Cursive

Congratulations Looks like you've finally made it, boy You're a real major-leaguer now Mama must be so, so, so proud The word around Is that your nest was too cozy Well, some words are like bricks And so we build our fortresses You're on your own now,...

Your gentleman caller, well, he's been calling on another he loves his forbidden fruit. And as it dribbles down his chin he cries, "Baby, I've been drinking with some friends! Now how 'bout a little kiss..." Bad boy! Rub his nose in it! What a mess and...

I sat around for hours on end For an end so clearly predetermined I shall no longer play a part of your equation I missed your boat a thousand times, I swear You must have stayed off shore to avoid such relations Avoidance has been your trump But still I...

The furnace burns, the baby turns She cries when she's hungry The morning paper will knock the door To interrupt their slumbers Are you satisfied tonight, oh, trader's wife? Does he neglect you? Crawling bar stools and touching the girls As you wash th...

Please hang my raincoat I guess that I'll stay a while While I wait on the return It seems the distance you've made Has since lost its meaning Meanwhile, I've meant to ration my thoughts To help quicken this sloth driven day As I wait, my joints slowly...

I want the rich boy... I want the rich boy But the rich boy, he doesn't want me... I like the pretty girls... I like the pretty girls But the pretty girls, they don't like me... Adapt... Adapt... Adapt... Nobody wants to be left in their past... Adapt (adapt)...

After the movies In the parking lot We stared so long And you kissed me With ripe young breath So I kissed you One night as forever In the movies Well, they never had it so good One moment So infinite On soft wet lips And I miss you Are you glad...

Who's your school friend? He's left you some messages. He'd love to see you again - he thinks your ideas are brilliant.. and since you've been going out for coffee with him lately, well, is he a pretty good-looking guy? Jealousy am I not yours? We stoppe...

Here's a new recruit With new confusion His racing thoughts should be (unmade) If he needs more time, give him more time We are (not in a prison) Here's your marriage vows It's a sweat ring around your black & blue (collar) If he needs more time, give him...

Cut it out, your self-inflicted pain is getting too routine the crowds are catching on to the self-afflicted song well here we go again, the art of acting weak fall in love to fail, to boost your CD sales and that CD sells yeah what a hit, you got to repeat it...

Jeanie's been throwing up all morning, The poor girl has been so heartsick ever since her boyfriend went to war. Father Cole has done his best to console her girl. Moreso than some neighbors deem necessary, But you just can't measure young love. Picketing the...

Moms and Dads break up their games And take away their rollerskates. Give them algebra and trig Raisins, dates, or figs, but take away gingerbread and cake. Every husband, every wife Every cop, every teacher Everybody, do the taking away Do the taking away A...

For 20 years I've held this pulpit Preached the word, served the Eucharists Gained the trust of the townsfolk Made every football game, never missed a social Last week a boy I taught theology Came back in town with a new ideology Those feelings I tucked away T...

Before we ever saw straight, we were grasping at straws A debate was born, picket lines were drawn There was this big bang once, now we're learning to use our thumbs We need a purpose in life, a survival guide We need explanations for how we arrived There was...

There's a ghost in my bed she cries in her sleep she says I won't let her leave I lie perfectly still as she stifles her tears I don't want to disturb her 'Let go, let go - please let me be Look at the ghost you've made of me' Dush dropped her starry...

New years ago We drank and danced and left our sour hearts behind We sweetened for a kiss -- The kiss of a new year to come But those days are gone We never got resolution -- it never comes All the best wishes were blown So blow out your candles -- the...

There's a time and a place this is neither the time nor place where do i fit in in this jig-saw of a relationship why should i play the fall-guy to love i keep getting snubbed what dumb luck, what dumbe luck so rub it in with your dumb lyrics yeah tha...

I want to live life duty free Let my instincts take the lead I want to take what I can get Don't want to choose don't want to beg I want down from this family tree I don't need no upward mobility I want to unlearn what I've learned Want to unearn what...

Passed out in your yard My clothes were soaking in the morning rain My head's just a bruise, like walking in a coma Like a battered drone All my limbs are numb I've been driving past your house Been pounding at your door I know I'm just a peon to you...

Sweating with confidence They're soiling our egos And we're locked at the hip Don't cut the too short You've cut yourself off I thought we agreed No limb should be left So severed and bleeding What are you missing? What are you missing? A truth so...

That's cool. I guess you're fitted for solitude This suit doesn't fit you Lonely fish - cry in this cage Does your owner ignore you? Well, now I'm thinking that I I've never seen you look so down I wonder if your heart has been chewed on Cause sometimes -----...

