This Is The Sinking

Versus You This Is The Sinking Lyrics
1.Comme Ci Comme Ca

When did I become the lucky one?
I'll have to admit, you are the one.
When did I deserve someone so kind?
I can't believe I call you mine.
And I'll be damned if I ruin this!
I still feel so young each time we kiss.

I wish you're here to stay
To say the things that you say!

Time flies by fast, leaves us behind.
You're the only thought I have on my mind.
I'll have to agree you are the one
You bring me air when I am drowned.
It still gives me shivers when you laugh,
It reminds me of great times that have passed.

I hope that when you're gone
I can pretend you're home!

I still see your smile and I don't know what to say
But I could talk to you all night.


2.Wrote You A Letter

Patience keeps me running late.
I never put my bets on fate.
Time is on the finish line.
Can you tell me why I'm feeling fine?

We build a fire in the winter.
We're shivering and we're wondering.
I feel so warm inside when I'm with you.

I spent my days remembering.
I'm confused, I'm wondering.
Are you waiting on the finish line?
Can you tell me why I don't feel fine?


3.Loyalty

We sent the kids away.
Inaccessible royalty.
Where's our loyalty?
We cleared the mess way.
Inaccessible royalty.


4.I Believe You Believe It's True

I can't go where you've been.
I can't say I want to.
It's nothing you you want to talk about.

I can't be the one you need to be yourself.
Guess I fell victim to your lovely smile.

I guess it's true 'cause you believe.

I tried to believe you.
I tried to be all yours.
You told me that it's all I ever be.

I know now that you're gone and
That I've been foolish to believe
A single word you've ever said.
As you grow old, you're growing cold.
I loved you then and I miss you now.


5.The Hotel Room

I guess I'm cursed with procrastination.
I hate myself for not paying attention.
My heart is broke and I feel so jaded.
You're the reason why I'm so frustrated.
Every night I fall asleep with the lights on.
I wake up shaking, realising that you're gone.
I kept believing you and me were on good terms,
While you tried to tell me that you had your problems.

I believe I would have seen it coming
If I spent less time on the songs I'm writing.
I never cared for what you were saying.
I can't blame you.
You gave up on waiting.
I hope you're better off alone and without me.
I hope you find someone that sees what you see.
I'm moving out to live in a hotel room.
I hope you miss me when you see what I did.

I painted the walls red with my blood.
I told myself I'd never leave here again.

I live in hotel rooms.
I'm staying forever.
Half awake and aching.
Eyes rolled back and shaking.
I'm trying to find out what
You are all about.
I'm dying to win this
Just for one last kiss.

You called my room to see if I was okay.
I was dead by then with nothing to say to you.
I got nothing to say to you. (I live in hotel rooms.)


6.My Ghost

I'm feeling like an aeroplane when I fly around your head.
I am all eyes when I look through your mind.
Say hello to your savior!
You can't fly on broken wings.
I stole your poetry as I stole your vocabulary.

You're nothing but wasted ink.
That's all I want you to be.
It's time for work miss Candy.

You're pretty and stupid.
You're pretty stupid.
When will you learn to walk again?
When will you learn to talk again?

It's time you learn to fly miss.

Hold on my sweet angel,
I got some glue for your wings.

Clear the smoke in your head, I got a bag of vacuum.
You're part of this story because I wrote about you.
I'll fix you.
You're fixing me.


7.Train

Like dinners after funerals.
Like street lights that forgot to shine.
Like ashtrays on a windy night.
Like old books and their perfect smell.

Like a train that's off the tracks,
You wonder if you're running late.
I guess you're right!


8.Missing You

Are you a saint or someone I've met before?
Are you a dream or someone I've known before?

What is wrong with missing you?

Are you a saint or someone I've hurt before?
Are you a dream or someone I've hated before?


9.Weak

I'm down. I'm out.
I'm dead. I'm deaf.
I'm dumb. I'm suffocating.
You're weak. You're strong.
You're pale. You're great.
You're late. We're fornicating.
I guess I'm not yours


10.The Passing

So high that when you fall you might just break.
So tired, oh God, your pity makes me sick!
Somehow your letter's missing 'I miss you's'.
Tongue-tied, you were never someone to talk to.

A compromise. When did we learn to be so wise?
I promise you I'll always wait for you.

That night, after you let the cat out.
You lied about the way you felt that night.
Somehow we both knew it was your call.
Tonight, in loving memory, I write.

Complication: I wish, I wish you'd die alone.


11.Difference

This one will always remain unfinished.
A few more lines that don't make any sense.
I guess I ran out of words again.
It would take nine furry lives for me to get through with this.

I'm walking on a matress.
I'm talking without an accent.
If you would be me, you'd rather be yourself.
I'm derailed.
I'm digging my own grave.

I saw a picture of myself ten years from now.
I didn't like what I saw.
It's funny how everything always turns out fine in the end.
Maybe I'll add a few more lines. Maybe I won't.
Does it make a difference to you? Because to me it doesn't.
So let's have fun and smile
Until we forget how dead we are.


12.Blank

I was going home.
Wanted to be alone.
I broke the telephone.
Wanted to be unknown.

Words were dancing like stars.
Thoughts were faster than cars.
We were uglier than scars.
We went to peepshows and bars.

So horny I couldn't sleep.
So corny I couldn't speak.
So lazy I couldn't die.
So honest I couldn't lie.

I tried so hard to make this count
In the prettiness of making sounds.
I tried so hard to write this down
But still the pages remain blank.


13.I Want To Go Back To The Summer In 1989