Unreleased Songs

The New Amsterdams Unreleased Songs Lyrics
1.Hover Near Fame

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

I'll trust as far as I can spit, you can read deep into it
New York nightlife isn't shit without a storyboard
I don't think, much impresses me like a drunk celebrity
You just fall down and fall asleep like the rest

On your way out, don't bother pickin' up your tab
It's a stake out, there's hangin' on with bated breath
You're just milkin' this to death

So sad I have to disappoint, her name is not a selling point
The drinks are better in this joint where everyone's a friend
Not that the nightlife isn't great and if I seem to be irate
Don't have tolerance for fakes, what's to say

On your way out, don't bother pickin' up your tab
It's a stake out, you're hangin' on with bated breath
You're just milkin' this to death

Somewhere the novelty wore thin, every city I was in
There was an actor soaked in gin with and entourage
This is my home away from home, get a barstool of your own
I'll watch you sinkin' like a stone, what a sight

On your way out, don't bother pickin' up your tab
It's a stake out, hangin' on with bated breath
You're just milkin' this for

Access, little we possess
Any other pays the cover but it wouldn't be the same
Excess, destined to impress
You can follow every model but you always try to hover near fame

Access, what little we possess
Any other pays the cover but it wouldn't be the same
Excess, destined to impress
You can follow every model but you always try to hover near fame


2.Stay On the Phone

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

One waitress
Outside of
Phone booth, South Carolina
Sits, keeps killing time
Rolls her eyes
Roll of dimes
Speak of this sick surrounding sin
Tears me from limb to limb, within
I don't know how to let it go
This far away from home

One word was mistaken
Context that it was taken from
Write it down
Must be sound
Must be true
I hope you can hear me
My only sanctuary asks
Why am I here?
Why aren't I home?
As the line builds for the phone

I want it all
Work to a fault
That breaks us in two
And always at play
The end of the day
I'm alone and so are you

Old stories
Gas stations
Repeating conversations
Still, I can't speak long
The show has to go on
At best I, might question
The focus of my attention
Though, you know that I could bring it down

I want it all
Work to a fault
That breaks us in two
And always at play
The end of the day
I'm alone and so are you

One waitress, invading
But I'm content to make her wait
It's all I have
So far from home
Oh please stay on the phone


3.That Side of Me

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

We don't forgive and I dare you not to speak
All bones with hands
Old wound open the key
The best of friends turn to enemies

Honestly, do I wanna walk away?
Is that obvious to see that side of me?

Secrets and sins, does it matter if I know?
Lets not pretend
Wish it wasn't so
Can we stay friends? Even if I'm in your show

Honestly, do I wanna walk away?
Is it that obvious to see that side of me?

I'm all beat up
I'm a cold bruise colored blue
Tears me up
Do I ask myself to choose?
When I don't know what to do


4.Adeline, Out of Tune

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Adeline, out of tune
Heaven knows what I would do
You can't just walk away
From everything

Adeline, out of tune
Step in time, two by two
Say it's over regret
I'm sure it's over I guess

I don't ever forget
Ever forget

Adeline, out of tune
Heaven knows what I would do
Say it's over regret
Sure it's over I guess

I don't ever forget
Don't ever forget


5.Losing You

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Stories been boarded up again
Old sins forgotten for new sins

Your habits get old
Your habits get old
I wanted to say
How I wanted to say

Miss the Valentine House sometimes
Good times compounded on good times

What's come over you since?
What's come over you since?
I wanted to say
How I wanted to say

Losing you, I would know
I feel partially responsible, I'm confused
And all I can do
Is quietly grin and resent you

Phone calls made with such urgency
Speaking half-truths

She doesn't know
What she doesn't know
Wanted to say
How I wanted to say

Losing you, I would know
I feel partially responsible, I'm confused
All I can do
Is quietly grin and resent you


6.Drama Queen

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Get over some how
My drama Queen
Old wounds and rebounds
Old hat, new scene

I got the time
You've got the notion
New faces repeat
My drama Queen


7.The Death Of Us

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

I don't think that you're one of us
A coated chrome doesn't rust from the inside out
It's a ways down to ghost town

I don't think that you're serious
That alone could be the death of us
And the way we know, we move slow

I wanna like your way
It's hard for me to tell you wrong
I see it in your eyes
I don't think you could lie for long

Taken like a child
Sold the silver for us all
But you're gone

Mop the ground where the wound was bled
I pray to god that he'll strike you dead
Before I get back
Fear my wrath

