Bonfire
Well
I never really expected this kind of thing
She should have been enough
I bumped into you somehow
You'll come back
My duct-taped vest was my party best
But it's really all I own
I've been waiting now
And there's all these winter stars still flying
Cassiopeia
I've been weighted down
'Cause it's alright
There's no goodbyes
And the lightning comes and lightning goes
And it's all the same to me
Let it in
Push back the broken doors
So I can finally breathe, and be released
Into one thousand pieces
I have broke into
Over you
You can look out that door
But life goes on and on
And I check myself
'Cause there's no one else
It's just us hanging out
Why are we waiting now?
'Cause we could live like kings
Or we could take a risk
And we could live in doubt
Why're we waiting now, now, now?
And lightning comes and lightning goes
It's all the same to me
Let it in
Fight back the broken doors
So I can finally breathe, and be released
Into one thousand pieces
I had broke into
Over you
You were looking out that door
But life goes on and on
This, this is, this is the last time, last time
This, this is, this is the goodbye
This, this is, this is the last time
This, this is, this is goodbye!
Some girls break you down
Just to see you come undone
Well I've been waiting now
Maybe you and I are cursed
Well maybe you and I are one
Spin around the universe
Around, around, around
And lightning comes and lightning goes
It's all the same to me
Let it in
Through the glass of broken doors
So I can finally breathe, and be released
Into a thousand pieces
That i have broke into
Over you
You were looking out that door
But life goes on and on
And on and on
It's what you always wanted
It's what you always wanted
It's what you always wanted
Don’t Believe A Word
Cigarette's make an ember stain
Notes scribbled on paper chain
Ever get the feeling that you've been cheated?
You busted out you been defeated
All strong bones we hold no water
A big fake smile and you try harder
Time wound down and you've been cached
Half measures are all half-assed!
How did I ever end up this way?
Cause I go numb in disarray
I cultivate my ignorance
Didn't I have some standards once?
I hate you down to your boots
We wanted clever, we settled for cute and
Remember the times I looked in your eyes
All the times we rhapsodized
Do not love you will find no trust and
Do not touch you will find no such
Give me back my photos, will you?
You fucking whore I'll kill you!
Don't believe a word
Just keep on dreamin'
Please don't believe a word
Pretty soon we'll wake up screamin'
Don't believe it!
Just keep on dreamin'
Please don't believe a word
Pretty soon we'll wake up screamin'
Every fake is everything
Some dull ache replace the sting
Rap stars brag and shoot each other
And entertain just like no other
We love thugs when they attack and
We love crime all black on black and
Isn't this you, cruel-hearted fake?
Isn't this more than you can take!
Don't believe a word
Just keep on dreamin'
Please don't believe a word
Pretty soon we'll wake up screamin'
Yeah don't believe it!
Just keep on dreamin'
Please don't believe a word
Pretty soon we'll wake up screamin'
Pretty soon we'll wake up screamin'
Found a bomb with big lich pins
Yay for the bullies they always win
All sensation makes no sense
Some insane confidence
Isn't this you, cruel-hearted fake?
Isn't this more than you can take?
Scandalize now with such ease
Stress this secular disease
Sermon tells a soldier squeeze
The trigger on our enemies
We're all alive, all alone
Til you come home
Please come home
Don't believe a word
Just keep on dreamin'
Please don't believe a word
Pretty soon we'll wake up screamin'
Yeah don't believe it!
Just keep on dreamin'
Please don't believe a word
Pretty soon we'll wake up screamin'
Why Can't You Be
Are you
frightened by the weight you possess
Or is this lie just weightlessness
Smoggy twilight in L.A.
