Manchester Orchestra

Several Woman's magazines Stacked up on top of a picture of me When I tried to call No one answered It's not even that I'm all angry Just kind of confused why you do this thing You said, there's an understanding I offer you a small dog in the kitchen...

After the scripture We started to pray Holdin' our hands up Waitin' for change I hardly knew you You knew me the same So we built a shelter While we turned the weak away Your mother beside me Rattlin' her brain Makin' an offering Pacing the pain W...

Well I swear I tried again, your never visible on the weekdays When I need you to do what you can't afford to do You better watch your tone. Your not invisible you know I'll do what I gotta do to stop the sound coming Cause the truth is you're probably not as...

I've been left out a while I sold the family plot for time Sold the only thing I liked So I could taste it You've been drinking all night We both know when you're drunk The future rewinds It happens every fucking time But you erase it All that I rea...

This leathers called a seat belt Anne Louise Your head out of the window in the coolest summer breeze And in the air were all the things you claimed we need They seemed to be worth less than once I did believe And I swear to god that I'll avenge your dead...

Finding out that you had lost the little one inside you Not a sound, but chalk that you had dropped on the floor And I could tell that when you fell the future never planned on getting easier God has never been afraid to fill our cups with more than they co...

I was born an April fool Full of gold to a brothel And saved all my sins I don't care if you and I are naked bare And wrapped up in the sun All I need is one one one one one one one one... I don't know where I've been, what I've done I am the once now...

Take a leaf of paper and draw your mind, Your bourbon brown that can burn my eyes, I lost your presence underneath the bridge Lock the door, let's talk it out, Against the wall, hands on my mouth, Could this be it, is it really over now? You wore a pink t-sh...

Half a year and here you are again I'd go out in public if nobody ever asked I sit home and drink alone and hope that bottle speaks, like you, like us, like me Half a year again, now it's a whole February stationery from you on the wall And I sit home a...

Don't let them see you cry When the dam breaks down and the city is covered in water Cause I believe we fly When the moon takes shape and I dose off, on your shoulders I trust that you see it too So breathe while you're alive Let the big band play as you tap...

Well you might just miss the mark if you're keeping everyone away (Didn't mean to, didn't want to) Well you might just leave a mark if you don't give anyone a say (Never want to, you never mean to) Every stone I've thrown has gone away It's gone away (x2...

Definitely not the things that i'm seeing Did I think I see so instantly? I found a note in my grandfather's coat When I read it out loud I got cold It said I'm not complaining Yeah I was just saying I'm a man, I'm a lost one you see Come down with me t...

On the porch, she will sit, light another cigarette, and take a sip of anything that makes it right. She's outside, trying to hide from the fight just inside, where her mom and her dad destroy each other and on the phone she will call every boy, yeah, on...

Please take care of yourself was the last thing I said, Right before that operator made us disconnected. Please take care of yourself was the last thing I said, Right before that operator made us disconnected. If you can hear me right now, I've got a formula...

In the night I'm disappointed with your choice As I'm right outside your door And my face is on the floor And you left me on the darker side of town Alone all by myself, no shadow spoken tongues Faintly familiar ones And they bled the truth And they scr...

When the dark flood came we wrapped ourselves inside a dirty blanket citing different opinions on whether we should move When the houses came they ate up everyone like they were fishes saying, "come on, come on its the end of the world" And then I sa...

I could feel a hot one taking me down For a moment, I could feel the force Fainted to the point of tears And you were holding on to make a point What's the point? I'm but a clean man, stable and alone man Make it so I won't have to try The faces always...

Well I watched your black tied family Rise up from graves near cemeteries That I have not been to since you goodbye And I drank another simile And compared your Jesus to a thief He took my bones and turned them into bread. Cause I can feel your pain, in my b...

I know how to speak And I know where I’m going I wanted to seek But I got distracted It’s a mirage One that leaves me embarrassed Cause no one knows me like you You know there’s nothing left for ya So I continually move Try to pass it through for ya...

