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from Give Up The Ghost - Background Music (2003)
Everyone I ever loved
Went down in history... The blue eyes came The brown eyes left... And the rest is misery Dreams are trash On the side of the road All starry eyed - tongue all tied There's something you should know I could have died with you And Boston is the reason I'm feeling so blue - damn you City lights and colder nights I'm innocent (minus the fights) Praying out loud for a winter of quiet Friday nights are killing me I fall asleep - pen in hand There's something you should know I could have died with you And Boston is the reason I'm feeling so blue Cities aren't a way to cure a disease And I don't even know Why you listen to me A razor wristed kid Looking forward to ends If love was a bridge You'd be the one in the fens "All the kids are fucking dead" I write "with love and a gun to my head" these days aren't going to last too long (i know - i know - i know) I'm drawing words from a tired heart I'm drawing blood from a tired heart |
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from Give Up The Ghost - Background Music (2003)
I was counting
The good things about this city The only good thing is you are not here When you're around it Makes it hard to be what I need to be I was trying to breathe I was dying to breathe I was hoping I'd never Have to write this song again The kind of song that makes You want to hang Your headached - head And I was hoping That I would never fall in love again 'Cause that would be the end Of everything (you're everything) My parents fell in love And all I got was life And all I ever wanted Was to not be alone I've been wearing this new outfit called "Quit while you're ahead" Your smiles are the end Your eyes are the end I was hoping I'd never Have to write this song again The kind of song that makes You want to hang Your headached - head And I was hoping That I would never fall in love again 'Cause that would be the end Of everything (you're everything) Just hang your head Just close you eyes Just hide your heart Hide your heart I believe that when I'm gone My love will live in song This is not where I wanted to be I wanted to be I believe that when I'm gone My love will live in song This is not where I wanted to live I wanted to live |
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from Give Up The Ghost - Background Music (2003)
I've never seen to many stars
(And I'm never gonna see them again) I've never known such perfection (And I'm never gonna know it again) I've never felt so at home (And I'm never gonna feel it again) I want to open these veins And never breathe again Because the beauty is dead... Since February 79' I've O.D.'ed on "lonesome" 22 times (But who's counting?) You'd think by now - you would've died I'm sorry girls - I tried (Scream these words to me) If imperfections are illegal Then you should call the cops And they should lock me up You're such a slave to the crying game (Scream these words to me) We'll die alone Picture me in brighter days With smiles on my innocent face (Did you forget me?) I only wanted to be loved I only wanted to be in love (Scream these words to me) If imperfections are illegal Then you should call the cops And they should lock me up You're such a slave to the crying game (Scream these words to me) We'll die alone Could you love a face Full of tears soaked in song? I can't decide... I don't know if its worse to live or die I am stuck on "never enough" And the corner of "never again" Here is a hint - don't call someone Who just sits by the phone Leave them alone I loved the first few days But its not fun playing a game You always lose I couldn't talk to save my life I couldn't talk to save my life |
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from Give Up The Ghost - Background Music (2003)
I took a shot at the world
And I missed (amo te') Traded my bow for a new year's kiss Broken arrows and loveless wrists Tell "J.C." I'm dying in Mass And if it wasn't so cold I'd swear this was hell |
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from Give Up The Ghost - Background Music (2003)
I am bleeding through
Writing songs for you If I could say what I felt Then I would draw for you I'm just a boy letting go of his heart Because the days are like knives And the knives are so sharp One more kiss - so I don't forget And then I'll open my arms To embrace the regret Fragile dreams - fistfight kings Slowdance queens... Oh pick me please Sending "get well" cards to former stars 'Cause I know how it feels To have fallen so far Talentless yet nothingless Than hopelessly in awe of you I want nostalgia forever If we throw this life away Will we ever have to live again? Say "no" and I'm all yours Say "yes" and I'll still pull Tell the boys I'll see them soon Your lips were the softest yet North, east, south and west... I gave you my very best I left my heart in yesterday (Remember how it used to be) I shot myself full of memory (Before the world turned on me?) Forget what you know Forget that it hurts The "new days" are coming... They're getting worse I am bleeding through Writing songs for you They're all for you |
