Hold On, Dodge (EP)

The Menzingers Hold On, Dodge (EP) Lyrics
1.Sunday Morning

I'm red eyes, I've got a big surprise
Theres something burning in an electric sky
That says 'son don't bother waiting around to die
I've got it covered keep your head up high'

And I'm red eyed when we packed our car up tight
When we escaped the gallows hanging no mans land
Can someone tell me what the underworld is like?
Cause passing boulders this just don't feel right

Don't worry brother this will blow over
Don't worry brother anything less is fucking surrender

Cause we can get away from this
We can run as far as Mexico
And be something better that just an 'I told you so'
We'll throw our pennies in a wishing well


2.Lilith Avi

Won't you meet me in the garden?
Some call it eden, (We're) sharing roles
You were tempted by the serpent man
While I was busy on a cell phone closing the deal

Call out my name, I've seem to forget it
I lost my name tag, sinner seminar
You were tempted by the serpent man
While I was busy on a cell phone closing the deal

Call out my name, I'm wasting away
Over a flicker of time
Broke and busted fool, now I know what it feels like

The gods are pickin' steel on the radio
Next to the preachers trying to teach us of the fires below
I'm not going back to extremes
So we'll drag this asphalt river for the body of a story untold

Hey little girl, won't you marry me?
I'm feeling so alone. I know why
Hey little girl, won't you stay away?
I might lose my best friend, I'm losing my best friend,
I lost my best friend to your cause

Now I hear that lonesome song
Now I feel my legs touch the ground


3.They Speak Of My Drinking, But Never Of My Thirst

They called a meeting of the doctors and drug dealers in suits
They're planning on pushing their cure for the truth
We're the disneyland dope-fiends, it's a small world
When your praying up to the pill
Generation serotonin:balanced and free
Singing praise to 'The Molecule'

My doctor says 'don't worry son its just a trial run
You'll feel much better when its said and done
I'm gone
And forget the cost the market is hot
This took your father and I've got your numbers

Who am I to say? I'm probably drunk...
My cure works for m, but i can barely breath
Well the market research is showing off her new tits,
Executives' jaws drop to the floor
'We've got the new data and the good news
is they don't think for themselves anymore'

My doctor says 'don't worry son, They'll get ya when they come.
You can hold out forever but the devils won'


4.Red, White, And Blues

You called it no mans land
With machine guns blasting to hell
I let my guard down and carried my heart so far away
And in a letter sent, that I don't want to be here any more then
them
I'm sipping on coffee gone stale again
Is this how it tastes to mix drinks with sour grapes?

So kiss me before its over if only for a minute
We can argue who was first to bleed
Or let the walls do the talking

But in the middle of the night
I lay frozen in a memory of us down by a river
With your hand clenched into mine
Well I still remember all the promises we swore we'd never
outlive
Please tell me you remember forever friends

Cause in the red light I'm singing all alone
As I watched my favorite dream fall from grace to stone
Hiding in the basement we kept our voices low
You gave me that old troubled look that said 'I don't know'

Hold onto twilight the sun brings empire
We are the last fight we are the fire

Cause just like your mother said
Your too pretty and young for this
You'll make it better on the outside
Just keep your head and keep your fire.


5.Kentucky Gentlemen


The glob of cherry tips are dancing in the streets
Left like the world where man and soul meet
Well the clergy's left jobless, the judge been replaced
With varicose laughter and unending face

So long Ohio
It's been short and sweet
We'll see you again where man and soul meet

And say hi to Virgina it's been months since our meet
And tell James I'll carry his torch for week
Cause I've got a purpose and I've got a place
This four wheels this hunger and the saving grace

I know the righteous one
I saw him staring back at me
and I know the righteous one
I found him waiting by the sea
I know the righteous one
I saw his working caveat
to follow me, to follow me.

So long Ohio
It's been short and sweet
We'll see you again where man and soul meet