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| Start Together
If you want me it's changing If you want everything's changing If you want the sky would open up If you want your eyes could open up I'm a mess I'm the worst But the best that you've heard Come so far come close together Don't tear apart what we worked for Right or wrong here we are I wanna know what you are Baby don't you leave me baby don't you go I'll head out the fences head out the door I don't know What you want But I got What you.. Baby don't you leave me baby don't you go I'll roll with the punches roll out the door |
| Hot Rock
I'm onto you before the night is through I'm going to steal this diamond hot rock to you I'm not the one you wanted not the thing you keep how am I to know what you want me to feel? counterfeit or real? It's a caper theme. there's a getaway car A diamond to steal, a plan that might go wrong If this is a set up. please let me know I can't risk my life for a guilded stone (I thought all along this was everything Try not to look to hard to find that it's not real I knew all along you weren't everything Then in the darkest hour I watched you disappear) It's a crafty scene, full of power and greed You tell me not to steal, yet you still want a thief You write out the plans. I carry out the act But then I lose it all if I can't bring it back (How was I to know this rock was so fragile It cracked in my hands while I was holding on An uncut stone is flawed and beautiful Don't try to size me down to fit your tiny hands) I'm not the girl you wanted not the thing you keep It's not real You don't need to tell me that it's not real I'm onto you before the night is through I'm going to steal my heart back and find a love that's true hot rock to you |
| The End of You
Build for me your tightest ship make the oars run swift and fast. Send me out your strongest crew make their hearts and minds steadfast, Bless me with Athena there's no meaner, she's the best. For when we hit the roughest seas we'll need all we can get. You say "sink or swim" what a cruel cruel phrase I'd rather fly don't want to get caught in this endless race The first beast that will appear will entice us with money and fame. If you listen long enough you'll forget there's anything else. Tie me to the mast of this ship and of this band. Tie me to the greater things the people that I love. You can walk the plank do the dead mans float Never let them see your heart is pounding full of hope. Let the last storm hit us let it strike at the hardest part. Turn us all to mutiny turn this boat upside down. I am not the captain I am just another fan. Sailing off the edge of truth into the end of you. Eye of the storm, what a cruel cruel myth There's no bigger spotlight than shown on the ones brave enough to live. |
| Burn, Don't Freeze
I’d set your heart on fire but arson is no way to make a love burn brighter. (When you saw me, on that first day said I’d blossom under your care). Always thought that the devil was the only one who knew the ins and the outs of the ways of love, so I sold off my heart to see how this would end, now I can’t move an inch for fear it will begin. (Wrap me up tight inside your wing Is it safe now, is it safe to breathe?) You come in between me and the darkness, please don’t ever leave. (I force my eyes open, and now who has changed? You look different, so different today) Holding your eyes in the hardest stare running around like you wanted me there Lookin’ at me like I’m the hottest in town then turnin’ your back when you’re movin’ around I ain’t gonna listen to you no more breakin’ outta this place throwin’ open the door Use me up just to fan the flame but you’ll be sony as I’m walkin’ away (Backwards, forwards going out of my mind, spinning way off time Fire to water baby’s putting me out) You’re the truest light I’ve known, but someday I’ll learn I don’t need your fuel to burn. I’m the one who decides who I am I’m the one who will shed this old skin) Always thought that hell was the only place hot enough to melt our hearts into a locked embrace There’s something so safe about a lack of air the only way to make sure that you’ll always be there (I force my eyes open, and now who has changed? I feel different, so different today) |
| God is a Number
We’re a reference number, a code, a screen. An army out of digits, out of fax machines. Mapping out the head and heart, mapping out the history. If a part does not compute, cut it out, cut it free... God is a Number. What you want to know, what can you believe? Grow up on the internet, get off on t.v. Tell me about God and Country, music, heart and history. Answer me with computations, answer me with industry. Knock on every door, programmed to receive. Answer my communication! Display! Command! Retreat! Looking for some kind of heart inside this great machine I don’t get an answer except 011 011 01... |
| Banned from the End of the World
Banned from the end of the world I’ve no millenial fear, the future is here, it comes every year (If you want me there, I’ll play forever dear Open up the box a new life rushes out Nasty little bug, much work to be done Eat all the numbers up, we’re 00 gone!) Hot hot, go back, these eyes are shut! If you want it, I’ll come right over then throw me out when the party’s over Banned from the end of your world We can bottle time and sell it back It’s a nostalgic crime! (If you want me there, we’ll party without fear A new world rushes on and we'll just play along A night of revelry spend it here with me For so many dreams cannot be contained) Banned from the end of the world The future is here, look in the mirror (We're the band from the end of the world.) |
