1.I Am An Island
Lyricist：Max D. Barnes
Mostly I sleep it off
It's easier in the morning
To shrug off the evening's
Drunken pathetic pleas
'Cause the night's tragic rambling
Is the next day's apologies
So if you can sit tight
'Till the sun hits the blinds
We can settle everything, oh no
Turning on a dime
I just can't trust my instincts
One day my heart beats with passion
The next it waxes back
If I seem a little callused
I assure you it's just a scratch
So if you can hold on
'Till the mood swings are gone
Then we might just have a chance, oh no
Baby, I quit, I just can't fake it anymore
I'm a dull, jaded, selfish, abusive
Dysfunctional fuck-up
I needed to be rescued
I'm stranded on myself
And I can't escape from this island I made
I'm afraid I never will, oh no
2.New Year's Retribution
Lyricist：John Lennon, Paul Mccartney
1994
A girl pukes out the window on her car door
Her childish eyes say, â½I don't want this anymore
I want to be a woman, no, no, see, I don't want to be no
whoreâ
January 1, 1994
A new year's resolution
A cause for celebration
But idle hesitation reminds me I am just a whore
Hate to tell her that I saw them standing closely in the cellar
It all ticked off, it's twelve o'clock, the screams wouldn't
stop
The New Year dawn got tucked away into a hole
So could you tell her, tell her that I'm all alone？
This New Year came too soon
But I knew it would be you
To tear up all my thoughts
Of how I thought it was
Say goodbye
If you're leaving me, could you at least let me know？
Say goodbye
If you want to leave, then I suggest you go
Let's smoke cigarettes
But we haven't got a thing that we can light them with
We'll just wait here for a fight then we can bum a light
You're the only ones who really give a shit tonight
It reminds me how nothing ever turns out right
And all I want is you
All you want is something new
So let's turn out all the lights
And pretend we're someone else tonight
3.A Golden Exit
Lyricist：Stefanie Drootin, Ryan Fox, Amy Bostian Huffman, Timothy
James Kasher, Roger Leslie Lewis, Mike Mogis
I can see the chill in the air between us
I can feel a winter coming
We're frozen in our stares
And we know there's a world outside
Of these insults and injuries
Maybe we're just too afraid to be one
I can feel the winter coming
I can feel the winter coming
I can feel the winter coming
I can feel the winter coming
The autumn sets a golden exit
The winter is waxing
That cold sun will shed no more warmth
Into our living rooms
Where we dream our dreams
Where we wait for sleep
Maybe we'll wake up with golden wings
And fly over a city screaming
'Take me, take me'
I woke up this morning
To the silence of falling snow
These graces of beauty
Have left me so cold
I once had a heart
But hearts are like snowflakes
And snowflakes they're smothering us
One more touch and it melts, melts away
Maybe we'll get wings, maybe anything
Just anything to set us free
Maybe we'll wake up a golden exit
Must we always wait for sleep？
4.The Moon Red Handed
Lyricist：Stefanie Drootin, Ryan Fox, Amy Bostian Huffman, Timothy
James Kasher, Roger Leslie Lewis, Mike Mogis
Tell me, dear is there anything you'd like to hear？
One last song before we disappear？
Some broken hearted ballad built for two
By the way, it seems my notebooks have all been misplaced
Those scribbled poetries of yesterday
They've no more effect on me, those dead feelings
The songs we don't sing are the hardest to hear
Words left unsaid, words we wish we'd forget
The guilt slips from our lips, confessions hidden behind eyelids
Would you look me in the eye
And tell me does the moon weep at dawn？
His brilliance exposed by a fierce and burning sun
The songs we don't sing we don't want to hear
Words left unsaid well, they're only words
We lick the guilt form our lips we make confessions from fertile
hips
And never look them in the eye
5.Twenty Two
Lyricist：Stefanie Drootin, Ryan Fox, Timothy James Kasher, Roger
Leslie Lewis, Mike Mogis
'Bon voyage' was something that I once said
And eventually regretted
But, it's come up again and I wonder if
The same mistakes I used to make could be remade
'Cause I've been through this before
Well, I've said that too
There's just so much that we can fake
Before we break ourselves into two
Twenty two, the years can hardly catch up
With the years of playing catch up
Must there always be a catch？
What we really want is just ahead, just over that hill
And the more I learn, the less I try to climb
The more we change, the more we wish, we stayed the same
The more we try to fake ourselves into beliefs
'The grass must be green somewhere'
Twenty two, the years can hardly catch up
The years are playing catch up
Must there always be a catch？
6.What We Fall for When We're Already Down
Lyricist：Stefanie Drootin, Ryan Fox, Amy Bostian Huffman, Timothy
James Kasher, Roger Leslie Lewis, Mike Mogis
I'll try to describe the way that it felt
To tell my own mother her son is a failure
His heart is too cold to love anyone but himself
It's like stabbing an icicle straight through your chest
Your whole body shivers as it coarses your blood
And your quivering throat keeps choking on those words
Mama I tried a thousand times, I'm frozen to the core
Your son is a glorious mess
Who wrecks anything he adores but deep in his center he swears
There's a candle just waiting to burn and melt
So who's gonna burn him yeah who's gonna break him
Into a thousand pieces melting over flames of perfection
I once felt its warmth but it left me shivering in the dark
Mama I tired a thousand times, the pieces wouldn't fit
Son, love is a punch in the eye
It's a sudden and swift surprise it's not a candle not waiting
to burn
So baby, just wait your turn, baby just wait your turn
And when it hits you you'll feel through rose colored apathy
Through the blues that bruise can leave, was it really worth the
wait？
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