The Mad Ones

Versus You The Mad Ones Lyrics
1.Less Guts

Sunday came without a weekend.
I'm hanging over.
I left my keys on her table.

Watch where you're going because
I'm with the walking dead.
I'm dying to et you know
I'm still alive.

And the phone rings every hour,
Way too loud.
Leave me hanging from my rope.

Sweetheart, could you save this moment?
I'm begging you
Please stop breaking my heart.

No more calls until I start
To live again.
I guess I'll see you next weekend.


2.Accidental

I've dusted for prints.
I know who I am.
I see fool's gold on the third.
I'll wear mine if you wear yours.

We had an accident,
Our only common ground.
It was a close call, a near miss
But we knew someone had to pick and choose.

I picked you, you chose yourself.
I still want you all the time.
Our first kiss was your first disapproval.
I want to talk about the fun we never had.
I'll drink to us all by myself again.

Unplug the cable, you're not home.
I'll leave the lights on
Because one night you might just find your way.

The list was long and blue.
Baby, I'm blue.


3.I Left A Note

I built this life for you to keep,
Only to bury it three feet deep.
I'm a superhero without powers
Left to stare at empty hands.
I've never been a friend to you.

Did this start to fall apart
With lies and shallow promises?
When did this start to feel so dull?

Both in your room the other night,
Instead of giving in, we fight.
I'm smoking on your windowsill,
Blowing smoke into the rain.
It's raining flames inside your room.

I didn't want to say this,
So I left a note.


4.Patient Patient

Remind me to remember you
When you come visit me.
You'll find me tucked in sterile sheets,
So white they blind your eyes.

I try hard to be patient.
I've been waiting for years.
Examination head to toe.
When will they cut me up?

What is my condition?
I had an accident.
Prescription only medicine.

I am trying to keep still
When I meet my anesthetist.
He injects sleeps into my veins.
Classical music, I drift off.


5.Broke

I stare at your photograph,
A bird's eye view of you.
You follow my every move
With those dizzying bedroom eyes.

I watch them close
As they explode.

You're blue in the face my dear.
An expression so blank, so low.
You can tell me what's haunting you.
I'm afraid you were born afraid.

You took my soul.
I kiss your feet.

So broke and I'm not saving you.
You break every day the same way.
So close I can almost taste you.
You close the box of memories


6.Rainmaker

I'm a constellation trying to make out with you.
My eyes write a book on you that you will never read.

I try to concentrate
But it's just so hard with you around
And so I stand in line and wait for you to show.

Twenty-five thousand words to make you see that I still care
But you never seem to have the time to hear me out.

I'm sleeping by the phone.
I'm waiting for you to come home.
I try to translate my feelings.
Can't you tell?


7.Everybody Knows Everything

I watch the water boil
And raise the temperature.
I hear you read out loud,
I know your words so well.

We keep alive and drift apart.
We share our separate property.
We live apart, we're paired for life.
You used to be my favourite one.

A stranger holds your hand.
I did not invite him in.
They both want me to sign.
I put the kids to sleep.


8.Risk

All is fair in love and war.
Two of the things that we declare.
Friendly fire, we're hangmen.

Our bond is cynically unsound.
We tied the knot for hate's sake.
Guess, we never had a chance.

Hey! Wait!

I've awoken in your side of town.
For some reason I felt down.
Should we just kill each other now
Or should we converse without a sound?

Corpsman, corpsmen, I am down.
This war of words has raged for years.
Our ever-after in the end.

I'll strangle you with my bear hands.
I always thought that they were strong.
We're both fighting on your side.

I capitulate, you amputate.
I own my limbs, you own my heart.
I fall back and you affront.
I miss you more than peaceful sleep.


9.Nurse

I am gutless, emptied out.
Water my insides, they've dried out.
Will this ever taste the same again?

Can you feel me crawl inside you?

I breathe in glass, my lungs they itch.
I swallow knives, my stomach's numb.
I'm shitting blood. I cough up words.

I nurse my drink.
I'm buried in oblivion.

I'm cut and dried.
Handle me with care.
I'm fiber glass.

I can't fuck
No matter how
Much I want you.

Scratch all you want,
I'm not walking away.


10.Hospital

I live in a hospital.
I'm so sick of being sick on a fine day.

I live in a hospital.
Cut me open and figure me out on a fine day.

I'm so tired of these walls.

I live in a hospital.
It's nice to meet my anesthetist on a fine day.

I live in a hospital.
I'm a stitch away from death on a fine day.


11.Touch A Lot

Why did you never tell me
That you wanted to to die?
I thought that you were sleeping,
Found out you weren't breathing.

You told me you were desperate
And lucky to have met me.
How could I have guessed
You needed more than just attention?

You could have been ok
If we had left this town
And moved to a place
Where no one knows our names.

I'm sorry I wasn't a better friend
But I guess I was just scared too.

Too much too soon,
All over you.
Never really got to know you.
I wanted to go away with you
To places you've never been too.

Were you feeling lonely
Whenever I was with you.
Someone said you looked sad,
I though that she was joking.

You were desperately
Trying to communicate.
I didn't see this coming.
Something you forgot to mention?

We'll go to places you don't know.


12.Rest

You crossed out your eyes
In a blush of shame.
You had an itch to keep scratching.

A sweet-tempered personality
Is always mournful.
Your cheeks blossom cherry-colored.

Complementary, out-dated medicine,
So convenient and temporary.
Take a sample as an example for
The bullet resting in your skull.

Your expression's blue.
You're cold as smoke.
I can't help you out of your life.

My words are outdated and low.
I've spent to years on suicide watch.

Save this feeling!
I know you're strong.
Just hold on a few more days
And you'll be okay.


13.Chore

I threw up my vocal chords,
My lungs are punctured
And it still took three long months
For these words to come out right.

You got that look in your eyes,
The one that tells me you're sick and fucking tired
Of listening to me now.

Still there's no one else to talk to,
No one else to open up to.
Would you give me one last chance?

Either way I'm fucking lost.

Would you dare
Or even care
If I told you everything's alright?

Take these words,
Shove them away
And believe them any other day.

I tried to drown these thoughts
In alcohol, just put on a drunken smile
And the two of you looked tired.

I've lost all integrity
In a bottle of shame
And a million cigarettes.
I knew you'd give up on me.

There is nothing I could say to you
To convince you that these words are true
So I just pass out in front of you.

Oh I'm so fucking lost.


14.Present

I see you shaped in dotted lines.
You waste your time and all of mine.
I cut you out and then I'll try
To fold you to a paper boat.

Your special present,
The one I'll only stare at.
Sits waiting on my door steps.
You wrapped it up nicely in regrets.

Your wounds they never start to heal.
You blind me with your sunless smile.
The rain and its one-hand clapping sound
Will be the only applause you get.


15.Seatbelts

My arms are broken and bruised.
We have an accident every night.
We crashed the car the same way again.
We share a punctured lung.

We're sleeping in our burning wreck.
Summer tires on winter nights.
I press my lips upon your scars.
I love you more than I did before.

Seatbelts are so useless and safe.
I look into your scared eyes.
A car crash is so pretty and vain.
I just hope to see you again.

We've died so many times before.
We crash the car forevermore.
There's piles of glass on the floor.
Our wounds they never start to heal.

We kiss in agony and pain.
This is our art, our obsession.
We spend our lives in hospitals.
I love you more than my own scars.