CRINGE
Wide eyed.
Knee deep in surprise.
Just below your thighs the temperature drops 5 degrees.
Your stand-by flight has just arrived.
Tongue-tied, bleeding from your eyes.
Even Christ himself would cringe at the sight of your scars.
While you're counting sheep,
I'll count my lucky stars.
You were the last good thing i ever saw.
I lost it all.
I lost it all.
burned out on 2 hours of shut-eye.
Eyes glazed at the thought of the next 8 hours.
Headwind, cold rain to wake me.
You were the last good thing i ever saw.

COP
Wonder what it was that made you this way.
Maybe as a baby you dropped your rattle
And it still rattles you to this day.
You better practice your evil looks in the mirror,

They won't work on me.
Slowly crawling up from the down low.
The other cops still call you "fatso."
Short fuse and a top to blow.
Unhappy wife, shitty life, hit the bottle.
Your whole world dropped from under you.
Left you with sorry excuses, left you with meaningless things to prove.
Like why you became a cop, why did you become a cop?
Wonder what it was that made you this way.

Maybe as a kid your toys were taken away.
And it still toys with you to this day.
You better practice your evil looks in the mirror,
They won't work on me
Slowly crawling up from the down low.
The other cops still call you "fatso."
Short fuse and a top to blow.
Unhappy wife, shitty life, hit the bottle.
Your whole world dropped from under you.

Left you with sorry excuses, left you with meaningless things to prove.
Like why you became a cop, why did you become a cop?
Shut the fuck up.
After my court date, I'll forget about you.
I'll tell my cellmates, I'll forget about you.
After the jailbreak, I'll forget about you.
After I'm through singing this song, I'll forget about you.
I'll forget about you!

SAN FRANSICO
Choking On The Thought Of Leave
Drinking To Keep From Sobbing 4 PM
4 Dollar Pints At SFO The Time And Price

With All My Happiness Aborted

The PA Painfully Starts Boarding
I Sink Deep 30,000 Feet Into My Window Seat..Electric Chair

And I Was Drinking You Goodbye
My Heart Floats In The Bay
From Sour Home Chicago And Your Being Far Away
There's No Telling What I'll Do If I Don't Return To You..

Hopeful Thoughts Of Soon Returning
Cant Put Out My Stomachs Burning

Plastic Wings And Plastic Smiles
And Salted Peanuts To Stretch My Mile

Choking On The Thought Of Leaving
Drinking To Keep From Heaving, 5 PM
5 Dollar Pints, Hellbound Airlines, Time And Price

And I Was Drinking You Goodbye
My Heart Floats In The Bay
From Sour Home Chicago And Your Being Far Away

There's No Telling What I'll Do If I Don't Return To You..

[x2]

NOSE OVER TAIL
Crack my head open on your kitchen floor
To prove to you that I have brains
Meanwhile tin men are led by little girls
Down golden roads that lead to nowhere

Fine time to fake a seizure
Feel your mouth on mine, you're saving me

Whatever happened to that silly dream you had?
I want to make it real
I'd love to rub your back
Like a plane crash that never hits the ground
I fall in love with you
I'm nose over tail for you
Your voice like the sound of sirens to a house on fire
You're saving me

AS YOU WERE
Stale as a 2 day half full beer.
cigarette boats float around in here.
a field in my gut lacking sunshine.
put down like a teenagers first drink.
i cough up compliments.
i think you're better off walking away while you still can.
she was passing through to climb a hill.
as you slipped and slid on my gut spill.
my better half was praying for you to fall.
rotten like a 3 week half full glass of breast milk.
drunken off my ass.
i would give anything to erase the past nine years of my life.
put down like a prostitute in court.
all liberty soon to abort like my sanity,
like thoughts of you.
she was passing through to climb a hill.
as you slipped and slid on my gut spill.
my better half was praying for you to fall.
praying for you to fall.
so pitiful.
praying for you to fall.
i'm fuckin' pitiful.
praying for you to fall. so pitiful.
Praying for you to fall.
So fuckin' pitiful.

ENJOY YOUR DAY
so where'd you go?
how was your vacation home?
well obviously you were busy,
too busy for me.
so this is how you leave me?
i'm broken hearted on the floor.
my tears seep through the crack under my door.
where i am locked in, shut down.
i'm so tired of picking myself up off the ground.
so happy valentine's day.
i hope the sun's out in new york.
i hope he bought you roses.
i hope he bought you roses.
so happy valentine's day.
i hope the sun's out in new york.
i hope he bought you roses.
i hope he bought you roses.

