The Bronx

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

I'm done telling you that I'm in love
What I have will never be enough
Come on baby, go live life on your own
Everything inside is breaking down
And you don't want to be hanging around
I don't think I want to leave myself alone

I'm done having to apologize
I'm done living inside your eyes
When the lights go out what's left to know
Nothing ever makes sense to me
A broken branch of the family tree
I kill the lights, now baby, watch me explode

There is no revolution
And I'm done doing things I don't want to do
There is no restitution
And I'm done

I'm done living in this decline
I'm done watching you redesign
Come on baby, let's go walk out the door
I'm done showing up to the fucking work
Taking orders from a fucking bitch
I'm in the chair now go ahead and flip the switch

I'm done doing things I don't want to do
And I'm sick and tired of setting up to be like you
Fucked up, thrown out and overdue
I'm fucking done

There is no revolution
There is no revolution
There is no revolution

Quiet like an elevator, even the walls are scared
I'm dependent on a generator, just to breathe in air
Medication, medication, signatures and stares
Watching all the lights come down, never wanting to care

These circles seem so strange
I run around and around, but nothing's changed
Medication, medication, signatures and stares

I'm reinventing brand new lives like they were never there
I never want to run out, get more, can't stand waiting
I never want to run out, don't stop the lines from fading
It's time to wake up, I've been asleep for far too long

It's time to wake up before the pain, I feel is gone
I never want to run out

Want to take a chance, want to wait
But it burns cut me what you want
But give me just a little more
I already know how it's going to feel to let you go

Cough me aside, put me out like a cigarette
But I won't forget, I'm not dead, I'm not fine
Feed me lies all of this time spent sitting in my room
Trying to match with the faceless blood

Cut me what you want
But you give me just a little bit more
I'm running out of words so listen up
'Cause here I go, I'm not dead, I'm not alive

Feed me truth, kill my friends
Unless they do what I say
I need silence, I need addiction
I need a reason for my sins before

I die, I'm not dead
Tell me lies, feed me truth
Come on, baby, please be true
So I put cigarettes in my eyes

Days, you always want to tell me lies
You try to sell me to the stars at night
You think I'm too uptight
Love, you call me on the phone, alone
You wish that I could stay, speaking pain in codes
Telling me you still care through a dial tone

Drugs, you want to put my life on hold
You really want to see me growing old with you
Like a naive friend
But I, I never wanna face myself again
Unless I'm coming true, speaking pain in codes

Telling you that I know I'm no good alone
And I've tried so hard just to be myself
But I've erased everything I was
I tried searching for the truth alone
And I remember everything I've done

I'm thinking everything will turn out fine
But I'm a little kid without a soul
Give me just a little bit more time
Just a little bit

Say what you want to do to me or you
I don't care, right, yeah

I've tried so hard just to be myself
But I've erased everything I was
I tried searching for the truth alone
And I remember everything I've done

And I've erased everything I know
And I'm a little kid without a soul
Give me just a little bit more time
To solve my future, to solve my future

All this time I've been unclean
Watching you 'cause you're watching me
Shotgun knives into my heart without a reason

All I want is to never die
Fuck the beats of a different heart
What I'll do if you never tell
Bleed me an answer

We got chills
I break it down and build again, sit still

Line me up so I can burn
My heart knows you won't return
Make some sense of being alone
'Cause I'm wasted

Blackout rescue from my faults
Take away my sober stare
Pay phone prayer give me what I want
Give me an answer

Trying to stare through you
I can't get past your eyes
Locked to the inside

We got chills
I break it down and build again, sit still

Let me inject

Trying to stare through you
I can't get past your eyes
Sweating through the nights
Again, again, again, watch out they fall

We got chills
I break it down and build again, I sit still
I've got pills, I got chills
I got chills, I got chills

What's left of California?
What's left of Los Angeles?

