Taking Back Sunday lyrics
So. A month or so ago I typed out the lyrics to the songs on Louder Now. The lyrics to the other two CDs were already up on Refracting. I figured I'd post them all here in one big bundle. Because I'm obsessive like that.
TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS
01. You Know How I Do
So sick (so sick) of being tired and oh so tired of being sick.
We're both such magnificent liars so......
"crush me baby I'm all ears."
I'm willing and waiting to prove the worst of everything you had to say about me.
So obviously desperate.
So desperately obvious.
I'll give in one more time and feed you stupid lines all about
"cleaning up my act..."
...it's basic.
We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore.
Think of all the fun you had.
The finest line divides a night well spent from a waste of time.
Think of all the nights you spent
alone with your T.V. set and......"I can barely smile"
He's smoked out in the back of the van, says he's held up with holding on...
"Listen, trick, you've gotten so good at setting bad examples, but I've had all I can handle"
(And on and on and on and on and on.........)
02. Bike Scene
I'll leave the lights down low
so she knows
I mean business.
And maybe we should talk this over,
because I could be your
best bet,
let alone your
worst ex.
Honestly,
how could you say those things
when...you know they don't mean anything?
...You know very well that I can't keep my hands to myself.
This is all wrong
and it shows
and it shows
it's showing.
There are certain things I promised
(cross my heart and hope to...)
never to let you know
Like:
Your silly way of keeping me on the edge of my seat.
I'm miserable and you're just getting started.
You've got me right where you want me...I'm miserable and you're just getting started.
"You're only counting the clock against the train."
I'm miserable and you're just getting started.
Let's never talk about this again
because I didn't want it to mean that much to me anyway.
I want to hate you so bad,
but I can't (...sigh) stop this any more than you can.
03. Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team)
Your lipstick (plus) his collar (is of greater or equal value to..)
..don't bother, angel
I know exactly what goes on.
when everything you'll get is everything that you've wanted, princess, which would you prefer?
My finger on the trigger or me face down across your floor?
("just so long as this thing's loaded")
wait....how about I'm outside of your window
watching him keep all the details covered
you're such a sucker for a sweet talker.
Such a sucker...
and will you tell all your friends, you've got your gun to my head.
This all was only wishful thinking
and the only thing I regret is that I never let you hold me back.
Hoping for the best just hoping nothing happens
A thousand clever lines unread on clever napkins
I won't ever ask if you don't ever tell me.
I know you well enough to know you'll never love me.
She'll destroy us all before she's through and find a way to blame somebody else.
All of this was all your fault.
I stay wrecked and jealous for this simple reason,
(you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you) that I just need to keep you in mind as something larger than life.
Why can't I feel anything from anyone other than you.
04. There’s No ‘I’ In Team
Did I ever tell you that everything I learned about breaking hearts I learned from you? Well, it's true. And I know, I've never done it with the style and grace you have. I settled instead for making long term plans based on my mistakes.
There's nothing worse...I swear, you have no idea. The jealousy that became me thinking, "he always had it way too easy, he's getting what he deserves." And I told myself that all I did was what I had to. But don't believe me, don't believe me, don't believe me.
And now, all I've got is this twenty dollar bill that says you're up late night starting fist fights vs. the fences in your back yard, and whispered rumors of the way you wear your black eye like a badge of honor, soaking in the sympathy of friends who never loved you nearly half as much as I do (but irony is for suckers).
Breaking down in bars, ("It's something unforgivable?") and the cold tile bathroom floors inside them, ("It's something unforgivable"). But don't believe me, don't believe me, don't.
I won't lie, it keeps me up till ungodly hours at night. But I can't regret, so just forget it. I started something I couldn't finish, and if we go down then we go down together. Best friends means I pulled the trigger, best friends means you get what you deserve.
Take the time to talk about it
Think a lot
And live without it.
05. Great Romances Of The 20th Century
September never stays this cold
where I come from
and you know.....
I'm not one for complaining.
(...I'm in your room...)
but I love (love, loathe, repeat)
the way you'd
roll excuses of the tip of your tongue
as I'd slowly
(...slowly, quietly, slowly...)
fall apart.
("...I'm falling apart, I'm falling apart...")
This won't mean a thing come tomorrow
and that's exactly how I'll make it seem.
"...I'm still not sleeping"
Thinking "I'm thinking maybe....."
I've crawled home from worse than this
(...I'm on the corner of your bed...).
So please,
Please, Please,
I'm running out of sympathy.
.....I never said I'd take this lying down. (repeat: ......)
She says:
"c'mon, let's just get this over with."
you always come close but you never come easy.....
and I still know everything.
If it's not keeping you up nights
then what's the point?
(...Are you turned on..?)
06. Ghost Man On Third
Jinx me something crazy
Thinking if it's three (one, two, and then...)
then I'm as smooth as the skin
That rolls across the small of your back
It's too bad it's just not my style.
If you need me I'm out,
and on the parkway
Patient and waiting for headlights dressed in a fashion that's fitting
to the inconsistency of my moods
It's times like these where silence means everything.
It's a campaign of distraction and revisionist history.
It's a shame I doubt they'd notice
I doubt they even care.
No one is to know about this.
Don't let me down.
But whatever I have been getting myself into
lately has been slicing inches from my waist.
It's my fist vs. the bottle and that's how bad could this hurt...
..against I won't feel a thing.
No one is to know about this.
Don't let me down.
We were taught so much better than this...
This is what living like this does....
Thank God you weren't there to watch me hit bottom.
07. Timberwolves At New Jersey
"So, was his demise carefully constructed?"
"No, let's just say I got what I wanted."
Literate and stylish
Kissable and quiet
That's what girls dreams are made of....
....that's all you need to know
You have it or you don't
You know I can't help it....
I've got the mic and you've got the mosh pit
What will it take to make you admit that you were wrong?
This is me with a word on the tip of my tongue..
...There are just a few things that I think you should know
And my eye through the scope down the barrel of a gun..
...Those words at best were worse than teenage poetry
Remind me not to ever act this way again..
...Fragmented ideas and too many pronouns
"Stop it...."
"C'mon...."
...you're not making sense now
This is you trying hard to make sure that you're seen
...You can't make them want you..
With a girl on your arm and your heart on your sleeve
...They're all just laughing
Remind me not to ever think of you again....
Rest the weight.. you had you're chance and folded
Don't hold your breath...really...
..it will only make things worse
In the end it's always the same
(starts with a "j" and ends with a "ustified")
08. The Blue Channel
Just hit the lights before you leave....
You know, of the million things that you
"had to say"
you'd think sorry just might have found it's way in there
somehow,
someway,
......anyway.
I'm not so sure if I'm sure of anything anymore.
You sure?
You're so guilty it's disgusting
he's been sneaking underneath your sheets
and your hands have been in places that they
probably shouldn't go
but don't worry sweetie...
