The National - Fake Empire

We're half awake in a fake empire

Stay out super late tonight picking apples, making pies

Tiptoe through our shiny city with our diamond slippers on

Do our gay ballet on ice, bluebirds on our shoulders

We're half awake in a fake empire

We're half awake in a fake empire

Turn the light out say goodnight, no thinking for a little while

Let's not try to figure out everything at once

It's hard to keep track of you falling through the sky

We're half awake in a fake empire

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