I can’t think of one real thing to say
And Robbie Williams is walking in the canyons
Forgets that we were friends
I guess it all depends on your mood
Why can’t these meds be any damn good
And she said,
Why can’t you be like my water pick shower massager
A sweet reliable machine
And to tell the truth
I don’t feel less alone
My water massager’s
The purest love I’ve ever known
Why can’t you be, like when I was thirteen
He said
Why can’t you be
Like an art house foreign movie
Frank and sexy red balloons and ennui
And aloof to me and
Why can’t you be, a little more of a mystery
Why can’t
you be
The part of me that’s missing
Instead of leaving me for some other
Say we’re perfect for each other
And we won’t spend this life
Alone
She said,
Why can’t you be
Like and out sourced government contract
And I’m a fat cat getting away with anything
Kicking some secret special powers
Illumination rounds in showers
’Cause your
tearing our hair out
When we could have a bed of flowers
Why can’t
you be
Like the chicks out on the road
Some girls are happy just to see me
Cause you got
moxie and a broken nose
You take em away from this prose
Sometimes a blowjob’s not enough
Why can’t you play
A little less rough
Chorus
Can we, just
leave it be
We could live our lives
Separately
Could you forget
What happens to you and me
When we’re dead
And we’ll be dead
We’ll have eternity
And I will spend it all
Missing you and me
So while I’m alive
I will always be
Seeking you out, wondering about
How’d we go so far down
And what’s do wrong with you and me
Why can’t
you be, someone looking a little deeper into me
Like J.D. Sallenger,
Why do I
challenge her
In all the surface ways that you displease
Why can’t you be a little more at ease
Why can’t
you be, like a hand rolled cigarette
I’m not joking
This masochistic, self-pity of smoking
And this silly ditty that keeps provoking you
To leave me
Why can’t
you be like a candle I can snuff
You’re still a diamond in the rough
And I swear to god I’ve had enough
How can I
Call your bluff
Monotov’s Private Opera
Every moment of your life
Is a chance to get it right
Any moment you've been living in
You could turn it on like a light
All the weight of the years
Has got me burstin' into tears
Standin' here with nothin'
I stand alone inside my fears
Like an atom reveals a deeper state
Well I swear for me tonight
It's not too late
To tell you baby
It's you and only you and no one else
And I'll mean it
Even when I'm talking to myself
I said maybe, it's you and only you and no one else
How I miss Moscow
Those people really know
How to have a good time
In a mixed up state of mind
And Monotov's Private Opera is closed
So I guess I'll go home now
Cause there's no wheres else to go
And I will tell you baby
It's you and only you and no one else
And I will mean it
Even when I'm talking to myself
I said baby, it's you and only you and no one else
You and no one else
Now I'm stuck inside a poem
And then I'm walkin by myself
In the dark, all alone
And these actors and dramatists
They won't send me home
Well, maybe I'm like my father
Strung out on something or another
Held to a standard
We were always sinking under
And maybe I'm like my mother
She shattered cause no one loved her
Maybe I, Maybe I am like no other
And some moments are more real than the books I've read
And a good woman, maybe she meant what she said
Cause to feel you now ya know, it goes straight to my head
So I'll tell you baby
It's you and only you and no one else
And I will mean it, even when I'm talkin' to myself
I said baby, it's you and only you and no one else
Talkin' to myself
Talkin' to myself
And everything changed in a day
And I know another one on the way
And I'll tell you
Everything changed in a day
And I know another one is on the wayo
Summer
Town
How
do we begin to know?
Everyone I know is from the coast and
Shiver in the wind it shows
All I have are summer clothes and
Oh it brings me down
When it's winter time in a summer town and
It's winter time in a summer town and
All we are are friends who keep on losing time and
Fade away the precious ones we keep in mind and
Realise that I'm the one that you left behind
After Halloween
Everything starts fading
And I'm losing everyone
I go down like the sun
You know what I mean
We all live in a Summertown
Standing by the ___
Where we stood outside and sang out loud and
Ocean like a ghost and remember the time that we drew a crowd
and
Left you a message wrote and I left it there in a Winter coat
and
...What am I doing with a Winter coat and
I told you everything I knew that seized the time and
Realize that I'm the one that you left behind
After Halloween
Everything starts fading
And I'm losing everyone
I go down like the sun
You know what I mean
We all live in a Summertown
Perhaps it's someone you met and
The moment comes and you can't forget it
Time will move so fast and now you're living in the past and
I'm as empty now as a vacant sign, or do I find?
