Outroduction

The New Amsterdams Outroduction Lyrics
1.A Mile in Your Shoes

a boring, condescending, spoiled child
abhorring, at least bring us some drinks, we're here for awhile

anyone here, would walk a mile in your shoes
why won't you

working, to break neck pace, thrill of the sale
deserving, the accolades you're wearing them well

are you in there? can you hear me? try reading my lips
i'm jumping ship


2.The Ballad of Mike & Beth

walk on the path of god's green earth
your hand in mind, better or worse
i won't leave here without you
frozen in time, we move so slow
lost in the place where hours go
something that i want you to know

your place is at the heart of everything i do
i watch the light wash over you

tender is this, the night will fall
a bitter chill engulfs us all
i've got a question for you
will you be mine forever?
our stitch in time
together
one circle unconditionally

your place is at the heart of everything i do
i watch the light wash over you
who would believe me if i said that this was true?
i watch the light wash over you


3.Your Look Gave You Away


4.A Long Event


5.Suit Sacrifice

So the battle ground is a border-town
Do you want to come home?
Is the gutter full of the pitiful?
Do you want to atone?
I can make all the poison go down
Like a sweet wine
You'll be just fine
So we're bottled in
We're shelved in
Ashamed of ourselves
We don't let it
Will my life suit sacrifice?
Know that I have but just one try
Like a masochist
I'm loving this
The pain, the pain, the pain is bittersweet
And the tyranny is taking me
It's turning the screws
I'm deserving, deserving of this


6.The Connoisseur

Long standing regret
The connoisseur
The day that we met
You barely knew her
Let's talk about time
Let's talk about place
She speaks with her eyes
The look on her face

Life doesn't wait
For me to be so sure
So I lost her gaze
To the connoisseur

I'll tell you the taste
Is truly bitter
The chances you waste
But can't forget her
And still to this day
Surly she knew
What more can I say?
What more can I do?

Life doesn't wait
For me to be so sure
I lost her gaze
To the connoisseur

Now it's too late
And I can be damn sure
Love goes two ways
Love goes away

This is the place
This is the time
We can erase the lines
Love goes away
If you let it die
And all we can say is 'Goodbye'


7.Guitarkansas


8.Dear Lover

i'm only skin and bones
here's my heart to a tone
seems such a reasonable sin
mortal man under bones and skin

dear lover, don't bother me

don't say what you want to say
there's no reason for words to escape
i'll wait for you if you call
pity me and pity us all

dear lover, don't bother me
dear lover, don't bother me
i can say this with certainty
hard living's the only way i can get by

you're the liar at the door (come in)
really, what'd you come here for?
tell you once and i'll tell you true
i got nothing left for you

dear lover, don't bother me
dear lover, don't bother me
i can say this with certainty
hard living's the only way i can get by

all the rules you put on yourself
send me straight to somebody else
all the rules that you push onto me
tend to weaken fidelity

dear lover, don't bother me
dear lover, don't bother me
i can say this with certainty


9.Ex's & Oh's

got a faded photograph
burned at one edge
lit that fire when you thought love was dead

sign it with an autograph
Ex's and Oh's
there is no love left in those sepia tones
tell me what you want
your family and friends think
we can't pretend
we can't be friends
to make amends with the end

white like a wedding gown
just dye it black
gifts from the registry
guess we'll give them back

and i burnt the pictures
of a then blushing bride
but now there's nothing but a house to divide
tell me that you want it
just for old times sake
we can't agree
to disagree
hear my plea and move on

tell me that you love another
but you still love me
you can go to hell
it'll suit you well
it'll match your cold black heart
your cold black heart.


10.Whatever You Say

i care if you're killing the same four chords
try 'em outta key in a minor key
and the socialist card doesn't open doors
reminding me that anarchy...

remember my creed if you can
whatever you say
whatever you say
whatever you say to me
is potentially damaging

you swing like a kid in a candy store
is the sugar sweet in the bitter treat?
hang on the words of the corporate whores
you're numbing me with your critique

remember my creed if you can
whatever you say
whatever you say
whatever you say to me
is potentially damaging

only you
only you know the story
hold your tongue for me

whatever you say
whatever you say
whatever you say to me
is potentially damaging
is potentially damaging


11.Heaven Sent

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Taste the forbidden from the tree
All the questions begging me
I'm plagued with curiosity
These are all worth answering

It takes talent to have an original sin
Is it a tragedy if you are just a fool

All this is heaven sent
Give me a chance to repent
Forgive me this decadence
Give me a chance to repent

Walk in the garden next to me
But there are all these walls around it
How could you take this place from me
I left all my lessons in it

Baby needs a new paradise
The sweetest of the songs that she's singing

All this is heaven sent
Give me a chance to repent
Forgive me this decadence
Give me a chance to repent


12.Old Enough To Know Bitter

Lyricist:Pryor Matthew Patrick

I never said forever
I'm sorry if I did
One storm, I couldn't weather
Baby, it's high time I go home
Baby, it's high time I go home

If you can forgive me
You just may have to forget
Let's not lament for the living
Baby, it's high time I go home
Baby, it's high time I go home

Old enough to know bitter
Young enough to stay friends
For all the times to remember
Baby, it's high time I go home
Baby, it's high time I go home


13.Too Many Of A Good Thing

Lyricist:Pryor Matthew Patrick

I can take the covers one by one
It's just the planning stage
I'm rolling like the prodigal son
And reunion's all the rage
Really hoping time was on my side

But it isn't
No, it isn't

Great feats are bittersweet
Too many of a good thing

A place for everything
Compartment style
An hour here is free
Hard to justify that every mile
It just won't wait for me
Really hoping I could make this work

But I couldn't
No, I couldn't

Eight years to disappear
Too many of a good thing

Worse fears are all but here
Too many of a good thing

You're not needing me
But I've got my own thing

A total waste of any precious time
It's not the place to be
A better alternate that plays
To my opportunities
I wish that everything
Would fall in line

But it doesn't
(Doesn't, no, no)
No, it doesn't
(Doesn't, no, no)

And it couldn't
(Couldn't, no, no)
No, it couldn't
(Couldn't, no, no)

So, it doesn't
(Doesn't, no, no)
No, it doesn't
(Doesn't, no, no)

Great feats are bittersweet
Too many of a good thing

Sometime we'll fit it in
Too many of a good thing


14.Stand Here and Bleed