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told you so
if you could just let go
let's get this right
let's take our time
let's get this right
now we feel just fine
we got ourselves untied
in this dark hotel
we found a wishing well
and we're prepared for the worst
so prepared yourself for the worst
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Gimme intervention, baby
So sweet and slow
The half-hearted misdirection
Baby, where will we go?
Slit wrists are the latest fashion
And your sheets see the dirtiest action
Where independent mothers
Throw kids in loveless gutters
We need an intervention, baby
We couldn't get much weaker
With neon lights for veins
Here comes our shitty future!
Oh yeah, I love those neon nights
Here comes our shitty future!
Slit wrists are the latest fashion
And your sheets see the dirtiest action
Where independent mothers
Throw kids in loveless gutters
Slit wrists are the latest fashion
And your sheets see the dirtiest action
Where independent mothers
Throw kids in loveless gutters
Here comes your shitty future!
One more time, your shitty future!
YEAH, OH YEAH!
WHOA!
Slit wrists are the latest fashion
And your sheets see the dirtiest action
Where independent mothers
Throw kids in loveless gutters
Yeah!
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All right!
I left with shaking hands, looking for danger
Cheap tales of modern love, in bed with strangers
And there is no warning, I'm not ignoring
Cut glass on my callused feet,
Cause I'd walk through miles of makeshift mud
Motherfucker, I want your blood!
I got the hands of history's stranglers
And the midnight sky reflects off my skin
I got the face of a million strangers
You're never gonna see me closing in
Yeah, while you're sleeping!
No need for safe return, is no need for your concern
There is no warning, I'm not ignoring
I follow you across the county lines
Where these beads of sweat feel like a flood
You motherfucker, I want your blood!
I got the hands of history's stranglers
And the midnight sky reflects off my skin
I got the face of a million strangers
You're never gonna see me closing in
You're never gonna see me closing in
While you're sleeping!
Breaking through your window!
Stabbing through your ribcage!
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Against these tides of war
I swim until I can't swim anymore
Just like I did the year before
Against oceans of class
I swim until my lungs finally collapse
And I'm at peace with my past
So drag me down to the ocean floor
Cause I don't want to fight no more
Against these tides pulling from all sides
I'm never going back to shore
This is my sinking ship
And as captain I must finally give in
Because I always knew
I always knew you'd win
Is it wrong to not want to be where you belong
Cause it takes way too long
So drag me to the ocean floor
Cause I don't want to fight no more
Against these tides pulling from all sides
I'm never going back to shore
So drag me down to the ocean floor
Cause I don't want to fight no more
Against these tides pulling from all sides
I'm never going back to shore
Just let me sing myself to sleep
I made my mistakes and now it's time
To make my great escape
Because it takes way too long
So drag me down to the ocean floor
Cause I don't want to fight no more
Against these tides pulling from all sides
I'm never going back to shore
So drag me down to the ocean floor
Cause D don't want to fight no more
Against these tides pulling from all sides
I'm never going back to shore
Just let me sing myself to sleep
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i never wanted to admit to this but my love wasn't true
i rescue the lonely because i'm lonely too
and the way you smile the way you laugh
reminds me of myself
before i fell apart like a drug infected heart
all along in a city by the sea
dirty leaves fall around
all alone and suddenly it seems
dirty leaves fall for you and me
i never wanted your heart to break
but we still knew it would
impossible to save
but did when i could
i replaced your tears your loneliness with cigarettes and wine
but you needed more and we ran out of time
now your love is gone
all all alone in the city by the sea
dirty leaves fall all around
and suddenly it seems
dirty leaves fall for you and me
and once again i'm torn between saving you or saving me
that's why i begged you not to stay
any longer than you should
because i always knew you would
and now it builds more every day
until you're just an object in my way
choking on the words i never wanted you to say
all all alone in the city by the sea
dirty leaves fall all around
and suddenly it seems
dirty leaves fall for you and me
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somewhere along the way i had to break away
just like a flash of light seen running into the night
i can't quit, i won't stop
i confessed i've always been a mess
and then i woke up in your wedding dress
baby, you know i gotta swing from gallows
cause my head already hangs low
cause these days are so slow
give me an empty canvas
so i can throw it away
cause 26 years on the run ain't no fun
i can't quit i won't stop
no matter what you say or who you do
there's no way in hell i'm coming back to you
baby you know, i gotta swing from gallows
cause my head already hangs low
cause these days are so slow
i don't want romance and i don't need a second chance
i just want out of this fucking quicksand
i gotta burn this wasteland down
because i'm tired of fucking around
baby you know i gotta swing from gallows
cause my head already hangs low cause these days are so slow
i don't want romance and i don't need a second chance
i just want out of this fucking quicksand
i gotta burn this wasteland down
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what happens now that it's over
create a new violent type of love
don't lead me to the bridge
don't walk me to the water
i can't control myself from taking
don't lead me to the bridge
don't walk me to the water
i can't control myself
i'll take it all
how'd i get so hollow
you look like you just saw a ghost you knew
it must've said something so believing
no one before could build this type of love
familiar faces can be so deceiving
don't lead me to the bridge
don't walk me to the water
i can't control myself
i'll take it all how'd i get so hollow?