...because I already know
and this is the
last night that
you'll be keeping secrets from me. (shhh...)
Regardless if my pictures
(MY pictures)
line your mirror or not
you know
I'll still wait for your call. (seconds to minutes to hours (ours?)...to...)
honestly, honestly, honestly, honestly, honestly, honestly, honestly, honestly
Is this the last time I can expect to see you at the foot of my bed? Honest.....
09. You’re So Last Summer
She said...
"don't let it go to your head, boys like you are a dime a dozen.
(You hear that....a dime a dozen)
You're a touch over rated.
You're a lush.
.....And I hate it.
and these grass stains on my knees.....
..they don't mean a thing."
All I need to know is that I'm something that you're missing.
It's pathetic.
You could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath
I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt.
It's pathetic.
Maybe I should hate you for this.
I never really did ever quite get that far.
(Get what?)
but the truth is I would never lie to you,
unless I had to (that is...)
I'll do what I got to.
If you only knew half as much as you pretend to..
...you're a liar, and I'm just bad news...
A wishful thinker with the worst intentions,
and this will be the last chance you'll get to drop my name.
10. Head Club
It's getting colder and we're getting distant
and I just keep thinking that (oops, I....)
I never meant it to be like this.
"It's worse than you think."
I never meant it to be like this.
"this was a bad idea..."
But you know what comes next,
so do I,
You're begging
for a way to
gracefully bow out ....and.....
say goodnight
...and.....
I can't say I blame you
But I wish that I could
I'm sick of writing every song about you.
"you never listened to me."
I'm only complaining to keep myself busy
.....sweetie.
Look, "don't call my name out your window
I'm leaving."
"don't call my name out your window
I'm leaving."
WHERE YOU WANT TO BE
01. Set Phasers To Stun
Say yes.
Your famous last words started once your fingers reached the snooze.
"Just nine more minutes please.....
They all know where to find me"
And the more that I think about it
Everything I said was nothing short of
"A big mistake"
As you would say...
"a b-b-ig mistake"
But see
There's this secret I've been perfecting
About how we paint our sins on the ceiling
Me...
I keep them glued to my chest
It keeps me close like a promise kept.
I swore I wouldn't
But you let me
"It's everything you left out
That's keeping me awake
And since I'm up
And since I'm thinking about it....."
Why don't you just pace the stairs to your apartment like that's where you want to be?
how many times do I have to tell you?
I don't want to stop you
I just want to know
how many times do I have to tell you?
I could take the place of those pills
I don't want to stop you
I just want to know
Hey romantica.
So removed...
Comfortably confused
Who you gonna call tonight?
I won't ever make another promise with you in mind.
02. Bonus Mosh Pt. II
I heard about your message
And
How it reeked of your indifference
...it bleeds horizontal straight from your wrists
So scream louder now
Because I'm bound to come around
Oh yeah,
I'm bound to come around
I used the inconsistency
To undress the machine
You're the poster boy
Our selling point
The focus for their new campaign
"Something has to be done...
...it just has to"
I wanted you for nothing more than hating you for what you were
If that's what you wanted to hear.
Well is it.
So c'mon now
Can't you feel it?
I'm bound to come around
Oh yeah
I'm bound to come around
.....it's rolling off your lips
Tensing up your shoulders
Just say it
Say it is
If it's love
Make it hurt
I deserve it
If it's love,
Well....
I'll give up in you
The keys to the castle are right where I left them
Princess, princess, princess...
More attention to the center please
(10 db's! 10 db's)
I mean after all...
Isn't that all that I'm after?
Isn't it?
There's no way out
And it's a long way down
You are nothing but a haircut and a suit coat.
I like you man...you're crazy.
03. A Decade Under The Influence
Sad small sweet, so delicate
We used to be this dying breed.
Hey sad.
Hey small
Hey sure.
Hey porcelain
I'm coming over but it never was enough.
Now was it?
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Real bad.
I got that
And you
All skin and bones
With me saying
"I'm a nervous wreck when it comes to this...I'm a wreck."
But that explains our perfect fit
Well...
When it comes to this...
You kept still until the long drive home
And slept safe
Close to the window.
Come to think of it...
Who's to say you'll have to go
Because I could go all night.
(You heard me...All night)
Just close your eyes and settle
I'm here and I heard you
"Anyone will do tonight"
(Anyone anyone....bueller?)
Just close your eyes and settle.
I've been giving it some serious thought
And
"Who needs 'um"
...I am you?
I've got a bad feeling about this
To hell with you and all your friends
To hell with you and all your friends.
To hell with you and all your friends.
I am in you.
I am you.
04. This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)
I'll wait 'til you listen I won't say a word
'Follow your instincts'
This is captain to command
You have to understand
That's just never worked for me
Silent but strong
Yeah...that's right.
I'm playing that card
And your noticing nothing again
We're talking forever
And you almost feel better
But better...
That's no excuse for tonight.
You see,
It's never bad enough to just leave or give up
But it's never good enough to feel right.
So I'm lying on the table with everything you said
Keeping in mind the way that it felt
When the most I could do was to just blame myself
Feel it out for once
And feel nothing like everyone else
"It will all catch up eventually"
Well.
It caught up and honestly
The weight of my decision were impossible to hold
But they were never yours
They were never yours
Drop everything
Just drop it
Start it all over
You'll remember more than you'd like to forget
05. The Union
I wait around for that
"Still small center"
To go from saint to sinner
Well, which on is it,
And just who in the hell do you think you are anyway?
Who did you call to get this?
Is it who I think it is?
Is it who I think it is?
I swear to god I'm gonna kill him
"....splintered but focused.."
rrright.
You're as good as gold.
Built from distraction
And brilliantly dull.
You know,
I had a better friend in my worst of plans
Than I ever had in either one of you.
So what's it to you?
I traded my conscience for your confidence
Attacked my lungs with lies to pass the time
And made states move like regular days
All of this while you were out and about
Telling them all how
I wanted it to be like this..
But you know better.
I didn't have to
They came to me.
You came to me.
You always knew this was on purpose.
And like you said...
"What's the point if it don't serve its purpose?"
I never made a scene.
I didn't have to.
They came to me.
You came to me.
06. New American Classic
"We've got to get better." I said, "It's all in your head"
We could live through these letters or forget it all together
See,
The months...
They don't matter.
It's the days I can't take,
When the hours move to minutes and I'm seconds away...
From calling it quits you're so caught up with yourself
"That's too much to ask for"
"That's just too much to ask for when all we need's a reaction"
'Say you won't care'
There's no attraction...
But my main attraction is
Wanting to remember everything
Chasing some dreams
Labeled 'distractions'
"I know I can't go back..."
I know...
I...
Forget it, look.
Just ask the question
Untie the knot
While you retrace the steps as if we forgot
Try to avoid it but there's not a doubt.