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from Give Up The Ghost - Background Music (2003)
When your "golden days"
are "that was just a phase..." Lose yourself to reminisce Pictures and innocence Try to remember when you felt free and The smiles Just came so naturally... You can't control your age But you can control how you feel Breathing dead air into broke lungs that Once filled your heart With the will to live So when are you Gonna cash in your raincheck? (And on and on and on...) Every second that goes by Is one that's gone for good Are you throwing away Possible memories to a fevered life Of "woulds" and "coulds?" We may have missed our chance and We may never be young again but fuck Living a sick day life Fuck dead beat kids And fuck your falsehoods So when are you Gonna cash in your raincheck? (And on and on and on...) I'm not dead yet Ambitions... sorry, but I have none... I'm just a confused kid With the masses telling me To join tradition... But I just can't... I'd rather die than live like you Do you get it? I'd rather die than live like you You don't get it Fuck your falsehoods |
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from Give Up The Ghost - Background Music (2003)
Dear eastern prom
I know what's wrong... But it's suicide eyes That wrote this song For all I'm worth Writer's block is a bitch Words falling like bricks For a New England wish... I was an easy male fuck In the town of "naive-ity" All I wanted was a shot in the dark But like a knife through the heart I choke on spit covered words... Oh my god - It happened again What's wrong with me? Screaming gets you nothing One more night in this town And I swear that I'm dead... I drew a heart Around the name of your city... |
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from Give Up The Ghost - Background Music (2003)
I ran through
Storm stained city streets Paved with pain To bring these roses to you And with sore throat insecurity You pulled the thorns From my bleeding side There were winter days Spent in - sulking - side Try to heat cold sheets Hide allergy eyes... I'm now hanging out with destiny And begging it to get the best of me What else can I do? Why do you read me Like no one else? Used to live headaches Now they're somewhere else... We are handguns, angel, Waiting to explode... We've lived cold lives But now we know The sun may hide But the night is always there So don't anticipate It's not worth the wait... What did you expect? Status report: I've called it a day... There's a world of people Different than me... Status report: I've lost my voice... Trying to be heard over this noise Die young, or live forever? I'm just trying to get through the night See there's this voice Dragging me down Die young, or live forever? I'm just trying to refind my heart It was always there Just hard to see in the dark... You weren't even looking Sleeping like there's no tomorrow Sleeping like there's no tomorrow |
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from Give Up The Ghost - Background Music (2003)
Addicted to monotonous crush
I even dropped out of school To catch up on sleep Take the train for hours And then try to forget Where you left your heart Read the free form poem To your locked door Then I swept those fucks Under the cement floor If you find them They were never mine If you don't - well - nevermind Porcelain hope... Why do you always break on me? (It all makes no sense to me) Porcelain hope... Why do you always break on me? I set the alarm to remind myself That I spent the day by myself This is my story - love... Day one to now... Background music to a silent film You see - the curtains falling down... I helped this city burn to the ground They said it tried to make amends But I never heard a sound Porcelain hope... You're not much, but you're all I got Porcelain hope... You're not much, but you're all I got |
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from Give Up The Ghost - Background Music (2003)
Whatever this becomes
Whatever words I say We are the fortunate ones... And when the days are done I won't forget All I see in you and me Is a light in the dark of humanity And when the days are done I won't forget Timid steps - come walk with me And with your useless words Come talk to me There are broken hearts Now on your stereo But the broken beats are just too slow You'll cry - it doesn't change a thing Kill the lights - and let the rain fall Recall - the memories Of yesterdays and better ways And know - the innocence is gone... Move on - from this day on We'll never be the same... The saddest songs Make sense to me... So with your sunken eyes Come talk to me Two hour drives Are two hours alone But two hour drives Are better than home You'll die - it doesn't change a thing You will - kill the lights And let the rain fall - recall The memories of yesterdays And better ways And know - the innocence is gone... Move on - from this day on We'll never be the same... Faster words - and faster kids Faster songs - and faster ends The one thing that's stayed the same... I've lived through days I've lived through nights I've had my loves I've had my fights You gotta know - you have my heart |
