- 12.23.95
Didn't mean to leave you hanging on
I didn't mean to leave you all alone
I didn't know what to say
I didn't know what to say
Didn't mean to leave you hanging on
I didn't mean to leave you all alone
I didn't know what to say
- 23
I felt for sure last night
That once we said goodbye
No one else will know these lonely dreams
No one else will know that part of me
Im still driving away
And I'm sorry every day
I wont always love these selfish things
I wont always live
- A Praise Chorus
Are you gonna live your life wondering,
Standing in the back,
Looking around?
Are you gonna waste your time thinking,
How you’ve grown up,
Or how you missed out?
- A Sunday
On a Sunday I'll think it through.
On the drive back I'll think it through.
What you wish for won't come true.
Live with that.
On a Sunday she thought it through.
Now as I drive back, there's thirty-six less hours I have to change
the course I send myself.
Live with that.
- Action Needs An Audience
I'm hypnotized by rituals
Now that I am on my own
Tranquilized like an animal
All because I lost control
Are you tuning in to our conversation
Oh yeah you'll get your chance
The bigger the brighter the illuminated
- Always Be
Could've been a night like any other
One of us has to drive
One of us gets to think
I'll force a laugh to break the silence
It's gonna get harder still
Before it gets easy
You can't keep safe what whats to break
- Anais
There was so much we felt we discovered
Breathing heavy with your face against my shirt,
You were the one who said I love you first
Isn't it funny how the feeling starts to fade
You're realizing as you're motoring,
Waving to me from your friend's cabriolet
Sister Christian on, ironically
- Anderson Mesa
Don't leave without intentions of ever coming back.
vacation. you take them if you wanted you'd ask them.
alone i'm outside.
red sky, i wait there.
snowfall above me.
so new yet fading.
graveyard.
run around or jump the fence.
- Appreciation
Thank you honey for reminding me how long you can stay with someone
And never see, really see
I want so bad just to understand how I'm gonna let more time go
Without trying, without trying
We build, we box, we carry on
As people we forgot
Strange we come to find ourselves not knowing we're lost
- Be Sensible
let me have the keys and you can take a rest
from the lightless main street until the next
who knows what there was to see before the light turned green
there's so much hell to live
the static or the silence; don't know which is worse
the dial isn't broken; that's the way it works
to the new professionals irregular is normal
- Beautiful Is
some say beautiful
is only ones and zeros
in the light
the skin that wraps around
and keeps you here
only hold you here in life
don't love the soul
it's only dots and crosses in your eyes
- Believe In What You Want
Don't bother going through your motions
Nothing that makes sense ever works out
Don't kid yourself, you know they want money
Nothing can be good on its own merit
Spinning and spinning
Do you believe in what you want?
Dancing in plastic shake-up snow
- Big Casino
Before this world starts up again
It's me and night
We wait for the sun
The kids and drunks head back inside
Well there's lots of smart ideas
In books I've never read
When the girls come talk to me
- Bleed American
I'm not alone cause the TV's on yeah.
I'm not crazy cause I take the right pills everyday.
And rest, clean your conscience, clear your thoughts with speyside with your grain.
Clean your conscience, clear your thoughts with speyside.
Salt, sweat, sugar on the asphalt.
Our hearts littering the topsoil.
Tune in and we can get the last call.
- Blister
Take advantage of these times, you said.
You let me down.
It hasn't been the first time.
As I'm falling in the pit of fire my mind's made up.
I'm never coming back here.
How long would it take me to walk across the United States all alone.
The West coast has been traumatized.
- Carry You
When I know I'm all alone
Say your name slowly
And I know that I'm alone
But I'll carry you
Does it feel good like a memory
When you try some history
It's a dream to come around
- Cautioners
The time I would spend,
with pictures I would not send.
I watched you go from left to right,
I followed you all night.
Across my blinds.
You'll change your mind come Monday,
and turn your back on me.
- Chase This Light
I'm a suspect, I'm a traitor,
I'm only here in body visiting.
Yellow faces in the distance screams,
"The beauty is in what isn't said,"
I'm rising to my feet,
Because tonight, the world turned in me.
Because right now, I don't dare to breathe.
- Christmas Card
Hey still staring little girl,
are you looking at or past me?
Worry.
Simple symptoms won't leave you this underweight or red in the eyes.
No more rules, the ones we make don't last the night.
So pick up the pieces.
Start again, start over tuesday morning.
