Saves The Day

I'm dead inside and dying more every day
Castrate my eyes and cut the lines in my face
The alcohol, the empty walls
Repress, regress, erase regrets
Return me now to where I was long ago

I need you, I need your love
I'm trying to rise above
I want you to bring me back to life

I feel their voices in the back of my head
I hear their eyes and turn when nobody's there
The TV screens, the magazines
Depressed, diseased, deny your dreams
Dislocate, drained, adrift and losing control

I need you, I need your love
I'm trying to rise above
I want you to bring me back to life

The lack, the need, the fear, the greed
Redeem, amend, remember when
Return me now to where I was long ago

I need you, I need your love
I'm trying to rise above
I want you, I need your love
I want you to bring me back to life

If every limb were broken,
tires had all worn thin
and my toes are all in pieces.
Do you know
what I would do?
I would play can you drag yourself
200 miles
with just your fingernails?
A little game that I made up.
Do you know that I never ever lose?
There is nothing to
keep me from coming back to you
cause I can picture all the pictures of you
and me on your walls.
What would it take to make you mine forever?
Just your fingernails,
a little game that I made up.
Do you know, that I never ever lose?
Could I cut out my liver,
make a special potion
two parts my blood?
Three parts my heart.
Yeah, you know that I would do it in a second.
With just my fingernails,
a little game that I made up.
Do you know that I never ever lose?
With just my fingernails,
a little game that I made up.
Do you know that I never ever lose?
Never lose.

You aren't the kind of person that I couldn't fall in love with, rather you are the kind of person that I could. And I'd like to spend an afternoon of laughing at ourselves, and hear all the wonderful things you might tell me. I'd watch your eyes gleam during that time of day when you can't really tell if it's day or night. I'd like to think of us in twelve years having a place and a daughter. I think she would look a lot like you. We'd be all the time smiling. Someone once asked me who I'd most like to be with. I said, "There's this really great gal that I'd like to hang out with sometime."

I know i can't come near you
Every time i do
I get shaken inside and the sun in my eyes
I'll stay away

I'd rather be here
than anywhere with you
Whoo

I'd be dancing with your ghost
Toasting note to note
So here's to the passing
of all that could be
between you and me

I'd rather be here
than anywhere with you
Whoo

I know i can not see you
even if i wanted to
'cause your light is the light of ten sunsets
Circled by eyes burned blue and opened wide

I'd rather be here
than anywhere with you
Whoo

I'd rather be here
than anywhere with you
Whoo

The last time that I saw you, August of '99,
I should've had my hammer and a few rusty spikes
to nail you on a wall and use bottles to catch your blood
and display you for the neighbors so they know your time had come.
And I'd drink your blood and feel it dripping down my throat
as it heads for my heart.
And as your body sags and the stench rises in vain,
the people on the street are collecting in dismay.
Before your eyes your head lifts towards the sky
and that's the last thing they'll remember of you.
And I'd drink your blood and feel it dripping down my throat
as it heads for my heart.
You've become a ghost.
You're floating somewhere in between
the waking world and a landscape of dreams.
Well it's nothing but dying.
You've got a grenade stuck in your teeth and you're pulling at the pin.
You're an illusion, just a shadow flickering underneath the sun.
And I'd drink your blood and feel it dripping down my throat
as it heads for my heart.

This song will become the anthem of your underground.
You're two floors down getting high in the back room.
If I flooded out your house,
Do you think you'd make it out?
Or would you burn up before the water filled your lungs?
And at your funeral,
I will sing the requiem.

This song will become the anthem of your underground.
You're two floors down getting high in the back room.
If I flooded out your house, do you think you'd make it out?
Or would you burn up before the water filled your lungs?

And at your funeral,
I will sing the requiem.
I'd offer you my hand.
It would hurt too much to watch you die.

And you can bet when we mourn the death of you that night, (Of you that night.)
They'll lay me on the dinner table.
I will be the pig,
With the apple in my mouth.
The food that celebrates your end.

And at your funeral,
I will sing the requiem.
I'd offer you my hand.
It would hurt too much to watch you die.

And at your funeral I will sing the requiem.
I'd offer you my hand.
It would hurt too much to watch you die.

Her life was magazines and faithful TV screens selling an empty dream
of cars and calories and everything in between the sun and Saturn's ring,
but the price tag can't be seen and it took bites out of her insides till she was just a hollow shell.
She grew up in east LA watching celebrities living out all of her dreams.
The plastic canopy of US royalty drew her gaze towards the sky and away from her own mind.
And it took bites out of her insides till she was just a hollow shell.
And at home her mother cried cause daddy had something on the side and they didn't look up when she sighed.
And when August came around, the bathing suits were on the ground replaced by a cotton cloak.
To see her own reflection was like squinting in the sun.
And when all tomorrow brings is a set if broken wings it takes bites out of your insides till you are just a hollow shell.