The darkest suit but I wear it well
With a smile
On the way to hell with your arms and legs bound
All the way down


8.Poison in the Ink

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Some might say it's over rated
Staring at their shoes
You're arrows don't have poison
But they bruise

I can't make peace with you

All my heart is on these pages
Open to abuse
I should try to be dishonest
But I lose

I can't make peace with you

Angry eyes, there's poison in the ink
You've got so much time to think about it
Try to put your finger on it
And figure out what's right for me and mine

Expletives and explanations
Fade bruise colored blue
A thicker skin develops
On the wound

I won't change it for you

Angry eyes, there's poison in the ink
You've got so much time to think about it
Try to put your finger on it
And figure out what's right for me and mine

Some might say it's over rated
Staring at their shoes
You're arrows don't have poison
But they bruise

It's never been for you
I'm just telling the truth


9.Worse For The Wear

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

All my life I've been waiting
It gets older, it's over me
I'd speak but it fails me
So the dike in the damn stops the leak

Maybe it's me and I'm venting
Venting

I find your speech motivating
Watching life pass you by on the screen
Just flicker and fading
With a plot like you wouldn't believe

Maybe I don't know the ending
Ending

Someone ruined my daydream
Aren't you spoiled enough as it is?
Whatever you're saying
Won't bring anyone closer to this

I know you're sick
I wish you were healing
But you're worse for the wear
We keep tearing the seams we repaired

If we all had the call to be fair
We wouldn't be standing here
Standing here


10.Are You True

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Sending a sobering scent
It's all in my hands to repent
Spectacular sin takes discipline to stop

Ellis is hardly a fiend
It's achingly clear I can see
The offer is fair it's up in the air to drop

Are you true? Do you know where the world's gonna go?
I don't know if you do are you true?

Does anyone else have a thought?
Then that's all the time that we've got
The one with the cards is the only one you've forgot

Over and over again, the heretics seldom are friends
The profit is false
Believers are turned to salt it's their fault

Are you true? Do you know where the world's gonna go?
I don't know if you do are you true?

It seems clear, if you're fake there's no move I can make
I don't think that I'll choose are you true?
There's no way I can lose are you true?


11.Goodbye

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Wait up for me
You're where I wanna be
Stop long enough to say
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

It's all said and done

Keeps me at ease
Sings us both to sleep
We don't have to say
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye

All said and done, goodbye


12.Your Red Hand

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

If I ever catch your red hand
Talking shit on my friends again
I will institute my revenge
It is cold and sweet

Lack of faith may be the final straw
A power struggle that could end it all
A test of confidence has come to call
Is your trust in me?

I don't know why, but I do
Anything, anything that you ask me to

Heard your answer on the radio
About them famous words, you used to know
That was so, three years ago
Aren't you over it?

I don't want you coming close to me
California falls into the sea
But if the stars align for your fifteen
Here's your minutes

I don't know why, but I do
Anything, anything that you ask me to

If I ever catch your red hand
Talking shit on my friends again
I will institute my revenge
It is cold and sweet


13.Wears So Thin

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

White lines come undone
Like a calm summer sea
But all these creatures
They've been watching me

Midnight by candlelight
Just my heart in a spoon
All my insides howl at the moon
The music begins, violins

The sad state we're in wears so thin
Tattoo covers needle bruises
Like I won't ever know
Long sleeve shirt sleeves, like it's twenty below

Glass eyes don't recognize
Like you can't even see
You say these monsters
They've been watching me

There is no sin on my skin
The madness within wears so thin
It's done me in


14.Watch The World Cave In

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

The world's caving in
I got tickets for two
They're not the best seats
And they're not the best view

Take my hand, you can squeeze on my arm
Wake from your slumber, baby
It's gonna start
It was worth the price of admission

The two of us watch the world cave in

The world's caving in
Like the prophecy calls
Barter redemption
For diamonds and pearls

The rich got the camel
Through the eye of a needle
The deed in itself was inherently evil
When all has been said and written

The two of us watch the world cave in

The world's caving in
They're releasing the souls
Trapped in the earth
Where, we can't hear their calls

Unbelievable torture
You wouldn't believe
This is their passion, their chance to be free
But they're beaten into submission

Free at last, watch the world cave in
When all has been said and written
The two of us watch the world cave in


15.Maybe I'm A Fool

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Maybe I'm a fool for believing you
Never be the proof but then it all came true
Wrote it in a letter that I sent to you

