Jack's Mannequin

Amelia Jean, be a good little soldier I drove to Richmond with your love in my back Chasing trains won't stop me getting older Amelia Jean, wait for me by the tracks Drove 84 to the grave of Buddy Holly I'm out the sunroof and full of Texas wind Amelia Jean,...

You see I got this American Love A brand new planet in my solar system I kiss her neck but I just can't look her in the eye You leave for college at the turn of autumn I spent the winter diving to the bottom I kiss your neck but I just can't look you in the ey...

Snow on the ground in Tennessee North came South at the tops of the trees Another long winter trying to fight this freeze Waiting but the cold's got a hold on me Hold on me Hold on to me Amy I I never felt this kind of cold before Amy I I may never f...

It started feeling like October I got stranded on the road You know where to find me Anytime you want me Annie, Annie, use your telescope So they made my life into a movie As if I could forget those years But I know where the time's gone Just how well my mind...

Should the canyons burn All night long like the 4th of July We won't need an alibi There's gas in the car Hours 'til sunrise And there's no guarantee That leaving town's gonna set us both free But stayin' here, it's just not what we need Yeah, stayin' here, it...

She walks to the mailbox each morning at nine Every day she begins she's always one day behind At least when it comes to the mail She sits on the balcony paying the bills Her letters just hashing her cigarettes onto the sill Every breath a little more pale A...

I've got my things, I'm good to go You met me at the terminal Just one more plane ride and it's done We stood like statues at the gate Vacation's come and gone too late There's so much sun where I'm from I had to give it away, had to give you away And we spe...

You learn to run, you learn to race through life, this unforgiving pace These lines we're tracing to the truth And stepping over endless cracks, I navigate these crooked paths But all my roads lead back to you And who are we to argue fate and who is time...

I'm caught Somewhere in between a lie And living a dream. No peace Just clicking machines In the quiet of compazine. The walls caved in on me. And she sings My bird dressed in white. And she stings My arm in the night. I lay still Still I'm ready to fight. Ha...

(feat. Stacy Clark) I wanna hear some music Now that they're driving us all underground Not the radio music, or their satellite singing this In this town, in this town I wanna hear some music And with the rock stars all flicker and fade Power radio music, I...

I have. I have you Breathing down my neck, breathing down my neck I don't, don't know What you could possibly expect under this condition So I'll wait, I'll wait For the ambulance to come, ambulance to come Pick us up off the floor What did you possibly expec...

I saw her wait, waitng at the bus stop Watching as her tears dropped Like pennies down a well Oh well We can drink until the sun comes up I never let a good thing go So I'll stay here if you're not leaving I am on your side This house is empty We could cros...

I'll give you this confession I am taking you with me Where we can contemplate our chemistry And your eyes were lined with questions With the blood rushing to waste To take this feeling with us to our graves To our graves I get the feeling we're so misdirect...

These hammers and strings Been following me around From a box filled garage To the dark punk rock clubs Of 1000 American towns And my friend calls me up She says, "how have you been?" I say, "dear I've been well, Yeah the money's coming But I miss you like hel...

And keep your eyes on the road on the Glass Passenger When I sing for a traveling band Where I'll be tomorrow Does God only knows It seems there's science at hand But I'll finish the shows when I land I said hey hey hey We're all gonna die Hey hey hey...

She thinks I'm much too thin She asks me if I'm sick What's a girl to do With friends like this She lets me drive her car So I can score an eighth From the lesbians Out west in Venice Oh, California in the Summer Ah, and my hair is growing long Fuck yeah,...

This might hurt Come back to earth, come back to earth We don't mean to drag you down Thin air, slingshot You always find somewhere to wander off When I need you around So you wait until the last song ends You say I was your only friend But I won't hold you...

(And today was a day just like any other) I'm on the verge, I'm on the verge Unraveling with every word With every word you say, make me believe That I won't feel your tires on the street As I'm finding the words... you're getting away I come undone, oh yes,...

From an empty room on the first floor As the cars pass By the liqour store I deconstruct my thoughts At this piano And it's all that I Can do to stay With all the things I didn't say to you Before you moved across the country And from the burning buil...

Oh my God, this hurts like hell I had that dream again where I was lost for good in outer space Tell me, doctor, how to shake A waking nightmare that is only Worse when I am sleeping Kill the messenger I swear it's not me It's just someone I used to know And...

Guess what I'm done Writing you songs You'll give up your job at the bank Proving money's not fun when you're gone So this is the first verse It's not very long But I'm ready to move on Guess what I'm done Writing your book The ending got twisted around But f...

I heard that you went out last night And you looked beautiful just like a bat Beneath the moonlight I stayed home took a Vicodin... Sometimes it's all that I can do When I think about the president How did he become the president? And I stayed awake for...

