So rapid the raptors, as coursers they came
all the scratching and screaming, I barely escaped
while the fuel cells they drained far too fast, I am dragged
like worms on a hook through the hole to the blackness beyond
at the end of days, where the world bleeds and burns
The sun is black as sackcloth made of hair
the stars have fallen to the Earth, mountains tearing from the ground
look at these people hiding from the red raindrops
while earthquakes shake the broken timber of this burning town
There's poison in the water, the ocean's blood that turned to slime and gotten hard
all the fish and whales are corpses on the scab
in the darkness soldiers gnaw their tongues in pain, you see
so help me God, at the end of time they're screaming on their knees
oh let them die! oh let them die!
[CHORUS]
The wrath of the Lamb! the martyrs cry
break the seven seals, let the horsemen ride!
The soldiers bear the royal crest and scream into the sky
He will come He will come! the Dragon's on the rise!
The King survived though his throat was cut, they say he's the chosen one
He leads our men from Babylon, the rebellion's worldly son
Against the Tyrant, we have joined with him as soldiers
He tells me this while he shakes a bit - he's staring at his gun
The painful stings of flying things have worn away his flesh and popped at his eyes
At the blackness, he lashed out and cries:
You cowards and your wrathful God will see what power means
when the Dragon comes-His will be done-in the fires you'll be cleaned
Oh let him rise!
Oh let him rise!
[CHORUS]
I watched these people fall
the dragon shrieks and burns it all
I flip the circuits on, I've got dragons of my own
The portal glows and my machine's destroyed
The Traveler has saved their souls from the Destroyer of Worlds
Then why does his heart still scream? Rise and speak
I couldn't save her, I know she will die
But please, if I could only tell her goodbye
All I want is just one more day
that morning in May...
I've fought reptilian monsters
I've crossed a bloody sea
just to meet you here
and now I'm coming home, my dear
the light is warm, outside at dawn
the garden has no weeds, no grave beneath the tree
through the silent house, my love after all
Hello, my name is your T.V.
We've been together so long
So many memories
We solved so many problems
Situated comedies
I fed you ads and movie stars
And you always fell asleep
In my color bars, but there's this
World outside where the lighting's off
Scenes last too long and you lose the plot
All the girls, they lie and they break your heart
And nothing's done when the streets go dark
Here, see California, where pretty people dream
And the good guy gets the girl by the sunny sea
And when they'd yell upstairs, you'd cry
Little boy inside their lies
In the dark I'd watch your eyes
And I know the way they laugh
The jackals feast behind your back
Here you hide, but still they stab
In the dark I feel you die in that
World outside where the lighting's off
Scenes last too long and you lose the plot
All the girls, they lie and they break your heart
And nothing's done when the streets go dark
Here, see California, where pretty people dream
Now see that icy vacant lot where they made your nose bleed
The flannel spread, the heater on
The world is dead, the sun is gone, here take my hand, I'll take you home
You'll never have to be alone
The picture's warping slowly, the scrolling seems unending
The snowy edges blurring, the bars between us bending
Feel you start to breathe, you are alive inside of me
Forever tan and strong and loved, you'll never bleed again
In dreamy California scenes where bad guys meet their destiny
I found God in a catalytic converter
in Topeka on a Monday night.
I taste blood everytime I think of summer
If that's true, I'm in for quite a treat
'cause I'm beggin' for the sun in a mid-Missouri winter
waitin' desperately to get outta town.
No, you can't keep a good man down.
You've been known to obsess over the future
Do you think you'll get away from the past?
As you stone yourself just to make it through 'til midnight
consider what you might have found.
You think you've got a good thing now.
I found God in a catalytic converter
in Topeka on a Monday night.
Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future
so you know what keeps me hangin' around.
No, you can't keep a good man down.
From here on, you can count on all things going
the way they must've from the start.
(All you feel, all you feel...)
All you feel is the current flowing through you
and seizing your infected heart.
I found God in a catalytic converter
in Topeka on a Monday night.
I found God in a catalytic converter
in Topeka on a Monday night.
Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future
saint has a past, every sinner has a future
saint has a past, every sinner has a future
saint has a past, every sinner has a future
When the streetlights
Come on the pooling night
Is levied aside
And pressed in twilight
Against our two rooms
I'll see you tonight
The pavement is aching
Cicadas are crying
The wine colored air
Breathing thoughts through your hair
Breezing to me, leading me there
I come alive as the shadows parade
My hot summer blood
Comes and floods and it waves
Curbside confessions, no longer afraid
Of what you'll say
And I find you
Twilit beyond all the cars
The driveways they sleep
But streetlights will keep
Watch over me
They flicker like stars
And now the secrets
Carefully kept inside
Run the streets rad
Our chemicals spread
Washing us through
Making you mine
I come alive as the shadows parade
My hot summer blood
Comes and floods and it waves
Curbside confessions, no longer afraid
Of what you'll say
Now there are no words
Only the glow in our wires
And so we will be
You turn slow to me
Our lips at the sun
The hills are on fire, oh
I come alive as the shadows parade
My hot summer blood
Comes and floods and it waves
Curbside confessions, no longer afraid
I've been losing sleep for days.
You've been searching through the deserts and the caves.
Your postcards hit me in the waves
sadly stinging me with songs of yesterday.
Love, such as it ends
breaking the hearts that wouldn't bend
closes the doors you used to listen through.
(But it goes on...) Love, such as it ends
into the flames, we'll start again
and in the end I'll be with you.
You've been burning up for days
trying to gather all the figures in the clay.
You know they can't all be saved.
Leave the weak ones, find a modicum of shade.
Love, such as it ends
breaking the hearts that wouldn't bend
closes the doors you used to listen through.