Suns coming up, finally waking up
Everyone says this is it
This isn't it

Maybe I'm a fool
Maybe I'm a fool for believing you

Said you never knew, never had a clue
Couldn't keep a secret
I won't ask you to

It's all I got, it may not be a lot
But everything is over now
So over now

Maybe I'm a fool
Maybe I'm a fool for believing you

You're off into the blue without a word or two
Maybe this is better, once I'm over you
It's all my fault that every grain salt

Wants to hope that you're to blame
You're only half the blame
You're only half the blame

Maybe I'm a fool


16.Just So Over You

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

I'm just so over you
I'm just so over you
I hope that you get to see
What you've done to me

What good does patience do?
Rewards aren't coming true
It doesn't seem worth the wait
For I'll gotten fate

I could not speak for you
But I think you feel it too
This instinct to hesitate
But then you make mistakes

And I'll see things clearly
When madness starts happening
Is this the end in sight?
At least I changed my mind

It's nothing personal
It's nothing personal
It's just my time and place
To make my mistake


17.Has Anyone Seen My Wings

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

I'm a saint, I'm a bonafide servant
An angel on a bar stool
Anyone seen my wings?
I'm always losing the damn things

I'm the glue, I'm a permanent fixture
I'm an anchor in the concrete
If I went to find my fate
The foundation would break

Allies
I never had none
But that would be one to see, yeah

I'm your fate, yeah, your looking in the future
There's a bitter old man who's under your skin
But don't let him in

Capsize
Did anyone catch me?
Nobody broke my fall, yeah

I'm a saint on a mission from the head man
You got a shoe start running boy leave him to us
Leave them in your dust


18.Full Thunder Moon

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Come see the flood
Step to the tune
Your mother's blood
Full thunder moon

Full thunder moon
Full thunder moon
Bathe us in blue
Full thunder moon

Come sing to me
My soul to save
Our fight to sea
Bob like a wave

Oh, silent night
Near waters edge
Show me the light
Of my promises

Full thunder moon
Full thunder moon
Bathe us in blue
Full thunder moon

Full thunder moon
Full thunder moon
Bathe us in blue
Full thunder moon

Full thunder moon
Full thunder moon
Bathe us in blue
Full thunder moon


19.Drinking In The Afternoon

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Drinking in the afternoon
This is what its driven to
Is there any thing else to do

I could have sworn it's 3 a.m.
It's quiet in the room again
This is where the story ends

Its time for me to act my age
I'm nothing if I'm not the rage
Like that would matter anyway

I just don't think you understand
I just don't think you understand
This story needs a scene and end

But it's hard to say goodbye
But at least we got to have this time
At least we got to have this time

Drinking in the afternoon
The loneliest hotel room
I hope the answer comes to you

This is not the way for me
This is not my last defeat
I'm trying to make the ends meet

But it's hard to say goodbye
But at least we got to have this time
At least we got to have this time

But it's hard to say goodbye
But at least we got to have this time
At least we got to have this time


20.Strangled By The Thought

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Weak from lack of oxygen
Strangled by the thought
Promise you'll remember
When I'm gone

Sleep is mostly optional
Trace lines around my heart
Steal the only breath from my lungs
And if I had your faith, I'd be fearless

But until that day, I'm envious
Miles and miles that distance us
Like meters on a map
Trace lines that only translate to a day

But if your awake, tell me it's safe
If you ask me to stay, then I'll stay
Don't leave me here, when I'm bleedin'
When I'm fadin', when I'm true

And it's tempting
Would you stop everything
When I'm pourin' out to you?
So take everything, take it all from me

All I want
All I want is you


21.Asleep at the Wheel

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

The light I followed tonight is only as bright as the highway
The sight, try as I might, I can't keep the weight from my eyes
We never will make load in if the ephedrine don't kick in

The light I followed tonight is only as bright as the highway
The sight, try as I might, can't keep the weight from my eyes
We never will make load in, we never will make load in
If the ephedrine don't kick in


22.Son Of A Prophet

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

All your hangers on
Watch with anxious eyes
Watch your mouth to speak
Words mystic and wise

Can you explain away
Everything that I know to be true?
Will you flinch if I criticize anything about you
Anything about you?

Wash your nervous hands
Speak and only lie
Dismiss distances
Between you and I

Can you explain away
Everything that I know to be true?
Will you flinch if I criticize anything about you
Anything about you, anything about you?

