1. This Could Be Love
2. We've Had Enough
3. One Hundred Stories
4. Continental
5. All On Black
6. Emma
7. Fatally Yours
8. Every Thug Needs A Lady
9. Blue Carolina
10. Donner Party (All Night)
11. If We Never Go Inside
12. Blue In The Face
This Could Be Love
I've got a book of matches. I've got a can
of kerosene. I've got some bad ideas involving you and me.
I don't blame you for walking away. I'd touch myself at thoughts
of flames. I shat the bed. I laid there in it thinking of you.
Wide awake for days. Wide awake for days. And I found you tongue
tied in my twisted little brain. You couldn't crack a smile.
I didn't catch your name. I don't blame you for walking away.
I'd do the same if I saw me. I swear it's not contageous. In
four short steps we can erase this. Step one: slit my throat.
Step two: play in my blood. Step three: cover me in dirty sheets
and run laughing out of the house. Step four: stop off at Edgebrook
creek and rinse your crimson hands. You took me hostage and made
your demands... I couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers one by one...
one by one. I'm like a broken record. I've got a needle scratching
me. It injects the poisons of alcohol I.V. I don't blame you
for walking away. I'd do the same if I saw me. I swear it's
not contagious. I swear to god it's not contagious. Step one:
slit my throat. Step two: play in my blood. Step three: cover
me in dirty sheets and run laughing out of the house. Step four:
stop at Lake Michigan and rinse your crimson hands. You took me hostage
and made your demands... I couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers
one by one... This could be love (Love for fire). This could
be love (Love for fire). This could be love, for fire forevermore.
Step one: slit my throat. Step two: play in my blood. Step
three: cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing out of the house.
Step four: stop at Berkeley marina and rinse your crimson hands.
You took me hostage and made your demands... I couldn't meet them so you
cut off my fingers one by one... one by one.
We've Had Enough
In the shadows where the heads hang low you hear
voices as the wind blows. Asking, "Can't you see?" Reminding
you to breathe. It's only time before it catches up to you and all
your broken luck. I found a better way to get even with my memory.
In the darkness where the angels cry. "Give us water. Give
us back our eyes, our beds, this concrete floor. And it's all we
have left to live for. A day we'll never face. We're only second
handed, sick, and lonely. Fighting back the tears. And every
urge to Van Gogh both our ears." That said we've had enough.
Please turn that fucking radio off. Ain't nothing on the air waving
the despair we feel. No! In the shadows where the heads hang
low you hear voices as the wind blows. Asking, "Can't you see?"
Reminding you to breathe. It's only time before it catches up to
you and all your broken luck. I found a better way to get even with
my enemies. That said we've had enough. Please turn that fucking
radio off. Ain't nothing on the air waving the despair we feel.
That said we've had enough. Put "Walk Among Us" on and turn it up.
Ain't nothing on the air waving the hatred we feel. No! This
is our biggest fear. The only tunes that we hear come via antenna
through your car radio. Oh no! That said we've had enough (We've
had enough). That said we've had enough (We've had enough).
One Hundred Stories
You're in the next room sleeping and I'm shouting
out a song for you. I shouldn't wake you over the furnace, but I
should swear to someone you'd have loved every note. So dream a good
one tonight. I'll listen to the bad ones when they come. Get
up in my ear 'til I hear every word. With every turn of your tongue
I will tighten my grip. No one could tell even if I fell one hundred
stories straight down... down... down. No one could tell even if
I fell one hundred stories down. I was getting bored with hurting
myself. If you fall down enough... well soon enough you will find
hell. It can't be as, as pretty as we hoped it would be. It's
not even warm there... not even ten degrees. This bed is too big
to sleep in, and I'm dying just to feel you breathe. You couldn't
see across the ocean, but I was turning over 'til the vampires sleep.
So dream a good one tonight. I'll listen to the bad ones when they
come. Get up in my ear 'til I hear every word. With every turn
of your tongue I will tighten my grip. No one could tell even if
I fell one hundred stories straight down... down... down. No one
could tell even if I fell one hundred stories down. I was getting
bored with hurting myself. If you fall down enough... well soon enough
you will find hell. It can't be as, as pretty as we hoped it would
be. It's not even warm here... not even ten degrees. Dream
a good one tonight. Dream a good one tonight. Dream a good
one tonight. Dream a good one tonight. I was getting bored
with hurting myself (So dream a good one tonight). I was getting
bored with hurting myself (So dream a good one tonight). I was getting
bored with hurting myself (So dream a good one tonight). I was getting
bored with hurting myself.
Continental
I've got a dying urge to feel the way you do.
Too close for comfort. Bed and breakfast in a spoon. The shortest
breath of your young life. A long walk home on friday night.
You made one last stop at the store. So close to perfect, swear to
hell, thought it was you. This bouncing baby boy's now turning baby
blue. I've got your pictures on my walls. I've got a long list
of calls I must make to your existing family. You had nine lives
and one by one you chewed them up. Your final coffin nail's been
driven far too much. "This won't take long.", you said, "I'm not
going far. Go wait in the car... go wait in the car." I often
wonder what it feels like to be you. A mess like this stuck on your
hands with krazy glue. Ran outta time, no kiss goodbye. Wish
I could learn to let this sleeping dog die... without lying to myself.
