VIOLINS
I am just another fool and I have to keep
telling myself that I am just a hypocrit and I have to keep calling you
one'cause I forgot to bite my tongue and my assumption is the mother of all
mistakes as I assume the role open my mouth and clumsy words escape [chorus] so
why you want to be there when you could be here you are slipping away I awake
with tour replacement a bottle in my grasp in an unfamiliar place because you
put me out the butt of a sick joke into this ashtray life as you come and go
'cause I forgot to service you and we broke down and you can't live with my
mistakes so I assume false grace open my arm and grasp at something true
[chorus] how are you how have you been girl I miss you wanna see you again
[repeat chorus] I bring out the worst in you and you try to let me know you
bring out the worst in me anxiety I'm trying to let you go you say I'm giving
you the creeps so I assume the bole open my claws and grasp for your heart
[repeat chorus] into you like a mortal stake so vindictive your love's slipping
away violins violence the butt of your sick joke into ashtray life I'm trying
hard to let you go
NAME DROPPING
Crysti can't take all the pressure
kevin hates the girls he dates mia says she's gonna snap I need a new car to
drive away derek beats up all his grilfriends Jessie like to comb his hair
hanacek is on the wagon I tried not to'speak today [chorus] you slip and fall
they pick you up and throw you down again I left them there and found them here
I was rarely smart enough to dodge the careless words you find them everywhere
it breaks you into two emily had sex with joey chris is weird he must be gay
everyone is smoking h and I tried hard to laugh today every word you hear you
repeat every word you repeat you change here's a quarter there's a phone why
don't you call someone who cares [repeat chorus] I left them there and found
them here It breaks me into two
BOMBS AWAY
you've got a thing about being lame you
think you'll show us all your handicap is great you've got a thing about being
lost you think with our concern you'll find yourself and you'll never be
forgotten your family never wanted this one with all of her flaws she's trailing
far behind she's feeling incomplete she has no will to win listening I live
inside your room and you punish me as though I punish you dumb before it's done
I am saint will you tell me now I never could relate to how you've been
forgotten your family never wanted this one with all of her flaws but I wanna
know was this deprivation of money or of love [pre-chorus] this is the last time
you will be denied girl you want that world that they took away go pick up the
pieces find inner strenght 'cause I can't save you find the life you left in a
box the world you said has cut you off [chorus] bombs await you bombs away now
let them all fall down you carry the burden it fills you with regret you never
finished that feeling incomplete you carry their baggage the guilt that holds
you down [repeat pre-chorus] [repeat chorus] bombs away now 'cause life's been
so hard and so long that's why I'm writing you this song
MOVE THE CAR
The story it grows older the story is no
story here i never knew what it is and there's no sign of it ending as i am it
and ought to be they're telling me i am [chorus] bowling race car driver
superficial hitman you're on the list at every door you don't bowl or race fast
cars composition competition you drive just because i don't go to the church
where you reside i might as well go for it the nineties won't be back again
until i'm forty-eight years old i can be the hungry as i eat my words again
appealing yet apalling rising to my falling going to extreme ends i am gagging
on their scene [repeat chorus] you shift i'm the driver over time in it's
defense i move their car and for a moment it makes sense i fail them in the end
i fail it in the end in the arms of old age knowing only one to lose feeling
nothing more to hide consider life a forgery as you're gagging on your scene
admit to fraudulence driven to this thought death is certain faith is not
[repeat chorus] composition competition you drive competition competition i'm
losing i fail it in the end
SLEEP
Hi it's me i'm bored again all is well i'm not
insane i've been drunk for seven days everything is fine i made some friends
broke the ice then i ate bread and cheese to gain some weight keep me warm
everything's o.k. [chorus] it's me delivering psychosis over the phone to you i
color your world blue ten thousand miles from you i'm sinking all alone treading
new waters i miss my buoy the van smells like a dirty sock everyone has got the
flu i'd rather be sick of you i'd rather be asleep [repeat chorus] when i get
home the band will have it's first hit song you and i will buy some rings and a
suburban home i'll bring home the bacon bits we'll make our parents grandparents
i'll take you out the breakfast at night and then we'll go to sleep
SICK
I've been living for years in question some
obsession was i less to live without answers as a life cried wolf i'm ashamed to
mention my anguish but silence lies empty if i say it again can i kill it will
you lend me your ears breathe in breathe out exhale acting sweating a broken
smile provides them a view projection is nothing new just once i would like them
to feel it suffer in my skin for a moment stand in my shoes filled with swelling
blues [chorus] i keep this room and this room keeps me chained to my organs i am
quarantined to a place that's dark staring at three walls the door is locked to
them 'maybe now that they all know it you'll find solace as you'r drowning in
narcissism or is it self-loathing 'cause you fought it all in your head boy
psychosomatic they used to humor you now they pity you and nothing's changed
