ALKALINE TRIO - Lyrics

Goddamnit lyrics

Maybe I'll Catch Fire lyrics

From Here to Infirmary lyrics

Good Mourning lyrics

Crimson lyrics

Agony and Irony lyrics

This Addiction lyrics

"Goddamnit"

Cringe

wide eyed

knee deep in surprise

just below your thighs the temperature drops 5 degrees

your stand-by flight has just arrived

tongue-tied, bleeding from your eyes

even Christ himself would cringe at the sight of your scars

while you're counting sheep, i'll count my lucky stars

you were the last good thing i ever saw

i lost it all. i lost it all. burned out on 2 hours of shut-eye

eyes glazed at the thought of the next 8 hours

headwind, cold rain to wake me

you were the last good thing i ever saw

Cop

Wonder what it was that made you this way.

Maybe as a baby you dropped your rattle

And it still rattles you to this day.

You better practice your evil looks in the mirror,

They won't work on me.

Slowly crawling up from the down low.

The other cops still call you "fatso."

Short fuse and a top to blow.

Unhappy wife, shitty life, hit the bottle.

Your whole world dropped from under you.

Left you with sorry excuses, left you with meaningless things to prove.

Like why you became a cop, why did you become a cop?

Wonder what it was that made you this way.

Maybe as a kid your toys were taken away.

And it still toys with you to this day.

You better practice your evil looks in the mirror,

They won't work on me

Slowly crawling up from the down low.

The other cops still call you "fatso."

Short fuse and a top to blow.

Unhappy wife, shitty life, hit the bottle.

Your whole world dropped from under you.

Left you with sorry excuses, left you with meaningless things to prove.

Like why you became a cop, why did you become a cop?

Shut the fuck up.

After my court date, I'll forget about you.

I'll tell my cellmates, I'll forget about you.

After the jailbreak, I'll forget about you.

After I'm through singing this song, I'll forget about you.

I'll forget about you!

San Francisco

Choking On The Thought Of Leave

Drinking To Keep From Sobbing 4 PM

4 Dollar Pints At SFO The Time And Price

With All My Happiness Aborted

The PA Painfully Starts Boarding

I Sink Deep 30,000 Feet Into My Window Seat..Electric Chair

And I Was Drinking You Goodbye

My Heart Floats In The Bay

From Sour Home Chicago And Your Being Far Away

There's No Telling What I'll Do If I Don't Return To You..

Hopeful Thoughts Of Soon Returning

Cant Put Out My Stomachs Burning

Plastic Wings And Plastic Smiles

And Salted Peanuts To Stretch My Mile

Choking On The Thought Of Leaving

Drinking To Keep From Heaving, 5 PM

5 Dollar Pints, Hellbound Airlines, Time And Price

And I Was Drinking You Goodbye

My Heart Floats In The Bay

From Sour Home Chicago And Your Being Far Away

There's No Telling What I'll Do If I Don't Return To You..

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Nose Over Tail

Crack my head open on your kitchen floor

To prove to you that I have brains

Meanwhile tin men are led by little girls

Down golden roads that lead to nowhere

Fine time to fake a seizure

Feel your mouth on mine, you're saving me

Whatever happened to that silly dream you had?

I want to make it real

I'd love to rub your back

Like a plane crash that never hits the ground

I fall in love with you

I'm nose over tail for you

Your voice like the sound of sirens to a house on fire

You're saving me

As You Were

stale as a 2 day half full beer

cigarette boats float around in here

a field in my gut lacking sunshine

put down like a teenagers first drink

i cough up compliments

i think you're better off walking away while you still can

she was passing through to climb a hill

as you slipped and slid on my gut spill

my better half was praying for you to fall

rotten like a 3 week half full glass of breast milk

drunken off my ass

i would give anything to erase the past nine years of my life

put down like a prostitute in court

all liberty soon to abort like my sanity, like thoughts of you

she was passing through to climb a hill

as you slipped and slid on my gut spill

my better half was praying for you to fall

praying for you to fall

so pitiful

praying for you to fall

i'm fuckin' pitiful

praying for you to fall

so pitiful

praying for you to fall

so fuckin' pitiful

Enjoy Your Day

so where'd you go?

how was your vacation home?

well obviously you were busy, too busy for me

so this is how you leave me?

i'm broken hearted on the floor

my tears seep through the crack under my door

where i am locked in, shut down

i'm so tired of picking myself up off the ground

so happy valentine's day

i hope the sun's out in new york

i hope he bought you roses

i hope he bought you roses

so happy valentine's day

i hope the sun's out in new york

i hope he bought you roses

i hope he bought you roses

Clavicle

i've been on top of the world since about six months ago,

marking the first time i laid eyes on you

i lost all train of thought as i entered the room

i saw what looked like really good food, then i saw you and so did you

i wanna wake up naked next to you, kissing the curve in your clavicle

kissing your clavicle

i've been on top of the world since about 1 week ago,

marking a time when i was drunk enough to talk to you

i lost all train of thought as your eyes met mine

told you i thought you were gorgeous

you gave me your phone number, i gave you mine

before you left i said that you can bet i'll be bothering you soon

you said, "no bother, please do."

i've called you twice

it's been a hellish fight to not think about you all the time

sitting around waiting for your call

i wanna wake up naked next to you, kissing the curve in your clavicle

kissing your clavicle

i wanna wake up naked next to you, kissing the curve in your clavicle

My Little Needle

i'll come down to get you high

or maybe sing you a lullaby

sing you to sleep, a sleep you'll never wake from

sing you to coma so to speak

and when i fall down, i'll fall apart

trade in my bike for a shopping cart

and beg change from a world that needs some,

like i need someone

so where are you my little needle?

the stack's been burned away,

but i'm so inebriated that i cannot see three feet in front of me

between the moon and you, lunacy is setting in

lately i've been feeling dead inside,

like my guts have dried up and died

but every night i water them back to life,

yeah every night i water them back to life

and when i fall down, i'll fall apart

trade in my bike for a shopping cart

and beg change from a world that needs some

i'm tired of sleeping alone

so where are you my little needle?

the stack's been burned away,

but i'm so inebriated that i cannot see three feet in front of me

between the moon and you, lunacy is setting in

Southern Rock

I can't believe my heart's still pounding

I can't believe how close I came

And meanwhile heaven's falling

The fallen angels flown away

And that'll be me someday

With stolen wings and evil ways

Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates

Hard to believe my heart stopped pounding

Hard to believe I played this game

My worst nightmares became real

I got so scared that I forgot my name

And that'll be me someday

With stolen wings and evil ways

Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates

Message from Kathlene

i guess i'll always stop and see you

and we'll run into each other's lives

yeah, i guess

although it tears me up inside

everytime it burns my eyes with tears

but i know you're worth the pain

i've so much more to gain by waiting for you

you're going away, but you're not going far

so if he decides to leave you alone and crying

you know i'm still here, the faithful one

waiting for a message from kathlene

then i'll come... faster... than i ever thought that i could run...

cause i... i need you more than i ever thought that i could need someone,

yeah... someone, someone else

that i could need someone else... someone else

i know i will always stop and see you and we'll run into each other's fucked up lives

yeah, i guess

although it tears me up inside

everytime it burns my eyes with tears

but your waking up is the start of my lost cause

and then you decide to leave me alone and crying

but you know i'm still here, the faithful one

waiting for a message from kathlene then i'll come... faster... than i ever thought that i could run... cause i... i need you more than i ever thought that i could need someone, yeah... someone, someone else

that i could need someone else... someone else 

Trouble Breathing

You told me that you want to die.

I said I've been there myself more than a few times.

And I go back every once in a while.

You called me lucky, you...

You called me lucky.

You said tonight is a wonderful night to die.

I asked you could tell, you told me to look at the sky.

Look at all those stars, look at how goddamn ugly the stars are.

It's one or another.

Between a rope and a bottle.

I can tell you're having trouble breathing,

'Cause you'll never be o.k. (you'll never be o.k.)

You'll always be in pain.

You'll always feel this way.

'Cause things they never work out right (the wrong way, the lonely way).

You'll always be in pain.

You told me that the daylight burns you

And that the sunrise was enough to kill you.

I said maybe you're a vampire.

You said it's quite possible, I feel truly dead inside.

It's one or another.

Between a rope and a bottle.

I can tell you're having trouble breathing,

'Cause you'll never be o.k. (you'll never be o.k.)

You'll always be in pain.

You'll always feel this way.

Cause things they never work out right (the wrong way, the lonely way).

You'll always be in pain.

Don't forget to let your life rot you inside out.

Don't forget to let your life rot you inside out.

Don't forget to let your life rot you inside out.

Sorry About That

it hasn't been that long

since we drank to the sunset, until it was gone.

and down with it went our pain and fear,

as we slowly broke contact more and more, with every beer.

and we passed out in each other's arms,

both admitting we'd never felt better, never felt so warm.

but awoke in each other's eyes

without wearing a stitch of clothing, we were both deeply in disguise.

and maybe i just set aside the fact that you were broken hearted.

in my own special selfish way.

and if i hadn't set aside the fact that you were broken hearted.

hell knows where your heart would be today.

maybe with me.

it seems like it's been so long since we kissed through the darkness, until it was dawn.

up with it came our pain and fear that we'd already lost each other.

we both knew that the end was near.

maybe i just set aside the fact that you were broken hearted.

in my own special selfish way.

and if i hadn't set aside the fact that you were broken hearted.

hell knows where your heart would be today.

maybe with me.

maybe with me.

maybe with me.

maybe with me.

maybe with me.

maybe with me.

maybe with me.

"MAYBE I'LL CATCH FIRE"

Keep'em Coming 

14 hours ahead, a head that's heavier than lead. and I've got toothpicks in my eyes. a smile more yellow than the sky. I've got a song stuck in my head, one that I miss more than my bed. It's a song sung from a fallen milkman who's drinking bleach instead. I'm much like him. 14 hours unfed, I spent the last cents in my head. They're worth much less than pennies now. Food for one thought shared with a crowd. and I've got a painting in my head, a deeper blue bled thicker red. More red than Bloody Mary's coast to coast. I hate flying I said, that's what I said. Sad, sorry excuse. Just like everything that made her smile and everything I use. I won't go back to the way it was. I'm now huffing gas and sniffing paint to take away this buzz that I call you. 14 hours ahead, a head that's heavier than lead. Toothpicks pry open eyes. a smile more yellow than the sky. I've got a song stuck in my head, one that I miss more than my bed. It's a song sung from a fallen milkman who's drinking bleach instead. I'm much like him. 14 hours unfed, I spent the last cents in my head. They're worth much less than pennies now. Food for one thought shared with a crowd. I've got a painting in my head, a deeper blue bled thicker red. More red than Bloody Mary's coast to coast. I hate flying I said, that's what I said. Sad, sorry excuse. Just like everything that made her smile and everything I use. I won't go back to the way it was. cause I'm now huffing gas and sniffing paint to take away this buzz that I call you.

Madame Me

The sunrise fills your eyes.

Cannot hear your cries.

Pleading, please just go away.

I can't take another day of this.

No surprise.

A surplus of lies.

Freed from the skies.

Is there something that I missed?

Can't even take another day of this.

Lower than piss.

Have you ever felt like this?

She can't recall the last time she avoided it. Lower than piss.

Have you ever felt like this?

Judging by your eyes, like crystal balls.

Madam Me is predicting that your answer will be yes.

The sunrise.

Burned out your eyes.

Failed to apologize.

As it was eating at your face.

Took your smile away without a trace of it.

Warmer than piss.

Have you ever felt like this?

It just might take a fever to encounter it.

Knee deep in shit.

There's no avoiding it.

From your knees, you're coated brown, to your toes. There is no sound like this.

And I will keep you warm in hell.

And I will keep you warm in hell.

And I will keep you warm in hell.

Way down in hell.

You've Got So Far to Go

Soon ends our stay here and it's been fun.

So tonight I'll raise my glass to us.

'Cause we've talked so much I think we filled this ashtray twice,

And I'm pretty sure we emptied every bottle in the place...

So let's walk home, let's be afraid.

I wanna grab you by the arms and kiss you so hard.

Let's do it right, under the streetlight.

I want it now, somehow I forgot how.

Way to go, way to go.

Forgot you've got so far to go.

Way to go, way to go.

Forgot you've got so far to go.

I heard everybody's voice cut out when you spoke.

And I watched all the lights go dim when your eyes opened.

Well I can't believe you showed up,

What do I do now?

It's last call, time to go.

But before we say goodnight...

