Anberlin

Feels like you're miles from here, in other towns with lesser names. Where the unholy ghost doesn't tell Mary or William exactly what they want to hear. You remember the house on Ridge Road told you and the Devil to both just leave me alone. If this is salvati...

Are there no shadows where you are? I can see everything as day Problems that you try to hide away Pushing me aside (You're pushing me aside) Could the winter calm come twice? Because your heart seems so cold tonight Thirst for substance somehow isn't right I...

so let me get this straight you say now you loved me all along what made you hesitate to tell me with words what you really feel i can see it in your eyes you mean all of what you say i remember so long ago, see i felt that same way now we both have separate l...

I'm not sure If you can call this romance You see we've changed since the start Even together We're distant lonely and apart But we both look the other way Pretend we still believe it When they say I guess that's why they call this love Sadly unpredictable...

Growing tired of bedside resolve Public display of depression Something's got to give now Something's going to break down I grow tired of writing songs While people listen but never hear what's really going on now Tell me what's so wrong now Clap your hands a...

You're repeating me lines that you think I wanna hear But I don't wanna hear anymore As if sorry is any consolation For what it's worth, you're stringing me along Sh sh shouldn't need anyone Shouldn't need anyone Just scared of being alone But by the time you...

Don't try to wake me up Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow Don't believe anything you say Anymore, in the morn, in the morning Bricks to this old house are breaking Steel would have weathered but now forlorning It's alarming how loud the silence scr...

Why do we have it out, for each other? When all we have, is each other? Piece by piece, I try to put you back together. I'm the one who broke you down. (I broke you down.) Slow down on me now. Where do we get off? (We're all we have, we're all we have.) What'...

Are there no shadows where you are? I can see everything as day problems that you try to hide away pushing me aside (you`re pushing me aside) Could the winter calm come twice? Cause your heart seems so cold tonight? Thirst for substance somehow isn`t right It...

I can learn like nobody else Trust me now, I can find a way to bleed I can find a way I feel pain like nobody has Don't trust me now, I can find a way to leave I try to find my escape And even now can you tell what's real? Cause losses starts to t...

Am I the latest, in your art of war? Thought your hands could heal, but they left me sore You're so good, at what you think you do to me. You're so good, at what you think you do to me. There are songs, I'll never write. Because of you,...

I’ve seen faces I may never see again I’ve been places I never could have dreamt I’ve touched hands with those who touched me Seen the marks, the skeleton keys I found peace in a foreign atonement I lost myself in tides of a moment But nothing compares...

Maybe tonight we'll get back together sound the alarms and break all the levers These streets are ours Our anthem rings You'd know the truth if these walls could sing Amateur youth sling down the signs Gather the masses, friends of mine I've got your back if y...

And we're driving just as fast as we can and we're racing to outrun the wind It's just me and you and you and me so wild eyed, so young, bright eyed and free And we're trying to get out of here and a small town romance draws ever near And I swear we're in a mo...

(Christmas) The snow's coming down (Christmas) I'm watching it fall (Christmas) Watching the people around (Christmas) Baby, please come home (Christmas) The church bells in town (Christmas) They're ringing a song (Christmas) Oh the happiest sound (Christmas)...

Stuttering machine Iron moving fast You wanna go back in time Try to change the past ​ Answers in the math Science on your side What's the worst that could happen When two worlds collide ​ And it all is the same (x2) ​Memories circle like birds of...

Do you memorize theatrical lines that seem to lead them in Play the role with the good girl heart oh the tangled web within Who was it that lead you on that made you want to hurt me so Who are you out to forget who's forgot you long ago Do you still feel it c...

And we could ride all night To the place of a blinking light Wishing traffic was faster Traffic was faster Keeping safe distance But courting disaster We could dance all night To the sounds of a starting fight Hoping change would come around Change wo...

Are there no shadows where you are? I can see everything as day Problems that you try to hide away Pushing me aside (You're pushing me aside) Could the winter calm come twice? Because your heart seems so cold tonight Thirst for substance somehow isn't right I...

Do you memorize theatrical lines that seem to lead them in Play the role with the good girl heart oh the tangled web within Who was it that lead you on that made you want to hurt me so Who are you out to forget who's forgot you long ago Do you still feel it c...

This is surrender To a war-torn life I've lived. Scars and stripes forever In need of change I can't resist. No need to hide anything anymore. Can't return to who I was before. I can finally breathe. Suddenly alive. I can finally move. The world feels revive...

Live, I wanna live inspired Die, I wanna die for something Facing towards the heavens I fell into a pitch black I'm moments from landing and I'm shaking like a heart attack Is the time, can I turn back I've made mistakes in the past Need a chance, can't take...

