The Story Of Yo La Tango - Yo La Tengo

We stared at the sun, too long

Until the shapes before our eyes

Turned into the sun, in our eyes

We lied to ourselves for awhile

In our usual style

I wish we could lie

To ourselves again

We made up our minds

To lose and never once looked back

We only looked back

Just once

We opened our hearts, it’s true

But not to any of you

Sold out of the myth

Too soon

And we tried, we tried with all our might

We tore the playhouse down

We ran headlong in our way

We tried so hard

We stared at the road ahead

Closed our eyes and then

Sped up to the turn, around the bend

With nothing to lose, we lost

Suffered every cost

It still causes pain to recall

And we tried, we tried with all our might

We tore the playhouse down

We ran headlong in our way

We tried so hard

And we tried, we tried with all our might

We tore the playhouse down

We ran headlong in our way

We tried so hard

And we tried, we tried with all our might

We tore the playhouse down

And we ran headlong in our way

We tried so hard

Refused to let go

Of the air

There was something there

Sparks flown with gold

A million strong

We ran four red lights in a row

I’m still flushed from the glow

I’m down on the road

Back home

We stared at the sun, too long

Until the shapes before our eyes turned back into the sun, into the sun in our

eyes

We lied to ourselves for awhile

In our usual style

Now I wish we could ride, we wish we could lie to ourselves again

And we tried, we tried, we tried with all our might

We tore the playhouse down

We ran headlong, headlong in our way…

We tried so hard…

We tried so hard…

Yeah we tried so hard…