Let's walk home, let's be afraid.

I wanna grab you by the arms and kiss you so hard.

Let's do it right under the streetlight.

I want it now, somehow I forgot how.

Way to go, way to go.

Forgot you've got so far to go.

Way to go, way to go.

Forgot you've got so far to go.

Forgot you've got so far, you've got so far to go.

Forgot you've got so far, you've got so far to go.

Forgot you've got so far, you've got so far to go.

Forgot you've got so far, you've got so far to go.

Fuck You Aurora

My, my what a mess we've made

Of our pretty little heads these days.

It appears a heavy wind's blown through here recently.

Best wishes have been made for you.

You never had no say it's true.

You have to be the cutest gravedigger I've ever seen.

And all your lonely nights

In the city of lights are much like

All these crowded bars I so often find my stupid self-stumbling through.

My, my what a mess was made of my head

When I heard what you'd been through that day.

It appears a violent storm's passed through you recently.

Letters meant to be sent have been torn.

The phone lies off the hook, on the floor.

All these "I'm sorry"s and "I miss you"s are useless.

I fucked this one up long ago.

And all your lonely nights

In the city of lights are much like

All these crowded bars I so often find my stupid self-stumbling through.

Fuck you Aurora, you took my only friend.

And although it's all my fault,

The blaming myself had to come to an end. So I say:

Fuck you Aurora, you took my only friend.

You won't catch me behind the wheel

Of a Chrysler ever again.

My, my what a mess we've made

Of our precious little lives these days.

It appears a big fucking tornado has twisted us up recently.

Best wishes have been made for you.

You never had no say it's true.

You have to be the cutest gravedigger I've ever seen.

And all your lonely nights in the city of lights are much like

All these crowded bars I so often find my stupid self-stumbling through.

Fuck you Aurora, you took my only friend.

And although it's all my fault,

The blaming myself had to come to an end. So I say:

Fuck you Aurora, you took my only friend.

You won't catch me behind the wheel

Of a Chrysler ever again.

Sleepyhead

all you've been asking for has been placed in front of you. the headaches, the shaking, the boredom the boardroom brings. you're scratching at itching, brought by the spiders beneath your skin. the answer in question is over before it begins. hey there sleepy smile, i see you've brought your bedroom eyes. not assuming you wanna keep 'em. i'm assuming you reckon you won't. all you've been asking for has been placed in front of you. the headaches, the shaking, the boredom the boardroom brings. you're scratching at itching, brought by the spiders beneath your skin. the answer in question is over before it begins. hey there sleepy smile, i see you've brought your bedroom eyes. not assuming you wanna keep 'em. i'm assuming you reckon you won't. nothing to see here but the rain. there's nothing to hold you but the flames. nothing to see here but the rain. there's nothing to hold you but the flames. nothing to see here but the rain. there's nothing to hold you but the flames. nothing to see here but the rain. it's raining flames. earth to sleepy smile. where'd you take those bedroom eyes? not assuming you wanna keep 'em. i'm assuming you reckon you won't.

Maybe I'll Catch Fire

this house is full of ears, but i can't talk to anyone. they've heard this one a thousand times. most exciting thing i do, hang half way out a third floor window, maybe throw lit cigarettes down. and maybe i'll catch fire. something warm to hold me, something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind. all that evil shit's not hard to find. i guess i only claim to be nice. this house is full of eyes, but i can't look at anyone. they've seen this face a thousand times. most relaxing thing i do, hang half way out a third floor window, and look at rocks if i fall out. and maybe i'll fall hard. something tough to break me, something sharp to rip into my insides and bleed out all that pain. sorry i don't even know your name. i guess for me it's easy this way. maybe i'll catch fire. something warm to hold me, something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind. all that evil shit's not hard to find. i guess i only claim to be nice.

Tuck Me In

tuck me into where it's freezing, tuck me into bed with snakes. tuck me in with the tarantulas, i wanna let 'em in my mouth and down my throat to lay their eggs. tuck me into where there's bleeding, where it spills out of the walls onto the floor. tuck me into where your best friend's apologies amount to shit, they always did, for ever more. i pour out onto the floor like liquid white from fallen glass, nothing to cry over. my skin went sour long ago. it knew it had nowhere else to go. tuck me into where I'm falling, where i can feel the heat rise underneath my wings. and all the fallen angels in hell will tuck me away from you. take me away from everything. tuck me into where there's dying, tuck me in with flames and tuck me in with flies. maybe then you will appreciate your only friend with maggots in her eyes, or as ashes in the sky. i pour out onto the floor like liquid white from fallen glass, nothing to cry over. my skin went sour long ago. it knew it had no place left to go. i pour out onto the floor like liquid white from fallen glass, nothing to cry over. my skin went sour long ago. it knew it had no place left to go.

She Took Him to the Lake

do you remember the story of the boy and his first date? she took him to the lake and he fell in love. she spent one summer waking up between his arms. she told him how good that felt, told him he was the one. and then she went away, his calls were not returned. he went to see her, but her eyes were burning a different stare. the focus was somewhere else. and that feeling had somehow disappeared. do you remember when they both drove out of state? stealing kisses behind her cousins back. with a love so strong tell me who could wait? when it seems so right and it feels so right. man, it had to be right. when it seems so right and it feels so right. man, it had to be right. gotta be right. when it seems so right and it feels so right. man, it had to be right. when it seems so right and it feels so right. man, it had to be right. but then she went away and she's not coming back. and i'm pretty sure that boy is staying in tonight.

5-3-10-4

schoolyard freaks are freezing, down getting teased again. i'm looking back and down and watching it go by. down at the stockyards cattle screaming, the trains squeak by again. i can feel my breath and i'm so thankful i'm not one of them. the sound of the ground freezing is pounding once again. it comes with the wind that once wiped off our smiles. alarm clock bells are screaming out the same routine again. scrape open your eyes, rise and fucking shine, 7 a.m. sit down, dead weight, and wonder. unsure, unslept, uncovered. the new light of dawn discovered by ungrateful eyes, through 5-3 eyes. schoolyard freaks are freezing, pushed to the ground again. i'm looking up and west for black to fill the sky. the sound of bottles breaking, still breaking in my ears. they opened just in time to empty out and gouge away the years. sit down, dead weight, and wonder. unsure, unslept, uncovered. the new light of dawn discovered by ungrateful eyes, through 5-3 eyes. schoolyard freaks are bleeding, down getting kicked again. i can taste the earth and feel it in my eyes. the sound of cattle screaming, still screaming in my ears. they came in metal coffins, chained me up and hacked me off my years. sit down, dead weight, and wonder. unsure, unslept, uncovered. the new light of dawn discovered by ungrateful eyes, through 5-3 eyes.

Radio

Shaking like a dog shittin' razorblades,

waking up next to nothing after dreaming of you and me

I'm waking up all alone, waking up so relieved

while you're taking your time with apologies,

I'm making my plans for revenge

Red eyes on orange horizons

If Columbus was wrong I'd drive straight off the edge

I'd drive straight off the edge

Taking your own life with boredom,

I'm taking my own life with wine -

it helps you to rule out the sorrow,

it helps me to empty my mind

Making the most of a bad time

I'm smoking the brains from my head

Leaving the coal calling the kettle black and orange and red

This kettle is seeing red

I've got a big fat fuckin' bone to pick with you my darling

In case you haven't heard I'm sick and tired of trying

I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you,

plugged in and ready to fall

Shaking like a dog shittin' razorblades,

waking up next to nothing after dreaming of you and me

I'm waking up all alone, waking up so relieved

while you're taking your time with apologies,

I'm planning out my revenge

Red eyes on orange horizons

If Columbus was wrong I'd drive straight off the edge

I'm seeing red

I've got a big fat fuckin' bone to pick with you my darling

In case you haven't heard I'm sick and tired of trying

I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you,

plugged in and ready to fall

Plugged in and ready to fall

Plugged in and ready to fall

Plugged in and ready to fall

"THE ALKALINE TRIO"

Goodbye Forever

Take your wings outside, you can't fly in here

Besides, a purple sky is better soaring for you my angel

You're angel, you little devil

As for me I'll stay inside

I'll be just fine and I'll watch from the window.

Cannot categorize the nature of this sickness

a miracle that you're alive-

Stuck to the roof of my mouth with a staple.

Remember last april when we saw u.s. maple?

Somehow the singer showed the fireside exactly how i feel.

And we say goodbye, and go underground

Or up towards the sky, up in smoke, burnt down to size.

At least we're still friends.

At least we're still alive.

Take your wings outside,

No use for them in here.

Bad luck to open inside, work like umbrellas, like a broken mirror.

It's getting clearer-

The end is closer than ever before and you'll want nothing more

Then your head hits the floor, and you're lost in the darkness.

And we say goodbye and go underground.

Or up towards the sky,

Up in smoke, burnt down to size.

At least we're still friends.

At least we're still alive.

And we say goodbye and go underground.

Or up towards the sky,

Up in smoke, burnt down to size.

At least we're still friends.

At least we're still alive.

This Is Getting Over You

Today I woke up,

Younger than I've been in years.

Not concerned with what's outside

And peers, I don't have any.

No one is my equal because I'm the king of rain.

Controlling with my moodswings,

Throw a thunderstorm your way, way.

Drowning girls is a game I play.

Today I woke up,

More awake than I have felt in years.

Not concerned with anything, no tears.

Well I'm done with that shit.

No one is your equal because you're the queen of pain.

Controlling with my mood temps,

Staring at my shoes while running away, way.

Drowning myself is a game I play.

Drown myself away,

Drown myself away, away.

Goodbye.

This is getting over you.

This is getting over you.

This is getting over you.

This is getting over you.

This is getting over you (I'm not tired of getting over you).

This is getting over you (I'm not tired of getting over you).

Getting over you (I'm not tired of getting over you).

This is getting over you (I'm not tired of getting over you).

This is getting over you (I'm not tired of getting over you).

Getting over you (I'm not tired of getting over you).

This is getting over you (I'm not tired of getting over you).

This is getting over you.

Bleeder

you came to me like a dream, the kind that always leaves.

Just as the best part starts, it ends so abruptly.

And leaves you stunned and naked in your bedroom all alone.

It’s kinda funny how something so soothing gets interrupted by the ring of a telephone.

And you broke me like the cigarette that I busted on the day I quit.

But now that I've been drinking, I'm outta smokes and I wish that I had it.

Woke up to my daily headache and the realization that you are gone.

Oh my sweet darling happiness you've been away from me all along.

One thing that I've never said, I'm truly happy in my heart and in my head.

A lonely liver suspended in liquid.

You came to me like a dream, the kind that always leaves.

Just as the best part starts, it ends so abruptly.

And leaves you stunned and naked in your bedroom all alone.

It’s kinda funny how something so soothing gets interrupted by the ring of a telephone.

One thing that I've never said, I'm truly happy in my heart and in my head.

A lonely liver suspended in liquid.

Its one thing that I never did was smile.

Missing a case, lacking a lid.

My heart bleeds for what you never did...

You never did.

For what you never did...

Never did.

For what you never did...

Never did...

Never did...

Never did...

You never did...

You never did...

It’s one thing that I've never said, I'm truly happy in my heart and in my head.

A lonely liver suspended in liquid.

Its one thing that I never did was smile.

Missing a case, lacking a lid.

My heart bled for what you never did until now.

I Lied My Face Off

well, it's not fair, it's not even close. you tied me down, where i'm forced to watch as you poke holes in every part of me containing something secretly. something sacred to me. i lied my face off when i said that i would be okay. it's never fine when you go away. these cuts run deep. these scars are permanent and always on display. this makes things difficult for me. it's not fair, it's not even close. you fed me the sun. burned me up inside and watched me choke on everything we did. on everything we lived. let's see if i can live again. i lied my face off when i said that i would be okay. it's never fine when you go away. these cuts run deep. these scars are permanent and always on display. this makes things difficult for me. head like an empty, sterile room. somehow i made a mess. like watching newborn babies crack from work related stress. head like an empty sterile room. somehow i made a mess. like watching newborn babies crack from work related stress. i'm bad luck, can't fuck. got no reflection today. maybe i'll stay down next time i get hit by a train. by a train. i lied my face off when i said that i would be okay. it's never fine when you go away.

