The Zolas

I want to believe in time travel That one day I’ll come back for you. Find you in the campus library aisles and I’d say Oh my ancient Mars. x4 When the rusty rocks were covered in groves And the pyramids foretold acidic snows All was still breathing l...

My balls are coals in the bottom of our bed That sags with the ash of our passion spent I kicked the coals to see if they're still lit Oh, how much more can I take of this? I don't know how much more I can take of this You get undressed and I watch the s...

I'm gonna hold your eye an extra beat You're gonna lean towards me in your seat And though I know it's a feeling I should shake I'm gonna love you to cancel my mistakes I had a girl until just one week ago And every day my misery just seems to grow But f...

The paint is dry, we’ve closed the vein to rinse the brush and go again but still I know I’ve got the stain and maybe you do too. I found the stomach to deny the urge to look you up online don’t want to creep on your profile but sometimes I still do....

I want to be your cultured man who doesn’t jump off of the bus you were riding run as fast as his legs can go to return the previous night’s video then sprinting to catch up by the next bus stop Just to impress you my love just to impress you just to...

My alter-ego. He’s an escape artist, he’s only truly happy when he’s under arrest. oh how he handsome, scheduled to hang to death He’s only truly happy at the precipice. He’s like a mirror. He sticks into our ears a stethoscope to the chest of the vacant...

I bet she’s rail-thin like a heron over the phone she talks and I just listen in “we’ll never meet until it’s just too late for us you’re the Euphrates and I’m the Tigris” Talk talk, the tang of exhaust the mystery’s gone again I threw the light on you...

You're always surrounded, you're always alone. I fell in love with New York cause I wanna a tone. I'm talking to strangers now and I balance over the rails. I fell in love with New York where a boy is for sale. The city hangs like a chandelier gonna sw...

Down on King Street, Kelly's getting dark at the pharmacy Who knows when he comes home tonight Hot breath, Toronto Let's get lost again underneath the glow High heels hopskotch the street car lines Hear the delay decaying text threads fraying home feel...

I am a crab from the sea of black And you're the barnacle on my back Yeah, you're the tooth that I can't extract I am the crow from the building juts And you're the tinfoil in my guts Yeah, no one struts like a blackbird struts I've got leeches under m...

At intermission we meet outside a grin of a hug you blow your cigarette in the other direction we laugh at the same jokes but she pops the balloon when she walks through the room to you in heaven. Who can control the bitter blast we know we let in th...

I want to be invisible and lurk around the world for good sleeping CEO's I'll creep into your gated hoods whisper whisper in your dreams and tell you how to right your wrongs and if I come three nights next morning you'll be sleeping long. Can't face...

In paradise, tropical greys I missed the wave again today Island life Is a moth in the night All this time We look out for a light I walk the streets, that hot ballet Won't someone look at me that way? Island life Is a moth in the night All this t...

My friends are wilding how winter loves wear thin they’re cut to kindling when summer hits our skin. We’re like a seedling. suck tears out of a vase a forest fire knows Something will take its place. So why do I need something more you’ve got that...

In Montreal’s tiny pond she and I we smoulder the local swan, my amazon with coathanger shoulders My god, it’s a mirage; she’s booking to go. I’ll swim the St. Laurent cause I lost her and I succumb. When all your nights are starry blurs will you reme...

Everything is okay woman in the window I play her body like a feminine nintendo. Gotta make that ratio of prince and asshole but again the princesses are in another castle. C'mon girl, we can freak out a bit C'mon girl, we can get low C'mon girl, we c...

Sometimes an empire doesn't fall As masked invaders climb the walls Or spreading fires or rising floods Sometimes it dies within The king and queen, they go to bed On years of quiet neglect To find the coffers bare but with The musk of arrogance With...

Oh Marlaina, you are something special. Please believe me when I tell you so. I'm a lion when we are one but without you I'm a kamikaze, I'm high strung I'm hanging up inside the hot sun But think about you and I'm undone Oh Marlaina, kamikaze life is n...

Gonna do what I want and that's what's up. Ain't looking for a man to hold me up. Black coat, pink balaclava. Throw back a double and we'll go out. Woo! We're Molotov Girls and we alright. Dance it out 'til the streets heed the night. So tired of being...

So tell me, Mama, 'cause you know it's true Weren't you talking about a revolution? Just postponed by the phone and forgot about it And tell me, Dad, do you remember this pearl? "This generation's gonna change the world" Took a doze, I suppose, and forgot...

We broke in where we're not allowed and found a station from a dead undergound. And there you kissed me as if goodbye on the dusty platform like my train had arrived Oh we hold with the grip of a sifter and we smile with the teeth of a comb we can f...

Take a vow Take a vow of jealousy Falling strangers calling your name but Take a vow It never was you The one to come through You keep me subdued with painted tongues And I get darker as you get lighter And I get smarter as you get dumb I don't mean...

You spend your days with this inside cat Who goes out when you take her out and no more than that She's got her usual perches and she sheds in the bath But when you've worked hard all day, she's the queen of relax See the girls go by See the stars at nig...

The mercury is cold and grey It's like the color of your mother's veins And I know, It's not much to say It could happen any day Snow, Snow, Snow, Snow Cause we kissed in the Snow, Snow Ya we kissed in the Snow, Snow Decembers when I miss you most Th...

You were the deep well in earth-and-ocean class and on the days you showed I’d try to make you laugh. How cliques drift and converge in with a crash And there we were, desk to desk A young mountain and a strange girl. You're a strange girl. Strange girl You...

Miss mythical She's like the??? (oh oh) I pass, pass her notes as she goes oh honey, so right when the arrows volley down will you stay with me? build a fire out of pages of magazines someone like you don't come around every dynasty a swooner that's...

I dreamt about you the other night We were there when people started to die. The seas rose to a terrible height But we survived, yeah we survived (I don't know why). We watched the grass pry open the cracks. The birds returned, the nights went black. Ye...

It started with a sandcastle Today washed up my tomorrow But one night the mark was made Seared in your flesh with canola oil These days are piling up Piling up like bricks Walls blocking off the sun I miss you Oh, call it what you like My shaky memo...

You better watch out 'Cause one of these days I'll turn and ask you on a date 'Cause every bus ride You sit beside me I kill myself for things to say I'd take you to a film or maybe to a party We'd mix and mingle with the cityscape of youth They drink...

Love don't live at home, oh no, it slithers in the wild I met her at the Biltmore, she was cold and over-styled Took all my money and took all my pride She may not be a pharaoh, but she guzzled down the Nile. I can tell we'll never be safe 'Til the walls...