You had nine lives and one by one you chewed them up. Your final
coffin nail's been driven far too much. "This won't take long.",
you said, "I'm not going far. Go wait in the car... go wait in the
car." You had nine lives and one by one you chewed them up.
Your final coffin nail's been driven far too much. "This won't take
long.", you said, "I'm not going far. Go wait in the car... go wait
in the car."
All On Black
I put it all on black. No color, you're all
dressed in. And a stab in the back left you bleeding on the floor.
And I'm mourning the death. The recent passing of your insides.
I smile in regret every time I think of how I spoke to you. I put
it all in back of my mind where I hold you. I'm just trying to keep
track, how far back it really goes. And I'm living in lack of the
blood sent from the heavens. I'm just trying to relax as a killer's
waiting right outside my door. What's black and white? What's
(What's black and white? What's...) read all over? This tired
book. This (This tired book. This...) organ donor. Sweet
blasphemy, my giving tree. It hasn't rained in years. I bring
to you this sacrificial offering of virgin ears. Leave it to me.
I remain free from all the comforts of home (Of home). And where
that is I'm pleased as piss to say I'll never really know. I put
them all in black... the four walls of my bedroom. And I trimmed
them in red. Peeled your picture off the wall. And I'm living
in lack of the blood sent from your heartbeat, that arrived in your neck
every time I salivated over you. What's upside down? What's
(What's upside down? What's...) coated in silver? This crucifix
is (This crucifix is...) my four leaf clover. Sweet blasphemy, my
giving tree. It hasn't rained in years. I bring to you this
sacrificial offering of virgin ears. Leave it to me. I remain
free from all the comforts of home (Of home). And where that is I'm
pleased as piss to say I'll never really know. One of these days
(one of these days) it's gonna catch up to you. Throwing looks like
those around. And one of these nights (one of these nights), I promise
to you I'll soon be sleeping sound... as soon as I leave town.
Emma
Emma appeared like an angel. Emma fell like
rain into my lap like a heart attack... like lightning from her name.
I'm running dry of bad excuses. Don't want to lie or seem intrusive,
but time hasn't told me anything... and neither has she. A poinsettia
in poison rain. Traded true love for insult and injury. We
washed it down the drain with one silver bullet and two vicodin... and
two vicodin. Emma woke up in darkness, suitcase already packed.
Note on the bedstand signed in blood, "Sincerely, never coming back."
A nightmare on my street the day she arrived. A nightmarish household
in which she died, cause it made her feel at home. Somehow made me
feel at home. A poinsettia in poison rain. Traded true love
for insult and injury. We washed it down the drain with one wooden
stake to the heart and two vicodin. A poinsettia in poison rain.
Traded true love for insult and injury. We washed it down the drain
with one silver bullet and two vicodin. And we watched the sun fall
crown on a city that sleeps in a world upside down. A slow ticket
straight out of town. You went out with a bang when you took... with
you all my dreams underground... with you all my dreams underground...
with you all my dreams underground... with you all my dreams underground.
Fatally Yours
There's no mystery no more. Just no talking
to you. Guess you had other things in store. Guess I just felt
I was through. I answered every question as accurately as I could.
I don't hear from you no more, but I get the message. You crashed
your car through my front door... I pulled you from the wreckage.
You told me that you missed me, but you meant with the grill and hood.
You'd kill me if you could. And if it's ok I'll just grab my shit
and leave. I won't say one word. I'll keep my tricks up my
sleeve. Flew off of the handle... you opened fire on me. Put
me down. Put me out of misery. I'm fatally yours. You
set fire to me that night. You lit and left me burning. Out
of my mind, but in my sights I saw the tables turning. I had a friend
that needed me. You made a wish that won't come true... and now it's
killing two. And if it's ok I'll just grab my shit and leave.
I won't say one word. I'll keep my tricks up my sleeve. Flew
off of the handle... you opened fire on me. Put me down. Put
me out of misery. I'm fatally yours. I'm fatally yours.
I'm fatally yours. I'm fatally yours. I'm fatally yours.
Every Thug Needs A Lady
I know it's dark here. You know that I'm
scared too, for some reason right now, of everything but you. Right
now you're all that I recognize. You know I came here when I needed
your soft voice. I needed to hear something that sounded like an
answer. Now I wait here and sometimes I get one. It's nothing
I'll forget when the moon gets tired. You are stuck to me everyday.
Believe in what I am, because it's all I have today. And tomorrow
who knows where we'll be. From here I can hardly see a thing, but
I will follow anyone who brings me to you for now, forever, for on and
on and on. You know it starts here, outside waiting in the cold.
Kiss me once in the snow... I swear it never gets old. And I will
promise you I can make it warmer next year. You know I came here
when I needed your soft voice. I needed to hear something that sounded
like an answer. Now I stay here and everyday I get one. It's
nothing I'll forget when the moon gets tired. You are stuck to me
everyday. Believe in what I am, because it's all I have today.