(But it goes on...) Love, such as it ends
into the flames, we'll start again
and in the end I'll be with you.
I've been vacant for so long, but you were there.
You look so tired. Now just please,
love let me take it on my shoulders
and we might make it home.
Love, such as it ends
breaking the hearts that wouldn't bend...
Love, such as it ends
breaking the hearts that wouldn't bend
closes the doors you used to listen through.
(But it goes on...) Love, such as it ends
into the flames, we'll start again
and in the end I'll be with you.
Love, such as it ends... Love, such as it ends...
I'm sick of the humdruming white breaded meat
It grill marks my brain with it's hamburger beat
Give me Mr. Fuji and paper mashay
Just an ocean away
Let's go to Japan
I'm not joking this time
So go get your bags packed
We'll be just fine
We'll both wear Kimono's
No shoes on our feet
Just take my hand
Japan it with me
Its an archipelago exotic and pure
Of ancient enchantments, so says the brochure
I need a place where there's no room to grow
Watch out Tokyo
I'm coming
Let's go to Japan
I'm not joking this time
So go get your bags packed
We'll be just fine
We'll both wear Kimono's
No shoes on our feet
Just take my hand
Japan it with me
Don't miss quote me
I'm not disowning my country
We'll come back one day (USA)
With those Geisha's teasing
That Emperor could keep me all saki bombed
We'll be singing Karaoke....IN OSAKA
ROCK!
Let's go to Japan
I'm not joking this time
So go get your bags packed
We'll be just fine
We'll both wear Kimono's
No shoes on our feet
Just take my hand
Japan it with me
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
Japan it with me
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh
Japan it with...me
Love me cancerously, like a salt-sore soaked in the sea.
"High maintenance" means your a gluttonous queen,
narcissistic and mean.
Kill me romantically, fill my soul with vomit
then ask me for a piece of gum.
Bitter and dumb, you're my sugarplum
you're awful, I love you...
[Chorus]
She moves through moonbeams slowly
She knows just how to hold me
and when her edges soften,
her body is my coffin.
I know she drains me slowly
She wears me down to bones in bed...
must be the sign on my head, it says,
"Oh love me dead!" Love me dead
You're a faith-healer on TV
You're an office park without any trees
corporate and cold, gushing for gold-leave me alone.
You suck so passionately
You're a parasitic, psycho, filthy creature
finger-bangin' my heart.
You call me up drunk, does the fun ever start?
You're hideous...and sexy!
[Chorus]
Wow! Uh!
Love me cancerously
Brrrot-dot-da-d-da-da! Brrrot-dot-da-d-da-da!
How's your new boy? Does he know about me?
You've got the mark of the beast.
You're born of a jackal! You're beautiful!
She moves through moonbeams slowly
She knows just how to hold me
and when her edges soften,
her body is my coffin.
I know she drains me slowly
She wears me down to bones in bed...
Wha' 'bout this sign on my head
it says "Oh love me dead!"
Love me dead! Love me dead! Love me dead!
I'll tell it like it happened, it was Darius and Noland and me
just a few po' boys trying to get up out of Missouri.
Took 55 to Louisiana, stopped by the highway to eat
They both had crawfish, strictly chicken for me
Back out under thunderheads, the radio was Southern soul.
They interrupted Clarence Carter with a strange-ass local show.
They were sayin':
[Chorus]
"Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
That's where you will get to see everything the water can be."
The rain was comin' down, the wind was howlin' outside of Slidell
It was the kinda night that makes you think the whole world's goin' to hell
We got off on an exit 'cause we couldn't read the map so great
Near the Choctaw Motel, we parked to deliberate
when out of the bayou came a man like the lake had a tongue.
He was right up on the glass, all yellow-eyed, black teeth, bangin' on the windshield
screamin' like a demon at the top of his lungs:
[Chorus]
"Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Rest your soul and feed your brain
Free for you and all your friends, crawfish 'till the bitter end.
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain
Wade to where the shallows break
That's where you will get to see everything the water can be."
I was drivin' outta there as fast as a Camry could
but the interstate was flooded and I had to take the road through the woods.
Bad move in retrospect, the road disappeared in the rain
and I stood on the break when I saw the sign:
"Lake Pontchartrain"
Darius was yelling that he saw somebody out in the swells.
He jumped out runnin' and Noland was goin' as well.
"Come back!" Why the hell would they leave the car?
And that's when I heard it - make no mistake -
the voices were calling them from under the lake:
"Come down to Lake Pontchartrain...
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain...
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain...
Come down to Lake Pontchartrain..."
The crawfish were screaming, the waves danced in time
My friends went in deeper, the water, it climbed
I watched in terror, the lake opened wide
and horribly roaring, it pulled them inside.
That's how it happened, why would I lie?
There were no bodies, I've got none to hide.
I'm just a boy, lost his friends in the rain
Your socks on the wood floor
the moment I'd hoped for
I'm terrified to think you might be real
I curl up behind you
fit my body to yours like a shell
I smell your hair, oh love, I can't believe you
I squeeze you to make sure you're really here and I'm overwhelmed
[CHORUS]
I've been waiting for so long
to touch you and sleep in yours eyes
and now as my heart's beating so hard
I hold on and keep you at home in my arms
They tried to console me
but you're all the consolation I ever needed
years of smelling the clothes you left behind
The photographs that seemed so far away
I don't need them now-you turn to me alive, awake, and blinking, baby
"Back so soon?" you ask, but I smile 'cause I never left at all
[CHORUS]
You check the clock, it's time to go
You grab your keys and you're out the door
I step outside and you're waving goodbye
It's all happening again like before
as you're starting the car and I'm tearing inside
I knock on your window, you stop just in time
Around to the other side
I say, "Baby, I thought I'd come along for the ride."
