modest mouse
the tortoise and the tourist
Wake up, get ready Wake up, get ready What a wonderful trip's ahead Well, wake up, get ready Wake up, get ready Such a wonderful trip's ahead  We get dressed as ghosts With sheets taken from the bed Inside our socks we hide travelers' checks We are tourists of the dead  So let's pack up Let's go So let's pack up Let's go Let's pack up Let's go  Let's go  There was this tortoise, its shell was covered with jewels And had been since time began It knew the world through all its histories And the universe and its mysteries One day it came across a man The two were talking The tortoise offered to tell him About the future and how the universe ran Oh, the man killed the tortoise, took his shell And with a song on his lips walked off again  So let's walk off Let's go So let's walk off Let's go Let's walk off Let's go So let's walk off Let's go  Pack a lunch wander 'round Toss the map on the ground It isn't accurate anyways We've been getting away We've been getting away We are strangers to ourselves We sneak out Drip by drip Through paper cuts on our hands Day after day Nothing's quite the same We are tourists in our own heads  So let's walk on Let's go Let's walk on Let's go Let's walk on (I think I feel ready to go) Let's go Let's walk on Let's go (I think I feel ready to go) (I think I feel ready to go) (I think I feel ready to go) (I think I feel ready to go) (I think I feel ready to go) (I think I feel ready to go)