Mates Of State

I'm trying to be someone else Save one for the ending and Push one o'er the ledge then step back Someone who won't just forget shit like that I'm trying to be someone else Stave off all the moods and Forget it 'cause the next one's close range Someone...

Twenty-five seconds to live and I'm falling down There the darling goes, magnetics that are pulling her down Twenty-five seconds to live and I'm waving high All this white's a thrill Turning just to give us the sign And what I never had were pictures pas...

Advance my directive All the way so I can take it with a smile And in case you don't back in time Your orphan-products they might just do the trick Kori: I am not your yellow knot Who falls around on what is found Jason: Keep advised of her condition...

Turn it up Give me one time I didn't think twice It's fair that you know It's alright that I doubt I'd rather not say I'm so duly impressed I'd rather not say Turn it up Decisions for the whole A reading and response Parables that act out I'm so...

The boxes piled high No order, no mind I'll save the work for you 'Cause I'll be busy sorting through The merrier designs I make inside And on the hollowest pages The pen dissolves without the bait I'll save the work for you 'Cause I'll be busy sortin...

Do you want to go dry now So that I can say we're holding on tomorrow? Unforgivable faults, nonsense Do you want to go dry now So that I can say we're holding out today? Unforgettable starts, ahhh I wonder if I could tie the ocean to you knees Do you...

I was feeling left out at my old friends house so I sat on the couch and I Go And now were running inside on a circular track and I'm feeling the same Way So I step outside and start my car and I'm driving nowhere nowhere Till my cars smolders out on the...

You're spending too long. The people were wrong. They don't even know we're moving on. I just want to feel the taste of the meal, and not the routine of dining here. We'll be so sorry, if we got to the shadow of death having missed all the sun on your face...

So long, lost loves I haven't forgotten you, just yet I hung your picture before I knew Next to scenes set in golden hues Your face, still drifting inside my head The weight is gone Heavy words that I could have said I sang instead when other girls on...

We've been on the run Driving in the sun Looking out for number one California here we come Right back where we started from Hustlers grab your guns Your shadow weighs a ton Driving down the 101 California here we come Right back where we started fro...

Clean out your eyes I never meant to be your disguise So clean out your eyes Covering is all just the same Cover it, it's all just the same You crucify every word that I say Over and over I couldn't hear a single word that was said A stolid jest takes...

It's the way I see it, and oh what a point of view It's the line that calms us all, like a bell on fire It's the line that calms us all, and how we love the call Aim the sound at me The small wall, the long haul up Where candor always leads the conversati...

I feel right all the time I am right all the time Well, oh well let's call it quits Runaway forever Cut me some slack It's my side of the mountain Well, oh well let's call it quits Right away if I could And if I might It's my side of the bed I col...

We lied in so many words We say that we'd take you down To the water's edge and watch you drown We lied in so many words We don't need to drive Hang us out to dry About to bust We don't need to drive, oh no What you got? We lied in so many words I...

Oh, you and me on a fantasy. This is what it's like on a fantasy. No, I wouldn't challenge your home. In the basement of words we knew, there were more of us. Don't want to make you grow numb. If it's not what you thought it was, legs are for discovering....

Don't put your hand in the pockets that feed you You might not get it out Remember the weight of the yellowish night No cat is for this dull world I spent a long time trying to see through People trying to call me out Remember the weight of the glorious...

Forget all your politics for a while Let the color schemes arrive Come on board, it's a curious sight Absorbing sound that's never been right Never ahead of, never behind it Occasionally guarded, just keeps us surrounded It's luck Everything's gonna g...

Why does the rhythm get me every time? It wouldn't if the girls all got along And maybe I imagined that just like I imagine you Where is the mirror? Get me to its face So primitive and yet we all get it wrong And what a very modern prince Just like I im...

This is the story with the fantastic lies Or some facts to help us minimalize As for this shelter I can plainly deny But you can't kill time without injuring us And we'll count up all the goods now This is the girl with such fantastic eyes Such brute cr...

Why must we open all other doors We tied them up well 'Cause I don't want to live with two Unless we remember one second more We tied them up well I break it down Break it up to the ground Some branch it out, staking out all the sound Who bumped it u...

In the center of the living room on the street Where you gathered up your tapes and you traded me There's a record on cassette that you left with me An act of kindness or my own discovery Discount meals are warm, dear Then we'll choose our new game teams...