I've been waiting for so long
(Time slows, and I take your hand)
to touch you and sleep in your eyes
(I hold you as we lose control)
Together our hearts beating so hard
The moon is old, all dusty craters
Fear and panic orbit Mars
Saturn's dark-side rings are just plain beautiful.
Back on Earth, you're waking up soon
stretching in the morning light.
No celestial body could compare to you.
And even though I'd always dreamed of going to the stars...
[Chorus]
In space, all I think about is you and me and atmosphere.
This place is terrible and endless
counting moon rocks for the cause, just me in a little pod
I can't wait for gravity to bring you close to me.
All I got's this little window
never lets me see too much
I bet the leaves are changing there again.
From solar winds to zero-Kelvin
I'm hurdling and pressurized -
if only I could get a breath of you.
And even though I'd always dreamed of going to the stars...
[Chorus]
In space, all I think about is you and me and atmosphere.
This place is terrible and endless
counting moon rocks for the cause, just me in a little pod
I can't wait for gravity to bring you close to me.
I hope this message finds you and you won't feel so alone
even if I never make it home...
In space (the tiles are burning, all the time we had)
all I think about is you and me (goes rushing past my window view.)
and atmosphere.
In space (through the flames, I keep a steady hand)
your picture's all I look at, my place (my eyes are clear, my aim is true.)
is with you below, watching leaves change in the yard
dreaming of the stars.
You must be new, I guess at least you're new to me.
Saw you unpacking your car so I said to myself,
"Maybe I should help her out," since we're neighbors now
and all the other people here are elderly and probably a little stand-offish and I've got
nothing to do (and whatnot).
By the way, I live in 207, my name is Greg
- wherever are my manners!?
Let me get that heavy box!
[Chorus]
I'm a go-getter guy with a gun on my hip
I'm just searching for that someone to be firing it
I've narrowed down the field and I'm takin' a glance
and I'd say you've got a pretty good chance...
to be my girlfriend.
What's up!?
Didn't mean to sneak up on you there
I looked downstairs and saw you leaving, so whassup!?
I haven't seen you at the pool since the barbeque
not that I've been checking -
Here's the deal: I've got this thing for work this weekend and I was
wondering if you don't have anything going on that maybe -
Okay, hey that's cool, you're busy,
but we should hit up Jose O'Flanagan's for Jell-o-Shot "you-call-it's" -
Okay not the week but Monday...
You could come over tonight, I'll be watching cop dramas
smokin' fatty fatties.
[Chorus]
I've given it some thought...
and I really think that you could use a guy like me in you life
looking after you, a man to take you home, a hand for you to hold, and I'd never...
leave you alone!
I'm a go-getter guy with a gun on my hip
I'm just searching for that someone to be firing it
I've narrowed down the field and I'm takin' a glance
and I'd say you've got a pretty good chance...
(and I'd say you've got a pretty good chance...)
I'm a go-getter guy, I'm a go getter guy
I've narrowed down the field and I'm takin' a glance
and I'd say you've got a pretty good chance...
(and I'd say you've got a pretty good chance...)
chance... chance...
to be my girlfriend.
All right there. Call me back.
"Self-loathing is quaint,"
you told me, showing restraint.
Now you're gone and I'm lost,
In the swells I am tossed -
bobbing and choking and losing the fight in the fog.
You said, "Forever..." Tell me, why can't you stay?
[Chorus]
I'd ride in your pocket all day,
but I just don't fit.
Say the word and I'll change.
I'm throwin' a party tonight.
I drink more than a sailor on shore.
Pour the rum in my eyes, tell me lies.
Oh, oh-oh-oh, Oh, oh-oh-oh
Drunk since Saturday,
without you, without restraint.
It still stings where you stung.
Water swings in my lungs.
I'm starving for words that would ration my sadness away.
Tell me, "Forever..."
Tell me you'll come back to stay.
[Chorus]
You were the mermaid for me
'till one day you found your feet
leaving me in this god-awful bottle
a model of heartache and grief.
Fifteen years I raged against the constant C, the speed of light
the diagrams and haunted sleep, fozen sheets, in bed, my dreams
your garden grace, I'd climb inside, hold your bones and slowly die
the cooling space inside your chest, my broken bride, you never breathed again
Circuits fail, the cosmic strings like rubber bands, I lose control
they snap, I fall through mist to mud against my face, the taste of blood
the world is strange, the sinking earth and giant tress
through heavy air a demon shrieks, what have I done, what hell is waiting or me?
I crashed before the birth of Christ
Pterodactyls swarming
You died in 1989
Want to get back to that morning in May
Keep you in bed, never escape
Holding you close, oh oh oh oh
Listen to you breath the evening glow
of fading light and cooling space
Like motor oil down my throat, I couldn't speak, I dropped the phone
the burning flares, the steam, your hair, biths of glass, they sparkled everywhere
like winter nights, the starts, the ice, all intertwined to hold and keep
like petals pressed in sheets making love to moonlight in our sleep
And now above the pits of tar, in a cave I hide
that massive, screaming thing with wings of reaper's cloth, it's standing just outside
I must get to my maching, I will bring you back to life
fix your ruined lungs, I'll undo what time has done
I carve your sweet name into the cave, I'm sure to die
Finally summer's come
Finally summer's come
I sit here all alone and wait
I feel like it's been days
I watch time slip away
And wonder how much longer I can take this
Same cycle starts again
I think of summer's when
We played outside 'til ten, but now
My youth comes to a halt
The girls and fun are gone
And now I'm just a lump of sick impatience
But I won't give up
I'll settle this score
And drink 'til there's nothing left of me
Of my friends, of this band
Of this weary, dreary, piss-poor consolation
I won't give up (I won't give up)
I'll settle this score (want nothing more)
And drink 'til there's nothing left of me
Of my friends, of this band
Oh, is there anything left to say?