Write down, to remind yourself on how it can be, how it can be Heartstrings, you're tugging at my heartstrings, my heartstrings Helpless, I have become so helpless to your touch, oh touch me somehow Restless, you leave me restless breathless wait for me The c...

If I could write one letter to the world as we know it I would list these rhymes that mean everything to me Heartache temporary, bullets only stop your blood Pain will live on and on In everyone, in everyone And we could change, we could change it down We cou...

This life's electric You can feel the pulse out on the street The boys keep moving Girls they always seem to follow the beat This town it breathes in A hunger deeper down it's underground These changes, they change Familiar faces at one time look strang...

Do you expect me? To be or believe you? Do you accept me? When it's me you can see through? Are you keeping safe distance? Are you arms length away? Are you keeping safe distance? Holding me arms length away? Are you there, can someone answer me? Cl...

Side by side we face each other Standing here alone together Your code I'll break, you made your last mistake Called out cold war Remnants now on the floor This is Russian radio here Calling you to come back home This is Russian radio here Run while you still...

When you were here before Couldn’t look you in the eye You’re just like an angel Your skin makes me cry You float like a feather In a beautiful world You’re so very special I wish I was special But I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I...

She's got the time says she's got time on her side Running the rule Commanding the late boys eyes She runs around, knows all the streets by name So mysterious, shadows meet James Dean She's intoxicating, soon your favorite drink Your black dress in disarray O...

Shock to the system cause you're out of control Saved your body but you're losing your soul You really feel this? Do you really feel this? We've got so much but so little to show Falling down but we follow the goal We really need this Do we really need...

Are you depraved, or are you deceived? Excuses aside, stop saying please, please. Are you depraved, or are you deceived? Excuses aside, stop saying please, please. You're not a slave, so get off your knees. You're not a slave, so get off your knees...

Now who are you to be the death of me? Stealing what life you need, Roadside while you watch me bleed I've got to get out of here, I've got to get out of here... Well where do you get off that we revolve around your wants and needs? There's no way I wou...

We're the last of the sleepless ones, Left behind by those we left behind tonight. Quiet now, let the boys intake, Were we always, just your lost caused mistakes? Wait for me, will you wait for me? I need you on my side. Way for me, make way for me, With arms...

One last glance from a taxi cab Images scar my mind Four weeks've felt like years Since your full attention was all mine The night was young and so were we Talked about life, God, death, and your family Didn't want any promises, Just my undivided honesty, and...

[Verse 1] Pioneers will get the arrows But you know now, that's where you'll find me Won't stop striving, can't stop working You know I'll be known at the gates Like a [?] back forever I'm in the center, strong, you socialist How can you sing of an evil...

You would have loved who I used to be, Yesterday I would have hated the boy you see When you found me I was at my worst The best I was is a long forgotten curse. You caught me one the way down Please hold my hand before I drown Tie my hands before I bur...

[Verse 1] Hey up town girl Can you hear this down town song? Wrote a couple of words to tell you Right here is where you belong I bet you walk the streets Wondering who you’re thinking of Hope you’re looking for someone to hold And not at all in love [Pre-ch...

And we're driving just as fast as we can And we're racing to outrun the wind It's just me and you and you and me So wild and so young, bright-eyed and free And we're trying to get lost from here As a small town romance draws ever near And I swear we're...

Coming through your district I see the red light on I feel the warmth of the street And I feel the drugs infecting me Don't come screaming Cold words, demands Helpless you cry Each night you pray that tomorrow you won't die You're living, barely brea...

Words like violence Break the silence Come crashing in Into my little world Painful to me Pierce right through me Can’t you understand, Oh my little girl ? All I ever wanted All I ever needed Is here in my arms Words are very unnecessary They can only do harm...

Words like violence break the silence Come crashing in, into my little world Painful to me, pierce right through me Can't you understand, oh, my little girl? All I ever wanted All I ever needed is here in my arms Words are very unnecessary They can only do ha...

I’ve seen this here I’ve stood here before. You know I have boy. You know I’ve been right here. I’ve felt the fire from this war. You know I have so. So let me see it again. And you are my fading photograph. And ripped memory. And your burning memoirs rest he...

"I'm here for you" she said and we can stay for awhile, my boyfriend's gone, we can just pretend. Lips that need no introduction Now who's the greater sin, Your drab eyes seem to invite (tell me darling) Where do we begin. Was this over before (Before it ever...

