The Matches

She She’s a memory In the minds of guys She doesn’t know know her She’s Behind there foreheads Doing deeds She’s never done before And her worlds a blur Her worlds a blur about her The girls not green She’s got no clue They’re whispering about her She’s got...

(Let it go, let it go) Come now, what's your name again? I'm not implying come morning I'll need to know but you never know. The morning tilts Over the hills And floods the world The morning tilts, the morning spills The morning tilts Over the hills And floo...

Every friday at three shadows escape from the factory. If you can go to the show, hurry up and get back to me. Tonight we meet underground where the air is thick like mud, and the bands make noise that we call audio blood. Every weekend we're igniting like che...

It's not the girl who we let tear through our core It's the tear there before that made this girl into more Skin white sheets The dawn's printless snow Nothing to define the difference Just lit lips under a flame of curls Many a prince has since us blown dark...

Whoa oh whoa oh So so so so so when you got no place to go It don't matter that your watch runs slow So chalk one more hour destroyed And sing it whoa oh whoa oh I can't afford to sleep By my own accord I’m a borderline creep My old friends are all employed L...

Chain me free Lose the key, right now She was from my home town, I'd never met her Ditched her boyfriends 'cause I was better She showed me pictures in her car... pictures of the Beach Boys and Kelly Slater Bounced from the party 'cause the girls all hate her...

Clouds crash on the hillside Set to sail your soul at high tide High time you left that shadow Dead weight in the meadow Let it follow far below Oh, Oh, Oh Whoa, what a ceiling All the angels cracked and peeling Revealing constellations One day you will name...

We, before there was we she only she, me merely me lonely... Walking, walk, walking away just to lift a leg to start is the hardest part I turn and trip on my clumsy heart I always trip on my clumsy heart We, before there was we she only she, me merely me lo...

Come, come Come your darkness Come, come Come your private storm, Come, come Your dark floods rising I'll be here I'll be here I'll be here Come, come Come your hollows, Come, come Come torrential eyes Come, come Your dark floods rising I won't disappear I...

Black frames to stare out Mod lang slang to wear out Scoff at squares in sweaters Ho, Ho, Ho, we're so much better Used is the new black Downloads are the new crack Mocking carols that we hate Damn, it's easy being great So to hell with Holiday romantics Dec...

The world is moving everywhere but here, so load the van. Destination: Nowhere Near I wanna be on the road again I wanna be on the road again I wanna be on the road again, yeah We'd been on the road for several weeks, now and it drove you crazy Got to get bac...

D-D-D-Didi, you don't... D-D-D-Don't know how you lost me. And after almost two years Y-Y-You lost me at "hello". It gets worse and the worst, It just gets the best of us. It just gets worse and the worst, It just gets the best of us. D-D-D-Didi, this midwes...

I'm just a dog-eared page you turn back to. Where's the place for me When we're both in love with you? I can't escape these friends I've made since you left town. They throw redundant parties where I'm too often found. And while I sit and watch girls and boys...

Drive, drive, drive, d-d-drive, drive, drive Driving fast to impress or not Words just slip or trip over over lips Car drive west (car drive west) Sex drive thoughts sex (drive) What we know about sex learned from alcohol What we know about sex learned from...

If you ever go down to Huntington, there is a girl there that is named Eryn. She's got ADD, but isn't bored with me. At least not yet, she said. With a 'zine in between her bohemian jeans, half sober. She's a dog in heat and proud of that cliché. ok-ok, ok, ok...

Digits dial digits, dial tone monotone Has she been feigning sleeping? Framing she been all alone? Downslide on the sidewalk, I'm a distant ring Out of body, out of body, Pick me up, oh answer me I just hurried over Worried sick you might be sick Gates are co...

Can you believe our parents once were young? Before we all had to wear oxygen, yeah I bet their lungs were full of toxins then But what did they really know? (What do do do you know?) She said, "I'll fall asleep 'fore I fall in love (What do do do you know?)...

Wake up, got another day to get, Through now, got another man to see Gotta call him on the telephone ay o Gotta find a piece of paper Sit down, got another letter to write, Think hard, gotta get a letter just right Little ringin’ on the telephone oh no, Gotta...

The first had scars in her eyebrows, just like yours Woke the neighbors with another Hope you heard One more on all fours, forehead to floor like yours once was And I hope you heard. One with breath all menthol, just like yours Tangled in taxis with another H...

If I were you (if I were you) If I were you Ohhh, If I were you (if I were you) If I were you babe, I'd be, I'd be thinking of me If I were you (if I were you) If I were you babe, I'd be, I'd be thinking of me Always, thinking. Don't you feel nostalgic for ou...

You may, you may wake Lazier than the furniture Lazier than the furniture Lazier than the furniture, Lazier than the furniture You may, you may wake You may, you may wake You may, you may wake To a change of heart, with the same old ache (it's the same old ac...

little maggots, maggots whose parents, parents fed me full grown and living, inhabiting comfortably my skull dust to dust and justice is, is for us all and all's for null may your organs fail before your dreams fail you may your organs fail before your dreams...

Out in the streets at all hours of the night Softly bathed in flickering dashboard lights Hey! There’s no painless way to say that I pass on the piece of pie that you planned as mine I'm starving too, but I'm hungry for life Not that life, But my life, It's my...