You've been down so long you've forgotten to
Believe
(Oooh)
You're watching it slip away
You've been kicked around, they got you on
Your knees
But they're all the same
They laugh and walk away
And they think you'll turn around and go back
Home
They said you'd never win
You don't just climb the hill and grab the
Crown
But they're all the same
Scared of judgement day
And you're sure you'll turn around and go back
Home
But no
We are young
But we won't give up
This is our battle cry
We will defeat the other guy
Gonna sit there in defeat
You better suck it up and get up off the
Ground
You forgot they made you bleed
They kicked you like a dog when you were
Down
If there's anyone
Looking out above
Then they'll never see us coming to reclaim
We dream the dreams
Now we will fight the fight
We will defeat the other guys
And we'll lead the dreams
Until they die inside
We'll raise their kids
We'll commandeer their wives
We'll raise their kids
We'll commandeer their wives
We'll curse their gods
And drink up all their wine
We will defeat the other guys
We will defeat the other guys
You don't understand
Unless you reprogram
I'll try to assimilate
You still intimidate
But you're iron fist will never knock me down
'Cause I'm powered
By a conscious right to conduct my life
Without fear
You are ten percent
Thought without dissent
The rest is washed away
You cyborg of the state
You will never see
Such sweet autonomy
As to stray it all
From your protocol
But you're iron fist will never knock me down
'Cause i'm powered
By a conscious right to conduct my life
Without fear
Your tryanny burns my circuitry
And I won't stand by
I know my rights and I will fight, fight, fight
Yeah...
You're scanning the room
For targets to consume
But your pulse is loud and clear
Mr. Mayor, the mission burns
the zombies are marching, they close on the square
Families are cold, look down at their souls
huddled in camps on the ole marble steps of City Hall
Faith in their God, is all that they've got
Across the room, beyond the pane
the whole world is churning, bleeding and burning
hailstorms and ash
the moon is as blood
over the soldiers who sag in the mud
[CHORUS]
Save our city
keep our souls, Lord
through the rapture
of this world
Little boy, I'm just a man
a mere civil servant, against this tyrant God
I've allied with out King, salvation he brings
protecting the city against all the troops Heaven sent
but the dead walk again, this is the end
Oh I'm just a man, my time has come
Long live King Simius, may he deliver us
from this nightmare
and with a blast like the sun
his lips are unwrapped from the barrel of his gun
[CHORUS]
Fought and fell for our great king
we burned alive and boiled
the dragon, red and wrathful, calls
we rise and march once more
cursed in death, we starve for flesh
our skin is cooked and curled
we'll eat out kin and smash them in
in Hell, we'll grind their bones
[CHORUS]2x
Save our city
(Fought and fell for our great king)
Keep our souls, Lord
(We burned alive and boiled)
Through [THE MAYOR'S RUINED HEAD, THE BOY STEPS THROUGH THE WINDOW] the rapture
(The dragon, red and wrathful calls)
of this world. [AND CRIES OUT FROM THE LEDGE TO THE PEOPLE BELOW,]
(We rise and march once more.)
Save our city [THERE'S A TIME TO PRAY, AND THERE'S A TIME TO FIGHT]
(Cursed in death, we starve for flesh)
Keep our souls, Lord [ANYTHING CAN BE A WEAPON IF YOU'RE HOLDING IT RIGHT]
(Our skin is cooked and curled)
Through the rapture [DEFEND WHAT IS YOURS, THEY WILL NOT TAKE OUR SOULS]
(We'll eat our skin and smash them in)
and so we [IT'S TIME NOW TO] rise and fight!
Save our city
keep our souls, Lord
Another stupid Saturday, the conversation starts to slur
And some sasquatch wookie-boner spilled his Mad Dog down my shirt
There's a party-thumpin', booty-humpin' music-wagon in my head
My friends passed out or disappeared all leaving me Banana Red
When what to my wondering eyes should appear?
I feel like Elliot when E.T. drank the beer
Knock me down, her hair is brown, her eyes are big and blue
A thunderbolt that turned this Mad Dog to a puppy at a petting zoo
I'm in love with the girl in the other room
Ten feet away, but I hit the moon
With glitter in the air, it's so easy to see
That she's gotta marry someone and it might be me.
The world's on pause, all Newton's laws suspended on account of her
She's like legato glowing purple while staccato's beating in my shirt
What should I do, what should I say, okay I can't say that, but oh my God
I've been struck down from outer space and thuderbolted to the spot
When what to my wondering eyes should appear?
Is she really coming toward me for a beer?
Knock me down, her hair is brown, her eyes are big and blue
A thunderbolt that turned this Mad Dog to a puppy at a petting zoo
I'm in love with the girl in the other room
Ten feet away, but I hit the moon
With glitter in the air, it's so easy to see
That she's gotta marry someone and it might be me.
There goes the girl in the other room
Ten feet away, but I hit the moon
With glitter in the air, it's so easy to see
Oh baby, baby, how i lose my mind
Time is quite the killer when you're left behind
The airbag held you 'till the engine slept
At home your pillow cooled while the willows wept
[CHORUS]
They come and go, love (Come and go, but they, but they)
But they're all the same (d-da, d-da, da da, da da)
even big, bad bad boys get scared at night it keeps them safe (at home baby)
I'm gonna throw this top down (gonna throw it down, let it roll)
Tonight's the night (tonight)
I'm gonna go out, fire it up, honey (I'm gonna lose 'em when i)
Gonna turn back time
Remember in the summer when I held your hand
on the southern shore, finding fossils in the sand
Oh, baby maybe someday you will find me
on that beach beside you again
[CHORUS]
Here we go!
