The Greatest Story Ever Told

The Lawrence Arms The Greatest Story Ever Told Lyrics
1.Fireflies

Invisible, inviting visions linger
The swirl of smoke looks like her slender body
I see everything in frames now
Golden, gilded, rippled edges wave goodnight

Light sleeper, what's keeping you from waking?
The shallow stare has said it all

Cold dark face reminds me of the night we learned to smoke
Fireflies at our lips
37 years until I show my face again
Steal this moment, make it worth saving

Light sleeper, what's keeping you from waking?
The shallow stare has said it all

Choke down the clouds that cloud your head now
It would make my gloomy day
Where ever you are, you've stayed far away for too long

The clocks are flipping on their backs
Don't stay too late, I'll fizzle and fade
A statue of stoned beliefs, a monument
To monumental dying thoughts

Let the currents take us where they will
From this hill I can see a world unfold before me
I'm brooding on the broken nights
I break each sentence like a limb, like a limb

This is my exit
I storm out stage left
It'll feel like I left you
So long ago

These arms will bleed, I'll be waiting
I'll be waiting with wishful elation
Light sleeper, you could make my gloomy day
Make this moment worth saving


2.On With The Show

Telephone, telephone
What did you scream into your telephone, telephone?
What did you scream into your telephone, telephone?

I'm a shit stain slave with a grind of my own
I work day and night, less respect than a juggalo
I'm frying on the outside and frozen in the center
I'm telling you, I'm telling you to watch out for my temper

You won't like me when I'm angry
You'll see banners everywhere
The street where I'm from in the town where I live
Is now barely even there

Telephone, telephone
What did you scream into your telephone, telephone?
What did you scream into your telephone, telephone?

I haven't had fun in what seems like years
I had a thumbs up for you, but it was caught in the gears
These tears are just onion eyes, this heart is just broken
This body is a break room where the burnouts are smoking

This body is a break room where the burnouts are smoking

Telephone, telephone
What did you scream into your telephone, telephone?
What did you scream into your telephone, telephone?
Telephone

I'm a clown, I'm just here to entertain
Tear me up and stuff me down the drain
I'm a clown, I'm just here to entertain
Tear me up and stuff me down the drain


3.Outro (Hobo Reprise)

Tear us up
And stuff us down the drain
Tear us up
And stuff us down the drain


4.The Disaster March

There was a time and a place
That was all full of mistakes
And a face that was all full of shit
I was frustrated and angry

I was more than alive
A catcher in the rye
I was a jet plane
I was a thin membrane

Washing and preening and shedding all hope
I am Hot Shots, Part Deux, I'm Down Periscope
The rope that I'm hanged from keeps telling me what to do
I'm pissing on the fires and learning a remarkable truth about
you

Ugly is ugly
Transformation is a dream, a dream, a dream
So love what you are
Not what you would like to be

I'm a drunk with a job
I've got pictures to prove it
Got some junk in my trunk
And the dance moves to move it

I am written on the subway walls
I am bitter when I fall
I am written on the subway walls
I am bitter when I fall

Shout me in the streets and parks
Scrape your voices on the stars
Shout me in the streets and parks
Scrape your voices on the stars

I'm a man with a guitar, I am Three's Company
It's the end of the world, sit and watch with me
I'm a man with a guitar, I am Three's Company
It's the end of the world, sit and watch with me

'Good friend, how loud do
You want life to shout her
Answers in your ear?'