There's this
one
thing
Still,
one thing
That I can do nothing about...
07. I Am Fred Astaire
I'm under the assumption that I'm gonna be the one that's leaving you.
Tonight,
Oh tonight.
I flipped every switch that I could find on my way out
Just to upset you more
Just to make you angry
Just because you were right
Just because you were
All tired said
Scream safe haven.
Scream.
"Let's get this out and on the table."
Fast forward to...
Say...
Four o' clock
I'm keeping time
And
'You're always holding'
'It used to take so much more'
Yeah I used to
I used to, too.
But see, that's what got us here in the first place
You should have never come here alone
I should have never bothered at all.
Five o' clock the floor caught fire with footsteps
And spread like a disease to the door
I'm stuttering though it but I hear it's
Good to stick to what you know.
And you know,
The whole lot of this all could have been avoided when
You were courtside with your
'Season passes'
Passing off for something I don't think I'll ever understand
It goes it goes it goes
Bree Anne, oh Bree Anne,
I haven't been happier since...
Older and wiser
Still filled with resentment
Yadda yadda yadda
We get it.
We get it.
Truly Honestly Sincerely.
I haven't been happier since.
08. One-Eighty By Summer
Go on just say it.
Sincerely and sure
You need me like a bad habit
One that leaves you
Defenseless
Dependant
And alone.
Cliché like your name
My voice and the center
"I've been tryin to forget ya."
But I only sleep beneath you.
And nothing's that important
Not anymore.
Are you ashamed to say what you want to?
Well, are you?
Tell me you want to.
Say it.
Go on.
Just say it.
I hold my tongue
Use it to assess
The damage from way back when it mattered
Feel around.
Get cozy.
Go crazy.
Get comfortable.
We're just protecting ourselves
So forfeit yourself
Give me up. Give me up.
And make something more to your liking.
A poet
Oh, prince
I don't think I'll ever come back down
Are you ashamed to say what you want to?
Even after all we taught you
Still,
It just seems pointless
With all the obvious lines all out of focus
Still...
You sing you sing you sing
Why can't you just be happy?
Why can't you just be happy?
I'll just say it.
Live up to your first impression
My best side was your worst invention
"Can't you live without the attention?"
"Why can't you live without the attention?"
Defenseless.
Can't you live without the attention?
Dependant.
09. Number Five With A Bullet
You spent the night lit and listening to Miles Davis...
Blue?
Kind of...well,
Saying something about how it makes you want to fall in love,
That
Or be smart enough to keep your distance...
See, it's a long way back south
And to where I belong
You've been there once or twice
But for some strange reason
Whatever it is
You say you still don't like it
I say you just never gave it a chance
"Give me a chance..."
Give me a chance?
Whatever...you're so hit or miss and that's so '93..
Besides,
Did you ever stop to think that we could keep this up?
Living like thieves?
Taking everything we see?
Stealing whatever it is we need?
I hear you've been thinking it over
And coming to some simple conclusions..
Survey says:
"I just...I just...I can't decide."
Oh, and just so you know
When we get some.
We're through....
(...Right now.)
we're so hit or miss
but in spite of that....
We're gonna die like this you know
All miserable and old...
Really gotta hand it to you.
No really
We've gotta hand it to you.
Because if you're positive
I mean absolutely sure...
Then get dressed
Don't do this
Who in their right mind would wish this on anyone?
Don't do this...
10. Little Devotional
I'm blowing smoke out of your window
While you're slipping back in through your dress
You know,
You were always such a lady.
I've always been impressed
But gentlemen,
oh no, no, no...
They don't ask questions.
The keep quiet
The pay attention...
I was listening you know,
I was listening
And if you really want my opinion
I pictured you in blue
But I have to say
I'm more partial to the red
Deep dark and devastating
Leaving no question as to where you've been
But gentlemen,
Don't ask questions
They keep quiet
They pay attention.
We could pay attention...
We could.
I said...
"I'm gonna have myself in shambles
Before your folks are up and looking for some answers."
I calmed the crowd
By keeping quiet
And moved like a shadow
Straight up to your mattress
Do you honestly think he'd be better at doing what I do best?
I mean really, I know you're down for competition
But this could all be on purpose.
I'm positive we would be laughing about this
Regardless if we knew what for.
"Move over...."
This could all be on purpose.
11. …Slowdance On The Inside
So reckless....
Passed out in our school clothes so we'd wake up in our Sunday's best
I never asked for your opinion
I just got it
And I get it
You move slow like daytime drama
While I'm boring like his songs
So while I'm taking you for granted
I'll be humming along
"We don't believe in second chances.."
So thoughtless...
So paint your face up something
Elegant,
Extravagant,
Immaculate,
And this town maybe a darker shade of red
Because a long night
Means a fistfight
Against my pillow
And your pearly whites
"I want to hear you scream..."
You'd like me better on my knees.
You liked me better on my knees.
I'll give you everything you want...
So let us pray...
Cross my heart and hope to...
I'm lying just to keep you here.
When the truth of the matter is
Really,
I could care less.
I'll keep you here.
There's no need for stones
Oh,
My sweet surrender,
I'll give you everything you want...
Save us.
This glass house is burning down
(You light the match, I'll stick around)
I'll give you everything you want
and wish the worst on what I was
All this not knowing and hoping
is making a monster out of me
(now what does that say for you?)
Tonight won't make a difference.
And neither will I...
But could you?
I do. I do. I do.
Don't...you...move.
LOUDER NOW
01. What’s It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?
…Then you said a little more about your dreams like that was my call
“If you would only listen”
Bypassed everything and went straight for the neck
I study
We’re studied
Up nightly
Dragged you out into the streets before you buckled at the knees and said
“What’s it feel like to be a ghost?”
Louder, say it louder now…
“What’s it feel like to be a ghost?”
Quick just not quite painless it sits perched on your arms tacky and irrelevant a permanent reminder that, oh Christ, I have no idea what I am doing…
I said, “So look closely, there might be something you like”
“What was it like?”
I look so close but it’s been months and who knows if I will get this right…
Oh and I…
I study
Up nightly…
Dragged you out and into the streets before you buckled at your knees…
A simple question
Asked three times fast
“Are you up?”
“Are you up for?”
“Are you up for this?”
02. Liar (It Takes One To Know One)
All our secrets they are tailored trouble draped loose now around your hips
Your spotless instincts are valid
We co-exist
We’ve got twenty-six days to work with
We’ve got twenty-six days to see what all gets done.
I’m an addict for dramatics,
I confuse the two for love
“You can’t tell me that you don’t beg…”
Liar, liar
If we’re keeping score
Then we’re all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Then back on that island that you swear by
Still barely can afford
(It moves, it moves, it moves)
It remains a question of
“How long will this hold?”
“Oh, don’t you go there, not here, not now”
Not here
Not now….