My Friend Peter

I dont care who you've been sleeping with these days

You're outta my hair

It's growing just above my smiling face that I wear

Every night I drink myself to sleep

Not thinking about you

Not thinking about anything at all

I don't care who you've been dining with these days

It's more than fair

Much rather be drinking anyways

With my friend Peter

Who lives so fucking far away

Yet not as far as you

Even though you live right down my fucking street

And I'm tired of sleeping with myself

I'm tired, all these drinks and drugs no longer help

I'm tired of lying about not thinking of you

Maybe my friend Peter can tell me what to do

I don't care who you've been kissing on these days

It's out of my hands

and in my mouth with such a pleasant taste

I need a beer to wash it all away without a trace

And then i'll drink 23 more

To wipe this stupid smile off my fucking face

I'm tired of sleeping with myself

I'm tired, all those drinks and drugs no longer help

I'm tired of lying about not thinking of you

Maybe my friend Peter can tell me what to do

Snake Oil Tanker

This time you've dug yourself an anchor

too heavy to move ahead with

Resembling a faker, charming snake oil tankers

Don't let them strike you down

I know that you wish I was dead

I know 'cause you told me last weekend

And Christmas has never felt colder

I've never felt colder

This time you've dug yourself an anchor

too heavy to move ahead with

Resembling a faker, charming snake oil tankers

Don't let them strike you down

I know that you wish I was dead

I know 'cause you told me last weekend

And Christmas has never felt colder

I haven't felt colder since

Southern Rock

I can't believe my heart's still pounding

I can't believe how close I came

And meanwhile heaven's falling

The fallen angels flown away

And that'll be me someday

With stolen wings and evil ways

Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates

Hard to believe my heart stopped pounding

Hard to believe I played this game

My worst nightmares became real

I got so scared that I forgot my name

And that'll be me someday

With stolen wings and evil ways

Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates

Cooking Wine

sorry i'm late. i was out spoiling my liver. i couldn't wait... the sun was up for far too long today. and i can't see straight, but the two of you look awfully pretty. and i couldn't wait... been awake for far too long today. and is it strong enough to burn away the cooking wine? and i'm just tired enough, if i closed my eyes i'll sleep for days, i'll sleep for days... sorry i'm late. i was out spoiling my liver. i couldn't wait... the sun was up for far too long today. and i can't see straight, but the two of you look awfully pretty... you're fucking beautiful. and is it strong enough to burn away the cooking wine? and i'm just tired enough, if i close my eyes i'll sleep for days, i'll sleep for days...

For Your Lungs Only

a right turn gone wrong. nothing left but the dust, left to fill your lungs up. have to choke, and choke, and choke. repercussion, what got us this form. facilitation for feeling listless. repercussion, what got us this form. facilitation for feeling listless. the son sits out in the sun, and that's when he calls 'father'. he realized a long time ago, he's never coming home, no. repercussion, what got us this form. facilitation for feeling listless. repercussion, what got us this form. facilitation for feeling listless.

Exploding Boy

[The Cure cover]

I couldn't hear a word you said.

I couldn't hear at all.

You talked until your tongue fell out.

And then you talked some more.

I knew if I turned...

I knew if I turned, I'd turn away from you.

I couldn't look back.

I couldn't look back.

Tell yourself we'll start again.

Tell yourself it's not the end.

Tell yourself, it couldn't happen...

Not this way.

Not too late.

Not too late.

I couldn't hear a word you said.

I couldn't hear at all.

You talked until your tongue fell out.

And then you talked some more.

I knew if I turned...

I knew if I turned, I'd turn away from you.

I couldn't look back.

I couldn't look back.

Tell yourself we'll start again.

Tell yourself it's not the end.

Tell yourself, it couldn't happen...

Not this way.

Not too late.

Not too late.

Not too late.

Not too late.

Sun Dials

You were like a toilet bowl at the end of the rainbow

Something like a pot of gold stuck under my pillow

Keeping me up at night you kept my head spinning

And wishing there were windows to throw you from

Throw you from

Day or night

Fuck if I know

Hard to tell with no fucking window

And sundials

What good are sundials once the sun is gone?

What are you good for?

And we laid in my bed like a train wreck

And we both got laid like concrete

And we fought like soldiers

But we died.. we died like flies

Day or night

Fuck if I know

Hard to tell with no fucking window

And sundials

What good are sundials once the sun is gone?

What are you good for?

Nose Over Tail

Crack my head open on your kitchen floor

To prove to you that I have brains

Meanwhile tin men are led by little girls

Down golden roads that lead to nowhere

Fine time to fake a seizure

Feel your mouth on mine, you're saving me

Whatever happened to that silly dream you had?

I want to make it real

I'd love to rub your back

Like a plane crash that never hits the ground

I fall in love with you

I'm nose over tail for you

Your voice like the sound of sirens to a house on fire

You're saving me

97

I've got it now, a thorn in my side the size of a Cadillac.

Drive it through, cause backin' up now would be next to impossible.

I had it all.

When I was with you I forgot about everything.

Eighteen months, eighteen months seems like fucking eternity...

but you'll be there, to dry my eyes when I breathe you in.

in ninety seven... in ninety seven.

I've got it now, like a thorn in my side the size of a Cadillac.

Drive it through, cause backin' up now would be next to impossible.

I had it all. When I was with you I forgot about everything.

Eighteen months... I won't breathe for eighteen months.

I don't deserve this,

I don't deserve this,

I don't deserve this.

No, I don't deserve this.

I don't deserve this.

No, I don't deserve this.

I don't deserve this.

No, I don't deserve this.

No, I don't deserve this.

No, I don't deserve this, no.

"FROM HERE TO INFIRMARY"

Private Eye

I dragged this lake looking for corpses

Dusted for prints, pried up the floorboards

Pieces of planes and black box recorders

Don't lie

And I've been preoccupied with these sick, sick senses

That sense DNA on barbed wire fences

Maybe someday I'll find me a suspect

That has no alibi

New Year's Eve was as boring as heaven

I watched flies fuck on channel 11

There was no one to kiss, there was nothing to drink

Except some old rotten milk someone left in the sink

And there's no ring on the phone anymore

There's no reason to call I passed out on the floor

Smoked myself stupid and drank my insides raisin dry

But at the right place at the right time

I'll be dead wrong and you'll be just fine

And I won't have to quit doing fucked up shit

For anyone but me

And at the right place at the right time

It will have been worth it to stand in line

And you won't have to stop

Saying "I love cops" for anyone but me

Your private eye

Mr. Chainsaw

When was it that you lost your youth or traded

It for something more for them to use so jaded

Why is it that you never said

I love you more than just a friend

I pray this gridlock never ends

And when we get there just depends

I found out recently that you are leaving

For good I hope I softly tell my ceiling

It's better now to be alive

Sleeping is my 9 to 5

I'm having nightmares all the time

Of running out of words that rhyme

Everything that you could never say

Would never matter anyway

I took a hammer and two nails to my eardrums long ago

Before that steak knife took my eyes

I looked up to the sky

For the last thing I would ever see

For the last time I'd cry

When was it that you sold your life or wasted

Every bite of that small slice you never tasted

I guess I should be one to talk

There's nights that I can't even walk

There's days I couldn't give a fuck

And in between is where I'm stuck

From blocks away I heard somebody screaming

That small child inside of you that you left bleeding

You stabbed him up not once but twice

Cubicles will now suffice

Some say it's the roll of the dice

I think they're wrong I know I'm right

Every breath that I could barely breathe

Could barely make it past my teeth

I took a blowtorch to both of my lungs a long long time ago

Every step that i could take

Every one more difficult to make

Mr. Chainsaw came and took my legs a long, long time ago

In case you're wondering

I'm singing about growing up about giving in

In case you're wondering we're singing about growing up

About giving up and giving in

Take Lots with Alcohol

Hello what the hell am I doin' here

That's a really nice suit

This is a really comfortable chair

See I don't know if you can help me or not

Cause I don't feel sick

But the pains in my head have almost put me

Underground

I don't really care if I'm healthy or not

Just clean my head up doc

I'll give you anything you want

See I don't know why I don't fall in love

Well maybe I know why and maybe you could make it stop

Then we'll cut it up and bury it and leave it

Underground

And I'll take to wishing and fall under

Sleeping safe and sound

Just give me medicine prescribe me anything

Just knock me out and walk me through the door

I have no desire to see through my own eyes anymore

Hello what the hell are you doing here

You made a really strange face

This is a really uncomfortable air

I see I'm boring you, maybe I bore myself too

That's why I need help, I'm cleaning blood off dusty shelves

I been cut up in this room so many times it might take days

And those stress cracks in the wood

How nicely the soak up the stains

Been telling myself these jokes for so long well so long

I'm a has been who is heckled on the stage

Stupid Kid

There are things that used to make me smile

One of them was you for just a little while

You left me for dead so far away

I replaced you with fear and shame

You'll be happy on the day I die

There are things that used to make me laugh

But now they're deeply buried in the past

I left them there so far away

Replaced my humor with my pain

I'll be happy on the day it dies

Remember when I said I love you

Well, forget it I take it back

I was just a stupid kid back then

I take back every word that I said

There are things that used to make you cry

One of them was me for just a little while

Why is it that you had to say

Goodbye in your special way

You slashed the tires on my car

Remember when I said I love you

Well, forget it I take it back

I was just a stupid kid back then

I take back every word that I said

Remember when I said I love you

Well, go ahead I take it back

I was just a stupid kid back then

I take back every word that I said

Another Innocent Girl

He likes to act like he's all grown up

He wanted to grow up to be an actor

But he never told anybody

He likes to spill all of his guts

On the top of a well stocked bar

And then swallow them bit by bit remembering every scar

As a valid reason for every drink

And a new tattoo is a new reason to think

He likes to pretend that he is all sewn up

It makes for a much stronger case

But there is blood underneath that skin

That scar is not so easy to erase

He walks with a glass cane now

He's careful when holding his body up straight

Can't go outside when it's raining

Can't smash up that beautiful face

Another innocent girl just made his list

That self pity shit is just too hard too resist

And when we get home

you'll see that this part of him is now part of me

And its way too easy to fake this smile lead you on

Maybe I'm wrong but everyone gets bored once in awhile

Steamer Trunk

Why you turned out the way you did

That thunderstorm is still crashing in

your cranium

Find that all these funny faces look the same

I know who's to blame

But I swore I wouldn't say

Its time that I got moving on

As you're still burning the dress you wore to senior prom

Try to forget how you've been touched

I loved you so I told you

But it didn't matter much

And I'm trying to figure out

What you're all about these days

I don't have much to say to you

And I've been drunker than a skunk

Ever since the day I left you

With your darkest secret safely packed away

Up in my steamer trunk

Why I turned out the way I did

Someone somewhere dropped me on my cranium

I'm sorry can you repeat what you just said

My short term memory is gone

But my long term's far from dead

I've been swearing like a sailor

Ever since the day I left her

You're Dead

What the hell is your name

And can you explain this mess

It seems you're playing a game

Where you only know how to take out the best

Cause if assholes could fly

This place would be busier than O'Hare

There's proof in the sky

It's as thick as our skulls yet it's thinner than air

I have something to say

If the chip off your shoulder should fall to your chest

Get it off right away

Cause if you don't then it won't be in peace that you rest

It's just a matter of time

That we all go away to a better place I'm told

It all sounds well and fine

But without you around I feel nothing but cold

And I now have nothing

But your heartbeat in my head

And a photograph of my traveling friend

So what the hell is your name

And can you explain this mess

It seems you're playing a game

Where you only know how to take out the best

Cause if assholes could fly

This place would be busier than O'Hare

There's proof in the sky

It's as thick as our skulls yet it's thinner than air

And I now have nothing

But your heartbeat in my head

And a photograph of my traveling friend

And I became nothing when I found out you were dead

When I found out I'd never see you again

And all the time they took talking in circles

To get them off the hook would take miracle workers

We're nowhere near prepared there's

no way of knowing

Why don't they just admit they're scared

Cause its already showing

And I now have nothing

But your heartbeat in my head

And a photograph of my traveling friend

And I now have nothing

But your heartbeat in my head

And a photograph of my traveling friend

And I became nothing when I found out you were dead

When I found out I'd never see you again

Armageddon

I wrote the words to this song on the back of a photograph

Behind your back it goes

A little something like this is way to big to miss

I got a letter in the mail

The sender failed to let me know where it came from

Opened it up and sure enough there we were

arm in arm (up in arms) again

I know it's small but my last call's been called

half an hour ago

I know it's late but do you think you could at least

fix it for me

Then I'll go I'll go alone I swear

I won't tell a soul

I'll drink this beer and write in fear

of a song everybody hates

Armageddon, let the light in

Before we say goodbye give us something to believe in

Armageddon, we're not begging

For too much I don't think

Just need a goodbye kiss (one last salute)

