Something Corporate

Shake down, you make me break, for goodness sake I think I'm on the edge of something new with you. Shout out, don't drown the sound, I'll drown you out, you'll never scream so loud as I want to scream with you. Standing there with your smile blinding your ey...

some days go by, i wish i was famous or maybe religious, so i could go to heaven just like you i can have a big house, complain about taxes payoff my ex'es, ain't that living no one makes fun of me, cause i can't stand up for myself whoa, 21 and invincible wh...

You little creep, That's what she said, these quotes from your mother, get better every day. And you'll be nothing, just like your father, at least that's what the kids at school say. And Jamie spent her Christmas at the Airport, She said planes made her feel...

close your eyes, and i will be swimming lullaby's fill your room, and i will be singing singing to only you dont forget ill hold your head watch the night sky fading red but as you sleep, and noone is listening i will lift you off your feet, ill keep you from...

It's been a bad day, another bad day and all I want to do is look at you and know I'm okay. From where I'm sitting these shoes ain't fitting and I'm walking backwards, looking down, don't see the sky I see the ground. Above below you look and so you wonder, w...

Give me an answer Why this cancer eats me away How this restlessness Could turn into a day I fear what comes first The things that hide in the night But I'm quaking, and shaking Even now that it's light And no I don't feel right I can see but I've l...

I'm on fire And the day is feeling hopeless You'd see me burning but the burning's turning smokeless Soon I won't feel at all No It's electric the neon hurt inside your phone call The layered sadness and the madness it revolves Bringing down the walls where y...

They're closing down the caldecott tunnel, so tonight I'll dream she's the bridge. I never knew there'd be distance between us, what I've done cannot be repeated... And I've got scars I'm willing to show you, you had heart that I'll never see, she had answers...

At Cavanaugh Park Where I used to sit All alone in the dark And dream about things That I cannot say You always said denstiny Would blow me away And nothing's gonna blow me away At Cavanaugh Park Where you used to take me To play in the sand And said to me, "...

Let's get drunk You can drive us to the harbor Wish upon a star but Do you know what stars are? Balls of fire, burning up the black space Falling from the landscape Exploding in the face of God Let's get crazy, Talk about our big plans Places that you're goin...

I kissed a drunk girl I kissed a drunk girl, yes I did Kissed a drunk girl on the lips I let my guard down How could I have been so dumb Her eyes were open I know I am not the one I know I am not the one I know I am not the one I kissed a drunk girl...

i close my eyes thought i was lost but i was stranded i go outside to my surprise the sky had landed i thought it made more sense if i could only keep you guessing i was a fool to think that i should stop you from undressing now i'm believing all the words you...

On Christmas morning, outside was pouring All was hopeless in this home And no one's speaking, no one creeping to see if she was on the phone And you were quiet, this routine riot was all but practical to me and if we see it, why can't we beat it can we let ea...

Light breaks underneath a heavy door And I try to keep myself awake Fall all around us on our hotel floor And you think that you've made a mistake And there's a pain in my stomach from another sleepless binge And I struggled to get myself up again I wanna han...

she's trapped inside her room with reruns on the screen old books and movies but she can't stop thinking i'm torn between myself my radio my friends i want to write this one off over and over and over again and then she looked at me to scream "my castles are f...

Shake down you make me break For goodness sake I think I'm on the edge Of something new with you Shout out don't drown the sound I'll drown you out You'll never scream so loud As I want to scream with you Standing there with your smile blinding Your eyes from...

Departures are so hard You claim Packing up your things Your necklaces and rings Your darvidan and morphine You can't believe the actor Smacked her Gave her a black eye There's something in a western winter Where it's easier to say Goodbye, Goodbye These yel...

standing on the edge of morning scent of sex and new found glory playing as she's pulling back her hair she drives away she's feeling worthless used again but nothing's different she'd stay the night but knows he doesn't care home by three deafening quiet the...

i woke up in new york city from my sleep behind the wheel caught a train to Poughkeepsie and time stood still she wrote me a letter from san diego to qualify her luck these flights connect through arizona but i think i'll stay stuck so here i am here i am we...

I'm under attack again my dear, I'm in the way Got no resolutions, no clever anecdotes to say And still if I yell at the top of my lungs will it be the same? I'd fly you a flag, I'd bury this pen into my veins I wanna feel through you tonight But I won't make...

A train crashed And everything slows down I was wishing I could get out of this town These dreams we've had Have never made you cry And I am not a twinkle in your eye But I've got to get out of here Cuz you drive me up the wall I've got to get out of h...

She's out of school again But she won't be calling from where she is going the lines are jammed this time what could a girl like her need with a slacker like me If I were a terrorist I'd bomb you're graduation If I were a terrorist there'd be no hesitation S...

I have a story, a bitter anthem, For everyone to hear About this kid who just don't like me, And that's a solid fact. They say he's hunting me and as you see, I'm all swelled up with fear, Cause I can't get him off my back If you see Jordan (if you see...

I met you last month at a party You brought me up, you brought me down You came to me last night as an apparation Now you came around What's with you and all your talk of independence? What's with me and my lack of innocence? Keep it locked up inside the poc...

