TIME TO WASTE
There's someone down below blowing you a kiss
They watch from their windows
As all arms fall to their sides
And all eyes fix on the death of tomorrow
And you found everything you need
To make a life complete
Completely revolting and they have safety and relief
For sale down the street
I see you in line every day

You had time to waste and I'm not sorry
Such a basket case, hide the cutlery
I had time to kill, it's dead and buried
You've got guts to spill but no one trustworthy

These creatures are waking up in these dark trees
Waiting like vultures
Eyes roll back turn white in time to feed
They salivate in hunger
For you, and everything they need
To make a death complete
Completely unnatural and salvation lies
Behind those dead eyes that watch you while you sleep every night and...
THE POISON
It's not just the pain, the pain in my back
That laughs in my face, my face every night
Or the poison that took my lungs
That keeps me from feeling warm

But how could a rooftop view in London
Look just the same as one in Brooklyn?
Nothing has changed but now I fight with words
And I can't see so good

There's got to be more, much more than this
I've got pages of dreams, they're covered in piss
And the poison that took my soul,

It keeps me from feeling anything

And now I fight with the words...
BURN
There's a lightning storm each and every night
Crashing inside you like motorbikes
We toss and turn, sleep so loud
Grind the teeth in our
Our empty mouths (are empty...)

There's a forest fire burning bright
Spreading quickly towards our last rights
Nowhere to run, pointless to hide
Just lay there and scream, pretending to try (pretending...)

Intending to burn, pretending to fight it
Everyone learns faster on fire
Things took a turn, lost all desire
You live and you burn - you live and you burn

This impending doom is left deep inside
And it's haunting you each and every night
Like starving wolves counting sheep
We close our eyes, pretending to sleep (descending...)
Like hell we are anxiously waiting
Like hell burning silently strong
Somehow we fell down by the wayside
Somehow this hell is home (as we...)
MERCY ME
It's been a long day living with this
It's been a long time since I felt so sick
I took a long walk straight back home
I could've walked back to San Francisco
I used to long for time alone
I used to long for a place of my own
Now I'm losing faith in everything
I'm lost, so lost I'm lost at sea, you see

I used to long for broken bones
I used to long for a casket to call my own
I never had a problem facing fear
But I'm done, over and out my dear and

Oh, mercy me, God bless catastrophe
'Cause there's no way in hell
We'll ever live to see through this so
Drive yourself insane tonight
It's not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today

It's been a long day living with this
It's been a long time since I felt so sick
I took a long walk straight back home
I could've walked back to Chicago
I used to long for time alone
I used to long for a place of my own
And I've lost faith in everything
I'm lost, so lost I'm lost without you
DETH BED
Calling all cars all coroners, we've got a dead one here
And anybody else receiving this, the west coast is far from clear
Like a time bomb, or sudden death it's gonna find you
When you least expect, it's gonna leave you
With the emptiest feeling inside (over analyzed)

They found me face-down in the street
On the night you left to find another place to sleep
In rain and regret
They said they tried everything but it was no use
Yeah they tried everything and everyone but you

Falling like stars into the ocean black we're gonna disappear
And anything left recognizable is rubbed away with fear
We've got our hearts dipped in time release
We've got the know-how and the elbow grease
We've got our victim all cut up down here on the floor
(Over and out the door)
SETTLE FOR SATIN
It's not so much a storm, but just a cloud that lives inside of me
He doesn't stir so easily these days, but when he wakes
He goes the distance in a marathon of days too long
Open containers that sing songs, "you'll never dream again, but you can pray"

I guess we only settle in to what we know
I guess we always settle in, and we know...
That there is a comfort in a world where darkness is the only thing we see
And cold is all we have to breathe
Where affectations keep us company, where the lies we tell to the eyes that roll in doubt
Are somehow out of our control

It's not about the scars, but more the crowds that walk all over me
They don't give up too easily these days, but when they break they go to pieces
Fall apart right here in North Side bars under a sky that knows no stars
You'll never shine again, but you will stay
SADIE
You're on your own my little nightmare
You cannot stay here, it's far too bright for you
If they attack you, just lay there
Play dead dear, it's your only hope of pulling through
And seconds they seem like a lifetime, a dream recurring
A dream that can't come true
And they'll pin it all on you after all you've been put through

"Sadie G. she's crazy, see?" that's what the white coats say
Now Ms. Susan A. your losing every opportunity
To put us all away

