The chords we play, ways left to communicate
these roads are paved with plans we've made
and your headboards never felt so safe
well they'll reach our graves
where your friends and i will kill the lights and hide,
oh what a nice suprise
Chorus:
dont, dont tell me when its coming (no)
dont, dont i just want to see if for myself
dont breathe, dont make a sound
cause the song wont stop till the tape runs out
when melody has nothing to hold,
i'll be the last sound that you hear as your eyes close
and these chords remain
we'll use them to exploit the friends we've since forgot
those friends we've lost
you all know just who you are
cause ive since made graves
but im too scared to etch the names
for fear that im the one whos changed
Chorus
the thought of death it scares me to death
and i dont know why,
i dont know its just too much to never wake up
Chorus
It's your bed, so please choose a side
I'll take the one closest to the door
and you start to speak
the words that try to justify
do far more wrong then anything you do
so grab the coat, the keys, the tension speaks
but we're singing it
(chorus)
I'll tap the brake while you crack the window
the smell of smoke is making my lungs explode
the 51 is backed up and too slow
lets tune out by turning on the radio
And this town is dead
we've been caught in these sheets way too long
lets just see who's up on this screen
no one i know is more depressing then me,
or should i say the two of us
cause after all we're all we've got
and tension speaks but we're singing it
(chorus)
And oh my love youre all I need
backed behind a frequency
they played this song an hour ago
lets tune out
lets tune out by turning on the radio
Havent we heard this song about a thousand times before
Oh well after awhile it all sounds the same
I guess its better then silence and better then shame
(chorus)
The chords we play, ways left to communicate these roads are paved with plans we've made
And your headboards never felt so safe well they'll reach our graves where your friends
And i will kill the lights and hide, oh what a nice suprise dont,
Dont tell me when its coming (no) dont, dont i just want to see if for myself dont breathe,
Dont make a sound cause the song wont stop till the tape runs out when melody has nothing to hold,
I'll be the last sound that you hear as your eyes close and these chords remain
We'll use them to exploit the friends we've since forgot those friends we've lost you
All know just who you are cause ive since made graves but im too scared to etch the names
For fear that im the one whos changed
[chorus]
The thought of death it scares me to death and i dont know why,
I dont know its just too much to never wake up
[chorus]
Stayed awake for 15 hours waiting on your reply
So I came outside to kill my lungs
And to kiss the night goodbye
I thought about your favorite sweater
Now I'm wishing it was at our feet
If I could change one thing about you
I'd call you Annelise cuz it's better than Jen
Hey Annelise
Won't you come with me to Central Park
We'll catch a cab or we could stray from wheels
And walk this boulevard
But you don't respond
You're gonna end up dull
Much like your parents are
Hey Annelise
Don't you ever feel the need to leave
Oh that's me scared of what you people will think
I'm your favorite second rate singer
Holding out both my hands
I'm cursed with the voice of a kid
And pent up three word commands
So "tie the rope, tap the break, cause a scene"
Whatever keeps me in control
Cause these bones are growing tiresome
And they can't seem to hold my soul
My whole heart, it's a joke
Hey Annelise
Won't you cross my mind on a stampede ride
Screw Hollywood
Cuz we've got better things to do than fake our lives
But you don't respond
So won't you give up your birthright
Hey Annelise
Don't you ever feel the need to leave
That's me scared of what you people will think
Hey I'm alone and I want something real
Not a name cause my heart needs to heal
I want a girl who won't disappear
Oh I can see her in dark and dull colors
But coming in clear
Ah here she comes
Here she comes
Here she comes
Here she comes
Ah here she comes
There she goes
You, you think it's cool to be crazy
I say you wanna stay, which is the point in takin chances
And me, i wouldn't call it a sophmore slup, no, i'd say
I'm one step closer to bein' just where i want to be
Away from this scene,
Away from this machine
So meet me in the middle,
Well c'mon let's make up a dance
And we'll agree to call it the compromise
Step one: find a partner, grab a pen
And don't you dare ask questions,
Just sign on the dotted line
Step two: your partner behind a desk
Will then do absolutley nothing
So it's your job to dance and smile the whole time
Well don't call it a trend,
'cause it's the only way we think to get ahead
So meet me in the middle
Well c'mon let's make up a dance
And we'll agree to call it the compromise
There's no sense in complainin'
If it doesn't change your minds
So take me by the hand, let's compromise
I can feel your feet touchin' mine
If you can't dance, there's someone else in line
So meet me in the middle,
Well c'mon let's make up a dance
And we'll agree to call it the compromise
There's no sense in complainin'
If it doesn't change your minds
So take me by the hand, let's compromise
All the girls pose the same for pictures
All the boys got the same girls' hair
I am bored 'cause I fell much older
Look at me, as if I've got a reason to stare
But you talk so loud
that it calms me down
You're crying "let's make a toast"
She says she's leaving on a Sunday
That leaves me one more night
Can I take you home?