[CHORUS]
Laundry Girl, your eyes like apple trees, your voice like sprayed Febreeze
You had the cleanest dirty laundry that a Laundromat had ever seen
Laundry Girl, you said that I should read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Oh my love, please tell me were you real or just a dream?
It was 4:03 in a world asleep except for me
Alone in the Laundromat, the air too hot to breathe
The Tide was getting low, my pockets were drained
My socks were soaked, my colors all stained
Cycles agitating on, God damn, I needed some change
You walked right through the door
Laundry Girl, your eyes like apple trees, your voice like sprayed Febreeze
You had the cleanest dirty laundry that a Laundromat had ever seen
Oh, Laundry Girl, I'm stuck between this crumpled five and a coin machine
Your quarters breathe like minutes to my soul
You loaned me coins to dry my socks, I walked you home at 6:00
Your flip-flops flip-flopped, we made fun of Charlie Sheen
You said the Kids in the Hall was the best show of them all
I told you how wrong you were
You whirled around to make your case, to put me right back in my place
You held your laundry in your arms, it said I-mean-it on your face
And in my last clean shirt, I was completely off-guard
When Laundry Girl, you kissed me hard
Beneath that stormy morning sky, those corny joggers jogging by
We stood like statues in the street, the traffic backing up for miles
Your heart was permanent pressed to mine, the streets were clean, the socks were dry
I held you like I'd lost and found you, hitching hikers had their guide
Our lips were heavens opened up, you fit like coffee to my cup
Through galaxies of apple trees, you were my first clean love
And in my last clean shirt, I turned around and you were gone
Oh I never got to say goodbye, oh oh
Laundry Girl, darlin' don't ya see that I found my place in the galaxy
Oh my love, please tell me were you real or just a dream?
Will somebody please tell me was she real or just a dream?
Laundry Girl, I love you from my socks to my pocket-T
There's a star at the edge of the feild where
We kiss
Where I hold you and tell you I love you
And that star shines it's light
Through this young boy's window every night
As I lay here gazing wishing for that love
But those young lover's days
Are still far away
If that star keeps consouling
I'll never be lonely again
On a hot Kansas night
I pulled you in tight
And gave you the words I'd been holding
I gazed in your twinkling eyes
And kissed you for the first time
And I felt my life suddenly gain meaning
But since then many days
Have pushed you away
If that star keeps consouling
I'll never be lonely again
Oh and my love
Those lover's days
Now they're so far, far away
If that str keeps consouling
Whomever you're holding
Desert township
Franchise night-shift
Small minds, blank eyes, big ol' bankslips
I'll take big boy, he'll clean those drawers good
I'll get that safe while you start thr car pretty thing
Gimmie a kiss and keep you foot on the gas now
'Cause all these people understand
Is the gun on their face or the cash in their hand
I wanna take you home and start a family
Yeah
But all the stars in Texas ain't got nothin' on your eyes
When you say "Let's hit 'em one more time".
Motel bedside, Kansas sunlight
Tall grass, short dress
Star-crossed, hot night
Linens whisper, wrists-held-down-love
Your daddy was a crooked soul with his heavy hand
And bourbon cold, I shot him dead
You hopped in, you were the prettiest thing I ever stole
All these people understand
Is the gun in their face or the cash in their hand
I wanna take you home and start a family
Yeah
But all the stars in Texas ain't got nothin' on your eyes
When you say "Let's hit 'em one more time".
Oh all the stars in Texas, I'll steal 'em if you want 'em
Grab you by the hips, let's hit it baby one more time
I was aching, breaking down
The bluest guy the blues had found
You came, you gave me Butter Pecan
You let me ramble on and on
When we walked down the street
My heart you would steal
With Ewoks on T.V.
I knew it was real
Clumsy royalty and speech pathology
You found me all alone I found myself a Blarney Stone
And Sara, you take my blues away
Every night I cuddle up with you
And Sara, you take my blues away
I love you forever and ever and ever I do
I love it when youre dreaming deep
Curled up in a ball asleep
Warm and good and made of love
You're just what I've been dreaming of
When we walked down the street
My heart you would steal
With Ewoks on T.V.
I knew it was real
Clumsy royalty and speech pathology
You found me all alone I found myself a Blarney Stone
And Sara, you take my blues away
Every night I cuddle up with you
And Sara, you take my blues away
I love you forever and ever I do
Oh, and Sara, you take my blues away
Every night I cuddle up with you
And Sara, you take my blues away
I gotta lotta people telling me I smell like the dead
Apparently I cannot see that
I'm already walkin' 'round without a head
I've got a problem with the object of the
Ongoing game
Set the self upon the shelf
And drag your shell through the day
But look at all the stars
We've come so far
Even if we don't know where we are
It's gotta be somewhere great
Or am I just too tired to wink?
I've seen a thousand towns without an once of
Hot irony
It leaves me begging for aesthetics
Please offended someone sweet in front of me
I'm sloughin' brains (I'm sloughin' brains)
I'm sloughin' brain cells everyday
Smearing the globe, my lobe frontaly frayed
But look at all the stars
We've come so far
Even if we don't know where we are
It's gotta be somewhere great
Man, I don't even know what you're sayin'
But I can't wait
For more of this to come my way
'Cause you take what you get
And you try not to think
Or am I just too tired to wink?
