Slimming Mirrors, Flattering Lights

The Awkward Stage Slimming Mirrors, Flattering Lights Lyrics
1.The Sun Goes Down On Girlsville

Who are these who know themselves?
No apologies, no regrets.
I know myself less the older I get
Apologies and regrets, they are my epaulets.
They are my epaulets.

The memory is unkind to me.
Life seems to dream itself by.
I've waited so long to be waiting here still.
As the sun goes down behind the hill
In Girlsville
In Girlsville.
The sun goes down on Girlsville.
The sun goes down on Girlsville


2.Your Heart Serves Only You

I charge thou art a fake, thou sulking indie rocker trying to
make,
Like you never meant to f**k her and to break;
Her heart to write your song well each Swan Lake
Will leave a princess floating face down in its wake.

I say, its in the grey. Where truth lies in this life and in the
day,
Is where you'll see more boogie men come out to play.
You'll see Hitler's water colours light and gay;
The poet beats his wife, oh by the way.

You say to break your heart to write my song is wrong to do,
The song might serve the throng while your heart serves only
you.

Its true, you tried your best. Your good intentions paved the
way to your success
And all the children of the world are in your nest
But if you'd look up from their mouths you would confess
That your own child fell to ground and is a mess.

Its true, I've been untrue. You held my coat for me as I flitted
about the room
And then straight into the lights I up and flew
When I hit the ground I looked around for you
You were gone, I wrote a pretty song or two.

You say to break your heart to write my song is wrong to do
The song might serve the throng while your heart serves only you


3.Anime Eyes

A soft blue light falls across the faces of the lonely boys
The only light worth basking in where in to find an ear, a
voice.
Boys like these, alight like these, sailors of the strangest
seas
Sailors you will never see around in town
Sailors who reach out for you, Swim to you and drown.

ANIME EYES, ANIME EYES OTAKU SUNRISE
ANIME EYES ANIME EYES, REAL ENOUGH TO SYMPATHIZE
ANIME EYES, ANIME EYES

A deep blue light swells above the houses of the lonely boys,
A restless light to carry off fleets of ships of homely boys
Ships like these, of boys like these lose their shores by soft
degrees
High upon uncharted seas, a siren song upon the breeze
Sailors find their true love is nought but phantom promises

ANIME EYES, ANIME EYES OTAKU SUNRISE
ANIME EYES, ANIME EYES REAL ENOUGH TO SYMPATHIZE
ANIME EYES, ANIME EYES


4.(Prettier...)

(Instrumental)


5.Skeletal Blonde

What's seeming quiet, in private rages
We're a city of tigers pacing cages for Jennifer
Our sense of play, I sense is dimming
We're an orphanage of children stimming for Jennifer, for
Jennifer

Jennifer sits down in the shower for close to an hour
As troubles rain down like blows on her brow
Jennifer, we waited 'till dawn with the hall lights left on
Worried you'd gone all skeletal blonde

A throng has gathered behind you
Dyed blonde where no one would find you
Song bird, you're onward and dawnward
I've heard 'potential's' a haunting word

Jennifer, I'm out on your lawn like a frustrated John
I'm fawning upon a skeletal blonde
Jennifer you put us all on in just a wig and chiffon
You were healthy and strong my skeletal blonde

A throng has gathered behind you, dyed blonde where no one would
find you
A dove is not above a pigeon. There is true love without
religion

A dove is not above a pigeon, there is true love without
religion, Jennifer


6.Hey, Modern School Girl

Hey modern school girl what have you done to me?
Hey modern school girl you seem to smirk right through me
Men erected statues for you Men have toppled towers
But I'd walk all across their backs to hand you some flowers

Hey modern school girl you're the one they crossed the oceans
for
Hey modern school girl you're the reason men like me lie on the
ocean floor

Hey modern school girl you have seduced me
Hey modern school girl you've utterly reduced me
Hey modern school girl I must seem obscene
Perfumed in gasoline for a girl who's only seventeen

All of the worlds pretty things are heaped upon her
They name each natural disaster in her honour
I brought you every bloody head of every bloody saint
So don't tell me you're tired of red 'cause modern school girl I
know that you 'aint.

Perfumes and hair dyes tested on rabbits eyes
Cats claws and roses thorns, blood thirsty unicorns
That little girls room, a pink and purple tomb

Hey modern school girl life isn't fair
I'm bleeding outside your door and you don't care
I don't know your language and I don't know your dances
You don't know my anguish but you seem to know my chances

Hey modern school girl you are one to wear it on your sleeve
You may be innocent but your innocence is cruel and naive


7.Only Good Days Caught On Camera

We cried before and after you caught us in mid laughter
And you'd think we always laughed
But we act in every photograph and
We can never just be ourselves
We can only portray ourselves

And that is why its true the world over
We have to be told to smile
Its true the world over we have to be told to smile
And smiles are never free

Our only good days caught on camera
Are only good days caught on camera?

They sent a time capsule up into outer space
And it held our greatest accomplishments
But I think that it misrepresents
Where is the page from the diary of the teenage, heart broken,
fat girl?
And where are the lynching deaths?
The road rage, the crystal meth?
And the church-fuls of monsters that kept us from loving
Whose smiles were never free

Our only good days caught on camera
Are only good days caught on camera?

And that is why its true the world over we have to be told to
smile
And that is why our smiles are never free (the victors pen
history)
Our only good days caught on camera
Are only good days caught on camera?


