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Traitorous Heart
Every time I go
Every time I stay
Every time that my life shakes
A traitorous heart a fire makes
Every time that my life turns
X more years until it burns
Walk me through the frozen cars
Through pitch black ice cold back yards
No conversation just cigarettes
Behind our backs the city is dead
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Sixes And Stars
I know why we're stranded here it's broken landing gear
And we'll crash but we need to carry on
From up above the clouds it's not as far down
But we'll fall and the trip could last for days
It was a mourning son that found me
It was a midnight rain that bound me
Written on the wall
In my childish scrawl
First the right way
Then the wrong way
All sixes and stars
Your house is burning down and there is light and sound
But you turn and look out at the world
Every star in the sky is only broadcast light
They may be or they might have gone
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Panes of glass
All our homes are built
With panes of glass
Time can see through
Watch us while we pass
Life can see right through
Things can crash right past
In your head doors close
Questions never asked
It's the same old song
Time to sing along
All my pets die
While I live so long
They all watch me watch them
Until they're gone
Watch the garden grow
Picking apples soon
When the world grows cold
No more flowers bloom
It's the same old song
The one we all have sung
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Astoria beach
It's slowing down
We all think that the tide won't come
While we're slowly building up these great sand castles
We all look the other way
Behind our backs the waves are closer every moment
We all hear the sound
Of waves crashing over us
The leaves are brown
We all think that the time won't come
That the snow is six feet deep in Ensenada
We all look to yesterday
Back then we had forgotten about winter
We all feel this way
When snow falls down on everything
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Bloody toothpaste Water
I should not be here now
I should not be here
Goes down the same old way
Goes down the same old
I think I died yesterday
But something's wrong with my body
The mouth moves but that's not what I'd say
Tired words gone away
Could I have tried yesterday
And made a real me for tomorrow
Your mouth cuts my best disguise away
Tired mask gone away
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Gone away
The road that we drive is mostly sand
The plains that we cross are flat and and bland
We skid and lose traction
Act and reaction
My hand on the right finds your left hand
The car is now stuck we're talking and
We find ourselves walking
But never stop talking
Chorus:
When we speak
We speak as one
The things we say
We say at once
All we feel
We've felt so long
Between us now
The space is gone
Gone away
We walk from noon till end of day
No one can hear the things we say
We walk to a hilltop
Perhaps have the same thoughts
The lights below while burning now
One by one they'll all burn out
We are both nervous
But with new purpose
(chorus)
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Light blue or yellow
I wrote my fears on post-it notes
And papered all my walls
Light blue or yellow paper
And ball point scrawl
From the center of this room
My writing is unclear
The letters get more abstract
The more I stare
Chorus:
The sun is out right now
But the rain is coming soon
The sky may clear tonight
So the stars will be in view
Every single tape I made
On four track all alone
I smashed to bits one evening
I was feeling down
The dats I had from my first band
I burned with gasoline
The fire alarm provided the music
Appropriately
(chorus/chorus)
If all I do is feel bad it's gonna be bad
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Listen Close
I think this is the end
We've been angry for ten thousand hours
I hate the way we sound
When we sit and stare in silence
Chorus:
Shut the door close the blinds
Sit behind them and listen
To the sound that brought us here
To the feeling in your bones
We are never going home
I hate the way we are
As we walk and talk in circles
I am no good at this
And I read nothing but fiction
(Chorus)
Our crown is losing jewels like teeth they fall
The sound we hear is like white paint on walls
Everywhere but nowhere clear or true
Cutting through what's left between we two
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One long day
When all the solar system is bathed in red
There is no water here now just molten lead
What was yellow forever has left us dead
To the ice cold outside the smart ones fled
This is the sun's last act oh this is the end
This is the way that stars fail this is the wind
If bags of water see her burn like Rome
The frozen worlds of outside are now our home
Chorus:
From where we were it's just one long day
There are no clouds to be gray
From where we are it's just one long night
But bathed in a distant red light
From where we were it's just one long day
The seasons are minutes in flame
From where we are it's just one long night
Our eyes will adjust to this light
Mercury is a cinder the moon burned down
Iron turns to gas in your hometown
Saturn spins in fire he turns in flame
Now his rings and moons have melted away
Not now
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Robbie the robot
Turn over and over
Are the eyes we see seeing us now?
