"Open With The Wrestlers from To Us, The Beautiful! by Franz Nicolay To Us, The Beautiful! cover art Share / Embed Wishlist 00:00 / 03:00 Digital Track Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Buy Now $1 USD or more Send as Gift Buy the Full Digital Album US webstore lyrics If you’re wondering how to open Open with the wrestlers Dressed in their shiny little briefs Some kind of polyester vest Tied across their hairless chests shiny with the attention. And if you’re wondering how this skinhead got in Someone let him And he’s circling the stadium W Open With The Wrestlers from To Us, The Beautiful! by Franz Nicolay To Us, The Beautiful! cover art Share / Embed Wishlist 00:00 / 03:00 Digital Track Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Buy Now $1 USD or more Send as Gift Buy the Full Digital Album US webstore lyrics If you’re wondering how to open Open with the wrestlers Dressed in their shiny little briefs Some kind of polyester vest Tied across their hairless chests shiny with the attention. And if you’re wondering how this skinhead got in Someone let him And he’s circling the stadium With his Nazi friend and they’re radiant And everyone stares straight ahead and just lets them. And if you’re wondering how our stupid hearts Let themselves get torn apart Every survivor learns this lesson About seeing ravens circling Feeling the shifting of the winds As the tides pull out of the basin. So this is elemental action So this is one becoming two So this is opposites retracting So this is left, what once was blue Maybe these days we won’t run and twirl Unfurl our curls of smoke that touch the stars Until we’ve given up our sense of wonder, sense of touch So swirling summer songs won’t sound so far. And if you’re wondering how our stupid hearts Let themselves get torn apart Every survivor learns this lesson About seeing ravens circling Feeling the shifting of the winds As the tides pull out of the basin As the tides withdraw from the basin. I walk these streets Like a one-man parade Lurching & bragging & Seasick on cheap champagne It’s a long ride From here to my city But it’s only money It’s only a dime at a time And if you’re wondering how our stupid hearts Let themselves get torn apart Every survivor learns this lesson About seeing ravens circling Feeling the shifting of the winds As the tides pull out of the basin As the tides withdraw from the basin. And if you don’t know how to close, close with the archers And the judges in the mercy seat Stopping stray arrows with their feet And signalling the changing of the partnersith his Nazi friend and they’re radiant And everyone stares straight ahead and just lets them. And if you’re wondering how our stupid hearts Let themselves get torn apart Every survivor learns this lesson About seeing ravens circling Feeling the shifting of the winds As the tides pull out of the basin. So this is elemental action So this is one becoming two So this is opposites retracting So this is left, what once was blue Maybe these days we won’t run and twirl Unfurl our curls of smoke that touch the stars Until we’ve given up our sense of wonder, sense of touch So swirling summer songs won’t sound so far. And if you’re wondering how our stupid hearts Let themselves get torn apart Every survivor learns this lesson About seeing ravens circling Feeling the shifting of the winds As the tides pull out of the basin As the tides withdraw from the basin. I walk these streets Like a one-man parade Lurching & bragging & Seasick on cheap champagne It’s a long ride From here to my city But it’s only money It’s only a dime at a time And if you’re wondering how our stupid hearts Let themselves get torn apart Every survivor learns this lesson About seeing ravens circling Feeling the shifting of the winds As the tides pull out of the basin As the tides withdraw from the basin. And if you don’t know how to close, close with the archers And the judges in the mercy seat Stopping stray arrows with their feet And signalling the changing of the partners"