And now I finally see that the further we go we're only treading ground that we already know.
I could write you a song, send you a note, or empty out your trash and buy a bucket full of diamonds but
even the most beautiful of all roses must someday crumble to dust and fade away.
It's a certain tragedy.
So it's on into the lonely nights and all the rest of it.
The empty space between me and the sunken walls and feeling someone's hand around my neck
choking away the life that i have left.
And I can finally see that the further I go I'm only treading ground that I don't wanna know.
I'll probably hang upside-down from wooden rafters in my home and look at old photos of you.
So it's on into the lonely nights and all the rest of it.
The empty space between me and the sunken walls and feeling someone's hand around my neck
choking away the life that i have left.
I miss the warmth of the summer when we were on our own, but now it's winter and my bones are cold.
And now I finally see that the further we go we're only treading ground that we already know.
I could write you a song, send you a note, or empty out your trash and buy a bucket full of diamonds but
even the most beautiful of all roses must someday crumble to dust and fade away.
It's a certain tragedy.

Where do we go from here?
Together for seven years
Pull a polaroid from the lawn
You in your red dress before it was torn

Was it all a waste of time
What if we never met that night
Would you be the same inside?
I wanna make it work
I wanna get it right
Yeah!

Criss-crossed power lines
Strung over the billboard sky
Ocean's burned to dust
And shadows from bombs above

Is it all a waste of time
We are born, we give in, and then we die
Think of all the ways we've tried
We want to make it work
We want to get it right
Yeah!
Yeah!

What if we never met that night?
Would you be the same inside?
When you think of it
Do you start to cry?
You want to make it work
You want to get it right
Yeah
Is it all a waste of time
We are born we give in and we die
Think of all the ways we try
We want to make it work
We want to get it right
Yeah!

<i>[Originally by The Descendents]</i>

Its been so long since I had a smile
I've stayed sad for such a long while
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

You kiss me now and I turn away
I think I'm still kissing yesterday
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy
So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy

Cheer me up
Come on and Cheer me up
I don't want to spend the rest of my days dreaming yesterday's daydreams, no.

Out with the bad and in with the good
You feel my heart girl, you're knocking on wood
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

So generous, I'm being kind
With selfishness in the back of my mind
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy
So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy

Cheer me up
Come on and Cheer me up
I don't want to spend the rest of my days dreaming yesterday's daydreams.
Don't want to spend the rest of my days giving yesterday's promises.

Its been so long since I had a smile
I've stayed sad for such a long while
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

No more giving my mind away
Tomorrow's love will be yesterday
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy
So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy

Cheer me up
Come on and Cheer me up
I don't want to spend the rest of my days dreaming yesterday's daydreams.
Don't want to spend the rest of my days giving yesterday's promises.
Don't want to spend the rest of my days living yesterday.
Don't want to spend the rest of my days singing yesterday's love songs.
Come on and Cheer me up

<i>[Originally by The Clash]</i>

I wanna move the town to the clash city rockers
ou need a little jump of electrical shockers
you better leave town if you only wanna knock us
nothing stands the pressure of the clash city rockers
you see the rate they come down the escalator
now listen to the tube train accelerator
then you realize that you got to have a purpose
or this place is gonna knock you out sooner or later
so don't complain about your useless employment
jack it in forever tonight
so shut your mouth
and pretend you enjoy it
think of all the money you've got
an' I wanna liquefy everybody gone dry
or plug into the aerials that poke up in the sky
or burn down the suburbs with the half-closed eyes
you wont succeed unless you try
you owe me a move say the bells of St. groove
come on and show me say the bells of old Bowie
when I am fitter say the bells of Gary Glitter
no one but you and I say the bells of prince far-I
no one but you and I say the bells of prince far-I
rock rock clash city rockers.

Playing shows and writing songs could've been much more than you can get out of sitting around and being unproductive. There's a lot more than being like the other kids. At least I have something to do with myself. Did you ever notice how sometimes you take for granted what you need, like having friends and good times and never losing touch? But I guess you found something else to hold on to, like a girl or money or being bitter to the end. I'd like to think of the days when we didn't have to, and everything that ever meant some to you? You only thought you had to circle so far, and then come back down to sacrifice this one last thing

(I.) Somehow You Love Me

My heart is gone, it drove to the shore
Swam out in the night, way out past the lines
I heard that now it lives in the South
Of West Central Spain, drinking off the pain
'Cause inside I'm broke, I'm cracked, I'm alone
No hope for a change, no way to erase
The world would be better without me
So how could this be, somehow you love me?

