This Could Be Love
i've got a book of matches
i've got a can of kerosene
i've got some bright ideas involving you and me
i don't blame you for walking away
i'd do the same if i saw me
i shat the bed and laid there in it
thinking of you 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 those crimson hands
you took me hostage and made your demands
i couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers
i'm like a broken record
i've got a needle scratching me
it injects the poison 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 those crimson hands
you took me hostage you 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 (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
rinse those crimson hands
you took me hostage and made your demands
i couldn't meet them so you cut off my fingers
one by one
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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
only tunes that we hear
come via antenna
through your car raid-ee-uh-oh-oh-no
that said we've had enough
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100 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
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 pretty as we hoped it would be
it's not even warm here, not even ten degrees
this bed is too big to sleep in, and i'm dying just to feel you breath.
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 com.
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
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 pretty as we hoped it would be
it's not even warm here, not even ten degrees
dream a good one tonight
i was getting bored with hurting myself
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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
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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
read all over?
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
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
coated in silver?
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'll remain free from all the comforts of home
and where that is i'm pleased as piss to say
i'll never really know
one of these days
it's gonna catch up to you
throwing looks like those around
one of these nights
i promise to you
i'll soon be sleeping sound
as soon as i leave town
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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
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 poinsetta in poison rain...
traded true love for insult and injury
we washed it down the drain with
one wooden stake through the heart, and two vicodin
a poinsetta 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
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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
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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
but 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
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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 my heart
that starts inside your eyes
and a song in my head that burns
so good on my tongue
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 my heart
that starts inside your eyes
and a song in my head that burns
so good on my tongue
yes i will
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
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Donner Party
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, i wanted you to know
it was you that we were thinking of
as we quietly died in the snow
a place we'd 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
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'd never leave
a place we'd never want to call home
a place we'd call a final resting place in pieces
and i, i wanted you to know
it was you that we were thinking of
as we quietly died in the snow
a place we'd never leave
a place we'd never want to call home
a place we'd call a final resting place in pieces
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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,
then 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,
then like the fire we disappear
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
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
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Blue In The Face
it's about time that i came clean with you
i'm no longer fine and far from running smooth
i thought that i found myself onto something new
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 get 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
now i can'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?
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Dead End Road
I thought that you were joking
When you said you couldn't breathe
You said you couldn't breathe
Turns out that you were choking
On a town you couldn't leave
You knew you'd never leave
It met your disapproval at the age of 8 years old
You were only 8 years old
From then on there was no removal
From that one way dead end road
That one way dead end road
I thought that you were laughing
When you cried your eyeballs out
You cried your eyeballs out
And I don't mean to be prying
But what were you so sad about
What are you still sad about
Met your disappointment at the age of 9 years old
You were only 9 years old
From then on there would be no ointment
To take away these burns
To make that pain grow dull and forever ain't that long
When your smile's stuck in your head like a pop song
All you think about is death
Your dirty head has gone unswept for way too long now
For way too long now
I thought that you were sleeping
When i found you there in bed
I found you there in bed
When i touched you you were freezing
It turned out that you were dead
It turned out that you were dead
It met your disapproval at the age of 8 years old
You were only 8 years old
From then on there was no removal
From your fucked up head and your broken home and forever ain't that long
When your smile's stuck in your head like a pop song
All you think about is death
Your dirty head has gone unswept for way too long now
For way too long now
For way too long now
For way too long now
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Old School Reasons
I got these thoughts in my head
dirty as fuckin' and never leavin'
and then best left unsaid
all the drinks under breath
got some shit off my chest
put on my back next to the monkey nest
that somebody left
with me the day I was born
I got a hole in my head
the size of lake fuckin' michigan
my pipes lined in lead
got old school reasons to die
all my money's been spent
on a face lift with via alcohol
this sinner repents
to an empty bathroom reflection
please take these words
and do with them what you would like
It's a dream I had, drove me mad
just your time, just my fucking life
I got a bottle in hand
straight to the ground with all my memories
It's best left unsaid
when they've all been left behind
all my money's been spent
on a D.I.Y. lobotomy
this sinner repents
to a lake and bathroom mirror
please take these words
and do with them what you would like
it's a dream I had, drove me mad
just your time, just my fucking life
so take these words
and do with them what you would like
it's a dream you had, drove me mad
just your time, just my fucking life
and that's my life
over and over again
it's just my fucking life
it might seem meaningless to you
but it means everything to me
and I'm fucked without you
please take these words
and do with them what you would like
it's a dream I had, drove me mad
just your time, just my fucking life
and that's my life
over and over again
it's just my fucking life
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