Matthew Good

[Matt:] You know, today I was asked only one question One question all day Do you know what that was? "Do you want this supersized?" Come to think of it, I'd like the whole fucking world supersized Supersize guns Supersize planes Supersize satellites Think ab...

I know that it's bad That it's the kind that they can't operate on And I know it's real slow, honey Painful and real slow Styrofoam coffee cups And bagged drugs that never work enough And I know its real slow, honey Painful and real slow When we were...

Don't move, stay right where you are talking can only give you away and there's so nothing to say the voices say hello imprisoned, they're invisible but we look a lot alike this is boring, all we talk about is you come on give me a reason a boy and his machine...

I dreamt last night of sirens By flashlight I had found you You just held my hand By the bright lights in some ICU Even the planless have a plan I can't write love songs when I'm on these things I'm affable, responsible, but hard to be around It's correctible...

Hey Mr. Chips How's the wife? And are the kids still poison? Do you still eat them? Been under the gun, Running the guns Say how'd this world get so fucking fun All of a sudden? Here's a quarter for the phone Why don't you call someone and find out How it is...

In the wilderness uncountable voices earplugs for the birds and the animals and blinders for your beast of burden, the will for learning these books were made for burning in the wilderness beneath the ancient sand lies crushed and tanned those sapphire gir...

One foot in front of the other One foot back to counter it Days like these you've got to find it in some other way It's all or nothing baby Avalanche, start inside of me Avalanche, down through the trees Avalanche, start inside of me Avalanche, hell down thro...

You're going to take what you can get A hammered Styrofoam Beat into the West Live the highway in your home You're going to get what you deserve And not a penny less Concrete the natural absurd Only killers call killing progress Fall on me black helicopter Yo...

What if you woke up in the middle of the night And in your bare feet you walked outside And realizing that you were awake that you could fly Out over the world To places that you've only heard of See faces that you were sold as murderers But just like yo...

Well there ain't nothing to this but your daughter and the life you would not give her break your plans traipsed across the continent a squatter for your lies at night to sleep between my hands When the lights come on this whole place gets ugly but when they'...

Here's the bright end of nowhere Here's the results of all our days Used to lay on the roof and drink beer And try and count up all the ways That you could waste away Looking back it seemed so simple But having done it I couldn't say The lights are out baby A...

When Hollywood runs out of Indians When the bar stars melt and their golden hair turns into glass When Hollywood runs out of Indians When the bubble bursts and the first are come for by the last There's something in the way you move Makes me catch a cold There...

How now are you gone awry? How now are we back here tonight? That's all there is Roll the dice This is all there is Roll the dice How now baby is a little bit enough of it When you live a double life? How now are you going to bite both hands? That's all ther...

Throw away your anger Throw away the sheath Charge and spike your heavy guns Because that ain't no kind of belief Dream of where it left you When you were still too young To know the difference between the faith in your heart And the politics of looking...

Miss my head, miss my heart, miss my lungs Be what you want to be Watch what you want to see Killed for fun Down a hole, up a rope Down some pills, up some hope This karma machine only takes quarters New age soldier, new age soldier Everybody's all ri...

And here's the weirdest part about that story, the guy was so upset that she ripped him off for his money she was actually wedged under the front - I told you about that - under the front of a firebird and he's trying to get the ten dollars of rock back out of...

Well you walk like I thought you’d walk And you talk like I thought you’d talk Broken glass, lips to ass, the stars up in the sky I’m like that one about a priest who walks in bar, orders a drink And then finds God all in savage company Well smile Cruelt...

There's the house There's the doorway Been locked out The lights are out anyway And loosely reconditioned To be just so refined A last grasp at the life worth living In these standard shoes and what's left of my lines You can see right through me Hey I've bee...

Well is it larger than a baby's arm? A few more cocktails will straighten you out And we'll get to the bottom of it Something better to disarm You were in the bathroom far too long Now look at you go I'm not safer than a bank, bitch But I'll tell you this Beca...

I'm a window, you're the frame I'm a gigolo, you're in pain I'm the highlights, you're the game If I'm a window, you're just the rain Everybody get off the floor tonight All right? Screw the whistle, come be the train Don't fuck the princess, do the maid Don...

Here it comes and there it goes Another day of decomposing light In a world called catastrophe, my native tongue is blasphemy So that's the one I'll write And baby can you feel it? Don't it make you want to lay down and close your eyes? Remember how we starte...

Line up crooked my eyes straight up at the sun In and out of consciousness Neither is much fun Show down with that head of yours And the book is 10 to 1 Ghetto rock for Princess Sticky Magazine Five nights on the TV and two nights in between To make out...