(II.) Fucked Up Past the Point of Fixing

Stepped out to see the stars fall alone on the neighbor's lawn
I held my hand up, my head down, waiting to hear your call
I thought I saw your headlights in the dark driving by our house

I'm going out my mind
I'm giving up the fight this time
Love me or let go
No longer care if I die alone

Whole world is waiting, watching to see when you're gonna fall
10,000 faces staring, your back is against the wall
Fucked up past the point of fixing, so tell me what went wrong

I'm going out my mind
I'm giving up the fight this time
Love me or let go
No longer care if I die alone

'Cause in the darkness of my mind I used to dream of suicide
I'm gonna pull myself out before I die

I'm going out my mind
I'm giving up the fight this time
Love me or let go
No longer care if I die alone

(III.) 8 AM

Now it's 8 in the morning
Up all night just walking around
I'm hiding out here under the window
By the sink where we used to laugh all day long

I wait 'til I see you walking
From the bedroom down to the kitchen
Fingering your hair into curls while talking
On the phone resting on your collarbone

Here I come again, head is hanging low
You put down the phone, take me in your arms
And I'm all alone with you, my love
Did you hear me coming?

Running over the words I said last night
While wishing I never saw your eyes swell up
With tears dripping down your thighs
I can't let it go, I'm lost inside

I can get so low, seems like there's no up
And I'm all alone so take me in your arms
Knowing I'm the one

(IV.) Zig Zag

I turn around to say, "How could you still love me?"
Sun is shining, lighting up your face
You stare off into space, not knowing what to say
Searching for the words to set things straight

So I say, "I'm a zig zag, sideways upside down, out of my mind
What's the point of living if we're all just born to die?"
You say, "Why, why ask why?"

I say, "I get fucked up."
You say, "Delusional."
Somehow will you still open your arms?

"Come with me." you say, we step outside to face the sun
Yesterday I dreamed that it would all burn down to dust

(V.) Daybreak

Take a breath, turn around
See the sun come through the clouds
The light alive in your eyes
Standing here by your side
Arm in arm under the sky
I know I want to hold on

The letters left on the lawn
The shadows crawling the wall
The mirror shatters and falls

I've been lost for so long
No more will to carry on
So dark and dead and diseased
Nothing left in the end
And to pray is to pretend
I'm tired of trying to believe

So can we learn to forgive?
I want to hold you again
Can we remember our love?

I can get so low, seems like there's no up
And I'm all alone so take me in your arms
Knowing I'm the one

Do you know what I love the most?
Even suburbs would be o.k.
With you beneath my sheets;
breeze in my window
'Cause we will go there, ignore all our neighbors
I think I'll bring you breakfast, play Johnny Cash on the stereo
I'll sit in the lazy chair all day remembering the things you do
So when you come home
I'll jump up to kiss you
(whoa ohohhhh)

And it will knock you back
You'll fall over our TV set
Pick you up and dust you off
Oh, Baby let's give it a go
Kiss your thighs to make you feel all right
Then I will get closer, taste a little sweat
(Whoa Oh Ohhh) I think I'm rearing to go
You're gonna get knocked out, yeah tied up in my trunk
In ten years we'll go to Ohio (whoa ohhh),
Steal Cadillac's for a living.

Life leaks from you fingertips
onto sparkling pavement
havent heard the news you stumble stuttering
confused

Helicopters line the sky
marching men are rolling by
babies in their baskets blankly stare through space
hey hey

Ever since i first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
Ive been blind
but im driving in the dark towards you
not stopping till i catch the sunlight
In my eyes

Sirens sing over the streets
Chimpanzees are on TV
everybody's working waiting for the week
to end

Ever since i first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
Ive been blind
but im driving in the dark towards you
not stopping till i catch the sunlight
In my eyes
and nothing's left to hide

Ever since I first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
ive been blind
im running out of time

Ever since i first saw you
standing in the black frozen night
Ive been blind
but im driving in the dark towards you
not stopping till i catch the sunlight
In my eyes
and nothings left to hide
oh oh

I've got your face burned in my head
From the first night we met
You were lost, 22, tired of it all
Eyes like star-born black holes

I was living alone
The world went by down below
Through the window I watched it all go

