Motion City Soundtrack

In early '99, I beat the Ocarina Of Time, I'm quite the legend in this town. My friends get wicked shit from all the foul-mouthed fools you roll with. Just push your luck, there will be blood, most likely our own carnage. We all just wanna do our thing, witho...

I didn't think I would make it Thought everybody was against me All those conquered eyes and Christmases alone I never gave an honest answer But I need a lot of angry organs Are we copacetic? Are we behaving now? Filling up on endless insights From other peo...

This time I thought I'd listen and the story goes... I am the same without medicine I can't pretend it never ends I'm fine, I'm fine These words are all I have to hide behind So get behind me, you have no right to say.. I shut my mouth and walk away from the...

I won't tell you how to live your life So please stay far away from mine Always watching out for which and when Is always running out of time Drip drops in like skin of summer All once everything unwinds Inside-out and all about my heart Is always running out...

She makes a lot of abstract art She haggles for the cheapest price She never orders take-out food Before ten o'clock at night She's really into snow mobiles She owns a lot of nice flashlights She cares for all the stupid cats That never found their way home...

Let's do this I've been dying to hear what you're going through I've been trying to find out what's up with you There are too many secrets This distance between you and me You've been running around like you're bulletproof On the brink of disaster, to...

I am wrecked. I am overblown. I am also fed up with the common cold. But I just hate to say goodbye To all the metaphors and lies That have taken me years to come up with. Say it's true. Say you like me. (I like you.) Just for the night. for me, it's been ete...

Outline of a storyboard with no idea Head first in the shallow end and I apologize if I do not care Busy hands keep swimming They don't like swallowing to the abstract motor "Gotta make that motor hum, gotta make it run." Forward seems like forever when "ever...

You better open the door before I take a hammer to the walls around it. I cannot let you inside my cell for fear I'll sink the ship and drag us both down. Our hell ends every weekend But it's all I have to believe in. [x2] Matt makes his murderous demand: fo...

There's no consolation prize There's no prize for consolation All stuck in the middle Between what is and what might be A great sensation Has swept the nation Everybody wants the image you've got for sale With massive compromations on your part But buddy you'...

Wheew-ooh Wheew-ooh Wheew-ooh Wheew-ooh How many times do you lose what you find? Does your shadow keep bringing you down? Running to grasp little memories of the past There's a part of me that still believes that nothing's gone for good Wheew-ooh...

I'll start this broken heart I'll fix it up so it will work again Better than before Then I'll star in a mystery A tragic tale of all that's yet to come With fingers crossed there will be love But I get carried away with every day And every fantasy The deeper...

Calling all cops and autobots, I hope that you’re still there Saving victims from the wreckage Of our wild affairs, such wild affairs. Copy all cats and acrobats, I know you don’t play fair, Slinging sickness through the atmosphere, Without a care, without a...

Contact was questioned from the boulevard Head colds in frozen weeks of summer holds I’m fine i’m fine wait waiting on the line We sent ourselves in on the gray card scale Hold my head Where storms are sand And sand is said To be sad Longwinded cambridge med...

Why can't you finish what you've started? Why can't you try and understand? It doesn't make a bit of difference if you start what you can't finish Every story needs an ending, after all. I think I've known it for a long time Suffice to say, it's been a while...

I'll be back tomorrow I'll be back in the ballroom swingin' I'll be back with my Superman action And I’m off to save the world silly me I left a message with no return number for my boys in blue in case of an emergency in case the shit goes down, yeah I'll be...

I had a bad feeling again Everyone's underground Somehow it seems better this way With me not around I tried to hide all that I was Everything's ending here Saw the whole scene slowly dissolve Nobody wins And the days will run away before you know it...

To the deep end, to the heart line Hold it straight together, man Hold it straight together, if you can Little fevers wrapped in medication All strung out on novelty Collapse yourself and try to comprehend An angry island, a bitter bee sting Severing and shatt...

We don't like endless cycles Our take is more than meets the eye It's our answer yeah that's our answer 'Cause we don't care at all Don't call it a comeback no This witness was injured and overthrown away This time it's the last dance so come on By will alone...

I've got a lot of things to do tonight I'm so sick of making lists of things I'll never finish I've lived here for the last twelve years Since early 1995 all my shit has been in boxes But if I had a little more time to kill I'd settle every little stupid thing...

Everyone will die, and everyone will lose So what you going to do with moments you have before it's you? It doesn't mean goodbye It's just a simple truth The shedding of a lifetime of layers that once embodied you Like winter into spring and summer into fall T...

Tell me that you're alright, Yeah everything is alright. Oh please tell me that you're alright, Yeah everything is alright. Give me a reason to end this discussion, To break with tradition. To fold and divide. Cause I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplane...