Feels like you're miles from here, in other towns with lesser names. Where the unholy ghost doesn't tell Mary or William exactly what they want to hear. You remember the house on Ridge Road told you and the Devil to both just leave me alone. If this is salv...

Boys speak in rhythm and girls in code doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo Tell it to me straight, give it to me now Face forward, face forward Boys speak in rhythm and girls in code doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo Tell it to me straight, give it to me now Face f...

Tonight my heart is cold lost in your lies, shallow replies And gravity prevails this time it's over And you think you're the one Calm me with your lies your simple tragedy It's all I wish to hear tonight and you're all I wish to be And this is how we all fa...

A grand blank look on your face When you learned it was over Do you ever question why What could have been different We were so comfortable Living in each others skin I was dying from within Cause God, drugs, and sex don’t mean a thing To you now do they now...

Burning down neverland (scatter the ashes) White lines black tar the matches Is this another death by misadventure Tell me what you got, what you really got (hey hey!) We’ll rest in our graves, Lexington cross your veins Sleepers can't just wake the dead When...

Lets you and me make our way just beyond haight st Lets leave this life behind forgetting all they say The time we have this time we’re borrowed Stay out all night Forget tomorrow Lets you and me Make a night of it Old enough to know But too young to care Le...

Comes a time in everyone's life We're paid to feel free Fall asleep now, calming leaders Be who you want to be We'll live forever, forever, forever We'll come together, together, together We'll live forever, forever, forever (I don't wanna go now, but...

Up on this hill, in this uncanny house The wind makes this place creak, the lights they are flickering. The moon she is lurking, the clock it stopped working At a quarter past three. There's something dancing here in the shadows And I wish it were us. You hau...

I feel lost, conflicting thoughts course through Clarity, she's gone, don't know a thing I thought I knew Everyone wants to see Heaven But no one wants to say goodbye Everyone wants to see Heaven But no one wants to die Can't escape this feeling (fears...

A hallow hallelujah hangs in the corner With the rest of our dissolving years You're the storm and the cold The dove and the bone The ghost that relieves all my fears The life is spent from cold (???) As years and sheets unfold We'll be able to sleep all alone...

Hell or highwater, I'd come save you What could keep me now What could keep me from you Wherever you are (Wherever you are) I'll come find you No, you're never too far (You're never too far) Wherever you are I'll come find you It's safe in my arms...

Is this where the interstate ends? In coastal towns like this Waiting for my world to cave under We seem to invent ourselves (we seem to invent ourselves) In the places left unknown If hope could only find me out Is this the end of everything we've known? (We...

I want to live like no one before As if we'd found the world for us to explore Don't want to die without you by my side One and the same, one and the same Let's take this slow Slow down Let's take it slow Slow down I'd like to die moments after you...

I can't help but say what's on my mind I can't help but say what's on my mind How can you say you don't feel the same When I feel the heart of a beat moving with you How can we sway and stare into the night When you say you don't want to be mine? One an...

You make my teeth clinch and my hands shake Do you ever see what you do to me? You're wearing me out, just wearing me out But i'm wearing you down You're impossible but lovely So impossible to win or please I'm wearing you out, just wearing you out But...

Do you remember when we were just kids, and cardboard boxes took us miles from what we would miss? School yard conversations taken to heart, and laughter took the place of everything we knew we were not. I want to break every clock. the hands of time could ne...

Laying you down one last time On machines that will never give A touch that woke you gently I'll never know if you saw me Did your eyes ever meet mine We see what want to see sometime I believe now, yes I believe We are all born the innocent We were born...

They say my vice should be vanity But I'll stay calm in industry I'll motivate you till you think I'm right I'll leave exactly where we started tonight Where we started tonight My ambition is all that I have There’s a tension when you want it so bad We will...

Once upon a time you dressed so fine You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you? People'd call, say, "Beware doll, you're bound to fall" You thought they were all kiddin' you You used to laugh about Everybody that was hangin' out Now you don't talk so...

Soft spoken straight forward Tell me all the ways in which you feel So broken lying helpless Can you even tell me what's for real? Great divide, great divine Great divide, great divine Am I alive? Someone tell me Am I alive? You are the king of a...

Not sure what tomorrow brings Not sure why a caged bird sings Don't ask cause I don't know No idea just where to go High hopes and higher dreams May not have everything I promise to be good I'll be good for you Hard work and harder times As long as yo...

Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am home again whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am whole again Whenever I'm alone with you You make me feel like I am young again Whenever i'm alone with you You make me feel like I am fun...

A red priest broke into our classroom Caught us children by attention "Listen closely to the words I speak Lord knows if we'll ever, ever again meet" Spoke such words never spoken before On the way he declared there were Miracles like you've never seen From a...