I stored a cyclops for a week with a hard-tack in
The clink
If he ever would bat a lid I thought it was a wink
But the world is flush with monocular mush
And dingbats to despise
You find they're not thinking, just narrowly blinking
But never quite cleaning their eyes
We've come so far
Even if we don't know where we are
It's gotta be somewhere great
Or am I just too tired
I'm a killer, cold and wrathful
Silent sleeper, I've been inside your bedroom
I've murdered half the town
left you love notes on their headstones
I'll fill the graveyards until I have you.
Moonlight walking, I smell your softness
carnivorous and lusting to track you down among the pines.
I want you stuffed into my mouth
hold you down and tear you open, live inside you -
love, I'd never hurt you.
But I'll grind against your bones until our marrows mix
I will eat you slowly...
Oh, the horror of our love
never so much blood pulled through my veins.
Oh, the horror of out love... never so much blood
I wake in terror, blackbirds screaming
dark cathedrals spilling midnight on the altars
I'm your servant, my immortal
pale and perfect, such unholy heaving -
the statues close their eyes, the room is changing
break my skin and drain me.
Ancient language, speak through fingers
the awful edges where you end and I begin
inside your mouth I cannot see -
there's catastrophe in everything I'm touching
as I sweat I crush you.
And I hold your beating chambers until they beat no more
you die like angels sing...
Oh, the horror of our love
never so much blood pulled through my veins.
Oh, the horror of out love... never so much blood
You're a ghost love, nightgown flowing
your body blue and walking along the continental shelf
you are a dream among the sharks
beautiful and terrifying, lit and restless
we dance in dark suspension.
And you bury me in the ocean floor beneath you
where they'll never hear us scream...
Oh, the horror of our love
never so much blood pulled through my veins.
A man is many things
Let's count them all tonight
You're letting go of strings
Replacing them with light
But I want the hit about the teenage take on pain
There's nothing catchy about the life of a saint
But with this song in my head
It's breaking me down to tears
If I scream, scream, scream
About a good man's life
Would you ever stop and listen
Would you open up your eyes
Would you scream with me
Sing it sad and sweet
Say goodnight, goodbye, love
In the morning you will see
Photos keep you close
With increments of light
The quiet wooden posts
The county's cold tonight
But I want the hit about the teenage take on pain
There's nothing catchy about the life of a saint
But with this song in my head
It's breaking me down to tears
If I scream, scream, scream
About a good man's life
Would you ever stop and listen
Would you open up your eyes
Would you scream with me
Sing it sad and sweet
Say goodnight, goodbye, love
In the morning you will see
I'd rip my eyes out for you[Incomprehensible]
You're screaming at the cold
I pull you close
You're asking why
It's so dark tonight
I don't know why
If I scream, scream, scream
About a good man's life
Would you ever stop and listen
Would you open up your eyes
Would you scream with me
Sing it sad and sweet
Would it make you cry, love
Would you finally see
That all your lives are moments
All your words and closeness
Keep you here and human
Whispering tonight
All your lives are moments
(So we scream)
All your words and closeness
(And see as far as)
Keep you here and human
(While they stand and stare)
Do you think they'll ever care
Oh Roxy, don't you love me?
Is it because I'm American?
Maybe it's because I don't grope you and your friends
Like the fool behind you now dancing halfway down your pants
Somewhere near the border of Spain and France
A bottle of bad red wine in my head
Sixty francs to look like a fool and dance
Mechanics understand not what I said
Thinkin' 'bout the time that I had, how sad
Her one-word shirt describes my plight in red
And her name is a reoccurring theme
Start a move that everyone knows, the awkward pose
And in the meantime, her eyes finding me
Reluctantly I start the approach, her eyes, they glow
But it's not glee, it's fear - that's why she flees
Sing of girls I wish that I knew
Her eyes rung true, her one-word shirt now stabbing sparkling blue
And her name is a barely flickering flame
Oh Roxy, don't you love me?
Is it because I'm American?
Maybe it's because I don't grope you and your friends
Like the fool behind you now dancing halfway down your pants
Roxy's spinnin' around, or is it me that's down?
How many fingers do I see? Is it three by now?
Stands on top of the stairs and screams for who? Who cares?
All that matters now is my eyes like Apollo's, become clear.
Somewhere near the border of pain and romance,
Her name is undetermined as of yet
Potential for a Roxy again has always been
The hardest part to get out of my head
Comes full circle all in the end, I hope
Could one-word shirts in songs be just a joke?
And her name is a never-ever-ending game
Oh Roxy, don't you love me?
Why do I gotta be American?
Maybe it's because I don't grope you and your friends
Sun falls slowly on our lonely
goodbye bedroom, you're my only.
My last night home is first-night nervous
Take me over, remember all this 'til then...
Please save this for me
I'll come back for you, love, I promise to
Please save this for me, for until I return
my love will burn and my heart will stay.
My heart will stay.
It's gone cold now, we'll sleep somehow
I'll be gone by first light, last chance, hold tight until then...
Please save this for me
I'll come back for you, love, I promise to
Please save this for me, for until I return
my love will burn and my heart will stay.
My heart will stay.
I lie awake and memorize your face
as you sleep next to me.
The falling moon is calling me as I leave.
Sunrise slowly, the road looms lonely
but I will not fail...
Please save this for me
I'll come back for you, love, I promise to
Please save this for me, for until I return
my love will burn and my heart will stay.
My heart will stay.