I know it's wrong
but I know your type
She says she's leaving on a Sunday
and I don't care
I need to know where to turn
I tried it once
It never caught on
I was the only one who got burned
I've read every word you're said
From a poster of a cat
Four books look across your sofa
I thought your coffee table
was more clever than that
It gets worse once we get to her room
as she stops and sings
"doot do do doot do do doot do"
I claim "new religion" is my song
She doesn't get it
It's all before she was born
And you lock your doors
Like I've been here before
I feel like I've seen a ghost
Suddenly between sheets and eyelids I am reminded why I don't do this
I fall in love far too quickly
I never want her to forget me
When you're gone
Will you call?
Will you write?
And you
You're gonna walk backwards
through the room
Does that mean I won't see you?
It means you walk backwards
through the room
Tiffany's crying
She's dying to make it out of this hell
I just laught
'Cause it was my job to be her help
but I'm in my bedroom
Where friends won't debate my health
like"how can he save some summer night,
when he can't save himself"
You've got to pick me up
C'mon and pick me up
when I'm falling down
You've got to pick me up
Cut to December
How can a scalpel tear into skin
revealing walks in the park
Lord how can a heart
come from two separate organs
and you're gonna make this simple
Do you want to make me sweeter?
I know, I know, I know, I know
I'll let you down
I'll let you down
Prescriptions scripting a timeline
Swing sets, grade schools, and black eyes
First love, heartbreak, and true love
Mistakes, heartbreak, and true love
Well i made my way back down to the valley, right on past 83rd street that's where we once belonged, but im gone i swear im
Long gone
[chorus]
So give it, throw your hats in the air and change just as they land youre saying "we'll get out of here"
But something tells me your'e too scared to go so the stairs that you could climb are the ones youve left behind and your
Eyes light up when we talk about the past god i miss those songs we used to sing, talking like getting away would be the
Greatest thing well me, i got out, and you kept singing to me like that's really going to set this free
[chorus]
Like a ghost youve been haunting all these dusty old roads and old homes the ones we swore we'd never go, never go as for joe,
Oh ive seen him around then theres adam, hes afraid to go out i dont blame him, i just wanted to go out to eat then theres mark
Goddamn i wish him the best we were kids back then as if we could progress but sometimes i just cant sleep, thinking of
Everything we could have been
[chorus]
The feeling you forget
It's one shot, two shots
We'll make more sense
I knew that you'd be back
To start it up, let's start again
You never want to get away from what you've done
YOu never want to stop the things I've become
I know the reason and there's just no reason
All this time that I could waste
On all the time that I could stay
All the time I would you let you down
And all this time that I can be the one thing that you don't know baby
I know the reason you've been down
And there's just no reason
You'll never take this stop to make amends that we can't meet
You're starting over to remember who you were
Wasting everything on what you're living for
I know the reason and there's just no reason
All this time that I could waste
On all the time that I could stay
All the time I would let you down
and all this time that I can't be the one thing that you don't know baby
I know the reason you've been around
And there's just no reason
All you do
Do do do do do do do do
All you
All you
Do do do do do do do do
All this time that I could waste
On all the time that I could stay
All the time I would let you down
and all this time that I can't be the one thing that you don't know baby
I know the reason you've been down
And there's just no reason
Weve just got to take our time its like nothing really matters, so lets make this moment a crime I know, I know youre left
Behind but I'll do my best to feel broke down its been a minute, a second, I'll wait for you to come around but I know, I
Know youre taking time maybe its just too late, ive got to get away when everything feels the same, ive got to get away tell
Me its not too late
[chorus]
On and on and on you wait and oh the days they fade away and all the nights theyve never felt
The same if I was wrong then I was wrong and on and on and on and on the things we do are never going to change well you
Havent got a lot to say but you never want to stop you always want to feel this way I know I know youre taking time
[pre chorus]
[chorus]
We wait forever, if ever and youre too hip to saying never I'll never get it, oh I shouldnt sweat it not
Like it matters, its over, yeah at least till you come over so much for shutters, we're living under covers
[pre chorus]
[chorus]
