Artist: The Raconteurs Album: Broken Boy Soldiers {2006}

Find yourself a girl and settle down
Live a simple life in a quiet town
Steady as she goes - steady as she goes
Steady as she goes - steady as she goes
So, steady as she goes

Your friends have shown a kink in the single life
You've had to much time to think now you need a wife
Steady as she goes - steady as she goes
So, steady as she goes - steady as she goes

Yeah, here we go again, you've found yourself a friend that knows you well
But no matter what you do, you always feel as though you've tripped and fell
So, steady as she goes

When you have completed what you thought you have to do
And your blood's depleted to the point of stable glue
Then you'll get along, then you'll get along
Steady as she goes - steady as she goes
So, steady as she goes - steady as she goes

Well, here we go again, you've found yourself a friend that knows you well
But no matter what you do, you always feel as though you've tripped and fell
So, steady as she goes, steady as she goes

Settle for a world, neither up or down
Sell it to the crowd that has gathered round
Settle for a girl, neither up or down
Sell it to the crowd that has gathered round

So, steady as she goes - steady as she goes
Steady as she goes - steady as she goes
Steady as she goes - steady as she goes
So, steady as she goes - steady as she goes
Steady as she goes - are you steady now
Steady as she goes - are you steady now
Steady as she goes - are you steady now
Steady as she goes - are you steady now
Steady as she goes

Girl, you've got those hands that heal
Help me get in touch with what I feel
Cos you understand and you sympathize
And you know me best, it's no surprise
When you're with me there's a light and I can see my way
When you speak to me it's a song and I know what to say

Girl, you've got those eyes that see
Help me find the good that's inside me
Cos you're the only one who really knows
How the feeling comes and why it goes
When you're with me there's a light and I can see my way
When you speak to me it's a song and I know what to say

When you're with me there's a light and I can see my way
When you speak to me it's a song and I know what to say
When you listen there's a hope and I know I'm being heard
When you smile at me and I know that we don't have to speak a word
When you're with me there's a light and I can see my way
When you speak to me it's a song and I know what to say

Well, I'm pulling down questions from the shelf, I'm asking forgiveness
I ain't asking nobody but myself and I want you to know this
And I want you to know this

You're rifling through a box of toys that were handed down to me
Just take out the ones you brought and then give the rest to my family

I'm gonna go back to school today, but I'm dropping myself off
I'm throwing the childhood seat away, I'm through rippin' myself off
I'm done rippin' myself off

Well, I'm child and man and child again - a toy broken boy soldier
I'm child and man, then child again, the boy never gets older
The boy never gets older, the boy never gets older
The boy never gets older, the boy never gets older
Never gets older
The boy broken toy soldier
The boy, the boy

I've got a rabbit, it likes to hop
I've got a girl and she likes to shop
The other foot looks like it won't drop
I had an uncle and he got shot

Is this greeting the type that's meant for me
Are you part of this khakistocracy

This ringing in my ears won't stop
I've got a red Japanese tea pot
I've got a pen but I lost the top
I've got so many things you haven't got

Our fellow's craft is just not for sharing
He's not an intimate secretary

I've got a rabbit, it likes to hop
I've got a girl and she likes to shop
The other foot looks like it won't drop
I had an uncle but he got shot

Then on rubble of scummest malarchy
Down with luck we'll see Ecclesiarchy
Our fellow's craft is just not for sharing
He's not an intimate secretary

The exarchy's inspector inquisitor
The demockery lust streets master
Are you part of this khakistocracy
Is this greeting the type that's meant for me

You and me, forever
We belong together
And we'll always endeavor
Throughout any type of weather

You want everything to be just like - you want everything to be just like
The stories that you read, but never write - the stories that you read, but never write
You've gotta learn to live and live and learn
You've gotta learn to give and wait your turn or you'll get burned

We wrote our names down on the sidewalk
But the rain came and washed them off
So we should write 'em again on wet cement
So people a long time from now will know what we meant

You want every morning to be just like - you want every morning to be just like
The stories that you read, but never write - the stories that you read, but never write
You've gotta learn to live and live and learn, oh
You've gotta learn to give and wait your turn, I'm only concern

I'm adding something new to the mixture
So there's a different hue to your picture
A different ending to this fairytale
And no sunset into which we sail