Preacher's only son
Wise man's only tie
Scorned by anyone
With an evil eye


23.The Spoils of the Spoiled

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

There was honor among the thieves
The only truth I could believe
But, when the lies applied to me and mine
The better left unsaid

We could write the hit parade
Outside the masquerade
The headache comes in tidal waves
The spoils of the spoiled, the spoils of the spoiled

The lines of history became the scenery
It's strictly an accessory, an image to uphold
But it's all in fun and sin until someone calls it in
The cycle comes around again

But I'm older now and don't you know
I've figured out the antidote
It overwhelms, engulfed in smoke
It's all we can to cope

Goddamn these idle hands as hindsight can
Our hopes and plans are unfulfilled
It's over
It's overwhelming

There's a proper place and time
Though the bags under your eyes
They don't lie, they don't lie
They don't lie


24.Every Double Life

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

These are models of my own design
Two circles never meeting
One in 92 and 95
And it's all been up to me

I may not listen to my own advice
It can be so overwhelming
There are strains on every double life
But you won't hear me complain

Yes it's true, you knew
You believed it
You should just turn
And walk away

Took a compliment and photograph
And committed it to memory
Model of how not to act
At least not imitate

I wouldn't it have been ideal
If it all fell down from Heaven
And how am I supposed to feel?
When I know what you did wrong

Yes it's true, you knew
You believed it
You should just turn
And walk away

Yes it's true, you knew
I was leaving
We're under the same
Skyline today


25.Four More Years

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Are you open to open arms?
Misdirection does little harm

I won't ask, you won't tell
Just come around

Missed discussions of virtues and
Complications with cash in hand

I won't ask, you won't tell
Just come around

My angel flies, carries all my fears
Angel don't die for four more years

Are you waiting for me to say
That I made all the same mistakes?

I won't ask, you won't tell
Just come around

My angel flies, carries all my fears
Angel don't die for four more years

My angel flies, carries all my fears
Angel don't die for four more years


26.Bad Liar

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

I told you everything was fine
You called 'bullshit'
And it's not worth money
If your heart just isn't in it

You've gotta sharp mind
But I'm a bad liar
It's hardly a new disclosure

Bottle it up, it takes a bottle to get it out
So many pieces of broken glass, razor wit

You've got a sharp tongue
But I'm not a bad guy
And I wouldn't try to fuck you over

You can't tell me in the South Seas
That I'm missing out
You don't know me
You have hardly any common ground

Let's call it off
Let's take the memories and run
I'll be the villain
The man with the smoking gun

I guess this is goodbye
So have a nice life
See you at the Replay Lounge


27.A Small Crusade

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Stand at attention
Leading a listless life
No open redemption
By the riverside, what you saw
Was salvation on the go

Free who you were before
Find what you're looking for
Lose everything but you do it again

You're always a pilgrim
Leading a small crusade
To find the essential
Not a missionary or a guide
The past is part of this to cast aside

To free who you were before
Find what you're looking for
Lose everything but you do it again
Again

Secret concealed in the wheat fields
There's a mystery to this history


28.Proceed With Caution

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Sober you up
The odds in your favor
But I wouldn't wager anything
The clouds in your ears
Hold off your bets now
It's all going too well

Something has got to give
I wouldn't wait for it
Baby I'll bet it's over due
You're lucky to be alive
So I wouldn't count
On anything

Proceed with caution
From here on in
Proceed with caution
From here on in

Sober you up
The odds in your favor
I wouldn't wager anything
Clouds in your ears
Hold off your bets now
It's all going too well

Something has got to give
I wouldn't wait for it
Baby you'll bet it's over due
You're lucky to be alive
And I wouldn't count
On anything

Proceed with caution
From here on in
Proceed with caution
From here on in

Proceed with caution
From here on in
Proceed with caution
From here on in
Here on in, here on in


29.Your Ghost

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Your ghost is haunting the alleyways
Pacing the tracks where you tread
Seeking the solace of sleep
Maybe you don't know you're dead

Witness the worst of your history
Only to chase it again
Discreet but curiously
Repeating the act in the end

Lonely and grieving will your god take me too
This won't be the memory I will carry of you
I watch the sea, you lied to me
I will wait but the day never comes

Tempt me to change things
Because I've got the will and the blade
But my sins have cursed me
So I wander the rest of my days

Lonely and grieving will your god take me too
This won't be the memory I will carry of you
I believed it killed me
It's too late for the truth

I watch the sea, you lied to me
I will wait but the day never comes
Your ghost is haunting the alleyways
Maybe you don't know you're dead


