- Another Life
Static songs on the radio
Back to the city where we fell in love
Now tell me we're better off
Backroad headlight dancing queen
Backseat where you held my hand, now tell me
It's easier this way
- Baby Teeth
Your cheap drink tricks and cigarettes keep you locked inside a cage
Your mother fears you, your father can't hear you, you're money, a voice on a stage
I still ache from the night that you dragged me, kicking and screaming, out the door
But I won't let go, no, I left my baby teeth in your drawer
If I can't hold you like a lover I won't hold you at all
The tide is turning on you, baby, and I feel nothing anymore
If we could stay this way forever would it ever be enough?
- Back to You
Don't fight back, don't look at me like that
Don't forget I'll never quite forgive you
But I'll pretend to
Don't fight fair, and don't you cut your hair
Don't you make the same mistakes your father did
You are not him
Well, it's always back to you again
Always back to you, my friend
- Bad Astrology
I wish I could sing louder,
I wish I didn’t hate myself so much
Now my body’s out of touch again
It doesn’t get me any closer just to hold you
in my mind anymore when I lock the door, well ha ha ha
I don’t want to be comfortable, I want to get hurt
And I hate that I know that and I hate that it feels good
At least you felt something when you slammed the door
- bedhead
wake me up early in the morning
quiet yawn and bedhead
coffee on the table
you make my life feel like a movie
late night walks and sex hair
sleeping on the front lawn
sixteen hours and i'm ready to go
- Cornflower Blue
I want to lay on the kitchen floor with you
I want to do all the things that lovers do
Bruised on your face like a watercolour bloom
Moonlight paints your skin cornflower blue
You love me til' you wear me out, then you love me more
I'm blue to the middle just like you, freezing to the core
The days, they fly like trains go by when I'm on my way home to you
- daisy
easy, pretty baby, you're forgetting how to breathe
is the colour draining from your face
a reflection of me?
easy, pretty baby, daisy, let me touch your hair
i see you in my dreams
i see you everywhere
easy, pretty baby, summer songs on the radio
tell me if you want to leave
- foxes and sunflowers
down to the river where the birds fly low
and you sail away on the sunset glow
to the cemetery where your lover sleeps
where the sunflowers grow and the foxes weep
will you meet me there at the break of day
when the tides rise up and the birds fly away?
little soldier, little sun, little blue eyed wolf
- Hangman Hands
Never thought that you'd teach me to walk away
You said "I love you so much, baby, won't you stay?"
So it goes, goes, goes, so it always goes
So it goes, goes, goes, so it always goes
I went down to the river to wash away the things I've done
And all the names I've traced into my skin since you've been gone
And his hands, they feel just like yours against my arm
- happy birthday to me
thursday morning, happy birthday
it could be so much worse than this
i'm having trouble breathing again
send me to the ocean and i'll learn to swim
knee socks, heart shaped sunglasses
i've tried so hard not to cry in front of you
you told me i could be anything i wanted
- Jupiter
Overwhelming ecstasy
Our bodies move in harmony
Always waking breathlessly
From dreams that leave me wanting more of you
These silly games we play
Stupid ways to make you stay
My heart's split open on display
I can't wait another day
- linger
bare legs in the snow,
you cut my hair and told me to get some sleep.
i don't want to do anything without you
i don't want to do anything at all.
the snow filled the air, icing sugar dream
i wrote my name on the window
you closed all the doors as the lights went out
living by candlelight during the storm.
- morbid fascination
sixteen, sixteen
holding out for something
we were clean cut kids in the world alone
we wear our bruises on the best of days
they keep us on the run
holding hands in the storm til the world comes undone
- Nathan
You keep a little piece of the past beneath your skin
Spider legs crawling through your cold bloodstream
Baby's got a slow pulse, he's hearing static sounds again
He changes like the autumn trees, shiver shaking limbs
You take their words for gospel and leave me in the rain
Nathan, don't make me lose my breath again
You built yourself a bed from ashes and string
- Nichole
Down in Pennsylvania, tired smiles and broken cars
Maybe I could meet you there, Nichole
Drowning in my empathy, the wicked eyes I could not see
Stared and stared and shattered all my bones
And you said
"Don't forget the reason you are here
Your heart could fuel the moonlight with its fever
- nights you spent singing to the moon
every evening after you throw up your meal
you fall asleep in your clothes with the windows shut tight
every day you tear flowers from the field
just to show that you can, just to prove that you're right
every morning you stare at yourself in the mirror
are you losing more hair are you losing your sight?
your mother says you're doing well
your sister says you've stopped eating again
- October Birds
Where’d the October birds go?
I used to watch them from the window
When I had eyes to see, when
I was more like me
Where did your rosy face go?
When did your cheeks get so hollow?
Is it just a reflection of me?
Did i hurt you so badly
- Paper Doll
Keep me away from what’s left
Of all the softness you had
I’m a knife always searching for that one tender place
I’m a violent paper doll you always misplace
In the shadow of your terrifying grace
Laying awake until morning
Counting the cracks in the wall
I’m an empty kaleidoscope, dizzy and grey
- patient sun
you're so seventeen
hands on my neck and skin tight jeans
i want to die with you at the end of the world
you're so in between
what i want and what i need
i'm not sure what's good for me anymore
my dreams all speak in metaphors
of love and sex and fear
- Pisces Moon
I survive on a second chance
I feel your love secondhand
It's someone else's flowers on the table but I don't mind
I'm crawling through your window, babe
I’m falling at your feet again
Right before you run out the door
I’m calling your name
- Settle Down
Settle down, won't you take it easy on me?
Settle down, won't you take it easy on me?
Turn off the radio, let's take the long way home
Turn off the radio, let's take the long way home
Your heart of gold resides in the lines around your eyes
Our friends all moved away and left us behind
- Sleeping Season
Hey
Where'd you get those shadows on your face?
And promise you'll put flowers on my grave?
You know I'm counting down the days
Wait
Our bitter hearts are made out of sand
Let me give you all the love that I have
- south city girl
lying in your bed
watching you undress
waiting for a spark
but i feel terrified instead
i watch you braid your hair
you make me want to kill myself
touch me with your tiny hands
kiss me with your tiny mouth
- Spiracle
I want the parts of you that you only show
To the corner of your bathroom mirror
I want the parts of your hand grenade heart
That beat slowly with anger and fear
I want the parts of you that you only show
To the birds outside your bedroom window
I want the teeth that you lost as a child
That you hide in a box under your pillow
- Sugar Water
My boy plays a game with my heart on the flatline
He likes to keep me halfway out
You know girls like me we’ve got a slow pulse
Hit the trip switch baby I’m all right
My boy’s got a sharp twist no he’s wicked in the heart
Feeds me sugar water just to keep me alive
Saw him in my dreams again
He’s wiping down the fingerprints
- The Garden
The lights are always on in the street
So I never sleep
My dreams have turned to plastic and they rattle in my head
And now there's concrete in the yard
Where the sunflowers used to be
I thought I heard your voice but it was only the TV
I think I'll waste away here
- virgin
oh, my darling, what a mess you've made of me
the bathtub's full of cherry coke, there's blood between my knees
oh, my darling, what a night i chose to fall
i want to be a little girl, i want to have it all
it doesn't mean a thing to me
it doesn't make me yours
it doesn't make me less of who i used to be