And tomorrow who knows where we'll be. From here I can hardly see
a thing, but I will follow anyone who brings me to you for now, forever,
for on and on and on. So go plug in your electric blanket.
We can stay in 'til our southern summer wedding day. Go plug in your
electric blanket. We can stay here.
Blue Carolina
It's everything that I can do right now to not
think about you moving further off with every passing second. And
every night of this lonely summertime I feel you missing from my heart,
a part was kidnapped from my soul. Well I can hardly wait... until
I get the sun and your lips both pressing on my skin. Well I can
hardly wait... until I feel that thrill in my heart that starts inside
your eyes. And a song in my head that burns so good on my tongue.
Yes I will. Yeah. Yeah. Yes I will. The night is
aging as the sun warms your face. Won't you turn around and stay
for good? The air is getting much too cold. I am nervous and
anxious. It really counts this time. And you know all my favorite
singers have stolen all of my best lines. Well I can hardly wait...
until I get the sun and your lips both pressing on my skin. Well
I can hardly wait... until I feel that thrill in my heart that starts inside
your eyes. And a song in my head that burns so good on my tongue.
Yes I will. Yeah. Yeah. Yes I will. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Someday I'll burn this bed, only two feet wide,
but where I'll hide... for the next seventeen days. I will ask myself,
"How badly do I want this?" I really want this. Well I can
hardly wait... until I get the sun and your lips both pressing on my skin.
Well I can hardly wait... until I feel that thrill in my heart that starts
inside your eyes. And a song in my head that burns so good on my
tongue. Yes I will. Yeah. Yeah. Yes I will.
Yeah. Yeah. Yes I will.
Donner Party (All Night)
So it began this way. I can't recall how
it got started. So it began this way. I don't recall a thing.
And all in all I guess it's for the better if you don't remember anything.
Sit and sing. There was a time when everything we did seemed second
nature. There was a time when everything we did seemed free.
And all in all I guess it's for the better if you don't remember anything.
Sit and sing. And I wanted you to know it was you that we were thinking
of as we quietly died in the snow. A place we'll never leave.
A place we'd never want to call home. A place we'd call a final resting
place in pieces. So we began this way. I don't recall where
we got started. And so we end this way. No trace of us in spring.
And all in all I guess it's for the better if you just can't feel a fucking
thing. Fall asleep and die. I wanted you to know it was you
that we were thinking of as we quietly died in the snow. A place
we'll never leave. A place we'd never want to call home. A
place we'd call a final resting place in pieces. And I wanted you
to know it was you that we were thinking of as we quietly died in the snow.
A place we'll never leave. A place we'd never want to call home.
A place we'll call a final resting place in pieces.
If We Never Go Inside
A train appeared in town one night. For some
of us it changed our lives. A few of us never saw it coming.
Like the fire it disappeared. It happens at a wonderful age.
With the traffic lights your mind can change. We made up rules to
follow for good, no wonder we're fucked up, some of us did. Tonight
never ends if we never go inside. The moon is always full.
Your calendar is always pinned on summertime. Were you planning on
staying forever? You don't fit in this hole or don't you remember...
hold your breath. Walk, don't run through the graveyard. A
train appeared in town one night. For some of us it saved our lives.
A few of us never saw it coming. Like the fire we disappeared.
It happens at a wonderful age. With the traffic lights your mind
can change. We made up rules to follow for good, no wonder we're
fucked up, some of us did. I'm just scared I might never say goodbye...
I won't be around to hold you down, pry open your ears and ask you why.
Were you planning on staying forever? You don't fit in this hole
or don't you remember... hold your breath. Walk, don't run through
the graveyard. Were you planning on staying forever? You don't
fit in this hole or don't you remember... hold your breath. Walk,
don't run through the graveyard. Is this why you've worked so hard?
Is this why you've run so far? Same place, same hello, same goodbye...
Helps you pick through beat up insides. Were you planning on staying
forever? You don't fit in this hole or don't you remember... hold
your breath. Walk, don't run through the graveyard. Were you
planning on staying forever? You don't fit in this hole or don't
you remember... hold your breath. Walk, don't run through the graveyard.
Blue In The Face
It's about time that I came clean with you.
No longer fine. I'm no longer running smooth. I thought that
I found myself onto something new. Just one more line I repeat over
and over again 'til I'm blue in the face, with a choking regret, as I talk
in circles 'round you on my bed. Can't say I blamed you one bit when
you kept it all inside... when you left that night. It's about time
that you got sick of me. No longer fun and so far from interesting.
I thought that I found me a cure for feeling old. Just one more line
to keep me sleeping loudly and cold. In disgrace with a shameful
regret as I talk in tongues to myself in my bed. Can't say I blamed
you one bit when you kept it all inside... when you left that night.
And all that followed fell like mercury to hell. Somehow we lost
our heads for the last time. And all that followed fell like mercury
to hell. Somehow we lost our heads for the last time. And I
don't dream since I quit sleeping. And I haven't slept since I met
you. And you can't breathe without coughing at daytime... neither
can I. So what do you say? Your coffin or mine?