- Claire
one chance to show your face.
this one shot all you get.
pass by your one good thing.
lift your head back shoot and chase.
never hear you laugh like that, so full.
not since you were nine.
unsettled, severing always severing old ties.
- Clarity
I'll take your words as if you were talking to me
Say what I know you'll say and say it through your teeth
Now in the deep and down, your heart moves
Now in the deep and down, I don't know how but I know I want out
Wait for something better
Will I know when it can be us?
- Closer
Everyday I get a little closer, dear
Will you love me darling when I get there?
I'll need sunshine, I'll need rest
Pour us whiskey, water, kiss
Remember me, she said smiling
Write my name somewhere safe
Touch and taste
- Coffee and Cigarettes
When I finally finished school
It was the first thing that I did
What every townie kid dreams of,
I packed and started west
A thousand dollars I had saved
And my sister's two cassettes:
The Dead from Fillmore East
And Otis Redding's Greatest Hits
- Congratulations
There's no clarity in front of me
Only degrees of hating
Obscenity, there's no charity
Some don't deserve to make it
You'll blame and fight each other
For just a slice of plunder
Too down and tired to wonder
Whose foot you're crawling under
- Criminal Energy
The ghost of recent misery
Still has a song to sing
You captivated hearts
Waiting for a spark
No one you care to recognize
Suddenly in control
Unfortunate to find
What it is inside
- Crush
Faintest snow keep falling, falling, yeah
Hands around your waist
Nameless, standing cold, standing cold
Like a breath, like a breath
Take in restraint like a breath
My lungs are so numb from holding back
- Cut
I made it
And now there's no turning back
I know there's no depth
You wouldn't sink for the chance
I'm sorry, boy
I'm not cut for this no more
You came in
- Delivery
Well, I know I'm dreaming
But it feels too good to stop
The picture in my head is always moving
We're alone at sunset
There's snowfall in air
It's only special once 'cause there's an ending
And we realize we're in a future memory
- Diamond
When I find myself awake
I'll put my thoughts down on the page
Half-asleep, I'll make a list
Then read back all my greatest hits
Should meditate, should work out more
Should read until my brain gets sore
Meet someone, go far away
Try being socially less strange
- Disintegration
I've spent my last nights
strung up and pulled tight.
Holding out, sleep and grow.
An answer comes without a please:
'Do what you want.'
Wonder why I'm so caught of guard when we kiss.
Rather live my life in regret then do this.
- Distraction
There's a simple escape
It covers any mistake
Always have a good distraction
You can keep the debate
He said, she said rage
They'll forget whatever happens
We divide, we take a side, spinning on forever.
- Dizzy
You close your eyes and kiss your hand then you blow it.
But it isn't meant for me, and I notice
If the choice was ours alone,
Then why'd we both choose letting go?
Does it end like this?
Time never had a chance to heal your heart
Just a number always counting down to a new start
- Drugs or Me
Stay with me
Your the one that I need
You make the hardest things
Seem easy
Keep my heart
Somewhere drugs don't go
Where the sun shine slows
- Evidence
Follow you around 'til it's time
Time to leave
Swimming into the idea of your scene
There all the while proving patiently
I earned to lie by you when you fall asleep
Hang up a sheet
Between our things
- Feeling Lucky
There's a chance, one of us will give in soon
I could ask, but what's an answer gonna prove?
I tried to get mad, but the fever drops
My heart can't break 'cause the beating stops
Yeah, suck that lucky feeling right outta me.
Wanna wrath, take a look around the room
It's a dance, tired steps in brand new shoes
- Firefight
This is where our diligence has lead
The waves roll in to claim our patient steps
Can we become more than just ourselves?
And leave the sand, our want, our will, our doubt
It's firefight, I won't run.
They're spitting spite all through my blood
For you and me, there's nowhere left to hide
- Firestarter
i'm the trouble starter
pumpkin instigator
im the fear addicted
danger illustrated
im a twisted
you're a twisted
im a twisted
- For Me This Is Heaven
The first star I see may not be a star
We can't do a thing but wait
So let's wait for one more
The time such clumsy time in deciding if it's time
I'm careful but not sure how it goes
You can lose yourself in your courage
- Get It Faster
I don't care what you do
I'm getting out
No nothing ever shames me
Don't wanna thing from you
I'm going out
I don't care if you're angry
I'm getting out
No nothing ever shames me
- Get Right
Hands will take their place
Far from intentions made
Disguised as patience, time gets wasted
Now is for the now, so get loud
I'm, I'm destination addicted
I just gotta be some place else
Never good time, never feel the space to get it right
- Goodbye Sky Harbor
"Is tomorrow just a day like all the rest?"