30.Story Like A Scar

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

You tell me I've got better things to do but I'm all spent
Tally up the time that I've been waiting here for you
Haven't seen you in so long
I blink and then you're gone

Had a conversation with a friend, you're a big part
He's in that place with you that
I used to be in story like a scar
A novel's worth so far that you'll write

Shouted the thing, I'm drowning in the drink
And I get lost in the memories
And so it seems all too common themes
You got lost, you got a way out

I had a dream the other night, we were good then
And you told me all about the better place you're in
I know you just too well
It's hard for me to tell if you're lying

Shouted the thing, drowning in the drink
And I get lost in the memories
And so it seems all too common themes
You got lost, you got a way out

Shouted the thing, I'm drowning in the drink
You got lost, you got a way out
Shouted the thing, drowning in the drink
You got lost, you got a way out


31.Lonely Hearts

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

All that I have is finally over
Good knocking again

I've given the chance, do it all over
To lose her again

Sleep tight, never you mind
Lonely hearts breaking tonight

Never I dared had I been close to sober
Is out of my head

Back of my mind if I only had shown her
She'd be mine again

Sleep tight, never you mind
Lonely hearts are breaking tonight


32.Idaho

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

She says
Idaho is calling you home
Old friends and lovers
Returning the blows

Cry me a river
Misunderstood
(If you're misunderstood)
For all ever after
Knew that you would
(How I knew that you would)

I didn't turn on
You turned away
No one is listening anyway

She says
Idaho is calling you home
Old friends and lovers
Returning the blows

Cry me a river
For misunderstood
(If you're misunderstood)
For all ever after
Knew that you would
(How I knew that you would)

I didn't turn on
You turned away
No one is listening anyway

(Time is the best thing for giving in)
(Time is the best thing for giving in)
No one is listening anyway

(Time is the best thing for giving in)
(Time is the best thing for giving in)
No one is listening anyway

(Time is the best thing for giving in)
(Time is the best thing for giving in)
No one is listening anyway

(Time is the best thing for giving in)
(Time is the best thing)
No one is listening

She says
Idaho is calling you home


33.Calendar Days

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Call it a crutch when you plan it too much
Waste your whole life without living
Gimme a moment that should have been spent
Time isn't very forgiving

Wasting away all your calendar days
I'd tell you again but you'd miss it
There's a place for everything
Everything in it's place, oh

You look good in this suit, it's tailored for you
You're hardly alive in your skin
We've been waiting, where have you been?
We've been waiting, where have you been?

Maybe the sin isn't where we begin
Don't want to rush in discretion
Don't want remorse to be drowned in the shore
This isn't a class just a lesson

Start with a story you don't want to tell
Of the time when you may have been reckless
You may have been young and foolish then but so, so

Show me the pictures you don't wanna see
Things you don't want me to know
Everyone's asking, where did you go?
Everyone's asking, where did you go?

Tell me the one about when you were young
'Cause you're only as old as you feel
Somebody might take your moment
While you weren't at the wheel


34.When We Two Parted

Lyricist:Greg Dulli, Rick Mccollum

Baby, I see you've made yourself all sick again
Didn't I do a good job of pretend?
Baby, you're saying that the victim doesn't want it to end
Good, I get to dress up and play the assassin again

It's my favorite, it's got personality
I should have seen this shit coming down the hall
Every night, I spent in that bed with you facing the wall
If I could have only once heard you scream

To feel you were alive
Instead of watching you abandoning yourself

Baby, you can open your eyes now
And please allow me to present you with a clue
If I inflict the pain
Then baby, only I can comfort you, yeah

Out of the night we come
And into the night we go
If it starts to hurt you
Then you have to say so


35.Past The Pines

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Drive around past the pines
Over the hills into Hollywood
Innocence never died
I can tell by the look on your face
Woah

I believe in a sanctity, so hard to breathe
When your family and friends are fools
Nobody knows that I'm on to you
Speak to me secretly, whisper the words in my ear
Woah

I believe in a sanctity, so tongue in cheek
We know a secret we don't have to tell
Everything else is a bad rhythm
View from the lemon trees over the hill someday all this will be
ours
Woah

I believe in a sanctity
Look in and clean up the wasteland


36.Turn Out The Light

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

I know that it burns like poison in the pill
You sing in your sleep, it echoes in the hills
You cant hear a word
You cant hear my broken will

The world through a windshield
Is callous and cheap
I toss and I turn I can't get to sleep
Counting the hours
The days that turn into weeks

