Cities

Anberlin Cities Lyrics
1.Debut

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2.Godspeed

Burning down neverland (scatter the ashes)
White lines black tar the matches
Is this another death by misadventure
Tell me what you got,
what you really got (hey hey!)
We'll rest in our graves,
Lexington course your veins
Sleepers can't just wake the dead
When needles and lovers collapse on guilty beds

Fall asleep, don't fall asleep
Don't fall asleep

(They lied when they said that the good die young)

THEY LIED WHEN THEY SAID THE GOOD DIE YOUNG!
woah-oh-ah-oh
THEY LIED WHEN THEY SAID THE GOOD DIE YOUNG!
stay with me, stay with me tonight

Burning down bridges now (scatter the ashes)
Godspeed to all you're after
Is this a life left just to remember
Tell them who you were,
who you really were (hey hey!)
Kill yourself slowly over time,
fashion statement suicide
She's still asleep in a Chelsea hotel
Bad turns to worse,
and the worst turns into hell

Fall asleep, don't fall asleep
Don't fall asleep

(God save the eyes that dim tonight)

THEY LIED WHEN THEY SAID THE GOOD DIE YOUNG!
woah-oh-ah-oh
THEY LIED WHEN THEY SAID THE GOOD DIE YOUNG!
Stay with me, stay with me tonight

WOAH-OH-AH-OH

THEY LIED WHEN THEY SAID THE GOOD DIE YOUNG!
woah-oh-ah-oh
THEY LIED WHEN THEY SAID THE GOOD DIE YOUNG!
Stay with me, stay with me tonight
THEY LIED WHEN THEY SAID THE GOOD DIE YOUNG!
woah-oh-ahoh
THEY LIED WHEN THEY SAID THE GOOD DIE YOUNG!
Stay with me, stay with me tonight


3.Adelaide

You're repeating me lines
that you think I wanna hear
But I don't wanna hear anymore
As if sorry is any consolation
For what it's worth,
you're stringing me along
Sh sh shouldn't need anyone
Shouldn't need anyone
Just scared of being alone
But by the time you figure this out
And I'm already gone

Adelaide, Adelaide,
you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide,
you need to quit, quit making a scene
Adelaide, Adelaide,
you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide,
you need to quit, quit making a scene

You keep giving me signs
that you think I wanna see
But you're nothing like you seem
Hide behind your half smile
But the truth is so undeniable
Sh sh shouldn't need anyone
Shouldn't need anyone
Just scared of being alone
But by the time you figure this out
And I'm already gone

Adelaide, Adelaide,
you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide,
you need to quit, quit making a scene
Adelaide, Adelaide,
you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide,
you need to quit, quit making a scene

Like lipstick traces on pillow cases
Some things in life are unforgettable
Like love, lost, lies and us and woh ohh
Some things in life are undeniable

Like lipstick traces on pillow cases
Some things in life are unforgettable
Like love, lost, lies and us and woh ohh
Some things in life are undeniable

Adelaide, Adelaide,
you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide,
you need to quit, quit making a scene
Adelaide, Adelaide,
you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide,
you need to quit, quit making a scene


4.A Whisper & A Clamour

Growing tired of bedside resolve
Public display of depression
Something's got to give now
Something's going to break down
I grow tired of writing songs
While people listen but never hear
what's really going on now
Tell me what's so wrong now

Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering
Clap your hands tonight
Hear what the silence screams
Clap your hands
Clap your hands now all ye children
Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering tonight

For most who live and breathe
Hell is never knowing who they are now
Tell me who you are now
Finally safe from the outside
trapped in what you know
Are you safe from yourself?
Can you escape all by yourself?

Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering
Clap your hands tonight
Hear what the silence screams
Clap your hands
Clap your hands now all ye children
Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering tonight
Clap your hands
Clap your hands now all ye children
Clap your hands
There's a clamor in your whispering tonight

It's not the lies that you sing
But what the silence will scream
It's not the lies that you sing
But what the silence will scream
It's not the lies that you sing
But what the silence will scream

Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering
Clap your hands tonight
Hear what the silence screams
Clap your hands
Clap your hands now all ye children
Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering tonight


5.The Unwinding Cable Car

Emotive unstable you're like an unwinding cable car
Listening for voices,
but it's the choices that make us who we are
Go your own way,
even seasons have changed
just burn those new leaves over
So self-absorbed you've seemed to ignore
the prayers that have already come about

This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Don't drop your arms)
Don't drop your arms,
I'll guard your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you in

La lalalala, la la la, la lala, la

Backing away from the problem of pain
you never had a home
You've been misguided,
you're hiding in shadows for so very long
Don't you believe
that you've been deceived
that you're no better than...
The hair in your eyes,
it never disguised what you're really thinking of

This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Don't drop your arms)
Don't drop your arms,
I'll guard your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you in

This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Don't drop your arms)
Don't drop your arms,
I'll guard your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you in

You're so brilliant, don't soon forget
You're so brilliant, grace marked your heart
You're so brilliant, don't soon forget
You're so brilliant, grace marked your heart
You're so brilliant (This is the correlation)
Don't soon forget (Between salvation and love, don't drop your
arms)
You're so brilliant (I'll guard your heart)
Grace marked your heart (With quiet words I'll lead you in and
out of the dark)

La lalalala, la la la, la lala, la
(Don't drop your arms)
La lalalala, la la la, la lala, la

This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Don't drop your arms)
Don't drop your arms,
I'll guard your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you in

This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Don't drop your arms)
Don't drop your arms,
I'll guard your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you in


6.There Is No Mathematics To Love And Loss

If you're leaving,
leave the cigarettes.
You've already got the lighter and the keys.
She packs her boxes.
He knows that she's serious
Not by the look in her face
but the lack of rings.
Words lost their meanings long ago.
Right around the time
when she let him know.

Oh oh oh oh ohoh oh oh

Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love,
than alive with you and dead.
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time
(Hear me out this time).
Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love,
than alive with you and dead.
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time
(Hear me out this time).

There is algebra in gasoline.
Burning pictures,
pages and photographs.
Fire can make a conscience clean.
(Strike the match, we'll see)
Rolls the window down,
calls his name and pulls away.
Rethinks every word he's said in disarray.
Watched their house burn and in turn.
(What made it home, drive away)

Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love
than alive with you and dead.
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time
(Hear me out this time).
Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love
than alive with you and dead.
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time
(Hear me out this time).

Where does one start
To pick up pieces
Of a gasoline heart?
When all he has is driving away.
Ay ay ay ay ayay ay ay..

Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love
than alive with you and dead.
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time
(Hear me out this time).
Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love
than alive with you and dead.
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time
(Hear me out this time).


7.Hello Alone

Is this where the interstate ends?
In coastal towns like this
Waiting for my world to cave under
We seem to invent ourselves
(we seem to invent ourselves)
In the places left unknown
If hope could only find me out

Is this the end of everything we know? (We know)
This is the end of everything I am

Is anybody out there?
Hello! Hello!
Broken hearts like promises
are left for lesser knowns
Is anybody out there?
Alone! Alone!
Cause the coldest winter's thrive

Depression is the unholy ghost
In the coastal towns of ahead
Though I know a thousand names
I see my only friend
I've got the gun
All I need is ten cents for the bullet
I feel helpless,
sleeping at best,
waiting for your return
Are you ever coming home?

Is anybody out there?
Hello! Hello!
Broken hearts like promises
are left for lesser knowns
Is anybody out there?
Alone! Alone!
Cause the coldest winter's thrive on broken homes
Broken homes


Does anybody (Does anybody)
Do they ever listen? (Do they ever listen?)
Does anybody (Does anybody)
Care at all?!
Do they care at all?