We've been here 7 years, clothes on the floor
Shadows crawling along the walls
Reminisce, reticence, learn to move on
Without you who I would be is gone

Try or fail to forgive
Nothing left to relive
I watch your black hair blow in the wind

Can we love again?
Do you feel a thing?
Will you take my hands?
I want to live again

In your eyes I see the sky go grey

Looking down as I say,
"Give me one more day."
In the distance I hear the rain fall

I remember the time
When everything was all different
We didn't really know each other then
I didn't know how much you made me so
I guess it was all pretend when
You decided you're those all are different things.
I don't think that it was all that bad.
Especially that time in Princeton was nice.
Then we pretend to be so close
Now we wait


Try not to be not so different
Than we have in the past
You made me so but I don't know
To everything I'll hope again.
I never wanna be not so here (x5)
I never wanna be not so here again.

I said I'd walk you home after our third round of pouring whiskey down the barrel of our guts
and I grabbed hold of your hand. We're up and we're out and we're yelling through the streets
and I'm out of my fucking mind
and I know you're next to me but I must confess what's in my head.
Keep pumping now, legs to beat the ground, and our hearts to beat the band.
The sky's on fire again. Run down this alleyway.
Lightning bolts again and we become fireflies just flashing at the air.
Rattle garbage cans. Prepare to be ravaged by our lust burning mad, the fire that we've become.
And I know you're under me but I must confess what's in my head:
To me you are the light from a light bulb that breaks sometimes
and the tender warmth inside is released into my life
and it smothers me in flames that lick and scorch my face.
As the smoke reaches the sky know I'm burning tonight.
Know I'm burning tonight.
Know I'm burning tonight.
Know I'm burning tonight.
Know I'll burn for you tonight.

As I'm talking my words
Slip to the floor
And they crawl through your legs
Slide under
The back door

Rendering me
Freakish and dazed
Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know
Is awkward silence
Your eyelids close
When you're around me
To shut me out

So I'll go walking in the streets
Until my heels bleed
And ill sing out my song
In case the birds wish to sing along
And ill dig a tunnel to the center of the universe

Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know is awkward silence
Your eyelids close when youre around me
To shut me out

I'll make my way across the frozen sea
Beyond the blank horizon
Where I can forget you and me
And get a decent night sleep

Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know is awkward silence
Your eyelids close when youre around me
To shut me out

Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know is awkward silence
Your eyelids close when youre around me
To shut me out
To shut me out
(dont shut me out)
To shut me out
(dont shut me out)
To shut me out
(dont count me out)
To shut me out
(dont shut me out)

Oh well, you've got me under your spell
and I don't think that I'm kidding around.
I don't think I can forget you now.
I once sat up on my roof and examined the planning of my town.
I saw the structured grid and pavement cutting through grass
and I remembered the cold of winter running up the legs of my pants.
I picked the nicest lawn and imagined the two of us
rolling around down along the ground.
I saw myself touch your face and I noticed jets begin to race above our heads.
But I pinched my arm and remembered how much you hate me.
I remembered the fact that I can't see what you need
and I'm too stupid to be aware of the beauty that you give this place
and how shitty this town would seem without you in it.
When you aren't around I let the shades fall down to shut out
all the sun's light and make myself feel all right.
What am I doing with my life?
Remember that the only things we need sometimes
are chilly nights and warmer thighs, 'cause there's nothing like being held.

I think you're a really neat person.
And I think I want to spend some more times with you, cause you aren't boring and your phone skills are really rad.
You call me up again. I think I really like you. You're in my thoughts all the time.
I remember what you look like.
I can picture us walking hand in hand and side by side.
Then I look into your grey-blue eyes.
I like you an awful lot.

Your middle finger was clutching my thumb through the park
and over macdougal.
The torches were blazing about our street and just down from the sky.
Casey stepped with Anna off the curb.
His shoes are clogs, did you see?
They dipped in that puddle, the one catching green.
They were tripping up and slipping around,
singing 'Rolalita come out tonight' and oh I wanted to pull you down.
roll on top of me, baby. just roll.
we'll wreck our clothes.
we'll scrape our knees.
we'll taste the scabs.
you, sweet, are worth these next four months
until I bail out and kiss behind your ears, drive off in the van.
oh my god, I think I'm dying in this car seat, where I'll spend through winter.

