1.The Weight Of Her
Here come the captain
She's a firecracker, skinny jeans
Two lips of honey, yeah
She leaves a trail of gasoline
She drinks more whiskey
Than her daddy, she can even sing
And all the clappers say
You're living in her world
The word around the street
She likes the smell of cocaine
It makes her crazy when she
Mix it up with champagne
You'll never make it if you
Don't keep her locked in a cage
You will be wishing now
For any other girl
Don't let the weight of her world
Bring you down
Don't let her walk in the room
And turn you inside out
Don't let the touch of her hand
Take you down
No, not now
No, not ever again
Ooh
6：45 as you wake up
She's just gone to bed
Clear out the phone
From a hundred texts you haven't read
She only wants you
When it's later and she's off her head
Pay close attention
You're just living in her world
And all the Swedish girls
They hang out at the hotel
It's sex for green cards
I think they know you very well
It paints a picture of a movie
Ending dark as hell
You will be wishing now
For any other girl
Don't let the weight of her world
Bring you down
Don't let her walk in the room
And turn you inside out
Don't let the touch of her hand
Take you down
No, not now
No, not ever again
Ooh
Don't let the weight of her world
Bring you down
Don't let her walk in the room
And turn you inside out
Don't let the touch of her hand
Take you down
No, not now
No, not ever, hey!
Don't let the weight of her world
Bring you down
Don't let her walk in the room
And turn you inside out
Don't let the touch of her hand
Take you down
No, not now
No, not ever again
Ooh
Yeah ooh
2.Going Back;Going Home
I'm not happy with myself these days
I took the best parts of the script and I made them all cliched
and this red bandanna is surely going to fade
even though its the only thing the fire didn't take
Everybody says you'll grow a lot from this experience
Baby B. Comes in after a while become a president
lessons get disguised sometimes but all I know
Is I finally know the difference between going back and going
home
There's a lady on my block that has a kid
as he swims in the above ground pool she seals up the lid
and he thinks it's kind of normal that she hides
up the cuts and all the bruises she says it's warpaint for the
eyes
She tells her son she did the best she could as she marries dad
maybe he'll grow up to be a man unlike his father did
as i leave the driveway for the northern snow
they finally know the difference between going back and going
home
cut to a life being born in '69
middle class suburbs everything's fine
fondue parties my mom and my dads
drinks being drunk and fights being had
I lost my virginity to a girl in my band
she was 4 years older she made me a man
so addicted to sex every chance that I got
with whoever I wanted until i got caught
so I took my penicillin and i took my band
to a town made of glitter girls and cocaine friends
got handed the dream by the age of 18
saw more than most people that i know had ever seen
played every bar drank till black and blue
did the morning show bullshit and went to china too
where they left us to die without a ticket to flee
inciting a riot we were only 23
packed it up started over just as fast as we can
selling tapes making merch in the back of a van
living hand to mouth for the next 5 years
took up drinking wine gave up drinking beer
signed another big deal with a devil in a dress
a one hit wonder i think described it best
decided to burn out than to fade a way
went back to the van the very next day
built it up made a living without any help
made amazing friends if i say so myself
if living like this at 38 is a bore
then come on god please give me 38 more
everybody knows I've seen a lot yeah I'm experienced
makes you feel so old after a while just like our president
everytime I come back in this town I know
I finally know the difference between going back and going home.
3.Here Comes The...
Here comes the heartache
The move out date
The excuses for my friends
Here comes the reason i have to justify
It was better in the end
Here comes the last time I'm gonna kiss you
And the first night being alone
Here comes the hardest thing we've ever known.
And I know that you're sleeping
I can always hear you breathe
Don't you think its about time that we talked？
You say you had a bad feeling
I Feel i do agree
And i know how hard it is to be
The easiest thing is love
Making up will never mean enough.
Here comes the heartache
The move out date
The excuses for my friends
Here comes the reason i have to justify
It was better in the end
Here comes the last time I'm gonna kiss you
And the first night eating alone
Here comes the hardest thing we've ever known.
You've been waiting for the weekend
so we could figure some things out
How did it ever come to blows？
Some people find happiness
and some are just happy to find
One more reason not to get love or give it in return.