Look over your shoulder
Are the blank gray stares hiding something?
Watching while we look down
Quiet as we are loud
This seems just like…..
Look out your window
Are the things we see in the streets real?
Or are they only
The dreams we have when we can't sleep
Walking past here slowly
Eyes like crimson only
They seem just like…..
Chorus:
The sound of rain on your window sills
The way hell looks in Nintendo games
The feel of burns on your finger tips
The taste of blood running past our lips
Come over come over
We can look and see where we are now
Burn all those notebooks
As they turn to ash will our memories
(turn to ash as well)
Burning as we fall down
Listen it's a new sound
This sounds just like…..
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Someone New
I can't hear what you say now
It's the same old thing you used to say to me
But now you're talking to someone new
It's the same words you used to use with me
But now you lie to someone new
I don't care (you know I do)
We don't sleep in the same room
But it's the same old room you used to share with me
But now you're lying with someone new
You sleep in the room you shared with me
But now you lie with someone new
I don't care (you know I do)
(You said we'd walk together)
(We both walk alone)
(The things you said you showed me)
(None of them have shown)
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Storyboard
Let's move backwards through your photographs
Of misspent afternoons
Try and figure out
What went wrong with you
This is where you let it out
This is where you gave it up
This one has you throwing up
This is why you need a flash
This one has you arm in arm with her
Here you're sitting on the couch
Here you're drunk and passing out
Here you're riding passenger
Here you're standing in the rain
Here you're sitting on the couch again
Let's try to order these better
By date and by weather we can get this done
We'll make a storyboard
And insert dialogue
This is where you went that Spring
This is where they took it out
This is all burned to the ground
Here you're in the rain again
This one has you underneath the frost
In this one you're saying things now lost
In this one I swear I see your ghost
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Takes you down
Its dark here beneath your stained glass makes me nervous
sickly confessions of nothing chain
you to fire or under dark water takes you down takes you takes you down takes
you (repeat)
Look at the way you're getting by now
Head in the clouds hands in the fire
You go on and on and on now
Trying to sing yourself to sleep
Don't let the things underneath your bed
Whisper to you what to think of
They're afraid you're not afraid of
The empty world around your bed
Chorus:
Let's not believe in anything
Far worse is error than mortal terror
Let's not believe in anything
If this is all than that's all there is
I'll tell you why these lies hold on now
Better then nothing cooler then fire
All they do is take away away your
Independence and resolve
Can't you see its paper thin
Turning to smoke your world's on fire
Life takes me and you the same way
Leaving only dust and ash
(chorus)
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The way that we are now
It's hard to see it
It's hard to see
It's hard to know it
It's hard to sleep
In that shadow
Of all that's passed
In our summer
Before the fall
Chorus:
This road we're walking down it leads to rome
And all roads lead there now that man walks down
The way that we are now
All fire and sound
The coliseum
Is falling down
The way that we are now
All fear or fight
My television
Is on all night
Na na na na
Na na na na
It's hard to hear it
A grinding sound
Its hard to feel it
Under the ground
At first so softly
And then so loud
Its got our number
In its mouth but now
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This song is a letter
My hands are like branches
My head is going south
Your eyes are deep water
Your heart is in my mouth
This couch is my bed now
This floor is where I write
You knock on my front door
You come here late at night
My flesh feels like freezing
My breath comes fast like fire
You're here and you miss me
You're gone now you're a liar
This fight is not over
This night will soon be day
You drive far to see me
Drive far to get away
Chorus:
This song is a letter
Written on the air
This song is a letter
Delivered to nowhere
Now
This song is a letter now
This song is a letter now
This song is a letter now
This song is a letter now
My voice is a siren
My friends it makes me sick
You're so good to listen
Your own voice answers quick
This year was a long one
Each moment passes by
You marked every minute
You cannot say goodbye
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Wind Up Toys
I look for my name in obituaries
But I never find any sign of me
I walked home this morning past the mortuary
The people inside seemed so business-like to me
I drive to the liquor store past the cemetery
It's all so orderly underneath those trees (just like a quiet scream)
Chorus:
I am the opposite of afraid tonight
That this place is cold
This blood is a river and I shake and I shiver
But there's no going home
I spend my Saturdays clipping obituaries
The ones that I like best are always very plain
The clock on the wall might stop…no more ticking or clock
Cease to function and cease to be (just like everything)
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