[repeat chorus] the door is locked behind me if i say it again can i kill it
because they're sick of my complaining and i am sick of being sick maybe these
will cure you completely chemicals deeply saviors until you're dependent don't
let them go to your head i'm ashamed to mention my anguish but silence lies
empty silence lies
RIFLE
I'm not the one who is pointing the finger you
hypocrite we're not true enough to be part but i speak of what i have learned i
haven't a flag to be burned born wrong descend upon us you're only honest but
are you an artist or just a preacher to those who want to hate everything you
told them to see everything you told them to hear we simply ask them to listen
and express what we feel born right rifle me playing on their sympathy you're
the one waving the flag you're the one starting the war we're not compromising
or trying to conquer
WEAK
Come to know them and what makes them burn take
out your aggressions and alleviate the hurt fueled by some loss we'll never know
i sit down now 'cause i'm not playing with you abusing amusing your peers and
all your demons in passive aggression accusing all else but you hurt the ones
you've grown to love you feed on them embitterment refills your empty soul
release it into them your sharp words alcohol enhanced fueled by guilt your
checkered past you had the last word and we are having the last laught laught at
me as i sit this one out and they're dancing around me afraid you give me
strenght to call it weak
BLACK EYES
He knows no shame and takes no blame this
simpleton sees everything he's only satisfied to point out other's mistakes
never afraid to use his pride his tradition is old his faith a hand-me-down the
family he wears them on his sleeve morale and values left under a christmastree
he once had the gift this image in his grandparents eyes no guns no drugs no
rape no end this vacant soul is pale and blue in empty gaze his crow's feet are
a vision of defeat sick and tired of the meaninglessness the irrationale he's
desensitized his every need and emotion a cup half empty but full of euphoria
he's searching for the light switch in the dark to switch his routine to find a
reason to find faight and piece of mind when one to many beliefs die it's tough
to see through these black eyes everyone forgives everyone forgets everyone is
true and no one here will lie to you he knows the truth he knows the truth here
nothing's certain disregard what you've learned to find faith in piece of mind
all of thier gods died with his peace i should know him that heathen's me
BRO DEPENDENT
I try to focus on what i hear listen
to what i see i've thought of it a lot and it's becoming all to clear [chorus] i
take it in excess as my true feelings are suppressed i can not find the words to
say it without hurting not listening to what you say now watching the things you
do as you take a dose of grief as you insist there's no relief perhaps another
drink and you take it in excess as your true feeling are supressed you can not
find the way to cure it without hurting you cure it but it seems your problem
still remains obsession compulsion my friend overdoing evertything so focus on
what you need listen to what you hear this is the last time i listen it's
becoming oh so clear i'm completely confused here [repeat chorus] i've spoken
all too soon
RAZOR BURN
She broke up with me two days later i
think she met her don juan in italy she has a new man i have a new mustache now
all my friends are gonna call me mountain man and everyone will think that i'm a
stupid drifter to walk the earth alone i'll never shave again on the night she
left me facial hair grew miraculously i dressed in black like johnny cash and
grew this beard of shame i've heard it said she looks a lot like sherilyn fenn
and sometimes i'm mistaken for billy gibbons i may appear wise but i'm an idiot
it's over she left me and she will soon forget me she found out i was lame i
grew a beard of shame come all be faithful joyful and triumphant i am a new man
i have a beard of shame
SHAVING YOUR HEAD
We used to watch them fall and we
saw them distraught but the attention that they got it surrounds them for years
we watched them enslaved and we could only laugh what a loser what a shame said
we'd never play the... [chorus] and now it seems you haven't learned the lesson
i guess you have to share the pain andnow your tainted blood leaves stains
behind your back and in thier words i hear your shame how can you lie to me when
in your eyes i can see glazed and vacant as you're caught in the act you've
always wanted this now you feel the stab are you happy to be sad is there
pleasure in the...[repeat chorus] as it make you sick do i make you scared when
you see what you once were as you're shaving your head the scared boy thinks
he's safe if you can't read his eyes but you can read you can read his eyes his
lies
RIDE THE SNAKE
Time to ride the snake eyes gone dead
and blank i don't wanna talk to a stranger i once knew single-minded hunt to
fill the bottomless well i can't afford the labor of the feelings that you ask
you tax [chorus] talk to me i can't hear you did you say the pain has gone away
just one question will i see you at the show tomorrow or the snake they could
never tell we are losing weight they will all still love us if they can not feel
our hell i'm not losing face and they're not losing faith we won't have to feel
unless we quit there's nothing more to hide [repeat chorus] don't you know that
he does everything he buys the food and cleans he knows what i need to go on
this is your last chance i can feel i'm fading and i want to disappear disappear
there's nothing left to hide [repeat chorus] will i see you at the show tomorrow
tell me then what's wrong