I can't imagine all the people that you know And the places that you go When the lights are turned down low And I don't understand All the things you've seen But I'm slipping in between You and your big... dreams It's always you and my big dreams And...

Letters to Noelle Marked up cardboard boxes fell I fell with them Crushed like them I am Letters to Noelle Years of waiting, nothing fading Emptied out my pen Carved the rest into my hand Letters to Noelle Written from my darkest cell Filling up my wishing w...

Climbing out of the sky a man who could fly and a painting anyone could play. It's a comic book crush that taught you to trust. Staring out of the stands at a rock n roll band and a hero no one else could save, it was never much but it's all that you gave. An...

It's a good year for a murder she's praying to jesus, she's pulling the trigger there's no tears, cause he's not here she washes her hands, and she fixes the dinner but soon they'll be coming to rush her away no one's so sure if her crime had a reason reasons...

Another lonely night in Amersterdam The stars are coming out in waves And I miss my Miss America from Park Hotel But I'm too stoned to call it a day When everything you wanted Is hard to hide behind your lies And I'm locked in my hotel room Turning over our g...

He graduated with a degree in Poli-Sci Premeditated what he would do until he died And then he faded into a never-rising sky Surfaced in the airforce, then learned how to fly Mulligan goes to war Mulligan goes to war The days are gone When he could tel...

A long day If ever these questions were yours what would you say you don't know but I'm writing the answers on cheap paper napkins and now he's turning off and now she's shutting down and it's not what it seems nothings the same when you give it away no its no...

Piece by piece, and bit by bit I'll break this down for you, real slow but i can't whisper all of this and i can't seem to let this go So i'll watch the matches, turn to ashes I'll watch the matches, turn to ashes I can tell as you turn, i smell the sulfur s...

(This goes out to the radio stations going out to you...) Lucy, I've confessions I don't think you ought to know Lets just sit back Forget about what's past You see my longs are wet with age Beyond what I can show This is the first time It's not the l...

Maybe when the room is empty, maybe when the bottle's full, maybe when the door gets broke down love can break in. Maybe when I'm done with thinking maybe you can think me whole maybe when I'm done with endings this can begin. This can begin This can begin I...

This is the only lonely picture Waiting on my floor littering my shore This is the last true burning letter Given to a girl Written by a boy Living in a world Created to destroy But if I built you a city Would you let me? Would you tear it down? But there yo...

Where are you? & how did ever you find me here? I get confused Watching my hands like I'm so scared I feel confused I've gone from the house where we first met When you're gone i will forget Sell the frame & I am on the way With nothing better Board t...

Tonight I watch the lights go out in your house Wondering how I could get so deep And you could still get to sleep In vain I blame my trembling on the cold air And I can't hide that I relied on you Like yellow does on blue And your my good feeling, I'm kneeli...

Home, is this the quiet place where you should be alone? Is this where the tortured and the troubled find their own? I don't know, but I can tell this isn't you, your cover's blown Oh no, don't you dare hang up this phone Hey, give me space so I can breathe G...

So you've been knocked and you've been thrown And you've run all the way back home Saying you were searching for a reason And you cried years so much before You won't cry much anymore Roll with the punches Gonna leave it all behind These highway signs are A si...

Staring into the intersection she thinks that she can fly and she might holding on in a new direction she's gonna try it tonight the closer i get to feeling the further that i'm feeling from alright the more i step into the sun the more i step out of the light...

i've been sleeping with ghosts i've been watching stars crawling out of the sky and i've been hoping i'm close to the space man movies i call my life and i've been climbing ladders through time i've got tunnel vision but i'm doing fine and i've been watching...

if you ran to the end of the earth i would catch you and you would be safe if you fell down the well i would bring you a rope and take all the pain all the pain, all the pain that you hide from me everyday if youre missing i will run away i will build a path...

you woke up, in pieces from making these changes and holding me ransom, won't write you an anthem on the outside, i'm trying, 'cause inside, i'm dying this broken heart was stronger than now i can't stand to part with this this broken heart you took me for g...

While you are away my heart comes undone Slowly unravels in a ball of yarn The devil collects it and with a grin Our love in a ball of yarn He�ll never return it (when you come back we�ll have to make new love) He�ll never return it (when you come back we�ll...

I can hear ticking clocks, Running rampant in me, Chiming in apogee Waiting for the synergy Of her and me waiting on the light And I never say goodnight Never say that I'm always right Now in you girl I'm consent to drown You're so high and I'm so down This n...

Your grand dad left home for the circus. He was young just like me, with hope to explore. He married a girl in Virginia. She could swing the trapeze; they could sleep on the floor. Your mother was born in December, on the one sunny day that winter gave up. Sh...

I'm lost at sea, the radio is jamming, but they won't find me I swear it's for the best, and then your frequency is pulling me in closer till I'm home and I've been up for days, I finally lost my mind, and then I lost my way, I'm blistered but I'm better and...

When it all just fits No more waiting up 'till midnight To see if he comes home And it sinks in Through these holes in your old bed sheets You might spend your life alone And you don't want to be alone no not alone When you think too much And you came to anot...

taking steps back through the words i should've said to you they all got lost you went away well i feel sick and you just don't care anymore anymore hours to be with you minutes of me in you and i can't feel this happening so tie my hands back and make me feel...