Thursday

A darker forest paints with blood in the sun sliding down its trees And casts in relief the colors we have seen And all the storms that we had been They're paled and past In the presence of the world at hand Am I really there in the fractured light of th...

I saw you standing with a broken cigarette out in the rain. I guess all our lives are a little less than they seem. Now you're praying to the memory of a god you use to love A reminder of his death hanging low around your neck. Do you find sleep comes eas...

In this blackout, inertia will hold our thoughts... And the exit sign offers no light to see by. Can we cast our shadows alone in the dark? I can't see... without you. When the world is crashing down, Part with it, start again. When the world is crashing down...

The rain falls up off the street The clocks turn back in retreat Footsteps fall off of our feet I can see the tears crawling up your cheek It's turning back to pink The slap got pulled right off of it And we all fall back into bed again 

We'll all look the same someday And even now the robot starts to think I wonder what it dreams 

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Watched him walk away (watched him walk away) Climb the endless shadow side Watched him holding on (watched him holding on) (watched him walk away) It was a thousand years, a thousand miles, A thousand dreams, a thousand minutes With no goodbye Disappear fr...

Three chalk outlines sleep in the dirty street and in our beds, under the sheets, they're the halo of guilt hanging around your neck, next to the rosary you count, falling asleep and we're praying these are the symptoms of letting go of all our hope. si...

We were safe, now we're paralyzed Suspended in flight At this speed it makes no difference Where I start or where I end Or if you're sitting in an emergency aisle We could be dead, complete the equation Our names are x and n We have no value in these calcula...

Write these words back down inside We have burned their villages and all the people in them died We adopt their customs and everything they say we steal All the dreams they had we kill Still we all sleep sound tonight Is this what you wanted to hear? We...

The leaves will fall And so will you When you do, bury me under them too Seconds pass; we'll make it through Eventually we all go home It won't be long It won't be long We walk along the wire tied between horizons You close your eyes like it's nothing at all...

In the veins of the ultraviolet light, the phosphor is starting a fire shooting up in the iodine; its turning on rupture the wall around my heart i feel so lost, i've been shaking. you can't save me (forget what the doctor said) every bird in mid-flight is c...

When I first saw you There were guns in the river Black birds of warning Circling high above the marquee where The blue notes of lovers Mixed with the loneliness of others Turned out breath into snowflakes As we whispered in the gutters We try to find the lif...

You are my blanked out pages All the wasted spaces The old weapons vanished Spit blood at dawn, closed forever You're an ivory icon Held in glass, captive You're a falling column Sharp little teeth kiss goodnight He was upside down and drifting in an Endless o...

You can't undo the needle's damage You can't unwalk a line once it's been crossed This is why we sing such common songs We live in a common age Filled with the common rage Call out, collapsing, the shadows all fall Send out receivers to shut it off I never fe...

With fists raised high in tightened knots The room explodes and now this blood is on your hands And there is no time for a second chance To paint my face with blood and tears and cover up In an open book that no one reads A misspelled word that no one kno...

5-4-3-2-1 Lets start a fire. We'll burn this town from inside out. Till no ones left alive. And you can't feel the rhythm of your steps when you hit the street. The city seems so far away from here, when you're counting every step. 5-4-3-2 what are you waitin...

Let's call this the quiet city: Where screams are felt as a wave of stoplights Drive through the the streets as gunshots punctuate the night The sides we take divide us from our faith And the mourning dove gets caught in the telephone wire Asleep you set the...

Dead songs are drowning out voices of compassion with a sigh "Alright?" Alright. Deadlines are winding down Fatal clocks keep ticking off dead time Nothing hurts, nothing moves, nothing stays (No one hopes and no one dreams) Nothing matters when the dead song...

Lights out on Division Street and all the hate that rises through the cracks in the pavement, as the temperature falls. (This is where is hits the ground) Lights out on Division Street I'm repeating Goodbye to the memories, (the fever that will not break)...