Im never in my waking life
dreaming is my all the time
wheather its the weather
or my mind its all too much

callin' in the frigid wind
a whisper is my dearest friend
leading me along a lilly laden twisting trail

Where we go
will tomorrow know
into the vast and empty alley's we procede

Im never in my waking life
dreaming is my all the time
wheather its the weather
or my mind its all too much

crawlin over cloudy streets
streamin with a billion feet
fumbling along into the dark and dismal day

Where we go
will tomorrow know
into the vast and empty alley's we procede

forever winding our way
weary without sleep
forever winding our way
weary without sleep
oh oh oh

Im never in my waking life
dreaming is my all the time
wheather its the weather
or my mind its all too much

callin' in the frigid wind
a whisper is my dearest friend
leading me along a lilly laden twisting trail

Bottles breaking on my face are
only your reminder of your love
I lost a lifetime ago
was I dreaming when I knew you? I don't know.

So once again I swim In Reverie
without your love
so long ago I cant remember now
where we began

Smell of burning photographs slides
slowly to my nostrils I try
remember the soft silence of
summer sweating in the evening

So once again I swim In Reverie
without your love
so long ago I cant remember now
where we began <i>[3x]</i>

where we began <i>[3x]</i>

If you've got a quarter you can stick in my neck
and I'll sing whatever song you want for whatever mood you're in.
Isn't that what you expect? I can sing you to sleep.
I've got a mouth full of blood.
Well I'll carry this casket if it's what I have to do.
So bring on the dark sky and let it cover me entirely.
Isn't that what you expect? I can sing you to sleep.
And all you want from me is a broken heart.
And I'll run down to the river and grab five buckets of water.
Wait right where you are and I will serve you at your table.
I hope you like my restaurant and the lighting is right.
The jukebox is in the corner. My mouth is the speaker.
It plays your favorite songs and you know where the coin slot is.
Isn't that what you expect? I can sing you to sleep.
And all you want from me is a broken heart.

You say, "I won't forget what you said to me
I won't forget you left begging please don't leave
I want to know what in the world has happened to you
It's time to learn to let it all go

So you're forsaken, cast aside and alone
Those haunted voices in your head are all ghosts
So long ago, their sideways eyes cut through but you know
That now it's time to let it all go

You know that I love you and I can't stand living without you
But I don't know what now I can do
You've got to do something 'cause you can't just keep it inside you
It's killing me and killing you

Please save yourself, I'd like to help but you won't let me through
It's time to learn to let it all go."

Take my hands, let me see your eyes again
I know you'll say we don't have a chance to be saved
We're lost, we're torn, we praise, we scorn
We're stuck and we'll stay the same

All you say is, "You are not the one to blame
The past, the pain, all of it at once became
Too much to hold, too dark, too cold
You lost your way, that's all."

Living without you
Living without love
Isn't the life I need
No more tomorrow
No mourning sorrow
Now it's all up to me

I feel that rain as you turn my way
You say, "It's not a waste."

Living without you
Living without love
Isn't the life I need
No more tomorrow
No mourning sorrow
Now it's all up to me

Hello me
are you in there
making sure you're not dead,
smelled some rotting flesh

I heard you left him alone
suns up with open roads
get down
freak out
the time is right now

Drop your things
and burn your clothes
why we're here
no one knows
watch the bombs explode

He sold you a dream
and carved you up like meat
lay down
the law
locked your heart behind bars

While you were sleeping he would whisper in your ear

The monkey will bite
better eat your poultry
till' theres no use
don't try to
ask a doctor
what's going on inside you head
just fall out and get in line
like all good soliders do

You awoke to his game
running circles in your brain
can't belive you eyes

What's up what is down
he spun you around
what's near what is far
god knows what you are
can you remember when
this began

The monkey will bite
better eat your poultry
till' theres no use
don't try to
ask you doctor
what's going on inside you head
it's pretend
it's no meaning
just stare at the celing and play dead for your whole life

Im all out of time
watching a swaying tide
tomorrow has died
yes no one gets out alive

The moonlight in the morning sun
sends shivers over my skin
my memories are slowly slippin'
and im sailing against the wind

Madness ensues
swimmin in ocean blues
the dream drippin sky
covers my insides

The moonlight in the morning sun
sends shivers over my skin
my memories are slowly slippin'
and im sailing against the wind

Could you tell me the next time that you're choking?
Cause I'll run right over
to shove some dirt right down your throat
It's nothing I have against you
You're just a creep and
you can't remember the last five years
What's a bond if it dissolves in water?
I took a piss that lasted longer
than you and your manipulations
I called my mom last night
She said, Sweetie, you don't need someone
who's more fleeting than fall no-o-o
'Cause don't you love those leaves?
Don't you wish the orange stayed forever
Crickets sang in the night all through winter?
And I thought, slow down,
Think of all the times this jerk
has fucked you up and left you down
And hey-hey, I choose my company
by the beating of their hearts
Not the swelling of their heads nooo
dont you love those leaves
dont you wish the orange stayed forever yeah e yeah
crickets sang in the night all through winter
Besides, I'd rather forget the days we spent
Than try to stay afloat in shallow water

I think I'm starting to see
The love I need is inside of me
As I look to you now, vow and confess
You're the light in my eyes

Of all the things that I've said
Of all the things I'll never get back
The only thing I would change is walking away
When you needed me here

And I could see it in your eyes
You were blind to see me
You see the man I used to be

"Of course." I say to myself
I lost my way refusing your help
But here inside all along, waiting for you
To come home to yourself

So now it's just you and me
And yesterday is gone, we agree
As we open our arms up to the sun
And see the rain now is gone

Lets call it off
ive had enough of the games
if you could see into me
all my veins are tangled up
tied in knots

My heart beats slowly now,
it's emptying into the streets
Swirling straight away down the drains back to sea

Oh when is the time
where you aren't in my mind
setting flames ravaging all my dreams
when can i finally wake

To the sunlight shining on my cheeks
and the wind sweeping me away
far away from every memory
with you face in the frame
that'll be the day

When they sky starts burning,
the earth ain't moving.
We all become sane
and we rise in the morning
to kiss the scorching sun before it falls.
ohhh <i>[3x]</i>

My gut is burning.
Won't you find me some water?
Hey, just forget it can you bring me gasoline?
Collect a couple forks,
Hold them three feet apart
And wait for lightening to strike to burn me up

Cause I don't think that I have got the stomach
To stomach calling you today.

My head is swirling.
Been carried off in the sky
And where it lands is where it lands.
I guess that I will get another head
Then get on with my life
Leave you somewhere beneath the waves of time.
And I'll wear glass shoes and plastic wrap.
No, I'll just wear my insides.
You want to know who I really am?
Yeah, so do I.
Yeah, so do I.

Cause I don't think that I have got the stomach
To stomach calling you today.

Cause I don't think that I have got the stomach
To stomach calling you today.

Right now, I am turning off the lights

Cause I don't think
I have got the stomach to stomach calling you today.

Cause I don't think that I have got the stomach
To stomach calling you today.

Cause I don't think that I have got the stomach
To stomach calling you today.

There's a beautiful sky tonight and
if you were by my side then we could share it but you are gone.
So come at me with your moon and burn me in the stars
cause nothing matters anymore.
If I could only see you now for about an hour
maybe just a minute
just to ask
What has he got that I don't have?
Is it his brown eyes?
I know blue eyes get boring but I'll wear dark glasses all the time and
hey if you want me to, I'll take a knife to my own bright eyes.
If I could only see you now for about an hour
maybe just a minute
just to ask
what has he got that I don't have?
Is it his brown eyes?
Well, I'll give you a thousand reasons that tonight
you should grant me this one wish.
Like the one year of my life that I gave to you and
now you put me through hell.
You break me up.
I should hate you, but I can't replace you in my heart.
Why am I so pathetic?
I don't get it why you won't return my calls.
Can't you look at me once?
And please if you got a minute,
enjoy this lonely sky with me.
It'll swallow us whole if we only let it.
If I could only see you now for about an hour
maybe just a minute
just to ask
what has he got that I don't have?
Is it his brown eyes?
Well, I'll give a thousand reasons
that tonight you should grant me this one wish.
Like the one year of my life that I gave to you and
now you put me through hell.
You break me up.
If this sky's going to eat us then I'd like to be digested
into a million pieces with you.
I'd love to be scattered to hell with you.
To hell with you.

She is a dying dandelion floating on the breeze
Swirling sweetly in the evening
She is the stars glowing gorgeously
She is the sloping clouds

Forever scrolling
Unfolding

She is the sun burned blue and shadows on the moon
She is the morning dew
Dangling on leaves leaking into streams

Forever flowing
Unfolding
No one can say her name

Now she sits and sings something about my dreams
Hours go by before she looks at me
She breaks my heart
As I open my eyes to drink the melon sky

Don't you remember the last time we were speeding down this highway?
Anna slept in the back seat, dreaming in the autumn heat.
We turned up the country radio.
I said, "if you want me just say so."
I slicked back my hair in the wind.
I told you I didn't want my picture taken but you snapped it anyway.
Now I guess you won't have trouble remembering me someday.
So I floored it and swerved around the lanes.
I kept wishing it were you instead of me behind the wheel
so maybe with my camera I could steal a shot of you
and go home to put it in my room.
Maybe you'll never remember me.
Maybe my face will lose these scars,
'cause sometimes they keep me home at night
where I duck under the covers and wince when I see the light.