I can't tell what kind of life I've led today All that's known is what's debatable again Oh, I can't see where you are Where is the problem? Squared-off, all bother We're not to blame And I can't see the darker wood Squared-off, all bother Where is t...

I know you're not playing around But I know you will But what do you say When things just won't got your way? Cut around and surround us I know you're not playing around But I know you will Half-tired and now I know your sorrow Half-wiser and now I...

Can't you see what's happening on the sidewalk? Nowhere to go, nowhere to go It's getting so old Oh oh, we're lying down Oh oh, so we can listen to the ground Can't you see the seams cut in the shoreline? I'm throwing sand into your hand Let's paint t...

Never seen you run so fast Never seen you turn in the middle of your laugh Never once settle down Everyone settle down Kori: Where's my arm? In this coat of arms it is a black arm And where's my prize? This little prize, it is a clear prize Jason:...

I've got this feelin' that I've been here before Nobody can bend the up and down As long as you understand The long undertow The others can hold their breath so long So long as they understand The long undertow I've got this feelin' that I've been her...

I'm spending over Time without shoulders Tired of arrivals Thanks for the break I've lasted longer Lengths all seem wider After this I'm over Spent on the breaks But any time is better than now It's slipping away all the while But any time is bette...

The symptom seems run down It gives me hope the same Except it brings me guts and the symptoms all run down And when it stops I'm around It gives me hope the same Except it brings me guts and the symptoms all run down Would you mind, it's over And, co...

You write the good songs, baby (You write the good songs, baby) I'll write until the end (I'll write until the end) And you can stand above us (And you can stand up above us) And we can still be friends (And we can still be friends) It's like a jigsaw...

Thought about who you are Your daddy's alright (But you fold it up to weather) Your daddy's alright (You bet he's alright) Thought about who you are Your daddy's alright (But you fold it up to weather) Your daddy's alright (You bet he's alright) Th...

Your foot's caught on the side door You were sad, saddened by Your luck's running, you want more You want reason to ... You were made, passerby You were fit for the trial Caught you running around on the other side You caught me running around on the...

I like you crazy (x3) You crazy (x2) I like you crazy (x3) You crazy (x2) I'm suffering lonely ones too And I can't resist sending this on a whim There's a compulsion to mend Write on the wall, my loudest pen goes I can't wait to say all the things you can'...

Why are you making it harder Why are you driving it home I am not the broken hearted I am just in a lullaby haze You can pretend you were let down But we all know the soft seldom survive I am not the broken hearted I am just in a lullaby haze You kno...

I should have noticed that one eye has gotten bigger I only noticed when Your chin had gotten thicker You can not wait When we had something to say We've got a notice for a reason And you will bring you back But I will take you back I'm taking you b...

Catch them when you can, 'cause it takes them to know Who, can you tell me, who do you love? You ought to know things will never be the same, boy Middle is gold and gold does not forgive That's enough to drive you mad Nora's on the step trying to make a...

Baby look at me And tell me what you see You ain't seen the best of me yet Give me time I'll make you forget the rest I got more in me And you can set it free I can catch the moon in my hands Don't you know who I am Fame! I'm always forever I'm alway...

Bought a home, we bartered right Two kids, two car delight Posed pictures on the walls Small talk in the bedroom halls Can't make it home tonight Go sleep but leave the light I pretend to make a call Loose talk into bedroom stalls Oh oh oh, it's my on...

Lying down I notice what you see below us. Your arms are like the trees. I know I haven't said enough. I know we haven't said enough. How I will protect, and how each day matters. Spying shows your limbs caught in the rails. These simple games will soon...

Someday you'll find that I'll have to stay It's hard to say when I'm 39 in the face Don't let your pardon Call, call 'cause I do wonder It's alright, give it to me right If you mind, the fall at your knees Come, come 'cause I don't want to You won't mi...

I've been waiting for a sign I've been waiting for a sign Tell me where Tell me where I belong Oh, you've been waiting for the night Oh, you've been waiting for the night To take you far To take you far away from me Now, now, now, now, now, now, now...

It all begins with a smile Who is reading this? Who is leading this? Kori: 'Cause I thought you should know that this is not an open book They read so much it tears them down They're all around the kinder people like the Federman's tale Jason: It's t...