Find myself when I'm the one that you left behind
After Halloween
Everything starts fading
And I'm losing everyone
I go down like the sun
You know what I mean
We all live in a Summertown
Right After Halloween
Can we stay together?
I'm losing everyone
And I come undone
You know what I mean
That's how it goes in a Summertown
We'll we wake up from this dream
Nothing lasts forever
Last Summer is done
So rock another one
Rock another one
Standing by the ___ (cast?)
Stood outside and sang out loud and
Ocean like a ghost and we let it go, we let it go
Left you a message wrote, left it there somewhere back there
In a Summertown
Summertown
all we are are friends we keep, but we're losing time and it's
bittersweet
I'm feeling like we'll always be in a Summertown
Can
You Take Me
All
I want right now
Is the time when we step on the floor
You said right here right now
Is all I am living for
I got the velocity and all I need now is the mass
I just want you to ask
Can you take me, into days I never knew
Lets start a riot
Lets start a riot me and you
Cause a riot's overdue
And now these days I wonder,
Why we're holding back on bliss
You blasphemy everything you see
I just want to give you a kiss
I want the infidel's head on a pike
Riding on my motorbike
You and me are alike
So can you take me, into days I never knew
Lets start a riot
Lets start a riot me and you
Cause a riot's overdue
Make it bigger and wider
I'm your mega collider
When I take you, into days I never knew
Lets start a riot
Lets start a riot me and you
Cause a riot's overdue
Bust you out, I have come to bust you out
I have come
Live in doubt, no longer live in doubt
No one
Humble now, oh yes humble now.
I ask for no resistance oh no resistance
And maybe now, oh just maybe now
We can bridge the distance
Cause it's so, it's so
Into days I never knew
Lets start a riot
Lets start a riot me and you
Cause a riot's overdue
Don't back down, don't compromise
Don't close your eyes
Here it is do or die
And you still believe the lie,
You still believe the lie
And the world is for the meek
Well this mouse is going to squeak
I am dying to be freaked
Yes I am dying to be freaked
Sharp
Knife
Time tick tick ticks after me
My mp3 is out of juice
I wrote a song for you but what's the use
How did we get knocked so loose, knocked so loose.
Someone I swore I'd never be
Who trades his dreams for security
Walks this city blindly
Lately it's a little hard for me to see
Lately it's a little hard for me to believe
And it's all disappearing
And it all falls apart
And it seems like the ending
Is a lot like the start
Well nature has its own rules
Like gravity crushing me
And lies, I'm of the memory
Lately it's a little hard for me to believe
At least you left a mark on me
And I think there's a reason
At least there's a sign
And all that we call chaos
I will say it's by design
But I'm just lying
What you need is a sharp knife, son
To come back down from an all time low
I think I'm not the only one
I wish I was a sharp knife
Swing that blade right through my life
Careful, you could hurt someone
I wish I was a sharp knifeto cut
A shiv,
A shiv,
A shiv,
A shiv.
So new friend can you hear this?
Can we return to fearless?
Merry pranksters one and all
And walk that devil down the hall
Yes it's all disappearing
And we should all just go along
And it all would be so easy,
If we could just say, "let it be."
But that's not me.
What you need is a sharp knife, son.
You can come out of an all time low
Seems like I'm not the only one
I know I'm not the only one
I wish I was a sharp knife
Swing that blade right through my life
Careful, you could hurt someone
I wish I was a sharp knife,
A sharp knife,
To cut.
A shiv,
A shiv,
A shiv,
A shiv.
What you need is a sharp knife son
You can come back down from an all time low
Seems like I'm the only one
I wish I was a sharp knife.
Swing that blade right through my life
Careful you could hurt someone
I wish I was a sharp knife
A sharp knife
To cut.
A shiv,
A shiv,
A shiv,
A shiv.
One
In Ten
No chance I could be her boyfriend
I'm trying to flip butch girls again
We could see what life pretends
And why don't I still call a friend?
She says, you know I love you, but I feel so one in ten.
And life is short and dull
Categorize to the full, until the charm is gone.
