The Faint

They were partners in crime When the wife admits That her son had been taking What the neighbors have missed There's a law in the city And it's clear as a nail You don't blame who you have You just take what you steal But nobody told him that "It's u...

Teacher Bring me to heaven Or leave me alone Why make me work so hard When you know I work slow Don't make us watch you scrape More powder on the walls Show us a laser Take us to space Or let us go We got violent games on pause at home You've seen...

Campus is getting bigger They are working on it all the time Acting on the TV I can see their faces Red alert, the siren's loud The drafted are all coming back This job takes dedication When things start with no beginning It doesn't mean that they are...

You could follow logic Or contest it all The work solution makes the common house a home The element of progress That you mention is gone It de-evolved to something you were headed toward As i lay to die the things i think Did i waste my time, i think...

Her brow: pensive Her knees: away I stand beside her But i look straight ahead And dissolve Before the night began on Herring Street A book from school kept me wandering This may take a while I might never see this through And they said that chapter...

Loud for a reason The reason wasn't what was heard The traffic had died down The road congestion has moved to the bars Where a lot arrived in makeup One is standing with her back against the wall One shot, an allusion passes through her sunken eyes Wh...

All the doctor talk Of all the doctor trouble All the time paid off But there's a night to remember, when the quarters stopped Diving in the cup Doctor back to work stumbling through the hall He made it to a room A lady old and calloused Is staring bac...

I'm paralyzed and things could Change for you as well You're not so bad off now You can move anything you need I'm not this way because of an Emergency I caused At seventeen I was a guard perched Above the chlorine floor When I saw a hand raise up Fro...

In the beginning there was semen, In a deep mound of flesh, And a crest that traveled, On a wave of their own mess. Through a tunnel of mucus, And onto a vault, With tourists and traffic, I just paced myself. Not I as my whole self, Just the half that I had,...

I'd sleep on the white tile lobby floor And pace until the time to visit starts The bright lights are on but I'm away How nervous a voice sounds on the phone You agree when you check in at the desk Permission and trust in every move I'd be beside you wh...

There's a fire in the road where a frame is burnt And other automobiles are slowing down around the fire Lanes are backed up and people get all anxious inside They've got a schedule to keep and don't want life to slip by The siren and cube are coming up f...

Casual sex Is it irrational? (Yes!) I think it's time to find out why And soon I fall asleep, it's nighttime In a dream there's a dolphin And a soldier, they're walking Through the sand and toward a morgue In an office there's a hostess who has Carrie...

Our training's almost done The graduation's near The experience of losing the diversion of my memory Has led to no conclusion Other than I motion silently When an instance I recall Or should recall, I mean Arises, I can't delay I cannot get caught; de...

Was it more than attraction And a physical lust? Or loins, my imagination That first inconceivable touch That I was planning I mean wishing How embarrassed I'd have been If you knew what I was thinking And, whoa, when it started My first thought was...

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The floor moves and it trembles Old West shakes as it opens up People are dying and I know the cause of it all With so many buried The dead twitch on crowded roads Dirt breaks, dust follows cracks in the plains are exposed They're restless enclosed...

It's a scene from the movie. It's an aisle at the store. It's the view of a canyon. The sound of a sword. It's an orchard of peaches. Your wife in the shower. While you wait for appointments. Or as you walk through the park. Oh. uh oh. Erection. Yo...

I write down my nightmares Stalk my dreams Undress my future Decode my enemies I give hope my money But waste my time Give ghosts attention When they need denial Evil voices lie when they say you're alone Evil voices lie when they say you're alone...

There's a slice in my neck It's been there since before i was born I was breathing like a fish in a womb In a tank full of fluid I did nine months Till the doc cut me loose My mother was filled with popcorn Soaked in strawberry hill boones Every day...

Every time I move I'm in another dimension Everything I do changes what I want I see a choice I make explode in thousands of pieces Every time I choose I become a shard I could take up science And study cells of the body Learn to postpone death Under t...

I heard a bone snap When I was only about nine The laws of gravitation Were in abeyance a while But not long Before they taught me a lesson In Tuffskin jeans like a Japanese Hessian I was 70 pounds, learning to fly I knew I couldn't do it if I didn't t...

Tabloid magazines are made in hell The falling stars are getting sucked down We get seduced, easy We get We get seduced! Sell us magazines about the stars And watch us stare into the void What not to wear to the awards Who's tit escaped on camera Now...

Feel the vapor pressure drop As the dark steam pours out the entrance Real cold world is swirling into A club that keeps the real life world out Where every sense seems deathly weak From the frozen time you spent in transit The glass danse world flickers...

Introverted boy You are not interesting, boy You think you're intellectual But no one's talking to you now I might be an introvert To you, the shallow fashionista Deep as any paper plate Dressed just like the girl beside you How could I forget a wast...

I disappear, I lost control, My body's moving, On it's own. I watch myself, Walk away, A poor spirit, took my place. And he's there, Inside the door, So my exits is riding my pulse. Burst of black, Breath of smoke. I disappear, I lost control....

I don't mean to sound like I want to fight But the arguments I cause Make it sound like I might I've got to prove my point I've got to show how your wrong Does the topic even matter? Whys my throat getting sore? Tonight I'm gonna touch your hand And t...

You sit outside in the dark And get nicked by the strobe light While we're playing indoors We play in a bar We play in a basement We play in a room where the mix isn't right The help at the door The age to get in The artist is smug They don't sound l...