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from Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground (2003) | |||||
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from Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground (2003)
Our love is all that we ever had
Our love is all that we'll ever have Boys and girls, guys and dolls You were finding faith in bathroom stalls and broken beds, spring fractured spines Fall for the right kids at all the wrong times And in a world of sluts, we keep this wet dream alive Yeah, our drought is drying out You go nowhere in a nowhere town and no one's listening to the sound of breaking down and breaking out is just wishful thinking We're taking walks around the hearts and homes we'll never own You go nowhere in a nowhere town and no one's listening to the sound of breaking down and breaking out is just wishful thinking You go nowhere in a nowhere town We're growing up by falling down We love the songs because we live the songs in condemned flats between the rights and wrongs And all we know is that we live for now We love the hearts but the hearts love us even more Desperate and true, thinking of you Borrowed and blue, sinking with you Keep loving, keep breathing, keep living |
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from Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground (2003)
Send my regards, see my new scars?
I am half dead from all these love songs Intro to incoming end- sing the ones that make you live The world is spinning round and round And we're just staring at the ground (It's only everything) It's been too long since the last time we felt alive We're digging our own graves- we're damning our own prayers And these are songs the world would sing, but they're too deaf for honesty And these are lives the world would lead, but they're against injury Dance to the misery of your life put to backbeat Dance to the sound of everything you ever lost (Never had, nothing at all) I wouldn't be here if I'd never plugged in this outlet There is a world waiting for us to live in it (Viva Love) Sing everything you've ever loved For everything that you will one day love Long live the sound of desperation Long live the stereo of destruction |
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from Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground (2003)
Cold cold keep shaking
Sing sing keep sinking Let the cars keep swerving Let the songs keep skipping Crush crush keep kissing Shoot shoot keep missing I used to compare myself but I don't care anymore I never had it, you never had it We were young and the sun didn't shine on us Where is the life you thought you'd live? Where is the love you thought you'd give? Sipping on sympathy, feeding on tragedy This is our therapy for open heart surgery I'll never have it, you'll never have it- We were young and the rains came down on us We're humming 'Reveille' just slightly out of key (Our love is real to me) In Sunday's best singing free of things we'd like to be And left over puddles we'd run ourselves quietly This is our therapy, this is for you and me Our love is real to me |
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from Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground (2003)
You and me equals me (add it)
I am one life minus one And it is my math to do So fuck you (And you don't understand 'we' because you don't understand me) I'm sorry, so sorry for not making sense I have been shot in the left side of my chest The dust in the air, that irritates my eyes Floats in the light that beams from the hole in my chest |
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from Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground (2003)
Jesus and all his saints couldn't save our wretched face
And no man parting some sea could keep you from me We had to walk away from the streets that knew our names I stutter soft and say "I'd give you anything, anything and everything And you can tell the town We're down till we're underground" We lost the heartache sound when our order was found I burned a testament and misused 'heaven-sent' We made a comeback and it, it was received quite well The earth, for all its worth, never seemed so far from Hell Preach on and on Spread the good word of the holy healing Breathe in, breathe out and on Likely lifers put to song and dance and air has never seemed so clear I got a love/hate relationship with love and hate I get lost here and there You could say I was into the fact you even cared I'm a believer of there's nothing up above that could or should replace my Sunday's saving grace I repent the times that I said you don't exist My gospels from the Church of Stereo Activists |
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from Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground (2003)
Let me say that I know when I should be confessing