Before we sink

We sink

I'm Dying Tomorrow

I'm dying tomorrow

This house, this street, Chicago

I'm dying tomorrow

Did I do it right

Did I remember to sleep in

Take lots of pills

Commit irreversible sins

Did I at least try to kiss the prettiest girl

At the right time

Did I remember to keep your beer as full as mine

Did I remember to say cheers

Did I at least try to make sure everybody had a good time

Had the best time

Did I remember to stay up late

Drinking for the fun

Singing for the taste

Did I run outside to kiss the rain

Under electrical skies

I'm dying tomorrow

This house, this street, Chicago

I'm dying tomorrow

Did I do it right

Bloodied Up

You don't say much of anything

When questioned of your whereabouts

And I just can't see through the evidence

It's evident

It's right in front of me in black and white and red

And I don't believe in much of anything

I'm glad I have people I call friends

If it was up to me I'd never have to miss you

It's for the better in the bitter end

I guess you'd know the best

You have every right to be

This appalled with me

Join the club

I signed up a long time ago and I know how you feel

And when you decked me

You left me knocked out on the floor

I came to bloodied up, but you weren't around

I picked my teeth off the ground like they'd been there before

Trucks and Trains

These days go by like trucks and trains

Some hit so hard you barely feel a thing

Lights out right now back then and forevermore

Lights out left now these robots marching

To the nearest liquor store

There's something green that's leaving town

Always thought it was blue

Always knew I was wrong

Where it goes hell knows

maybe somewhere better than here

And what they say of the grass on the other sides true

Too much time looking up is turning everything blue

Including me - including you

Including you

These times count down like boats and planes

Some wash away in undertow

Some plummet down in flames

Lights out right now back then and forevermore

With sirens on this ambulance is racing

to the west coast shore

There's something blue that's leaving town

We always talked about black we're considering brown

Where it goes hell knows

Maybe somewhere better than here

And what they say of the grass on the other sides true

Too much time looking up's turning everything blue

Including me, including the ocean, including you

Feel the ocean blue

Engulfing you

I view the deep blue sea

It's turning red right in front of me

There's something gray that's leaving town

And it's way beyond me

How it gets off the ground

Where it goes hell knows

Maybe somewhere better than here

And what they say of the grass on the other sides true

Too much time looking ups turning everything blue

Including me, including the pilots, including you

Crawl

Waking up zeroed in on medicine

Am I waking up at all today

Seeing lights, feeling pain

There's my cure on ice

I can walk but I will crawl there

I will crawl there

Sitting straight, feeling faint

An exhausted smile screens my words

But I will hear them

Here's a phrase that we all know

But I can't make sense

I don't know words but I will hear them

I still hear them

Never ran away for the sake of scars

Tried not to move but she was armed

And shots were fired

Now a hole in the head of this wounded liar

Never had a drink that I didn't like

Got a taste of you, threw up all night

I got more sick

With every sour second rate kiss

Everything I never would miss again

I don't know who your boyfriend is

Hell Yes

I gave up on you a long time ago

How can you blame me?

We made plans to meet and you never showed

You kept me waiting

They said everything would work out just fine

They said you'd help me

But as it turns out it was all a lie

And they're off someplace far away laughing at me

You've been there for me one time in my life

But it didn't matter

You came and went so fast all my hope

And faith in you shattered

And now here I sit alone in this room

No one to confide in

You watched all my dreams come apart at the seams

You laughed, you left, you waited in hiding

Bless me dark father I have sinned

I've done it before and I'll do it again

Cuz it keeps me warm, and makes you smile

Been beneath me all the while

Hell yes

You gave up on me along time ago

I can't say I blame you

I rejected the faith in your holy rays

Is what it comes down to

They said everything would work out just fine

I just went crazy

But I'm better now having a good time

Being selfish, and drunken, and vulgar, and lazy

Bless me dark father I have sinned

I've done it before and I'll do it again

Cuz it keeps me warm, and makes you smile

Been beneath me all the while

Bless me dark father I can't win

Without you I'm as good as dead

Cuz you keep me warm, you make me smile

You've been on my shoulder all the while

Whispering sweet nothings

Whispering sweet nothings

Whispering sweet nothings

You've been whispering sweet nothings

"GOOD MOURNING"

This Could Be Love

I've got a book of matches
I've got a can of kerosene
I've got some bad ideas involving you and me
I don't blame you for walking away
I touched myself had thoughts of flames
I shat the bed and laid there in it
Thinking of you wide awake for days
Wide awake for days

And I found you tongue-tied in my twisted little brain
You couldn't crack a smile
I didn't catch your name
I don't blame you for walking away
I'd do the same if I saw me
I swear it's not contagious
In four short steps we can erase this

Step one -- slit my throat
Step two -- play in my blood
Step three -- cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing out of the house
Step four -- stop off at Edgebrook Creek and rinse your crimson hands
You took me hostage and made your demands
I couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers, one by one

I'm like a broken record
I've got a needle scratching me
It injects the poison of alcohol I.V.
I don't blame you for walking away
I'd do the same if I saw me
I swear it's not contagious
I swear to God it's not contagious

Step one -- slit my throat
Step two -- play in my blood
Step three -- cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing out of the house
Step four -- stop at Lake Michigan and rinse your crimson hands
You took me hostage and made your demands
I couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers, one by one

This could be love - love for fire
This could be love - love for fire
This could be love - love for fire
This could be love for fire forevermore

Step one -- slit my throat
Step two -- play in my blood
Step three -- cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing out of the house
Step four -- stop at Berkeley Marina and rinse your crimson hands
You took me hostage and made your demands
I couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers, one by one
One by one

We've Had Enough

In the shadows where the heads hang low
You hear voices as the wind blows, asking "can't you see?"
Reminding you to breathe
It's only time before it catches up to you and all your broken luck
I found a better way to get even with my memory

In the darkness where the angels cry
Give us water, give us back our eyes
Our bed's this concrete floor, and it's all we have left to live for
A day we'll never face
We're only second-handed, sick, and lonely
Fighting back the tears and every urge to Van Gogh both our ears

That said, we've had enough
Please turn that fucking radio off
Ain't nothing on the air waving the despair we feel

In the shadows where the heads hang low
You hear voices as the wind blows, asking "can't you see?"
Reminding you to breathe
It's only time before it catches up to you and all your broken luck
I found a better way to get even with my enemies

That said, we've had enough
Please turn that fucking radio off
Ain't nothing on the air waving the despair we feel
That said, we've had enough
Put "Walk Among Us" on and turn it up
Ain't nothing on the air waving the hatred we feel

This is our biggest fear
The only tunes that we hear
Come via antenna through your car raid-ee-uh-oh-oh-no

That said, we've had enough
That said, we've had enough  

100 Stories

You're in the next room sleeping and I'm shouting out a song for you
I shouldn't wake you over the furnace, but I should swear to someone you'd have loved every note
So dream a good one tonight
I'll listen to the bad ones when they come
Get up in my ear 'till I hear every word
Every turn of your tongue, I will tighten my grip
No one could tell even if I fell 100 stories straight down, down, down
No one could tell even if I fell 100 stories down

I was getting bored with hurting myself
If you fall down enough, well soon enough, you will find hell
It can't be as… as pretty as we hoped it would be
It's not even warm here, not even ten degrees

This bed is too big to sleep in, and I'm dying just to feel you breathe
You couldn't see across the ocean, but I was turning over 'till the vampires sleep
So dream a good one tonight
I'll listen to the bad ones when they come
Get up in my ear 'till I hear every word
Every turn of your tongue, I will tighten my grip
No one could tell even if I fell 100 stories straight down, down, down
No one could tell even if I fell 100 stories down

I was getting bored with hurting myself
If you fall down enough, well soon enough, you will find hell
It can't be as… as pretty as we hoped it would be
It's not even warm here, not even ten degrees

Dream a good one tonight
Dream a good one tonight
Dream a good one tonight
Dream a good one tonight

I was getting bored with hurting myself
So dream a good one tonight
I was getting bored with hurting myself
So dream a good one tonight
I was getting bored with hurting myself
So dream a good one tonight
I was getting bored with hurting myself 

Continental

I've got a dying urge to feel the way you do
Too close for comfort, bed and breakfast in a spoon
The shortest breath of your young life
A long walk home on Friday night
You made one last stop at the store

So close to perfect, swear to hell, thought it was you
This bouncing baby boy's now turning baby blue
I've got your pictures on my walls
I've got a long list of calls I must make to your existing family

You had nine lives and one by one you chewed 'em up
Your final coffin nail's been driven far too much
This won't take long, you said, I'm not going far
Go wait in the car
Go wait in the car

I often wonder what it feels like to be you
A mess like this stuck on your hands with crazy glue
Ran out of time, no kiss goodbye
Wish I could learn to let this sleeping dog die without lying to myself

You had nine lives and one by one you chewed 'em up
Your final coffin nail's been driven far too much
This won't take long, you said, I'm not going far
Go wait in the car
Go wait in the car

You had nine lives and one by one you chewed 'em up
Your final coffin nail's been driven far too much
This won't take long, you said, I'm not going far
Go wait in the car
Go wait in the car 

All On Black

I put it all on black, no color you're all dressed in
And a stab in the back left you bleeding on the floor
And I'm mourning the death, the recent passing of your insides
I smile in regret every time I think of how I spoke to you

I put it all in back of my mind where I hold you
I'm just trying to keep track how far back it really goes
And I'm living in lack of the blood sent from the heavens
I'm just trying to relax as the killer's waiting right outside my door

What's black and white?
What's read all over?
This tired book, this organ donor

Sweet blasphemy, my giving tree
It hasn't rained in years
I bring to you this sacrificial offering of virgin ears
Leave it to me, I remain free from all the comforts of home
And where that is, I'm pleased as piss to say, I'll never really know

I put them all in black, the four walls of my bedroom
And I trimmed them in red, peeled your picture off the wall
And I'm living in lack of the blood sent from your heartbeat
That arrived in your neck every time I salivated over you

What's upside down?
What's coated in silver?
This crucifix is my four leaf clover

Sweet blasphemy, my giving tree
It hasn't rained in years
I bring to you this sacrificial offering of virgin ears
Leave it to me, I remain free from all the comforts of home
And where that is, I'm pleased as piss to say, I'll never really know

One of these days, it's gonna catch up to you
Throwing looks like those around
One of these nights, I promise to you
I'll soon be sleeping sound
As soon as I leave town

Emma

Emma appeared like an angel
Emma fell like rain
Into my lap like a heart attack, like lightning from her name
I'm running dry of bad excuses
Don't want to lie or seem intrusive
But time hasn't told me anything, and neither has she

A poinsettia in poison rain
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with one silver bullet and two vicodin
With two vicodin

Emma woke up in darkness, suitcase already packed
Note on the bedstand signed in blood, "Sincerely, never coming back."
A nightmare on my street the day she arrived
A nightmarish household in which she died, because it made her feel at home
Somehow made me feel at home

A poinsettia in poison rain
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with one wooden stake through the heart and two vicodin

A poinsettia in poison rain
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with one silver bullet and two vicodin
We watched the sun fall crown on a city that sleeps in a world upside down
A slow ticket straight out of town
You went out with a bang when you took with you all my dreams underground
With you all my dreams underground  

Fatally Yours

There's no mystery no more, just no talking to you
Guess you had other things in store
Guess I felt I was through
I answered every question as accurately as I could

I don't hear from you no more, but I get the message
You crashed your car through my front door, I pulled you from the wreckage
You told me that you missed me
But you meant with the grill and hood you'd kill me if you could

And if it's okay, I'll just grab my shit and leave
I won't say one word, I'll keep my tricks up my sleeve
Flew off of the handle, you opened fire on me
Put me down, put me out of misery
I'm fatally yours

You set fire to me that night, you lit and left me burning
Out of my mind, but in my sights, I saw the tables turning
I had a friend that needed me
You made a wish that won't come true, and now it's killing two

And if it's okay, I'll just grab my shit and leave
I won't say one word, I'll keep my tricks up my sleeve
Flew off of the handle, you opened fire on me
Put me down, put me out of misery
I'm fatally yours
I'm fatally yours
I'm fatally yours
I'm fatally yours
I'm fatally yours 

Every Thug Needs a Lady

I know it's dark here, you know that I'm scared too
For some reason right now, of everything but you
Right now you're all that I recognize
You know I came here when I needed your soft voice
I needed to hear something that sounded like an answer
Now I wait here, and sometimes I get one

