The National

Ano de formação: 1999
Local: Cincinatti, EUA
Integrantes: Brice Dessner, Matt Berninger, Bryan Devendorf, Aaron Dessner, Scott Devendorf e Padma Newsome.

Uma banda que melhora a cada lançamento. O novo álbum, High Violet, tem uma regularidade impressionante. TODAS as músicas são boas e tem as características que fazem do The National uma das grandes bandas da atualidade: a voz poderosa de Matt Berninger, o som poeticamente melancólico e as letras que falam sobre problemas reais de pessoas reais.

Anyone’s Ghost (do álbum High Violet – 2010)

Say you stay at home
Alone with the flu
Find out from friends
That wasn't true
Go out at night with your headphones on, again
And walk through the Manhattan valleys of, the dead

Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
But I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else

You said I came close
As anyone has come
To live underwater
For more than a month
You said it was not inside my heart, it was
You said it should tear a kid apart, it does

Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
But I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else
I don't want anybody else

I had a hole in the middle where the lightning went through it
Told my friends not to worry
I had a hole in the middle someone's sideshow wouldn't do it
I told my friends not to worry

Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost
Didn't want to be your ghost
Didn't want to be anyone's ghost

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