1. ARTIFICIAL NOCTURNE

I'm just as fucked up as they say
I can't fake the daytime
Found an entrance to escape into the dark

Got false lights for the sun
It's an artificial nocturne
It's an outsider's escape for a broken heart

Hiding out in the back
Like shadows in a stranger's dream
Hiding out in the back together
Hiding out in the back forever

I'm me
All that I believe
In dreams
So real
Fate, I have to take the con
Fate don't fail me now

I'm me
ll that I believe
I set myself free
So take all the time you need
And let yourself be

I'm as fucked up as they say
I can't fake the daytime
Found an entrance to escape into the dark
Got false lights for the sun
It's an artificial nocturne
An outsider's escape for a broken heart


2. YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH

Hangman we played rubber soul with a razor blade
Behind the church, hiding place, it was a long joke till
the punch line came
Can you read my mind? read my mind
Follow along to the end of the song

Hangman we played double dutch with a hand grenade
Behind the church, hiding place. apathetic to the devil’s face.
Wear the sheriff’s badge put your toys away
They let us go saying let us pray!

Hangman we played hide and seek on the fire escape
Through the smoke we saw the flame it was a long wait until the firetruck came. on the count of three
Jump with me on the count of three
1… 2… 1… 2… 3… go

Hangman we played blind man’s bluff with the 9th brigade
Throw the brick through the windowpane
Double dutch til they stop the game, till the cops show up hand cuff stunned let us go but we lost one!
Hangman we played blind man’s bluff
Until they stopped the game
Youth without youth, born without time
Youth without youth, can you read my mind?


3. SPEED THE COLLAPSE

All the way from where we came
We built a mansion in a day
Distant lightning, thunder claps
Watched our neighbors house collapse
Looked the other way

And then the storm was overhead
All the ocean's boil and river's bled
We auctioned off our memories in the absence of a breeze
Scatter what remains, scatter what remains

Pushed away and I'm pulled toward
A come down of revolving doors
Every warning we ignored
Drifting in from distant shores
The wind presents a change of course
Second record in a sorts
We were wasted waiting for
A come down of revolving doors

Fame don't follow me

And when the days that followed past
In another mansion built to last
From our window we could see
Only possibilities down the road and back
But, then the storm returned for more
In a come down of revolving doors
Auction off our memories in the absence of a breeze
Scatter what remains, scatter what remains

Fame don't follow me.


4. BREATHING UNDERWATER

I'm the blade, you're the knife
I'm the wind, you're the kite
They were right when they said
We were breathing underwater
Out of place all the time
In a world that wasn't mine to take

I'll wait

Is this my life?
Am I breathing underwater?

I'm the blade, you're the knife
I'm the wind, you're the kite
They were right when they said
We should never meet our heroes
When they bow at their feet
In the end it wasn't me

Is this my life?
Am I breathing underwater?

Lights of days
Will beat a path through the mirrored maze
I can see the end, ahaha
But it hasn't happened yet

Is this my life?
Am I breathing underwater?


5. DREAMS SO REAL

When I get to the bottom of it I sink
Seems like nothing I said
Ever meant anything
But a headline over my head
Thought I made a stand
Only made a scene
There's no feast for the underfed
All the unknown, dying or dead
Keep showing up in my dreams
They stand at the end of my bed
Have I ever really helped
Anybody but myself
To believe in the power of songs
To believe in the power of girls
Though the point were making is gone
Played stripped down to my bone

I'll shut up and carry on
The scream becomes a yawn
I'll shut up and carry on
The scream becomes a yawn
I'll shut up and carry on
The scream becomes a yawn
I'll shut up and carry on
The scream becomes a yawn
I'll shut up and carry on
The scream becomes a yawn

Our parents daughters and sons
Believed in the power of songs
What if those days are gone
My memory is strong
Anyone not dying is dead
And baby it won't be long
So shut up and carry on
The scream becomes a yawn

I'll shut up and carry on
The scream becomes a yawn
I'll shut up and carry on
The scream becomes a yawn
I'll shut up and carry on
The scream becomes a yawn
I'll shut up and carry on
The scream becomes a yawn

Baby where ever you are
Baby whatever you do
Faster than you think
Time staggers on...