You told me on your birthday all the things that this place had done to you. And in the streets you walk. You hide your face because they don't believe that it's true. They say it doesn't happen that often. But it's happening right now. I'm writing you this l...

lost my wedding ring down the kitchen sink Now it's glimmering somewhere far away And I'm sitting here with an empty glass Waiting for the day to swallow me whole I'm holding on to nothing Sold my wedding ring to another man Who was drunk in lust far away fro...

I hear the ocean breathing in a sigh. The seagulls screaming overhead, just out of site. I see the sun melt slowly in your eyes. Fall into the dirty water, time after time. Every single song was once alive, just like the two of us. We went down to the water's...

You want to live the old days repeat the past Want to follow in the footsteps of classic men They look so romantic in old pictures You think you're the first? find out. You don't want to be fire that's burning bright for everyone to see But I want to be the s...

Maintain the bearing that you left with Fifteen degrees north of anywhere Try not to feel the shake in you hands Just close your eyes and go fast to end Breathe in the white clouds and wait Freeze out the world with Ice crystals on the windscreen And y...

Falling from the top floor your lungs fill like parachutes windows go rushing by. people inside, dressed for the funeral in black and white. These ties strangle our necks, hanging in the closet, found in the cubicle; without a name, just numbers, on the...

There's a purple heart on the stars and stripes tonight It's pinned to the chest of the latest liar And if you try to speak your mind They tell you keep it to yourself You’ve got friends in the armed forces They want to know which side you're on Doesn't matter...

If we run far away do you think we will ever die? We'll throw these books in the fire Can you stop the train Cause it some delay? The change machine lied And it's too late to scream How long is the night? It's never over The ribbon was tied But the c...

Tuesday wakes up silent And there aren't enough pills to sleep And then it cuts out like miswired shortwave radio It's over But nothing can change to ever make it right When you live in a nightmare It's written all over your face And in a short time You're ne...

We'll all look the same someday And even now the robot starts to think I wonder what it dreams The Tide is high on Fourtheeth Street The rain comes in to clear the heat The way in is the same way out the way up is the same way down Now there is no safe...

We listened to the open sound your voice projected on the radio dial Lie with me I said and lying's what she always did and always will. All these thoughts keep leading back to him. And no signs from Cinema. No city skyline. No paper scraps and no unfolding a...

This sunlight cutting through the open fields. Can't be communicated by radio waves. And through this flashlight keyhole memory. Receive a thousand signals and can't respond. So keep your hands to yourself. And relay the message to your friends that nothing's...

We stare into the blinding light to see what's between us. It's red and it's white like lies, like lipstick on last-look good-byes. The substance assimilating to watch the bodies burst into a string of lights. When there's nothing left, the party crashes and t...

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He's dead drunk asleep on the side of the road (No one sees him) Or passed out on pills in a stranger's room (She don't know him) Don't tell his sweetheart he's not coming home Ladies and gentlemen, this is my blood! Yeah, my brother's eyes are the same colo...

This is the last call They'll ever hear me send Last call for a better life Wedding bells and cheap champagne Last call for a Friday night In bathroom stalls and crowded bars Last call right before your eyes We celebrate our severed lives Last call, where are...

They sold the old house Boarded up the rooms just the way you wanted They took your possessions Gave them all away with the ghosts You sing like the wind in the trees at night You think I'm asleep but I'm awake for it You think you can hide so easily That no o...

The stage is set to rip the wings from a butterfly The stage is set, the stage is set Don't forget to breathe Between the lines if the whole world dies Then it's safe to take the stage And these graves will stretch Like landing strips Hospitals, all the dead m...

She spins magnetic rings Around the dark violet heart of god She's a magnetic field, Shower of sparks, When she comes on. There's a silent charge In a coil of wire When the currents pass right through it. We're coupled lines in lightning strikes, We...

This is a war we live and the sides are drawn (the sides are drawn). and we're all wrapped up in fatigues and they wear us out (wear us out). there is a storm at sea. if we fly a white flag under a black and blue sky, will the red sun rise? (the taste of yo...

