- A Life Less Ordinary
I didn't think I would make it,
Thought everybody was against me
All those conquered eyes
And Christmases alone.
I never gave an honest answer
But I made a lot of angry organs.
Are we copacetic? Are we behaving now?
- A-OK
This time I thought I'd listen and the story goes
I am the same
Without medicine
I can't pretend, it never ends
I'm fine, I'm fine
These words are all I have to hide behind
So get behind me, you have no right to say
- Almost Alice - Always Running Out of Time
I won't tell you how to live your life
So please stay far away from mine
Always watching out for which and when
Is always running out of time
Drip drop, in like the skin of summer
All once everything unwinds
Inside-out and all about my heart
- Always Running Out Of Time
I won't tell you how to live your life
So please stay far away from mine
Always watching out for which and when
Is always running out of time
Drip drop, in like the skin of summer
All once everything unwinds
Inside-out and all about my heart
- Antonia
She makes a lot of abstract art
She haggles for the cheapest price
She never orders take out food before ten o'clock at night
She's really into snowmobiles
She owns a lot of nice flashlights
She cares for all the stupid cats that never found their way home
She shaves her legs with Ginsu knives
She quotes a lot of Annie Hall
- Back To The Beat
when i was younger i fell in love with the girl next door
back to the beat yo back to the beat of 1984
we had beat street we had breakin’ 1 and 2 electric boogaloo dude it was cool
we’d bust out the cardboard in the backstreet by the drugstore just me and you
afterschool
you said i did the worm better than anyone that you knew
breakin’ with you was the best time of my life
- Bad Idea
I'd like to tell you all my bad ideas
I hang them with the good to dilute the awful truth
I've been asleep for nearly fifteen years
All dreams I've ever had outweigh the life I'm not yet living
I've felt along the walls of here and there
But nothing ever seemed quite right
So I kissed off into the night
There was a thought, there was a bleeding thread
- Better Open the Door
You better open the door before I take a hammer to the walls around it
I cannot let you inside myself I fear I'll sink the ship and drag us both down
Our Hell ends every weekend but it's all I have to believe to believe in
Matt makes his murderous demand: foreign films.
I take a stand and it's all uphill from here, at least I hope so
Kate claims she can't depend on me for anything and I agree it's crystal clear.
- Calling All Cops
Calling all cops and autobots,
I hope that you’re still there
Saving victims from the wreckage
Of our wild affairs, such wild affairs.
Copy all cats and acrobats,
I know you don’t play fair,
Slinging sickness through the atmosphere,
- Capital H
I'll be back tomorrow
I'll be back in the ballroom swingin'
I'll be back with my superman action
and i'm off to save the world
Silly me I left a message with no return number
before my boys in blue in case of an emergency
in case the shit goes down
- Carolina
Caroline
Carolina
A southern genius
A southern girl
Nine oh five
Monday morning
I'm sunny (?)
- Disappear
To the deep end,
to the heartline,
Hold it straight together, man,
Hold it straight together if you can
little fevers wrapped in medication
All strung out on gravity collapse yourself and try to comprehend
an angry island, a bitter bee sting
severing and shattering free the self and fixing in between
- Even If It Kills Me
I’ve got a lotta things to do tonight
I’m so sick of making lists
Of things I’ll never finish
I’ve lived here for the last 12 years
Since early 1995 all my shit has been in boxes
But if I had a little more time to kill
I’d settle every little stupid thing
Yeah you’d think that I would
- Everyone Will Die
Everyone will die, and everyone will lose
So what you going to do with moments you have before it's you?
It doesn't mean goodbye
It's just a simple truth
The shedding of a lifetime of layers that once embodied you
Like winter into spring and summer into fall
The cycle of intense introspection before the curtain call
Cause everyone must die and everyone must lose
- Everything is Alright
Tell me that you're alright
yeah everything is alright.
oh please tell me that you're alright.
yeah everything is alright.
Give me a reason to end this discussion,
To break with tradition, to fold and divide.
'Cause I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes,
- Fell In Love Without You
Last night I fell in love without you.
I waved goodbye to that heart of mine
Beating solo on your lung
Every aching wound will cauterize and bruise
In memory of what we used to call in love
And only time will tell if violins will swell
In memory of what we used to call in love
- Happy Anniversary
I can feel it in my bones tonight
Drain me slowly of the will to fight
Glowing yellow in the bedroom light
I can feel it in my bones tonight
There's a terror in your eyes tonight
Something awful has you wrapped in white
Take me in your arms and hold me tight
- Her Words Destroyed My Planet
Maybe you were right after all...