You cant lose fire when there is nothing left to burn.
Here comes the heartache
The move out date
The excuses for my friends
Here comes the reason i have to justify
It was better in the end
Here comes the last time I'm gonna kiss you
And the first night sleeping alone
Here comes the hardest thing we've ever known.
All i wanted to do was do what you wanted. needed.
But that never did much for me in the end.
Now all we have to do is to wait it out.
Here comes the heartache
The move out date
The excuses for my friends
Here comes the reason i have to justify
It was better in the end
Here comes the last time I'm gonna kiss you
And the first night being alone
Here comes the hardest thing we've ever known
4.Ponce De Lone Ave
I woke up on Sunday morning
With a shoe that was not mine
Let the taxi on the corner drive away
So I walked up Ponce de Leon
With my lips all caked in wine
But my night clothes in the day time
Gave me away
And I don't want to remember
But I don't want to forget
That no one will believe me if I say
So honey don't you call now
Don't pick up the phone now
Don't you know we're better off this way
Trying not to spoil now
You'll see me when you go out
We can be in love for just one day
And I came home with her lipstick
And a thousand bites and scars
And a mud stain on my kneecap
To remind
Me of a quick shop stop for salsa
Just to spill it on the floor
Stuck my head inside the freezer
To rewind
And the mayor won't believe me
And my drummer thinks I'm high
But I know I should let this one get away
So honey don't you call now
Don't pick up the phone now
Don't you know we're better off this way
Trying not to spoil now
I'll see you when I go out
We can be in love for just one day
So honey don't you call now
Don't pick up the phone now
Don't you know we're better off this way
Trying not to spoil now
You'll see me when you go out
We can be in love for just one day
And there were all those tripped out people
At our table by the end of the night
So I met you by the bathroom to escape
I was so drunk I think I said
I want you inside me now
And we fell into the dumpster
Laughin' away
And I don't think I remember
And I try not to forget
But I think that I let this one get away
So honey don't you call now
Don't pick up the phone now
Don't you know we're better off this way
Trying not to spoil now
I'll see you when I go out
We can be in love for just one day
So honey don't you call now
Don't pick up the phone now
Don't you know we're better off this way
Trying not to spoil now
You'll see me when you go out
We can be in love for just one day
5.Ships In A Bottle
Everybody sleeps
But I haven't done that in the last few weeks or so
And yeah, I know the remedy
But they ran out yesterday
I can't re-fill anything
Especially my heart. especially my brain
If I could bottle up this mess I could do it all again
And I don't wanna know if there's another part of me
Don't wanna feel if I'm alive
Don't wanna smell the bed where we used to sleep
I'm gonna miss it again, miss it again
Just wanna walk away from the ashes
And take the fact that I've been burned
And maybe let you know I'm still standin'
If you miss it again, miss it again, I'm around
And you, you were down the street
And I watched you through the windows draped with sheets so
white
And yeah, it looks a lot like me
Is it a comfort that you needed or coincidence that's everything
Especially my eyes, 'specially my clothes
But does it move you inside out
Maybe I don't wanna know!