Some people get bit from the inside When they talk it's cold and sour And no, there's nothing they can do now They've had their way too many times If you glare to get what you want It'll become your look If there's dirt you've got on someone You'll let...

They were confused They were in luck They figured it out Who had all made it up The man in the sky is angry tonight And the kids don't care anymore 

There's no ghost in this machine I make my own mistakes We seem like skeletons with bone head beliefs History's been crucified Humans supernaturalized We hope we're not alone Exploded stars and space debris Taught itself to make some things like us Was...

Baby thinks he looks just like the face he makes in mirrors Only once or twice a month Does the mirror do him justice Every other time he looks a mess He expects a lot from it But then barely notices Baby knows we all create the world from in our skulls...

The news has got me paranoid Papers and the news reports Casualties of every war The anchor people keeping score The weapons now are chemicals In water and in air above In circulating envelopes In powder through the postal routes The threat of a disea...

I've seen you a while now Long enough to be close There's some things about you That I should know, I still don't With all the questions we didn't ask Our conversations could never last Our moments alone were scarce and few It was just easier to hide th...

I feel a warm resistance Beneath the outer layer What once moved living organs Leaks through a thin veneer Blue blooded royal body Elegantly posed to death Not speaking prince now are you? Not breathing one more breath Just now the curtain's folding...

I can't listen while I'm breathing fire I don't think straight when I get pissed off It'd be easier to just calm down 'cause I'm an asshole when I get called out Forget the words I said - I was not myself I never really thought you were psycho I was ju...

Our eyes are moving Forward faster than These tangled chords I noticed that you want to leave We've burned out fast Deciding who could complicate us and What comes next So here's my proposition: While our work gets started We'll keep expected formula...

The body dances to the beat Of the noises from the street As patterns, grids, and schedules go We took a subway to the show So give us this day our daily commute On the bus in three piece suits Say goodbye, kiss and ride On the way to the club, look out...

I'm caught in excitement An unusual spell It's pure in a sense And abstract from our lives And we talked a lot, Abstraction came into focus Her tales of the tour And a hardcore life Were unmatched by the Pop sub-culture in mine And we talked a lot...

Passenger leaves I know, the pictures turned out too clearly Some felt blank But still others emit true feeling Once he liked it Twice he needed It was three until he stands believing The reason he can't pursue it The list goes on and on So what went...

Scarlet boots, the kiss of death Patience and the end of it Blended angels, whispered love Countdown 'til it's gone, for long Velvet voices, haunting slow Darkened nooks, with bright decor Georgian femmes are gone for weeks Southern belles in london sin...

Don't admit you're sick Let your fit body bury it The faintness that you feel Is nothing permanent Don't buy the sickness on TV You want your help, they want the fee You see the ads and start to think "I feel it coming on" No, no target market televisi...

Understand, I don't care if I meet you And you don't care if we meet It's just conversation We're not so compatible But at least we know And we don't care Syntax lies No difference in art and life Just what we say And the order the words go It's tim...

Hold my hand it's shakin' bad I'm going to the doc I pay him he'll fix me up I think I've got enough Ambulance no costs to much We'll take a van If they can't fix me no one can If they can't fix it no one can Want you to take me to the H, Take me to...

We hear the talk We settle down Release the thought We get along I don't know which is better now This backwardness or my own imbalance We can stand each other When there's nothing else There is no way to compromise When no one cares When the action...

Confident with your back to the audience. Tremolo strings begin with your gesturing wrist. Start the orchestra slow with an elegant aire, Then a circular sweep crescendoing swell. Leo Slatkin, Dohnanyi, Previne, Depaur Your arms are calling out, They wa...

Eyeballs float in wet green grass I got a chain saw motor That's filled with rain. But when it sings like bach The eyes all bulge Then when the pink sun drops The eyelids fold While I'm in deep REM sleep Or twilight zones I take a freight elevator A...

Left eye spins in circles Passives line the rail They get no satisfaction From the electro-static breaks A beat can't cut the passives loose They're afraid what we will say No harm is done when you try it then hide Parts moving - keep moving A cool co...

Delivery this morning Our clothes are hung to dry We're visiting the ceiling On the shore of the Puget Sound The scenery gets a hold of you Like a bad record There's something not as valid When the scenery's a postcard And the view from through the gl...

It’s coming for me Pain How can I look like this And feel like I do? It’s taking my head It needs me again 

Sharp dressed servers where the upscale dine A safe dial turned by a glove in the crimes of night A nurse in an ambulance rides He don't deserve it the patient is right Career Serious There are times when I miss the appeal Long black cars driven close...

I've been Typing for hours while he waits Alone in the bushes There's a guy on the back lawn He can look under mats but he won't get in He scales the walls with almost no sound I'm sitting dead still with the light on I'm sending off my resignation Be...

I took two steps out of the door And I got two steps away And then I turned, the scream was calling I could not resist You could find a bead of light One can cause the outside window to dull Pause until the evening turns And it's a.m. routine job or the...

I checked in a room today Up above the downtown market bricks Right now a boy gets old A boy gets bitter A boy learns not to trust Someone inside his room The door locks tight You keep the door locked Months went by and doors got kicked in Two outlaw...

I see you work at night and are you sexually amused? What's it like to have a room of guys encircling you? How she moves and how she walks They all patiently await While the heat from in their pockets Could burn marks into their legs Without your needs a...

Recovering slowly, a torso fell From a beat up truck by a rural motel The manager seen how the truck bed bounced While dust flew up with a rolling sound Voices appear from the staff outside In bulbous text in a western style His mannequin neck spun to tu...