Hey Mercedes

Is this the best you have to offer us?
You genius, your hair mussed
By now you must have heard about the whirling world outside
Twist a knife in it, I don't care
Drain the life from it, I don't care
If you can fake it you can take them like a photograph.

With a coy sigh in time
With girlfriend waiting on the line
Fine, but can't you wait to make her cry?
And they'll remember you alive
As that pain in their unkind invitation tonight
So here's your credit for the lie
That you've been hanging
And over awaiting your reply.

Is this the worst you have to peddle us?
Scandalous? oh, spare us.
By now they must have heard about your worried world inside
Pull the covers up, I don't care
Call all your lovers up, I don't care
If the fates sing to your face queen of the raincloud club.

I lied when I said we were alike
Your best friend waiting on the line
To compliment your new shine
I can hardly stand to stand here now
To be your stare to admit to all
The pain that you've been painting
And over and I can't bear to stay.

So come on and sing along
Aren't we bridges, aren't we bells?
Aren't we chuckling through our curls?
Up to heaven and down to hell
Say it again pal, aren't we bells?

Aren't we statues in a story
Where we choose our goals of glory
Over family and over friends
Say it again and again.

Aren't we bridges aren't we bells?
Aren't we sighing in our cells?
Up to heaven and down to hell
Say it again pal, aren't we bells?
Aren't we bells?

safe for now
i turn around now to turn
the television drone down down
cause in the night those same sounds
amplify in my life
they spill on the floor and out the front door
and when i finished the book the house shook.

hey babe when the walls shake
we'll be halfway to the bank
hey babe when the floors quake
we'll be shaking out the take.

safe for now
every damn day a hero of mine dies trying to fly
and they lie where their lovers lie
like everything's fine
so pound on the chest and hope for the best
and i'll give you that like
like we're off the hook.

hey babe when the walls shake
we'll be halfway to the bank
hey babe when the floors quake
we'll be shaking out the take.
hey babe are you awake?

safe for now
so be sure and save us now
safe for now
so be brave and save us now.

cars and planes are crashing
and someone is cashing in
tonight one more look like that
could set this mission in motion
cause i'm tired of living alone
and i'm hoping that it shows
all over it's all over and so it goes.

all the usual hearts to you
in everything that you do
you make me know i've got a lot to live for
and somehow i've made it through
all the usual hearts to you
in everything that you do
i wish i had more to leave you.

and if it feels too early to rise
lay back down and close your eyes
the war will wait for you.

it's such a beautiful day to be sad
it's better to stay in bed
with the cold old covers
crawling up and over and into that part of my
head into the kitchen
for the first and last dive of the day
what a way it's any way it's amy wait.

for all the usual hearts to you
in everything that you do
i know you've got a lot to live for
and all your dreams will come true
and all your nightmares too
in everything that you do
i wish i had more to leave you.

and if you're ready for some restless sleep
we can plan to meet
maybe some mundane monday.

stay six kid
and if seven comes on too strong
and when eight just drags along
you can always cry to nine.

cars and planes are crashing
and someone is cashing in
tonight one more look like that
could set this mission in motion
cause i'm tired of living alone
and i'm hoping that it shows
all over it's all over and so it goes.

all the usual hearts to you
in everything that you do
you make me know i've got a lot to live for
and somehow i've made it through
all the usual hearts to you
in everything that you do
i wish i had more to leave you.

and if it feels too early to rise
lay back down and close your eyes
the war will wait for you.

it's such a beautiful day to be sad
it's better to stay in bed
with the cold old covers
crawling up and over and into that part of my
head into the kitchen
for the first and last dive of the day
what a way it's any way it's amy wait.

for all the usual hearts to you
in everything that you do
i know you've got a lot to live for
and all your dreams will come true
and all your nightmares too
in everything that you do
i wish i had more to leave you.

and if you're ready for some restless sleep
we can plan to meet
maybe some mundane monday.

stay six kid
and if seven comes on too strong
and when eight just drags along
you can always cry to nine.