You want everything to be just like - you want everything to be just like
The stories that you read, but you can't write - you can't write
You've gotta learn to live and live and learn, oh
You've gotta learn to give and wait your turn or you'll get burned

My baby's on the level, I try to read her mind
She's on the straight and narrow, I'm guessing all the time
But I can't see the road if I'm looking at the signs
I'm carrying a load and stepping out of line

My baby's on the level - my baby's on the level
I try to read her mind - I try to read her mind
She's on the straight and narrow - she's on the straight and narrow
I'm guessing all the time - and I'm guessing all the time
But how can I see the road - how can I see the road
I'm looking at the signs - I'm looking at the signs
I'm carrying a load - I'm carrying a load
And stepping out of line

Down on your hands and knees
Undernearth the poplar trees
Digging through the sticks and stones
Looking for store bought bones
Waiting on the rising sun
Clutching at your holster gun
Praying on a shooting star
That I can be wherever you are

Looking through a telescope
Maybe there's a sign of hope
Leaving everything behind
Sturring a store bought mind
Sitting at the edge of the sea
Wishing you were here by me
Sifting through the mud and the bricks
Looking for a store bought fix

You can't buy what you can't find
But you can't buy what you find
What you can't buy, but you can
You can't buy what you can't find, but you can
You can't buy what you can't find
But you can't buy what you find
But you can't buy, but you can
You can't buy what you can't find, but you can
You can't buy what you can't find, but you can

Yellow sun is shining in the afternoon
I'd really like to tell you but I feel it's too soon
My actions are dictated by the phase of the moon, the phase of the moon
The sun, it isn't hiding when it sets on you
It's not a coward like me and I know, but it's true
Waiting for the darkness now is all I can do, it's all I can do

And if the sun should follow us into your room
Then the courage will be robbed from me to tell you the truth
The setting sun's the only thing that's shining on you, that's shining on you

You're making me hungry
But what's really funny's is it's not sunny anymore

And when I finally told you when the sun has gone
You're laughing cos I thought I was the only one
And the only thing that's left for me's the rising sun, the rising sun

You're making hungry, you're making me hungry
But what's really funny is it's not sunny anymore
You're making hungry, you're making me hungry
But what's really funny is it's not sunny anymore

It's not sunny anymore, it's not sunny anymore, it's not sunny anymore
It's not sunny anymore, it's not sunny anymore, it's not sunny anymore
It's not sunny anymore, it's not sunny anymore, it's not sunny anymore
It's not sunny anymore, it's not sunny anymore

Can we call it a day, now, would that be okay
Can we just go our own separate ways - ways
Cos I'm cold and wet and I'm willing to bet
That you constructed this maze - maze

I stumble around, try to follow the sound
Then something takes hold of my hand - my hand
If we cause such a mess and I'd venture to guess
That you concocted this plan - plan

I don't know what to do cos it's always been you
Who helps me to make up my mind - my mind
But I stake my life and I swear by this knife
That it's all by your design - design

Enough has been said, it goes round in my head
Until I break down and cry - and cry
I wouldn't be surprised if that look in your eyes
Was your way of saying goodbye - goodbye

Can we call it a day, now, would that be okay
Can we just go our own separate ways - ways
Cos I'm cold and wet and I'm willing to bet
That you constructed this maze - maze

My hand
You concocted this plan

I don't know what to do cos it's always been you
Who helped me to make up my mind - my mind
But I stake my life and I'll swear by this knife
That it's all by your design - design
Yeah, it's all by your design

When I was surrounded by the world
You were the only one who came
And you were the only one astounded, which kept me grounded
As the other girls trashed my very name

Then I looked over just in time to see her smiling back at me
And saying everything's okay as long as you're inside my blue veins - your blue veins

Yeah, and the feeling that you gave me
No matter what I do or where I go, it always will remain
And those who would enslave me
To get to me must get past you and will have no luck cos you protect me from all pain

That's true, but, yeah, but
But the most beautiful, yeah, the most beautiful thing besides everything else god created
Must be the blood that's running through your blue veins - your blue veins

Your blue veins

And I know you won't deceive me
Like the rest and there's nothing you need to explain
You're always the first one to believe me
When I say to you girl, "I think it's gonna rain."
But I could be wrong

Yeah, but all of these things, all these things, they're all truly nice
But ain't nothing, ain't nothing compared to the love
That's running through your little blue veins, yeah - your blue veins