1. THE WEIGHT

For a moment
I felt the strength of your love
It was lightning, it was lightning
Strike down on me

I'm a lump of meat
With a heartbeat
Electricity restarts me
Strike down on me, on me

Everyday I pray
I'm the first to go
Without you I would be lost
I promised myself
I wouldn't talk about death
I know I'm getting boring

I'm a man
Holding the weight of love
But without it my strength just isn't enough
So strike down on me, on me

Everyday I pray
I'm the first to go
Without you I would be lost
And I promised myself
I wouldn't sing about death
I know I'm getting boring

For a moment
I felt the weight of your love
It was lightning, it was lightning
Strike down on me


2. SUGAR

Don't leave, don't leave,
I want you to realize when I'm gone.
My my, my my,
You are the only thing I want to own.

There's sugar on your soul,
You're like no one I know,
You're the life of another world.

You swallow me whole,
With just a mumbled hello,
And it breaks my heart to love you, it breaks my heart to love you.

Don't leave, don't leave,
When you're lost in the moment, I am home.
I tried, I tried
To make you realize when I'm gone, gone, gone.

There's sugar on your soul,
You're like no one I know,
You're the life of another world.

You swallow me whole,
With just a mumbled hello,
And it breaks my heart to love you, it breaks my heart to love you.

It breaks my heart to love you.

There's sugar on your soul,
There's sugar on your soul.

There's sugar on your soul,
You're like no one I know,
You're the life of another world.

You swallow me whole,
With just a mumbled hello,
And it breaks my heart to love you, it breaks my heart to love you.

Don't leave, don't leave,
I want you to realize when I'm gone.


3. A TON OF LOVE

I lit a match in Vienna tonight,
It caused a fire in New York.
Where is my self-control?

You gotta learn to be thankful,
For the things that you have.
Now bathe my idle soul in

Desire, desire
Desire, desire
Taken by force,
Twisted fate,
Well, what weighs more,
Down on your plate.
A ton of love,
A ton of hate,
We're waiting for,
A chance of, a chance of, a chance of,
Desire, desire
Desire, desire

I don't trust the government,
I don't trust myself,
What is a boy gonna do?

Build a church in the city,
A place to crawl with our own,
We'll give our God away.

Taken by force,
Twisted fate,
Well, what weighs more,
Down on your plate.
A ton of love,
A ton of hate,
We're waiting for,
A chance of, a chance of, a chance of,

Desire, desire
Desire, desire, desire
Desire, desire
Desire, desire
Taken by force,
Twisted fate,
Well, what weighs more,
Down on your plate.
A ton of love,
A ton of hate,
We're waiting for,
A chance of, a chance of, a chance of.


4. WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE

I've been your lover for the last time.
All your pretending; God knows that we tried.
I've been the doctor for the last time.
If we weren't so good at it we'd have both been fine.

I knock you down,
Bruise you with my words,
I patch you up,
Now it's your turn.

What is this thing called love that you speak?
Cause we're out of it.
We're out of it.

What is this thing called love that you speak?
Cause we're out of it.
We're out of it.

We built this city, now we tear it to the ground.
This fight is over, hear the bell ringing out, it's the end of the final round.

You knock me down,
Cut me with a stare,
You patch me up,
Now it's my turn.

What is this thing called love that you speak?
Cause we're out of it.
We're out of it.

What is this thing called love that you speak?
Cause we're out of it.
We're out of it.
We're out of it.

What is this thing called love that you speak?
Cause we're out of it.
We're out of it.

What is this thing called love that you speak?
Cause we're out of it.
We're out of it.


5. HONESTY

Don't you want me to stay?
Make a rocking horse getaway
The radio said we're in for a fall
The TV says nothing at all

Out of my window it echoes my heart
I've been checking for change since the start
Collide into me, I could do with a fight
Collide into me, cause it feels right

Does the honesty deceive?
Try to find a way to leave this party
Take it out on me
Cause all the honesty
Shuts this place down

Your bowling ball eyes have nothing to say
They knock me over again anyway
Collide into me, I could do with a fight
Collide into me, cause it feels right

Does the honesty deceive?
Try to find a way to leave this party
Take it out on me
Cause all the honesty
Shuts this place down

The broken hearts of my neighborhood
Lay cast aside like dreams in Hollywood
With the boarded up windows and the closing sales

Does the honesty deceive?
Try to find a way to leave this party
Take it out on me
Cause all the honesty
Shuts this place down

Does the honesty deceive?
Try to find a way to leave this party
Take it out on me
Cause all the honesty
Shuts this place down


6. NOTHING

The sun said nothing
About my demise
My fall to the floor

Sparks from your stare
Cascade into mine
Started a war
Started a war

Monday morning
Hungover, red eyes
Hide it all the way

We walk through a crowd of strangers
Two minutes from your door
You lived there all your life

Every conversation within you
Starts a celebration in me
Till I got nothing left
I got nothing left

Out of it you handle it for everyone
Take a poison dart to my heart and then I'm gone

