from the album “Them vs. You vs. Me”
PARALYZER
I hold on so nervously to me and my drink, I wish it was cooling me,But so far has not been good, it’s been shitty and I feel awkward, as I should.
This club has got to be the most pretentious thing since I thought you and me.
Well, I am imagining a dark-lit place or your place or my place.
Well, I’m not paralyzed but I seem to be struck by you, I want to make you move because you’re standing still.
If your body matches what your eyes can do, you’ll probably move right through me on my way to you.
I hold out for one more drink before I think I’m looking too desperately,
But so far has not been fun, I should just stay home, if one thing really means one.
This club will hopefully be closed in three weeks, that would be cool with me.
Well, I’m still imagining a dark-lit place or your place or my place.
Well, I’m not paralyzed but I seem to be struck by you, I want to make you move because you’re standing still.
If your body matches what your eyes can do, you’ll probably move right through me on my way to you.
FALLING ON
When you feel so close to some resolve, you write the words you were writing for,But your courage gets dissolved, into what, I don’t know.
When you feel that way again, you have to stop your thinking
And think of what you’re here for and let the rest of your feelings go.
You’ve got to find your balance, you’ve got to realise, you’ve got to try to find what’s right before your eyes,
And if you find you’ve fallen and all your grace is gone, just scream for me and I’ll be what you’re falling on.
When you feel so close to some resolve, you say the things that you’re standing for,
Don’t let your courage get dissolved cause it’s then that the fear grows.
You’ve got to find your balance, you’ve got to realise, you’ve got to try to find what’s right before your eyes,
And if you find you’ve fallen and all your grace is gone, just scream for me and I’ll be what you’re falling on.
Just give me the word and I’ll be there, just tell me the words that I’ve been living for,
Just tell me the things that I’ve hoped for, it’s do or die, this is either/or,
Just give me the word and I will be there.
I’LL KEEP YOUR MEMORY VAGUE
This won’t break your heart, but I just think it could, cause I haven’t tried as hard as I shouldTo separate you from everything I do, but I would never want to come between us two.
I’ll keep your memory vague so you won’t feel bad about me, I’ll say the things that you said sometimes so it reminds me.
Now I’m thinking back to what I said before, I hope your heart won’t have to hurt anymore,
Cause it’s really not that sad from here, because the moments I can feel you near,
They keep you close to me, my dear, and if they ever become too clear
I’ll keep your memory vague so you won’t feel bad about me, I’ll say the things that you said sometimes so it reminds me.
Now you’ve gone away, don’t worry, it’s okay that you’re gone away.
Now you’ve gone away, further than yesterday, but you’ll never leave these scenes my mind replays.
Where in the world have you gone now?
LOST MY WAY
I’m bound to wander where all of your glitter’s going,But I’m so far from knowing and none of my instincts showing.
Kick in, kick in, I’m screaming from outside in, tell me where I’ve been,
There’s nowhere to return to out there.
I think I’ve lost my way, but that’s just not news today,
Because the story’s old, the black and white have gone to grey.
And you were right cause I finally lost my way.
SO-SO SUICIDE
I felt the blisters below the words, a universe waiting to explode.And I felt the words crawl out of my skull, and now you know exactly what you should.
Don’t bother pretending I seem fine; I like that I’m a mess,
I can’t stand it much longer in my head, I think it’s time for bullets.
Became so-so suicidal and now I know the ugly from the good.
Don’t bother pretending I seem fine; I’m trying to confess,
I can’t stand it much longer in my head, but it’s not time for bullets.
WINDOW SONG
All the windows are playing their game where I won’t see outside again til I write all the fog away,I’m putting words in their place between me and the window’s pane from my inarticulate brain,
But all of the fog is erased when I write all the words that I never said to you.
Now the impulse won’t go away, ‘Distracted by something?’ you’d say,
Cause you don’t see anything; it’s just between windows and me.
Wait til it rains again and I write all the words that I never said to you.
Will you try to read these lines? Focus hard and give it time.
Who you are in my life reads as the water washes.
Now the dirt on the window is showing, I should have drawn something instead.
The dirt on the window is showing, I should never have written my head.
I should never have written what I never said to you.
SENSE OF A SPARK
Let other words fail, I don’t find it fair, but anyway, this little string keeps on pulling,I got to pull myself down some different path inside my mind,
It needs out, I got to trip myself away, but I better wait.
I get the sense of a spark, so I follow; ’I don’t believe that she knows something I know,’
I tell myself as I stay in the shadow, I tell myself not to go, but I go.
Needing to see whichever way she’s going, if there’s any way.
So far from here, there’s little fear her words could ever hurt me, I don’t want to wait.
I get the sense of a spark, so I follow; ’I don’t believe that she knows something I know,’
I tell myself as I stay in the shadow, I tell myself not to go, but I go.
Don’t look, don’t talk, don’t yell, just close your eyes,
This may or may not come as some surprise.
I’ve found obsessions, which to live and die by.
Don’t look, don’t talk, don’t yell, just close your eyes.
TALKING TO THE WALLS
No hostage has been held like I’ve been holding mine, but I’m just fine since I’ve been without you.No prisoner could climb the walls that I’ve built up in my mind since I’ve been without you.
But I’m holding down and out, I’m desperate without you.
Look at the shape I’m in, talking to the walls again.
Just look at the state I’m in, bent and broken is all I’ve been.
No universal truth this time.
No other universe but mine could ever feel as unaligned since I’ve been without you.
No instances from time to time feel like things will turn out right since I’ve been without you.
I’m holding down and out, I’m desperate without you.
Look at the shape I’m in, talking to the walls again.
Just look at the state I’m in, bent and broken is all I’ve been.
No universal truth this time, there’s no universe for you and I, there’s no one to make me realise.
CHANGE THE WORLD
I just want the best for you girl, but I don’t think I really know what that means.I know you bring the best out of me and I know you’re sick of abstract things.
But time has been kind in a weird kind of way cause I’ve been waiting for this feeling to leave.
If I can hold onto this feeling this long, maybe I can get you to hold me.
Don’t you believe, girl, you’ll change the world? At least you changed the world for me.
I won’t be sorry if you leave me, girl, cause I’m the world’s biggest fan of clichés.
I’ll set you free then I’ll love like I’m not hurting in the world’s worst ways.
But I don’t know if I can make it alone and I don’t have much more left to lose.
I can’t say for sure just where I’ll end up, I just want to end up there with you.
Don’t you believe, girl, you’ll change the world? At least you changed the world for me.
When the darkness never ends and my world’s crashing in and it starts to turn again, will you believe?
When I won’t get over you and my world splits in two, when I just can’t make it through, will you believe?
GATHER & GIVE
I would give anything that’s worth giving, I would say any line to try to get you nearer to me,But you’ve never been one to love being lied to, and this artificial side just makes me disappear from you.
So I’m gathering up the truth and I’m giving it all to you
If it’s the last thing I do cause I won’t be free till I give it all to you.
Heavy as it seems, all I’m saying, you don’t have to drag it out, kicking and screaming.
When it finally comes, I hope you hear me, then whatever chained us down becomes whatever sets us free.
So I’m gathering up the truth and I’m giving it all to you
If it’s the last thing I do cause I won’t be free till I give it all to you.
So I’m gathering up the truth and I’m giving it all to you,
There’s nothing more I can do cause I won’t be free.
It’s not as easy as you make it sound, not even when I try to sound it out,
I try my best to make it come around but it’s not that easy for me.
EASY LIFE
If I were the betting kind I bet you thought the easy life was the one you thought you’d live by,And all you had to do was decide a swimming pool size, and you’re right.
I wish there was an ending to spoil, so as long as I’m thinking, how about a great tragedy
Where I imagine fire and glass and taillights blinking? We’ll see.
And if I were the betting kind I bet you thought the easy life was the one you thought you’d live by
And all you had to do was decide a swimming pool size, well, you’re right.
I wish there was an ending to spoil, so as long as I’m thinking, how about a horrible scene
Where I can watch your hopes and your dreams just blow into pieces before me?
Is there something to learn or something to see? Because nothing to lose is not nothing to be.
Haven’t you heard the messages, haven’t you read the passages?
There’s a ghost who is going to haunt me for all my life, I’ll bet he never touches you.
I guess the differences between us three, they make our open books awful hard to read.
Maybe I’ve been painting you with all the wrong brushes too.
Maybe you really know what too much is; well, maybe you do.
I wish there was an ending to spoil, so as long as I’m thinking, how about a great tragedy
Where I imagine fire and glass and taillights blinking? We’ll see.
Because nothing to lose is not nothing to be, because nothing to lose is not nothing to me.
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