It's very dramatical song, the lyrics is not enough to understand the depth of the drama, you have to hear the voice, feel the atmosphere, notice some changes during the song.

My Brightest Diamond- Gone Away

Far away you've gone, and left me here
So cold without you, so lonely dear
May June July I count the time
Every minute I go takes the smell of your clothes
Further away

'Cause you've gone away
Where there isn't a telephone wire
Still I wait by the phone
You don't even write to say goodbye
Goodbye

I have saved every piece…

Okay, it's a classic existential bullshit, very naive, not very smart, but lovable.

the ghost of corporate future

A man walks out of his apartment,
It is raining, he's got no umbrella
He starts running beneath the awnings,
Trying to save his suit,
Trying to save his suit.
Trying to dry, and to dry, and to dry but no good

When he gets to the crowded subway platform,
He takes off both of his shoes
He steps right into somebody's fat loogie
And everyone who sees him says, "Ew."
Everyone who sees him says, "Ew."

But he doesn't care,
'Cause…

And again — the whole The National album take. «Boxer» is best album of the year so far and the lyrics are, as usual, simply phenomenal. I've grabbed this lyrics from band's message board, don't know about the accuracy, but they seem to be real.

Fake Empire

Stay out super late tonight picking apples, making pies
put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us
we’re half-awake in a fake empire
we’re half-awake in a fake empire

Tiptoe through our shiny city with our diamond slippers on
Do our gay ballet on ice
bluebirds on…

Pure sex.

Drawing Curtains

Ma foix, my force, ma voix, my vows
Gypsy Madonna, all your beauty's
in your eyebrows
Don't touch them, je fais le dernier parti, silently
Finally. I feel all the furies of love violently
Flowers in the rain, wild fires in the orchard
Singing through the pain, I beg to feel tortured
Sugar and chaos, everyone else is boring
Let's make dirty babies until the morning

Love sick how much deeper still can this get?
Show me where it hurts and let me kiss it
Je joue à l'envers de l'amour étroit
Je jouie le mystère…

It's scary. And sad.

The Raw No

Haven't we been here before?
There's never been a 'before'
But you know, I'm sure
At least don't know you're sure
We know it for sure
We know that is sure
At least it's going somewhere
Let's take this anywhere
We can say we were there
You can say you were there
We can go anywhre
You can say you were there
You can say you were there
It won't get better then this
It can't get better then this
Now see the happiness
Don't go
Don't go
And there you go

I'm in love with those "maybe" lines. Every time I hear them I believe I have something like soul still in me.

You Were the Last High
I am alone
But adored
By a hundred thousand more
Then I said
When you were the last (high)
And I have known love
Like a whore
From at least ten thousand more
Then I swore w
hen you were the last

When you were the last high

You were awake
And I should've stayed
But wondered
I was only out for a day
Out for a day
It was Chicago for a…

Lirycally , it's definitely my fave Interpol song.

Obstacle 2

I'm gonna pull you in close
I'm gonna wrap you up tight
I'm gonna play with the braids that you came here with tonight
I'm gonna hold your face, and toast the snow that fell
Cause friends don't waste wine when there's words to sell

I feel like love is in the kitchen with a culinary eye
I think he's making something special
And I'm smart enough to try
If you don't trust yourself for at least a minute each day,
Well you should trust in this, girl, cuz loving…

I think I'll keep posting fave lyrics here. Just to keep them near and avoid googling every time I need it.

Brilliantly Cute

Say you will be on with me
The cutest face of honesty
Say you will be on with me
To sleep beside me to help me be

As I know you understand
The downwards feelings of this man,
As he sleeps besides his grave
He's losing time all the time

As I know you understand
That all the horrors of all hell
Can be experienced in one day
A single day is all it takes
I start…

Every time I listen to The National's last record at home it's very hard to keep myself from posting their lyrics to my livejournal. So, I'm gonna post ALL the lyrics here once to stop this shit.

Secret Meeting
I think this place is full of spies
I think they're onto me
Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you
Didn't anybody tell you how to gracefully disappear in a room

I know you put in the hours
To keep me in sunglasses, I know

And so and now I'm sorry I missed you
I had a secret meeting in the…

Вместо того, чтобы открывать музыкальный блог здесь, я открыл его тут — http://www.electrify.ru. Велкам.