And you're a big girl, if you wanna get it on, you will
And if you don't, you won't
She says, you know I love you, but I feel so one in ten.
You could have such a life, with me
You could knit baby sweaters,
We could watch the flatscreen t.v.
She says, you know I love you, but I feel so one in ten.
What's the differences, when it goes down?
If it's a girl, or if it's guys?
Can't you just close your eyes?
Baby, close your eyes.
Baby, close your eyes.
Love doesn't come in perfect packages, that means I qualify.
And I know it's not your way, but I thought we could give it a try.
She says, you know I love you, but I feel so one in ten.
You know I love you, but I feel so one in ten.
you know I love you, she'll always be my one in ten.
About
to Break
I was walking alone on the ocean
I felt a fever burning up all I am
'Cause if there's one thing that I can't stand
It's standing next to my fellow man, ah
It's about to break, oh
For the social worker at the needle exchange
For the soft medicated and the hard deranged
For the lesbians at the bakery
Saying, "Do you really hate me?"
It's about to break
Break like a fever
It's about to break
Break like a fever
People looking for themselves without mirrors
Well, not knowing why you're here
Public appearance is the verge of tears
When you're out, you get off on weed and beer
Stand up now, let me look at you
Can we all take a part of you?
Stand up now, let me look at you
Can we all take a part of you?
You're dangerous with a stinger, missile
Weapons hot, thinking this will
We won't make them follow orders
Doctors without borders
It's about to break
It's about to break
Break like a fever
When I see your face, I wanna be in the human race
(Break like a fever)
You're beautiful, it's true, I wanna be beautiful life you
When I see your face, I wanna be in the human race
For the teenage mother with the baby asleep
For apricot when life is cheap
For losing faith
America fades into myth
Water
Landing
When will I start to learn
I'm bleeding in this game
Cause she uses boys like bandages
But the wounds remain the same
And I hope you find it through this endless wandering
I'm missing you for so long
You're a question mark and a scar
You twist me up like a tourniquet
Till I don't know who we are
Chasing after you won't change a thing
And I hope you make it through this endless wandering
Change everything I know, but she won't let me come
And she won't let me go
Let me come inside
I was late and my face was wet, toe up on a private jet
Spiraling down with a cigarette, where we going now cause I forget
Cause I gotta get it all but it takes a toll
Well I guess you'll have to grow a soul
Dark side giving me such a pull, such a pull and if its a
Water landing
Then its a water landing
Put on your life vest only if told to do so
Well I'm telling you now
Strap it across your chest
Prepare yourself for impending death
You and me are nose-diving
At the speed of whiplash, life passes by
In an endless plane crash
Muffled I love you through an oxygen mask
On my face, brace, brace
And the cabin erupts with religious conversions
God's sick joke as we lose the engines
Some people scream and some people are gracious
And the reason's the same
Cause the sky outside is so spacious
So if it's a water landing
Then it's a water landing
And it's coming inside
Dao
Of St. Paul
In this night, I need to call you but all the lines are blown.
If only you knew, how empty I feel.
But maybe then you're lonely too,
and it's tearing through you like a punctured wound.
Maybe no one knows what to do.
When we know we're alone in a temporary home.
Maybe we'll realize that's a blessing in disguise.
A blessing in disguise.
Well don't you know the sound of anger brings a dark result.
And every insult is like a lightning bolt.
So go home now, oh yeah,
you don't have one, to some guy that you don't know.
And make a baby, but that won't change my problem though.
I spent the last three years setting myself on fire for you.
I spent the last three years never knowing if what you say is true.
And it'll be this way until one of us dies.
Is that a blessing in disguise?
It's a blessing in disguise.
And I tell myself what we're living for.
And say: rejoice, evermore.
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah (x4).
'Til one of us dies. (x2)
Well I confess that so far happiness eludes me in my life.
You better hurry up if its ever to be mine.
Better hurry up now if we're ever gonna find, what we're living for.
If it's not you, anymore.
I'll learn,
To sing:
Evermore, rejoice.
Evermore, rejoice. (x10)
Why
Can't You Be