Im nicotine, im coming clean i fooled the crowd when i made it sound like i was more then ready strike up the band, deprive
My sleep cause theres no love like apathy the bell that tolls rings loud enough that it should have woke us up
[chorus]
Im trying to find truth in words, in rhymes, in notes, in all the things i wish id wrote cause i feel like ive been losing you
I read your last entry overprivelaged kids keep crying the need to fit in is harder when living life from a screen old
Classmates please drop all your pens dont write a word cause i wont reply and im not bitter, no its just ive passed that
Point in my life
[chorus]
Each night it ends too soon you dont hold me like you used to and your eyes look like theyve seen
Too much its always some excuse too tired, too obtuse you look so far removed, this time i fear im losing you im nicotine im
A cash machine im the colour green and you should have seen the looks i just recieved i need a reason to let go an
Intervention, a lulluby something to cure me please believe me
[chorus]
I love Love
I love being in love
I don't care what it does to me
Take these tattered boxes
that used to hold your clothes
Break them down
Build them back up with your bones
All you did was construct a mess
You'r good to me when only flesh
You'r a momory with nothing to show
When we would take trips
We swore we'd never take pictures
Pictures only prove you can't convince
Now i wsh those photographs
could convince you that what we had
would only turn out a negative
well
well
well
If fingertips are relationships
then i could barely carry your weight
If fingers are mistakes
Don't use this one to point the blame
Just sing
sing
I love love
I love being in love
I don't care what it does to me
These pills are fine to pass the time
'til i find my new drug
Then
We'll take our chances
we'll last a month
we'll never speak again
How i love being in love
And don't pick up the line
You'er dressed to have a good time
you don't need him, you need to be seen
so someone else can treat you wrong
so you my love can sing this song
I love love
I love being in love
I don't care what it does to me
These pills are fine to pass the time
'til i find my new drug
Then
They'll take advantage
I'll claim that's what i want
To be the new statistic
How i love
How i love
How i love being in love
Take these tattered boxes
That used to hold your clothes
Break them down
Build them back up with your bones
All you did was construct a mess
you'er dead to me if love is death
You'er a memory with nothing to show
WELL
WELL
WELL
If fingertips are relationships
Then maybe i could use a break
She smiles
She points at me
shes says:
Baby i love how you sing
so just
sing
I love love
i love being in love
i don't care what it does to me
These pills are fine to pass the time
'til i find my new drug
Then
We'll take our chances
we'll rise above
we'll last until the end
How i love
How i love
How i love being in love
Todays been a career day, futures made and fortunes lost as im standing in the lobby, im waiting for the elevator to take
Me away up to nine or ten, maybe eleven the sound of sirens fading as she whispers in my ear shes saying, its too late to
Wish success so get undressed and please just come to bed cause im the last real thing youve got youre cursed by all
Ambitious thoughts is that all youve got as for you, you spin a story like a spider spins a web see thats a metaphor, no
Wait, a similie im still learning but i think im getting better oh if im not tortured how are you ever going to relate ive
Been condemed by those i love, wishing me the worst as im trying my best but shes the last real thing ive got im cursed by
All ambitious thoughts is that all youve got love close your eyes and cover, cover your ears, for the end is near but the
Beginning is here in with the outro and out with the old i'm gonna tie all the loose ends i once pulled in with the outro
And out with the old (headed, paired, paired up, i really have no idea) for failure, from what we've been told in with the
Outro and out with the old with nothing to offer, so nothings been sold in with the outro and out with the old forgive me
And give me one more chance to fold in with the outro and out with the old there's nothing to lose when there's nothing to
Hold we'll be together in the morning
You're not made
For this, dear boy
You're not made
For this, dear boy
We watch the stock drop
They say we're just snide, octane
I want to exchange
Hits for a testament
And this will be
My sacrifice
Up in the clouds
pick up the tab
Put me down
Now gently, just drop me
Cause this not a gallery
She takes me seriously
What a joke, she would know
If she wasn't too scared
To pick up the phone and go
You're not made
For this, dear boy
You're not made
For this, dear boy
The crime fits
The punishment
And an ice cold sal
Stabbing demons at dusk
She says well
Whom do you trust?
I don't trust anyone
Who do you trust
I don't trust nobody
Not even her?