Don't lie, where have you been? Your teeth are red, your eyes are peppermints Sailing out to sea with your new best friend You don't like the way you live so you play pretend But isn't it time you act your age? You got a mortgage on your shoulder, got a b...

Dorothy, I know you've had amazing dreams We can't go chasing down each golden street Each and every rainbow, each passion, each unattainable goal We're not in dreamland anymore Dorothy, it seems you'll never understand This here land is everything we have Ev...

Cut it out your self-inflicted pain is getting too routine the fans are catching on to the self-afflicted song so here we go again: the anabashed weak fall in love to fail to boost your cd sales and that cd sells yeah what a hit you've got to repeat...

Hold your breath, dear This ship is going down We're all downhill Running with our timebombs These shins are cracked and splintered These lips are crusted shut These squinting eyes just sting me These veins are drying me up All my limbs They're just...

He swam steadily for most of the day. Suddenly he found himself approaching an enormous huge floating cavern. Could it be an island? Pinocchio looked closed and he saw two hige rows of sharp, yellow teeth and he realized his mistake. so he would sulk and...

The moon in it's red light, I know it's not right. It's just pretend. And you, as you sleep tight, I'll protect you from bed bug bites. As trains, they fly by. And all that I needed, And all that I wanted Is sleeping right next to me, Resting so peacefully. A...

Clad. I'm wearning thin my invitation. I'll wear it out But it's just eight light minutes I'm offering you We could burn up so close We could burn to our cores. Burn to our cores. 

I've been waiting for your call. Pacing in my room. My heart I pinned on your sleeve. I'll trip and fall, impending doom. Twenty minutes before this leaves. I cannot feel; my skin is burning. My heart is drowning in you. I cannot stop this tide from coming in...

Midnight is rising your eyes adjusting on a sullen, distant and Persistent moon the shadows are thickets they swarm with frogs And crickets droning a collective tone once you get lost in it There's no need for turning back twilight has pulled you in Strong jus...

Why i should leave... no why i'm leaving you... for him well let's see here... well, let's see where should i... begin? Everynight you get annihilated with all your friends and everynight i drink aloneuntil you stumble in the morning sun it's a fuck and run i...

Lets pretend were not needy lets pretend our hearts still beat lets pretend we fall in love tonight clumsy enough to fall for anything well stumble on our words well spill our guts on creaking bar stools below the neon blue low lives hiding in dives the...

"Bon Voyage" And promptly he hung up the phone There was a doorbell ringing So he snuck out onto the terrace He said "If these were my last words, would they even make print? If all I had to say was simply over said by those old heretics." These words...

Your daddy and my daddy had a drink at the bar Talking about what was best for me Without a name or a degree, Stubbornly holding onto you And you pulling away from me The best that they could say, For my restless teenage ways, Was time in the service Might se...

Frankly, Mr Shankly, this position I've held it pays my way and it corrodes my soul I want to leave you will not miss me I want to go down in musical history, Oh..... Frankly, Mr Shankly, I'm a sickening wreck I've got the 21st century breathing down my ne...

I'm at my best when I'm at my worst I'm at worst when it's not rehearsed I don't wanna know the goddamn words I don't wanna have to spell it out Don't wanna mumble what i'm trying to say I wanna scream it from my foaming mouth Shoot out the lights and ri...

Harold walks down any street in this town Both crier and witness The sun drops the clouds shift His legs twitch The clocks chime on cafes, pharmacies and dime stores In bar rooms he sits alone erupting In his head it's like the weather (3 times) Back and fort...

Night has draped its cape of stars Over our small town From the campus and the tavern To the chapel and infirmary We've seen their dreams We've found the goods The fables and folly Of the residents residing in... 14 hymns for the heathen First hymn, the son o...

Love may be man-made But it must exist It's what you want the most And most resist Love's polluted No, no, it's pure It's convoluted One thing I could say for sure I couldn't love you anymore I couldn't love you anymore I couldn't love you anymore...

A right at the light It’s the long way home But we’ve got a long time to kill Before our guts are gutted Of bad blood they’ve spilled I left on the light Directions won’t make sense to unsensing eyes I’ve such insensitive eyes I’m so fucking blind Aren’t I?...

These waves wash over me. It cannot be the undertow is me. Call me, call me Mr. Pain. As I go insane, the barbed wire cuts my veins. People say that sadness sells. Well, if that's the case then my mind Should've gone triple-platinum by now. What'll happen ne...

Don’t wanna live in the now Don’t wanna know what I know Don’t wanna live in the now Don’t wanna know what I know Don’t wanna live in the now Don’t wanna know what I know Don’t wanna live in the now Don’t wanna know what I know Don’t wanna live in the...

