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When you try your best but you don’t succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can’t sleep
Stuck in reverse.
When the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can’t replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
And high up above or down below
When you’re too in love to let it go
But if you never try you’ll never know
“Just what your worth”
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream, down your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down your face
And I..
Tears stream, down your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down your face
And I..
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you.
…one down
one to go…
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so, i never took the time to read (or understand) the lyrics to one of my favorite AM! songs…and I did tonight and I was astonished:
If you follow the jaw line down over the heart, the
curves of your bone and muscle that make up
your head to toe… it’s just skin and thread,
stitches and ligaments, words that we spoke
only to regret. I know they’re going to laugh at us
when they see us out together “holding hands”
like this. They wouldn’t understand it if we told
them all the reasons, not that I think this
deserves any kind of explanation. We can
make it up so we’ve got a smile painted on
all the time, no matter what it’s like on the
inside. We’ll keep this, keep us like a secret,
because if my family and friends ever found
out about the things we could never be,
haunts we’ll all keep, so fucking bittersweet.
Interpret as you may, but I think the meaning is pretty clear.
xo
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If she wants to dance and drink all night then there’s no one that can stop her.
She’s going until the house lights come up or her stomach spills onto the floor.
This night is going to end when we’re damn well ready for it to be over.
Worked all week long now the music is playing on our time.
We do what we do to get by, and then we need a release.
You get mixed up with the wrong guys.
You get messed up on the wrong drugs.
Sometimes the party takes you places that you didn’t really plan on going.
When people see the track marks on her arms she knows what they’re thinking.
She keeps on working for that minimum,
as if a high school education offered any other options.
They don’t know nothing about redemption.
They don’t know nothing about recovery.
Some people just ain’t the type for marriage and family.
No mother ever dreams that her daughters going to grow up to be a junkie.
No mother ever dreams that her daughters going to grow up to sleep alone.
She’s out of step with the style.
She don’t know where the actions happening.
You know the downtown club scene ain’t nothing like it used to be.
You reach a point where there’s not a lie in the world
that you could use to make the boys believe your still in you twenties.
She’s not waiting for them to come over and ask for the privilege.
She can still here that Rebel Yell just as loud as it was in 1983.
There ain’t no Johnny coming home to share a bed with her and she doesn’t care.
No mother ever dreams that her daughters going to grow up to be a junkie.
No mother ever dreams that her daughters going to grow up to sleep alone.
If she had to live it all over again you know she wouldn’t change anything for the world.
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Back in school they never taught us what we needed to know,
like how to deal with despair, or someone breaking your heart.
For twelve years I’ve held it all together but a night like this is begging to pull me apart.
I played it quiet, left you deep in conversation.
I felt uncool and hung out around the kitchen.
I remember I kept thinking that I know you never would,
and now I know I want to kill you like only a best friend could.
Everyone’s caught on to everything you do
Everyone’s caught on to.
As if this happening wasn’t enough I got to go
and write a song just to remind myself how bad it sucked.
Ignore the sun, the cover’s over my head.
I wrote a message on my pillow that says, “Jesse, stay asleep in bed.”
So don’t apologize. I hope you choke and die.
Search your cell for something with which to hang yourself.
They say you need to pray if you want to go to heaven
but they don’t tell you what to say when your whole life has gone to hell.
Everyone’s caught on to everything you do
Everyone’s caught on to
And everyone’s caught on to everything you do (And I can’t let you, let me down again.)
Everyone’s caught on to (And I can’t let you, let me down again)
So, is that what you call a getaway?
Tell me what you got away with.
Cause I’ve seen more spine in jellyfish.
I’ve seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids.
Have another drink and drive yourself home.
I hope there’s ice on all the roads.
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt,
and again when your head goes through the windshield.
And is that what you call tact?
You’re as subtle as a brick in the small of my back.
So let’s end this call, and end this conversation.
and is that what you call a getaway?
well tell me what you got away with.
cause you left the frays from the ties you severed
when you say best friends means friends forever
So, is that what you call a getaway?
Well tell me what you got away with.
Cause I’ve seen more spine in jellyfish.
I’ve seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids.
Have another drink and drive yourself home.
I hope there’s ice on all the roads.
And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt,
and again when your head goes through the windshield.
Everyone’s caught on to everything you do (And I can’t let you, let me down again)
Everyone’s caught on to (And I can’t let you, let me down again)
And everyone’s caught on to everything you do (And I can’t let you, let me down again)
Everyone’s caught on to (And I can’t let you, let me down again)
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The air tears at my skin, robbing my veins of the life I had hoped to have.
You killed a part of me tonight and left the frozen air to finish the job.
Now I realize
The cowardice you kept behind your bloodshot eyes
And awkward frame was calling the shots.
And I was left depleted
Grinning like a retard who thought you were there
When you had retreated.
I’m slowing down
Into a shallow circle
While my heartbeat fills the gaps
Between sporadic and failing gasps.
I’m face down in the mud
With eyes still bruised and purple
While my heartbeat fills the gaps
Between sporadic and failing gasps.
I’m slowing down
Into a shallow circle
While my heartbeat fills the gaps
Between sporadic and failing gasps.
I’m face down in the mud
With eyes still bruised and purple
While my heartbeat fills the gaps
Between sporadic and failing gasps.
I swear on my life that if I could take this knife out of my back, I would, I would.
But between the loss of blood and the loss of my trust in you
I don’t think it’d do any good.
Now I realize
The cowardice you kept behind your bloodshot eyes
And awkward frame was calling the shots.
And I was left depleted
Grinning like a retard who thought you were there
When you had retreated.
I’m slowing down
Into a shallow circle
While my heartbeat fills the gaps
Between sporadic and failing gasps.
If love existed, we wouldn’t be so soft and easy to ruin.
If love existed, we wouldn’t be so soft and easy to ruin.
So I said, “lets forget these days and just try to build some solid ground.
Maybe someday we could stand straight up with our faces in the wind
and scream to the world.”
We were at some boating dock oh somewhere
at the waterfront staring out across the channel-
a steamer blared its horn
and I wished I could say everything right like do you want to go for a ride?
I looked to your face and saw the sun reflecting off your skin
and I breathed in water smells-
the skyline filled with shipping yards and factories had me dreaming
of waking up-
am I dreaming? is this really me?
because I’ve never felt so not lonely
and if this could be real right now
then everyday for the rest of my life I will search for moments full of you
but let’s hope tomorrow won’t cave in ’cause I’m looking
for someone to change me
and you make me feel so tall- I always want to be this tall
’cause maybe I’ll be original
and sometimes things you say just make me think in different ways
so this is my way of saying
I could be the one who’s dragged home at night awayfrom all my hopeless dreams-
you and me will forge some future because we don’t want to be waiting
for something right to go wrong.
