That The World Just Went Ahead And Carried On

Death Dream

"an open mouth screams and makes no sound" "i don't know if there's breathing or not" "a still life is the last i will see of you" "my painting of a panic attack"

Get Out

"i'm in the arch of the church between her thumb and her forefinger, i'm a worshipper" "she's an uncut drug" "and for a minute i was floating dead above myself" "saw a glimmer in the dark and now i know she won't get out of my heart" "there's a name on my chest in red" "and i don't want you to get out of my heart"

I Wish I Was Sober

"we all thought that i might change as i got older" "fell down and nothing bled" "its far too late to talk so much" "forgive me i can't speak straight" "choke down the gateway drug, open the gates in came the flood" "my love you should know the best of me left hours ago" "i can't unsink the things i've sunk" "i wish that i was sober"

Woke Up Hurting

"daybreak comes with the devil's hum" "show me the door i need somewhere to go" "i woke up with dirty knees not for the first time" "i woke up hurting though i can't quite say why" "run sacred rivers up my sleeve" "i live for a beam of light" "we should pray for abduction, pray it comes soon" "plans for heaven or hell will do"

Little Drum

"i hurried home in orbit close to where i know i'm fine" "i waited for the crash to come" "too many days with too little to do" "so many days spent in empty rooms" "and then it strikes this all we've lived this long but only ever half alive" "its too late for a wasted youth" "its too late to wage a war"

Still Want To Be Here

"the perfect place may never exist" "the perfect time might be years and years away" "i still want to be here" "i would live in a devils ditch just to be near you" "nowhere to run to so we hide like mislaid infants" "fuck these faceless homes and everyone who lives in them" "i would live in a shallow pit just to be near you"

An Otherwise Disappointing Life

"i have a long list of tepid disappointments it doesn't mention you" "i don't need water i just want to wave goodbye, goodbye to an otherwise disappointing life" "i took a pain pill to scrape a hole we both could get lost in and cover love's bruise" "so lay upon me and push until its all forgotten, there are worse ways to lose you" "i have a long list of tepid disappointments and you should burn that too"

Break

"forgot to bend and now i've broken all we have" "nothings worse than realizing who you hurt" "over the edge i cant stop myself, off the ledge throwing punches" "i can't steer myself" "all over again i don't want this" "if i bend then i might not break" "if i bend then it might be okay" "can we pick up all the debris of our bitter past?"

Blood Under The Bridge

"clean out your mouth, this is not what its for" "pick up your sorrow this is not who we are" "its just blood under the bridge" "i'm too tired to fight" "watch the blood under the bridge go by" "so tie your ragged fuck-ups in a neat little knot and put it on the shelf behind the picture we bought" "i found a way to make the best of a flaw and realize its not the end its an uncomfortable pause" "and youre sick of feeling sick and so am i but its alright"

400 Bones

"400 bones crumpled in bed, i'm the only one who knows that you're still breathing" "this afternoon is one i will be keeping" "we're passing out inside a sleeping mausoleum" "this is my safe house in the hurricane" "this is what i'm living for, forever coming home" "you as my horizon line, the star i navigate by" "on absent days i will return to this place and play a silent color film within my head"

Lump Street

"though breath is warm, sex is cold" "each piece is fired inside a broken mould" "do you want more unshapely love?" "she tore his tongue out at the end of lump street" "she liked the see the blood beneath his skin" "he wore her muscles, kissed all of the bruising away" "hes a full grown man, no shoulder to cry on" "raised by wolves and they taught him to bite down hard" "scars like armor" "raised by the state but they tore it all down" "they fucked and they fought but it still felt right" "run away from these orange lump street lights" "there is life beyond the one you already know"

Die Like A Rich Boy

"i need to find somebody who can tear me away from the car crying babies and switchblade days" "i won't die in the bony arms of the state to be laid to rest in the wake of the faded town" "i can see you wrapped in egyptian threads in a marble garden, immune to the mess" "if i leave this world in a loaded daze i could finally have and eat my cake" "i want to die like a rich boy diving in a hydrocodone dream" "wanna die like a rich boy drowning in a lake that bears my name, you can die like a rich girl by me flushed and radiant with fame" "i wanna lie in a state on the tv in a golden cardboard crown" "well i found you now so tear me away from the feral street they lumped us in" "we can lose our minds at the top of the hill" "we burn cash and carry a decadent flame way in to the night and beyond the grave"

The Wreck

"we're both sinking tonight forever it goes" "as the saltwater gushes into our ships holes don't you dare jump without me" "i'm not good on my own" "there is peace beyond trouble "im desperate to meet you below the blue surface in a quiet reprieve" "it wrecks who it pleases" "the swell pulls me under come under with me" "i've got pills in my pocket"

Wait Til The Morning

"its the usual case of the only point being proven is the one that was first made" "wait til the morning" "when no one's listening anyway" "no greater good will come of it, just wait" "stop trying to change a shovel into a spade, its all the same" "no one sees the names up on the leaderboard cause no one's in the lead" "we'll burn the fiendish effigy" "we are all designed to wax and wane" "the light will come back on again"

A Lick Of Paint

Flowers In Your Hair

"romanticized the time i saw flowers in your hair" "it takes a boy to live, it takes a man to pretend he was there" "its a long road to wisdom, but its a short one to being ignored" "be in my eye, be in my heart" "so now i think that i could love you back, and i hope its not too late cause you're so attractive" "cause it takes a man to live, it takes a woman to make him compromise"

Classy Girls

"classy girls dont kiss in bars you fool" "i belied it was as if something drew me closer to her lips"

Submarines

"no one knows the truth" "if it was a bigger fire i would be on the roof"

Dead Sea

"new york had lied to me, i needed the truth" "and i don't gamble, but if i did, i would bet on us" "you'll never sink when you are with me" "i was born to be your dead sea" "you told me you were good at running away" "would you stay with me? would you stay the night?"