I'm counting everything- my change and blessings Chemists cursed me imbalanced I ran through the streets until my legs gave in "Hey, even without light I could see that we were failures" And I am coming clean of dreams that don't exist Oh God, it's in the air when it should be Safe between our hands "And love, even without light I could see that we would fail" Let me say what I mean Let me sleep on your floor Let me learn to love Cause I can feel my face sinking through bruised bones, barely hiding my mind Failure fascination - I got a count on all I'll never have And I am dying to not give up on this (And I confess, my fixation is my fix) And I've been running around trying to find my home Twenty years on the run trying to find my own (And I confess, a house is not a home) My head is red- my bones black and blue Fever burns- choke on words at the thought of you (And I confess, fixation is my fix) Sing a song for the disenchanted Hum a hymn for the misdirected A little love for the sons and daughters shadow-sitting life in forgotten corners (and then) I fell hard over myself again I confess my love for everything I woke up and needed to sleep again With the music bleeding in my veins Goddamn the yesterdays With the love of all there is to love We're who you're dreaming of With the music bleeding in my veins Goddamn the yesterdays With the love of all there is to love You're the one who we're dreaming of I confess... |
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from Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground (2003)
Sitting only cuz I couldn't stand to walk much further under black skies with watered eyes I was watching the tide rolling in
And I was thinking I should make fun here and start over again My legs barely hold all of my heart and soul My ears hardly hear Only our sound is clear My mouth merely moves the words just disappear My eyes see so clear the reason to care Maybe we weren't Supposed to wake up today Leaving me room only to celebrate that nothing's changed If I was there- If you were here the world Could end I wouldn't care So wake me up never, please, lock the door, and lose the keys My legs barely hold all of my heart and Soul My ears hardly hear only our sound is clear My mouth merely moves the words just disappear My eyes see so clear the reason To care To set the record straight- I never could relate And just when it all went wrong- You sang a different song Never knew Someone who knew how the years had been and I never thought that I would ever end up like this So hidden, far and gone, I'm so crowded Alone And I hope you understand, you fixed my broken plan |
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from Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground (2003)
The future could be ours or it could just be yours
We could just be walking closer to closed doors It was spoken then broken, we're hoping arms are open A wedding ring's surrendering and dying pretty is living well Just press stop, take it out, turn it off, return it I've got reasons for everything, everything except this We could be the b-side to the hit song without no soul We could sound like things were fine and find out they weren't at all We could go back to where we was, live life and feel so small Back where we started which was nowhere at all This is a remix of the same tears you shed before This is a remix of the same fears you shared before I thought that they made it clear (and they did) Our sound is not welcome here (you should know) This is the crush of the year in our night-vision dreams, know what I mean? You see yourself where you should be |
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from Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground (2003)
Stars lead the way home then the sidewalks ending
And I don't recall why we're still pretending Turn myself in for crimes I didn't commit I needed to feel truly innocent There was a song and I forget the name of it It seemed sincere and this is kind of how it went "It's one of those nights when you're not sure who the real you is anymore" Generations can be whatever they want to It's mid-afternoon and I'll be leaving soon Survivors are few and far between, between two parked cars headed for anywhere cause anywhere is better than here And in the ride, I become aware I'm probably not going anywhere It's one of those nights when you're not sure who the real 'you' is anymore I said that I would end myself but I think too much about family, you see I need to see if I can bask in a different world This is my swan song to my criminal boys and girls And no one really loves us as the sun does fall And a fact without no truth just isn't fact at all I want out of here, I need to find the stars but the sky's hiding them as we are ashamed of what we've ruined The words I write stuttered the times I spoke I've never been too close with love, life, trust and faith I need out of here, I need a head clear I know my voice isn't great but at least it's sincere We are so conditioned to fall It's sad the song of the year is still nothing at all |
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from Give Up The Ghost - We're Down Til We're Underground (2003) |