1.Who's Your Partner
I was born on a light-skinned road,
I was born with an engineer's gold,
I did better than most.
Now I live on a dark-skinned road,
The collectors call they try to take my gold,
I'm happier than most.
The streets are never clean
My friends they help preserve my innocence.
We shared our cigarettes,
At the window we placed our bets,
They wouldn't call our names,
Tickets hide our shame.
So we laughed through glossy eyes,
Surely the gods would recognize,
Our good intentions, we showed them,
The sweat covered our skin.
We aged a decade in an hour,
We gave away our innocence.
So let these simple songs get caught in our heads,
Brace the frames of our worthless beds.
All my life never gave a fuck,
Someone please wake me up.
So let these simple songs get caught in our heads,
Brace the frames of our worthless beds.
All my life never gave a fuck,
Someone please wake me up.
2.I Was Born
I was born but I forgot it,
We left our marks in drying cement,
Hey mister don't you doubt it,
I was born but I've seemed to forgot it.
I was raised inside a bible,
I was living off life support,
Unilateralist!
Single mattress!
Guilty Friday nights remind me that,
Sometimes I feel like I should have said no,
I feel like I should have said,
Sometimes I feel like I should have said no,
I feel like I should have said no.
I met your saviour over an alter,
I'm at your funeral, I'm at the slaughter
I met your saviour over an alter,
I'm at your funeral, I'm at the slaughter
Trigger fingers catch your breath,
Lay 'em down slow,
Oh my God it's been far too long,
Send my thoughts to the firing squad.
Oh my God it's been far too long,
Send my thoughts to the...
Sometimes I feel like I should have said no,
I feel like I should have said,
Sometimes I feel like I should have said no,
I feel like I should have said no.
3.Home Outgrown
Condescender, Condescender,
Chemical splendour, I surrender a promise to myself.
I know a snake, I know a charmer, I know a selfish little boy,
But I wish that I knew my friend,
A neighbour is a stranger,
And compassion is an option,
When your frigid hearts settle in.
Condescender last forever come call off your dogs,
Chemical splendour, I surrender a promise to myself,
The old enemy.
I know a snake, I know a charmer, I know a selfish little boy,
But I wish that I knew my friend,
A neighbour is a stranger,
And compassion is an option,
When your frigid hearts settle in.
I'm not going home,
I'm not going home,
Where is my home？
Where is my home？
I'm not going home.
Condescender last forever come call off your dogs,
Chemical splendour, I surrender a promise to myself,
The old enemy.
My heroes I have forgotten them,
My heroes maybe they never were,
My heroes I have forgotten them,
My heroes maybe they never were,
I'm not going home
4.Deep Sleep
To deep sleep,
I know everything ain't free,
As I rummage through an old phonebook deciphering names,
That were carved on the Paupack peaks,
Remember me？
Remember May 2003？
When we were hopeless,
We were doomed by our pending defeats,
You drank Jack and I'd drink anything that's free,
I wonder what your old man thinks of us now,
Slowly setting sons？
I don't want to wait for,
I don't want to wait for,
I don't want to wait for,
I don't want to wait for,
I don't want to wait for,
I don't want to wait for things to get better,
Pull your car over.
Break your friends and save yourself,
Like you told me forever ago.
Break your friends and save yourself,
Like you told me forever ago.
Break your friends and save yourself,
Like you told me forever ago.
Break your friends and save yourself,
Like you told me forever ago.
5.Time Tables
Once she came like a vision in the night,
I fell in love before the morning arrived,
She wore a blue dress to combat the heat,
Drank beer from a bottle and danced in the street,
Then I heard her singing something fairly familiar,
A tale of two lovers in the thick of the summer,
There in the moment we kissed in the hammock,
We argued over which Bad Religion album was better,
I thought 'No Control' or 'Suffer'.
Then she became queen of the neighbourhood parties,
While I was an unknown boy along for the ride,
Kept the guitar right by my side,
It was better than conversing with the kids I didn't like,
But on the fourth of July when the fireworks rang out,
She met a new boy who was more hip and less strung out,
I drove home with fire in the sky,
Fiddled with the dials and stumbled across something,
That you were always humming.
As time tables suggest,
We were only just friends,
In constant motions covering stilts,
I'll give you a dollar for another ride home,
Or something to mix with your Coke.
Well maybe if you want to wander around outside tonight,
Meet me in Lake Ariel after midnight,
Or really whenever, I only want to talk,
I only want to relive what was lost.
As time tables suggest,
We were only just friends,
In constant motions covering stilts,
I'll give you a dollar for another ride home,
Or something to mix with...
As time tables suggest,
We were only just friends,
In constant motions covering stilts,
I'll give you a dollar for another ride home,
Or something to mix with your Coke.
6.Male Call
Blame the suits who lined their pockets with her tears,
Blame the boys in the blindfolds covering their ears,
Blame the magazines she read,
Join the righteous waning side,
It was a misinterpretation of the neon signs.