Ho Hey

"i belong with you, you belong with me" "love, we need it now"

Slow It Down

"i feel a filth in my bones" "the walls they're closing in with velvet curtains" "some love was made for the lights, some kiss your cheek and goodnight" "act like you've been here before" "these boys are out for blood tonight" "and when she stood she stood tall. she'll make a fool of you all" "she ain't got nothing left for you" "and when it came to love, we were not good enough" "only love can dig you out of this"

Stubborn Love

"she'll lie and steal and cheat and beg you from her knees. make you think she means it this time" "she'll tear a hole in you, the one you can't repair" "but i still love her i don't really care" "its better to feel pain than nothing at all" "the opposite of love's indifference" "i'm standing on your porch screaming out" "and i don't blame you dear for running like you did all these years" "i never trusted my own eyes" "keep your head up, keep your love"

Big Parade

"and the beauty queens with the white gloves all sick from the night clubs, they wave with pageantry" "the violent men who dance the blood ballet" "there's hell to pay and hell to raise" "torn between romance and jesus" "burn the car and save the plates" "she's arrived, my saving grace"

Charlie Boy

"love should make you feel good" "and sons rebelled while fathers yelled and mothers clutched the cross"

Flapper Girl

"cut off all of your hair, did you flinch did you care?" "i'll never leave you again" "would you write would you call back baby if i wrote you a song?" "i need you at home" "lovers come, lovers go, lovers leave me alone, she'll come back to me"

Morning Song

BRIGHTSIDE

"i could see it in the air, every word was like smoke from a cigarette" "the light in your eyes" "i was stranded in the bed" "i'll be your brightside baby tonight" "i was tired of believing we were right" "you're stranded on the bridge"

AM RADIO

"you were always saying we would make it to the catacombs" "in the end, it came when you wrote my name on the bathroom stall" "if the photograph doesn't bring you back" "if the final chapter isn't ever after" "at the traffic light where you blew your mind on a mobile phone" "you said the blood was on my hands" "i couldn't give you up" "did you write your letters to your shitty friends?" "and the low light in my head" "and i was incomplete"

WHERE WE ARE

"i don't know where we are but it will be okay" "staring at the ceiling fan and feeling far away" "leaning on the reasons like it wasn't even fair" "i know who you wanted me to be: always holding up your tragedy"

BIRTHDAY

"i didn't know i was the only thing you saw" "i don't know why i couldn't love myself" "you and me will always be the ones that hang around" "i can see the loneliness you keep outside" "i can only scream so loud but you ignored me" "you picked it all apart and now there's nothing for me"

BIG SHOT

"all the things you said to me, the manifest and destiny" "i was on another planet and you were all alone" "the chosen one your mother loved the most after all" "you hate yourself for what you said cause you could never admit you were wrong" "and every song was out of key and i was in the in-between and you, still all alone" "you wanna be the only son we love after all" "you better have a sick hand"

NEVER REALLY MINE

"love was not designed for time, you were never really mine" "i was leveled at the sight of you" "give it up just to leave it on the line" "everyone's gonna leave it where you left" "you're a woman on the run, i'm the silence on the staircase" "don't you fade away" "i'm the one who was never gonna play to lose" "all of a sudden you're fallin out of frame, i was looking through the camera, you were looking for a way out"

ROLLERCOASTER

"sitting on a rollercoaster holding on for dear life" "i know what is what, i know who you are, i know what is already gone" "making all the plans for later violated by" "lord they hate the other side" "i know what is what, i can feel the rust, i know you are already gone" "everyone was wrong, they were on the ledge, everyone was only dyin to live" "i wish i could sail away and find another island" "i wish we could start it over" "everyone was wrong, i was on the ledge, everyone was only flies in a web" "they were always dying to know you"

REMINGTON

"the foam of the sea was an awful white and beyond it painted black" "i'm waiting on the sun" "hey mr. remington, promise us everything, please mr. remington"

REPRISE

Red Desert

"i'd dive deeper for you" "what a blessing to feel your love" "won't you leave all your fears at the edge of the world?" "it doesn't take too long to heal and replace" "you're the only one i'd do this for"

No Shame

"love is fatal, won't you give it a chance?" "go on and light me like a cigarette even if it might be something you regret" "you got me now" "i love the way you're screaming my name" "you'll always be forgiven" "go on replace me" "when you're craving something sweeter than the words that i left in your mouth" "go on and spit me out"

Old Me

"had to fuck it up before i really got to know me" "and they wondered how long i could keep it up while i wondered if i'd ever get enough" "and i did some shit i never should've done, i would do it over now" "shout out to the old me and everything you showed me" "another round here we go, going in blow for blow" "look into the mirror, take the punches that i throw" "i'm constantly reminded of all the compromises by the people from my past who have a hard time letting go"

Easier

"i love you so much that i hate you" "i know that i'm never ever gonna change and you know you're always gonna stay the same" "you know we need it like the air we breathe" "the hardest part of all is that we're only built to fall"

Teeth

"some days you're the only thing i know" "sometimes you're a stranger in my bed" "don't know if you love me or you want me dead" "every little lie gives me butterflies" "something in the way you're looking through my eyes, don't know if i'm gonna make it out alive" "you're looking at me like you don't know who i am"

Wildflower

"i heart you calling out my name, i love the sound, i love the taste" "and i can see it in your face, you've got a side you can't explain" "i wanna hold you" " a fatal love song"

