《You Have to Be So Much Better than You Ever Thought》歌词

[00:00:00] You Have to Be So Much Better than You Ever Thought - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

[00:00:02] I spent one week every summer at camp Tampico

[00:00:13] For every year I was a boy scout

[00:00:27] The camp felt like an entire separate country

[00:00:36] Or as if the rest of the world had disappeared

[00:00:44] And we were the only ones left alive

[00:00:57] We traveled in packs

[00:01:03] We rode our bikes everywhere

[00:01:10] About ten or fifteen feet before we reached any destination

[00:01:21] I would yell dismount and we would

[00:01:29] Swing our bodies over the frame in unison onto the left pedal

[00:01:48] And coast to a halt

[00:01:52] I felt like a grown up

[00:01:59] Or how I imagined one must feel

[00:02:06] And I could mostly come and go as I pleased

[00:02:16] One summer sirens blared out over the camp p a

[00:02:30] In a shrill and ugly tone with an infinite refrain

[00:02:43] That carried for miles and miles

[00:02:57] I had never heard that sound before

[00:03:03] Our counselors were panicked and told us

[00:03:07] To return to our campsites immediately

[00:03:14] My friend Nate and I mounted our bikes and sprinted home

[00:03:19] As branches fell all around us

[00:03:25] It felt like we were the leads in a video game

[00:03:38] And we were too caught up in it to understand we were in any real danger

[00:03:51] When we got back everyone was huddled under the mess tent

[00:04:00] Except for Nate's brother and his friend

[00:04:05] Who were stuck in a rowboat in the middle of Grass Lake

[00:04:13] During the full brunt of the storm

[00:04:18] The adults had to hold Nate back from going out after him

[00:04:27] As the pair raced across the water like a glacier or a hawk

[00:04:40] We watched from the shore and didn't feel the pouring rain

[00:04:47] Until long after they safely pulled in