Sidewalks cry 'cause they're not as high
Shooting old dope
Rich kid skies are a good disguise
Lining our veins with hope

What did you get for free and where you gonna sell it?
Why should I give a shit cover up your face lift?
What's left of my broken heart what's left of Los Angeles

We got a new design
Excess redefined so you can dream it
We rewrote the standards
Covered up the old scars so you believe it

Scrape black tar from a guilty lung
Throw a needle in your arm
Cough up wrongs of the city stars
They didn't mean no harm

What were you supposed to be and what did you turn into
We don't even need you here but where you gonna run to
Good drugs, bad streets, arms tied, my world capsized with style

We got a new design
Excess redefined so you can dream it
We rewrote the standards
Covered up the old scars so you believe it

I got a [Incomprehensible] just leave me alone
I got a new plan, get me outta here
Pretend sincere stumble on words
Desperation the warmth of a gun
Last hundred years, remember twenty four

We got a new design
Excess redefined so you can dream it
We rewrote the standards
Covered up the old scars so you believe it

We got a new design
Excess redefined so you can dream it
We rewrote the standards
Covered up the old scars so you believe it

Say enough words to make me forget
Until I get dangerous and desperate
I love it when I'm telling myself lies
The good ones that I know I can cash

Stare at my face until I neglect
Everything I couldn't forgive
Look at the way you make me
Live choking like a fucking kid

I rejected faith, I broke a good heart
And I regret love because you told me
I still don't care, I wasn't meant to cover up scars
Built on faults

To who it concerns consider this
I tried all your cures but I'm still sick
I'm never going to regain senses
I burn another hole in my head

Remember the disease you spread
Like addiction that comes in fits

I rejected faith, I broke a good heart
And I regret love because you told me
I still don't care, I wasn't meant to cover up scars
Built on faults

Talk enough words to make me forget
All my dreams are dead
Disguise lack of progress

Quit sending me signals for chemicals
Everything I crave is going to kill me
Don't want to be sick
Depression just seems to stick

I rejected faith, I broke a good heart
And I regret love because you told me
I still don't care, I wasn't meant to cover up scars
Built on faults

Baby's got cancer, looking for the answer
She's got cancer, someone romance her
She was one of a kind

Now she's perfected
Living on all the lies they injected
Now she's staring at the scars that needed correction
It's not a habit she claims
She's got American eyes
Letting her body go, she's dead

Rejection, looking for direction
Gimme picture, gimme reception
The clean smell of sin
She's nervous at the hips
The car's right outside and I'm ready to go

Infected, living on all of the lies she injected
Now I'm infected
Staring at the scars in need of correction
It's not a habit, I claim
I got American eyes
Letting my body go, I'm dead

She's got cancer, looking for the answer
She's got cancer, someone romance her
She's one of a kind

We got cancer, looking for the answer
We got cancer, looking for the answer
We got cancer, looking for the answer

Yeah, I don't think I'm alive
Dead footsteps, another outcast screaming alone
God help me, give me what you want
Give me what you need, I'll take it all
Stand fall, lost out, baby, yes I know

It's not a secret, a false alarm
Another front page
Lie disguised to help me burn

Another year of research stand still
Turn on the lights, baby, show me your scars
Salvation, give me audio give me visual overload
So slow, lost out, baby, yes I know

Yeah, everyone is suspect
Everyone deserts sometimes
Another loss, I'm feeling alone

It's not a secret a false alarm
It's not a secret, it's not a sad song
Another front page lie disguised to help me burn
God help us, false alarm

I'm done telling you that I'm in love
What I have will never be enough
Come on baby, go live life on your own
Everything inside is breaking down
And you don't want to be hanging around
I don't think I want to leave myself alone

I'm done having to apologize
I'm done living inside your eyes
When the lights go out what's left to know
Nothing ever makes sense to me
A broken branch of the family tree
I kill the lights, now baby, watch me explode

There is no revolution
And I'm done doing things I don't want to do
There is no restitution
And I'm done

I'm done living in this decline
I'm done watching you redesign
Come on baby, let's go walk out the door
I'm done showing up to the fucking work
Taking orders from a fucking bitch
I'm in the chair now go ahead and flip the switch

I'm done doing things I don't want to do
And I'm sick and tired of setting up to be like you
Fucked up, thrown out and overdue
I'm fucking done

There is no revolution
There is no revolution
There is no revolution

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
because 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
cause even this is a test and i'm sorry if it breaks your bubble
but you still need some rest because it's gonna go
it's gonna go
on and on and on, on and on and on, on and on and on


until it hurts
we will go
on and on and on, on and on and on, on and and on
until it hurts

keep turning us on, and turning us off
you keep turning us on and turning us off (x5)

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

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
because 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
cause even this is a test and i'm sorry if it breaks your bubble
but you still need some rest because it's gonna go
it's gonna go
on and on and on, on and on and on, on and on and on


until it hurts
we will go
on and on and on, on and on and on, on and and on
until it hurts

keep turning us on, and turning us off
you keep turning us on and turning us off (x5)

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

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

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

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