Is this the end of everything we know? (We know)
This is the end of everything I am

Is anybody out there?
Hello! Hello!
Broken hearts like promises
are left for lesser knowns
Is anybody out there?
Alone! Alone!
Cause the coldest winter's thrive on broken homes
Is anybody out there?
Hello! Hello!
Broken hearts like promises are left for lesser knowns
Is anybody out there?
Alone! Alone!
From a lesser known I'm here
and there's hope, there's hope


8.Alexithymia

Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow
Don't believe anything you say
Anymore, in the morn, in the morning
Bricks to this old house are breaking
Steel would have weathered but now forlorning
It's alarming how loud the silence screams
No warn, no warn, no warning
Addictions fill the table where the family used to sit
And conversate
Conversate to the sounds
To the sounds of a record player
With it's jumping needle
and the lights that grow dim over time

With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive

Album:Cities
Are you where you thought you'd be
So beautiful and only twenty-three
Opposition rests in the hearts
With no, with no, with no opportunity
It's not that we don't talk
It's just no one really listens and honesty fades
Like a politician lost in the course
All smiles and no one remembers our names

With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive


Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow
Don't believe anything I say
Anymore, in the morn, in the morning

With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive


9.Reclusion

There's someone inside me
that softly kills everyone around
They don't know they're dead to me
cause intent never makes a sound
All along they found I strangled lovers
who've learned from slower hands
With these eleven minutes
I could teach you what I am

You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide
You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide

There's an art in seclusion.
Production in depression
if a stranger turns up missing,
this song is my confession
Tell the tales of the trail of dead,
lovers learn from slower hands
Losing self in myself,
inner demons make demands

You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide
You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide

You're suffocating me,
so very hard to breathe
My mask is growing heavy
but I've forgotten who's beneath

You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide
You're sick, sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are so very hard to hide


10.Inevitable

Do you remember when we were just kids
And cardboard boxes took us miles
from what we would miss
Schoolyard conversations taken to heart
And laughter took the place of everything
we knew we were not

I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment
(stay in this moment)
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now hey, is it over now

I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last, first kiss

Amazing how
life turns out the way that it does
We end up hurting the worst,
the only ones we really love

I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment
(stay in this moment)
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now hey, is it over now

I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last, first kiss


Is it over now hey,
is it over now
Is it over now hey,
it's not over now

I wanna be your last, first kiss
That you'll ever have
(that you'll ever have)
I wanna be your last, first love
(that you'll ever have)
Till you're lying here beside me with arms
and eyes open wide
I wanna be your last, first kiss for all time


11.Dismantle. Repair

One last glance from a taxi cab
Images scar my mind
For weeks've felt like years
Since your full attention was all mine
The night was young and so were we
Talked about life, God, death, and your family
Didn't want any promises,
Just my undivided honesty, and you said

Oh oh, things are gonna change now for the better
Oh oh, things are gonna change,
oh, they're gonna change

I am the patron saint of lost causes
A fraction of who I once believed (change)
only a matter of time
Opinions I would try and rewrite
If life had background music playing your song
I've got to be honest,
I tried to escape you
But the orchestra plays on, and they sang

Oh oh, things are gonna change now for the better
Oh oh, things are gonna change

Hands, like secrets,
are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases, like knives,
your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down (repair)
You dismantle me You dismantle me

Hands, like secrets,
are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases, like knives,
your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down (repair)
You dismantle me You dismantle me

Give me time to prove
Prove I want the rest of yours (prelude)
Call this a prelude to a lifetime of you
It's not that I hang on every word
I hang myself on what you repeat
It's not that I keep hanging on
I'm never letting go

Hands, like secrets,
are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases, like knives,
your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down (repair)
You dismantle me You dismantle me

Hands, like secrets,
are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases, like knives,
your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down (repair)
You dismantle me You dismantle me

Save me from myself

Help me save me from myself

Save me from myself

Oh oh, things are gonna change
now for the better
Oh oh, things are gonna change

Hands, like secrets,
are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases, like knives,
your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down (repair)
You dismantle me
You dismantle me
Hands, like secrets,
are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases, like knives,
your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down (repair)
You dismantle me
You dismantle me
Hands, like secrets,
are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases, like knives,
You dismantle me
You dismantle me
Hands, like secrets,
are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases, like knives,
your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down (repair)
You dismantle me
You dismantle me


12.Fin

Feels like you're miles from here,
in other towns with lesser names.
Where the unholy ghost doesn't tell
Mary or William exactly what they want to hear.
You remember the house on Ridge Road
told you and the Devil to both just leave me alone.
If this is salvation,
I can show you the trembling.
You'll just have to trust me.
I'm scared.