| Don't Talk Like
Don't talk like like you're nineteen you're thirty-five If you're a day don't act like like you're nineteen Everyone is waiting Haven't I done enough this time Haven't I done enough today Don't stop here she said Don't say that A part of me is dead Numb just like a Fallen limb Like what you left behind There's a part of me that works just like a child There's a part of me that's you |
| Get Up
And when the body finally starts to let go let it all go at once not piece by piece. but like a whole bucket of stars dumped into the universe. Whoooh! Watch it go! Good-bye small hands, good-bye small heart, good-bye small head My soul is climbing tree trunks and swinging from every branch They're calling on me, they're calling one me... Do you think I'm an animal? Am I not? Do you like fur Do you wanna come over Are we captive only for a short time Is there splendor, I'm not ashamed Desire shoots through me like birds singing (The way you move no ocean's waves were ever as fluid) They're calling on me, they're calling one me... I hit the mark! I target moon, I target sky, I target sun. Fall down on the world before it falls on you. Like beggars, like stars, like whores, us all Like beggars, like dogs Like stars, us all Shoot straight for my heart (And when you were near no sky was ever quite so clear) Like stars, so small Like us. when we fall Like beggars, like whores Like lovers, Get Up! Get up...too far. |
| One Song for You
If you want it and you're going out of your mind If you want me in your bed we better do it on the sly, and you know why One Song for you We wrote a little tune it takes off for you Hold on, hold on it's coming soon If you feel it in your body like a hurricane, Let your arms become propellers take off don't feel any shame. I know for you it don't make sense I don't make sense Nothing comes true because the doors were locked for you Got a message spelled out in a lovesick bruise I got this secret code only flameholders know how to use. Piled up for you the notes I wrote on hollow walls Let me come through Pass through the things that we went through Have memory of the things we said take memory of the things we left drop little boy crumbs you could follow back when you get lost becoming a man It's a lie. it's the truth You need it more than I do I want it all for you but I can't live for you |
| The Size of Our Love
Our love is the size of these tumors inside us Our love is the size of this hospital room, you're my hospital groom Put the ring on my finger, so tight it turns blue A constant reminder I'll die in this room if you die in this room Sit like a watchdog and patiently wait Listen for footsteps down the hallways visit beds like they're graves Days go by so slowly Nights go by so slowly In a hospital room In a box built for two I fight for air, fight for my own air Forget all the things I can do alone I fight for a heart, I fight for a strong heart I fight to never know this sickness you know But I know its my own, I gave it a home Our love is the size of these tumors inside us Our love is the size of this hole in the ground where my heart's buried now. |
| Living in Exile
Once I had all, had everything the real princess, the ruling queen I walked with arrogance, with vanity but I made sure my heart they wouldn't see One day I woke up it was gone the castle kingdom all were lost Now I have nothing left nowhere to go And my heart that's full of doubt is all I've left to show She is living in exile. I'll walk 3.000 lonely miles I'll start a new life on my own Don't know what I'm waiting for but when it comes You know that I'll be ready a new woman I know my head is my worst enemy Swallowed too much of it and started to believe I know my heart is my worst enemy Swallowed too much of it and started to believe |
| Memorize Your Lines
I've learned how to wait. I know not to beg. I know I shouldn't ask why I wake up feeling dead. (Say forever, that's a dirty word Will you stay here, that's a dirty girl) Performance of my life, performance of your life. (Act two, scene four line three I want this room, just for me, just for me) You said you'd never be mine, you swore it to me until the end of time You said that love's never kind, I memorize these lines, practice them every night. We can talk it out, tell each other lies. We can just pretend today isn't goodbye. (It will be soon, now heard that before You better polish your speech before you hit the floor...) Wont you tell me what are we fighting for? Do you want me here do you know for sure? You know the coldest face is the worst to me and I won't calm down till I get to you You know that I wish I could undo this role Let's go back to what, what we came here for |
| A Quarter to Three
It's one a.m you haven't called it must be four wherever you are And the photo booth strip, and the letter you wrote they feel like nothing I could hold Nothing bad, nothing free there's nothing left for me to feel It's like goin' to bed at a quarter to three Finally tired, finally empty Should I be up to play the game back and forth get back at me And my confidence fell and I feel so mad tell me whose side are you on? It's like goin' to pieces could fix everything At this point I'm really me |