Every time I'm thinking bout The day coming 'round Well I'll be strong Well that's the day that passes into night it's like I can't hold on I can't hold on I'm uneasy, And I'm weak in the knees And I'm trying not to breathe Not believing, Not believing you...

Meet me at my window At my window I could use a hero right now You could use someone to save Someone like me Someone who's not brave Someone who's not free Meet me at my window With the darkness, cometing down I could use your, saving now Meet me at my window...

I swim across an ocean It's my matress in the basement I'm sweatin' out excuses That would make your stomach turn The road we drove last night Stretched from the desert to Las Vegas We filled our cups, and lit one up The snow began to burn Oh, Oh mayb...

You can breathe, you can breathe now You can breathe, but the air is running out You can breathe, you can breathe now You can breathe, but the air is running out on you You waited for me in the rain In the parking lot Cold hands, lips blue Clothes stuck to yo...

I called Jesus but he didn't check his phone today, Oh oh, there's my summer girl I've been wanting her I hear she's got a boyfriend Thought I could leave her for a season but it just got cold Yeah, it's a lonely hour in my cellphone tower, Broken down transmi...

Finally, I'm letting go Of all my downer thoughts In no time there'll be One less sad robot Looking for a chance to be Something more than just metal Now I'm going part time With a film projectionist And she's the vinyl queen From my surfer dream She likes the...

She's a black cat hanging 'round my doorstep I'll need all day tomorrow to recover from today I was boxing with my shadow At a stoplight when the clocks changed It was midnight I was mixed up When she called to drag the lake I think I'm running short...

I am looking for a sign My spirit's faded She holds on like a vine Patterns in traffic They sound just like my heart Race in the dark In time to catch you. No one should let you Go wandering off into the night You're not an orphan. I keep waiting for my breat...

We are just these people happy, tangled lives. We are only chemical and skin, Barely strapped in for this air conditioned drive. We are tired of waiting and still we stand in line. Yea, this is all addition by subtraction A simple chain reaction of the mi...

Tore up like your baby blue jeans I was stepping through a fog Under pressure, but I'm feeling weightless Can't let heaven's pin-stripe shooting Leave you carrying a cross Across the desert when you're feeling faithless After all, this haze is only tempo...

I've been running such a long time I've been hiding from the truth I've been battered, been broken, been buried Now I'm death proof, death proof And I been known to take a big chance But I can't waste another shot at redemption Oh, I'm ready don't let m...

Two to one Static to the sound of you and I Undone for the last time And there this was Hiding at the bottom of your Swimming pool some September And don't you think I wish I could stay Your lips give you away I can hear it, the jet engine Through the center...

I write you from this grounded airplane I wonder how you've been and where you are A letter to the one who slipped away A letter for the things that never start Oh my imagination running wild Guess I've missed you from the day that we first met Crazy, this fa...

I'm keeping quiet til there's no more sirens Lately it's hard to keep the hinges on with all the noise I'll find my words when there's no one talking The room is spinning, I have got no choice Be patient, I am getting to the point. I can't remember when the e...

And there is no world wrapping me up I've got a view from the valley Living well but we're dying young To bankrupt a blue sky I saw the post office from the book On my way to the west side Going broke but I'm feeling good I brought my girl to keep me with it...

You gotta swim Swim for your life Swim for the music That saves you When you're not so sure you'll survive You gotta swim Swim when it hurts The whole world is watching You haven't come this far To fall off the earth The currents will pull you Away...

Run around the spiral it's our choice now, Up or down, days can seem so long Holy ghost, I'm living with your voice now But tonight, I'm sleeping with my television on Come tomorrow there'll be hell to pay and clouds across the sun You were right I've al...

I'm coming home from my hardest year I'm making plans not to make plans while I'm here And this life has been no holiday, a complicated situation I'm fine with all my memories Still I could use vacation It's Christmas in California And it's hard to igno...

This is morning That's when I spend the most time Thinking 'bout what I've given up This is a warning When you start the day just to close the curtains You're thinking 'bout what I've given up Where are you now? As I'm swimming through the stereo I'm writing...

There's a lot that I don't know There's a lot that I'm still learning But I think I'm letting go To find my body is still burning And you hold me down And you got me living in the past Come on and pick me up Somebody clear the wreckage from the blast And I'm...

Katie, you're a brave girl And I know it's only just started But I'm gonna be there at six With some flowers on sticks That were clipped just to make the weak strong And Katie it's a strange world And girls can get so broken hearted But if it were me an...

It was last night In an empty warehouse party, oh And there in the blacklight I could see the tatoos glowing on your body Well, oh, oh oh oh Oh, oh oh oh She says to meet her there Beside the power station, oh And she said she'd let me stare If the chemicals...