By first snow by first snow my Doe ought to have a ring lord I... I been saving but Hope is on a rope Hope's on a frayed rope and I can count her ribs from our kitchenette window I'm scared and unprepared She's starting to show I know my Doe's a little bit p...

Wrap you up in a coat of cobwebs, tactile little heart of tacks, the more you lick, the more I chap, You've a head like a postcard rack. So try this trick and spin it, spin again, my Surfer Rosa, all the while the world is whirling, the morning tilts closer,...

Day out, day in It's the alarm versus me and the snooze button wins. I've been waking all my life to become what I'm going to be. I'm a crone, la da da da da da A headstone Day out, day in and begin again Day out, day in recycle bins cash out, cash in debit...

Eternity, eternity It's jus' a paycheck away So chase that tail, chase your tail The American tale Apathy, complacency Can I hear three cheers for thee? (No? Oh well...) Ahhh... We know, we know that we are more than this More than we know, there's a reason w...

All the people 'neath your feet That you'll never speak to You'll never meet All of their windows on the glow All of the dark age will go Same as the dark when eyelids close When you find a house on Proctor Rd. It's walls of your skin, tissue thin This is yo...

Do you belong to a song? Does it drag you along by the tongue at the top of your lungs? Are you drunk? Have you been drinking? Do you below the overpass go with a fifth in your fist reminiscing the kiss of a love that just didn't love as much as you did? Plea...

She's got a lot of issues Like a good magazine The kind you'd find under my bed If you know what I mean 'Cause Mother would trip if she saw the way that girl wears her clothes to the L3 shows I got my fingers crossed She'll say "18" Lie through lip-gloss and...

Echo... Come, come skinny Come, come Come bring a trend And come nearly naked Come hungry Come shaking Come faking A perfect grin Now that's a face A face fit for breeding Keep waste fit No feeding The Lens won't Always be watching So shoot me, shoot me Shoo...

Mark said he could hold his own head up and share his mind with the peeling paint on the bedroom wall. One step ahead of the pack of Marlboros. Still, I don't believe he would take that fall. Those things will put you back some paychecks, set you back about a...

Trade your demise for mine A tissue for a cigarette I'll miss you when you're gone I'll mourn you still I'll kill you yet My eyes are dry My eyes are dry But on the inside, I'm all wet I'm de de decomposing I'm de de decomposing Below my clothes I'm starting...

I swear that you believed me when I told you that I was Superman With you I can even fool myself We've been friends since we were 12, now I'll be 17 on the 24th You've posed for 5 years on my shelf I counted seasons 'til the fall when I would steal your heart...

Do me a favor, would you please hang up the receiver on me before I, before I talk my vocabulary dry. [Chorus:] Cold colas to coexist hold sodas in both her fists I...I'd hoped for a different you. there's comfort in the clamor of cafés solace from the abyss...

Conversations with my bathroom mirror are never the same as when you're standing here I'm chickenshit out on a brave frontier, that teenage wasteland so begins the Jack Slap Cheer Your mom ainÒt home she's out stripping for your education Your dad's out march...

We were steamin' at the seams and the scene seemed like in dreams Pressed close behind the tinted glass as the cop's headlights scrolled past "I can't see a thing," Kelly said blushing as she spelled our names on the window of her sister's Monte Carlo And this...

We hide As their sidewalks crawl diseased The ever-shopping hopping fleas Their engines hum the suns reprise We rise To skies punctured with stars She steers us through her Dogpatch bars A barback nods, he's one of ours As they sleep Their city is awake and...

Maybe a saint is just a dead prick with a good publicist Maybe tomorrows statues are insecure without their foes Go ask the frog what the scorpion knows While you build your mountain, but to build a mountain I thought you all know, you gotta dig a hole Though...

wake up and waste a day chase away a day at a time and waste away clean-faced today clean taste today toothpaste makes my orange juice sour waste an hour or so my shower is slow the flowers that grow outside of my window are blooming I'm assuming that you're c...

Baby, you look so good, I knew you would. Please, don't go away Darling, say it's okay... I wanna make violent love To you by the moon above I wanna make violent love to you I wanna kiss every night To squeeze and hold you tight I wanna make violent love to...

Every dawn gets its day like Every frown gets her way like Every step to the daylight keeps you stumbling on Every backward blackbird Sounding out through the rafters So sure he can be heard Thinks he bears a ton So wake up, wake up, to wake the sun Wake up,...

Now Time is now Up up up up up When we are loud, we are one When we are loud, we are one When we are one, we are more We are more, we are more, we are... We are one. Now Time is now Up up up up up When we are loud, we are one When we are one, we are more We...

Of a face full of words you'd think a few would be right (right) and with a few tips of courage you'd think my lips less tight (right) shattered passenger window beside itself on the floor they can take my stereo, but you can't take me for a kid anymore I'm g...

We've come, come to chameleon In your pubs/clubs Now we don't want no trouble So don't nick nick my derby from my wig Just want to blend in And if you want to fight us then We're gonna run run run all ten blocks We're gonna run run run to the tube stop Just tr...

If you're like me, then you know me oh, you know me, yeah, you know me. [x2] Paid rent 4 weeks delayed. Fucked up in a 3-point turn can't give two shits these days. Packed one more bag, no return Love that song the deejays hate. Fell asleep at the crack of da...