Adair

Rehearse the memories and practice all the lines.
Play it one last time and then erase the tapes.
And I wonder: could you ever feel the way you did before?
All the same skin and the same fingers are there.

And it's the hardest thing to live here with your ghost.

Burn it down.
Darling it's too late.
We've danced around this flame too long.
We cant be saved.



I trace your silhouette across the sky with signal flares and smoke.
Listen as the tanks roll in to wipe away the past six years.
So sound the air raid sirens, barricade the doors.
Tell me what is left when all our hope is lost.

Burn the city down.

From California to the longest island,
To that sleepy Midwest town where I was born,
I have walked across this globe searching for something.
Now I find myself right here,outside your door.

I have found myself again outside your door.

And it's driving me...

If I say something would it make a difference?
It's so strange to find home in the face of a stranger.

For so long it felt like I was falling down
And I couldn't wait to finally hit the ground.
Oh if only I could say the words to make you stay,
But I've been through this and heartbreak's all I've found.



And it's driving me...

After everything I've done,after every song I've sung,
You should know that you're the greatest thing I've ever touched.
And every breath you breathe,
It helps me to believe.

Life is folding and unfolding and unfolding
Right in front of me.

Just go.
Go and don't ever look back.
Out of sight,out of mind,out of heart.
And you won't have to witness the damage that follows.
I'm a wide eyed animal.
Lost and scared on the freeway.
Having traveled this far to die alone.
To die alone.

Broken lines and soft goodbyes
The worst is yet to follow.I can see it in your eyes.
It's cold outside,you wonder why...

In the dark,
We stand at the edge of this three year hole.
Push me in and I'll pray for the bottom.
In this cheap hotel room an empire crumbles.
Rest your head,
The fall begins tomrrow.
I wish I could hold you but I...

Can't.



This is not right.This is not right.
This is not right.This is not right.
Lock me up in Guantanamo Bay and throw away the key.
Encased in soundproof glass,I will scream until my lungs turn
Inside out.Inside out.

I can feel the walls closing in.I'm alone in a crowded room.
This is innocence:a dying bloody mess.
This is children playing while monsters wait in the closet,
With baited teeth,ready to strike.
Slit my throat from the inside.
I'll choke on my own blood.

Rest your head,it starts tonight.

In the snow,angel lay.Mouths join in the cold.
Whispers lie as they say you will never go.
Memories,empty sheets,they will smother me.
Wrap me up,the deceased,underneath the frozen sea.

Murder me.

I'm sorry that I can't seem to forget you.
I'm sorry tha I ever let you down.
Does this epic ever have an ending?
It just begins again,right now.

Worlds away.Empty fights.You can drop your guns.
Souveniers.Foreign nights.The damage has been done.
With no trace.With no trace.I will disappear.
Fade away,with no trace,like I was never here.

It just begins.
Over and over.

She sold you out,she sold you out.
And now you'll never be the same.



(Finale)
Now that we're done,
Now that we're over,
I find myself back at the start,
In Eden with you three years ago.

The edge of our lives,
The edge of a knife that
Cut from across the world.
The five becomes ten,the ten:forever.

And as this new life
Begins from a distance,
I'm staring across the sky.
Longing for you.

Longing for all we left behind.

Learn to seperate your jaw
When you find things are hard to swallow.

The wolves are closing in.
I've got a head full of pills,
And my hands are shaking,
I need to shed this winter skin.
It's a fall from grace
I think we all should take.

If you're careful with the flame
You could save yourself
Quite a bit of pain.
And if you're careful with a heartbreak
You could cover up
And replace.

You can say you don't care at all,
But I know better.


It's your eyes that betray you.
As you stand and face the squall,
Don't be afraid.
I won't let you die alone.

I can't seem to stop.
I'm bouncing back and forth
And everywhere around you.
And I can't seem to get up.
My head's so cloudy.
The wolves are coming and it's...

Dangerous.

Sing me a song.
I know we've used up every dawn,
And yet I wonder
When the scholars find our bones
A thousand years from now under
All the ashes of the earth,
Will we be together?
The only thing I know for sure.

The plates may shift
And slit your wrists,
But wear your scars.
I will follow you through the dark.

Don't be afraid.
This is the last night of our lives.
Buried in flames.
So kiss me one more time tonight.
In your darkest night
When all is lost,
I will be your light,


At whatever cost.

Let the plaster flow into
The space our bodies used
To occupy.
Let it be a record of
The love that buried us alive
Underneath the sands of time.
A testament that even after death
Love survives.

Exit the vein.
Exit the lungs.
Exit the body.
Never the heart.

A taste of earth and blackened breaths.
Our oxygen is running out.
It's been years wrapped in flesh
barely living underground.
An avalanche of scarlet death
consuming everything we knew.
For you I'd go to hell and back.
There's nothing that I wouldn't do.

In your touch salvation lies.
Your body bending pinhole light.
So take my hand as we rise
from the ashes of tonight.
Escape is ours if we believe
our love transcends the doom.
And just like that our hand breaks free
from the confines of the earth.
(into daylight)
Cast away your doubts and fears
this golden thread will mend your heart.
In brilliant light we'll spend our years.
They can never tear us apart.
Feel the light upon your face
as we draw closer to the sun.
We'll live our lives in it's warm embrace.
Forever has just begun.

Cast away your doubts and fears
this golden thread will mend your heart.
in this brilliant light, we'll spend our years.
They can never tear us apart.


Feel the light upon your face
as we draw closer to the sun.
We'll live our lives in it's warm embrace
forever has just begun.

Cast away your doubts and fears
this golden thread will mend your heart.
in this brilliant light, we'll spend our years.
They can never tear us apart.
Feel the light upon your face
as we draw closer to the sun.
We'll live our lives in it's warm embrace
forever has just begun.

Cast away your doubts and fears
this golden thread will mend your heart.
in this brilliant light, we'll spend our years.
They can never tear us apart.
Feel the light upon your face
as we draw closer to the sun.
We'll live our lives in it's warm embrace
forever has just begun.

(sounds like a heart monitor gone flat at the end)

Why, Oh, doctor, oh, Why?
I'll peel back the skin from my head
Let the sun melt you from my memory
I'll drink myself to sleep and escape
The nightmares of being awake.
I'll set the air afire.
You never even tried to tell me
What went wrong, what went wrong.
In this train wreck that we built together
What went wrong, what went wrong.

Under shaking skin, underneath it all.
Kill me from within. Kill me, kill me.

You said always.
Say you will, pretend to care.
Say you will be there
Always.
Say you will, pretend to care.
Say you will be there

Always.

Steal my breath, taint the air.
Every bone in my body's been broken
And my life is a jaw wired shut,
My voice is my curse and my shelter from the pain
And I'm breathing carbon just to fall
Asleep at night. Asleep at night.
In this train wreck that we built together
Nothing's right, nothing's right.

I'm teething.
I'm cutting gums for the first time.

Under shaking skin, underneath it all.
Kill me from within. Kill me, kill me.



You said always.
Say you will, pretend to care.
Say you will be there
Always.
Say you will, pretend to care.
Say you will be there

You said always.

You're stabbing my heart.

Broken hearts, broken doors.
Dying on a hotel floor.
Because of a small black box you couldn't receive.
I'll drive you home tomorrow in silence. My sister will return it.

This is the end of the summer, and the beginnings of the fall.
You'll leave me two months later. In an airport goodbye.
And as the weeks go on the letters and the phone calls decrease.
Ah, to fade from memory.

So keep the punches coming:
left,right,right,left,left.
Kick the throat you used to kiss.
Push face into concrete.
A smile, a giant fist.
The bloody face of bliss.
And as I gasp for my last breath,
I crawl back into your perfect poison arms.

Bodies littering the streets
Hear the sadness filter through the trees
Makes its way into our lungs and in our dreams
You can bottle up our voice
Sealed and labeled with a made up choice
Sell it on an on until we bleed

Feed the fire
Until there's nothing left to burn
Except ourselves
Except ourselves
Nothing left to burn
Except ourselves
Except ourselves
Nothing left to burn

Buildings rise
Emptying our eyes
Take a number get in line
In this prison we've designed
I see the man
Dying in the spotlight
Carving out his heart
Blood on his guitar

Feed the fire
Until there's nothing left to burn
Except ourselves

We burry ourselves
Under so much formality
Now we dance around each other
Careful not to breathe

We're hiding in the air
In between the rain
Falling with the leaves
Dying where we lay


We are the ghosts of who were
Passing through these walls
Haunting our own hearts
Dead to one and all

We're hiding in the air
In between the rain
Falling with the leaves
Dying where we lay
We are the ghosts of who we were
Passing through these walls
Haunting our own hearts
Dead to one and all

We're hiding in the air
In between the rain
Falling with the leaves
Dying where we lay
We are the ghosts of who we were
Passing through these walls
Haunting our own hearts
Dead to one and all

We're hiding in the air
In between the rain
Falling with the leaves
Dying where we lay
The ghosts of who we were
Passing through these walls
Haunting our own hearts

We are the ghosts of who we were

I'm afraid to shut my eyes.
I'm shaking uncontrollably
And this life support is failing.
All the phone lines have been cut.
This is not happening.
It's this ocean that I cannot wish away.

Goodnight sweetheart.
There is nothing more to say.
Things fall apart.
Hearts are broken every day.

If only I had the strength,
I'd burn that island to the ground
For swallowing you whole.
And I am terrorized.
Airport nightmares and a change in time.
Watch the five become a ten.



So hearts are broken,
Words are spoken,
And you can't take them back.
The foregin nights,
They twist insides
And turn it all to black.

It's hard to breathe,and hard to sleep.
When everything we had is over.
It's hard to breathe.My heart won't beat,
Ever since you said it's over.

So goodbye.

Blacked eyes and blood red skies,
It's colour that you lack.
Your malignant life, a malignant knife,
That feasts upon our backs.

From the shoulder blades to rib cages,
We've seen the other side.

Let the heavens rain down from the sky.
Let the nightmares come that stalk us in the night.
The cancer spread throughout our bodies,
Consuming everything in sight,
Before we even knew it was alive.

Yet we move on tonight, with open eyes,


On broken legs and spines.
We've been left for dead so many times
With no luxury to die.

This is a loss of innocence.
In memory of faceless friends,
We are the highest monuments
Above the tallest cities.