Best Years

"i wasted so much time on people that reminded me of you" "i'll build a house out of the mess and all the broken pieces" "i wanna hold your hand while we're growing up" "past love burned out like a cigarette"

Not In The Same Way

"i love you, you love me, but not in the same way" "rip my heart out and leave, on the floor watch me bleed" "you won't let me let go" "i can't forget you" "baby, i'm sick of sadness and you're sick of xanax" "i know you think i'm bulletproof but you know how to hurt me too" "leave your mark with every bite then everything's alright" "i don't know if i love you, don't know if i hate you"

Lover Of Mine

"kaleidoscope mind gets in the way" "lose me in the sight of you" "take all of me deep to where your secrets hide" "if my name never fell off your lips again, i know it'd be such a shame" "when i take a look at my life and all of my crimes, you're the only thing that i think i got right" "i watched the world fall from your eyes" "all my regrets and things you can't forget, light them all up, kiss them goodbye"

Thin White Lies

"i don't feel your love" "watch me as i disappear" "killin me slow with the words you wrote, the hearts you broke" "just one more taste of you my love" "you got me by the mouth" "she says she loves me, she don't show it" "i don't think i like me anymore, can someone tell me who i was before?"

Lonely Heart

"if you can't find another reason to stay then i know i'm gonna always have a lonely heart" "can i have a second chance?" "when i wake up in a haze and i haven't slept in days, you're a thousand miles away" "lonely, it ain't nothing new"

High

"i hope you think of me high, i hope you think of me highly" "i think that my heart was built to last more than a night" "i need to stop letting me down"

Kill My Time

Youngblood

"surrender my everything cause you made me believe you're mine" "you beat me at my own damn game" "lately our conversations end like its the last goodbye, then one of us gets too drunk and calls about a hundred times"

Want You Back

"wish i could say something, something that doesn't sound insane" "lately i don't trust my brain" "no matter where i go, i'm always gonna want you back" "no matter how long you're gone, i'm always gonna want you back" "i know you know i will never get over you" "you know even when i say i've moved on, i still dream for you" "even though i know that you're gone all i think about is where i went wrong"

Lie To Me

"remember thinking that i got this right" "and now i wish we never met cause you're too hard to forget" "i know that you don't, but if i ask you if you love me, i hope you lie to me"

Valentine

"i love the light in your eyes and the dark in your heart" "you love our permanent chase and the bite of our bark" "got nothing but love for you fall more in love everyday" "fueling the fire until we combust"

Talk Fast

"i don't wanna think about a moment with you, i'm kinda hoping for forever" "romance, it won't last, i'm okay with that" "i'll take what i can get from you" " i want your love in every flavor"

Moving Along

"thinking bout you lots lately" "is it bad that i'm wishing you're still broken? that you haven't found fish in the ocean?" "i know i'm the stupid one" "is it wrong if i tell you that i love ya, even though i'd never do it when i'm sober?" "scared of moving on, but you're already gone"

If Walls Could Talk

"when the doors are all closing, it's bound to get loud cause all these bodies are hoping to get addicted to sound" "not everything is so primitive, but i'm giving in" "i wouldn't dare let you down" "you're a queen but uncrowned"

Better Man

"new friends again and again, gone when the morning comes" "demons i tried to defend but i couldn't get enough" "thought i'd never change, then you come and change it all" "i swear i'd die for your love"

More

"why can't we choose our emotions?" "i just wanna get back to us cause we used to have more" "i know we break but we're not broken"

Why Won't You Love Me

"you imagine when you close your eyes you're with me on the other side" "why wont you love me?" "you say you can't wait, you need to make a change" "you told me 'its so hard to be lonely'" "can you tell me why i hold on to you and you hold on to me?"

Woke Up In Japan

"it was more than just a neon weekend" "time is up, the end is just a dream" "feeling low, feeling lonely" "its enough to let the night let go of me"

Empty Wallets

"'stop trying so hard' is what you said to me" "get too high when i'm high" "take the high with the low" "we got the whole night won't you live it with me" "sugar coated brain" "the fluid aint to blame for the sugar coated pain" "i always believed in second chances" "i always believed in you"

Ghost Of You

"if i can dream long enough, you'll tell me i'll be just fine" "so i drown it out, like i always do" "and i chase it down with a shot of truth" "we're too young, too dumb, to know things like love" "my feet don't dance like they did with you"

Monster Among Men

"the stupid truth is i'm so bad for you" "i won't break your heart again" "fragile, always bout to fall just like sand castles"

Babylon

Thriller

"i found the safest place to keep all of our mistakes" "long live the car crash hearts" "fix me in forty-five" "i can take your problems away with a nod and a wave of my hand" "the only thing i haven't done yet is die"

"The Take Over, The Break's Over"

"seasons change but people don't" "don't pretend you ever forgot about me" "we don't fight fair" "people will dissect us til this doesn't mean a thing anymore" "we do it in the dark with smiles on our faces"

This Ain't a Scene, Its An Arms Race

"i am an arms dealer, fitting you with weapons in the form of words" "i'm not a shoulder to cry on, but i digress" "the lies i weave are oh so intricate" "i wrote the gospel on giving up"

I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off (Me & You)

"last year's wishes are this year's apologies" "i take my last chance to burn a bridge or two" "i only keep myself this sick in the head cause i know how the words get you off" "we're the new face of failure" "prettier and younger but not any better off" "bulletproof loneliness" "collect the bad habits that you couldn't bear to keep out of the woods" "the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact is to realize that two out of three ain't bad"