How could you know just what you did?
Like all the rest..
How could you know just what you did?
So full of faith yet full of doubt I ask
Again,
- Gotta Be Somebody's Blues
Let the water come
She's the only one I love
Let the fat man drop
She's the sweetest honey pot
Will they see the sky again?
Who will sing their blues for them?
- hear u me
There's no one in town I know
You gave us some place to go.
I never said thank you for that.
I thought I might get one more chance.
What would you think of me now,
so lucky, so strong, so proud?
I never said thank you for that,
- Hear You Me
There's no one in town I know
You gave us someplace to go
I never said thank you for that
Thought i might get one more chance
What would you think of me now?
So lucky, so strong, so proud
Never said thank you for that
- Heart Is Hard To Find
I can't compete with the clear eyes of strangers
I'm more and more replaced
By my friends each night
I can't compete
Just can't recover
How many years it's been, it's day one in my mind
That's the first step
Each time
- Here It Goes
On, it's on.
I declare my room a scene
Gone, then gone
It's too much that they say you need
It's not perfection, yeah
How boring if it is
Nothing new for me
- Higher Devotion
The quiet should be nice but isn't
I guess we're going to spend the day like this
In psychic screaming
Don't you feel my eye-lasers hit?
Stare you down, but God, your skin is thick
What's it take to notice?
- I Will Steal You Back
When you pull me in sometimes I almost feel
Pictured in my head, it’s just too real
It’s gonna be how it is, there’s some things you don’t change
You’re done with telling us of that story
Chorus:
How slowly we built up walls
The years they pile on
- If you don't, don't
What's wrong baby?
Don't they treat you like they
Should?
Did you take them for it
Or every penny that you could?
We once walked out on the beach
And once I almost touched your
Hand
- If You Were Born Today
If you were born today
We'd kill you by age eight
Never get the chance to say:
Joy to the world and
Peace on the earth
Forgive them for they know not what they do
- Invented
When I first came to see you
I called it Houston Street
Could we meet?
Show me all the things you see
I'm one more here, some old-time pioneer
Who believes, with a shaken faith, I still have some cool
I could leave you here with your people
- Just Tonight
I was scared but once I thought about, I let it go
Everything she said to me I guess I oughta know
We're all tired of talk when it comes to shove
Put up, put out or stay at home.
Chorus:
Never be the same, never feel this way again
I give you anything but you want pain.
- Just Tonight...
I was scared but once I thought about, I let it go
Everything she said to me I guess I oughta know
We're all tired of talk when it comes to shove
Put up, put out or stay at home
We'll never be the same
Never feel this way again
I'd give you anything but you want pain
- Just Watch the Fireworks
Here you can be anything
And I think that scares you
I think that scares you..
Here, I've been here before
But only by myself..
Myself..
- Kill
Well, you're just across the street;
Looks a mile to my feet;
I wanna go to you.
Funny how I'm nervous still,
I've always been the easy kill;
I guess I always will.
Could it be that everything goes 'round by chance,
- Last Christmas
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
The very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
I'll give to someone special
Last Christmas I gave you my heart
The very next day, you gave it away
This year, to save me from tears
- Let It Happen
I have a ringing in my head
And no one to help me answer it
Even with you close enough to kiss.
Every minute is arranged
Every moment lasts a day
But thinking about it can't help me let go, I know.
- Littlething
It's how I've often felt*
When I find myself on nights like these
Like Christmas Eve
From the empty office window
To the street outside
It's everything not to call
And find out why
- Love Never
Love ain't never been your friend
Love never gonna hear what you're demanding
Love ain't some magical thing
Love never gonna be the way you're dreaming
It's gonna seem so far
It's gonna feel so hard
Until you want the work more than the reward
Do you want the work more than the reward?
- Lucky Denver Mint
This time it's on my own.
Minutes from somewhere else.
Somewhere I made a wish
With Lucky Denver Mint.
You're not bigger than this, not better.
Why can't you learn.
- Mixtape
Maybe we could put your tape back on
Rewind until the moment we went wrong
I was always just a little bit lost
Knowing what I do, I should have fought
Simple words connecting thought
Just pieces of the background until they're gone
I was only there to sing your song
- Movielike
My face coming down in streaks
All alone with your things, the apartment still ringing
Clean up and make my start
Not the way I hoped for
Welcome to New York
Nothing movie-like
Nothing magic
- My Best Theory
It's been a long time, so long
There's only one life I know (I know)
But I have my own mind
I'll say so if it seems right
(Hey rush out)
I see your warm face with the soft mouth
- My Sundown
I see it around me, I see it in everything.
I could be so much more than this.
I said my goodbye's this is my sundown.
I'm gonna be so much more than this.
With one hand high, you'll show them your progress.
You'll take your time, but no one cares.
No one cares.
I need you to show me the way from crazy.
- Night Drive
Lay back baby and we'll do this right
There's blankets in back we can use
I'll start the car, but we'll stay in park
The cold can kill us before fumes
Now's the right time for a good song
Got something to say what I can't
Do you feel bad, like I feel bad?
- No Sensitivity
Well, I've got my car, we could go and sit a while
I know it won't turn over but we'll get somewhere just the same
I'm through talking
(The strangest thing, but I feel safe when I'm lonely)
Don't take too much cause you'll get burned if it's all at one time
The world dont spin without you
Im amazed youre standing still
- Nothing Wrong
Hold them down our bleeding suspects
(Just because, just 'cause, just who are you?)
Like candle light, burn burn burn, baby
(Burn, burn, whose turn, Who gets a taste today?)
[Chorus]
We've done nothing wrong,
But we've done nothing
- Over
I'm not exactly sure what I should say
Everything I do is a mistake
Your attention is attention (It doesn't matter if it's fake or real)
I'll take it if I get it, oh
I've made up my mind
I'll do it over any time
You're over it, over me
- Pai
I don't feel the way I've ever felt
I know
I'm gonna smile and not get worried
I try but it shows
Anyone can make what I have built
And better now
Anyone can find the same white pills
- Pain
I don't feel the way I've ever felt
I know
I'm gonna smile and not get worried
I try but it shows
Anyone can make what I have built
And better now
Anyone can find the same white pills
- Please Say No
It was a freezing night and not a single cloud
I had a couple in me so I reached out
And then I heard your voice
Felt you all inside
I prayed for the distance to keep us in line
But there's things I've done you understand like no one else
There's pain I kept buried deep inside myself
I've been saying for forever 'hey that's not me'
- Polaris
I'll say it straight and plain
I know I've made mistakes
I've always been afraid
I've always been afraid
A thousand nights or more
I travelled east and north
Please answer the door
- Reason 346
They're disregarding us telling me I'm blind.
Trying to rid my mind,
and if worst comes to worst I think I'll be the first to never be the same.
We're not to blame.
I wasn't there.
Hair in her eyes and it didn't cost a thing.
Fell to my knees.
- Recommit
Will they tell you what you missed?
All you have traded in
And it hits
You're not that different
The truth is no one did
Half of it
Think all this time what you're giving
- Robot Factory
Falling off this cycle
and it really ticks me off when you calculate this time and place.
looking over shoulders,
can always be like what it seems when you were left to my old man.
i am why you bring me here,
tear these cloths down when we fight.
back around these towers.
like something you don't want to see.
- Salt Sweat Sugar
I'm not alone
'Cause the TVs on, yeah
I'm not crazy
'Cause I take the right pills everyday and rest
Clean your conscious
Clear your thoughts
With speyside
- Seventeen
Hung up here on a web of comfort.
Taking off with nowhere to go.
Standing tall with your new cloak armor.
Making out like it's all been done.
It's harder than it seems.
You'll slip but never fall.
They'll take you, where you won't come back to me.
- Softer
She's perfect in her own way.
Smoke rings rising to the winter grey.
Shining, stepping off a silver train.
She's amazing in her own way.
Always moving to a better place
Laughing, you won't get to her better traits.
I'm getting that sick taste in my mouth
from the medicine I can't keep down.
- Spangle
I'm glad you found the time to ring.
I just spent all day waiting.
I need to know what's happening.
Well at least we both agree.
Really don't know where to start.
Did you say you met some neighbor.
I guess I'm headed for a broken heart.
- Sparkle
She's got a worry I don't know
Only nineteen in this picture
Don't take the mystery away from me I'm so sorry
Now promises were made and broken as they're told
What makes you put trust in me?
With such a worried heart
You'll spend your lifetime waiting
- Splash Turn And Twist
With a turn and a twist she gets her
Wish
Just a smile makes her who she
Wants
It's the smoke from the spark when
The sulfur hits
It turns into an inspiration
- Stop
Don't have to be the prettiest
If you have the mind, the willingness
No one stops a girl who knows what she’s got
No reason why
I can't help following with my eyes
Even at my best,
I guess I'm still just one of them.
