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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We traveled in packs[00:00:57]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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