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I’ve been wandering hopelessly lost in my own skin
Knowing nothing you say or bring could ever bridge this distance
If every bad dream is on account of me
Then I'll deconstruct every bond between us

 

Don't the lights look empty
When the streets are bare
Almost as empty
As the look you give me
When I'm the only one

And it's a long one
So it brings you down
So say you have nowhere else to go
And nothing to do
So you hang around
You hang around

But you wait around until
You've received that fatal wound

Columns of sunlight
And glorious cities
Oceans of opportunity
And all your decisions seem ancient

But you wait around until
You've received that fatal wound

 

I still howl like an animal in the darkness
And I'm reminded by the blood on my clothes
I can't stand what I've become
I'm shivering to spite the sun
We come together and were overwhelmed by the loneliness

 

I wish there was a hell so you could be there to rot
I wish there a god so I could slit his fucking throat
I went to your funeral and nobody came
I only showed up to piss in your grave

 

Breathe addiction and darkness
I feel the smoke in my lungs
My lips spit venom and poison
All lies except when speaking of love

Cover my ears to the ringing
To the memories and pain
Her voice like the singing of sirens
Drown myself among the rocks and the waves

 

And I told them about the time where I tried to tie
A red thread around her ankles in your bed at night
When I woke it had broke and you slipped right out of sight
And all you left was a note that said “boy you just don’t feel right”

And now all I have is this note
And the little bit of hope that she’ll come home
And you keep searching so damn hard
Just to try and find the reason why it fell apart
But whats it gonna change?

 

Words the prophets said
Still swimming through my head
Now there's no stars left in the sky
'Cause this well will never run dry
What if I completely forget?
What if I never accept?
'Cause when you fade away
It's like a brand new doomsday

 

Curtain's at nine
Where is the playwright?
Fucked up my line
Deep in my wine
Call off the door
Keep them from charging
I have the floor
Love asked for more

 

I put your mother through hell, don't you mind
I hurt your brother as well, don't you mind, don't you mind
Oh, I was thinking 'bout killing myself, don't you mind
I love you, don't you mind, don't you mind

 

And then it came to pass
we cracked the hourglass
left paradise behind
out of sight out of mind

We never stood a chance
against this sick romance
we have with our demise
we have with all of life

With mouths open wide
our footprint steps inside
and when there's nowhere to hide
death comes with the tide

 

Young love is just practice for a far more ancient
And hopefully successful bond
Between someone who is scared
And someone that they've incorrectly assumed to be strong
You only want me when I've got my keys in my hand
And I'm looking for my wallet and I'm lacing up my shoes
You only want me to change when the way that I have always been has a new negative effect on you

The unlucky over-achiever
Cannot help but throw rocks at my parents' house
I entertain myself with people I've never liked
And motherfuckers that till now I've only spoken about

Go forth and suffer for your art
If it's all you look for, you will always find the dark

I'm lonely and angry and desperate
I smashed up my furniture broke my finger doing it
I'm half crying, half laughing and half pissed
And I wanna fuck everybody in the supermarket
Everyone is so proud of their own self-reliance
Right up until the cheque comes and you have to pay for dinner
Everyone is so perfect and so open-minded
Till you have a conversation where you are not the winner

 

I lost a good friend
Christmas-time when folks go off the deep end
His woman took the kids and he took Klonopin
Enough to kill a man of twice his size

Not for me to understand
Remember him when he was still a proud man
A vandal's smile, a baseball in his right hand
Nothing but the blue sky in his eye

Still, compared to those a stone's throw away from you
Our lives have both been relatively easy

 

Someday we'll be complete like modern saints
Baptize our kids in gasoline
And hang our doubts up in cathedrals
So that they turn to faith in the colored sunlight

 

if you don't learn to let go,
it's gonna fill your soul
until it overflows
like a river in torrential rain,
there's sadness rising over the banks

and when you're caught up in the current,
when you're too far gone to sing
spread my love out like a safety net
underneath your highwire act
that way darling, should you ever fall,
you won't have very far to go at all

 

damn, there's no practical advantage
to chase that love from people hurting you
see all kinds, ones who think they need it
the ones who'll take it then the ones who know the truth

 

Mama here comes midnight
With the dead moon in its jaws
Must be the big star about to fall

 

Wait for the year to drown
Spring forward, fall back down
I'm trying not to wonder where you are

 

After all is said and done I feel the same
All that I hoped would change within me stayed
Like a huddled moonlit exile on the shore
Warming his hands, a thousand years ago

I walk with others in the yearning to get out
Claw at my skin and gnash their teeth and shout
One of them wants only to be someone you'd admire
One would as soon just throw you on the fire

After all is said and after all is done
God only knows which of them I'll become

 

You’re all I need
I’m in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds

 

At the trial of God, we will ask: "Why did you allow all this?"

And the answer will be an echo: "Why did you allow all this?"

 

I really think for once that I can change
It’s really not that bad
I’m learning now that I was wrong in everything
And that’s the reason why I think that I can grow
It’s really not that bad

 

I think I’m doing okay these days
It’s just the pathos of all things
I called you up just so I could say
It will be here even if you’re not
It will be here even if I’m not

 

Serenity, the condition we lack
When you finally accept your surroundings, you can cut through the fat
To the meat of the soul
One grand old hole
Stiff, blue, and cold
And now I know it's too late

A sinners dance of endless posturing
Who the fuck are you when no one's watching?