No, not even me
Boy please, you're not
Think you lie before decieving
All the people that believe in me
Somewhere Arthur Lee is bleeding
Somewhere Arthur Lee is bleeding
If I came to learn one thing from this
It's that people from Long Island
Aren'at as old as they seem
They're older then they seem to be
I turn my back to the mirror
All you see is my back
It's leaving you somewhere
Lethal to make a red dot
Let's see what you got
Ready or not, here goes
The crime fits the punishment
You're not made
For this, dear boy
You're not made
For this, dear boy
You're not made
For this, dear boy
You're not made
For this, dear boy
You're not made
For this, dear boy
You're not made
For this, dear boy
Its your bed, so please choose a side ill take the one closest to the door and you start to speak the words that try to
Justify do far more wrong then anything you do so grab the coat, the keys, the tension speaks but we're singing it
[chorus]
Ill tap the break while you crack the window the smell of smoke is making my lungs explode the 51 is backed up and too slow
Lets tune out by turning on the radio and this town is dead weve been caught in these sheets way too long lets just see whos
Up on this screen no one i know is more depressing then me or should i say the two of us cause after all we're all weve got
And tension speaks but we're singing it
[chorus]
And oh my love youre all i need backed behind a frequency they played this
Song an hour ago lets tune out by turning on the radio havent we heard this song about a thousand times before oh well after
Awhile it all sounds the same i guess its better then silence and better then shame
[chorus]
Forgive me you cut out again, it seems so easy just to blame the reception but theres something wrong and i dont know why
Why you, you never say goodbye so please just leave, you dont mean that much to me you keep the ring, ill take those
Saturdays in bed cause i know you need them as for me its nothing new just another two years i wish we'd always wake up new,
Refreshed and born again with nothing left to lose but we dream too much and who needs a crutch pull off the bandage, theres
No wound so please just leave, you dont mean that much to me give back the ring, keep all those summers with your friends
Cause you know you need them as for me its nothing new just another two years that im here losing sleep your sore thumb,
Your best defense is miles from home oh and it reads like a letter, with the words all broken erased them with a razorblade
Cause youre gone i was lost then i found you but im breaking down now that
[chorus]
I can't stand to think about a heart so big it hurts like hell
Oh my god I gave my best but for three whole years to end like this
Well do you want to fall apart? I can't stop if you cant start
Do you want to fall apart? I could if you can try to fix what I've undone
Cause I hate what I've become
[Chorus]
You know me, oh you think you do you just don't seem to see
I've been waiting all this time to be, something I can't define
So let's cause a scene, clap our hands and stomp our feet or something,
yeah something I've just got to get myself over me
I could stand to do without, all the people I have left behind
What's the point in going around when it's a straight line baby, a straight line down
So let's make a list of who we need and it's not much if anything
Let's make a list of who we need and we'll throw it away
'Cause we don't need anyone, no we don't need anyone
[Chorus]
And I hate what I've become.
You know the night life is just not for me
'Cause all you really need are a few good friends
I don't want to go out and be on my own,
You know they started something I can't stand
You leave for the city,
Well count me out
'Cause all this time is wasted on everything I've done
[Chorus x2]
Yeah
Over me
Yeah
Over me
I was on your porch,
The smoke sank into my skin,
So I came inside to be with you,
We talked all night,
About everything you could imagine,
'Cause come the morning, I'll be gone,
And as our eyes start to close,
I turn to you and I let you know,
That I love you.
Well, my dad was sick,
My mom she cared for him,
Her loving nursed him back to life,
And me, I ran, I couldn't even look at him,
For fear I'd have to say goodbye,
And as I start to leave,
He grabs me by the shoulder and he tells me,
"Whats left to lose? You've done enough,
And if you fail then you fail but not to us,
'Cause these last three years,
I know they have been hard,
But now it's time to get out of the desert and into the sun,
Even if its alone."
So now here I sit,
In a hotel off of Sunset
My thoughts bounce off Sam's guitar,
And thats the way its been,
Ever since we were kids, but now,
Now, we've got something to prove,
And I, I can see their eyes,
Then tell me something, can they see mine?
'Cause whats left to lose?
I've done enough,
And if I fail then I fail but I gave it a shot,
'Cause these last three years I know they have been hard,
But now it's time to get out of the desert and into the sun,
Even if it's alone,
(Even if it's alone)
Even if it's alone.
I was on your porch last night,
The smoke, it sank into my skin.