It's nothing I'll forget when the moon gets tired
You are stuck to me everyday
Believe in what I am because it's all I have today
And tomorrow who knows where we'll be
From here I can hardly see a thing
But I will follow anyone who brings me to you
For now, forever, for on and on and on

You know it starts here, outside waiting in the cold
Kiss me once in the snow, I swear it never gets old
But I will promise you I can make it warmer next year
You know I came here when I needed your soft voice
I needed to hear something that sounded like an answer
Now I stay here, and everyday I get one

It's nothing I'll forget when the moon gets tired
You are stuck to me everyday
Believe in what I am because it's all I have today
And tomorrow who knows where we'll be
From here I can hardly see a thing
But I will follow anyone who brings me to you
For now, forever, for on and on and on

So go plug in your electric blanket
We can stay in 'till our southern summer wedding day
Go plug in your electric blanket
We can stay here 

Blue Carolina

It's everything that I can do right now
To not think about you moving further off with every passing second
And every night of this lonely summertime
I feel you missing from my heart, a part was kidnapped from my soul

Well I can hardly wait until I get the sun and your lips both pressing on my skin
Well I can hardly wait until I feel that thrill my heart that starts inside your eyes
And a song in my head that burns so good on my tongue
Yes I will, yeah, yeah
Yes I will

The night is aging as the sun warms your face
Won't you turn around and stay for good, the air is getting much too cold
I am nervous and anxious, it really counts this time
And you know all my favorite singers have stolen all of my best lines

Well I can hardly wait until I get the sun and your lips both pressing on my skin
Well I can hardly wait until I feel that thrill my heart that starts inside your eyes
And a song in my head that burns so good on my tongue
Yes I will, yeah, yeah
Yes I will, yeah, yeah
Yes I will

Someday I'll burn this bed
Only two feet wide, but where I'll hide for the next 17 days
I will ask myself, "How badly do I want this?"
I really want this
Well I can hardly wait until I get the sun and your lips both pressing on my skin
Well I can hardly wait until I feel that thrill my heart that starts inside your eyes
And a song in my head that burns so good on my tongue
Yes I will, yeah, yeah
Yes I will, yeah, yeah
Yes I will  

Donner Party

So it began this way, I can't recall how it got started
So it began this way, I don't recall a thing
And all in all I guess it's for the better
If you don't remember anything, sit and sing
There was a time when everything we did seemed second nature
There was a time when everything we did seemed free
And all in all I guess it's for the better
If you don't remember anything, sit and sing

And I wanted you to know
It was you that we were thinking of as we quietly died in the snow
A place we'd never leave
A place we'd never want to call home
A place we'd call a final resting place in pieces

So we began this way, I don't recall where we got started
And so we end this way no trace of us in spring
All in all, I guess it's for the better if you just can't feel a fucking thing
Fall asleep and die

And I wanted you to know
It was you that we were thinking of as we quietly died in the snow
A place we'd never leave
A place we'd never want to call home
A place we'd call a final resting place in pieces

And I wanted you to know
It was you that we were thinking of as we quietly died in the snow
A place we'd never leave
A place we'd never want to call home
A place we'd call a final resting place in pieces

If We Never Go Inside

A train appeared in town one night, for some of us it changed our lives
A few of us never saw it coming, then like the fire it disappeared
It happens at a wonderful age, with the traffic lights your mind can change
We made up rules to follow for good
No wonder we're fucked up, some of us did

Tonight never ends if we never go inside
The moon is always full
Your calendar is always pinned on summertime

Were you planning on staying forever?
You don't fit in this hole, or don't you remember?
Hold your breath
Walk, don't run, through the graveyard

A train appeared in town one night, for some of us it saved our lives
A few of us never saw it coming, then like the fire we disappear
It happens at a wonderful age, with the traffic lights your mind can change
We made up rules to follow for good
No wonder we're fucked up, some of us did

I'm just scared I might never say goodbye
I won't be around to hold you down, pry open your ears and ask you why

Were you planning on staying forever?
You don't fit in this hole, or don't you remember?
Hold your breath
Walk, don't run, through the graveyard

Is this why you've worked so hard?
Is this why you've run so far?
Same place, same hello, same goodbye
Helps you pick through beat up insides

Were you planning on staying forever?
You don't fit in this hole, or don't you remember?
Hold your breath
Walk, don't run, through the graveyard 

Blue Inside

It's about time that I came clean with you
I'm no longer fine, I'm no longer running smooth
I thought that I found myself under something new
Just one more line I repeat over and over again
'Till I'm blue in the face with a choking regret
Because I talk in circles 'round you on my bed
Can't say I blame you one bit when you kept it all inside
When you left that night

It's about time that you got sick of me
No longer fun, and so far from interesting
I thought that I found me a cure for feeling old
Just one more line to keep me sleeping loudly and cold
In disgraced with a shameful regret
As I talk in tongues to myself in my bed
Can't say I blame you one bit when you kept it all inside
When you left that night

And all that followed fell like mercury to hell
Somehow we lost our heads for the last time
And all that followed fell like mercury to hell
Somehow we lost our heads for the last time

And I don't dream since I quit sleeping
And I haven't slept since I met you
And you can't breathe without coughing at daytime
And neither can I
So what do you say?
Your coffin, or mine? 

"CRIMSON"

Time To Waste

There's someone down below blowing you a kiss.
They watch from their windows
as all arms fall to their sides,
and all eyes fix on the death of tomorrow.
And you found everything you need
to make a life complete,
completely revolting and they have safety and relief
For sale down the street.
I see you in line every day

You had time to waste and I'm not sorry,
such a basket case, hide the cutlery.
I had time to kill, it's dead and buried.
You've got guts to spill but no one trustworthy.

These creatures are waking up in these dark trees.
Awaiting like vultures.
Eyes roll back turn white in time to feed
They salivate in hunger.
for you, and everything they need
to make a death complete,
completely unnatural and salvation lies
behind those dead eyes that watch you while you sleep every night, and

You had time to waste and I'm not sorry,
such a basket case, hide the cutlery.
I had time to kill, it's dead and buried.
You've got guts to spill but no one trustworthy.

You had time to waste and I'm not sorry,
such a basket case, hide the cutlery.
I had time to kill, it's dead and buried.
You've got guts to spill but no one trustworthy. 

The Poison

It's not just the pain, the pain in my back
That laughs in my face, my face every night
Or the poison that took my lungs
That keeps me from feeling warm.

But how could a rooftop view in London
Look just the same as one in Brooklyn?
Nothing has changed but now I fight with words
And I can't see so good.

And there's got to be more, much more than this.
I got pages of dreams, they're covered in piss
And the poison that took my soul,
It keeps me from feeling anything.

And how could a rooftop view in London
Look just the same as one in Brooklyn?
Nothing has changed but now I fight with words
And I can't see so good.
And now I fight with the words,
And now I fight with the words,
Now I fight with the words.

And how could a rooftop view in London
Look just the same as one in Brooklyn?
Nothing has changed but now I fight with the words,
And I can't see so good.
And I can't see so good (I can't see so good).
And I can't see so good (I can't see so good).
And I can't see so good. 

Burn

There's a lightning storm each and every night
Crashing inside you like motorbikes
We toss and turn, sleep so loud
Grind the teeth in our
Our empty mouths (are empty...)

There's a forest fire burning bright
Spreading quickly towards our last rites
Nowhere to run, pointless to hide
Just lay there and scream, pretending to try
Pretending...

Intending to burn, pretending to fight it
Everyone learns faster on fire
Things took a turn, lost all desire
You live and you burn
You live and you burn

This impending doom is left deep inside
And it's haunting you each and every night
Like starving wolves counting sheep
We close our eyes, pretending to sleep
Descending...

Intending to burn, pretending to fight it
Everyone learns faster on fire
Things took a turn, lost all desire
You live and you burn
You live and...

Like hell we are anxiously waiting
Like hell burning silently strong
Somehow we fell down by the wayside
And somehow this hell is home

As we burn, pretending to fight it
Everyone learns faster on fire
Things took a turn, lost all desire
You live and you burn
You live and...
Like hell we are anxiously waiting
Like hell burning silently strong
Somehow we fell down by the wayside
And somehow this hell is home
Right now, this hell is my home 

Mercy Me

It's been a long day living with this
It's been a long time since I felt so sick
I took a long walk straight back home
I could've walked back to San Francisco
I used to long for time alone
I used to long for a place of my own
now I'm losing faith in everything
I'm lost, so lost, i'm lost at sea, you'll see

I used to long for broken bones
I used to long for a casket to call my own
I never had a problem facing fear
but I'm done, over and out my dear and

Oh mercy me
God bless catastrophe
There's no way in hell
We'll ever live to see through this so
Drive yourself insane tonight
It's not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today
(Yeah!)

It's been a long day living with this
It's been a long time since I felt so sick
I took a long walk straight back home
I could've walked back to Chicago
I used to long for time alone
I used to long for a place of my own
and I've lost faith in everything
I'm lost, so lost, I'm lost without you

Oh mercy me
God bless catastrophe
There's no way in hell
We'll ever live to see through this so
Drive yourself insane tonight
It's not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today
(Yeah!)

So drive yourself insane tonight
It's not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today
(Yeah!) 

Dethbed

Calling all cars, all coroners, we've got a dead one here
And anybody else receiving this, the west coast is far from clear
Like a time bomb or sudden death
It's gonna find you when you least expect
It's gonna leave you with the emptiest feeling inside (over analyzed)

They found me face-down in the street on the night you left to find,
Another place to sleep in rain and regret
They said they tried everything but it was no use
Yeah, they tried everything and everyone but you

Falling like stars into the ocean black, we're gonna disappear
And anything left recognizable is rubbed away with fear
We've got our hearts dipped in time release
We've got the know-how and the elbow grease
We've got our victim all cut up down here on the floor (over and out the door)

They found me face down in the street on the night you left to find,
Another place to sleep in rain and regret
They said they tried everything but it was no use
Yeah, they tried everything and everyone but you

...One but you
...One but you

They found me face down in the street on the night you left to find,
Another place to sleep in rain and regret
They said they tried everything but it was no use
Yeah, they tried everything and everyone but you. 

Settle for Satin

it's not so much a storm,
but just a cloud that lives inside of me
he doesn't stir so easily these days,
but when he wakes he goes the distance
in a marathon of days too long
open containers that sing songs,
"you'll never dream again,
but you can pray"

i guess we only settle in to what we know
i guess we always settle in, and we know.
but there is comfort in a world
where darkness is the only thing we see
and cold is all we have to breathe
where affectations keep us company,
where the lies we tell to the eyes that roll in doubt
are somehow out of our control.

it's not about the scars, but more the crowds that walk all over me
they don't give up too easily these days,
but when they break they go to pieces.
fall apart right here in north side bars
under a sky that knows no stars
you'll never shine again,
but you will stay.

i guess we only settle in to what we know
i guess we always settle in, and we know.
but there is comfort in a world
where darkness is the only thing we see
and cold is all we have to breathe
where affectations keep us company,
where the lies we tell to the eyes that roll in doubt
are somehow out of our control.
we lost control. 

Sadie

You're on your own my little nightmare you cannot stay here
It's far too bright for you
If they attack you just lay there,
Play dead dear, it's your only hope of pulling through.

And seconds they seem like a lifetime.
A dream, recurring, a dream that can't come true.
And they'll pin it all on you
after all you've been put through.

"Sadie G. she's crazy, see?"
That's what the white coats say.
Now Ms. Susan A., you're losing
every opportunity to put us all away.

Go run along my little nightmare.
Your job is done here.
You've scared them all to death.
If they revive them just sit there.
Just smile dear. Make them thankful for every breath.

The sentence may seem like a lifetime,
a scream, that curdling the blood they found on you.
And your knives and clothing too.
Charlie's broken .22

"Sadie G. she's crazy, see?"
That's what the white coats say.
Now Ms. Susan A., you're losing
every opportunity.

Well they found you and they shipped you up the river the same way that you've bound and gaged.
You've shot and stab.
You tried to set them free, but they've thrown away the keys.

[Spoken:]
"He represented a God to me that was so beautiful that I'd do anything for him.
I'd do anything for God.
Even murder, if I believed it was right.
How could it not be right if it is done with love?
I have no remorse for doing what was right to me.
I have no guilt in me."

Whoa [x4]

Fall Victim 

Not sure how this is supposed to feel
Cutting like a red hot knife of surgical steel
Brought flesh from the autoclave.
She came, she came with sterile warning
Screaming from her blade, "I want to make you bleed."