There’s a bullet in my bag And it tells me what to think In the middle of the night When I can’t sleep There’s a bullet in my bag Singing sweetly: “You traded 8 for 35 millimeter But the trigger slips, The shot goes wide By a millimeter.” There’s a body in m...

Can you feel it in the dead of night? It's all around but can't be seen. Can you hear it in the parking lot? It only speaks when spoken to. Can you find it in the marathon? The more you take the more you leave. Can you see them in a pane of glass? You know the...

[Original - Icelandic] heftur með gaddavír í kjaftinum sem blæðir mig læstur er lokaður inn í búri dýr nakinn ber á mig og bankar upp á frelsari ótaminn setur í ný batterí og hleður á ný og hleður á ný og hleður á ný og hleður á ný við tætum tryllt af stað út...

You cut your teeth on the cold war costumes But caught your eye on a Lilly-white lullaby of red and black collapse You mix it up in the church and state dives But cut it loose when it's time, it's time, it's time to let it go Check your flag to see which...

The I.V. drips, the days drag on, The anesthetics now wearing off Adjust the light switch in the hall. This is the end. These are the last days. These are the last days. Now take our hands in a roll of red tape, Genetic information strands are tighter than t...

Now it's time to wrap our fears in the night And on the first day I'll dress this city in flames After all the things you say You hate me for being this way Still you won't let go of old ideals There is no headline to read at night When the record skips and y...

Hold your hand to the fire And your eyes to the sky Just different shades of cellophane Taped against the lights. Faulty seams, drawn on plastic leaves Past and future replicas Past and future streams Hold your head underwater And try to see if you ca...

City of blue tile. Figure in Ceramics. Where we reach out. Grab for Porcelain. But it's too fragile to hold. And it shatters in our hands. In time the seasons will seal these shards. Into the slits that denote your wrists. Death is the answer. To calculation...

Ambulance, let me in Don't make me stay here Ambulance, hold your breath We're running short on air Ambulance, resuscitate At the edge You see clearly I was dead Now I'm back to life And love is a fragile thing We all stand on a bridge That's been slowly burn...

There was a sound Split all the heavens apart In on the northern view Out on the southern spark Oh I'll be with you running from the rain When it reaches the end of the line See myself reflected on the broken glass As the gates come crashing down There is blo...

this is what you see when you look in my direction: incandescent corsets draw eyes tight like wires. this is how it feels, calling out but no one even hears the signals that we send over the air over the air over the air over the air. when you say my name, i...

On and off, the cylinders burn With the fading heat of youth And the sun slips below the treelike Just out of view Back and forth across the sky The stars are hanging from a wire Machine guns still firing in the corners of your ears But in the light of...

In this room I'm sitting by your side. 'Cause it rains for hours and the phone is off its hook. Standing on the edge, casting lots to set me up before you knock me down, off the summer's edge and drown me. We're betting on our own lives, making up for all...

Kid, you need some thicker skin, You don't take punches well. You're just like your old man But you're young and scared. You're weak in your beliefs And you've got so much to prove And not a lot of time Before they get to you. So please, Stay True. Yeah, you...

Steps ascend to a loaded gun. the scent of matches hangs in the air (a lit one flickers out in a hearbeat). we don't want to see this: a flash of light that's letting go of an empty bullet case, by the time it hits the ground, he's out of reach. (let go, let g...

It's just the southern road that you leave by and open windows in your car. It's the breathing of the city that says leave me behind. Forget tomorrow side with the open road. Pulled apart for you. In the window unlocked and left open. For the rising sun takin...

Surprise, surprise Everything you know will flash before your eyes You're frozen with your hands against the glass I'm seeing bright lights I'm hearing sharpened knives I'm praying to a neon sign As I wait for this severed line to take me Nobody called Surpri...

What have you done? You follow footsteps in the dark and found your faith left out behind your father's car. You said, "there's no one watching over me or over you, it's always out of reach..." I'm sinking still right into: Oh my god where are you now?...