I lost my memory
In a cab back in the city
It's somewhere off of Lexington
Just something that the east coast does to me
Makes me forget who I am
Well so c'mon and hold me
Don't put out the lights
I wanna see that look in your eyes
I know that lately
I've been out of your sight
Being here has never felt so right
I'm falling in love with you
Balloons or no balloons
So it's time I forget the past
And just learn to love what I have
And I love waking up to your laugh, oh
Something about the midwest sun and oh
It makes me miss you more than life
Could be the trees that stand alone in the fields
They remind me every couple of miles
I'd love to stop our lives, stop everything
Just so we could move far away
We'll live alone together with the sweat of the summer
With the chill of the cold winter air, oh yeah
I'm falling in love with you
For more reasons than 22
So it's time I forget the past
And just learn to love what I have
'Cause I love waking up to your laugh, yeah, whoa, oh whoa
Won't you put it in drive
C'mon and get me back home
I'll spend the rest of my life
With only you by my side
(x2)
Alright
I'm falling in love with you
Balloons or no balloons
It's time I forget the past
And just learn to love what I have
'Cause I love waking up to your laugh, yeah, whoa, oh whoa
Won't you put it in drive
C'mon and get me back home
I'll spend the rest of my life
With only you by my side
In a dream that i cant seem to shake she is, she is standing alone by the fence i see tears in her eyes why she crys i just
Dont know what a mess that i make of my days then theres you, youre a mess to be made, a mess to be made and the dream
Starts to fade away so youre leaving for months at a time, i help you out the door but once youre gone i just stare out the
Window please, could you please come back home what a mess that i make of my days trying to save myself, save myself then
Theres you, youre a mess to be made a canvas only paint could change and a voice on the other end of the phone, says why
Dont you write a song about it well here goes, i was raised on something that youll never know id hate this place if it
Werent for the waves if it werent for the fact that you love it where they measure a man on the money he spends well my love
Is not a bank statement what a mess that i make of my days trying to save myself, save myself then theres you, youre a mess
To be made, a mess to be made, a mess to be made and the dream starts to fade away
So far from me, he stands
A man known as disease
He's shaking all the hands of the people he meets
And you now you just don't see me anymore
Well, I've been losing everything
You just don't see me anymore
I'll say goodbye
Since you left, she's a mess
She regrets all the things that she could've said
But we fall asleep, never think of anything
We wake to the sound of a phone as it hits the ground
And now you just don't seem me anymore
Well, I've been losing everything
You just don't see me anymore
I'll say goodbye
And, oh at the wake, at the wake
I will turn to see a face
Just a face, just a face
So surrounded by a name
What a name, wha a name
And we never want to change
What you gave, what you gave
Never wanna let go
So surround me
I need anything and
You're verything
I want to live like I did
Before all this hit
To sleep in your arms
To think we'll never fall apart
And oh
You know it's, you know it's such a drag
To live your life for a heart attack
To never get a second chance
To say goodbye
To say goodbye
I'll never get to try
You just don't see me anymore
I've been losing everything
I'll say goodbye
Hold on, there's a hole in my heart
everyone can see right through me
it goes all the way to the waves
where my love she tried to wash it away
see we break for the summers
so she can find lovers
she treats them like a bottle of wine
they make you dinner
and they sing you to sleep
but by the morning find the bottle is empty
'cause she never gives it the time
every bottle she finds
they don't compare
to the ones she left behind
there is never a note
so she waits for me to come back home
I'm looking for a dead end song
you wish that smoke
could change its color
I love it when you talk so much
and act like nothing went wrong
I'm looking for a dead end song
while we sit and find flaws in everyone
I want to keep you by my side
holding off tidal waves
"mint car" is keeping us warm
she lays crossed upon the bed
we are puzzles making shapes
with our hands
I take my finger, turn into a pen
then i run my hand down your spine
you guess i wrote something profound
something like:
"our love will last 'til we die"
I say "you're good at this game"
but what I really wrote is
"how I've yet to be saved"
Oh no, was it worth it?
Starting now I'm starting over
I'm gonna sleep
with the next person I meet
Starting now I'm starting over
You swore "together forever"
Now you're telling me lies
Tell me your words have got
no concept of time
Tick tock, you're not a clock
You're a time bomb baby
Oh no, was it worth it?
Was it worth what you did to big business?
Was it worth what your friends
put up their noses?
Starting now I'm starting over
Tell the new wave kids their make-up kits
can find me where self pity gets
a breath of fresh air
Tick tock, you're not a clock
You're a time bomb baby
You set the watch
You're just in time
to wreck my life
to bring back what I left behind
Five years and you fell for a waiter
I'm sure he says he's an actor
So you're acting like
you never tried to take your life
So starting now I'm starting over
I'm throwing bottles
I'm taking showers
I'm going to sleep
Starting now I'm starting over (stop it)
Starting now I'm starting over (stop it)
To play the game
Get even
Act my age
Oh no was it worth what you
did to your wrists?
Nico, take it slow,
Show me that you care cuz love's just not a flare on my sleeve
Sleep well, I pray that cardboard box set the perfect stage
'Cause woodgrain makes all man make things seem so out of date,
Life is not a play its what we make of the people we love,
Snails see the benefits,
The beauty in every inch
Oh, why, why, why, why, oh, why,
Are you quick to kiss?
She bites at blades and leaves, goddamn you shrubbery,
I'm sick of vanity plays
Should we move to the UK?
'Cause life here in the States has escaped
All the people above us
What we make of those people we love
Snails see the benefits,
The beauty in every inch
Oh, why, why, why, why, oh, why,
Are you quick to kiss?
Baby maybe, I spoke to soon
I'll touch you once you make the first move
Snails see the benefits,
The beauty in every inch
I watch her as she runs,
My mother jumps the gun,
She puts her in her arms,
That is just like my mom
Never lets go, never lets me grow old,
I wanna pay her back,
But love is nothing you can tax
My familys not rich by any means,
But I feel we won the lottery that day,
The rock swallowed the girl,
And I cried as cameras caught my eyes,
My tears turned into butterflies,
They fly away as caskets close
A new day comes you'll wake unfold,
Smile when you feel the sunlight,
You feel the sunlight,
You feel the sunlight
You feel the sunlight,
Snails see the benefits,
The beauty in every inch
Oh, why, why, why, why, oh, why,
Are you quick to kiss?
Baby maybe, I spoke to soon
I'll touch you once you make the first move,
Snails see the benefits,
The beauty in every inch
Snails see the benefits,
The beauty in every inch
Aw you've got flaws
That you won't admit
Yet you tell me it's a sin
that I don't believe in...
Yet you traded in your cross
for a chance to dance with stars
Now nothing is sacred
I've given thought to leaving
f-f-f-for sometime
If only I could read a map
My moat is New Mexico
so it's you I wrote
I starting sending you a note
Oh how I hope that you're happy
I hear you're somewhere in the sand
and how I wish I was an ocean
Maybe then,
I'd get to see you again
And all my friends
They break and they bend
They take shape and they tend
to get better with time
and I say
"Who am I to work so much less
You get more
You all deserve what I am walking towards
If you want you should move away"
This has become a weakness
The golden state wins again
Perhaps its time I settle
Say "it's blue
At least that's a plus"
plus
I miss you so much
I starting sending you a note
Oh how I hope that you're happy
I hear you're somewhere in the sand
and how I wish I was an ocean
Maybe then,
I'd get to see you again
Why am I scared of people in a room?
Why can't they see a good time
are the people close to you?
Why don't I just give in?
Have a drink and shake some hands
Oh ey oh
Oh ey oh
Why am I scarred from what she did to me?
Why can't I trust anyone?
No, not even me
Why don't I just give in?
Have a drink and shake some hands
Oh ey oh
Oh ey oh
I've given thought to leaving
f-f-f-for sometime
Maybe it's time I put a profile up
of who I want to be
Fool everyone
I could start over clean
I could hide behind a big blue screen
or you could return to me
Return to me
Oh how I hope that you're happy
I hear you're somewhere in the sand
and how I wish I was an ocean
Oh no
how I hope that you're happy
I hear you're somewhere in the sand
you know I wish I was an ocean
Maybe then,
I'd get to see you again
I'd get to see you again..
Ashes to ashes
Some dust on the dash
I've got my cigarettes
but I can't find the fire
that's calming me down
I was just out on a night with my friends
You are still out on a night
with your friends
and you don't seem to tire
when I'm not around
I'm under the tunnel
I'm holding my breath
I searched every pocket
that hung in the colest
'til I found some matches
in a brown leather jacket
One I swore I've never worn
but it once kept you warm
Do you remember
we made love on the floor
and you still haven't called
So I'll wait 'til they're closing the bars
I made a wish
but the match never lit
I love Love
I love being in love
I don't care what it does to me
Take these tattered boxes
that used to hold your clothes
Break them down
Build them back up with your bones
All you did was construct a mess
You'r good to me when only flesh
You'r a momory with nothing to show
When we would take trips
We swore we'd never take pictures
Pictures only prove you can't convince
Now i wsh those photographs
could convince you that what we had
would only turn out a negative
well
well
well
If fingertips are relationships
then i could barely carry your weight
If fingers are mistakes
Don't use this one to point the blame
Just sing
sing
I love love
I love being in love
I don't care what it does to me
These pills are fine to pass the time
'til i find my new drug
Then
We'll take our chances
we'll last a month
we'll never speak again
How i love being in love
And don't pick up the line
You'er dressed to have a good time
you don't need him, you need to be seen
so someone else can treat you wrong
so you my love can sing this song
I love love
I love being in love
I don't care what it does to me
These pills are fine to pass the time
'til i find my new drug
Then
They'll take advantage
I'll claim that's what i want
To be the new statistic
How i love
How i love
How i love being in love
Take these tattered boxes
That used to hold your clothes
Break them down
Build them back up with your bones
All you did was construct a mess
you'er dead to me if love is death
You'er a memory with nothing to show
WELL
WELL
WELL
If fingertips are relationships
Then maybe i could use a break
She smiles
She points at me
shes says:
Baby i love how you sing
so just
sing
I love love
i love being in love
i don't care what it does to me
These pills are fine to pass the time
'til i find my new drug
Then
We'll take our chances
we'll rise above
we'll last until the end
How i love
How i love
How i love being in love
So the wind that blows across your room
carried cheap perfume onto your dresser
it rained for jewelry and for credit cards
two tickets to a film i dont remember
one day youll kiss your rabbits nose, pick up the phone
to find ive been turned over
and youll grab that piece of gold
only to find that the smell has taken over
now all the things you had, they arent the same...