Waking, shaking, it's 4 a.m., I can't sleep You're on my mind again These games, you play, got my dice rolling in the wrong way Over before it all begins You've been playing games right from the start Your battleship is blowing me apart, yeah You've just play...

I can't say I've always been honest You can't say i've done a disservice, girl. She's just a child... She's got a lot to learn. I'm helping out Your deceit is under your wing, You won't let her know you know it's not appropriate. Into the fold, into the fold....

She slips out of bed. It's 6 in the morning. She kisses my head Without even a warning. She thinks I'm sleeping. But I watch her slowly dress. I rot from the inside. How could she love this mess? The blackness I dive, I'm buried alive. Been driving since 199...

Diseased heat August on the 101 Let me up The pale moon Offers no consolations Would you let me up? Mosquitoes fat with our marrow Ebb and flow through the gumbo This humid bouillon a cesspool Stop Won't someone please let me up? We're buoyed in At...

Loose-lipped secrets I've seen those birdies chirping Another promise perched on their fragile branches Cradle and all... We all hide a diary beneath some mattress And someone has slept in my bed Sometimes I get so naked I sing like a canary And I scre...

You're going to do what I say And say what I say You stretch your peacock feathers You're always on display Don't act so goddamned conflicted You wouldn't have it any other way You're going to write down these words And pass them along You're going to...

I was alone I was at home Until the fabric was torn The cord was cut My orbit had begun I was a simple being I was simply being Until I caught my own reflection In a spoon I am the egg I am the spark The fire in the dark I am fertilized, fully ac...

I colored this picture for you. A little girl crying in her room. Her mom's just outside the door holding her head. And her brother's outside shooting hoops. Yeah, you can see him past her windowsill, but we're not looking at him the same ever again. Baby...

Your navel is yearning for an extension - a ghost limb it cant detach from mothers loving grasp your starving - its burning for the nutrient it cant have were all cut off alone and lost calling out to homebase, do you read me? (emergency: were floating en...

I took a stroll down a prim rose lane on a clear blue day. Everything seemed so perfectly placed. Daisies lined each manicured lawn. Well-groomed men walked well-groomed dogs. Stopped in a bar for a mid-day drink in search of a scene more inspiring. Chewed of...

Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do bah-duh-buh-buh-buh-buh does it matter now, what the songs about? do-do-do-do-do-do buh-duh-bu-buh-buh does it matter now, what the songs about? I really dont want to write another "im a dick" song again. does it matter now,what the so...

Northern winds came whistling through evergreens Like trains One temper broods until a temperature breaks And blooms -- smashing and tearing what we've worked toward One hand will break what the other hand builds Board the windows up, keep the cellar lock...

Once a liar, always a liar. Once a cheater, always a cheater. Once a day you'll remember her death. Once you'll love but you'll love once too many. Just this once. Just this once. I forget who you're with hon, Where's your heart sleep this week? Who's...

Opening the Hymnal: Welcome one and welcome all To our small town The lyrics are the exit and the roses are the same? Inside this town, you'll find the guilt That fills the quarry of the residents residing in 14 hymns for the heathen 1st hymn: the son of God c...

Here I am, once again. My feet sway over the deep end. This edge I'm sitting on seems Lonely, too. I guess it's true, just what they say, This town kills everyone, L.A. And I'd kill everyone, too. Everyone but you. Yeah, you can stay. I'm breaking out this t...

Strung out on leaving One leg stretched for the curb The other one grounds itself against rebirth So the swallows will stay in the barn The finches left a long time ago The fall must be oh so close I cannot exist in this circumference I keep a crippled...

Anchors down We’ve hit the bottom A vacant resolution We've always revolved to But the pivot’s loose The axis is off centered Don't look down past your equator Your balance has transcended your anchor 

Let's get one thing straight: we don't have any answers We are proposals in a cosmic nursery And these massive stars -- they're just little twinkles If I can't possess them at such magnificence So if you can really hear me, And you think you really believ...

I'll never go back there don't make me go back there Now that God is an athiest Finally, well i can sleep at night In a hotel room With holes in the curtains I shivered as she slid up my leg She could convince me A hundred hail mary's She whispered "dear boy...

Our mistakes are scrawled upon the chalkboard They're scribed across stained glass They're posted on the billboards A lackluster charade And are we so naive to concede these forefathers? Apparently we are Well, apparently it's true There's no slot mach...