I am the patron saint of lost causes.
Aren't we all to you just near lost causes?
Aren't we all to you just lost

Tommy, you left behind
something that will mean
everything right before you die.
What if you gained the whole world?
You've already lost
four little souls from your life.
Widows and orphans aren't hard to find.
They're home missing daddy
who's saving the world tonight.
Wish your drinking would hurry and kill you.
Sympathy's better than
having to tell you the truth.

That you are the patron saint of lost causes.
All you are to them is now a lost cause.
All you are to them is now, causes.

Billy, don't you understand?
Timothy stood as long as he could and now
you made his faith disappear.
More like a magician and
less like a man of the cloth.
We're not questioning God.
Just those he chose to carry on His cross.
We're no better, you'll see.
Just all of us, the lost causes.

Aren't we all to you just lost causes?
Are we all to you lost?

Lost causes

So all we are to you,
Is all we are, is all we are
All we are is all we are

Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
(Lost causes, all we are is all we are)
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
(To you, lost causes)

Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?


13.Uncanny

Airports to Amsterdam
There's nothing that we can do now
I'm convinced, oh, that you're right
You're right where you belong,
Beside me, to remind me
Did you ever think this far behind me
You would see the world for what it was
And who we really were
Oh they love us American boys

Anywhere, say anywhere
As long as I'm with you
Anything, ask anything
We'll watch the world go by
Anywhere, say anywhere
As long as I'm with you
Anything, ask anything
We'll watch the world

Trains to Tokyo,
Staring out windows,
A place we've never been
While soundtracks play in backgrounds
To the stories of our lives
Non-fiction, oh envision,
if we never met and what we missed
And never really learned
Pacific Standard Time
Oh they love those American boys

Anywhere, say anywhere
As long as I'm with you
Anything, ask anything
We'll watch the world go by
Anywhere, say anywhere
As long as I'm with you
Anything, ask anything
We'll watch the world

Anywhere, say anywhere
As long as I'm with you
Anything, ask anything
We'll watch the world go by

Anywhere, say anywhere
As long as I'm with you
Anything, ask anything
We'll watch the world go by
Anywhere, say anywhere
As long as I'm with you
Anything, ask anything
We'll watch the world

Anywhere, say anywhere
As long as I'm with you
Anything, ask anything
We'll watch the world go by
Anywhere, say anywhere
As long as I'm with you
Anything, ask anything
We'll watch the world


14.There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

Take me out tonight
Where theres music and theres people
And they're young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people
and i want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
Because its not my home,
its their Home,
and I'm welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care

And in the darkened underpass
I thought oh god, my chance has come at last
but then a strange fear gripped me
and i Just couldn't ask

Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere,
I don't care

Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one,
Oh, I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure the privilege is mine

Oh, there is a light and it never goes out
There is a light and it never goes out
There is a light


15.The Promise

If you need a friend,
don't look to a stranger,
You know in the end,
I'll always be there.

And when you're in doubt,
and when you're in danger,
Take a look all around,
and I'll be there.

I'm sorry,
but I'm just thinking of the right words to say.
(I promise)
I know they don't sound
the way I planned them to be.
(I promise)
But if you'll wait around a while,
I'll make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you I will.

When your day is through,
and so is your temper,
You know what to do,
I'm gonna always be there.

Sometimes if I shout,
it's not what's intended.
These words just come out,
with no gripe to bear.

I'm sorry,
but I'm just thinking of the right words to say.
(I promise)
I know they don't sound
the way I planned them to be.
(I promise)
But if you'll wait around a while,
I'll make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you...

I'm sorry,
but I'm just thinking of the right words to say.
(I promise)
I know they don't sound
the way I planned them to be.
(I promise)
And if I had to walk the world,
I'd make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you I will.

I gotta tell ya,
I need to tell ya,
I gotta tell ya,
I gotta tell yaaaa ...

I'm sorry,
but I'm just thinking of the right words to say.
(I promise)
I know they don't sound
the way I planned them to be.
(I promise)
But if you'll wait around a while,
I'll make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you...

I'm sorry,
but I'm just thinking of the right words to say.
(I promise)
I know they don't sound
the way I planned them to be.
(I promise)
And if I had to walk the world,
I'd make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you I will ...
I will...