I've been wrong, but it's alright
There've been long and lonely nights
I was lost till I found you
I'm turnin' out the light
I'll stay if you want me to

Somehow my time got outta my hands
I just wanna stop, master commands
Telling the truth won't be this way again
A long ways away, but you're never alone
I look at the sky, over our home
I'll be around; a few more miles to go

I've been wrong, but it's alright
There've been long and lonely nights
I was lost till I found you
I'm turnin' out the light
I'll stay if you want me to

You don't have to say it
You don't have to speak
I've been away, worried and weak
Don't say a word

I've been wrong, but it's alright
There've been long and lonely nights
I was lost till I found you
I'm turnin' out the light
I'll stay if you want me to


37.Beautiful Mistake

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

This scene is a hard sell
Patience is underwhelming
Besides you don't want to sleep up late
Midnight on a dirt road
Breathe broken manifold
Time is part of my history

Long days full of bad notes translates to a bad joke
This will be my legacy one day
If I don't have a life to show, put this on my tombstone
Dialer's almost dead, I've gotta let you go
Hang my head next to the phone
Seems so long ago

Looking back on a long night
Sounds bad in the harsh light
At least it's with a document
Of what we were simpler than

I see clearly now, never will escape
Once we took the time to make a beautiful mistake
Baby, I'll take this all forever
Tonight I'll see with clarity right where we belong
Never would go wrong


38.Intelligent Design

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Any signs of proof yet to show
We're content to be a rural joke
Tell me one thing
Is it something that we really need?

It's in the lesson plan for school
Tell the teacher he's a fool
It's a theory
It's not a theory and it's not belief

Let you know about a mortal sin
(You gotta)
Tell me more about the sin I'm in
(You gotta)
You're the last thing that we really need

This is not about the end of time
(No, it's not)
This is not a moral decline
(No, it's not)
You're the last thing that we really need

Do you really want a holy ghost?
(No, we don't)
Does everybody need a holy ghost?
(No, we don't)
You're the last thing that we really need


39.From California

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Uncommon amount of the time at home
Hardly a word on the telephone
Finally find the time to get to know you
Mapping it out like a master plan
Something to do with my idle hands
Write you a letter, addressed from California

It's vivid and strong in my memory
An absence that smacks of abandoning
Led to the battle that ultimately destroyed us
I'm nothing if I don't know your mistakes
The pill is as bitter as I can take
It twists like a blade, when I leave for California

La da, la da, da da, da da, da da, da da da
La da, la da, da da, da da, da da, da da da

I hope that you know this is killing me
It's all in the name of the family
Only can play the cards the dealer dealt us
The end of the cycle is closing in
With you, I see new hope begin again
Suddenly, seems to be promise in California

La da, la da, da da, da da, da da, da da da
La da, la da, da da, da da, da da, da da da

As heavy as all this is weighing me
Believe in the words I am promising
I'm still here for her
The distance is only an obstacle
Hardly a match for a miracle
Finally ready to go to California


40.Hanging On for Hope

Lyricist:Chin Injeti, Shawn Smith

Are you hanging on for hope? The clock strikes past the hour
Is the pain enough to choke the life out?
You may never get to sleep, your time is not your time tonight
Her smile will make you weak and proud

Do you ever miss her? Do you feel the cold wind whisper?
Is there anything more deafening?

Are you hanging on for hope? It's all you've got worth living
for
Is it much too much to cope the road out?
There's a tension when we speak
The income's overrated but it's worth it when we meet on common
ground

Do you ever miss her? Do you feel the cold wind whisper?
Is there anything more deafening?

Are you hanging on for hope? It's all you got worth living for
Much to hard to cope when I'm gone

Do you ever miss her? Do you feel the cold wind whisper?
Is there anything?

Do you ever cower when the clock strikes past the hour?
Is there anything more deafening?
Is there anything more deafening?


41.The Smoking Gun

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

An empty house will leave you fatherless
The cycle is coming 'round like my mother did
But it's in her blood, but oh, my brother
You've gotten over it, gotten older yet

But it's only what our hearts will power
I think I might have found the smoking gun
And my thoughts trail off for hours
But maybe time has come to be the one

An empty house will leave you fatherless
But the cycle is coming 'round like my mother did
And it's in her blood for the love of another
If the habit fits, then you must admit

But it's only what our hearts will power
I think I might have found the smoking gun
And my thoughts trail off for hours
But maybe time has come to be the one

But it's only what our hearts will power
I think I might have found the smoking gun
And my thoughts trail off for hours
And maybe time has come to be the one
And maybe time has come to be the one