Now run along my little nightmare
Your job is done here, you've scared them all to death.
If they revive them just sit there just smile dear
Make them thankful for every breath
This sentence may seem like a lifetime, a scream
That's curdling the blood they found on you
And your knives and clothing too
Charlie's broken .22

"Sadie G. she's crazy, see?" that's what the white coats say
Now Ms. Susan A. your losing every opportunity
Well they found you and they shipped you up the river the same way
That you bound and gaged, you shot then stabbed
You tried to set them free, but they've thrown away the keys
FALL VICTIM
Not sure how this is supposed to feel
Cutting like a red hot knife of surgical steel
Brought fresh from the autoclave
She came, she came with sterile warning
Screaming from her blade
Singing, "I want to make you bleed"

I watched them fall in line as I fell victim
To double suicide on your television
We heard our records backwards too many times
I'm wasting my breath, we're wasting our time

Down on my knees but not to pray
Hit so hard across the skull it buckled my legs
They told me I had hell to pay
I came, I came too close to heaven
Had nothing to say for myself
I had to walk away
I WAS A PRAYER
I am waiting 'til there's nothing left
I'm a prayer, all you see is breath
I am empty, I am skin and bones, I'm a rib cage
I am out the door with apathy
But I'm coming home with sympathy
I am realized, I am shamed, I choose to stay here

You got a sign, so I paid a ransom
You felt sorry, so I felt a wrath come
Had a nice grip on my life 'til you twisted my arm

There's a song I love so much I stole
Every precious note I took I sold
Now I spit out words. Do you see my lungs on the dance floor?
To a hopeless cause I sold my soul
A romantic plastic piece of shit you can mold
Until I break into chokable pieces

I open up like the back of a book
I ruin everything with just a quick look
And I settle down like a rocket explodes
Hit the ground, but how far out who knows
PREVENT THIS TRAGEDY
Here we are again with handguns for hearts
They had a master plan, wanted to tear us apart
Nothing to hold. All hope deleted
Our demise has been completed now
Nowhere left to go but down

The flames of hell they give me hope I drown
In oceans of this tragic part of town
Where nothing's heard for miles but the sound
Of children wishing they were safely underground

We are the walking dead, we hold this ghost in our arms
We take our daily breath and thank our unlucky stars
Tried to get by on bread and water
Craving blood poured from the alter now
Not much left to do but drown

In flames of miscommunication down
Then out and off in search of someone proud
To translate what we truly dream about
As we lay in this bed thinking out loud

I'm screaming uncle, mercy me
And my broken telepathy
For I'm left with nothing but this bloodless riverbank
West Memphis please
I'm begging you to stop praying for me
BACK TO HELL
Like the pills in your hand I'll never let you down
And like the bugs in your bed under my skin now
Devouring all that's left of me

In the palm of your hand's a resting place
All the guilt in the land is resting on me
And we're crushing beneath it, falling beside ourselves
And we're wishing to break this never ending spell

Send us back to hell, we've had our fill of heaven
Give us back our sins, deadly one through seven
Keep us from their hearts, saving us like ashes
Grind us down to dust, we'll never trust in anything we're told
YOUR NECK
We're the things that go bump in the night that you can't see
Yeah we're the mishaps that always happen in threes
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
Why the light of day that's shown to us
Is absolutely meaningless to me

Well first things first, we've gotta find a way
To make the beauty of the nighttime last all day
We'll do our very best to keep our appetites in check
You better watch your back, we may want your neck

Nothing but rotten apples lay here light years from the tree
Got thrown out of the house at the ripe age of three
I'll do my very best to keep my feelings off my chest
And out of your neck

We're the things that go bump in the night that you can't see
Yeah we're the mishaps that always happen in threes
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
Why the light of day that's shown to us
Is absolutely meaningless to me

We're the dreams that crumble into nightmares while you sleep
Yeah we're that feeling someone's watching from the street
This ain't no rocket science, no big mystery
Why the light of day that's shown to us
Is absolutely meaningless to me
SMOKE
Over and out of it for one more plane ride out
Not sure, and never was if this will all head south, or what
Wait here a month or two will pass, I'm sure I won't
Faith dear, enough to get you by until we're home

I wish I don't wish I still smoked
I wish I wrote you one original note
Take me home, tuck me in
Moon go down, do it again