Yeah, it hardly matters This sickness is killing my will It does not matter Tablets are full But let's unravel the edge of time Where proofs and postulations rise It doesn't matter what might come true It's simple enough to try It hardly matters, it...

Waiting close by the door for us. Can't hardly see out but if you could. You'd make it all worth our while, punchlines you've been saving up for some 90 years. It's not the same without you around. It's not the same without you. I've been thinking it's an...

Humble lady Now that medicine's my art Medicine is art It toughens up default Humble lady Now that medicine's my art Medicine is art It toughens up default Different characters the same Some just do it with poise I could do it again I could do i...

Row The Bull Grecian says, "What have you read?" I come from there, it's executive-sized It's useless he shares, these legs are all wrong What Gray often says, it's executive-sized To ride again Ride again though I don't know, 'cause I've been told, '...

You have the upper hand to open up the door Running out, running out. Running out shouldn't give youth back. I have a hardened chain connected to my arms. Running out, shouldn't pull apart. Let's trade this tired home, for all it's worth in paper. Runnin...

I will set it up with you We will get inside his head And we will tell him how to leave a bitter land I'll pretend I never know what the giants put them through And all the shame he made in you You are the bigger man And the arms are crossed and the st...

And the moment will come when composure returns Put a face on the world, turn your back to the wall And you walk twenty yards with your head in the air Down the Liberty Hill, where the fashion brigade Look with curious eyes on your raggedy way And for onc...

There are only so many ways to earn your own surprise. I know we're giving up too soon. There are only so many ways to float upon the sea. It makes no difference to me. It must be pretty nice my fellow man. We'll miss you much. I think we overestimate ou...

You gave up right away Never too tough to care You give a brighter way Never too notice her What's on the line? It's not a line You gave up right away Never too tough to care You give a brighter way Never too notice her Sound it off, in threes Do...

Didn't know what time it was, the lights were low I leaned back on my radio Some cat was layin' down some rock 'n' roll 'lotta soul, he said Then the loud sound did seem to fade Came back like a slow voice on a wave of phase That weren't no D.J. that wa...

Color it tan Color it black I think they both go nicely Coloring man, stop stuttering man You fall on the floor, it goes nicely Color it tan Color it black I think they both go nicely Coloring man, stop stuttering man You fall on the floor, it goes n...

When we came inside You asked me if I'm well Living like this It gets you thought the night Sure you can, Mr. Bet's on the prowl again It gets you thought the night That at least tells the rest of the drawing, king It gets you thought the night Sure y...

Red colonial houses lining on the snow white streets working out all our problems there in the back of a house where the ghosts all sleep I know its impossible, but you should try to shake it off With that shot to the chest boy, I know you mean it, You mean...

I've been out walking I don't do too much talking these days these days I seem to think a lot about the things i forgot to do and all the times I've had the chance to I stop my rambling I don't do too much gambling these days these days I seem to think about...

On our picture shelves. (Get on, or get out) Statues mocking me. How am I supposed to feel? How am I not put at ease? Talk yourself to sleep. Fall into it deep. I will wash off mine with rolling waves of worry. It doesn't have to feel so wrong. Bethan...

Cut out of the same rope Moving in directions You are the same but yet not I Jason: Domesticate everybody c'mon It's so normal and I like what you say Kori: Down, down Common sense sometimes Made out on the getaway Losing isn't all it's worth I...

Home's all right. I believe (the decision is yours, trust yourself) I believe you have your instinct to expect that I'll change. Oh, to keep with this (the decision is yours, trust yourself) ease history. We'll take it as it comes. You carry me on. What if...

Can you tell me about yourself I am partial to life without How long have you wanted this How do I say this I've always wanted this What are your weaknesses Where in ten can you see yourself I remark, "To the tenth without." How much can you benefit...

I know what it means. It's a king on his feet with a cavalier face, such a funny place. He's exhausted and shrewd, not a man on the move. Just give him a pen. And I can honestly say no. As he can honestly fight. And this red ink ain't dry, 'cause this cl...

You can wait all night I'll never stop complaining As I look into those eyes, I can't behave 'Cause this song's not right It's the legend that you're after I'm occluded 'round the clock a central shame This is the writing of the whiner's bio Who wants...

I had a dream last night That we lost the fight I had a reason to stay in the back of my head But I still have to say goodbye Here in this bed Free, you are free Free, you are free You oughta lay down low Covered in packs of snow Lay down low Cover...