(I guess the only reality is the one you seem to believe in.
Well I'm walking out, this is the last time, I feel like shit.
This isn't the way to treat old friends...)
Let's go again
Set me up
Watch me stand on top of my old house
Watch me spinning and watch me seeing the melon sky
Oh, look it's so beautiful tonight
But I was feeling so sweet
I could barely breathe so deep
But you had to come along
You had to shatter everything
Why'd you even fuck her in the first place?
Friends don't mean a thing
when you can actually feel the knife sticking in your spine
For a second there I thought I was fine
But oh, whatever
I've tasted my own blood, and now every time you walk on by,
I feel like spitting in your eye
This is not the way I pictured getting hurt.

Leif and I are on the train to New York in car 1399.
There's a guy with a quarter in his ear
and I've seen Leif only once in the past two months.
His hair is sticking up a little in the front. He's losing it just a bit.
When I get home tonight I'll miss him in Hampshire.
I'll miss his glasses and the way he writes in purple pen,
the way his collar falls to the left.
Have you seen his ankles lately?
I know he's next to me.
I feel his sweater here,
but when I'm sleeping it's only green sheets and the hair down my legs.
I think I'll write you, Leif, when I'm near Tuesday,
sometime before you go and I'm back on the train.

Tonight will be the night that we begin to ease the plugs out of the dam.
And we still stand knee deep in the flow, the undertow will grab our heels and won't let go.
Abd while we hold, our legs quivering, the water rises now to our teeth when we just let go
and sail belly up to the clouds, the rocks scraping our backs.
To breathe in the air will be the only thing that we have
and all the wasted nights and empty moments in our lives are flushed away as we sway with the rhythm of the waves bobbing us up.
Crests fall to troughs as we feel our gills open up
and sail belly up to the clouds, the rocks scraping our backs.
To breathe in the air will be the only thing that we have.
And if the hook set in the bottom of our lungs, we'll rip it out and lick the blood off with our tongues.

Despair could ravage you if yo turn your head around to look down the path that's lead you here, cause what can you change?
You're a vessel now floating down the waterways.
You can take your rudder and aim your ship, just don't bother with the things left in your wake.
Just sail belly up to the clouds, the rocks scraping your back.
To breathe in the air will be the only thing that you have
and your love will be warm nights with pockets of moonlight
spotlighting you as you drift, the actor in this play.
You walk across the stage, take a bow, hear the applause,
and as the curtain falls, just know you did it all
the best that you knew how and you can hear them cheering now.
So let a smile out and show your teeth cause you know you lived it well.

You know what?
The next time you see Nick
Yah Tell him I'm gonna stick some needles in his face
And watch him on his knees
Watch him when he sees that I'm not fooling... yeah
'Cause I'm through being cool
And he keeps telling everyone about me
Like how I'm such a fool and oh that I'm so deceptive
I think I'll make him eat the ground
I think that I will turn around and notice the wind blowing tops off trees
I'll see the way the world begins to need color everywhere
And I'll realize how small I really am
'Cause I'm through being cool
And he keeps telling everyone about me
Like how I'm such a fool and oh that I'm so receptive
And then I'll spin right back around
And say, "Nick, why are you such a prick?
Why don't you just marvel in the hopes that make up this reality?
Your world is what you made it
And I don't want a part of it."

Light beams through
windows stream into my eyes
my eyes explode like red ballons
as it reminds me of you so long ago

wind blows through
a hole in the roof
brings your perfume like lillies to me
and all I can do is remember you

When was the last time
I held you all through the nigh
feels like a zillion years
and I don't wanna wait more
to find you is to lose you,
what is that for?
tell me

When was the last time
I held you all through the night
Never a worry would run through my heart like a knife
feels like a zillion years
and I don't want to wait more
to find you is to lose you,
what is that for?
one more night and I might never know who you are
tell me <i>[x2]</i>

When was the last time
I held you all through the night
Never a worry would run through my heart like a knife
When was the last time
I held you all through the night
Never a worry would run through my heart like a knife
tomorrow is much too late

I need you now be my light
tomorrow is much to late
I need you now

Blinded by circumstance I suffered and I strayed
Denied the fear inside, it's me that I betrayed

But now I'm here just to hold you
In my heart 'til forever
Has come and gone a hundred times
I'll be here waiting