Maybe I'm just bad news...
I've been drowning in memories
Call it residual blues.
I fell asleep watching Veronica Mars again.
(Hey!)
I still fuss with that tourniquet,
- Last Night
I'm still frustrated from last night
Things happened at half-time, I'm sick of the bends
My panic research was no help
I sink into myself
Afraid of the fall that never ends
I wait, but I'm too tired to play pretend
I suffocate until the end
- Make Out Kids
They carved a message deep within our broken hearts that failed to mend:
Make out kids never had a chance to be best friends.
She's into math and magazines,
Director's cuts and gray cell green
Armed with an eye for contradictions,
She sees completely through me.
- My Favorite Accident
I got the message long before you said you knew
There was no chance of us at all
With no velocity and empty-headed hard and far-to-long
I spent two years alone with you
Just when I thought I had forgotten
You came back soft without a sound
You said we were an accident
- Pulp Fiction
Smoke and mirrors and everything nice
I wasn’t married to the weekend, I was banging’ on the back end
Kamikaze and Miami Vice
She shook a few of my favorite things
Like cloak and dagger, see Seabury Quinn
I couldn’t keep it all together, I was spooking in the end zone
Arigato, go-go gadget arm
She only took me for 10,000 yen
- Shiver
Shiver away, I thought the action was real
Somewhere I know that’s just the way you are
It’s hard to believe that you’re a part of me
And I can’t believe when you carry on and on
I can’t believe you got that right (oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh)
I can’t believe you got that right (oh-oh-oh, oh-oh oh)
Just as the radio goes on and on and on (oh-oh-oh)
Yeah, I can’t believe you got that right
- Stand Too Close
If I stand too close
I might fall in
But if I'm too far gone
I'll never win
And if you believe in me
I might just wanna spend some time with you again
I'm afraid I tend to disappear
- Stuck In The Morning
If I could...
Be there for you
Be there for you now
Stuck in the morning chaos
And the setting sun
Stuck in the morning chaos
- The Coma Kid
I need time to get it right
Always trying to illuminate the past
Questions answered, but the insight never lasts
So I won't look back
I won't look down
I'll focus on the comfort of the cold, cold ground
Comatose and singing
- The Conversation
Do you remember how we met?
Silhouetted by the lights...
You were drunk and tried to take a mental picture with your hands
I was thinking about that
And a bunch of other things
Stop looking at the floor...
I need to pour out this expansive dose of words.
- The Future Freaks Me Out
I'm on fire, and now I think I'm ready
to bust a move Check it out I'm rockin' steady...Go
Betty won't stop listening to modern rock how she hates to be alone I try compensate her lack of love with coffecake, ice cream, and a bottle of ten dollar wine she says, "Hey, I rock the haro sport. I rock the cowgirl blues. I rock to fast for love. I'm footloose in my velcro shoes. What's up with Will and Grace? I don't get drum and bass. The future freaks me out."
(Chorus)
I'm on fire and now I think I'm ready to bust a move Check it out I'm rockin' steady to the beat in my head that goes (oh x4) I know that she's the only one I'd rather waste our time together yeah 'cause we can get down.
- The Red Dress
i like your hair much better that way
when it hangs out front when it hangs out front
with tilted head like a listener
but i'm just thinking about the red dress
i like the red dress
i'm on my way i'm on my way i'm on my way
from coast to coast i'm chilly most i'm chill
- This Is For Real
I've got emotion dripping out my pours
and I thought I would let you know.
You are the night light,
ripping through my wicked world.
How you make it sparkle and glow.
Before I lose control,
there's just one thing you should know...
- Time Turned Fragile
Tiny hands, recycled cans, the metal bands, I could not stand
The time you cried and threw your crayons across the floor
These are the things, I think about, when I'm alone without you
I wonder of your whereabouts and hope like hell
You're happy where you are
You used to say that, "You're just fine"
But I still wonder all the time
Hockey games, medical claims, police reports, terrible grade J
- True Romance
You better believe it's true
You know I do, I do (2x)
I'm a screw-up of epic proportions
A walking hand grenade
Hyper-manic, and dimestore dramatic
A conduit for pain
- Truth Hits Everybody
Sleep lay behind me like a broken ocean
Strange waking dreams before my eyes unfold
You lay there sleeping like an open doorway
I stepped outside myself and felt so cold
Take a look at my new toy
It'll blow your head in two, oh boy