CLAVICLE
i've been on top of the world since about six months ago,
marking the first time i laid eyes on you.
i lost all train of thought as i entered the room.
i saw what looked like really good food,
then i saw you and so did you.
i wanna wake up naked next to you,
kissing the curve in your clavicle.
kissing your clavicle.
i've been on top of the world since about 1 week ago,
marking a time when i was drunk enough to talk to you.
i lost all train of thought as your eyes met mine.
told you i thought you were gorgeous.
you gave me your phone number,
i gave you mine.
before you left i said that you can bet i'll be bothering you soon.
you said, "no bother, please do."
i've called you twice.
it's been a hellish fight to not think about you all the time.
sitting around waiting for your call.
i wanna wake up naked next to you,
kissing the curve in your clavicle.
kissing your clavicle.
i wanna wake up naked next to you,
kissing the curve in your clavicle.

MY LITTLE NEEDLE
i'll come down to get you high. or maybe sing you a lullaby.
sing you to sleep,
a sleep you'll never wake from.
sing you to coma so to speak.
and when i fall down, i'll fall apart.
trade in my bike for a shopping cart.
and beg change from a world that needs some,
like i need someone.
so where are you my little needle?
the stack's been burned away,
but i'm so inebriated that i cannot see three feet in front of me.
between the moon and you,
lunacy is setting in.
lately i've been feeling dead inside,
like my guts have dried up and died.
but every night i water them back to life,
yeah every night i water them back to life.
and when i fall down,
i'll fall apart.
trade in my bike for a shopping cart.
and beg change from a world that needs some.
i'm tired of sleeping alone.
so where are you my little needle?
the stack's been burned away,
but i'm so inebriated that i cannot see three feet in front of me.
between the moon and you,
lunacy is setting in.

SOUTHERN ROCK
I can't believe my heart's still pounding
I can't believe how close I came
And meanwhile heaven's falling
The fallen angels flown away

And that'll be me someday
With stolen wings and evil ways
Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates

Hard to believe my heart stopped pounding
Hard to believe I played this game
My worst nightmares became real
I got so scared that I forgot my name
And that'll be me someday

With stolen wings and evil ways
Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates

MESSAGE FROM KATHLENE
i guess i'll always stop and see you,
and we'll run into each other's lives.
yeah, i guess.
although it tears me up inside.
everytime it burns my eyes with tears.
but i know you're worth the pain.
i've so much more to gain by waiting for you.
you're going away,
but you're not going far.
so if he decides to leave you alone and crying.
you know i'm still here, the faithful one.
waiting for a message from kathlene.
then i'll come...
faster...
than i ever thought that i could run...
cause i...
i need you more than i ever thought that i could need someone,
yeah...
someone, someone else.
that i could need someone else...
someone else.
i know i will always stop and see you and we'll run into each other's fucked up lives.
yeah, i guess.
although it tears me up inside.
everytime it burns my eyes with tears.
but your waking up is the start of my lost cause.
and then you decide to leave me alone and crying.
but you know i'm still here,
the faithful one.
waiting for a message from kathlene then i'll come...
faster...
than i ever thought that i could run...
cause i...
i need you more than i ever thought that i could need someone,
yeah...
someone, someone else.
that i could need someone else...
someone else.

TROUBLE BREATHING
you told me that you want to die.
i said i've been there myself more than a few times.
and i go back every once in a while.
you called me lucky, you...
you called me lucky.
you said tonight is a wonderful night to die.
i asked you how you could tell,
you told me to look at the sky.
look at all those stars,
look at how goddamn ugly the stars are.
it's one or another.
between a rope and a bottle.
i can tell you're having trouble breathing,
cause you'll never be o.k.,
you'll never be o.k. (you'll always be in pain).
you'll always feel this way.
cause things they never work out right
(the wrong way, the lonely way).
you'll always be in pain.
you told me that the daylight burned you and that the sunrise was enough to kill you.
i said maybe you're a vampire.
you said it's quite possible,
i feel truly dead inside.
it's one or another.
between a rope and a bottle.
i can tell you're having trouble breathing,
cause you'll never be o.k., you'll never be o.k.
(you'll always be in pain).
you'll always feel this way.
cause things they never work out right
(the wrong way, the lonely way).
you'll always be in pain.
don't forget to let your life rot you inside out.
don't forget to let your life rot you inside out.
don't forget to let your life rot you inside out.

SORRY ABOUT THAT
it hasn't been that long since we drank to the sunset,
until it was gone.
and down with it went our pain and fear,
as we slowly broke contact more and more,
with every beer.
and we passed out in each other's arms,
both admitting we'd never felt better.
never felt so warm.
but awoke in each other's eyes,
without wearing a stitch of clothing.
we were both deeply in disguise.
and maybe i just set aside the fact that you were broken hearted.
in my own special selfish way.
and if i hadn't set aside the fact that you were broken hearted.
hell knows where your heart would be today.
maybe with me.
it seems like it's been so long since we kissed through the darkness,
until it was dawn.
up with it came our pain and fear that we'd already lost each other.
we both knew that the end was near.
maybe i just set aside the fact that you were broken hearted.
in my own special selfish way.
and if i hadn't set aside the fact that you were broken hearted.
hell knows where your heart would be today.
maybe with me.
maybe with me.
maybe with me.
maybe with me.
maybe with me.
maybe with me.
maybe with me.