take your love consequence can't catch me
save yourself before i spread all over you
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does this endless wrecking ball
involve anyone or anything at all
be careful how much you take
they're watching your every move
waiting on your dance floor
endless get away
confessed to a wall
cause these kind of drinks will make you crawl
beg rip of your face
so be careful how much you take
they're watching your every move
waiting on your dance floor
because you'll never make the right decisions
with busy hands and blurry vision
mislead you know you won't admit it
you went against your own
she's dead you might have over did it
now you're on your own
the days are long but the nights are longer
and after midnight the drinks can only get stronger
the end it near so we become smoke and we become mirrors
come home with me now
i won't have you any other way
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give it a rest and then try it again with more soul
until you learn that clearing your heads'
the same as losing control in this space
don't let it drive you crazy
don't let it drive you insane there's no point
cause you just keep turning us on and turning us off
and on and off and on
until we're light as a feather and we're stiff as a board
light as a feather and we're stiff as a board
give it a break cause if you try it again you'll get bored
because you don't really know where it starts
but you know that it ends with no friends
and even this is a test and i'm sorry if it breaks your bubble
but you still need some rest cause it's gonna go
it's gonna go
on and on and on
until it hurts
we will go on and on and on
until it hurts
turning us on and turning us off
you keep turning us on and turning us off
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lay her rest with violence and a cold encryption
empty casket send her to hell with no prescriptions
glue a mirror to the inside of her empty coffin
so she can stare at her dead face
and follow her new faith home
all the way straight to hell
dark skies, no flowers, no need for visiting hours
lowered in trash and let the goddamn earth
come and search for treasure
cause who's going to love you now that no one can penetrate you
no one can hear you cum
so follow your new faith home
all the way
all the way back to hell
because as far as we can tell
there isn't any way
she has to pay
i'm sorry but it's true
you can't save anyone
from her first love to her bastard son
for all of the things that she's done
dear god i can't wait to finally meet you
you selfish cunt, you've got some explaining to do
cause we only wish we knew
anyway
she has to pay
i'm sorry but it's true
cause you can't save anyone
from her first love to her bastard son
for all of the things that she's done
dear god i can't wait to finally meet you
i'm stuck out of place in california
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well everybody i know
has one good chance to die
to be swallowed whole by the big blue empty sky
feel the heavens stare
with a cold hard look in it's eyes
to hear the sound of something awful on the rise
so pray for safe passage through the night
you'll be humbled by sounds of daylight
and this is an endless search
to find how much is enough
this could be so much worse
but we sold our souls for gold
you know that nobody in this room
wants to hear you cry
and if nobody goes for help
baby you're gonna die
it came and went so fast
you'd almost thought you'd missed
a chance to shake your head and say
how did it come to this
pray for safe passage through the night
you'll be humbled by the sounds of daylight
and this is an endless search
to find how much is enough
this could be so much worse
but we sold our souls for gold
we sold our souls
we sold our souls
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L.A. lady you always look so uninspired
when you're hanging around
living with creeps and loving with liars
and everybody knows it's true
that all you're ever gonna be is entertainment
so entertain me
you shiver when they wake up
and once more before they're gone
and even when you're sleeping baby
you're barely holding on
L.A. lady I know your feet must be so tired
from standing on a corner stomping out cigarettes like they were fires
the daughter of a thousand men
you've got your mothers eyes and whorish skin
you're a train wreck
but that's entertainment
you shiver when they wake up
and once more before they're gone
and even when you're sleeping baby you're barely holding on
so throw your skin back in your clothes
and wipe the blood running from your nose
'cause if the price is right tonight anything goes
too many lines, one too many times
you're sharing the same vein
with your stage name
but it never quite feels the same
it never quite feels the same
I said, it never quite feels the same
you shiver when they wake up
and once more before they're gone
and even when you're sleeping baby you're barely holding on
so throw your skin back in your clothes
and wipe the blood running from your nose
'cause if the price is right tonight anything goes
too many lines, one too many times
you're sharing the same vein
with your stage name
but it never quite feels the same
it never quite feels the same
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