And we feel like rain when the words all sound the same, in the lifeless corners of this empty frame. Though we feel let down by the same old autumn breathing, winter's curse is just around the bend. With our hands all tied to the blades of their design, we ar...

Last night I fell in love without you. I waved goodbye to that heart of mine Beating solo on your lawn Every aching wound will cauterize and bruise In memory of what we used to call in love And only time will tell if violins will swell In memory of what we us...

I didn't want to be the anchor in your heart I only wanted you to notice me If the universe is drifting further from itself each day There isn't anything that I can say It's not the weight of the world It's just the way that I am You ever get so alone?...

Fed up with "made you look" and dirty crooks without a clue They all wear the same face And it says, "Hangman, I'm on to you" [Chorus:] Hangman, it's not your fault commit this to memory the bright ideas always get lost along the way Last call for medicine t...

Long live the echoes of my despair Dissolving into nothing I swear they'll never take me alive They'll never pull my strings again Sometimes I think I just need to vent A million little pieces Other times the feelings get too intense I want to cut them...

Hello helicopter, are you here to stay? Bodies rest in motion fighting night and day Well it's kill or be killed And one day we'll get the best of them Hello helicopter, will you be my friend? Will you take me away? Hello helicopter, have you heard the news?...

Maybe you were right after all Maybe I'm just bad news I've been drowning in memories Call it residual booze I fell asleep watching Veronica Mars again I still futz with that tourniquet I tried to squeeze on your dreams Slung it on, it's a perfect fit What do...

What are you asking me for It's not my god damn history What do you hope to find here There's nothing left as you can see When the beatings all began We begun to scream and run But the current pulled us down And the smallest ones would drown Now we sit and dr...

I found a letter that said: "I'm sorry that you were asleep when I wrote these words down," You'd think I'd ought to be used to that by now. Save for a few of those late night episodes, Missed opportunities, and "I Don't Cares," There's not a lot that I feel o...

Tick-tock, sweat, switch up the fingers, The silly integer's always on vacation. I didn't think it was a bad idea, I just couldn't figure out how to make the phone work. That said, it was no different from the others, Except that this is now and that was...

All this time I've wasted Waiting for the world to end Dizzy indecision Veering off the open road Anchors away Lack of infrastructure Someone hear me out I'm dying inside, there's nowhere to hide Where do I go? Get back in the cage Just keep me awa...

Outside the sidelines failing harder than the modern stars of made for t.v. crime indoor living in cardboard confines counts for very little when safe is just a state of mind I fell off the sidelines long ago I have no occupation I'm just wasted for the weeken...

I'll get lost, messed up and bored when I'm alone too long I can't sleep, function or eat when I'm not with someone Late last fall, she ended it all and moved to who-knows-where Just like that, she vanished and packed and never even called Do you feel a certa...

You are not alone We've all had our battles with darkness and shadows I'm here to let you know It's a pleasure to meet you Can you feel it, disappearing It'll happen, you are not alone I've been there, I'm still there Oh, and better Everything is so...

Let's get fucked up and die.. I'm speaking figuratively, of course.. Like the last time that I committed suicide.. social suicide.. Yeah, so I'm already dead on the inside, But I can still pretend with my memories and photographs, I have learned to love the li...

I'm still frustrated from last night Things happened in half-time, I'm sick of the bends My panic research was no help I sink into myself Afraid of the fall that never ends I wait, but I'm too tired to play pretend I'll suffocate until the end No time for hal...

I can get lost for days I can not stop the waves Stranded on top of this ugly ocean Everybody looks the same Some of us fall in love Some of us fall apart Dragging my body in slow motion Take me back to the start Woah, woah It's time to lose control...

They carved a message deep within our broken hearts that failed to mend: Make out kids never had a chance to be best friends. She's into math and magazines, Director's cuts and gray cell green Armed with an eye for contradictions, She sees completely through...

Mary go round I'd like to see you when the summer sun sets down Straight from the pages into memories that hang around I can't believe that there is nowhere you can go and not be found without sound From the pages of the morning When you mentioned You're wort...

I believe in medication And I believe in therapy And I believe in crystal light 'cause I believe in me yeah It's so uplifting, fuck yeah I barely have motivation They say I suffer from a lack of seratonin synapses They happen too infrequently for me To be fun...

Woah woah, are you out there? Woah woah, are you listening at all? Woah woah, are you out there? Woah woah, are you listening to anything I’ve said? It’s hard to believe I cannot exist without you. As hard as I’ve tried, I cannot confess completely, yeah...