They took the shrine to the temple, But he wasn't there. They checked the mosque and the chapel, No, not there. Since you've been away on holiday, The natives are all nightmares. Since you've been away on holiday, I did dream you'd disappear. You keep us on...

This is like pulling teeth Said the man with the gap-toothed smile Upon decline. So the silence seeped into An impatient line Of returns and exchanges And the silence brewed Like a storm As they brooded over their misfortunes... Some things you can't take We'...

Dear preacher, thanks for making time for me today hope you don't mind if i hide behind the curtain it's been fifteen years since my last confession by your good book's standards, i've sinned like a champion but that book seems a tad bit out-dated Please forg...

Since I wrote this am I the culprit These useless wisdoms I dispense At your expense Picture postcards A three minute essay Some scribbled words to four line verse Meanwhile, we mean well We cannot escalate or escape this So let's pretend our little s...

Swimming at night We've dug this hole The water's fine I wonder how far down it goes Down it goes... Down it goes... The stars above have lost their shine And so, my love, departs our sight The unending plains project a void Where lovers gawk in pan...

Asylum - Cover Grandfather watches the grandfather clock And the phone hasn't rang for so long And the time flies by, like a vulture in the sky Suddenly he breaks into song. I'm waiting by the phone. Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone. I...

In the desert, where the cities are made of gold, there's a girl playing hopscotch with pink ribbon pigtails. And hermom calls out from an apartment balcony, "Come on, baby! Your bath is ready! It's almost time for sleep!" And I wonder who's the father......

I'll try to make this perfectly clear I'm so transparent I disapear these words I lyrically defecate upon songs I boldly claim to create clint steps in to establish the beat 4/4 hip hop and you don't stop this unique approach to start an EP intended to...

Oh God, no - please don't tell her What I've done I can hardly look at her Everything I love, I hurt Oh God, yes - she is love She is sex But I used her for the game, A scapegoat to carry the blame For a hate song For a hate song It's like masochism - I hate T...

Nah nah nah... I've got a plan You think it's possible To lead this band Doing the same, the same routine Doing the same, the same routine again Can you make it work Can you rip my fucking hearts out Shovel me in the dirt We've got nothing wrong The only thi...

If you got the looks and if you got the goods I suppose you could make it anywhere you want to get made And you want to get laid My model agent says you gots to get paid You got a special gift You can't just give it away for free I don't give it up for free A...

And now we proudly present songs perverse and songs of lament a couple hymns of confession and song that recognize our sick obsessions so sing along, i'm on the ugly organ again sing along, i'm on the ugly organ so let's begin there's no use to keep a...

I've decided tonight I'm staying alive just kicking & screaming Blood boiling & steaming There are things far too dark to comprehend Sleep on it one more night my sad old friend Doo do Doo do Doo do Doo do The worst is over.  

So much smaller on my own. So much weaker when alone. Here's my submission to you. I'm beggin', please, why don't you hurt me? I'm beggin', please, just walk all over me. I wish the past could be erased. And I could never be replaced. I'd make my mission me a...

Everything is all right here, All clear, get yourself another We'll stay up all night And toast to friends we never had. Stranger angels have snuck around this table But they disappear So how did we end up here? I might be another night Keep the couch pull...

Now and again youll remember the sound of the sails waving helpless the cables wrapping one another into knots so strong youre lost at once if not tossed into the drink and lost beneath a substance so dark yet elementary four winds converge upon a point w...

There's no use going to Des Moines I heard it's just like here I guess it's just like everywhere As for us, I guess we're not immune Look at our same plain face Still I assume this subject identity Shared with all the kids that qualify And that's a pre...

Wind blown A semi capsized in the storm Stranded The rains of June have cleansed it A baptism of sufferage Take two One man beneath a waning moon Still birth The abortive child of entropy Careening for identity Tempt him Break him in slowly His h...

You seemed like such a smart young man. And your Fathers got a lot of friends. We didn't bother to check your references. We're a successful company. With endless opportunity. So why must you shit where you eat? It all started out in the warehouse. Watc...

When the bitter end arrives, Will we be at war or sadly, madly in love? Will we beg for one more night? Or will we have our bags packed Waiting at the door? When the bitter end arrives, Will it be a finish line or a starting gate? Brass and pearl, or m...

The night has fallen down the staircase And I, for one, have felt its bruises Equilbrium; inebriated Our social graces have been displaced As we sink deeper into the drink The volume increases.... Night time resurrects fault lines Silent wars -- rumble...

It's not a song about old friends, Backstabbers, leeches, or cretins. It's not about you, and it isn't true. It's not a song about family, How the lack thereof can be crippling. It's not about, and it isn't true. These songs are getting smothered By t...