42.A Beacon In Beige

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

After this high and low
A little late to let it go
Crooked road to the end
'Round the way and back again

Take your book, you forget
Liars, thieves and hypocrites
Take your place in the square
Ceremonious start in there

Lost all the others, do you love all your brothers
Do you or did you miss the light?
The tide is rising, a wind is rising
Don't want to wait for you to die

Dot the I's, cross the T's
Models of efficiency
Bittersweet victory
Hope you live to see defeat

Lost all the others that you love all your brothers
Do you or did you miss the light?
The words are binding, the sun is rising
You've come to fight

Yes, it takes generations to replace apparitions
That you recognize the right
The tide is rising, the wind is rising
Don't want to wait for you to die
Don't want to wait for you to die


43.Lost Long Shot

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

You've got a world wide face
And I've been away for a year
I'll hide it in someplace safe
Where even the spies don't hear

I've been a lost long shot
A prodigal son by trade
Somehow the words won't stop
Even when deals are made

Time and space
We can be distant friends
Running a different race
And nobody really wins

And only the fools rush in
And only the frightened wait
I'd rather be foolish than
Be scared of my own mistakes


44.Lay On The Rails

Lyricist:Pryor Matthew Patrick

Shaking this quilted cocoon
Just us two
Underneath Middle-western moons
By the back roads

I've got a secret
I don't want to speak
The end came as such a relief
I'm so low

Take this from me, what it's worth
When you heard
I swore vengeance on Heaven and Earth
Till the end comes

And now if you're listening
And if you're at peace
Do you have wiser words for me?
I could use some

Lay on the rails
Withered and frail
Why bear this weight
When I'd escape

I'm sorry I can't say goodbye
You're just not ready
You're just not ready

I'm sure that I've been expelled
It's hard to tell
If the people you knew so well
Really knew you

A box of your letters
And tapes of your songs
How could they be so wrong?

This vested trust
Beyond us
So, show me then
I'm waiting

This vested trust
Beyond us
So, show me then
I'm waiting

This vested trust
Beyond us
So, show me then
I'm waiting

This vested trust
Beyond us
So, show me then
I'm waiting


45.Fortunate Fool

Lyricist:Pryor Matthew Patrick

Take a walk on the wrong side
And put your feet on the floor
A long face for a long night
Really what you came here for

And how did it end, say everything
A long form letter that you'll keep forever
You're upside down, gave you the run around
Shouted the words aloud, our love is a battleground

Swallow a bitter pill
Maybe the poison will
Take you on a long road to forget
What you came here for

Say hello to the wrong side
Here we go again
Hang on, it's a long ride
Never seems to end

But how did it end, say everything
A long form letter that you'll keep forever
You're upside down, gave you the run around
Shouting the words aloud, love is a battleground

Swallow a bitter pill
Maybe the poison will
Take you on a long road to forget
What you came here

Fortunate fool
Love got the best of you
This is just so cruel
But it's the truth

You, fortunate fool
Love got the best of you
This is just so cruel
But it's the truth, oh


46.Fountain Of Youth

Lyricist:William Francis Belzer, Dustin Than Kinsey, Eric Lewis Mc
Cann, Matthew Patrick Pryor

And come if you can, call if you must
And drink what you bring and share it with us
We're in arrest so drink if you're drive
Save you the best and take what you like

Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh

Dive through the pond, the lake is a pool
And do what you want and laugh like a fool
A secrets a list to tell you the truth
And maybe this is the fountain of youth

Ooh, ooh
(And maybe this is the fountain of youth)
Ooh, ooh
(Maybe this is the fountain of youth)

And come if you can, call if you must
And drink what you bring and share it with us
A secrets a list to tell you the truth
And maybe this is the fountain of youth

Ooh, ooh
(Maybe this is the fountain of youth)
Ooh, ooh
(And maybe this is the fountain of youth)

Ooh, ooh
(And maybe this is the fountain of youth)
Ooh, ooh
(And maybe this is the fountain of youth)

Ooh, ooh
(And maybe this is the fountain of youth)


47.The Blood On The Floor

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

A long time driving for a place to stop
I wander in at quarter to four
No sense remembering what I forgot
Tending to the blood on the floor

Who would you save?
Why would you trust?
Do you suppose that they're on to us?
The only way to know for sure

Take this, promise me you'll bury it deep
Treat it like you're digging a grave
You're the only evidence I want to keep
The only things that I want to save