I got the message long before you said you knew There was no chance of us at all With no velocity and empty-headed hard and far-too-long I spent two years alone with you Just when I thought I had forgotten You came back soft without a sound You said we were a...

I'm not asking you to leave I'm just begging you to let me get some sleep I've lied awake for far too long I get so sick and tired of witnessing the dawn As summer hangs on the horizon Desire jumps the fence and hightails to the sea A subtle tale turns into n...

I've thought on those endless nights, Committing to conversations. Devouring left and right, The rest of our lives. I always hated those techno songs, You put on my compilations. Those saintly notions of right and wrong, That always got in my way. I'...

Someday I fear I will be rescued from the boredom line With lack of memory I fail to question why With perfect sound you bring me down hey I'm not listening You're through killing me with all your facts and late night therapy Like "Paul’s boutique" on empty st...

Are you listening, Javelina? Every corner of the coast is still clear All dressed up with some medicine for luck How I hope that you're still here when I return Burning bridges is a form of suicide I saw the fires as the ghost of my life Passed me by and ther...

You can't see me peering through my glasses You've been staring much too long She walked away she walked away Try to think of a better way to ask you to the promenade The first time I met you, falsetto sighs and the fire flies on dusty shoes and injured...

I like the universe, but she messes with my words I'm not talking planets or galaxies and the distance just makes it worse. I know what you're thinking, this probably sounds rehearsed. So let's give it up for the New Year Did this party of two have you slight...

Shiver away, i thought the action was real Somewhere I know that’s just the way you are It’s hard to believe that you’re a part of me I can’t believe when you carry on and on I can’t believe you got that right (oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh) I can’t believe you got that...

What if there's nothing more to me? I'm just skin and bones, there's no mystery. What if you're just an empty shell? All your spare parts are used up by somebody else. What if there's no way to explain some things, Like deja vu, and acid rain? What if we're al...

If I stand too close I might fall in But if I'm too far gone I'll never win And if you believe in me I might just wanna spend some time with you again I'm afraid I tend to disappear Into an anxious state When you draw near There is no reasoning It's quite a s...

Do you remember how we met? Silhouetted by the lights... You were drunk and tried to take a mental picture with your hands I was thinking about that And a bunch of other things Stop looking at the floor... I need to pour out this expansive dose of words. I ca...

I’m on fire and now I think I’m ready to bust a move Check it out I’m rocking steady Go! Betty won’t stop listening to modern rock How she hates to be alone I try to compensate her lack of love with coffee cake Ice cream and a bottle of ten dollar wine she sa...

it was an isolated incident back in 1984 on a plane headed south to west texas i held my wings next to the frozen window then a lady sat down right beside me with big black glasses and long brown hair she told me she was from west virginia she bought me a sod...

I like your hair much better that way when it hangs out front when it hangs out front with tilted head like a listener but I'm just thinking about the red dress I like the red dress I'm on my way I'm on my way I'm on my way from coast to coast I'm chilly most...

I had a dream now it's gone so I'm going in alone today Trap all the driftwood thoughts I'd rather just ignore I had a plan but it turned now I'm peeling it the other way Can't quit lost cause non-stop anywhere but here You hope for the best but the best...

I've got emotion Dripping out my pores and I Thought I would let you know You are the night light, Ripping through my wicked world How you make it sparkle and glow, Before I lose control There's just one thing you should know This is for real, this time I mea...

To be lost in a state of confusion no sense of direction you can't be found far from the truth of the slim and shady youth but it's all the same, yeah it's all the same to me That's what you say when you're falling down That's what you say when you throw down...

Tiny hands, recycled cans, the metal bands I could not stand.. The time you cried and threw your crayons across the floor... These are the things I think about when I'm alone without you I wonder of your whereabouts and hope like hell you're happy where you a...

I cut you out and safely discarded you away Then you came back and sprang your attack on my parade Yeah, I wanna know I'm trying to understand How this could happen again You keep knocking me out (I can't get up) You keep knocking me out (I'll just s...

You better believe it's true You know I do, I do (2x) I'm a screw-up of epic proportions A walking hand grenade Hyper-manic, and dimestore dramatic A conduit for pain She said: 'Don't speak, don't think, just take it all, take it all' I said:...

Midwest love affair; I bend when I am bored Late night liquor blue Will lead me to the floor. Can we fake it? Can we make believe? I'm so full of love It deeply sickens me. But all I could do was close my eyes And cross my heart and hope to die Cause you don'...

Hello there, how you doin'? I've got all these thoughts just floating through my brain They bump and they collide and cause a flurry of confusion And it's getting on my nerves I try to hold myself together fighting off this mental weather when I can (some...