Way up in that sky I look up and I wonder If that's you passing by It's been a while since I was your man Used to shout up from outside Wake you when you were sleeping Now I walk the streets, I don't recognize nobody It's been a while since I was your m...

Little terror Pack your stars Here's a big wind for your sails From the motherland Little terror sings the company song Here's a big hand to move you along From the motherland Mother Your son he's a bad boy Mostly a bad boy But he's the one 

Today I'm leaving This bullshit one horse town Full of cowboys and indians Who only have balls when there's a camera around Where the girls they move to you When money gets thrown around Even happiness is using you Maybe you'll figure that out It's a long way...

I've a favor to ask, maybe this is a bad time You know whenever you ask there's never a good time How do you take your heart out of it? How can you take your heart out of this? And how do you stop once you've started? Somebody gave you a choice And all you do...

On a plane, somewhere over the sea Above the rain, the bottle sets me free I turn to stone, fall back in my seat The cuts are gone but somehow I'm still bleeding You know it's true There's nothing I can do about you Move to France La Rochelle or Nice Get a h...

The crowded future stings my eyes I still find time to exercise In uniform with two white stripes Unlock my section of the sand It's fenced off to the water's edge I clamp a gasmask on my head On my beach at night Bathe in my moonlight Another tanker's hit...

The pink pills are for your sanity We are buried in the earth because we can't beat gravity You are still here and so made to figure You are an important part of the computer Born of the sea, blink The sea is dead Falls out of me these sockets in my head Ever...

Ain't got a job but the future's bright Flip off the world you know they say it's all right You never get what you want to And modern love you just can't stand That candy coating is just a scam You never get what you want to Oh ya, all right North Ameri...

Hey midnight Turn on your lights Roll out your stars I look tired But I feel wired And my body hums Like it's coming undone Don't you lie to me Nothing's already what it seems And even you can spot the fool Odette makes me forget what I've done What I've b...

On nights like tonight, when no one's around I put on the record, the record I found When I was a kid and the world was a town And Heartbreaker weren't nothing painful Carry me Mother Mary I'm faithless Like Sister Theresa, canonized, faceless The press...

This is a commercial for my army and my navy This is a rehearsal for all the empty promises I will be And I won't let you down Done letting you down This is a commercial for freedom while freedom is in hades This is a rehearsal of incoherent double talk and m...

From Chicago to Miami Shout New York, shout LA Today we take the White House And paint it poor man's gray From London to Damascus Cry Freetown in Marseilles Today we take the blue sky And paint it poor man's gray My mama she done told me There's heart...

Put out your lights You're taken over Sit on your hands for the new national anthem It sounds a lot like shit but it goes on and on Put out your lights The waiting's over Sit on your hands for the new national anthem It sounds a lot like shit but it goe...

In love with your pills Now I can get rid of myself If all of this kills Why am I so hard on myself? In this town, when the sun goes down You party, I pay the bills In this room, I look around at everything I've built And it don't mean a thing Ain't it terribl...

This lightning's fine She picks up these tired parts of mine Who's carrying you tonight? She carries me all of mine Up again, down again, out of your head When she's beside you you're nearly not so dead Up again, down again, out of your head When she's beside...

While I go over it in my head Walk through those doors and stand there staring And there ain't one soul that's in there dead My hand stays out, I keep my head And walking out I see you sitting in that Ford of your old man's Scratching your arms like your skin...

Sunshine, don't you mind them Lie for me now, smile for me now Sometimes my feet don't touch the ground When you come around The devil's in your details My feet don't touch the ground When you come around sunshine Don't you mind them Lie for me now, smile for...

The day I met you Decay will let you Learn to bend We are better butterflies Meek we get the end It makes me sick It makes me laugh when I shouldn't Kill what I came to keep alive Your turn to spill Now that's fate Looking our way Sparkling Spot...

True love will find you in the end You'll find out just who was your friend Don't be sad, I know you will, But dont give up until True love will find you in the end This is a promise with a catch Only if you're looking can it find you 'Cause true love is searc...

Go shoot down the sun and moon Close your eyes, live at noon We don't know what we are But we're tired of it Go and get your friends We'll take this city while it's sleeping Down and out without a doubt We're down and out We're so heavy Can't get out...

Here by my side; an angel, Here by my side; the devil. Never turn your back on me, Never turn your back on me, again. Here by my side, it's heaven. Here by my side, you are, destruction. Here by my side, a new color to paint the world Never turn your back on...

Buy in it'll shut you up Try it, it should shut you up We've brought someone in to shut you up It's a life's work While we were hunting rabbits I came upon a clear The sky its stars like fortune drilled me Until now I was a soldier Until now I dealt in fear T...