8.(Than...)

(Instrumental)


9.True Love On Three With Feeling

Hide me in your hair 'cause I can't bear to go out there and
face the world
Hide me in your room behind the broom, I'll make some room and I
won't care
Let's not get the phone, nor the door, nor watch the evening
news no more
Let's bury our heads beneath bed spreads, lets fake our deaths
and build a fort.
True love on three with feeling, give me true love on three
True love on three with feeling give me true love on three
Things outside this room, they spell my doom and will consume my
very heart,
Voices in the hall will start to call and cast a pall upon my
heart
Is it really me you want or just a room to haunt and hide away?
Sorry dear, can't hear you, pull me near you, keep the fearful
things at bay.
True love on three with feeling, give me true love on three
True love on three with feeling, give me true love on three (x2)


10.We Dreamt Of Houses

When we were young, we dreamt of houses
Took Madonna whores as spouses
Storied halls, our portraits hung
When we were young

When we were young youth promised houses
Walk in closets full of blouses
On our shoulders furs were slung
When we were young

When we were young, we wasted chances
Could afford ignored advances
Stole our honey and got stung
When we were young

But 'lo the danger left our looks
We're butterflies just pressed in books
But 'lo I've lost my ideology
My every gesture now an apology

And as an axe will hit the tree and the bark upon it splinter
So ill prepared were we for the coming of this winter
My dream of houses it has died,
It costs so much to live inside
And now my dreams are in extremes
They're in between the lottery and suicide.

When we were young, our hearts were full
Our hearts were wild and durable
Our dream of houses so far flung
When we were young, when we were young
When we were young, when we were young


11.I Hurt The Ones That Love Me

I got no friends as I have lost them
Down the steepest ridges I have tossed them
I burned our bridges as we crossed them
I got no friends now I have lost them

I've been an angry baby all of my life
I've sharpened my tongue just like a knife
I have anger fantasies all night
They keep the angry baby from sleeping right.

I hurt the ones that love me 'cause you don't, you don't, you
don't
They look at me and seem to see complexity you won't
I hurt the ones that love me 'cause you don't, you don't, you
don't

No one can hurt you like your friends
Let down your guard and they'll get in
Their ammunition never ends
No one can hurt you like your friends

I got no friends as I have lost them
Down the steepest ridges I have tossed them
I burned our bridges while we crossed them
I got no friends now I have lost them

I hurt the ones that love me 'cause you don't, you don't, you
don't
They look at me and seem to see complexity you won't
I hurt the ones that love me 'cause you don't you don't you
don't'

Fear and anger baby is what I got, fear and anger baby is all I
got
Fear and anger baby is what I got, fear and anger baby is all I
got


12.(Them...)

(Instrumental)


13.Youth Is A War

Brace yourself son, there were complications
We had to remove your heart

Growing older is repairing damages
Accepting failure
A series of slaps in the face

So poor, poor everyone
Been done to and you've done
Your pain and sadness
Is boring and common place

Brace yourself son, there were complications
We had to remove your heart

This isn't life as I imagined
I'm on the periphery of the pageant
Eyeing the boy who got the lead
I play the hind end of the steed
This isn't life as I imagined

All at once, from all fronts, these (guns?)
All at once, from all fronts, theses (guns?)

Youth is a war, I've the scars now to prove it
A heart that's so sore, that it hurts when I move it
For some of us here, our bad days are coming
For some of us here, our bad days have been
They march through my square
With their anthems a'drumming
Youth was a war that I didn't win


14.Mini Skirt Of Christmas Lights

Its better to rule Hollywood than to serve in Heaven
Waiting around for your bread to leaven
We left a trail of headless Barbie dolls and
Leg hold traps in all the malls
We decked the halls, we decked the halls

An agent from the chasm calls, she's penitent in bathroom
stalls,
Her head shot hung on Babels walls, her tight rope walk across
the falls
Across the falls

Babies so sweet,
Offered up to the troll
If you take out clay feet,
Then the gold head will roll

Girl, pick up your sling
Take out its great eye
That shimmering thing
It has poison inside

Let go of its tail girl
While its still asleep
You're inside the whale girl
And no one can hear you weep

This night unlike all other nights holds signs and wonders mine
tonight
A map to find a holy star tonight, I know true love goes blonde
tonight
I happily go blind tonight, outshined and out divined tonight
The lambs get laid by lions tonight, the paltry are enshrined
tonight
I take all sacramental rites beneath a mini skirt of Christmas
lights

A mini skirt of x-mas lights, a mini skirt of x-mas lights
A mini-skirt of x-mas lights, a mini-skirt of x-mas lights


15.Dandelion

You're prettier than them Dandelion,
You're prettier than them Dandelion,
Dandelion, Dandelion, Dandelion
You're prettier than them Dandelion

Lift up your, lift up your head
Its your sun its your sun too
Lift up your, lift up your head
Its your blue sky, your blue sky too

The feet that have trampled you
And the bees that have sampled you
You're stronger than they ever knew

You're prettier than them Dandelion,
You're prettier than them, Dandelion,
Dandelion, Dandelion, Dandelion,
You're prettier than them Dandelion

Before long there will come a day
When all that is golden is grey
Before long there will come a day
When you will be carried away

But all that you've touched
Will be given so much
New beauty wherever you lay

You're prettier than them Dandelion, You're prettier than them
Dandelion
Dandelion, Dandelion, Dandelion, You're prettier than them
Dandelion