Liar, Liar, you silly little boy…
It takes one to know one.
Besides, it’s just like you said…
“We’re all choir boys at best.”
03. MakeDamnSure
I just want to break you down so badly…
You’ve got this new head filled up with smoke
I got my veins all tangled close
To those jukebox bars you frequent
They’re the safest place to hide
A long night spent with your most obvious weakness
You start shaking at the thought
You are everything I want
Because you are everything I’m not
We lay together
Just not too close
How close is close enough?
In the morning
My inarticulate
Store bought
Hangover hobby kit talks…
It says you… oh you…
You are so cool
(I trip over everything you say)
Scissor shaped across the bed
You are red… (Violent red)
You hollow out my hungry eyes
I bite my tongue… I take my time…
And…
I’m going to make damn sure that you can’t ever leave
You won’t ever get too far from me
You won’t ever get too far from me
You won’t ever get too far from me
You won’t ever get too far from me
You won’t ever get too far…
04. Up Against (Blackout)
So this is what we’re up against.
Face it,
This is what we’re up against.
Waiting and waiting
Every minute is a minute away…
Regrets always work,
However,
Excuses are better
A practical exchange
A trade for the truth
You know it never held up…
Pretend that it still could now
This is what we’re up against
Waiting and waiting
Every minute is a minute away
Turning the clocks back
But never ourselves
Prioritizing…
“Go with the flow kid,
Just relax.”
Just relax.
You never feel the jet lag unless you’re trying to fit un.
So let’s pretend that we still could now…
Every minute is a minute away…
Less is more except when it comes to mistakes
“How long is long?”
That depends…
“How long it takes.”
The years
Not months
Not days
Your blackout memory
This is what we’re up against…
Face it.
This is what we’re up against.
05. My Blue Heaven
Two sides twist and then collide
You’re calling off the guards
I am coming through
Adulteress conditioned to a spin cycled submission…
“You know, sometimes it just feels better to give in”
It felt better to give in,
But it’s all too familiar
And it happens all the time
All the cards begin to stack up
Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime
Still it’s you I can’t deny…
A dull heat rises from the sheets
See, I’m both
A patient boy… and a jealous man
Am I coming through?
My double standardized suspicion is remedied.
Oh remedy,
My blue heaven
My sweet surrender
(Take two of these then call me in the morning)
Most times it’s just easier to give in.
I was easier to give in.
So that’s just what I did and now as
We swing and we sway
This tiny voice in my head starts to sing
“You’re safe child, you are safe.”
You’re safe child you are…
Is this all too familiar?
Does this happen all the time?
I’m just asking you to hear me…
Could you please,
Just once,
Just hear me…
More than anything you wanted to be right…
You wanted more than anything to be right
Still it’s you…
06. Twenty-Twenty Surgery
I’d take with me every single luxury when I leave you can count on me for that and nothing more,
The view from this side’s not what I thought it’d be
Promised something different we closed our eyes and let go of the wheel
(…just…let…go.)
Still, all young children listen because they’ve got so much to learn
(turn it in, tune out)
We’ll get you home in time to make the rent…
(…Should be free for being me)
It’s not the quantity that bothers me
…It’s the means
Twenty-twenty surgery
We’re offering,
For this one time only,
Twenty-twenty surgery for cheap….
As the dollar signs doll up a picture perfect point of view for
You are so,
So sensitive…
Me, I am a machine…
07. Spin
That look was priceless
(Oh please don’t let me get carried away)
I’ve seen it before and it still suits you the same
You catch on quick as the cynics stop before they give the same review
Someone told me this is where the party is…
“Are you coming home?”
The abortion that you had,
It left you clinically dead and made it all that much easier to lie
Said, “it’s nothing that I’m proud of”
Well, It’s nothing that I’m proud of
This is phase one
This is a preview
So pay attention
We’re making an example out of you
I heard this is where the party is…
“Are you coming home?”
You had your chance
Open arms reject assuming hands…
We’re making an example out of you…
So don’t act like you’re the first one
I treat it like disease
Sure it’s rough around the edges
But I’m the only thing you see.
Don’t act like you can’t see me darling,
I’m coming in.
Don’t act like you don’t see me…
Coming…listen,
You had your chance
Now spin,
Spin ‘sugar’ spin….
08. Divine Intervention
Despondent
Distracted
You’re vicious and romantic
These are a few of my favorite things
All of those flavors and this is what you choose
Past the blues and onto something new
Something real
And make it timeless
An act of god
Nothing less will be accepted
If you’re calling me out
Then count me out
We’re stubborn and melodramatic
A real class act
See, I know a few of your favorite things
And at five in the morning
It all comes up
Pouring out the same way in
“I need something ream, something timeless
An act of god and nothing less will be accepted”
So if you’re calling me out
Then count me out…
09. Miami
The whole truth
And nothing but the truth
“In the morning it’s a different story, understand”
The whole truth
Is nothing but excuse for
(Stop me if you’ve heard this one before)
“So long as you don’t torture me with your past”
Oh please,
Let’s be honest,
Sideways blunders
Allow reminders to stay
Constant, unreluctant and consistently subject to change…
There is no way around them…
Miami, Miami, Miami,
Every hour on the hour…
(Stop me if you’ve heard this one before)
“Whoever I was then I can’t ever be again.”
“You have to, you just have to trust me”
The terror held in wedding bells
The comfort in “there’s no one else”
The truth be told
(The whole truth…)
I’m never going to know…
The faith you’ve found I’ve never felt.
10. Error: Operator
There’s been an accident, there’s been an accident
Breathe in then out calm down
Calm down
Breathe in…
Then out…
Count backwards from ten
“Murder,
Oh murder,
Where have you been?
Would you,
Oh could you,
Would you do it again?”
Sometimes I swear I can see right through you
Concentrate. Concentrate. Control. Concentrate.
This doesn’t feel like anything.
We
Can’t
Go
Back.
11. I’ll Let You Live
The first degree was a riot
You were making sure
My lesson’s learned
I’m not ashamed but I’m trying
I’ve come to expect the standards you have set…
Tell me just how dangerous is second best
You’ve settled for less and I’m sure you’ll settle again
You’ll settle for less.
There’s no stopping me
I’m gutting you out.
There’s no stopping this…
The closer I look is the further that you get.
Already stubborn skin thickens
In a valiant attempt to understand
So understand.
There’s no stopping this
I’m gutting you out
There’s no stopping me.
I got tired of waiting, waiting, and I’m still waiting…
When the guilt subsides the night begins…
When the guilt subsides
The night begins.
Came as a gift from a good friend
That disapproves
But understands
That you represent
And actively encourage
All of my worst habits
They are all proof
That we’re both capable of the most terrible things
“Don’t test me”
There’s no stopping this
I’m gutting you out
I know it’s not what you deserve.
Still, there’s no stopping me….
I’m gutting you out.
Hee.
TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS
01. You Know How I Do
So sick (so sick) of being tired and oh so tired of being sick.
We're both such magnificent liars so......
"crush me baby I'm all ears."
I'm willing and waiting to prove the worst of everything you had to say about me.
So obviously desperate.
So desperately obvious.
I'll give in one more time and feed you stupid lines all about
"cleaning up my act..."
...it's basic.
We won't stand for hazy eyes anymore.
Think of all the fun you had.
The finest line divides a night well spent from a waste of time.
Think of all the nights you spent
alone with your T.V. set and......"I can barely smile"
He's smoked out in the back of the van, says he's held up with holding on...
"Listen, trick, you've gotten so good at setting bad examples, but I've had all I can handle"
(And on and on and on and on and on.........)
02. Bike Scene
I'll leave the lights down low
so she knows
I mean business.
And maybe we should talk this over,
because I could be your
best bet,
let alone your
worst ex.
Honestly,
how could you say those things
when...you know they don't mean anything?
...You know very well that I can't keep my hands to myself.
This is all wrong
and it shows
and it shows
it's showing.
There are certain things I promised
(cross my heart and hope to...)
never to let you know
Like:
Your silly way of keeping me on the edge of my seat.
I'm miserable and you're just getting started.
You've got me right where you want me...I'm miserable and you're just getting started.
"You're only counting the clock against the train."
I'm miserable and you're just getting started.
Let's never talk about this again
because I didn't want it to mean that much to me anyway.
I want to hate you so bad,
but I can't (...sigh) stop this any more than you can.
03. Cute Without The ‘E’ (Cut From The Team)
Your lipstick (plus) his collar (is of greater or equal value to..)
..don't bother, angel
I know exactly what goes on.
when everything you'll get is everything that you've wanted, princess, which would you prefer?
My finger on the trigger or me face down across your floor?
("just so long as this thing's loaded")
wait....how about I'm outside of your window
watching him keep all the details covered
you're such a sucker for a sweet talker.
Such a sucker...
and will you tell all your friends, you've got your gun to my head.
This all was only wishful thinking
and the only thing I regret is that I never let you hold me back.
Hoping for the best just hoping nothing happens
A thousand clever lines unread on clever napkins
I won't ever ask if you don't ever tell me.
I know you well enough to know you'll never love me.
She'll destroy us all before she's through and find a way to blame somebody else.
All of this was all your fault.
I stay wrecked and jealous for this simple reason,
(you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you) that I just need to keep you in mind as something larger than life.
Why can't I feel anything from anyone other than you.
04. There’s No ‘I’ In Team
Did I ever tell you that everything I learned about breaking hearts I learned from you? Well, it's true. And I know, I've never done it with the style and grace you have. I settled instead for making long term plans based on my mistakes.
There's nothing worse...I swear, you have no idea. The jealousy that became me thinking, "he always had it way too easy, he's getting what he deserves." And I told myself that all I did was what I had to. But don't believe me, don't believe me, don't believe me.
And now, all I've got is this twenty dollar bill that says you're up late night starting fist fights vs. the fences in your back yard, and whispered rumors of the way you wear your black eye like a badge of honor, soaking in the sympathy of friends who never loved you nearly half as much as I do (but irony is for suckers).
Breaking down in bars, ("It's something unforgivable?") and the cold tile bathroom floors inside them, ("It's something unforgivable"). But don't believe me, don't believe me, don't.
I won't lie, it keeps me up till ungodly hours at night. But I can't regret, so just forget it. I started something I couldn't finish, and if we go down then we go down together. Best friends means I pulled the trigger, best friends means you get what you deserve.
Take the time to talk about it
Think a lot
And live without it.
05. Great Romances Of The 20th Century
September never stays this cold
where I come from
and you know.....
I'm not one for complaining.
(...I'm in your room...)
but I love (love, loathe, repeat)
the way you'd
roll excuses of the tip of your tongue
as I'd slowly
(...slowly, quietly, slowly...)
fall apart.
("...I'm falling apart, I'm falling apart...")
This won't mean a thing come tomorrow
and that's exactly how I'll make it seem.
"...I'm still not sleeping"
Thinking "I'm thinking maybe....."
I've crawled home from worse than this
(...I'm on the corner of your bed...).
So please,
Please, Please,
I'm running out of sympathy.
.....I never said I'd take this lying down. (repeat: ......)
She says:
"c'mon, let's just get this over with."
you always come close but you never come easy.....
and I still know everything.
If it's not keeping you up nights
then what's the point?
(...Are you turned on..?)
06. Ghost Man On Third
Jinx me something crazy
Thinking if it's three (one, two, and then...)
then I'm as smooth as the skin
That rolls across the small of your back
It's too bad it's just not my style.
If you need me I'm out,
and on the parkway
Patient and waiting for headlights dressed in a fashion that's fitting
to the inconsistency of my moods
It's times like these where silence means everything.
It's a campaign of distraction and revisionist history.
It's a shame I doubt they'd notice
I doubt they even care.
No one is to know about this.
Don't let me down.
But whatever I have been getting myself into
lately has been slicing inches from my waist.
It's my fist vs. the bottle and that's how bad could this hurt...
..against I won't feel a thing.
No one is to know about this.
Don't let me down.
We were taught so much better than this...
This is what living like this does....
Thank God you weren't there to watch me hit bottom.
07. Timberwolves At New Jersey
"So, was his demise carefully constructed?"
"No, let's just say I got what I wanted."
Literate and stylish
Kissable and quiet
That's what girls dreams are made of....
....that's all you need to know
You have it or you don't
You know I can't help it....
I've got the mic and you've got the mosh pit
What will it take to make you admit that you were wrong?
This is me with a word on the tip of my tongue..
...There are just a few things that I think you should know
And my eye through the scope down the barrel of a gun..
...Those words at best were worse than teenage poetry
Remind me not to ever act this way again..
...Fragmented ideas and too many pronouns
"Stop it...."
"C'mon...."
...you're not making sense now
This is you trying hard to make sure that you're seen
...You can't make them want you..
With a girl on your arm and your heart on your sleeve
...They're all just laughing
Remind me not to ever think of you again....
Rest the weight.. you had you're chance and folded
Don't hold your breath...really...
..it will only make things worse
In the end it's always the same
(starts with a "j" and ends with a "ustified")
08. The Blue Channel
Just hit the lights before you leave....
You know, of the million things that you
"had to say"
you'd think sorry just might have found it's way in there
somehow,
someway,
......anyway.
I'm not so sure if I'm sure of anything anymore.
You sure?
You're so guilty it's disgusting
he's been sneaking underneath your sheets
and your hands have been in places that they
probably shouldn't go
but don't worry sweetie...
...because I already know
and this is the
last night that
you'll be keeping secrets from me. (shhh...)