as what you hold
im standing in a room,
its filled with older folks pleading "baby listen"
and i scream as loud as anyone,
but when asked to make a point i tend to whisper
now highways turn to tidal waves
theyre asking me to export all of your insecurities
but that wind that blows across your room
its gonna set the sails, and send me back to you
sometimes, when sailors are sailing
they think twice, about where theyre anchoring
and i think, i could make better time of my time on land
ill drink less
cause lord knows i could use a warm kiss
instead of a cold goodbye
im writing the folks back home to tell them
"hey im doing alright"
its a shame what your father did to your brothers head
he smashed it with a telephone
and your mother got scared and locked the door
you were only four, but lord you remember it
so now youre scared of love
im here to tell you loves not some fucking blood on the reciever
love is speaking in code
its an inside joke
love is coming home
sometimes, when sailors are sailing
they think twice, about where theyre anchoring
and i think, i could make better time of my time on land
ill drink less
cause lord knows i could use a warm kiss
instead of a cold goodbye
im writing the folks back home to tell them
"hey im doing alright"
yeah im doing just fine
and if she seems as lonely as me.....
let her sink.
let her sink.
let her
Can we take the next hour
and talk about me
Talk about me, and we'll talk about me
Talk about me, and we'll only talk about me
Can we please take this hour
and talk about me
and my hatred for corporate magazines
you know they don't speak to me
The irony is they won't speak with me
I placed you on a windowsill
Cut notches up and down the dorr
My surprise, I woke up one morn
In our bed
In your place
Lay a note
It read:
Baby your love
it just ain't good enough
I found sunlight six hours away
You watered me down 'til I drifted abound
Somewhere far from your shade
Now I shadow my former self
Once holy,now lonely
A chest full of holes
Red was, it paints me unclear
when the big hand strikes twelve
I disappear
and the angels are fake
They'll lie to your face
Anything to keep you away
You watered me down 'til
I drifted abound
It's time I accept the fact
that you on your back
It has buried the past
Don't you dare
Speak for someone you don't know
They'll feel it in the back of their throat
We know I cant construct a poem
'Cause words like girls get bored and run
c'est la vie
I say "I've got so many better things"
I've got nothing
you should see me
I smoke myself to sleep
And blame postmodern things I cant relate
Like summer camp and coastal states
Like alcohol and coffee beans
Dance floors and magazines
I think its safe to say I've only got
myself to blame
But boys in swooping haircuts
are bringing me down
Taking pictures of themselves
oh no
“Boys in swooping haircuts you know who you are”
And so I walk the web in search of love
But always seem to end up stuck
I'm finding flaws in everyone.
I've reached the point where all I want
Is to sleep around in hopes that I will catch back up
We are parallel lines
We’re running in circles
We're never meant to cross
I'm at a loss
You were my tangerine
My pussycat, my trampoline
Now all's I get are wincing cheeks
And dog problems
I signed a lease
Thinking my heart belonged
at 93rd and park
Instead I broke a girls heart
And flew back to Phoenix
to finish the year as it started
Can you hear me?
Are you listening?
This is the sound of my heart breaking
And I hope it's entertaining
Cause for me
it's a bitch
Was it worth it?
When you slept with him?
Did you get it all out of your system?
I am a man
Holding it all
I couldn’t breath
Coming across
I didn’t know
I couldn’t get up
B is for believing you'd always be here for me
E is for everything, even when we'd see it though
C, C is for seeing through you, you are a fake, which brings me to...
