Oh, ooh
You never needed my help
I never asked why
Oh, I blame it on myself
Blame it on myself
Oh, ooh
You never needed my help
I never asked why

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Desert Snow

Ooh, there's so much I wanna tell you
Ooh, more than you could ever know
Ooh, swear the mercury was frozen
Ooh, walking in the desert snow

Run while you've got a head start
'Cause it's a phantom
And it never tires
You wanna run out the clock
You take the backseat
Saying, "I don't care, just drive"

Ooh, there's so much I wanna tell you
Ooh, more than you could ever know
Ooh, swear the mercury was frozen
Ooh, walking in the desert snow

Lifted up, lifted up, lifted up
No, I don't care about any of that now
It's all been put behind
It's falling through the cracks
Lost somewhere between
What I was and wanna be now

Ooh, there's so much I wanna tell you
Ooh, more than you could ever know
Ooh, swear the mercury was frozen
Ooh, walking in the desert snow

Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

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Paper Lanterns

I've done it again
Talon's out to greet my guests
Late is always on time
Never with regrets

The paintings line the hallways
Copycats and tortured artists
All looking for the starry night
And how many missed it
In the sea of glowing lights?

Words escape my mind
Pass the tape, rewind
Replay every line
On and on, and
We stayed up all night
Waiting for a sign
Mirrors in our eyes
On and on, and on

It is the strangest behavior
Arranging all these paper lanterns
As if they'll all stay in line
And I'll miss it again
The sea of glowing lights

Words escape my mind
Pass the tape, rewind
Replay every line
On and on, and
We stayed up all night
Waiting for a sign
Mirrors in our eyes
On and on, and on

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Featherweight

It was like a movie
On the waves that night
Barely escaping with our lives
We took your boat from Red Hook
Towards the copper lights
We had forever but no time

Ooh, I didn't know you could look at me that way
I know they got under your skin
But when the lights came up you were still dancing
Off with your head, what's left to take?
You were still standing like a featherweight

It was like a movie
Knocking on the door
Whispering the password
Radical believers forgive you if you stray
A notion of doubt is no match for an ounce of faith

Ooh, I didn't know you could look at me that way
I know they got under your skin
But when the lights came up you were still dancing
Off with your head, what's left to take?
You were still standing like a featherweight

Ooh, ah
Come back down
Ooh, ah
You're floating now
You don't need to wake up now that you've stayed up all night long
Ooh, ah
You're floating now

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Hourglass

I don't know how to reach you
Is there nothing I can say?
Am I wasting time?
Am I getting nowhere?

So tell me where to meet you
The holy ground is commonplace
I wanna throw my arms around
And say it's been a long day
So many long days
We tie ourselves in knots
Trying not to let go

And the sun is out
And I'm on my way home

And the sun is out
And I'm on my way home

And the sun is out
And I'm on my way home

But only when the skies are filled with clouds are they called heavens
What I know now, I didn't then
I know you wish I could forget
We're drawing lines in the sand
Inside an hourglass

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Ava

Ava, how do I reach you?
On the beach in tennis shoes
Tracing patterns on the coast, coast

Ava, I know you
Are caught in between two lives, mm
In a slow panorama, a merciful dagger falls
Tell me, can there be love without loss?

Ava, how do I reach you?
On the beach in tennis shoes
Tracing patterns on the coast, coast

What if I lose you?
What if you disappeared? Mm
Could have white knuckled
It for a couple years
Holding my breath until I come up for air

Ava, how do I reach you?
On the beach in tennis shoes
Tracing patterns on the coast, coast
Ava, lighter than reason
Heavier then pure believing
If I held you I could know, know

Is it a rising or falling on?
Give it time, love, I know it's dark
Wait for the morning

Ava, how do I reach you?
On the beach in tennis shoes
Tracing patterns on the coast, coast
Ava, lighter than reason
Heavier then pure believing
If I held you I could know, know

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NYE

Tell me, tell me, tell me, she said, "It's all a blur"
Catapult from the Earth, cannonballing back down
I kept waiting for what feels like all of my life
With a Charlatan smile, this is the time I don't

You're running lights at traffic lights
Still singing midnight choirs now
Your New Year's Eve, so sad to leave
You made it out alive

But so what? I never noticed
I was in the moment
I wish that I could stay

Tell me, tell me, tell me, she hung on every word
In the Saturn return under mushrooming clouds
I could never really be alone anyway
Tarot cards on the table, candlewax on the ground

You're in between, awake, asleep
Still reeling from the flight, oh
Your New Year's Eve, so sad to leave
You made it out alive

But so what? I never noticed
I was in the moment
I wish that I could stay
But no one, no one in focus
Shouting where you going
Like it's the only way

But so what? I never noticed
I was in the moment
I wish that I could stay
But no one, no one in focus
Shouting where you going
Like it's the only way

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Paradise

I'm trying not to focus
On the broken glass
With paradise on fire
Yeah, paradise on fire
The flowers on the tile
And Zuma beach a zoo
'Cause paradise is on fire
Paradise is on fire

Blue lights buzzing
The air is bad to breathe
So just stay inside and
Say it's your idea not to leave
Yeah, you're doing so well
You're not a zombie, you're a yogi
But it takes so much energy
To not have a doubt

I see a crowded harbor
Where boats barely flow
Of paradise on fire
Yeah, paradise on fire
I've got a friend of a friend
Her name was on the news
Paradise on fire
Yeah, paradise on fire

I don't know what to think
Is the sun rising?
I can't get up that early
I'm holding onto my dreams
Thought we were doing so well
Her eyes are saying something else to me
I shook my head and grabbed a broom
Tried to sweep up

I'm hoping none of it mattered
Your pretty flowers soar
I know our day will come
Oh, our day will come