We Are Real - Silver Jews

Up the hill past 694, at the stone wall make a left

And I will see you soon, my friend

If these old directions still direct, oh yeah

If these old directions still direct

Is the problem that we can’t see, or is it that the problem is beautiful to me?

Birds of Virginia are flying within you

Like background singers, they all come in threes

Like background singers, they all come in threes

Won’t soul music change now that our souls have turned strange?

Once a day, twice a day

When on and off collide

We’ll set our souls aside and walk away

We’ve been raised on replicas

Of fake and winding roads

And day after day, up on this beautiful stage

We’ve been playing tambourine for minimum wage

But we are real, real

I know we are real

Repair is the dream of the broken thing

Like a message broadcast on an overpass

All my favorite singers couldn’t sing

All my favorite singers couldn’t sing

My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors

And they help me see

That everything in this room right now is a part of me, oh yeah

Is a part of me

Won’t soul music change now that our souls have turned strange?

Once a day, twice a day

When on and off collide

We’ll set our souls aside and walk away

Realizing is how it feels

Inside when it happens to you

So I took a shot of sugar like snow dumped into the blood

And children wander off into the ultra-economic

But we’re real

We are real

I know we are real

I know we are real

I know we are real, real, real, real, real