Less talk, more dancing If we could push off the sick conversation one more night I surely would My shoes have gathered the dust of the vineyard Have I soiled your gown? There's soil on your gown, like sangria Cleanses the heart Our clogged hearts are c...

"Bon Voyage" And promptly he hung up the phone There was a doorbell ringing So he snuck out onto the terrace He said "If these were my last words, would they even make print? If all I had to say was simply over said by those old heretics." These words...

A little bit closer, I know you're not bashful There, now that's not so bad, is it? So what was that secret? What did that prick whisper to you? Was it playful and flirty Or degrading and dirty? I know you like it both ways So -- what did he say? To m...

This is the bed that i have made this is the grave where i will lay these are the hands where i will bury my face i dont believe in wasting time searching for truth you never find nobody moves we live in the great decay all these ghost towns share a name...

Knock the wind the wind right out. Knock it off. I can’t breathe. Could I sing another line? I think my knees are getting weak. And yes, these knees are weak, But who would believe in a hypocrite who sells himself. Who’s your scapegoat now? Well, it’s...

I saw something I was not supposed to see A ghostly memory that keeps on haunting me (The kitchen door was open a crack, So naively we peeked inside) Oh, darling sister, have they hurt you, have they hurt you? Oh, Pretty Baby, they won't touch you They...

And so it's begun This is year one The birth of a child in the form of a man Wrapped in towel Passed out on the floor These drunken hours -- graces deflowered Cast down by an angel She used to kiss his weeping eyes Depressed in her bosom Tears roll of...

I need a catalyst, to rekindle the flame That once burned within these fists where defeat remains The night has fallen down the staircase... I need a catalyst, to rekindle the flame That once burned within these fists where defeat remains One Februrary...

Dinner's getting cold -- You haven't touched a thing So what's it gonna be? I can hold out much longer than you When it's steady I'm just acting out my roles When you're ready I'll be walking out that door And don't call me Pretty Baby anymore, Oh, fool...

Awake, alone in a woman's room i hardly know i wake alone pretend that i am finally home the room is littered with the books and notebooks i imagine what they say i...shoe fly don't bother me and i can hardly get myself out of this bed for fear of ne...

Words have no feeling without loaded meanings Words take too long to come across Meanings are meant for defining defintions We load them for efect, it's cheap but it's working It's the best I've got to get your attention I could never get your attention...

Watching cars Will anyone stop for us? Or will we be passed by Be passed on The day passes away The moment cracks along the sidewalk And we're alone Imagining what songs would be on our soundtrack Maybe it's me I've lost faith in visibility On this...

Surrender your furniture, Push the television out the window. Overmedicated, this must be the sunks. So if you can't understand the blues, you dont know much. With much love for science and youthful defiance, We struck blindly at the roots of this tree I...

Here we are again. You know that it's this time. The roller coaster ride You're always on my mind. In your mind, you know that's not the truth. You're sitting on my couch. You open up your mouth. Word come spilling out, But I just beat them down. You...

And now we proudly present songs perverse and songs loment? a couple hymns of confession the songs that recognize our sick obsessions so sing along, we're on the ugly organ 

Hey, Are you sleeping? We've got nothing better to do Than just lay here, together Let it pass... It wasn't so hard to destroy Now its not so easy to forget And its so cold in here Are you awake?  

The coast is clear. The coast is everywhere. I must have reached the end of the year Of searching for meanings in meaning The coast is clear. Tides rush in. Are we all being tugged by the same needy force That tugged me in, let tides rush in. That tuc...

Staring up at stars From the back seat of a stationwagon Carving the night Trees keep marching by Light poles blur into a stream Blazing laser beams All... These... Stars.... My thoughts are trivial pursuits My heart's a bomb that's been defused W...

When we were burning These stained walls would swell with passion Our sweat warped the wooden floorboards You'd kick out the nightlight And let the moon bleed through the window Draping over naked bodies We're killing time Trying to love What we can't...

Don’t tell me what you’ve done Cus I don’t wanna know You say it’s not so hard Just let your conscience go You’re flashing me that politicians grin You got your image squeaky clean You’ve such a fetching smile But a maw with sharp teeth We’re going t...

A year now and nothing much has changed Holed up in a motel in El Paso This was meant to be my great escape But, I got lost along the way Amongst free HBO and take-out Going to write my Moby Dick More like scratching lyrics on paper plates I spent the b...

A safe position -- a back against the wall A simple shrug to shurg the questions off When there's no action, there's no reaction Curb the dead, avert the consequence So if no one moves, and no one speaks a word We could act OK (We must standstill -- we...