And I don't wanna know if there's that there's another part of
me
Don't wanna feel if I'm alive
Don't wanna smell the bed where you used to sleep
Gonna miss it again, miss it again
Just wanna walk away from the ashes
And take the fact that I've burned
And maybe let you know I'm still standin'
If you miss it again, miss it again I'm around
And all the times you wanted out, you never said a thing about
How we would just become the ships inside of a bottle
Breakin' down, sails fallin' off
Tryin' to stay afloat inside a place you can't survive
Are we breakin' down？
'Cause I don't wanna know if there's another part of me
Don't wanna feel if I'm alive
Don't wanna smell the bed where we used to sleep
Just wanna walk away from the ashes
Take the fact that I've been burned
And maybe let you know I'm still standin'
If you miss it again, miss it again, I'm around
6.Vessels
You said you've never give in
Never pretend that this is just a
Chapter for you
What do we do
I feel like this is war on a hill
A jack and a jill
Tryin to win a battle to do
What we never do is win
So Now You Hurry it up
It's coming at ya fast as you can run
The silver of the tip of a
Bullet from a gun is gonna
Take you down, take you down
And finally kill this love
We don't get along anymore
I saw his name and number by the door
You just take the bed and I'll take the floor
We don't get along anymore
There's the look in your eye
Magnified a thousand times
I see the vessels of blood
Swelling above the color that made
Me turn to red, when you turned your head
At the party we never saw
We went for it all I took you like I
Never gave you up
Not a breath could come between the
Bodies lying on the car hood
I think it says a lot that I
Remember it all
Was it all just wasted love
We don't get along anymore
I saw his name and number by the door
You just take the bed and I'll take the floor
We don't get along anymore
We don't get along anymore
I saw his name and number by the door
You just take the bed and I'll take the floor
We don't get along anymore
We don't get along anymore
I saw his name and number by the door
You just take the bed and I'll take the floor
We don't get along anymore
7.Passed Your Place,Saw Your Car,Thought Of You
Now honey, dry your eyes
Get back in the car
There's no need to end it this way
That's what you said when I shot off the head
Of our love that one Saturday
I've got my share of faults, this much is true
I talk too much about me to everyone I know
The one thing I do now is talk more about you and how
I can't believe I just let you go
There's never a pill strong enough to make me feel
Like all your fingers could do
I passed your place, I saw your car and thought of you
There goes that guy I know, comes to all my shows
Stealing every move I'm about
He's a little bit younger and a hell of a lot more fit
And I hate his mouth and everything that comes out
But there's one thing I know is you can't trust a man
It's a species that captures things just to let them go
And he bought you drinks every night
Till the bait you would bite
Now you're the sweetest thing from me he stole
There's never a pill strong enough to make me feel
Like all your fingers could do
I passed your place, I saw his car, I thought of you
I never got to say before you passed away
That love was just a word before you showed it to me
Twenty years ago, when I just let you go
I didn't think this is where you'd be
Now honey dry your eyes, get back to your life
There's no need to take it this way
That's what I tell myself in the mirror by the shelf
Where your picture still hangs today
There's never a pill strong enough to make me feel
Like all your fingers could do
I passed your place, there was no car, I thought of you
8.The 3 Kids In Brooklyn
Well I left the town of sinners, redneck priests and meth lab
stalls
To find myself a few more just like me
The options pretty skinny and the order's pretty tall
To swim the hippest waters in the sea
Somewhere in the sticky city driving back and forth
I found myself a squat in Williamsburg
Nobody seemed the same sincerely this could be a curse
But everyone's the same with different shirts
I'm not sure what part about me they can't understand
No one's really from here,
they just all pretend that's what they've been about
Those three kids left in Brooklyn sure know how to spin me out
I see a guy named Ian every morning at the store
Always dissing something with his eyes
He always wears a sweater even in the warmest weather
He's not afraid to say what he despised
But I did a little searching you know, and much to my surprise
A few years back a metal cover band
He yelled at me and said the Internet is full of lies
And then I never saw Ian again
I'm not sure what part about him they can't understand
No one's really from here,
they just all pretend that's what they've been about
Those two kids left in Brooklyn sure know how to spin me out
I grabbed shots in Decatur with a girl who's on my block
She's the best drummer that I know
Her band's always struggling and they always say they're
juggling
All their schedules just to play a show
Working at American Apparel selling women's clothes to guys
She got a call to play in someone's band I don't know well
She don't wan't to do it, she's so broke that she said screw it
Then I never spoke to her again
I'm not sure what part about her she didn't understand
Nobody's really from here,
they just all pretend that's what they've been about
That one kid left in AtlantaFuck this place, I'm getting out