Every conversation within you
Starts a celebration in me
Till I got nothing left
I got nothing left

These floorboards creaking
My body's old
The sun casts a shadow
At dusk that cuts through your bones
Your body and soul

Every conversation within you
Starts a celebration in me
Till I got nothing left
I got nothing left
I got nothing left
I got nothing left


7. FORMALDEHYDE

Would you butcher my love
To understand it
To know where it lies?
Cut a hole in my heart
Fill a hole in your life

I'm yours to dissect
Now does every heartbeat
Burn white heat in your blood?
Formaldehyde

The tissue and bone
And my soul has on loan
Begs to be near you
Are you listening carefully?
Then we shall begin

Now does every heartbeat
Burn white heat in your blood?
I hope it doesn't matter
I hope we swim up out of this flood

Of formaldehyde (I'll never let you go)
Formaldehyde (until the end of time)
Formaldehyde (I'll never let you go)
Formaldehyde (nothing on my mind)

Smother my love, entertain it
My mind's gonna wander
Are you listening carefully?
Then we shall begin

Of formaldehyde (I'll never let you go)
Formaldehyde (until the end of time)
Formaldehyde (I'll never let you go)
Formaldehyde (nothing on my mind)

I'm lost in a love that's a mile wide
Drowned in a bath of formaldehyde

Now does every heartbeat
Burn white heat in your blood?
I hope it doesn't matter
I hope we swim up out of this flood

Of formaldehyde (I'll never let you go)
Formaldehyde (until the end of time)
Formaldehyde (I'll never let you go)
Formaldehyde (nothing on my mind)

I'm lost in a love that's a mile wide
Drowned in a bath of formaldehyde


8. HYENA

Call me and tell me you care,
There's a country to flatten over there.
Don't bore me with the truth,
I live alone, don't you?

Write down the things I should say,
There ain't enough hours in the day,
Perfect my cold stare,
Tell your friends I did a dare.

But don't you understand?
The hunger makes the man.
With all that lies in front of us,
The world looks so ridiculous to me.

Laugh with me hyena.
Laugh with me hyena.
Laugh with me hyena.
Laugh with me now.

I love you, I love my black eye.
These knots I'll never untie.
They'll believe us in who we are,
There's history in a scar.

But don't you understand?
The hunger makes the man.
With all that lies in front of us,
The world looks so ridiculous to me.

Laugh with me hyena.
Laugh with me hyena.
Laugh with me hyena.
So laugh with me now.

Laugh with me now,
Laugh with me now,
Laugh with me now.

Laugh with me hyena.
Laugh with me hyena.
Laugh with me hyena.
So laugh with me now,
Laugh with me some then.


9. TWO HEARTED SPIDER

I wanna come over,
I want to come over,
And tear the place apart with you.

In the arms of a lover,
A two hearted spider,
I'm just a mess for you.

Oh, my na'veté,
Oh, my fickle views,
I feel my blood boil,
As our shadows fuse.

Every move you make,
Breaks me, breaks me.
Every smile you fake,
Breaks me, breaks me.

Let's build ourselves an island,
I want it now,
If they build a prison,
I'll knock it down.

Oh, my na'veté,
Oh, my fickle views,
I feel my blood boil,
As our shadows fuse.

Every move you make,
Breaks me, breaks me.
Every smile you fake,
Breaks me, breaks me.

I saw our shadows dance before the dawn,
I saw our shadows dance before the dawn,
And it breaks me, breaks me,
Breaks, breaks me, me, me, me.

Every move you make,
Breaks me, breaks me.
Every smile you fake,
Breaks me, breaks me now.

Every move you make,
Breaks me, breaks me.
Every smile you fake,
Breaks me, breaks, breaks,

Every move that you make.


10. THE PHONE BOOK

I'm on watch here
So close your eyes and get some rest
I'm here to watch your heart
It's been faulty from the start
I'm the ribs in your chest

I'm not an angel
I never mean to make you cry
Jumping through my hoops
With dissention in the troops
And a smile inside

What's that over my shoulder?
Fear of getting older
Stay with me

Sing me a love song
From your heart or from the phonebook
It don't matter to me
I'm an apple, you're the tree
It won't fall when you're shook

What's that over your shoulder?
Fear of getting older
Stay with me

It ends with a kiss
It ends with a tear
It ends with the lights out
Bathed in our fears

Tell me nonsense
I don't want to see
I saw the lightning
Cut through the last winter sky of the year

Stay with me
Keep with me


11. BIRD OF PREY

Every lie you've ever been told
The greatest story ever told
The circling bird of prey
Above a church on a Sunday

I wrap myself in you
A little something that I can cling to
Oh, there you are, my love
There you are, my love

Rain down through my hands
Scream out like children
My heart is a church bell ringing

You are a shiver
The gold and the silver
My heart is a church bell ringing

Every lie you've ever been told
The greatest story ever told
The circling bird of prey
Above a church on a Sunday

Rain down through my hands
Scream out like children
My heart is a church bell ringing

You are a shiver
The gold and the silver
My heart is a church bell ringing
To the birds.