I'm watching Kevin Arnold's Wonder Years
Tearfully nostalgic for them days back in '69
When the world was all just me and Paul playing football in the street
And Winnie Cooper was my love
I'm watchin' Jerry Springer make me sick
As America is throwing chairs again and I'm sittin' in mine
It was you and me watching crappy T.V., apathetic together and glued to the screen
Just wasting each other's time, alone with you
I feel my world is starving
There's a metric-ton of Easy Mac in my soul
You, you know it's not the Matrix
That's a movie and this is life we're wasting here
Do you remember the day I asked you to be mine
Fifteen years old, oh God I ached for you
And I remember the way the sun looked on your hair
All that honey-colored air, oh, oh Kate
Let's not be weird
Not be weird
I watching Kevin Arnold's Wonder Years
Squandering my wonder years away as the credits roll by
This isn't my life, that wasn't my day, nor was Daniel Stern dictating what I should say
I'd been waiting for my line, God I feel so far away
I feel my world is starving
There's a metric-ton of Easy Mac in my soul
You, you know it's not the Matrix
That's a movie and this is life we're wasting here
Do you remember the day I asked you to be mine
Fifteen years old, oh God I ached for you
And I remember the way the sun looked on your hair
All that honey-colored air, oh, oh Kate
I swear it's not too late to jump out of planes
Go soaring against the sky, I don't know why
It's cool to be anti-everything, but everything has left us here
Where everyday is so unclean, a Jell-o mold of mud and beer
I wanna take you way back where the sun is honey in the air
Let's hurry up and leave today before we both just slip away
Here I am at home again, this rainy avenue
Put me in my proper place, I'm not the one for you
But you're here now,
Can you come in?
It's freezing...
I found a way to smear your face and blur the words you
said
You make me feel alive again, I wish we never met
But you're here now,
Can you come in?
I'm freezing...
I finally let go
And learned to live without you after all those weeks alone
But now you're back for more
I'm trying to fight it off but there's a mutiny below
There were nights when I was sure your love was all I had
(so bad)
Pining at the door you left through, God it hurt so bad
But you're here now,
You're making eyes,
I'm breaking...
I finally let go
And learned to live without you after all those weeks alone
But more you're back for more
I'm trying to fight it off but there's a mutiny below
I finally let go but there's a mutiny below
”Just one more night?” you ask so tenderly
A softer side I longed so long to see, yeah
(So long)
You slip inside
We'll work it out
Tomorrow
I finally let go
And learned to live without you after all those weeks alone
But more you're back for more
I'm trying to fight it off but there's a mutiny below
I finally let go (I can't live without you)
I'm trying to fight it off but there's a mutiny
From everything left by my soul
I can't hang on
You'll never hear this song
You'll never see the movie in my head
But you infest my sleep, and your figure creeps
Through my walls and hums above my bed
I know your name, and that you're photogenic and tall
But I've never heard you talk
And there's something about you
That stabs me right through
It isn't right for me to paint your picture
Every night, but I do (I cant find sleep)
And it feels so wrong (I breathe too deep), to sing this song (into the sky)
But maybe (as I walk and sing), somehow, you'll hear me (you'll hear a song)
And hum along
You'll hum along, you'll hum along
And I've only seen you once, at your graduation
No cinematic glow or soft rock soundtrack
And I watched you move and breathe and cry
And it felt so wrong
It isn't right for me to paint your picture
Every night, but I do (I cant find sleep)
And it feels so wrong (I breathe too deep), to sing this song (into the sky)
But maybe (as I walk and sing), somehow, you'll hear me (you'll hear a song)
And hum along
Maybe you'd be kidnapped by pirates
And they would take you to their hideout
As pirates often do
But I'd find the secret map
And I would vigilante-bushwhack
Through the jungles of Peru
Just to save you and I'd take you north to Mexico
Where you would tell me your life story on the steps of a Mayan temple
Where we'd camp singing nonsense songs in 12 bars to the jaguars, until you'd sense me
Your eyes convincing, and I would kiss you like a hero in the half-light
Dryer sheets and peach shampoo, the smell of palm leaves, I'd sleep against you
Until the natives found us, but they would crown us king and queen
And we could stay there, spend our days there, eating guava by the sea
And I could understand your views and you could fall in love with me
And while the silly human race talks to droids in outer-space
We grow old and laugh about this song
And between the jungle and the stars, you sing nonsense songs in 12 bars to me
And in my sleep I hum along
You'll never hear this song
Why should I watch Matt Damon cry without her at my side?
I pined as days went by, but now it's fine
'Cause in the end, we're such close friends, sugar-n-spice, and since then
There's more time for me, I've started a diary and washed my car again
[Chorus]
And I can watch Good Will Hunting by myself (it's cool, it's fine)
I can shop for clothes without her help (it's cool, it's fine)
I can hang out with my friends, do the good times ever end?
Yeah I can watch Good Will Hunting by myself
It's okay that you haven't called me in a week or two
I'm sure it's hard for you, it's been hard for me too
But as long as wood still floats, I can sow my wild oats and paint the town red
The party's far from dead, I'm happy in my empty bed
[Chorus]
Girl, I remember when we was sittin' on your couch
Watchin' Good Will Hunting, holdin' hands and drinkin' milkshakes
But milkshakes melt, people change, and you dumped me on my birthday
Right after I bought you that really expensive thing from the Body Shop
Called Jojoba Loofah Milktowel or something like that
That I sold 147 Cutco knives to afford, but whatever, hey, it's cool
I've moved on you know, I'm happy now - well, happy in a crying sorta way
You know, curled up naked in the shower biting your knees wishing you were dead kinda happy
But I realized you were right, we were never meant to be
And you know what? Thank God
'Cause you're the most vapid, whiny blah I've ever met
Always making fun of my clothes, telling me how hot other guys are, asking me to pay you gas money?!