6. LOST KITTEN

Don't say yes if you can't say no
Victim of the system, say it isn't so
Squatted on the doorstep, swollen on the blow
Leaving without you, can't say no

Halfway starts with happiness for me
Halfway house, lost kitten in the street
Hit me where it hurts, I'm coming home to lose
Kitten on the catwalk, high-heeled shoes

No more hard-headed Saturdays
They got it, they want it, they give it away
Tell me one thing you would never do
I was looking for a hooker when I found you

You've got my eyes, you've got my eyes
You'll never be mine, ah, but you've got my eyes

When you lie, I'll cover it up
When you hide, I'll cover it up
When you cry, I'll cover it up
When you come undone, I'll cover it up

So pent up, I was coming home to you
Happy in the nighttime, howlin' at the moon
Sippin' on a cocktail, drinking in the loo
There's something about you I hold on to

You've got my eyes, you've got my eyes
You'll never be mine, ah, but you've got my eyes

When you lie, I'll cover it up
When you hide, I'll cover it up
When you cry, I'll cover it up
When you're blind, I'll cover it up

When you lie, I'll cover it up,
When you hide, I'll cover it up
When you cry, I'll cover it up
When you come undone, I'll cover it up

They got it, they want it, they give it away
They got it, they want it, they give it away
They got it, they want it, they give it away
They got it, they want it, they give it away


7. THE VOID

All night, like a child
I stayed up to prove
I can keep up
All night, like a fool
I stayed up to prove
I can keep up with you

All night (All night we were playing in the city)
All night (Sing along with the band, losing my voice)
All night (Be planned when you try to build my choice)
All night (Sing along with the band it was steeling my voice)

What can I say
I say up to prove
I can keep up
I say up to prove
I can keep up with you

All night (All night we were playing in the city)
All night (Sing along with the band, losing my voice)
All night (Be planned when you try to build my choice)
All night (Sing along with the band it was steeling my voice)

All night, all night

What can I say
I say up to prove
I can keep up with you

All night (All night we were playing in the city)
All night (Sing along with the band, losing my voice)
All night (Be planned when you try to build my choice)
All night (Sing along with the band it was steeling my voice)
All night (Sing along with the band it was steeling my voice)


8. SYNTHETICA

Some of us are wild ones, ever underwanted, I believe
Lining up in the background, waiting for the crap shot to be seen
In the shadow of the big screen, everybody begs to be redeemed

Hey, I'm not synthetica
I'll keep the life that I've got

We were never meant to crawl in for the bait, we never will
I can think for myself, I've got something no pill could ever kill

Hey, I'm not synthetica
I'll keep the life that I've got
So hard, hard to resist synthetica
No drug is stronger than me, synthetica

We're all the time confined to fit the mold
But I won't ever let them make a loser of my soul

Hey, I'm not Synthetica
I'll keep the life that I've got
I'll keep the life that I've got
I'll keep the life that I've got
I'll keep the life that I've got


9. CLONE

Call me out
My regret
Only makes me
Stronger yet

Nothing I've ever done right
Happened on the safe side
It's the other way
I'm missing everyone I know now

It's too late in the day
Too late in the day to take you on all the rides
I was afraid to tell you that

Back to that
Photograph
Can you clone me?
I look like everyone you know now

It's too late in the day
Too late in the day to turn it around or change my mind
It's too late in the day to take you on all the rides
It's too late in the day to tell me I'm off the path
We're already in the aftermath

Call me out
My regret
Only makes me
Stronger yet

It's too late in the day
Too late in the day to turn it around or change my mind
It's too late in the day to take you on all the rides
It's too late in the day to tell me I'm off the path
We're already in the aftermath


10. THE WANDERLUST

I've been sleepwalking
Through the railway station
Wake me up
When they call my destination

Where I've been
I was bound to leave behind
All device
And all disease was mine

I'm speeding out of reach
Oh, you're the one I had to meet

I never wanted to go home
(Wanderlust will carry us on)
There was nothing there for me
(Wanderlust will carry us on)
In a high rise on my own
(I've been no returns from highways for so long)
Looking out at a mirrored balcony
(Wanderlust)

Will there ever be a place for you and me?
Wanderlust

I'm rolling in for a seven day weekend
Living up again to my old reputation
Can you cover me?
Cause I got no armor
Keep on moving down the line
Keep on going further

I'm speeding out of reach
Oh, you're the one I had to meet

I never wanted to go home
(Wanderlust will carry us on)
There was nothing there for me
(Wanderlust will carry us on)
In a high rise on my own
(I've been no returns from highways for so long)
Looking out at a mirrored balcony
(Wanderlust will carry carry carry us on)
I don't know where to go now, I got nowhere to hide
(Nowhere to go, nowhere to be)
I don't know where to go now, I got nowhere to be
(Oh, wanderlust will carry us on)
Walk fifty city blocks down but they always find us
(Wanderlust will carry us on)
Will there ever be a place for you and me?
(Wanderlust will carry us on)
Will there ever be a place for you and me?


11. NOTHING BUT TIME

Steal once, pay twice
Advice to heed
I won't, I might
Advice to head

You always said that love was not enough
Always on the move
(Advice to heed)
And even though we long to shut it up
We could never choose
(Advice to heed)
Now we know there's nothing awaiting us
Better than the truth
(Advice to heed)
I wanted to be part of something
I got nothing but time, so the future is mine