A because, because, you always run away
I never finish phrases I misspell
An open arm's a prison cell
When I said, "I hate what I've become"
I lied, I hated who I was
So when you start to wonder
about the pain in my throat,
Then don't you ever, no never ever
Speak for someone
You
don't
know
I'm in envy of addicts, you're obsessed with stars
Don't, don't you sound so excited just showing me your vanity
Whisper it once, just a little bit,
C'mon whisper it twice,
I cant stand to see the spotlight shine one more night
It's killing me to see you
[Chorus:]
Just tie the rope and kick the chair
Leave me hanging there, gasping for air
Yeah, don't mind me three feet from the ceiling
You'd rather watch me drown,
Then see your hands get wet
You took the plot from stage to screen
And turned it to an epic scene
So whisper it once, tell me again,
C'mon, whisper it twice,
I cant stand to see my whole life flash before my eyes
When I'm with you there's no point in breathing,
No point in breathing
[Chorus:]
Just tie the rope and kick the chair
Leave me hanging there, gasping for air
Yeah, don't mind me three feet from the ceiling
And I think I know (whoah oh oh)
Why you never get to close
It's cause you're too scared to
When I'm with you
There's no point in breathing
So so you run
Away for no apparent reason
'Cause you and I are changing with the seasons
Don't give me an answer as to why you're leaving
The tables are full but nobody's been dealing
So fold your hand, c'mon, and fold your hand
[Chorus:]
Just tie the rope and kick the chair
Leave me hanging there, gasping for air
Yeah, don't mind me three feet from the ceiling
And I think I know (whoah oh oh)
Why you never get to close
It's cause you're too scared to
When I'm with you
There's no point in breathing
No point in breathing
No point in breathing
I was on your porch, the smoke sank into my skin so i came inside to be with you and we talked all night, about everything
We could imagine cause come the morning ill be gone and as our eyes start to close i turn to you and i let you know that i
Love you well my dad was sick and my mom she cared for him her love it nursed him back to life and me i ran, i couldnt even
Look at him for fear id have to say goodbye and as i start to leave he grabs me by the shoulder and he tells me whats left
To lose, youve done enough and if you fail well then you fail but not to us cause these last three years, i know theyve been
Hard but now its time to get out of the desert and into the sun even if its alone so now here i sit, in a hotel off of
Sunset my thoughts bounce off of sams guitar and thats the way its been, ever since we were kids but now, now weve got
Something to prove and i, i can see there eyes but tell me something, can they see mine cause whats left to lose, ive done
Enough and if i fail well then i fail but i gave it a shot and these last three years, i know theyve been hard but now its
Time to get out of the desert and into the sun even if its alone i was on your porch last nite, the smoke it sank into my
Skin
It feels like youve been asleep for days the television is on, i cant stay awake ill fall down, again and when your friends
Leave, oh they get gone its such a pet peeve when you prove me wrong ill fall down and we all fall down i need to get back
To tempe, its been two years since ive been here before back down to the streets that lead me the ones that keep me, away
From glendale o-o-open your eyes and let me in i swore to god id never swear again and we all fall down yeah we all fall
Down again
It's just the nicotine that's coming over me
Or is it anything more than a smoke screen
Cause I feel like you've been living a lie
You're looking better than
Than you ever did
And nothing's better than
Than you once said
I've been waiting but I've been losing my
Losing my mind
I'm gotta take the car for a long drive
I'm gonna get out or I'll commit myself
I don't know how you do what you do
Do do do do do
I've gotta take the plane for a long ride
I'm gonna get out or I'll commit myself
I don't believe a word that you say
And all the cigarettes are getting better yet
I just can't forget all the other shit
I know you're back to me, that's just fine
But you can't sleep, you're leaning next to me
Saying everything, saying everything
That you would do if you could just open your eyes
Well, open your eyes
I'm gotta take the car for a long drive
I'm gonna get out or I'll commit myself
I don't know how you do what you do
Do do do do do
I've gotta take the plane for a long ride
I'm gonna get out or I'll commit myself
I won't believe a thing that you
A thing that you
A thing that you say
Yeah
Oh, you look so, so sking and thin and bones
And oh, oh you look so, so, so, so, so
I know it doesn't end
It just gets better yet
I don't wanna wait cause I can't think about
What you never did
What you never did
Would you?
Well, I wouldn't
Wait, would you go?
Would you stay?
I've gotta take the car for a long drive
I'm gonna get out and I'll commit myself
I don't know how you, you do what you do what you do what you do
I've gotta take the plane for a long ride
I'm gonna get out and I'll commit myself
I won't believe a thing that you say