I watched them fall in line, as I fell victim
To double suicide on your television
We heard our records backwards too many times
I'm wasting my breath, we're wasting our time
Wasting our time

Down on my knees, but not to pray
Hit so hard across the skull, it buckled my legs
They told me I had hell to pay
I came, I came too close to heaven
Had nothing to say for myself
I had to walk away

I watched them fall in line, as I fell victim
To double suicide on your television
We heard our records backwards too many times
I'm wasting my breath, we're wasting our time
Wasting our time
Time
Wasting our time
Wasting our time

I watched them fall in line, as I fell victim
To double suicide on your television
We heard our records backwards too many times
I'm wasting my breath, we're wasting our... 

I Was a Prayer 

I am waiting 'til there's nothing left
I'm a prayer, all you see is breath
I am empty, I am skin and bones, I'm a ribcage
Well, I'm out the door with apathy
But I'm coming home with sympathy
I am realized, I am shamed, I choose to stay here

You got a sign, so I paid the ransom
You felt sorry, so I felt the wrath come
Had a nice grip on my life 'til you twisted my arm
My arm

There's a song I love so much I stole
Every precious note I took, I sold
Now I spit out words, do you see my lungs on the dance floor?
To a hopeless cause, I sold my soul
A romantic plastic piece of shit you can mold
Until I break into chokable pieces

You got a sign, so I paid the ransom
You felt sorry, so I felt the wrath come
Had a nice grip on my life 'til you twisted my arm
My arm

And I open up like the back of a book
I ruin everything with just a quick look
And I settle down like a rocket explodes
Hit the ground, but how far out who knows

You got a sign, so I paid the ransom
You felt sorry, so I felt the wrath come
Had a nice grip on my life 'til you twisted my arm
My arm 

Prevent This Tragedy

Here we are again with handguns for hearts
They had a master plan, wanted to tear us apart
Nothing to hold, all hope deleted
Our demise has been completed now
Nowhere left to go but down
The flames of hell they give me hope, I drown
In oceans of this tragic part of town
Where nothing's heard for miles but the sound
Of children wishing they were safely underground
We are the walking dead, we hold this ghost in our arms
We take our daily breath and thank our unlucky stars
Tried to get by on bread and water
Craving blood poured from the alter now
Not much left to do but drown
In flames of miscommunication, down
Then out and off in search of someone proud
To translate what we truly dream about
As we lay in this bed thinking out loud
I'm screaming uncle, mercy me
And my broken telepathy
For I'm left with nothing but this bloodless riverbank
West Memphis, please
I'm begging you to stop praying for me 

Back to Hell

Like the pills in your hand, I'll never let you down
And like the bugs in your bed, under my skin now
Devouring all that's left of me
Devouring all that's left of me

In the palm of your hand, a resting place
All the guilt in the land resting on me
And we're crushing beneath it, falling beside ourselves
And we're wishing to break this neverending spell

Send us back to hell, we've had our fill of heaven
Give us back our sins, the deadly one through seven
Keep us from their hearts, saving us like ashes
Cut us down with dust, never trust in anything we're told

Like the pills in your hand, I'll never let you down
And like the bugs in your bed, under my skin now
They're devouring all that's left of me
Yeah they're devouring all that's left of me

Send us back to hell, we've had our fill of heaven
Give us back our sins, the deadly one through seven
Keep us from their hearts, saving us like ashes
Cut us down with dust, never trust in anything we're told.

Your Neck

We're the things that go bump in the night that you can't see
Yeah, we're the mishaps that always happen in threes
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
Why the light of day that's shown to us
Is absolutely meaningless to me
Well first things first, we've gotta find a way
To make the beauty of the nighttime last all day
We'll do our very best to keep our appetites in check
You better watch your back, we want your neck
Nothing but rotten apples lay here light years from the tree
Got thrown out of the house at the ripe age of three
I'll do my very best to keep my feelings off my chest
And out of your neck
We're the dreams that crumble into nightmares while you sleep
Yeah, we're that feeling someone's watching from the street
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
Why the light of day that's shown to us
Is absolutely meaningless to me 

Smoke

Over and out of it for one more plane ride out
Not sure, and never was if this will all head south, or what
Wait here a month or two will pass, I'm sure I won't
Faith dear, enough to get you by until we're home

I wish I don't wish I still smoked
I wish, I wrote you one original note

Take me home, tuck me in
Moon go down, do it again
take me home, tuck me in
Moon go down, do it again

Over and out of it for one more plane ride out
Not sure, and never was if this will all head south

I wish I don't wish I still smoked
I wish I wrote you one original note

Take me home, tuck me in
Moon go down, do it again
take me home, tuck me in
Moon go down, do it again

"AGONY AND IRONY"

Calling All Skeletons

Here it is again yet it stings like the first time
Seems it never ends, Double nickels on your dime
I thought we were friends, I guess it just depends who you ask
These feelings tend to leave me with a hole in my chest
A hole in my chest

Now the time has come I just wish I could erase
All the damage done to your name and your keepsakes
It's only just begun, it's been fun, we were blind, deaf and dumb
There's a party in my closet calling all skeletons
All Skeletons.....Calling All

Where did you go as the lights went black?
Look whats become of me
I've grown to love your disappearing acts,
Do one more pretty please

Now the time has come I just wish I could erase
All the damage done, all this pain, all this heartache
It's only just begun, it's been fun, we were fucked up and numb
There's a killer on the corner and he's looking for love
He's....Looking for love
Yeah he's looking for (you my love)

Where did you go as the lights went black?
Look whats become of me
I've grown to love your disappearing acts,
Do one more pretty please

And to tell you the truth I lost my faith in you
(You gotta stop sneaking off on me)
And these unspoken lies appear at the worst times
(You gotta stop sneaking off on me)
They're hiding just behind your eyes

Where did you go as the lights went black?
Look whats become of me
I've grown to love your disappearing acts,
Do one more pretty please

Where did you go once the lights went black?
You nearly gave us a heart attack
We thought you might've swam out to sea
You gotta stop sneaking off on me
You gotta stop sneaking off on me 

Help Me

Here you find me in between
Heaven and Hell my dear
Where nothing's what it seems
It's just as well I fear
I'm giving you the creeps
And a farewell kiss to go into the unknown

Saw you standing there
Outside the music hall
You come out for some air
Uncertain curtain call
And everyone just stared
When you took the stage that night
Something's not right

You're up there
Took the stairs
To the stars all alone
You left all the lights burning
But nobody's home
I believe they deceived your tuneful heart too long
Now they sing along

Help me, Help me won't you?
Sing me, sing me one last song?
Help me, Help me, somebody help me
Save me from myself

Here I find you in between
Heaven and Hell again
Where nothing's what it seems
It's just as well my friend
I'm giving me the creeps
And a farewell to arms, and legs, and heads, and hearts

You're up there
Took the stairs
To the stars all alone
You left all the lights burning
But nobody's home
I believe they deceived your tuneful heart too long
Now they sing along

Help me, Help me, won't you?
Sing me, sing me one last song?
Help me, Help me, somebody help me
Save me from myself, Take me from this Hell

Now they sing along
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

You're up there
Took the stairs
To the stars all alone
You left all the lights burning
But nobody's home
I believe they deceived your tuneful heart too long
Now they sing along

Help me, Help me won't you?
Sing me, sing me one last song?
Help me, Help me, somebody help me
Save me from myself

Help me, Help me won't you?
Sing me, sing me one last song?
Help me, Help me, somebody help me
La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
Save me from myself
Take me from this Hell

In Vein

My point of reference makes me afraid to begin convincing,
But you might as well just change your name.
'Cause I only recognize this shadow,
Kinda like a superhero with nobody's best interests in mind.

Now there's blood in the waters, that I squeezed from this stone, here
And we turned into our cheap wine.
And I swallowed every drop, yes, I could feel my stomach rotting,
You were so supportive as I drank through the pain.

You recognize this shape, it's the back of your hand. (Whoa-oh whoa-oh [x2])
You placed it on my face here again, and again, yeah. (Whoa-oh whoa-oh [x2])
And I don't wanna be the one who takes this place in vein.

Dove off the deep side platform, jack-knifed and bone dry, I hit floor
One broken ankle saved my name.
And this eraser burn, I dig in deep at every turn.
It keeps getting darker and the fear stays the same.

You recognize this shape, it's the back of your hand. (Whoa-oh whoa-oh [x2])
You placed it on my face here again, and again, yeah. (Whoa-oh whoa-oh [x2])
And I don't wanna be the one who takes this place,
don't wanna be the one who takes,
I don't wanna be the one who takes this place in vein.

(Whoa-oh whoa-oh, Whoa-oh whoa-oh oh [x2])

I don't wanna take, I don't wanna take this place, no.
I don't want to take, I don't wanna take this place, no.
No-oh, no-oh. I don't wanna take this place, no.
No-oh, no-oh. I don't wanna take this place, no.

You recognize this shape, it's the back of your hand. (Whoa-oh whoa-oh [x2])
You placed it on my face here again, and again, yeah. (Whoa-oh whoa-oh [x2])
And I don't wanna be the one who takes this place,
don't wanna be the one who takes,
I don't wanna be the one who takes this place in vein. 

Over And Out

"Over and out," she said, from a hospital bed
"For what it's worth, it doesn't hurt, don't cry."
"Over and out," he said, with a .45 to his head
"The war has taken everything from me, it's all I see so..."

Run for cover as fast as you can
Where fighters are lovers, enemies are friends
And pens and knives apologize for leaving you tonight
For leaving you tonight

"Over and out," he sighed, "it seems I've run out of time.
Please tell my wife I loved her more than life itself."
"Over and out," she sang, as the telephone rang
"There's no pain, no answering no more, no."

So run for cover as fast as you can
Where fighters are lovers, enemies are friends
And pens and knives apologize for leaving you

Run for cover and you'll find us there
To take on the anguish, make it disappear
When hand grenades and napalm flames are leaving you tonight

Let this candle burn 'til you get home
Never forget your face, never lose hope
Tonight...

Run for cover as fast as you can
Where fighters are lovers, enemies are friends
And pens and knives apologize for leaving you

Run for cover and you'll find us there (Over and out)
To take on the anger, make it disappear (Over and out)
When razor blades were softly serenading you

I Found Away

Midway on our life's journey, I found myself
In dark woods, the right road lost. To tell
About those woods is hard - so tangled and rough
And savage that thinking of it now, I feel
The old fear stirring....

Stumbling through the dark with a broken heart, all alone at it once again
Seeping in like a feeling you haven't felt since way back when
In the dead of that night, like the Summer of Sam
I caught word of the commotion you cause via telegram
And got all worked up, we got all worked up

I found away
Over the fear and through the flames, I'm diving in
Don't follow me, stay right here I'll be back for you someday
I found away, it'd be best if you just stayed
It's not safe, don't follow me
I found away, I found away

Frozen in the lights of a locomotive, tied to the tracks again
You said you haven't felt this comatose since you can't remember when
You fly off the handle every time we sleep, straight off the deep

I found away
Over the fear and through the flames, I'm diving in
Don't follow me, stay right here I'll be back for you someday
I found away, it'd be best if you just stayed
It's not safe, don't follow me
I found away, I found away

Away...
Away...

From the top of my lungs the truth shall be sung, sharp and damning
Violently stabbing at secrecy
That look on your face, it's more than I can take it's scaring
The living hell straight out of me

I found away
Over the fear and through the flames, I'm diving in
Don't follow me, stay right here I'll be back for you someday
I found away, it'd be best if you just stayed
It's not safe, don't follow me
I found away, I found away

I found away, I found away, I found away
I found away, I found away, I found away
I found away, I found away, I found away
I found away, I found away, I found away 

Do You Wanna Know?