Regardless if my pictures
(MY pictures)
line your mirror or not
you know
I'll still wait for your call. (seconds to minutes to hours (ours?)...to...)
honestly, honestly, honestly, honestly, honestly, honestly, honestly, honestly
Is this the last time I can expect to see you at the foot of my bed? Honest.....
09. You’re So Last Summer
She said...
"don't let it go to your head, boys like you are a dime a dozen.
(You hear that....a dime a dozen)
You're a touch over rated.
You're a lush.
.....And I hate it.
and these grass stains on my knees.....
..they don't mean a thing."
All I need to know is that I'm something that you're missing.
It's pathetic.
You could slit my throat and with my one last gasping breath
I'd apologize for bleeding on your shirt.
It's pathetic.
Maybe I should hate you for this.
I never really did ever quite get that far.
(Get what?)
but the truth is I would never lie to you,
unless I had to (that is...)
I'll do what I got to.
If you only knew half as much as you pretend to..
...you're a liar, and I'm just bad news...
A wishful thinker with the worst intentions,
and this will be the last chance you'll get to drop my name.
10. Head Club
It's getting colder and we're getting distant
and I just keep thinking that (oops, I....)
I never meant it to be like this.
"It's worse than you think."
I never meant it to be like this.
"this was a bad idea..."
But you know what comes next,
so do I,
You're begging
for a way to
gracefully bow out ....and.....
say goodnight
...and.....
I can't say I blame you
But I wish that I could
I'm sick of writing every song about you.
"you never listened to me."
I'm only complaining to keep myself busy
.....sweetie.
Look, "don't call my name out your window
I'm leaving."
"don't call my name out your window
I'm leaving."
WHERE YOU WANT TO BE
01. Set Phasers To Stun
Say yes.
Your famous last words started once your fingers reached the snooze.
"Just nine more minutes please.....
They all know where to find me"
And the more that I think about it
Everything I said was nothing short of
"A big mistake"
As you would say...
"a b-b-ig mistake"
But see
There's this secret I've been perfecting
About how we paint our sins on the ceiling
Me...
I keep them glued to my chest
It keeps me close like a promise kept.
I swore I wouldn't
But you let me
"It's everything you left out
That's keeping me awake
And since I'm up
And since I'm thinking about it....."
Why don't you just pace the stairs to your apartment like that's where you want to be?
how many times do I have to tell you?
I don't want to stop you
I just want to know
how many times do I have to tell you?
I could take the place of those pills
I don't want to stop you
I just want to know
Hey romantica.
So removed...
Comfortably confused
Who you gonna call tonight?
I won't ever make another promise with you in mind.
02. Bonus Mosh Pt. II
I heard about your message
And
How it reeked of your indifference
...it bleeds horizontal straight from your wrists
So scream louder now
Because I'm bound to come around
Oh yeah,
I'm bound to come around
I used the inconsistency
To undress the machine
You're the poster boy
Our selling point
The focus for their new campaign
"Something has to be done...
...it just has to"
I wanted you for nothing more than hating you for what you were
If that's what you wanted to hear.
Well is it.
So c'mon now
Can't you feel it?
I'm bound to come around
Oh yeah
I'm bound to come around
.....it's rolling off your lips
Tensing up your shoulders
Just say it
Say it is
If it's love
Make it hurt
I deserve it
If it's love,
Well....
I'll give up in you
The keys to the castle are right where I left them
Princess, princess, princess...
More attention to the center please
(10 db's! 10 db's)
I mean after all...
Isn't that all that I'm after?
Isn't it?
There's no way out
And it's a long way down
You are nothing but a haircut and a suit coat.
I like you man...you're crazy.
03. A Decade Under The Influence
Sad small sweet, so delicate
We used to be this dying breed.
Hey sad.
Hey small
Hey sure.
Hey porcelain
I'm coming over but it never was enough.
Now was it?
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Real bad.
I got that
And you
All skin and bones
With me saying
"I'm a nervous wreck when it comes to this...I'm a wreck."
But that explains our perfect fit
Well...
When it comes to this...
You kept still until the long drive home
And slept safe
Close to the window.
Come to think of it...
Who's to say you'll have to go
Because I could go all night.
(You heard me...All night)
Just close your eyes and settle
I'm here and I heard you
"Anyone will do tonight"
(Anyone anyone....bueller?)
Just close your eyes and settle.
I've been giving it some serious thought
And
"Who needs 'um"
...I am you?
I've got a bad feeling about this
To hell with you and all your friends
To hell with you and all your friends.
To hell with you and all your friends.
I am in you.
I am you.
04. This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)
I'll wait 'til you listen I won't say a word
'Follow your instincts'
This is captain to command
You have to understand
That's just never worked for me
Silent but strong
Yeah...that's right.
I'm playing that card
And your noticing nothing again
We're talking forever
And you almost feel better
But better...
That's no excuse for tonight.
You see,
It's never bad enough to just leave or give up
But it's never good enough to feel right.
So I'm lying on the table with everything you said
Keeping in mind the way that it felt
When the most I could do was to just blame myself
Feel it out for once
And feel nothing like everyone else
"It will all catch up eventually"
Well.
It caught up and honestly
The weight of my decision were impossible to hold
But they were never yours
They were never yours
Drop everything
Just drop it
Start it all over
You'll remember more than you'd like to forget
05. The Union
I wait around for that
"Still small center"
To go from saint to sinner
Well, which on is it,
And just who in the hell do you think you are anyway?
Who did you call to get this?
Is it who I think it is?
Is it who I think it is?
I swear to god I'm gonna kill him
"....splintered but focused.."
rrright.
You're as good as gold.
Built from distraction
And brilliantly dull.
You know,
I had a better friend in my worst of plans
Than I ever had in either one of you.
So what's it to you?
I traded my conscience for your confidence
Attacked my lungs with lies to pass the time
And made states move like regular days
All of this while you were out and about
Telling them all how
I wanted it to be like this..
But you know better.
I didn't have to
They came to me.
You came to me.
You always knew this was on purpose.
And like you said...
"What's the point if it don't serve its purpose?"
I never made a scene.
I didn't have to.
They came to me.
You came to me.
06. New American Classic
"We've got to get better." I said, "It's all in your head"
We could live through these letters or forget it all together
See,
The months...
They don't matter.
It's the days I can't take,
When the hours move to minutes and I'm seconds away...
From calling it quits you're so caught up with yourself
"That's too much to ask for"
"That's just too much to ask for when all we need's a reaction"
'Say you won't care'
There's no attraction...
But my main attraction is
Wanting to remember everything
Chasing some dreams
Labeled 'distractions'
"I know I can't go back..."
I know...
I...
Forget it, look.
Just ask the question
Untie the knot
While you retrace the steps as if we forgot
Try to avoid it but there's not a doubt.
There's this
one
thing
Still,
one thing
That I can do nothing about...