In a car on the driveway the conversation's colors paint themselves on canvas White lies and motivation, we're standing oh so honestly I'm surprised it didn't hurt your eyes I think that "I" is the only word in your vocabulary tonight Those same brown eyes...

Dirt in the ground is what I need I got another one to tell you and another one to make you believe pity in the grass tried to be the one you needed when I told you that you wanted something bigger than me I've got friends in all the right places...

I felt a black man in my teeth, what a way Jesus is coming, he acts my age, and he always looks the same I said a good seed was on your break wasn't a mistake anyway Well Jesus is coming better act our age And clean everything And make a seem Like you n...

i am a man that does not have a way. millions of oceans can show me, you say. we still run around like there's no better way, and i don't stay. so last night when you threw the glass on the wall, you realized the end would be following. you don't say wh...

God knows you're on my mind You can't try to tell him otherwise God knows it's only time Before I break the chain in my eyes The fear keeps you hiding at night From the creatures play ball outside Well chances are slim that we are right But I'd never t...

Her heart beats fast, out of sheer pain inside, her face is left bruised, just from speaking her mind, she keeps the lights low, cuz the neighbors all know, there's a husband next door, who's creating a widow, his first name is Russel, and his best fr...

Leaky holes and fire escapes will Set the evening for tone You and your holy halo started burning eventually just froze Sewn into the carpet just trying to thaw out whatever I know The thermostat it won't go higher not that you or I know I was drinking he...

Leave it alone We finished this up like an hour ago So leave me alone I planted it once, just assumed it would grow Even though, when I think Its replicated fear throws me off for years So take me or don't A three hour drive but we got nowhere close...

Feet slipping on the porch to my house Iced easy you can track in the snow Duel gunning it happened the last time Stop talking watch your head on the car Cats Cradle and hail to the Rat King Teeth sharpened on our broken bones Look straight in the eyes...

My friend Marcus, he sleeps in my basement And his father touched more than spirit Now he can hardly sleep, sleep My friend Marcus, he's got such an ego I beg him oh daily to let go Find your father and find your meaning Please I don't give a good shi...

Sweet Jesus I swear that I love you, no matter what the chariot says. I'm biased and by this I'll judge you on weakness wrapped up in my own innocence And I think that's fine. My God you look so much different. From mirrors you looked like fool. And your skin...

Father, I plead in waves so I don't need you like I used to Fear and nostalgia say I don't have it anymore Whatever you want Whatever you need Bleed from me Right from me Bleed from me I don't have yours or mine I don't hurt you like I used to Amy,...

Now I have a nagging flaw I never saw it sneaking up it wrapped it's dirty arms around me Pockets full of blood After I had seen the sight I hardly had a choice to fight A nail snuck out behind the van and it hit me through my sweater and my shirt And whe...

You lift your skinny fists up in the sky Packed a change of clothes and left In the middle of July 2005 But when the glass, it hit the wall Mother cried and the cops were called The day you said goodbye Your father left his work by one or two To a cryi...

On the outside of your window I lie And make all my plans for the week. I can talk all night long about those that I love Well who's strong and who's weak In her little black box she keeps pictures of Jesus And the bruises she received again. In his lit...

Finally I felt the calming breeze Stepping out to watch the finale scene After all its you, my pride, and me I can't speak whatever I can speak You see Now I found the ways to meet the means Faker faced to make the kingdom clean After all its me...

How do I keep dying just for you? You're a dirty word My mother washed my mouth for using It's funny how we complicate the two You're a sacred heart If I've ever felt one The aeroplane is flying towards the sun And you're another reason I can cut my t...

Shake it out, shake it out. God, I need another round, another round, another round, another I could feel it now. I felt the lord in my father's house. Well, I could see, I could see standing we were seventeen make it clean. Are you the living ghost of w...