Buy your own gas you bug-eyed mooch - it's your car and it costs more than my house
Oh and now you're going around trying to sleep with my friends
Hey good, that really makes you an empowered individual - no wait, did I say empowered individual? I
meant two-cent gutter slut
Listen you tanning-bed-baked, broke-ass, goat-faced, oompa-loompa monkey problem
I am proud to shop at Target, I'll wear warm-up pants any day of the week
Yes, your ass did look fat in those jeans, your mom's a M.I.L.F.
And I plan to get on your little sister just as soon as I give her a call back, oh and you know what else?
You can watch Good Will Hunting by yourself (you bitch, please die)
You can waste your life without my help (you bitch, please die)
You can hang out with your friends, that is if you had any friends
You can watch Good Will Hunting by yourself 'til your eyes fall out
You can watch Good Will Hunting by yourself - I hope your eyes fall out
Why don't you go watch it by yourself?
They page Party Guy, he pages them back with the number where's at, they let the phone ring
'Til Party Guy picks it up and says, "Behind Burger King"
Should they make another run? Their fake says they're 21, they're not sure they got enough, should they
go buy more stuff?
He says, "Forget about the stuff, they've got more than enough, they thought of everything," he says,
[Chorus]
"They've got more beer than he's ever seen
And they've got girls on trampolines
They tapped ten kegs since 9:15
And they've got girls on trampolines"
Quoth the Party Guy, he doesn't ever lie, it sounds like their scene, but they don't have a ride
So they call Ride Guy who comes by and with a sigh he lets them in his ride (Okay!)
And Drunk Guy tells Ride Guy to shut up and just drive when he asks about the stuff and about the thing
But Nice Guy kicks Drunk Guy and tells Ride Guy that Party Guy said it's party-time behind Burger King,
he says,
[Chorus]
But Nice Guy's talk of trampolines makes Drunk Guy turn green and he pukes on Jon Fee and Ride Guy's ride
hits a tree
Which causes Weed Guy to drop his seeds at the feet of Officer One, Officer Two and Officer Three
And Officer One says, "Looky here, son, I hate speeding MIP's who have seeds and hit trees,"
One and two wanted to beat 'em and kill 'em and eat 'em, but they deferred to Officer Three who said,
"I hear there's a shindig behind Burger King
And I hear there's girls on trampolines
The tree looks fine and the driver's clean
Just give them girls on trampolines"
God bless the wisdom of Officer Three
My ancestors planted some Sequoias by a road
I've driven down that road since I was born
Oh, never have you ever seen so many perfect
Evergreens
But I would chop them all down just for you
I have walked a million miles in a hundered
Pairs of shoes
In search of some universal truth
Well a Diety just came to me and handed me a
Scroll to read
And I will gladly pass it on to you
Anything for you
All of this is true
Butthe best story that I could ever tell
Is the one where I am growing old with you
I was having rotten luck and nothing went my
'Til I stumbled on a clearing in the woods
I found a town of leprechauns and grabbed
Each one for wishing on
But I would let them all go just for you
I have crossed a natural plane and communed
With the dead
But people always seem to want some proof
No one even would believe, my love, that evil I
Got pictures of
But I would throw them all out just for you
Anything for you
All of this is true
But the best story that I could ever tell
Is the one where I am growing old with you
My scar is from a polar bear, my curse is from
A witch,
I've caught a giant squid in all the seven seas
I've picked up rocks from distant moons
Astronomers will discover soon
But I would give them all back just for you
I've gotten drunk and shot the breeze with
Kings of far off lands
They showed me wealth as far as I could see
But their kingdom seemed all shrivelly and
They cried with jealousy
When I leaned in and told them about you
I'd give up anything
(Anything for you)
I'd give it all
(All of this is true)
But the best story that I could ever tell
Is the one where I am growing old with you
All I ever wanted,see, was to tell you
Honestly
I'd do anything for you
I am a savage besmitten with her
The loneliest werewolf, I wander the earth
My words are mistakes and my thoughts are unclean
This cider inside me, it slides like a dream
The moon of her window, it glows evermore
The night wrapped around us, two spoons in a drawer
I miss her dark blankets, I miss her clean sheets
All her Julietting, coquettish and sweet
[Chorus]
Make me hold you
But then I'm just a ghost
Air-conditioned love
Is always cold
I enter her room and it smells like before
Like rain and vanilla, she closes the door
The movement, the blurring, the echoing ache
Of slow disappearing and smearing away
But now I'm a thief, I'm a transient freak
A discarded object, I'm hated and weak
She's hollowed my chest and I've haunted her street
That ravenous princess, she's ravaged through me
The moon is old, all dusty craters
Fear and panic orbit Mars
Saturn's dark-side rings are just plain beautiful
Back on Earth, you're waking up soon
Stretching in the morning light
No celestial body could compare to you
And even though I'd always dreamed of going to the stars...
In space, all I think about is you and me and atmosphere
This place is terrible and endless
Counting moon rocks for the cause, just me in a little pod
I can't wait for gravity to bring you close to me
All I got's this little window
Never lets me see too much
I bet the leaves are changing there again
From solar winds to zero-Kelvin
I'm hurtling and pressurized
If only I could get a breath of you
And even though I'd always dreamed of going to the stars...
In space, all I think about is you and me and atmosphere
This place is terrible and endless
Counting moon rocks for the cause, just me in a little pod
I can't wait for gravity to bring you close to me
I hope this message finds you and you won't feel so alone
Even if I never make it home...
In space (the tiles are burning, all the time we had)
All I think about is you and me (goes rushing past my window view)
And atmosphere
In space (through the flames, I keep a steady hand)
You're picture's all I look at, my place (my eyes are clear, my aim is true)
Is with you below, watching leaves change in the yard
Dreaming of the stars