Why so afraid to fall that was then this is now Horizons look different in a modern age Are we all lost, are we all lost again Fall asleep alone safer than the off chance Of getting your heart attacked one more time Will you ever come, will you ever come aliv...

Mother Tell your children not to walk my way Tell your children not to hear my words What they mean What they say Mother Mother Can you keep them in the dark for life Can you hide them from the waiting world Mother Father Gonna take your daughter out tonight...

Come and go now as you please Your actions write the melodies To the songs that we sing And you just sing And I finally found that life goes on without you And my world still turns when you're not around Is this the way you want it? Is this the way it has to...

There's a hatchet got a knife When I awoke there was nothing real in this life But dreams are so intoxicating, (intoxicating) When you're doing this alone Gun, rope, brick on the way But words have no meaning when its you that says I really do care, no baby I,...

New fast automatic She's your average girl Another beauty queen Takes her life for granted Never stops to think Never stops to breathe You fail to fly through time 18 going on 29 Doesn't buy into silence anymore Swears she's not corporate for another...

I'm so tired of running Chasing you into the ground Wanted attention You gave me warning instead Affection warranted but not at your expense Less than expected But not at your address Oh Sweetheart I'm tired I'm tired I'm tired of trying Oh oh Now...

Thought I knew will and self Thought I could tame the rest of me Then you waltzed onto the floor Danced to your own beat Am I losing control? Make me want this here so much more It's in the way you move Am I moving your soul? You are the breath I hold To eve...

Solitary views of the other side of a plane we’ve yet to know Will we ever get the chance to walk alone In this life or when we find out that we’re home What will we hear there Love me, love me Why don’t you know me, know me Hold me, hold me And trust me, tr...

When your only friends are hotel rooms Hands are distant lullabies If I could turn around I would tonight These roads never seemed so long Since your paper heart stopped beating leaving me suddenly alone Will daybreak ever come? Who's gonna call on Sunday mo...

Are you hiding secrets from me? Is there more to this life than I can see? What will I find out over time? Waiting for the moment to arrive Why are you lying there? What are you hiding there? Hide away, Why do you hide away from me? Hide your...

This car turned over without a key or gasoline tonight Feel everything on fire and I'm dressed to kill killing for your dress goodnight Help me to wait on you, hesitate on through, cause I'm alone Feel so jaded, contemplative, waiting for you (We're running)...

There's someone inside me that softly kills everyone around They don't know they're dead to me cause intent never makes a sound All along they found I strangled lovers who've learned from slower hands With these eleven minutes I could teach you what I am You'...

Oh, how I've tried to get you out of my head. And I lied, broken words I said. Never thought I'd walk on this street again. Standing where it all began. Tried to forget when I left this town, But it takes me right back when I come back around. Retrace the st...

Later that day we made our way to the old cathedral door A flame, a figure, a shadow Walked away towards the tower alone We must be close nearby Hope cannot her own way through dark It's cold, I'm torn, it's gray There's a light that never grows dim Bu...

Well here we are again, where we ended long ago You didn't learn, and I didn't listen to my friends Well where do we go from here? Tried to walk away Look at us now, we're back in each other's way You just keep wearing me out (wearing me out) But I'm wearing...

Surgery open heart surgery Confessions committed now one by one How long how long do you think this can go on and on Take a look take a look inside and tell me what you’ll find What I know you’ll find under there Have I said too much or not enough Stay...

Last night rolled over beside my bed That sort of madness could leave one dead Our eyes deceive we were on fire Mistook you for love and love desire I still can't feel nothing just want to hold something Tell me again what's real tell me again what to fe...

Dear little girl So much hurt For such a young age Trapped inside A pretty little lie Your body’s betrayed Don’t fix your eyes A fix you’ll rely on Fixed her eyes on A fix she relies upon Stand unafraid All the good souls Stand unafraid When th...

Thought we were past this Thought we moved on But I guess I was wrong Do we not learn from mistakes? Do we not have what it takes? Are you the cure or disease? Do you still take as you please Are you the cure? Or are you the disease? Someone, someon...

Do they not have pen or paper where you are 'cause I haven't heard from you in ages I relive each memory From time to time Read notes exchanged With all those scented pages It's coming back It's all coming back to me now Tell me everything turned out...

Locking eyes the waning glance, mistook chance Inviting meaning to the words forever Broken silence, defiance, misspoke turn Will I see you again if ever? Come on and leave me here, I'm a vagabond though Wandering the night alone Right now you're over...