Hum Hallelujah

"you're someone who knows someone who knows someone i once knew" "i could write it better than you ever felt it" "i thought i loved you it was just how you looked in the light" "til tonight do us part" "i'll sing the blues and swallow them too" "one day we'll get nostalgic for disaster" "i love you in the same way there's a chapel in a hospital; one foot in your bedroom, and one foot out the door" "sometimes we take chances, sometimes we take pills"

Golden

"how cruel is the golden rule when the lives we lived are only golden plated?" "i knew that the lights of the city were too heavy for me" "i saw god cry in the reflection of my enemies and all the lovers with no time for me" "tongues on the sockets of electric dreams" "where the sewage of youth drowned the spark of my teens"

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

"say a prayer but let the good times roll in case god doesn't show" "and i want these words to make things right but its the wrongs that make the words come to life" "one night and one more time"

Don't You Know Who I Think I Am?

"we only want to sing you to sleep" "there's a world outside of my front door that gets off on being down" "i could learn to pity fools as i'm the worst of all" "i can't stop feeling sorry for myself"

The (After) Life Of The Party

"i'm a stitch away from making it and a scar away from falling apart" "put love on hold, young hollywood is on the other line" "singing songs that could only catch the ear of the desperate" "kiss away young thrills and kills on the mouths of all my friends"

The Carpal Tunnel Of Love

"stomp out this disaster town" "we might've started singing just a little soon" "we're throwing stones at a glass moon" "we're so miserable and stunning" "love songs for the genuinely cunning" "dreaming of sinking with the melody of the cliffs of eternity" "got postcards from my former selves saying 'how you been?'" "we might've said goodbye just a little soon" "take two years, and call me when you're better"

Bang The Doldrums

" i couldn't bring myself to call except to call it quits" "best friends, ex-friends til the end" "better off as lovers, not the other way around" "i can't commit to a thing be it heart or hospital" "i cast a spell over the west to make you think of me the same way i think of you" "this is a love song in my own way"

Fame > Infamy

"when i'm home alone i just dance by myself" "the kid was alright but it went to his head" "i'm addicted to the way i feel when i think of you" "there's too much green to feel blue"

You're Crashing But You're No Wave

"everyone's looking for relief" "only breathing with the aid of disbelief" "baby boy can't lift his headached head" "isn't it tragic?" "hang on a rope or bated breath, whichever you prefer" "a bidding war for an old flame's grief" "not a word that could make you comprehend" "unimpressed birds sing and die"

I've Got All This Ringing In My Ears And None On My Fingers

Grace

"i'm not ready to be just another of your mistakes" "i can't seem to drown you out long enough" "i fell victim to the sound of your love" "you're like a song that i aint ready to stop" "on the verge of almost bleeding you out" "are we too wounded now to ever come down"

Bruises

"every breath that i've been taking since you left feels like a waste on me" "i've been holding on to hope that you'll come back when you can find some peace" "i hope i never lose the bruises that you left behind" "oh my lord, oh my lord, i need you by my side" "maybe i'm just being blinded by the brighter side of what we had because its over" "your love i'm lost in" "i'm tired of being so exhausted" "even though i'm nothing to you now"

Hold Me While You Wait

"so tell me can you turn around?" "i need someone to tear me down" "i wish that i was good enough" "if only i could wake you up" "i wish you cared a little more" "did we come close to having it all?" "my faith is shaken but i still believe"

Someone You Loved

"i'm going under and this time i fear there's no one to save me" "this all or nothing really got a way of driving me crazy" "i guess i kinda liked the way you numbed all the pain" "i let my guard down and then you pulled the rug" "i guess i kinda like the way you help me escape" "i tend to close my eyes when it hurts sometimes" "i fall into your arms" "i'll be safe and sound til i come back around"

Maybe

"at night the weight of expectations seems to keep me up" "i gave my all but not enough" "how come i'm the only one who ever seems to get in my way" "lately i've been fucking a good thing any chance i can get" "and i ain't trying to be lonely, solely" "everything i touch turns to stone" "i just can't put my faith in something we might live to regret" "maybe i'm better off on my own"

Forever

"no regrets is what we said" "nobody said that it would last forever" "wish you the best, i would if i was able" "out of my mind, i don't remember calling" "hope you know i wish you all the love you're looking for" "two burning hearts are dared to break"

One

"how could you let something so good go to waste and bleed the colors out" "she gave you love but it wasn't enough"

Don't Get Me Wrong

"pray silence i'm begging" "i ain't responsible for the lump in your throat" "haven't you had enough of all of this?" "havem't you had enough loneliness?" "i'd love to stay too long" "i'd love to tell you whatever you want" "it ain't meant to be easy, shouldn't be this hard" "i ain't responsible for letting this go" "i just don't wanna be the devil you know" "it hurts the most when you come too close"

Hollywood

"couldn't make this last" "love can find a way to make your feet run heavy, make your heart unsteady" "when you're just a step away from falling apart, do you ever feel like going back to the start?" "what home used to feel like" "no i don't feel right" "if you can hear me does it really have to end?" "if we can pick up, just tell me where and when"

Lost On You

"never spent so long on a losing battle but lately giving up don't seem to matter" "everyday i'm a slave to the heartache" "but i've run out of love this time" "hope you'll be safe in the arms of another cause i can't take the weight of your love" "lately i'm getting lost on you" "i tore your world apart like it was nothing new" "never bled so much when i didn't have to" "i should've carried us both

Fade

"we're always a a heart attack away from falling in love" "running near on empty" "i wish somebody would've told me that i'd end up so caught up in need of your demons, that i'd be lost without you leading me astray" "now its so hard to breathe" "guess i'm such a fucking fool for the way that you caught me"