07. I Am Fred Astaire
I'm under the assumption that I'm gonna be the one that's leaving you.
Tonight,
Oh tonight.
I flipped every switch that I could find on my way out
Just to upset you more
Just to make you angry
Just because you were right
Just because you were
All tired said
Scream safe haven.
Scream.
"Let's get this out and on the table."
Fast forward to...
Say...
Four o' clock
I'm keeping time
And
'You're always holding'
'It used to take so much more'
Yeah I used to
I used to, too.
But see, that's what got us here in the first place
You should have never come here alone
I should have never bothered at all.
Five o' clock the floor caught fire with footsteps
And spread like a disease to the door
I'm stuttering though it but I hear it's
Good to stick to what you know.
And you know,
The whole lot of this all could have been avoided when
You were courtside with your
'Season passes'
Passing off for something I don't think I'll ever understand
It goes it goes it goes
Bree Anne, oh Bree Anne,
I haven't been happier since...
Older and wiser
Still filled with resentment
Yadda yadda yadda
We get it.
We get it.
Truly Honestly Sincerely.
I haven't been happier since.
08. One-Eighty By Summer
Go on just say it.
Sincerely and sure
You need me like a bad habit
One that leaves you
Defenseless
Dependant
And alone.
Cliché like your name
My voice and the center
"I've been tryin to forget ya."
But I only sleep beneath you.
And nothing's that important
Not anymore.
Are you ashamed to say what you want to?
Well, are you?
Tell me you want to.
Say it.
Go on.
Just say it.
I hold my tongue
Use it to assess
The damage from way back when it mattered
Feel around.
Get cozy.
Go crazy.
Get comfortable.
We're just protecting ourselves
So forfeit yourself
Give me up. Give me up.
And make something more to your liking.
A poet
Oh, prince
I don't think I'll ever come back down
Are you ashamed to say what you want to?
Even after all we taught you
Still,
It just seems pointless
With all the obvious lines all out of focus
Still...
You sing you sing you sing
Why can't you just be happy?
Why can't you just be happy?
I'll just say it.
Live up to your first impression
My best side was your worst invention
"Can't you live without the attention?"
"Why can't you live without the attention?"
Defenseless.
Can't you live without the attention?
Dependant.
09. Number Five With A Bullet
You spent the night lit and listening to Miles Davis...
Blue?
Kind of...well,
Saying something about how it makes you want to fall in love,
That
Or be smart enough to keep your distance...
See, it's a long way back south
And to where I belong
You've been there once or twice
But for some strange reason
Whatever it is
You say you still don't like it
I say you just never gave it a chance
"Give me a chance..."
Give me a chance?
Whatever...you're so hit or miss and that's so '93..
Besides,
Did you ever stop to think that we could keep this up?
Living like thieves?
Taking everything we see?
Stealing whatever it is we need?
I hear you've been thinking it over
And coming to some simple conclusions..
Survey says:
"I just...I just...I can't decide."
Oh, and just so you know
When we get some.
We're through....
(...Right now.)
we're so hit or miss
but in spite of that....
We're gonna die like this you know
All miserable and old...
Really gotta hand it to you.
No really
We've gotta hand it to you.
Because if you're positive
I mean absolutely sure...
Then get dressed
Don't do this
Who in their right mind would wish this on anyone?
Don't do this...
10. Little Devotional
I'm blowing smoke out of your window
While you're slipping back in through your dress
You know,
You were always such a lady.
I've always been impressed
But gentlemen,
oh no, no, no...
They don't ask questions.
The keep quiet
The pay attention...
I was listening you know,
I was listening
And if you really want my opinion
I pictured you in blue
But I have to say
I'm more partial to the red
Deep dark and devastating
Leaving no question as to where you've been
But gentlemen,
Don't ask questions
They keep quiet
They pay attention.
We could pay attention...
We could.
I said...
"I'm gonna have myself in shambles
Before your folks are up and looking for some answers."
I calmed the crowd
By keeping quiet
And moved like a shadow
Straight up to your mattress
Do you honestly think he'd be better at doing what I do best?
I mean really, I know you're down for competition
But this could all be on purpose.
I'm positive we would be laughing about this
Regardless if we knew what for.
"Move over...."
This could all be on purpose.
11. …Slowdance On The Inside
So reckless....
Passed out in our school clothes so we'd wake up in our Sunday's best
I never asked for your opinion
I just got it
And I get it
You move slow like daytime drama
While I'm boring like his songs
So while I'm taking you for granted
I'll be humming along
"We don't believe in second chances.."
So thoughtless...
So paint your face up something
Elegant,
Extravagant,
Immaculate,
And this town maybe a darker shade of red
Because a long night
Means a fistfight
Against my pillow
And your pearly whites
"I want to hear you scream..."
You'd like me better on my knees.
You liked me better on my knees.
I'll give you everything you want...
So let us pray...
Cross my heart and hope to...
I'm lying just to keep you here.
When the truth of the matter is
Really,
I could care less.
I'll keep you here.
There's no need for stones
Oh,
My sweet surrender,
I'll give you everything you want...
Save us.
This glass house is burning down
(You light the match, I'll stick around)
I'll give you everything you want
and wish the worst on what I was
All this not knowing and hoping
is making a monster out of me
(now what does that say for you?)
Tonight won't make a difference.
And neither will I...
But could you?
I do. I do. I do.
Don't...you...move.
LOUDER NOW
01. What’s It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?
…Then you said a little more about your dreams like that was my call
“If you would only listen”
Bypassed everything and went straight for the neck
I study
We’re studied
Up nightly
Dragged you out into the streets before you buckled at the knees and said
“What’s it feel like to be a ghost?”
Louder, say it louder now…
“What’s it feel like to be a ghost?”
Quick just not quite painless it sits perched on your arms tacky and irrelevant a permanent reminder that, oh Christ, I have no idea what I am doing…
I said, “So look closely, there might be something you like”
“What was it like?”
I look so close but it’s been months and who knows if I will get this right…
Oh and I…
I study
Up nightly…
Dragged you out and into the streets before you buckled at your knees…
A simple question
Asked three times fast
“Are you up?”
“Are you up for?”
“Are you up for this?”
02. Liar (It Takes One To Know One)
All our secrets they are tailored trouble draped loose now around your hips
Your spotless instincts are valid
We co-exist
We’ve got twenty-six days to work with
We’ve got twenty-six days to see what all gets done.
I’m an addict for dramatics,
I confuse the two for love
“You can’t tell me that you don’t beg…”
Liar, liar
If we’re keeping score
Then we’re all choir boys at best
(Intrusive and arrogant)
Then back on that island that you swear by
Still barely can afford
(It moves, it moves, it moves)
It remains a question of
“How long will this hold?”
“Oh, don’t you go there, not here, not now”
Not here
Not now….
Liar, Liar, you silly little boy…
It takes one to know one.
Besides, it’s just like you said…
“We’re all choir boys at best.”
03. MakeDamnSure
I just want to break you down so badly…
You’ve got this new head filled up with smoke
I got my veins all tangled close
To those jukebox bars you frequent
They’re the safest place to hide
A long night spent with your most obvious weakness
You start shaking at the thought
You are everything I want
Because you are everything I’m not
We lay together
Just not too close
How close is close enough?
In the morning
My inarticulate
Store bought
Hangover hobby kit talks…
It says you… oh you…
You are so cool
(I trip over everything you say)
Scissor shaped across the bed
You are red… (Violent red)
You hollow out my hungry eyes
I bite my tongue… I take my time…
And…
I’m going to make damn sure that you can’t ever leave
You won’t ever get too far from me
You won’t ever get too far from me
You won’t ever get too far from me
You won’t ever get too far from me
You won’t ever get too far…
04. Up Against (Blackout)
So this is what we’re up against.
Face it,
This is what we’re up against.
Waiting and waiting
Every minute is a minute away…
Regrets always work,
However,
Excuses are better
A practical exchange
A trade for the truth
You know it never held up…
Pretend that it still could now
This is what we’re up against
Waiting and waiting
Every minute is a minute away
Turning the clocks back
But never ourselves
Prioritizing…
“Go with the flow kid,
Just relax.”
Just relax.
You never feel the jet lag unless you’re trying to fit un.
So let’s pretend that we still could now…
Every minute is a minute away…
Less is more except when it comes to mistakes
“How long is long?”
That depends…
“How long it takes.”
The years
Not months
Not days
Your blackout memory
This is what we’re up against…
Face it.
This is what we’re up against.
05. My Blue Heaven
Two sides twist and then collide
You’re calling off the guards
I am coming through
Adulteress conditioned to a spin cycled submission…
“You know, sometimes it just feels better to give in”
It felt better to give in,
But it’s all too familiar
And it happens all the time
All the cards begin to stack up
Twisting heartache into fine little pieces that avoid an awful crime
Still it’s you I can’t deny…
A dull heat rises from the sheets
See, I’m both
A patient boy… and a jealous man
Am I coming through?
My double standardized suspicion is remedied.
Oh remedy,
My blue heaven
My sweet surrender
(Take two of these then call me in the morning)
Most times it’s just easier to give in.
I was easier to give in.
So that’s just what I did and now as
We swing and we sway
This tiny voice in my head starts to sing
“You’re safe child, you are safe.”
You’re safe child you are…
Is this all too familiar?
Does this happen all the time?
I’m just asking you to hear me…
Could you please,
Just once,
Just hear me…
More than anything you wanted to be right…
You wanted more than anything to be right
Still it’s you…
06. Twenty-Twenty Surgery
I’d take with me every single luxury when I leave you can count on me for that and nothing more,
The view from this side’s not what I thought it’d be
Promised something different we closed our eyes and let go of the wheel
(…just…let…go.)
Still, all young children listen because they’ve got so much to learn
(turn it in, tune out)
We’ll get you home in time to make the rent…
(…Should be free for being me)
It’s not the quantity that bothers me
…It’s the means
Twenty-twenty surgery
We’re offering,
For this one time only,
Twenty-twenty surgery for cheap….
As the dollar signs doll up a picture perfect point of view for
You are so,
So sensitive…
Me, I am a machine…
07. Spin
That look was priceless
(Oh please don’t let me get carried away)
I’ve seen it before and it still suits you the same
You catch on quick as the cynics stop before they give the same review
Someone told me this is where the party is…
“Are you coming home?”
The abortion that you had,
It left you clinically dead and made it all that much easier to lie
Said, “it’s nothing that I’m proud of”
Well, It’s nothing that I’m proud of
This is phase one
This is a preview
So pay attention
We’re making an example out of you
I heard this is where the party is…
“Are you coming home?”
You had your chance
Open arms reject assuming hands…
We’re making an example out of you…
So don’t act like you’re the first one
I treat it like disease
Sure it’s rough around the edges
But I’m the only thing you see.
Don’t act like you can’t see me darling,
I’m coming in.
Don’t act like you don’t see me…
Coming…listen,
You had your chance
Now spin,
Spin ‘sugar’ spin….
08. Divine Intervention
Despondent
Distracted
You’re vicious and romantic
These are a few of my favorite things
All of those flavors and this is what you choose
Past the blues and onto something new
Something real
And make it timeless
An act of god
Nothing less will be accepted
If you’re calling me out
Then count me out
We’re stubborn and melodramatic
A real class act
See, I know a few of your favorite things
And at five in the morning
It all comes up
Pouring out the same way in
“I need something ream, something timeless
An act of god and nothing less will be accepted”
So if you’re calling me out
Then count me out…
09. Miami
The whole truth
And nothing but the truth
“In the morning it’s a different story, understand”
The whole truth
Is nothing but excuse for
(Stop me if you’ve heard this one before)
“So long as you don’t torture me with your past”
Oh please,
Let’s be honest,
Sideways blunders
Allow reminders to stay
Constant, unreluctant and consistently subject to change…
There is no way around them…
Miami, Miami, Miami,
Every hour on the hour…
(Stop me if you’ve heard this one before)
“Whoever I was then I can’t ever be again.”
“You have to, you just have to trust me”
The terror held in wedding bells
The comfort in “there’s no one else”
The truth be told
(The whole truth…)
I’m never going to know…
The faith you’ve found I’ve never felt.
10. Error: Operator
There’s been an accident, there’s been an accident
Breathe in then out calm down
Calm down
Breathe in…
Then out…
Count backwards from ten
“Murder,
Oh murder,
Where have you been?
Would you,
Oh could you,
Would you do it again?”
Sometimes I swear I can see right through you
Concentrate. Concentrate. Control. Concentrate.
This doesn’t feel like anything.
We
Can’t
Go
Back.
11. I’ll Let You Live
The first degree was a riot
You were making sure
My lesson’s learned
I’m not ashamed but I’m trying
I’ve come to expect the standards you have set…
Tell me just how dangerous is second best
You’ve settled for less and I’m sure you’ll settle again
You’ll settle for less.
There’s no stopping me
I’m gutting you out.
There’s no stopping this…
The closer I look is the further that you get.
Already stubborn skin thickens
In a valiant attempt to understand
So understand.
There’s no stopping this
I’m gutting you out
There’s no stopping me.
I got tired of waiting, waiting, and I’m still waiting…
When the guilt subsides the night begins…
When the guilt subsides
The night begins.
Came as a gift from a good friend
That disapproves
But understands
That you represent
And actively encourage
All of my worst habits
They are all proof
That we’re both capable of the most terrible things
“Don’t test me”
There’s no stopping this
I’m gutting you out
I know it’s not what you deserve.
Still, there’s no stopping me….
I’m gutting you out.
Hee.