9.Summer Scarves
Lyin' in the overgrown-up grass in the front yard
Water falling from the sky so warm it feels hard
Trying to figure out just who you really are to me
And the summer scarves are all around me
And the sunburn grows around my neck
And the sum of her still remains a memory
Till the summer turns the day to black
Needle dropping on a record that you bought for me
And you traced my name inside the logo on the sleeve
You circled all the lines in the lyrics that you mean for me
And the summer scarves are all around me
And the sunburn grows around my neck
And the sum of her still remains a memory
Till the summer turns the day to black
Some wait their whole life
Just to feel something right
And it grips you like a wave you wish never goes away
Then it does
And the summer scarves are all around me
And the sunburn grows around my neck
And the sum of her still remains a memory
Till the summer turns the day to black
10.A Song For The Metalheads
1...9...6...9
Press the tape recorder, let's get this all down real fast
Before the instant it became thought goes by
There's one more slow song left to write for the record
To make all the metalheads cry
I throw rocks but not rocking, stand there just mocking
With hands in their armpits that they'll later smell
When you live in the past, there's one thing that will last
Is resentment that time won't sit still
The record business is fucked, it's kinda funny
It'll separate a boy from a man
You can buy every copy of your record with your money
But you'd be your only fan
If it's one thing my father said when he was younger
To a kid with a mullet who looked like his son
To want and to try is the difference why
Some people will walk and some run (Thank you Dad)
Sharpen up all your pencils, cause class will come early
There's so much you thought that you knew
While the B List celebrities all pay for their fame
They'll soak up what's left of the pool
While a kid in the corner becomes a savant
No one will care till he's dead
Or he falls from his grace with it all over the place
And a piece of it stuck in his head
11.Closer To The Truth And Furthher From The Sky
Ribbons went flying out the window
As we drove down the interstate
Sex was something so brand new
It was hard as hell to wait
She made faces at the goddamn rednecks
And said Look at you boy, you must worship Satan
Just because I had the same long hair
As the Jesus in all their paintings
Every church just made me scared
Of words like servant and faith and congregation
In a world with so many answers left
Why do I need so many explanations
To get closer to the truth and further from the sky
And the static singes the speakers
Like a thousand hymns of inspiration
The road just winds through the canyon
Like a big black snake headed for salvation
And I'm getting closer to the truth and further from the sky
A roadside venue with paper menus
In a town that forgot its own name
We were hungry for anything that had a pulse
As we freed ourselves from the rain
There's a disgruntled metalhead playing guitar
For a pop singer up on the screen
With his guitar held high and his head held low
He just wants a chance to be seen
And the static singes the speakers
Like a thousand hymns of inspiration
The road just winds through the canyon
Like a big black snake headed for salvation
And I'm getting closer to the truth and further from the sky
Well he tells me at the bar
That's he on his last leg
That he used to have it all in his hands
That the girls don't think much of him these days
It's just hard for him to understand
Cause he's a little bit older and a little bit thin
But he's still got his heart in a sling
And we paid for the drinks and the bartender drinks
And it couldn't be more late, yeah we're all so late
And the static singes the speakers
Like a thousand hymns of inspiration
The road just winds through the canyon
Like a big black snake headed for salvation
And I'm getting closer to the truth and further from the sky
12.ATL
Born from hippies back in 69
I was bored by 1992
I walked into a recruitment office a year before that
Said son we've been waiting for you'
Discharged from a Gulf War the very same year
I came home with a car and a tomb
Of cigarettes and mixtapes and bullets from a gun
That my dead best friend never could use
Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you
Let your sweaty embrace open wide
Cause Atlanta, I'm falling like most people do
And I need all your ground to survive
Wasted and down trodden along the hidden vein
I cried myself blind at the sight
Of the old shopping center where we used to ride
Now condos as sterile as I
So I bought me an old Airstream for 3,000 bucks
From a drug dealer I used to owe
And I thought to myself as I slept off a high
The irony is starting to show
Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you
Let your sweaty embrace open wide
Cause Atlanta, I'm falling like some people do
And I need all your ground to survive
Drove out to Asheville, cause that's where you were
Where you married into money and pills
And I wanted so bad to be good with you now
But the fact is that you never will
Cause some become lovers because of sex
And some, you know, they just become friends
Heyyyy
In our case, we just became bad at it all
And never got good at it again
Oh Atlanta, please need me like I needed you
Let your sweaty embrace open wide
Cause Atlanta, I'm suffocating like some people do
And I need all your air to survive
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