It was a rainy miserable Sunday,
Carried your cedar up the stairs,
Collared man did his best to apologize,
But the damage it was done, she believed in all their lies.
I'd buy your soul, but I can't afford to pay girl,
They say that you get nothing for free,
Your lipstick adorns my collar,
While these thoughts of fire wrestle with me.
Then her father said to me,
Tom I can't ascribe a purpose to this atrocity,
Trademark my messiah and call me an orderly,
I need 800 cups of Kool-Aid for my prophecy.
It was a rainy miserable Sunday,
Carried your cedar up the stairs,
Collared man did his best to apologize,
But the damage it was done, she believed in all their lies.
I'd buy your soul, but I can't afford to pay girl,
They say that you get nothing for free,
Your lipstick adorns my collar,
While these thoughts of fire wrestle with me.
7.Tasker-Morris Station
I never loved you but I tried to,
and you were so ambiguous,
We blamed the faulty wires,
When we found our blood was pumped from stone.
My memory is fading faster,
I never bought a warranty,
When I called and said I was leaving,
You were one step ahead of me.
Cold blankets, cold shoulders,
Missed calls and apologies,
But I met the other you, I met the other you,
Cold blankets, cold shoulders,
They've been there since I met you,
At Tasker-Morris Station.
So come back down to the middle where I've been,
Settling into, with or without you.
Come back down to the middle where I've been,
Settling into, with or without you.
But what do I know,
But what do I know,
But what do I know,
Except our blood is pumped from stone.
8.So It Goes
I've seen you on the side of the road,
Lined your pockets with pills,
But the powder bag, he can hold a grudge,
With your head, heart, stomach and lungs.
You had a dragon to chase,
Spread out, blood on your face,
And you're oh so ungratefully dead.
Your sister is crying, your mother looks cold,
You can follow your father to bed.
It goes on and on, I've never been here before,
Hail Jerry full of grace.
Please seat yourself usher of the times,
Won't recognise you.
Please seat yourself usher of the times,
Won't recognise you.
I've seen you on the side of the road,
Lined your pockets with pills,
But the powder bag, he can hold a grudge,
With your head, heart, stomach and lungs.
So it goes...
Please seat yourself usher of the times,
Won't recognise you.
Please seat yourself usher of the times,
Won't recognise you.
9.No We Didn't
Sell us your open arms, are we ready to change？
Galvanize them with a smile,
Won't you take away our pain？
HOPE FOR SALE (participation may vary),
I heard your master ring the bell,
You salivate, you salivate, you sell it.
Your mothers died in '68,
Your fathers were too busy to celebrate their failure,
Saviour my messiah,
Where's our bread and circus games？
Are your handlers still the same？
The money changers still remain,
You're the same,
A face and a name,
A face and a name,
Sell it, sell it, sell it.
Sell us your open arms, are we ready to change？
Pale horse painted green, is it hot enough to change？
Fall into your arms, are we ready to change？
Sell us your open arms, we're not ready to change.
10.Rivalries
I'm gonna walk to the edge of the world,
I'm gonna collect everything left that's scattered,
Maybe then I can mend your wounds,
Maybe then I can mend mine too.
Because I'm running out of excuses,
Because I'm running out of time.
I'll find my own way home,
and stumble into another New Year
I'm gonna get in fighting fit,
I'm gonna let my liver play offense,
But when captains choose their teams,
I'm always the last one on the side lines.
Because I'm running out of excuses,
Because I'm running out of time.
I can't wait for,
Or live forever,
Either.
I'll find my own way home,
and stumble into another New Year.
I'm gonna get back all that's lost,
I'm gonna regain rightful intuition,
You said, Hey man I'm on your side,
but i'm always waiting on your side.
Because I'm running out of excuses,
Because I'm running out of time.
When life falls apart i'll eat my words,
With insignias to award our failed ventures.
When life falls apart i'll eat my words,
With insignias to award our failed ventures.
11.Come Here Often
he said, 'The white boy's visiting, the black man's here to
stay'
While my privilege showed like the chalk marks on display
The fear is something new, I'm confused by property too
The romanticized aesthetic, man it isn't as poetic
As apologetic street names and wars waged to lose
'Keep your head down'
'Keep your head down'
'Keep your head down'
He said, 'Keep your head down'
'While you're walking through here'
12.Chamberlain Waits
I've been awake for hours,
As I watch a sunrise come over nothing,
While outside the cars start racing,
Searching for something we could never seem to find or afford.
Maybe I owe the Devil a little something,
Just to keep things stable,
Because last night I realised I was nothing more,
Than just a serpent for his plans.
Chamberlain's waiting down at the bottom of the city of hell,
Or heaven itself,
As the whistle she sings,
My hands building weapons for kings.
While somebody's drinking my last rations of victory gin,
I'm sober as sin,
As my hands start to shake,
I fill with post-modern debates,
While Chamberlain's waiting.
Build our mistakes to the clouds,
Then blame us for dreaming out loud.
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