Well, she found a love and he found a victim, he thought it was strange, she knew it was meant to be. She wore white and he wore the black suite, she gave him no lies, she gave her innocense. From day one it seemed she'd wake up from the day dream, but ir...

Hunter eyes I'm lost and hardly noticed, slight goodbye I want to rip your lips off in my mouth And even in my greatest moment doubt The line between deceit and right now Simple math, it's how our bodies even got here Sinful math, the ebb and flow to mu...

When my dad died the worms ate out both his eyes. His soul flew right up in the sky and I cried myself to sleep. My mother lies alone on her back at night. Adding up hours till her demise, she counts herself to sleep. When my sister finds my body closed up l...

She's in the corner dealing the cards She looks around and round And slowly puts her poker face on She's such a tease, a tease It's just about the one thing she knows The only way to get the certain thing she already owns You know she always gets them so...

The lights were low enough, you guessed You swapped your conscience with your father's medication Limped from Rome to Lawrenceville And on the way wrote out a self made declaration And when you got to Pleasant Hill You forced the traffic to erase your fam...

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I don't want to die alone Tell me there's another option for me Standing like I should have known I knew you'd accidentally look right inside of me There's nothing anybody could say There was nothing anybody could do You made up your absent mind And no...

I heard the neighborhood was bleeding. Pressed shirts and raincoats for the cause. 5000 termination papers. Can you read them, if you're sleeping? Cause formulas are for nothing, if I can barely get to sleep. Well I can be lonely if she's happy, after all. I...

I am the only one that thinks I'm going crazy And I don't know what to do And I am the only son of a pastor I know Who does the things I do But if it was you I don't think that it would matter And if it was true Then I just wouldn't matter I was amaze...

The procession went smoothly the lights low and dim. I raised my clear glass and I toast times to heaven But you're not the same love that I used to know. Well I'll break this guitar and board up these windows. Just make sure they know that I won't return...

I will fight the spirit With a sword in my side She found a way out Crack my rib Wait to die I think I know you best when I sleep I think I know everything Me and my brothers We have tongues sharp as knives I found a way out Make a noise, close your...

Why do I deserve the science to feel better about you? At a loss I lost my cool I denied that I found you I tried to be a basket case I did not surprise you I'm trying to find a signal fire Let me know when I should move But you, amplified in the silen...

I was alone So I set a fire and I wasted it all on you You were a sea I cannot remember And I knew it'd be over soon If I was a tree I know you couldn't take it On a Sunday afternoon And we were a bridge on top of bodied water With something left inside...

There's two twin deaf kids and they've gotta make An ungodly decision They decide which one gets to leave this place And which one will forsake it, to make it So, the first kid says in his temporal tone I don't think there's a way to resolve this We sho...

I used to feel some guilt Now I just feel empty I wasn't supposed to bend Least not this quickly I wanted to walk Oh you, you wanted to run I wanted to talk Oh you, you wanted to slide I want to believe I've got to believe I used to feel some thri...

Heard don't move unless you know someone you can move And I bruise just like anyone would bruise And I know we've got a long way to go I know I've got so far We built this house with our hands, and our time, and our blood You build this up in one day to...

You fell too fast Like a cannon ball But the fishnet stocking hands caught me again And your head explodes like nothing’s wrong My God, we laid there silent, for an hour And the birds they watched like a funeral And they sang us all their pretty funeral...

They call holidays an option for a reason I heard you're coming back to life just for the fourth I've been catching all your ghosts for every season I pray to god you won't come back here anymore do you pray with him, too? They should deliver all my ble...

If you could roll the window down, I'm feeling crowded, and getting real nauseous. If you could let the forcefield down... I swear I'm trying to make conversation. If I could let my hair grow out, then I could prove that I'm not so impulsive. If I coul...

I could of sworn that I saw you knee bent on the bedside, Arms stretched like a kite that time will eventually grow. I'm so sure of it And I've got a reason, too long, for songs That tells why your legs and arms are actually able. Cause I confide in wolves at...