Headspace

"salt of the earth my friend, its all that we are in the end" "when there's nothing to talk about, you shout" "i'll find my lights fading out" "it gets dark in here" "sing me a song and send me to sleep" "you're only blood and bones and i know your hearts at war with your head" "you're more than i'll ever have, and more than i'll ever be" "my timing was never great but i'm calling" "i just wanted to let you know that i won't bother you anymore. i'll be gone this time next year." "i never thought a lie could sound so sweet until you opened your mouth and you said you loved me"

Before You Go

Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued

"the ribbon on my wrist says 'do not open before christmas'" "we're only liars, but we're the best" "its just past 8 and i'm feeling young and reckless"

Of All The Gin Joints In All The World

"i used to waste my time dreaming of being alive, now i only waste it dreaming of you" "we're sleeping through all the memories"

Dance, Dance

"tonight it's 'it can't get much worse' versus ' no one should ever feel like'" "i'm two quarters and a heart down" "and i don't wanna forget how your voice sounds" "these words are all i have so i'll write them so you need them just to get by" "this is the way they'd love if they knew how misery loves me"

Sugar, We're Going Down

"i'm just a notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song" "a loaded god complex, cock it and pull it" "isn't it messed up how i'm just dying to be him?"

Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner

"i keep my jealousy close cause its all mine" "hand behind this pen relives a failure every day" "so wear me like a locket around your throat, i'll wear you down, i'll watch you choke"

I've Got A Dark Alley And A Bad Idea That Says You Should Shut Your Mouth (Summer Song)

"we're the kids who feel like dead ends" "and the poets are just kids who didnt make it and never had it at all" "force our smiles, baby, half dead, from comparing myself to everyone else around me" "please put the doctor on the phone cause i'm not making any sense" "blame everyone but me for this mess" "and my back has been breaking from this heavy heart" "i'm hopelessly hopeful you're just hopeless enough"

7 Minutes In Heaven (Atavan Halen)

"i keep tellin myself, i keep tellin myself i'm not the desperate type, but you've got me looking through blinds" "trying to forget everything that isn't you" "i'm not going home alone, cause i dont do too well on my own"

Sophomore Slump Or Comeback Of The Year

"cause i swear i'd burn the city down to show you the light" "no matter what they say, don't believe a word" "cause i'll keep singing this lie if you keep believing it" "take our tears, put em on ice" "ashamed of the way the songs and the words own the beating of our hearts" "got a sunset in my veins" "i need to take a pill to make this town feel okay" "i need to keep you like this in my mind"

Champagne For My Real Friends, Real Pain For My Sham Friends

"you are a getaway car, rush of blood to the head" "we only do it for the scars and stories, but not the fame" "at least everyone is trying, everyone is shining, everyone deserves the flames, but its such a shame" "the sounds of this small town make my ears hurt" "the tide's out, the ship's run aground, we drown traitors in shallow water"

I Slept With Someone In Fall Out Boy And All I Got Was This Stupid Song Written About Me

"you're the only place that feels like home" "i'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends" "i am sorry my conscience called in sick again" "i've got arrogance down to a science" "they call kids like us vicious and carved out of stone" "but for what we've become we just feel more alone" "so progress report: i am missing you to death"

A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"

"you're just the girl all the boys wanna dance with and i'm just the boy who's had too many chances" "i don't blame you for being you, but you can't blame me for hating it" "write me off, give up on me, cause darling what did you expect?"

Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows)

"we never stood a chance and i'm not sure if it matters" "i'm mailing letters to addresses in a ghost town" "i know this hurts, it was meant to" "it's mind over you don't, don't matter" "it must be said again that all us boys are just screaming into microphones for attention because we're just so bored" "we never knew that you would pick it apart" "i'm falling apart to songs about hips and hearts"

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all-american bitch:

"i pay attention to things that most people ignore" "i am built like a mother and a total machine" "i feel for your every little issue i know just what you mean" "i make light of the darkness, i've got sun in my motherfucking pocket" "i know my age and i act like it" "i don't get angry when i'm pissed, i'm the eternal optimist" "i scream inside to deal with it"

bad idea right?:

"i know we're done, i know we're through, but god, when i look at you" "fuck it, its fine" "i only see him as a friend, the biggest lie i ever said" "i know i should stop, but i can't" "i'm sure i've seen much hotter men, but i really can't remember when"

vampire:

"how's the castle built off people you pretend to care about?" "i loved you truly, gotta laugh at the stupidity" "i used to think i was smart, but you made me look so naive" "bleed me dry like a goddamn vampire" "you're so convincing, how do you lie without flinching?" "what a mesmerizing, paralyzing, fucked up little thrill, can't figure out just how you do it and god knows i never will" "you can't love anyone cause that would mean you had a heart" "i tried to help you out, now i know that i can't, cause how you think's the kind of thing i'll never understand"

lacy:

"did i ever tell you that i'm not doing well?" "it takes over my life, i see you everywhere, the sweetest torture one could bear" "i'm losing it lately" "i feel your compliments like bullets on skin" "like ribbons in your hair my stomach's all in knots, you've got the one thing that i want" "try to rationalize people are people but its like you're made of angel dust" "you poison every little thing that i do" "i just loathe you lately" "i despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you" "i despise my rotten mind and how much it worships you"

ballad of a homeschooled girl:

"feels like my skin doesn't fit right over my bones" "i made it weird, i made it worse" "each time i step outside, its social suicide" "everything i do is tragic"

making the bed:

"another thing i ruined i used to do for fun" "another perfect moment that doesn't feel like mine" "another thing i forced to be a sign" "sometimes i feel like i don't wanna be where i am" "i'm so tired of being the girl that i am" "i'm playing the victim so well in my head" "i tell someone i love them, just as a distraction" "they're changing my machinery and i just let it happen" "i got the things i wanted, its just not what i imagined"

logical:

"i'd put myself though hell for you" "i fell for you like water falls from the february sky" "cause id rain don't pour and sun don't shine, then changing you is possible" "you lied, you lied, you lied" "i know i'm half responsible and that makes me feel horrible" "i know i could've stopped it all, god why didn't i stop it all?"

get him back!:

"do i love him, do i hate him? i guess its up and down" "i wanna get him back, i wanna make him really jealous, wanna make him feel bad" "cause then again i really miss him and it makes me real sad" "i want sweet revenge and i want him again" "when i told him how he hurt me, he told me i was trippin" "i wanna meet his mom just to tell her her son sucks"

love is embarrassing:

"now it doesn't mean a thing god love's fucking embarrassing" "just watch as i crucify myself for some weird second string loser who's not worth mentioning" "my god how could i be so stupid?"

the grudge:

"took everything i loved and crushed it in between your fingers" "my undying love, now i hold you like a grudge" "and i hear your voice every time i think i'm not enough" "i try to be tough, but i wanna scream" "i say i don't care, i say that i'm fine, but you know i can't let it go i've tried, i've tried, i've tried, for so long" "it takes strength to forgive but i don't feel strong" "i fantasize about a time you're a little fucking sorry" "i try to understand why you would do this all to me, you must be insecure, you must be so unhappy" "i know in my heart, hurt people hurt people, and we both drew blood but man those cuts were never equal" "i try to be tough, i try to be mean, but eve after all this you're still everything to me"

pretty isn't pretty:

"there's always something in the mirror that i think looks wrong" "when pretty isn't pretty enough, what do you do?" "i try to ignore it, but its everything i see. its in the poster on the wall, its in the shitty magazines, its in my phone, its in my head, its in the boys i bring to bed, its all around, its all the time, i don't know why i even try"

teenage dream:

"got your whole life ahead of you, you're only nineteen" "but i fear they already got all the best parts of me" "they all say that it gets better, it gets better, but what if i don't?"

obsessed:

"i'm starin at her like i wanna get hurt" "i can't help it, i got issues, i can't help it" "oh god she makes me so upset"

girl i've always been:

"i have captors i call friends" "i got panic rooms inside my head" "i get down with crooked men" "but i am the girl i've always been" "you say i'm cruel beyond my years" "i got wrapped up in the game again"

scared of my guitar:

"so why's there a pit in my gut in the shape of you?" "maybe i'm just overwhelmed, maybe i'm confused" "once you let the thought in then its already done" "so i'll lay in your arms and pretend its love" "i make excuses, my friends know the truth is i'm not as alright as i claim. i say that i'm fine, i tell them all the time as they watch all the light fade away" "what if i never find anything better?"

stranger:

"i was half myself without you, now i feel so complete" "i can't even remember what made me lose all that sleep" "you're just a stranger i know everything about" "you know i'll always think of you, i'll love you til the end of time, you are the best thing i'll ever keep so far out of my life" "there's nothing left for me to sing, i screamed, i cried, i did the whole thing, and i loved you mad but it doesn't matter anymore" "and if i'm not enough for you, you're not enough for me"

so american:

brutal:

"i'm so caught up in the news of who likes me and who hates you" "i'm so tired that i might quit my job start a new life" "who am i if not exploited?" "where's my fucking teenage dream?" "if someone tells me one more time 'enjoy your youth,' i'm gonna cry" "i'm anxious and nothing can help" "i wish people liked me more" "all i did was try my best" "unrelentlessly upset" "they say these are the golden years but i wish i could disappear" "i feel like no one wants me" "i hate the way i'm perceived" "i'm a nervous wreck" "i love people i don't like" "got a broken ego, broken heart" "god i don't even know where to start"

traitor:

"i kept quiet so i could keep you" "i know that you'll never feel sorry for the way i hurt" "loved you at your worst, bvt that didn't matter" "guess you didn't cheat but you're still a traitor" "i knew if you were true there's no damn way that you could fall in love with somebody that quickly" "ain't it funny, all the twisted games?" "god i wish that you had thought this through before i went and fell in love with you"

driver's license:

"she's everything i'm insecure about" "can't drive past the places we used to go to" "cause i still fucking love you babe"

1 step forward, 3 steps back:

"you got me fucked up in the head boy" "never doubted myself so much" "i hate that i give you power over that kind of stuff" "do you love me, want me, hate me? boy, i don't understand" "its back and forth did i say something wrong?" "maybe this is all your fault"

deja vu:

"i bet she's bragging to all her friends saying you're so unique" "do you call her, almost say my name, cause lets be honest we kinda do sound the same" "i know you get deja vu"

good 4 u:

"found a new girl and it only took a couple weeks" "now you can be a better man for your brand new girl" "good for you, you look happy and healthy, not me, if you ever cared to ask" "good for you, you're doing great out there without me, god i wish that i could do that" "i've lost my mind i spent the night crying on the floor of my bathroom" "you're so unaffected i really don't get it" "its like we never even happened baby what the fuck is up with that?" "remember when you swore to god i was the only person who ever got you? well, screw that, and screw you" "maybe i'm too emotional, but your apathy is like a wound in salt" "maybe you never cared at all"

enough for you:

"i wore makeup when we dated cause i thought you'd like me more" "tried so hard to be everything that you liked" "stupid, emotional, obsessive, little me" "you found someone more exciting, the next second you were gone" "and you left me there cying, wondering what i did wrong" "all i ever wanted was to be enough for you" "god you couldn't have cared less about someone who loved you more" "i don't want your sympathy, i just want myself back" "don't you think i loved you too much to be used and discarded? don't you think i loved you too much to think i deserve nothing?"

happier:

"your friends are mine, you know i know you've moved on" "i thought my heart was detached from all the sunlight of our past" "does she mean you forgot about me?" "i'm selfish i know, i can't let you go" "i hope you're happy, but don't be happier" "and now i'm picking her apart, like cutting her down will make you make my wretched heart"

jealousy, jealousy:

"all i see are girls too good to be true" "wish i didn't care" "i know their beauty is not my lack, but it feels like that weight is on my back" "i can't let it go" "comparison is killing me slowly" "i'm so sick of myself, i'd rather be anyone else" "oh god i sound crazy" "their win is not my loss, i know its true but i can't help getting caught up in it all" "i wanna be you so bad and i don't even know you" "all i see is what i should be: happier, prettier" "i'm losing it, all i get's jealousy, jealousy"

favorite crime:

"know that i loved you so bad, i let you treat me like that" "i watched as you fled the scene, doe-eyed as you buried me, one heart broke, four hands bloody" "the things i did just so i could call you mine" "well i hope i was your favorite crime" "cause you know that i'd do it all again" "its bittersweet to think about the damage that we do" "cause i was going down, but i was doing it with you" "i say that i hate you with a smile on my face" "oh look what we became"

hope ur ok:

Noah (Stand Still):

"when i turned twenty, i was overcome with the thought that i might not turn twenty-one" "there'd be nothing left of me except these songs" "when you don't know where you're going just stand still, soon enough you will" "and when all the hopes and joy you feel turn into paranoia, cause it will, remember just stand still." "life's not over but i'm feeling twice the pain" "i'm not better, but i'm not quite the same" "it keeps coming so i keep counting the days" "it don't get easier just harder yes it will, remember just stand still" "just stand still and watch the sunset bleed with only dirt under your feet to feel" "sixty-seven thousand miles an hour around the sun and that is how it feels" "in a universe that's infinite yet everything gets lost in it" "you'll be right, you'll be wrong, you'll be fine cause life goes on and on"

Ready To Go:

"is it what i deserve for spending the last of my love on someone i knew that i'd always lose?" "its inevitable and we both know that we're on borrowed time" "how fast and far it flies" "there's too many memories getting the best of me" "i loved you first but you'll be the first to leave"

Mr. Percocet:

"my heart gets pulled into pieces whenever you're poured up" "you are malevolent and benevolent" "you are the devil that i revel in" "you're only kind when you're all fucked up" "you're only mine til your high is gone" "i wish you'd still love me when your drugs wear off in the morning" "you want someone to worship the worst of your mistakes"

Every Beginning Ends:

"someone's at fault but i'm not blaming you" "you have to wake up every morning and choose to love someone but i'm finding that harder the more that i'm falling out of love with you" "every beginning has ended with you"

Hardest Part:

"the hardest part of going home is facing that you're getting older and everything you've ever known is over" "cause its been so long and the day's soon gone" "all the paths are overgrown" "the sun is down its getting colder" "in your eyes i see the fire that so long ago was burning" "through our smiles we try to hide it, all the years that we've been hurting" "we don't get too long that's why i'm holding on"

I Just Want A Lover:

"i can't believe i didn't see a mistake is just a state of my identity" "i believed that i would never ever get it right" "the twisting of the knife, the bend until the break and then it all goes wrong" "a kiss and i go blind, can't see its just my fate" "its unlivable" "i just want a lover who's in love with me, not another liar making love to me" "i'm sick of hoping, tired of waiting" "i pick my conscience over clarity and deal with the disparity its anarchy" "and the narcissists all run at me with guns ablaze no empathy, insanity"

Unfinished:

"afraid of love and afraid of change" "fell into you like a leap of faith" "i guess i met you at the wrong time" "now i've got you on my mind and i'm wondering tonight if it could've been more but we were left unfinished" "that one night was beautiful, streets were cold, but we were warm" "i've got a slideshow inside my head of might've-dones and could've-beens" "if its a purely hypothetical love, tell me why i gotta miss it so much?" "all i've got is a memory, its a masterpiece, but its incomplete" "i just fill in the empty space with a dream of what we'd be if i had stayed"

My Side Of The Bed:

"i know you want space. its not what you said, but the way that you said that you're fine" "i believe there's something missing in me" "i can't stop thinking bout how you felt hollow when i was holding you last night" "i'm just too fragile to speak" "there's something broken in me" "if you're gonna make it, you gotta be tough, but i'm not" "my heart's paper thin and the softest of words can send me spiraling"

I Burned LA Down:

Dear August:

"why's the morning come so slowly when i got no one to hold me through the dark?" "they tell me that love is patient but it never wants to wait on my drunk heart" "so i'll take all of my wasted love, and turn it into wine in my cup" "tell me that there's light at the end of all this starless night" "cause i don't know where this road is headed anymore" "i spend every evening praying for the dawn" "looking for someone to save me"

You Belong To Somebody Else:

"maybe regret is a weakness" "all the jealous gods can burn me down and start again" "you belong to somebody else" "and i didn't want to but i couldn't help it" "i know its wrong to call this sweet hell upon myself" "its easier to let a heart wait than make a heart break for you" "i gave you pieces of my secrets like religion to believe in"

Cannonball:

"your disappointment stings like an ointment" "cold indifference, boredom and bitterness" "i can't keep doing this night after night" " i don't want this anymore" "my heart's a cannonball dragging me under these waves" "people don't change" "boys can be poison and still be rose-scented" "so i'll wash you off me, cocaine and coffee"

The Best Of You:

"the world is at your feet, so what you gonna do?" "oh my love, that's not the moon" "were singing old sad songs the whole night through" "as the stars look on, im just looking at you" "when the words do come, they feel heavy as the truth" "the best of me are just the pieces of the best of you"

Slow Train Comin':

"paints a funeral, so beautiful, to the memory of us" "a slowly breaking heart that knows you're gonna make me lonely when you go" "i sold my heart for stolen gold" "i played my heart so i suppose" "still got miles to go but even so, i feel the shaking still"

The Worst Of You:

Tim McGraw:

"i hope you think of me" "its hard not to find it all a little bittersweet"

Picture To Burn:

"i realize you love yourself more than you could ever love me" "so watch me strike a match on all my wasted time" "and if you're missing me, you better keep it to yourself"

Teardrops On My Guitar:

"i'll be she's beautiful, that girl he talks about" "i can't even see anyone when he's with me" "i wonder if he knows he's all i think about at night" "she'd better hold him tight, give him all her love" "he's all that i need to fall into"

A Place In This World:

"i don't know what i want, so don't ask me" "i'm all alone, on my own, and that's all i know, i'll be strong, i'll be wrong, oh but life goes on"

Cold As You:

"and when you take, you take the very best of me" "and you do what you want cause i'm not what you wanted" "oh what a shame" "ain't no use defending words that you will never say" "you never did give a damn thing honey but i cried, cried for you" "every smile you fake is so condescending counting all the scars you made"

The Outside:

"so how can i ever try to be better?" "nobody ever lets me in" "i would give it all up to be a part of this, a part of you" "you could've helped if you had wanted to" "i've been alot of lonely places ive never been on the outside"

Tied Together With A Smile:

"hold on baby you're losing it" "the water's high you're jumping into it and letting go" "you cry but you don't tell anyone that you might not be the golden one" "and you're tied together with a smile but you're coming undone" "i guess its true that love was all you wanted, cause you're giving it away like its extra change"

Stay Beautiful:

"you're beautiful, every little piece love" "don't you know, you're really gonna be someone" "and when you find everything you looked for, i hope your life leads you back to my door" "if you and i are a story that never gets told" "if what you are is a daydream i never get to hold"

Should've Said No:

"but do you honestly expect me to believe we could ever be the same?" "was it worth it? was she worth this?"

Mary's Song:

"your eyes still shined like pretty lights" "all i need is you next to me" "i'll still look at you like the stars that shine in the sky"

I'm Only Me When I'm With You:

"i don't wanna live without you" "i don't wanna fly if you're still on the ground" "when i'm with anybody else, its so hard to be myself"

Invisible:

"she's never gonna love you like i want to" "we should be a beautiful miracle, unbelievable, instead of just invisible" "and all i think about is how to make you think of me"

A Perfectly Good Heart:

Lavender Haze:

"i'm damned if i do give a damn what people say" "i just need this love spiral" "i find it dizzying"

Maroon:

"the rust that grew between telephones" "the lips i used to call home" "how the hell did we lose sight of us again?" "sobbing with your head in your hands, ain't that the way shit always ends?" "you were standing hollow-eyed in the hallway" "i feel you no matter what" "and i wake with your memory over me" "that's a real fucking legacy to leave"

Anti-Hero:

"when my depression works the graveyard shift all of the people i've ghosted stand there in the room" "one day i'll watch as you're leaving" "i should not be left to my own devices" "i'll stare directly at the sun but never in the mirror"

Snow On The Beach:

"life is emotionally abusive" "and time can't stop me quite like you did" "i'm unglued, thanks to you" "you wanting me tonight feels impossible" "and its fine to fake it til you make it til you do, til its true" "can this be a real thing, can it?"

You're On Your Own, Kid:

"i search the party of better bodies just to learn that you never cared" "i wait patiently, he's gonna notice me" "i picked the petals he loves me not" "i'll run away" "everything you lose is a step you take" "you've got no reason to be afraid"

Midnight Rain:

"he wanted it comfortable i wanted that pain" "my town was a wasteland" "i broke his heart cause he was nice" "all the love we unraveled, and the life i gave away" "i guess sometimes we all get just what we wanted" "and he never thinks of me" "i guess sometimes we all get some kind of haunted" "and i never think of him, except on midnights like this"

Question...?

"i swear that it was something" "cause i don't remember who i was before you painted all my nights a color i've searched for since" "did you wish you put up more of a fight?" "do you wish that you could still touch her?" "did you realize out of time?" "got swept away in the grey"

Vigilante Shit:

"you did some bad things but i'm the worst of them" "don't get sad, get even" "the lady simply had enough"

Bejeweled:

"didn't notice you walking all over my peace of mind" "putting someone first only works when you're in their top five" "i can still make the whole place shimmer" "and i miss you, but i miss sparkling" "don't put me in the basement when i want the penthouse of your heart" "sadness became my own sky"

Labyrinth:

"i'll be getting over you my whole life" "never trust it if it rises fast, it can't last" "oh no, i'm falling in love again" "lost in the labyrinth of my mind" "you know how much i hate that everybody just expects me to bounce back, just like that"

Karma:

"addicted to betrayal" "you're terrified to look down" "ask me what i earned from all those tears"

Sweet Nothing:

"everyone's up to something" "i find myself running home to your sweet nothings" "all that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing" "i'm just too soft for all of it"

Mastermind: