Lyric-a-Day.fm • Page 14

I've been having a horrible time
Pulling myself together
I've been closing my eyes to find
The old, familiar failures
I've been having a horrible time
Pulling myself together
I've been closing my eyes to find
Why all good things should fall apart

 

'Cause I'm waiting
On a future feeling
4 in the morning
How did I get here?
I gave all my love
You don't even try anymore
Would it kill you to have compassion
For anyone else?

 

Is there anyone here I know?
I look around the room
Whatever I let it go

Steve's in Germany, that's it
I try to think of anyone else
No, yeah, that's it

I resolve to make new friends
I liked my old ones
But I fucked up so I'll start again

What's the worst that could happen

 

wanna wake up wanting to listen to records,
but those old feelings elude me

 

I take risks in the stall while they talk by the bar
I won't go back outside 'til my memory starts
Erasing itself into something less brutal
Some beautiful bullshit I pretend to belong to

 

How come every outcome's such a comedown?

 

I once wrote a song,
the meaning was lost
when my words came out wrong.
But you all held it down,
you all held it to me to sing it out loud.
Just understand
that I don't want to do this again.
We grew apart,
and I can feel for once
that I belong somewhere else.

Will it sell?
And will the kids define it
as something that breaks the ground,
and all the things that don't amount
to anything at all?

 

those years were the weight giving way
so you'd startle awake
just a time just a place
just a name remembered with a photo in the frame

 

There are reasons you keep your hands tied, there's certain things you shouldn't have tried.
So if you gotta tell me something, you better go from the beginning.

 

Time passes and it tells us what we're left with:
We become the things we do

 

She's as sweet as Tupelo honey
She's an angel of the first degree

 

I think t’s really funny how you think every song is about you
You think its funny how controlling I can be still
I think it’s funny how you take my words for insults
Now you're flying in a death star far away
I think it’s funny how you said nothing can hurt you
Except your one true lover and me
I think it’s funny how you think things can’t be bad
Just all the time you wasted on me
Trust me a little

 

I can’t help this awful feeling
that I can’t erase you.

 

You say we don't talk anymore but I'm thinking we talk too much

 

Don’t let my ghost drag you down
If you don’t see me around
It doesn’t mean that I fell
Yeah I’m doing well
I got some roses to smell
I hope you smile when I’m gone
It means I had the strength to move on
To find another story to tell
To answer the bell
I got some roses to smell

 

Have you ever been close to tragedy
Or been close to folks who have?
Have you ever felt a pain so powerful
So heavy you collapse?No?
Well I've never had to knock on wood
But I know someone who has
Which makes me wonder if I could
It makes me wonder if
I've never had to knock on wood
And I'm glad I haven't yet
Because I'm sure it isn't good
That's the impression that I get

The Impression That I Get is actually pretty intense if you remove the skaness

 

Mistook those for la dispute lyrics for a minute

 

Of all the things I think I'll miss,
There's staying up with you,
Coffee, and cigarettes

 

If I ever do better than second place
I've gotta go and make a play for your heart
Like dormant volcanoes I'll be waking up on New Year's Day
I won't be sprinting to finish the race
But I could feel the butterflies from the start
It's like we're outside running and
there's nothing but the sun in your eyes

I think?

 

I've seen the future, baby: it is murder

 

Let's get fucked up and die (I'm speaking figuratively, of course)

Because today suuuuuuuucks

 

I know you think my life would stop when you're away

 

Where I want to be still seems a thousand miles away
But pretending we feel safe right here gets harder every day
It's a note to self mislaid
You ate the words you always used to say
There will be no more fucking around today

 

when they come knocking on your heart's door
choose the one who loves you more

 

Everybody knows that you'd break your neck to keep your chin up.