And how can you sleep?
How can I trust?
Whatever you say isn't helping us?
Take matters into my own hands

Take me away
See what you've done?
You've been a fool and a fragile one
And now I have to lose you too


48.Hughes

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Love is a long shot
Love is a bird in hand
When this stops we'll be laughing
Sing our songs though they're barely heard

You be the prom queen
And I'll be the malcontent
In this scene just pretend
Nobody cares about social standing

Hughes, Hughes, you knew me
You promise me maybe
That nobody talks to me
I'm all alone

People are misplaced
People are full of shit
In this place, I'm over it
And I've got a right mind to call it in

'Cause even the sun stays
Even the words turn good
In the heat wave, it's understood
Nobody gives a damn for their neighbor

Hughes, Hughes, you know me
You will promise maybe later
Nobody talks to me
I'm all alone

You've got a bad year
You've got a place to stay
And it's clear, you're on your way
I won't tell your friends a thing


49.Wait

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Wait, maybe this place isn't everything
Maybe we don't need anything concrete
You say hold on to little securities
Hope that the world won't carry me away, away

All of the piles of gold
Moments we lost our souls
All of this will go to waste

Wait, what if the world's gone bad tomorrow?
Darkness before being lied to, what then?
Your face is hardly a wall of security
Won't stop the blows of our enemies
They'll win, they'll win

All of the piles of gold
Moments we lost our souls
All of this will go to waste

It's just not a mystery
Lack of a expertise
It won't be good for anything, anything


50.Drunk Or Dead

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Little did I know it then
The pictures on the heads of pins
Be easier than living is
Easier to watch you die

Lost what little luck was left
It's not enough to pay the rent
Not enough to force repentance
Not enough to make you pray

And don't tell me â~bout the sins of man
I've felt the sting of God's right hand

I find him after school in bed
I don't know if he's drunk or dead
A slow but steady breath means
Live to wreck another day

It's terrible to cross my mind
That I should do him in this time
And I could find a better life
Become a burden on the state

You can't run when it's all you know
You'll just have to wait to go

And you can't hurt me â~cause I've been true
Your horrid life caught up to you
But I got bruises that you can't see
If there's a God, take Him from me


51.This Day Is Done

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

Now you're the only son
Everybody's come and gone
A song for the lonely one, the loneliest song

And now you're the poster boy
You're sulking with expensive pills
Heartbreaks like everyone, it swears it will

In full view of the aftermath
You stare at a computer screen
It used to be everyone and everything

And now that the sun sets
It wasn't in a perfect storm
All of your regrets are rolled in one

Reason to say this day is done
Reason to say this day is done
Reason to say this day is done
Reason to say this day is done


52.Revenge

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

So tell me everything
Don't leave minor details out
Come clean
Quit trying to sell me out

Revenge
I take your hints
It's all I have

Revenge
Once you forget
I'll be back again

Blind, blood brother's bond
Was a lie, now I know what's right
Good God
How do you sleep at night?

Revenge
I take your hints
It's all I have

Revenge
Once you forget
I'll be back again
Once you forget
I'll be back again


53.Without A Sound (Eleanor)

Lyricist:Matthew Patrick Pryor

The lawyer can go to hell
The ink's still wet on our wills
That's when I told her, it's time to start over
Now there's a house to sell

Take this ring of keys
The copies you made for me
And tell me the truth then, tell me you love him
Maybe the scar won't heal

I'm just a fool, you love to be cruel to
The gravel under your wheels

Without a sound, I'm hidin' out on, hidin' under ground
Eleanore hidin' out on your back porch
Without a sound I'm hidin' out on, hidin' under ground
Eleanore hidin' out on your back porch

As soon as the fog lifts
As soon as the smoke drifts, nearly November then
Name is the sweet pines
The bells in your wind chimes, never be back again


54.Silverlake

Lyricist:William Francis Belzer, Dustin Than Kinsey, Eric Lewis Mc
Cann, Matthew Patrick Pryor

Silverlake with the fakes
I've got nothing but old things
To display by the bay
An old jeans and your gold rings

How's your faith? My mistake
I thought you'd grow to good things
To be safe you were late
You missed everything I've seen

Life is too rich
To waste it waiting around for you

Silverlake with the fakes
I've got nothing but old things
Can you take how I ache
And make songs that the girls sing?

Does it shake you awake
When you see what the job brings?
Anyway my mistake
You spin straw into gold strings

Life is too rich
To waste it waiting around for you
Life is too rich
To waste it waiting around for you
Whatever you want to do