So hello where are we today
Still fighting, still running in place
Now the outline of this lake
Seems to be pointing me away
Honestly I've never lied more to myself
All over the floor, right through my teeth I've showed you
Just how weak my knees can get so

Don't let go
My spine is slipping like a fault line
If I go I'll bury us all
Don't close my door
Don't leave me out with these mosquitoes
Trying to drink up all my wine

Do you wanna know
What my love is?
Oh, do you wanna hear how my song goes?
Do you wanna know
What my love is?
Don't say no
Don't say no

And now it's up to me
To wait, I need you to reciprocate
My heart is ticking like a box
Sent to me by anonymous
And now I'm scared to open it
I'm always blowing up to bits
I'm always running out of lines
Running out of time

So don't let go
My spine is slipping like a fault line
If I go I'll bury us all
Don't close my door
Don't leave me out with these mosquitoes
Trying to drink up all my wine

Do you wanna know
What my love is?
Oh, do you wanna hear how my song goes?
Do you wanna know
What my love is?
Don't say no
Don't say no

Don't let me go
I'll fall apart
Don't say you won't follow my heart
I've kept this deep inside for far too long (it can't be wrong!)
Only one life to give
I cross my heart and hope to live
With you my darling here forever more

So do you wanna know?
Where my love is?
Oh, do you wanna hear how my song goes?
Do you wanna know?
Where my love is?
Don't say no
Don't say no

Don't say no

Do you wanna know?
What my love is?
Oh, do you wanna hear how my song goes? (Don't say no)
Do you wanna know?
What my love is?
Don't say no
Don't say no 

Live Young, Die Fast

It's not big surprise
We turned out this way
It's in our eyes
Like shallow graves
But we are one with the larva and dirt
We don't discriminate at all
For what it's worth

So live young, die fast
No one will last
So sit back and relax
Enjoy the crash
You're fading to black and you're gone
Live young, die fast
Die fast

Young easy life
And untimely death
This doesn't work at all for me
So save your breath
You took your time
And stashed it away
Deep down inside of a cardboard box
Marked "rainy day"

Live young, die fast
No one will last
So sit back and relax
Enjoy the crash
You're fading to black and it's gone
Live young, die fast

And I feel a miracle
In every breath that I breathe
Won't let this miracle
End in tragedy
I sense a miracle
In all that I see
Won't let this miracle
Slip away from me

Live young, die fast
No one will last
So sit back and relax
Enjoy the crash
You're fading to black and it's gone
Live young, die fast
Live young, die fast
Die fast
Live young, die fast
No one will last
So sit back and relax
Enjoy the crash
You're fading to black and it's gone
Live young, die fast
Die fast 

Love Love, Kiss Kiss

Take a look, you see I painted you a picture
It's black and white, except the blood's a little richer
Down in the corner where I gave it my signature
Then I titled it, "This one's for the winter"
Check it out you see it's just a big disaster

I'll dedicate it to the fact that it's so hard for you to dream
A million heartbeats all around you make it hard to sleep
It doesn't help you're freezing in your bed, your blankets aren't enough
All you want is someone there, and all you say is, "So what"

Love love, kiss kiss... blah blah blah
You're making me sick, I wish you'd just stop showing off
For the rest of us that no one wants to love
It's hard enough trying to drink another winter all alone
Love love, kiss kiss... blah blah blah

Well do you find you like to fall in love with people that you're never gonna meet?
It's easier than breaking up and crying in the street
Do you curse the happy couple? Do you cringe at wedding bells?
Do you drink up all the punch while you wish 'em all to hell?

Love love, kiss kiss... blah blah blah
You're making me sick, I wish you'd just stop showing off
For the rest of us that no one wants to love
It's hard enough trying to drink another winter all alone
Love love, kiss kiss... blah blah blah

You can't escape this fatal case of melancholia
It's in your face, in every place you go... it's stalking you
There are days when we all say we feel we just can't go on
But you've felt this way all along

Love love, kiss kiss... blah blah blah
You're making me sick, I wish you'd just stop showing off
For the rest of us that no one wants to love
It's hard enough trying to drink another winter all alone
Love love, kiss kiss... blah blah blah

Oh, love love love, kiss kiss... blah blah blah
You're making me sick, I wish you'd just stop showing off
For the rest of us that no one wants to love
It's hard enough trying to drink another winter all alone
Love love, kiss kiss... blah blah blah

Lost and Rendered

Found out the hard way
That you were lost and rendered
All alone in the dark forest of your thoughts
Forever following a trail of fear that seems to lead
To more dead ends and mysteries
I'm losing hope of ever solving

Can anybody hear me?
Is anyone out there?
I'm falling and I'm broken down
I'm dying over here HEY!

If anybody's listening
I hope you hear my cries
My will to live is wearing thin
I'm running out of... Time

Sounding the alarms inside of me
Hoping like hell the sound cuts through the water
And the broken trees and reaches you
Before the creatures of the night
Descend on me no help in sight
Won't be long before we lose daylight

Can anybody hear me?
Is anyone out there?
I'm falling and I'm broken down
I'm dying over here HEY!

If anybody's listening
I hope you hear my cries
My will to live is wearing thin
I'm running out of... Time

Take a deep breath
It could be the cure
It could be your last
Can't know for sure

Is it the hate that they tried to show?
Is it the love that you'll never know?

I guess we'll never know

Can anybody hear me?
Is anyone out there?
I'm falling and I'm broken down
I'm dying over here HEY!

If anybody's listening
I hope you hear my cries
My will to live is wearing thin
I'm running out of... Time

Can anybody hear me?
Can anybody hear me?
Can anybody hear me?
Can anybody hear me? 

Ruin It

I've waited a long time for this life
Just to ruin it, so please don't ruin this for me
Yes to understand this lie
Hell I crossed those t's
I scratched out all these eyes, myself last night
What I promise not to find

So this is what I'm looking like these days
I'm all grown up, so full of hate
But I don't wanna let go of my age
Cause it's the salt, that brings the taste

So where am I to decide that I'm not right?
Cause I might break and I might bend
Your heart strings out of tune again
And I might try to apologize
On a good day
On my best day
If you stick around

Did I stay inside to sterilize this knife?
Am I being to careful?
Does this seem right?
Did I open up the shades to expose the sunny rays?
To show what burned there inside

Take a close look
Hold me right up to the light
Cause I might break and I might bend
Your heart strings out of tune again
And I might try to apologize
On a good day
On my best day
If you stick around

I've waited for so long
(I've waited for so long)
Spread me out, rake me in
This scorched and rocky field
Will camouflage my skin

And I might break and I might bend
Your heart strings out of tune again
And I might try to apologize
On a good day

On my best day
If you stick around [2x] 

Into the Night

We'll never know which way this road is gonna turn
and can't be sure how quick your wick is gonna burn
so sing to me your darkest secrets
time to leave behind your regrets
before we get lost in a blink of an eye

This carrion has been forgotten
left for dead in the sun rotting
the answers lie here in this tragedy
it ends when you and me
we're dragged from the light
into the night...

We have been warned which way this storm is gonna blow
But where the rip tide takes us to we'll never know
now you're screaming out for Jesus
send for anyone, please save us
Before we get lost in the blink of an eye

This carrion has been forgotten
left for dead in the sun rotting,
the answers lie here in this tragedy,
it ends with you and me,
we're dragged from the light,
into the night...

So sing to me your darkest secrets
Time to leave behind your regrets
Before we get lost in the blink of an eye

This carrion has been forgotten
left for dead in the sun rotting,
the answer lies here in the mystery,
it starts with you and me
when we're dragged from the light
into the night...

Into the night...
(Whoas)
Into the night...
(Whoas)
Into the night... 

In My Stomach

In this shadow, I shrink and it knows
I can't move. It is making me cold.
And it grows in my stomach like mold.
It keeps me just sick enough to stay home.

Kill the lights. Curtains cover closed blinds.
Build a wall of stone and steel that will never come down.
Let the dust colonize just like James the first.
There will be no blood this time.
In silence, I'm yours. Twice dead-bolt the doors.

I've been followed by a face marked with pain.
It came close once and he just learned my name.
Every day he grows taller, he looks down at my heart,
and through my throat, he could reach in and pull me apart.

It gets worse when he contacts my eyes.
He can see right through to everything that blackened my veins
and his sounds resonate up and down,
like a march through me, this battlefield,
there's just not much left, so silence the rest.

In this shadow, I shrink and it knows
I can't move, I can't sleep.
Terrified by my own bloodshot eyes.

So, I'll wait here and pray.
I prayed that I was all wrong about prayer.
And I do know that this is truly tired.

It still grows in my stomach like mold.
It keeps me just sick enough to stay home, all alone. 

Burned Is the House

It's like we both have just arrived here
Like we've just stepped off a plane in a new town
and the sun was out.
I was talking, you would point your ear at me
like I was making some sweet sound
you said, "make it loud"

But we can never come back here again
we can only hope...
to forget.

Walked through a cemetery archway
into a wood that hung so happily alone
but the words were all wrong.
You traded all my ill affections
for directions to a party across town.
You bring the house down.

But we can never go back there again
we can only hope.

So...

Burned is the house.
Gone is the street.
Here is the same disappointing retreat.
And I need it like hell if I'd lie to myself
to think I could live that life over again.
Where the cuts were like guilt
and the taste for your eyes
I say, "we're up when I couldn't just say goodnight"
If you cry me a river you can baptize me in
I say, "I guess that's it, now I've fucking seen everything"

Woah's

You were the first real choice I would make,
but we all make mistakes, so...

Jumped overboard because the water's always greener
when the sun shines on the sea
Would you drown for me?
It's just as deep as you can make it
you tread water when you could stand on your knees
but don't pray to me.
Cause when the lamp ray's taken all it can
it will keep you dead.

But but,

Burned is the house.
Gone is the street.
Here is the same disappointing retreat.
And I need it like hell if I'd lie to myself
to think I could live that life over again.
Where the cuts were like guilt
and the taste for your eyes
I say, "we're up when I couldn't just say goodnight"
If you cry me a river you can baptize me in
I say, "I guess that's it, yeah, I've fucking seen everything now"

Woah's

You were the first real choice I would make,
You were the only one that I would take
Now you'll take til I go.

You were the first real choice I would make,
but we all make mistakes,
so... 

"THIS ADDICTION"

This Addiction

You hit me just like heroin.
I feel you coursing through my veins.
I once tried to kick this addiction
I swear I'll never kick again, won't ever kick again, no.

This addiction.
Can't seem to live without you.
This addiction,
No going clean.
This addiction,
Go through withdrawal without you.
Sick with this addiction in me.

Well, those others were like methadone
I took to get me through the day.
Now I'm trying to find my way back home,
Staying clean along the way.
Hold out for the real thing, yeah.

This addiction.
Can't seem to live without you.
This addiction,
No going clean.
This addiction,
Go through withdrawal without you.
Sick with this addiction in me.

This addiction.
This addiction.
This addiction.
I go off the rails without you.
Sick with this addiction in me. 

Dine, Dine My Darling

Don't leave me alone,
I'm waiting for this to be,
The last thing that I say.
If I tried real good,
Then I probably could get a couple more days.
But the drugs are lame,
So I'm looking for you to be,
The very last thing I see,
Before I up and fly away.
I'm counting on you to help push me through
With something good to remember on my red letter days

Don't worry,
I only feel the good things.

So let's dine, dine, dine my darling
Let's have our last supper, as us, two lovers and we'll dance real sweet and slow.
And then kiss, kiss, kiss to the last clock tick
A final exhale when I'm done and you can keep my last breath floating in your lungs.

Yeah I tried alot of things because of you,
You make me tell the truth,
You taught me to drink like a man.
You rescued my tail from between my legs,
Now if I can think it I am.
And I'm taking these words with me when I go over to the other side.
I'll be waiting on you but don't show up too soon
I'll be bored as heaven but I'll be alright.

Let's dine, dine, dine my darling
Let's have our last supper, as us, two lovers and we'll dance real sweet and slow.
And then kiss, kiss, kiss to the last clock tick
A final exhale when I'm done and you can keep my last breath floating in your lungs.
Floating in your lungs.

So let's dine, dine, dine my darling.
Let's have our last supper, as us, two lovers and we'll dance real sweet and slow.
And then kiss, kiss, kiss to the last clock tick
A final exhale when I'm done and you can keep my last breath floating in your lungs. 

Lead Poisoning

Choking slowly,
Broken hearted.
Don't look now,
Here's what you started.
And I swore I'd be there 'til the end,
We're bitter now but better friends.
I climbed out limbless to the ledge,
To baske in my last true regret.

Lay my heavy head here down to sleep.
Now I pray to Abraxas my soul to keep.
Lay my heavy head here down to dream.
Wake up with this lead poisoning.

Sobbing softly,
Lost and hollow.
This fever dream,
Tough pill to swallow.
I swore I'd be there 'til the end
You're better off your bitterness.
I climbed out lifeless to the edge,
I waved goodbye and lept I...

Lay my heavy head down here to sleep.
Now I pray to Abraxas my soul to keep.
Lay my heavy head here down to dream.
Awaking to the blood and sweat and screams.

Woke up here on Monday morning,
This old treat on this dark corner,
Waiting here for what tomorrow brings.
Silver lake mercury mining,
This mistake no silver lining,
Waiting for a bullet train to bring me my lead poisoning.

