Fuel


hemorrhage (in my hands)


memories are just where you laid them
drag the waters 'till the depths give up their dead
what did you expect to find?
was there something you left behind?
don't you remember anything i said when i said


don't fall away, and leave me to myself
don't fall away and leave love bleeding
in my hands, in my hands again
leave love bleeding
in my hands, in my hands
love lies bleeding


oh hold me now i feel contagious
am i the only place that you've left to go
she cries her life is like
some movie black and white
dead actors faking lines
over and over and over again she cries


don't fall away, and leave me to myself
dont fall away, and leave love bleeding
in my hands, in my hands again
leave love bleeding
in my hands, in my hands
love lies bleeding


and i wanted
you turned away
you don't remember, but i do
you never even tried


don't fall away and leave me to myself
don't fall away and leave love bleeding
in my hands, in my hands again
leave love bleeding
in my hands, in my hands
love lies bleeding


Bittersweet


seven sins of wantonness
and everything that's good is gone
sell it all for glory from the peers
silicone priestess
scratch the back and
twist the knife to bone
kick against the pricks and
scrape the shins
i'm the enemy in the enemies now


chorus:
swallowed the pill
and drank to the fill
all these things i carry now
in this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now


try to hold the world there sinking,
swimming in a paper cup
try to own the one beneath the skin
held up to the flame still singeing
skin begins to draw and tuck
never told there's not a chance to win


what couldn't be, wouldn't be now


(chorus)


hold your hands up to the sky
and try so hard to rise above
but everything is beating down


(chorus)


sunburn


the sky was dark this morning
not a bird in the trees
silence hung suspicious and anxious
like a blanket covered scream


you were gone
you were not there for me
and i cursed the sky and begged the sun to
fall all over me
this life's not living, baby
living ain't free
and if i can't find my way back to me
let the sun fall down over me
let the sun fall down


all my friends are searching
quiet, desperately
look into their eyes you'll see the faithless
crying
save me, save me, save me


what are they to feel
who are they to be
what am i to do with, do with me, but let the sun
fall all over me
this life's not living
living ain't free
and if i can't find my way back to me
let the sun fall down over me
let the sun fall


until my eyes cry out
'til my head is free from doubt
'til my lungs sigh right out
'til i'm wiser


let the sun
fall all over me
this life's not living, baby
living ain't free
and if i can't find my way back to me
let the sun fall down over me
let the sun fall down


Jesus or a gun


walk away, i walk the wire
and my fields are burning in the flames
feel my way, blind in the mire
struggling from your voice inside my head


chorus:
but now everything's trying to drag me down
but i'll rip the sky from the ground
tell me now, who's my saving one
jesus or a gun


stripped away my last desire
nothing comes and nothing's sent away
happiness i couldn't hire
struggling from your voice inside my head


(chorus) all that's safer falls from my favor
when it's over who will cry for me


it's safe to say i don't desire
everything you push inside my head
and i'll reject it until i'm dead


(chorus)


Shimmer


she calls me from the cold
just when i was low
feeling short of stable
all that she intends
and all she keeps inside
isn't on the label
she says she's ashamed
and can she take me for awhile
can i be a friend
we'll forget the past
but maybe i'm not able
and i break at the bend


chorus:
we're here and now
will we ever be again
'cause i have found
all that shimmers in this world is
sure to fade
away,again


she dreams a champagne dream
strawberry surprise
pink linen on white paper
lavender and cream
fields of butterflies
reality escapes her
she says that love
is for fools who fall behind
i'm somewhere between
i never really know
a killer from a savior
'til i break at the bend


(chorus)


it's too far away for me to hold
too far away
it's too far away for me to hold
too far away...


guess i'll let it go


Innocent


Satan, you know where I lie
Gently I go into that good night
All our lives get complicated
Search for pleasures overrated
Never armed our souls
What the future would hold
When we were innocent
Angels, lend me your might
Forfeit all my lives to get just one right
All those colors long since faded
All our smiles are confiscated
Never were we told
What the future would hold
When we were innocent


This prayer is for me tonight
This far down that line and still ain't got it
right


And while confessions not yet stated
Our next sin is contemplatd
Never did we know
What the future would hold
Or that we'd be bought and sold
When we were innocent


Bad Day


Had a bad day again
She said I would not understand
She left a note and said "I'm sorry, I had a bad
day again.
Spilled her coffee, broke her shoelace.
Smeared the lipstick on her face.
Slammed the door and said "I'm sorry, I had a bad
day again."


And she swears there's nothing wrong
I hear her playing that same old song
She puts me up and puts me on


And had a bad day again
She said I would not understand
She left a note it said, "I'm sorry, I had a bad
day again."

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