The ground is shaking underneath, now that you're here A body's skipping beats when you appear The world is on fire, since you've come here What if every desire is here with me? You're here with me You're here with me You're here with me Take me as you found...

"I'm here for you" she said and we can stay for awhile, my boyfriend's gone, we can just pretend. Lips that need no introduction Now who's the greater sin, Your drab eyes seem to invite (tell me darling) Where do we begin. Was this over before Before it ever...

If you need a friend, don't look to a stranger, You know in the end, I'll always be there. And when you're in doubt, and when you're in danger, Take a look all around, and I'll be there. I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say. (I promise)...

You wanna watch us break? Be the first to take us down But your teeth are worn And there’s no stopping us now You called me mental Your speeches are maligned Take down this modern town Four words penned with you in mind Speak Speak for yourself You...

Come closer now I know your desire is to be desired Steal a kiss yet and call us friends Distance is the thief in which you conspire Turn and time and time will tell Time will tell or tear us apart You're miles and miles and miles away Silence reveals where w...

Taking all what others have hassled Looking back to darker days getting me down And if this is chaos I think that I'm in love with clamor Tides are turning never understood my undeveloped story But it makes sense to me, you make sense to me When it all falls...

Emotive unstable you're like an unwinding cable car Listening for voices, but it's the choices that make us who we are Go your own way, even seasons have changed just burn those new leaves over So self-absorbed you've seemed to ignore the prayers that have alr...

Take me out tonight Where theres music and theres people And they're young and alive Driving in your car I never never want to go home Because I haven't got one Anymore Take me out tonight Because I want to see people and i Want to see life Driving in your ca...

If you're leaving, leave the cigarettes. You've already got the lighter and the keys. She packs her boxes. He knows that she's serious Not by the look in her face but by the lack of rings. Words lost their meanings long ago. Right around the time when she let...

woah oh, yeah-ah woah oh, yeah-ah woah oh live for today we'll dream tomorrow we've got big plans in sight we'll take this city and by nightfall... the bright lights are calling everything is going our way everything is just as we've planned this is our futu...

You wanna put two in my chest. I wanna be the one in your head, In your head. (In your head.) Betrayal, say you love me, but cast the first stone. Betrayal, let me remember, to the wolves. To the wolves, you left me to the wolves. Thought it was me and...

I feel so extraordinary Something's got a hold on me I get this feeling I'm in motion A sudden sense of liberty I don't care 'cause I'm not there And I don't care if I'm here tomorrow Again and again I've taken too much Of the things that cost you too...

I have my reasons for the vices I embrace A world of treasons and I'm there only escape No one else here has conversations that drowned their head 16 is nothing and never will be til I am dead. Don’t bite the hand that feeds you baby Take hold the hand that n...

Airports to Amsterdam There's nothing that we can do now I'm convinced, oh, that you're right You're right where you belong, Beside me, to remind me Did you ever think this far behind me You would see the world for what it was And who we really were Oh they lo...

You came out of nowhere But who could you hold wild horse unstable Do you still do as you’re told Think you’re wild and you’re free now Think you can cover me, well save yourself Pretend like you don’t do what you’re told Come around, let me in How can I talk...

Cyclical, stuck inside a never ending rhyme But you're comfortable, just another decomposing alibis Sing yourself to sleep, count the days gone by But outside of your walls passes real life So here's a velvet covered brick, death comes to us all too quick...

We're creatures of indecision, easily undone Caught inside collisions under a dying sun Take our time for granted, entitled in this life Entertain us now, we're owed everything in sight Give us what we want What we don't want to earn Give us what we thi...

This is a black market reformation Keep your lips closed And don't you ever give away our underground location This is a black tie affair Don't ever close your mouth and we'll stay here until someone falls in their own snare I had this planned all along, and I...

Since when did bullets Start to sing It didnt have to end like this Is this the end of everything It didnt have to end like this I feel i feel we can't stop Here It doesn't have to end like this We owe this to ourselves We can't just let this go If every man b...

we've got these big plans we've got new york in sight we'll take this city by nightfall... the bright lights are calling everything is going are way everythings just as we've planned and this is the future (from what we've heard) and i still have your...

You belong here. You were meant for me. You belong here. You were meant to be with me. You've got the better part of me. Always have and always will. You've got the better part of me, oh. And you know that I'm right. And I know I'm asking too much,...

Hey brother, do you remember when We used to play outdoors 'Till the light was absorbed by the night? Hey brother, it was an innocent time. We used to laugh 'till we cried, But still boys on the inside. (I wanna do it again) First time staying out all night....