- Sweetness
Are you listening. (Whoa,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh)
Sing it back. (Ah,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh)
String from your tether unwinds.
(string from your tether unwinds, uh oh, uh oh)
Up and outward to bind
(Up and outward to bind, uh oh, uh oh)
I was spinning free (Whoa,oh,oh,oh,oh,oh)
- Table For Glasses
Sweep the dirty stairs, the ones I waited on.
This is just for me.
I felt it watching her.
And It happens too fast, to make sense of it,
Make it last.
It happens too fast, to make sense of it,
Make it last.
- Take 'Em As They Come
Last night I dreamed we was
Running through the outlands
Tears streaming, your pretty face all a wreck
(I held your daddy's gun
In my tremblin' hands)
And down the highway another stranger comes
You gotta take 'em, baby, when they come
- Takes My Pain Away
I don't feel the way I've ever felt.
I know.
Gonna smile and not get worried.
I try but it shows.
Anyone can make what I have built.
And better now
Anyone can find the same white pills.
- Telepath
In my mind, you are an old empty apartment
Sitting on your mother's table next to you is her
Carving out our names into each piece of wood and concrete
I told her I don't have a lot, but you can have my soul
Do you want me?
Baby, do you want me?
Do you want me?
No
- Ten
We left behind the busy crowd.
So it seems we slow down.
Meet me with a way out through the lies.
Nowhere, going nowhere in the fake yellow light.
The feelings change so fast.
Safety scares them away.
I cant bring myself to say its my own advice I need.
Nowhere and then nowhere.
- The Authority Song
It's how the hustle goes
See what the jukebox knows
Put my last quarter on
I play "Authority Song"
Honesty or mystery?
Tell me, I'm not scared anymore.
- The Concept
She wears denim wherever she goes
Says she's gonna buy some
Records by status quo oh yeah
Oh yeah
Still she won't be forced against her will
Says she don't do drugs but she does the pill
Oh yeah oh yeah
- The Middle
Hey, don't write yourself off yet.
It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on.
Just try your best, try everything you can.
And don't you worry what they tell themselves when you're away.
It just takes some time, little girl you're in the middle of the ride.
Everything will be just fine, everything will be all right.
- The Middle OST Ученик Чародея
Hey, don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head you feel left out or
looked down on.
Just try your best, try everything you can.
And don't you worry what they tell themselves when you're away.
It just takes some time, little girl you're in the middle, it'll up the ride.
Everything (everything) will be just fine, everything (everything) will be allright (alright).
- The Midlle
Hey, don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head you feel left out,
or looked down on.
Just try your best, try everything you can.
And don't you worry what they tell themselves when you're away.
It just takes some time,
little girl you're in the middle of the ride.
- The Most Beautiful Things
You say the most beautiful things
An endless list of treasures, trimmings
It takes all my faith just to start
I don't care now how much I'm wrong
(We run, we run) Show us all what grace can mean
(We run, we run) All of what I might be
(We run, we run) Close your eyes, call it escape
- The World You Love
I got a story it's almost finished
all i need is someone to tell it too
maybe, that's you.
our time is borrowed and spent to freely
every minute i have needs to be made up
but how?
i'm looking for a nice way to say
- Thinking, That's All
Play your hand.
don't play it off.
don't play that game.
out of touch.
there is no pride in seconds lost.
first cello suite.
I know I'm late.
what do you care.
- What Would I Say to You Now
Still sitting there with your legs crossed,
not paying attention to me.
If we talk, just curious, would this end up like it always does?
All the wrong I've done.
All the wrong I'll do.
Keeps me from trying.
It keeps me quiet.
Throw out your arms to each side.
- Work
If you only once would let me
Only just one time
Then be happy with the consequence
With whatever's gonna happen tonight
Don't think we're not serious
When's it ever not
The love we make is give and it's take
I'm game to play along
- Your House
Bleed American LP, Dreamworks Records / 2001
When you're on, I swear you're on.
Rip my heart out. You rip my heart right out.
I think the whole room can hear me, clear my throat.
You rip my heart right out.
- Your New Aesthetic
We're lowering the standard in a process selective.
The formulas to thin.
But it takes more than one person.
So everyone jump on.
I'll miss you when you're just like them
I remember back then thinking:
Easy comes but doesn't stay, what comes easy never stays.
- ваньку
There's no one in town I know
You gave us some place to go.
I never said thank you for that.
I thought I might get one more chance.
What would you think of me now,
so lucky, so strong, so proud?
I never said thank you for that,