My lead poisoning.

Lay my heavy head down here to sleep.
Now I pray to Abraxas my soul to keep.
Lay my heavy head here down to dream.
Wake up with this lead poisoning. 

Dead on the Floor

Like two ships in the night,
We're colliding and sinking,
Into the black sea of our love.
We navigated past the point of logical thinking,
Lost sight of the stars up above.

Now my heart is a mess.
Murder scene in my chest,
Not a clue how you got through the door.
But I'm glad that you came,
No regret and no shame,
As I'm lying here dead on the floor.

I took a blind leap of faith,
That's now crashing and burning,
With my heart fast asleep in your bed.
I got on the ground safe
But with my insides turning,
And a picture of you in my head.

As I wandered away deep in shock and dismay,
In a daze, just repeating your name.
Well the fact of the matter is both our hearts
Shatter way too goddamn easily

When you asked me if I'd stay forever,
Guess you meant just for the week.
We felt so good together,
It was way too good to be.
When I left you there early that morning,
My darling,
I told you that I'd miss you so.
I got on that plane with my heart soaring,
But now it's falling like snow.

And like two ships in the night.
We're colliding and sinking,
Into the black sea of our love.
We navigated past the point of logical thinking,
Lost sight of the stars up above.

Now my heart is a mess.
Murder scene in my chest,
Not a clue how you got through the door.
But I'm glad that you came,
No regret and no shame,
As I'm lying here dead on the floor.

When you asked me if I'd stay forever,
Guess you meant just for the week.
We felt so good together,
It was way too good to be.
When I left you there early that morning,
My darling,
I told you that I'd miss you so,
I got on that plane with my heart soaring,
But now it's falling like snow.
Now it's falling like snow.
Now it's falling like snow.

And now it's falling like snow.

The American Scream

Well they tied that yellow ribbon round the oak tree.
They've worn out all the prayer in their hearts.
All along thought they were routing for the home team,
As they're sent to the game and torn apart.

We twist this tourniquet upon the pipeline,
That he carries all the pain in the world.
As we blindly clap and cheer from the sidelines
It's clear, on a losing streak from the very start.

And that's where they found me,
In the cemetary.
A smoking gun in my hand,
Now I'm damned for the land of the free.
Sing with me,
The american scream.

They took that faded ribbon off the oak tree.
They've worn out all the hope in their hearts.
All along thought I was doing the right thing,
Now I'm lying in a pool of my blood.

And that's where she found me,
In the cemetary,
A smoking gun in my hand,
Now I'm damned for the land of the free.
Sing with me.

And that's where she found me,
In the cemetary,
A smoking gun in my hand,
Now I'm damned for the land of the free.
Sing with me,
The american scream.
The american scream.

And that's where she found me,
In the cemetary,
A smoking gun in my hand,
Now I'm damned for the land of the free.
Sing with me,
The american scream. 

Off the Map

I needed more wine,you needed more sleep.
We just fought, two hours and seven minutes.
Honestly, I'm surprised we made it.

I retir to my chair, I grabbed my new guitar.
But I can't make a sound, you could hear poisonous pins dropping all around.
Like rain, but I can ride the storm out.
Because I'm like the junkie for your smart mouth.

See I'm so far off the map the sun is shining,
While it's raining and I'm draped in silver lining.
And I can row, row, row my boat back to shore someday.
So are you coming with me?
Anchors aweigh.

I loosen my lips and the truth slips out.
A free ride on a fork tonge,
This twine of trust is unspun.
I could start to believe that's what you need from me.
So far from what I want for you but I'll lock it down and we'll make do.
You're right, there's only one real option,
And I'm here now so help me keep my voice down.

See I'm so far off the map the sun is shining,
While it's raining and I'm draped in silver lining.
And I can row, row, row my boat back to shore someday.
So are you coming with me?
Anchors aweigh.

Yeah I'm so far off the map the sun is shining,
While it's raining and I'm draped in silver lining.
And I can row, row, row my boat back to shore someday.
So are you coming with me?
Anchors aweigh.

Draculina

Whatever happened to Wonderland?
And where'd Alice go? oh.
I took a night train with knife in hand,
And cut out to the next show back in her living hell.

I wish to dwell, I long to be,
In the blood and the guts with the birds of pray and the stinging of bees and bullets maybe.

Leaving heaven behind for good this time, the angels can keep it.
I've got a deamon in mind and she's standing behind my dark secret.
Draculina.

Whatever happened to Wonderland?
No one really knows, no.
But Draculina had her teeth sinking deep in me,
From the get to the go back in her living hell.

I wish to dwell, I long to be,
In the blood and the guts with the birds of pray and the stinging of bees and bullets maybe.

Leaving heaven behind for good this time, the angels can keep it.
I've got a deamon in mind and she's standing behind my dark secret.

Oh Draculina.
Leaving heaven behind for good this time, the Angels can keep it.
I got a devil inside that has been exorcised now I'm bleeding for Draculina.

Draculina. Draculina.
Woah, oh oh oh
Draculina. Oh Draculina.

I'm leaving heaven behind for good this time, the angels can keep it.
I've got a deamon in mind and she's standing behind my dark secret.

Draculina.
I'm leaving heaven behind for good this time, the Angels can keep it.
I got a devil inside that has been exorcised now I'm bleeding for Draculina.
Woah oh oh
Draculina. Draculina.
Woah oh oh
Draculina. Draculina.

Eating Me Alive

Well I found you outside like a sunrise,
That melted my eyes from my skull.
As I turned into ash before for my sweet demise,
The end of me was so beautiful.

Well now you're stuck in my head like a love song,
That climbed to the top of the charts.
How the fuck can something be so wrong and so right?
All the wrong words but all the right parts.

And you can sit there and tell me that I didn't try,
And I can honestly tell you that I never lied.
I can't stand this dark feeling, the shark eating me up inside.
Eating me alive
Eating me alive

Well I found you out there in the moonlight,
In your eyes there were diamonds like stars.
I was bound by your father, the jewel thief,
That night as you said he was still behind bars.

Now you're stuck in my head like a love song,
The words I can never forget.
As I sucked on your neck for way too long,
And drained you of every last drop you had left.

You can sit there and tell me that I didn't try,
And I can honestly tell you that I never lied.
I can't stand this dark feeling, the shark eating me up inside.
Eating me alive.
Eating me alive.

Here lies a homicidal story, sad but true.
The time has come and gone but I'd do anything for you.

You can sit there and tell me that I didn't try,
And I can honestly tell you that I never lied.
I can't stand this dark feeling, the shark eating me up inside.
Eating me alive.
Eating me alive.
Eating me alive. 

Piss and Vinegar

Well I'm piss and vinegar again
And I hiss and I rattle and shed
And I encircle you like a piranha school
As you slowly fight your way to shore

Well I'm piss and vinegar again,
And I needed this like a new hole in the head.
I'm hiding out in the drink,
I float in waiting to sink,
My great white teeth into your sweet bones.

With an ache in my heart and a thorn in my side,
I've got nowhere to run, no place left to hide.
I've got a burning sensation like Clockwork Orange herbicide
Feels like it's raining all the time.

Well I'm piss and vinegar again
'Cause I feel like I lost my best friend
And at the end of the day,
Once it's all down the drain,
I'll be fine.
I'll be fine.

With an ache in my heart and a thorn in my side
I got no where to run, no place left to hide
I've got a burning sensation like Clockwork Orange herbicide
Feels like it's raining all the time.

Now this supernatural disaster,
Found me quickly but left even faster.
Now I'm sick with the sight of the plaster.
This old familiar ceiling is bleeding me dry.

With an ache in my heart and a thorn in my side,
I got no where to run, no place left to hide.
I've got a burning sensation like Clockwork Orange herbicide
Feels like it's raining all the time.

Dorothy

Like the flutter of your fingertips,
Like the flickering of lights,
They've got their bright ideas but we've got bigger fish to fry.

Found you out there on your doorstep,
Undressed to the nines.
From your Sunday best, black and blue velvet dress.
Your head's a mess and so is mine.

Oh Dorothy, I'm coming home,
I hope you're waiting there.
I know times have been tough on you,
It's all downhill from here.
Oh Dorothy, inside that dreadful place deep in your heart,
It's beckoning, I'm racing to your doorway Dorothy.
Dorothy.

Like the scratching sounds of insects,
Beneath the blades and soil.
We'll begin the plot to get away,
To ends as black as oil.
Now it's pounding in the ear,
Left in left field for you to find.
Outside of your perifirals vision of this never ending night.


Oh Dorothy, I'm coming home,
I hope you're waiting there.
I know times have been tough on you,
It's all downhill from here.
Oh Dorothy, inside that dreadful place deep in your heart,
It's beckoning, I'm racing to your doorway Dorothy.
Dorothy.

It's a strange world isn't it?
Such strange times to be living in.
I had a change of heart tonight,
When I watched her walk into the light.
It's a strange world isn't it?
Such strange times to be living in.
I had a change of heart tonight,
When I watched her walk into the light.

I watched her walk into the light.

Oh Dorothy, I'm coming home,
I hope you're waiting there.
I know times have been tough on you,
It's all downhill from here.
Oh Dorothy, inside that dreadful place deep in your heart,
It's beckoning, I'm racing to your doorway Dorothy.
Dorothy. 

Fine

It's gonna rain like this for days,
I'm gonna drown in my old ways,
But I'm fine.
I'm fine.

It's gonna hurt like hell
When you pull back the hammer and fire,
But I'm fine
I'm fine.

You see a storm knocked out my super power,
Now I sleep through thundershowers.
Wake me when you learn to be cool.
If I'm the captain of this boat then all my shipmates are fools.
And all the the stars in the world couldn't help me steer my way out of this kiddie pool.

I'm gonna wake up from these dreams
With nightmares lined up on my street,
But I'm fine.
I'm fine.

Needed a hand to keep my head up
So you put hooks in both my ears,
And I'm fine.
I'm fine.

Yeah it's a chronic pain in my ass but no, it's not a burden.
It's ironic that I drink to make my insides stop hurting.
And it's love that gives me heartburn,
It's a song that makes my stomach turn,
And I wouldn't trade my hand for all the aces in the deck.

'Cause I'm fine
'Cause I'm fine
I'm fine
I'm fine
I'm fine 

Kick Rocks

You take these sticks and stones
and apply what you have learned
but you ain't got no water
so you let that motherfucker burn

Yea it smoked up and it burned out
Like a graduation bonfire two miles from your house
and you had nowhere to go, so you came right back here
I couldn't find what you wanted, so you slapped me in the face and spilled my beer

and when the mess dried up you came up singing,

Let us drink from the hourglass
We can make time stop
Watch from the window upstairs
While they all kick rocks

and I miss smoking in the fall
and pissin' on that gas station wall
What's a law? What's a fire? What's a river?
We jumped over them all

but I guess my legs got tired and my teeth got long

So take a sip from the hourglass
We can make time stop
Watch from the window upstairs
While they all kick rocks

I tried to write you a passage
but you're holdin' out for the flick
Wait outside by the exit
When they don't let you in

So we can drink from the hourglass
We can make time stop
Watch from the window upstairs
While they all kick rocks 

Those Lungs

Now I lay me down to pass out wasted again.
I guess that makes this the seventh time this week.
There's some words in my head that could keep me from dying.
Are you handling this any better than I am?
If I keep it together would you promise to keep us together?

Oh, sometimes we lose each other,
But please don't lose your tongue.
When I get home I'll keep you up for hours
I'm gonna need breath in those lungs.
And when you're finally able to fall asleep,
Though, the sun might disagree,
I'm gonna lay right there and watch you breathe
'Til you wake up to me.

How's it happen that I get to have you for so long?
But then your just ripped away from me as I get tossed out to the sea
To fight the sharks out there and wait for a wind swell
Oh, I'm kind of like a sailor back in 1942
Yeah, I wanna fight the good fight, but goddamn I'm gonna miss you.

Oh, sometimes we lose each other,
But please don't lose your tongue.
When I get home I'll keep you up for hours
I'm gonna need breath in those lungs.
And when you're finally able to fall asleep
Though, the sun might disagree
I'm gonna lay right there and watch you breathe
'Til you wake up to me.

Please don't lose your tongue.
Please don't lose those lungs.

Oh, sometimes we lose each other,
But please don't lose your tongue.
When I get home I'll keep you up for hours
I'm gonna need breath in those lungs.
And when you're finally able to fall asleep,
Though, the sun might disagree,
I am gonna lay right there and watch you breathe
'Til you wake up to me.