[Verse 1]
If the strain proves too much
Give up right away
If the light hurts your eyes
Stay in your room all day

[Chorus 1]
When the room fills with smoke
Lie down on the floor
In the declining years
Of the long war

[Verse 2]
Well the blood’s in the water
And the shark’s gonna come
And we swim in the dark
Until our bodies are numb

[Chorus 2]
Blind desert rats in the moonlight
Too far from shore
In the declining years
Of the long war

[Verse 3]
Empty room with a lightbulb
Where the phone starts to ring
Everybody gets nervous
Nobody says anything
[Bridge]
The next day somеone’s initials
Show up carved on the door
I think I’m gonna crack
Can’t livе like this anymore

[Chorus 3]
Ugly things in the darkness
They've got Worse things in store
In the declining years
Of the long war

[Saxophone Solo]
Wow
Hey!
Yeah!

[Outro]
Hi, we're the Mountain Goats!
We are back at Jordan Lake. It is good to be here, with John Wurster and Peter Hughs and Matt Douglas. Chris Boerner behind the keyboard and some people we haven't met. As I was saying then, we miss you, and it's worse now. We missed you a lot then, and now it's this really... now it's getting to the point where it's, you know, affecting us at a very basic, psychic level. I can talk more about that, but I should probably get to the setlist. Uh, oh man, I know this tune. It was on We Shall All Be Healed.