She's the song that you tried to sing And the note that you couldn't hit So you locked her up in a music box Turn the key on all of us She spins silver strings in the dark With melody that ring in her heart When the cover drops The world just fades Away, away...

The angels sing of someone coming down To wake us from a sleep thats broken Deeply wont shut up again Must be some sort of sign for us That things are going to change Its hard to dream Well you'll try hard In this half hearted minute You sleep alone Its hard...

Sitting alone in the dark of a stadium He whispers his secrets into a cheap guitar With the flick of his wrist he turns words into melodies Chords into church bells, fill up the allies Lovers intwine in the heat of the night And by dawn are apart in the shiver...

The lights go down, outside Before our cars collide So we silhouette ourselves In forty shades of fire Do you know where this is leading? I'll meet you there On the other side of the crash On the other side of the glass All our friends are falling out, Can't...

Dear friends, we're gathered here To wish it all away in a field of flowers Say vows and count our blessings Too much time selecting All the words to frame the possibilities It's all we'll ever have All we'll ever be The worst vow is a broken vow So don't say...

I sewed it up Stitched all these dead end streets Into the sewn up seams of my heartstrings unwind(unwound) Like a petal pulled from an open flower. Surrounds by fields where children sign but don't make a sound and don't Break it off This searching for what...

Do you hear the jet plane yawning miles across the sky? hear the garbage truck back down the boulevard, setting off the car alarms as it passes by? do you hear the static of one thousand detuned radios? shut the window, love. keep the world outside. I don't wa...

The rain falls up and off the street The clocks turn back in retreat Footsteps fall off of our feet I see the tears crawling off your cheeks Turn back to pink The slap got pulled right off of it We all fall back into bed again When you see what you've done Yo...

In the circuit, the frequency's breaking up. the speakers can barely move this is not a test tune to the broadcast. witness the jetlag. look in the mirror. adjust the V-hold. shatter the lens. pull out the shards. choke on her words, caught in your thr...

There's a thousand black cars Driving around in my blood stream I'd have to take a thousand pills To find out where their headlights lead. Is it cold New York? Is it freezing in your bed? Because I caught a deep chill When I went over the Hudson again. It's al...

Splintered piece of glass falls, in the seat, gets caught These broken windows, open locks, reminders of the youth we lost In trying so hard to look away from you we followed white lines to the sunset I crash my car everyday the same way Time to let this...

Paper crane and a dirty train Trying to drive you away The arrows fit between our lips In the final stage Chemicals dissolve and the family disappears See the lapse in between the cracks in the atomic age Like a shot in the vein Like a shot in the vein Can a...

When the sun comes up I can see that you're not here And the whole world stops But the wind-up bird keeps winding up its string And the days go by and you don't come back But I know you will because there's something pulling both of us Back and forth, up and...

Standing on the edge of the Palisades' Cliffs In the shadow of the skyline very far away Like a lightning rod that couldn't pull the storm from me I was 5 years old, my best friend's older brother died He fell from these cliffs The river washed him away, the c...

We walk alone Till the end of night It's suicide But we will overcome Another life Swinging in the breeze The southern trees And the strangest route Follow the path, the straight and narrow (hand and hand) Our roads are paved with broken arrows We will overc...

Mountain ranges Morning red bathed ridges Stab up at the trembling blue horizon Grey slides lazily off rooftops Lands on the incandescent ground and dies A flock of little men touch down on the thin surface of porchlight Dawn's footsoldiers return to march the...

Just ahead I see you winding up And you're dressing this color on the edge of fire Until these tightened strides They march in time again I don't know if I will cut through I don't know if my heart will beat without you guiding it Winding up Leading m...

It's the sigh of a building falling down It's the world spinning us around It's the slip of the surgeon's knife Darker crimes of common existence It's a missile that's sleeping in the ground It's a camera trying to photograph a sound It's a case for the basic...