Contempt, controlled, confined inside my withered skin
Don't look, the mirror makes you turn away within

But now I'm here just to hold you
In my heart 'til forever
Has come and gone a hundred times
I'll be here waiting

I know you have only seen me in darkness and misery
I promise to trust this feeling if you hold onto me

So let's be clear in this moment
You're all I need, this is worth it
So now I'm here just to hold you
In my heart 'til forever
Has come and gone a hundred times
I've come and gone a hundred times
And still I'll come a thousand times
To be here waiting

All I want is you to come undress me here
Laying sideways underneath the windowsill
Let's not say a thing, no, let's not even think
Just hold each other here

I remember when we met on Halloween
You in your red dress, your green eyes stared at me
The sidewalk, yellow stars start to fade into the dark
When I first take you in my arms

I never want to let go
All my life I've been alone
No one there to just hold

The lines along my face from those endless wasted days
Show when the sun shines through the shade

I never want to let go
All my life I've been alone
No one there to just hold

Too many faces that turned away
Start to believe that it's not worth the pain
But I know that I love you
All it was is a dream
Now you're here with me

And I'm gonna get to
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering

And I'll get the rope, from in the house
Survey the scene, finding two of the tallest trees
And I'm tying myself up, above the cool earth
To dangle in the twilight (whoah)

And I'm gonna get to
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering

And as my skin collects in a pile on the ground
I'll radiate heat, and turn off my head
And just pretend that I don't exist
Then, I'll see clearly to the end



Of the ropes that I've been hanging from (whoa, oh, oh)
I say, loosen from the trees, I plummet to the ground
Be impaled and turned around (turning right around)
Finally free from the ups and downs

And I'm gonna get to
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering

And I'm gonna get to
The bottom of this
Gonna peel back my skin
And look at myself shaking and shivering

Now as I lay by your side
would you tell me why everything has to be lies
leaving everyone wondering when we'll all wind up dead
to all we are within
wednesday the third was the night that you rambled
alone in the fridgid white light like a leopard
about to dig in to trembling skin
with wind whipping your shins

Oh
haven't you heard the news
nobody came too soon
surprise our eyes are opening up to you

Now as I lean to the side
I can see all the thoughts that you're trying to hide
I've arranged for a ferry to France
where you should relax, don't worry about the pets
they'll be safe at our address

Oh
haven't you heard the news
nobody came too soon
surprise our eyes are opening up to you
nobody came too soon
surprise our eyes are opening up to you
you'll always be in our eyes opening up to you

you've left everyone wondering when we'll all end up dead
to all we are within
now as daisies dry off
and the wind scurries scarlet leaves like they were dust
we can see somewhere off to the east
a gaggle of geese are singing your goodbye
hear the sweetest lullaby
listen up to hear the sky will soon clear
and you'll be the last one to wish for rain

A month ago
there we were surrendering ourselves
to the local police
paying them not to tell
while we waited we all.....

Sang a song of sorrow
solely to remember
what went wrong

Leonard looked
like a ghost gave him a foot massage
molly shook like a fish
danglining on a line
walter wore womens clothes

Sang a song of sorrow
solely to remember
what went wrong

We sang a song of sorrow
solely to remember
what went wrong

In the darkness
we were all strip searched
nothing was found

Suffering
from the full cavity search
we fell to our knees
to repent
I can recal right now
what it was that we did

We sang a song of sorrow
solely to remember
what went wrong <i>[2x]</i>

In the darkness
we were all strip searched
nothing was found

Where are you?
and where am I?
we've been slippin slowly south

I guess my tounge is tied
to the stary sky tonight

Cause im not sure
whats goin on
I feel the earth quakin beneath me

It feels like elephants
tremblin my hollow chest

If i could move just one fingernail
to scratch your name on the back of my hand
so i would never forget you again

Remember when
was way back then
and as for now
just danglin
between the moon and melon sunset

No matter how neurotic my mind
That's not what I wanted to say
I'm running out of words

I've always loved you, I've always cared
But in the past I wasn't there
Out to the desert to disappear
Only to find I wasn't there

Everything I knew was wrong
What is really going on?

There in the darkest depths of my mind
But that's not what I wanted to say
I'm running out of words

They'll sell sarcasm and constant fear
Don't be so far, don't be so near
The missing papers, the souvenir
No one around, no one can hear

All at once we want to live
Holy water won't wash away sin

Off in the sky the sun is red
What's in the past and what's ahead

Or can I live with what's in my heart
That's not what I wanted to say
I'm running out of words