01. HONORABLE MENTION

I served out my detention
And in the end I got an honorable mention

In the movie of my life
Starring you
Instead of me

When the moonlight
Hits your bright eyes I go blind
And maybe next time
I'll remember not to tell you something stupid like I'll never leave your side

Like the oldest movie I ever saw was the one we wrote together
I said I hate you but I'd never change a thing
I can be your John Cusack

I burnt out
My defensive
Now everything I say is taken as offensive

In the movie of my life (movie of my life)
Starring you
Instead of me

When the moonlight
Hits your bright eyes I go blind
And maybe next time
I'll remember not to tell you something stupid like I'll never leave your side

Like the oldest movie I ever saw was the one we wrote together
I said I hate you but I'd never change a thing
I can be your John Cusack

Oldest movie I ever saw was the one we wrote together
I said I hate you but I'd never change a thing
I can be your John Cusack
Be your John Cusack
I can be your John Cusack


02. CALM BEFORE THE STORM

sat outside my front window
this story's going somewhere
He's well hung, and I am hanging up
there's a song on the radio that says
Let's get this party started
So let's get this party started

What you do on your own time's just fine
My imagination's much worse, I just never want to know
what meant the world had folded
like legs and fingers holding onto what escapes me what he has
a better kiss that never lasts. You said
between your smiles and regrets
Don't say it's over
Dead and gone
Dead and gone
Yeah

Calm before the storm
Set it off, (set it off)
And the sun burnt out tonight.
Reception less than warm
Set it off.
And the sun burnt out to

This is me standing in the arch of the door
Hating that look that's on your face
That says there's another fool like me (another fool like me)
There's one born every minute
There's one born every minute

What you do on your own time's just fine.
My imagination's much worse, I just never want to know
(I just never want to know)
What meant the world imploded
Inflated then demoted all my oxygen to product gas and suffocated my last chance to say
Between your smiles and regrets
Don't say it's over
Dead and gone
Dead and gone
Yeah

Calm before the storm, set it off (set it off)
And the sun burnt out tonight
Reception less then warm, set it off
And the sun burnt out to

(Calm before the storm)
(Set it off, set it off)

Calm before the storm
Set it off
And the sun burnt out tonight
Reception less then warm
Set it off
And the sun burnt out tonight
Yeah
Sun burnt out tonight
The sun burnt out tonight

03. SWITCHBLADES AND INFIDELITY

Walking out on the show is walking out on you
And walking out on you, still the best thing that I ever did
Last night I saw my world explode. (x4)

Well, I'm looking out at you obscured by the stand up arcade
And the sound of the descendents.
Your smile reminds me of switchblades and infidelity
Walking out on the show was walking out on you
And walking out on you, still the best thing that I ever did

04. PRETTY IN PUNK

Walking off that stage tonight
I know what you're thinking
"He stands alone because he's high on himself
But if you only knew

I was terrified and would you mind if I
sat next to you and watched you smile
So many kids but I only see you
And I don't think you notice me
Well I've seen your boyfriend
and I don't think he treats you right
But that's none of my business is it

I'm not the way you think I am, no
I'm not the way you think I am, no

The only girl who ever gave me the time
was the one who only wanted five minutes of mine
Knocking boots in the back
How degrading is that
I decline

I'm too terrified and would you mind if I
sat next to you and watched you smile
So many kids but I only see you
And I don't think you notice me
Well I've seen your boyfriend
and I don't think he treats you right
But that's none of my business is it

I'm not the way you think I am, no
I'm not the way you think I am, no (x4)

05. GROWING UP

I dried my eyes, now I crust them with sleep
I'll crust them over
She begged me don't hate me
She spun me a story
Where winning looks like losing
And I'm winning every time
So thread spools sweetie, get ready
Until my silk is sold

Growing up
Growing up
Growing up
Yeah
I'll buy myself a new
Yeah
I'll buy myself a new

I've dried my eyes, now it's rushmore
I'm deep with futures like Chicago
Glenview never meant a thing to me
She never meant a thing to me
Except for putting idealists in a body bag
Forget it
I'll go out tonight to piss on her doorstep
And listen to the misfits where eagles dare to swallow whole

Up
Growing up
Growing up

I guess I'm my own better half
I guess I'm my own better half
I guess I'm on my own
I guess I'm on my own
Yeah
I guess I'm on my own
Yeah
I guess I'm on my own

06. THE WORLD'S NOT WAITING

This might just be a waste of time
But there's no one I'd rather waste
My time with than all of my best friends
So start the car up,

We'll all take turns but not for the worst
We're all hasbeens and never-were's
And we're all in the back singing "Roxanne"
Just watching life pass us by
Pass us by
As if we cared
Enough to try and catch up
Enough to make up for lost time
Enough to make up for lost time

We've been down
We've been out
We've been hanging 'round
Tip our glasses to having no direction
Start the van
Get me out of this one horse town
Waste this night

(We've been down)
(We've been out)
(We've been hanging around)
(Tip our glasses to having no direction)
(Start the van)
(Get me out of this one horse town)
(Waste this night)
Waste this night
(We've been down)
Waste this night
(We've been hanging around)
Waste this night
(Start the van)
Waste this night
(Get me out of this one horse town)
Waste this night

07. SHORT, FAST AND LOUD

She's shallow like the shoreline during low tide
But my hopes are not quite as high
Can't spot her faults but she spotted mine
She left me for herself
Considering I would too

Go figure, I'm bigger than that
Go figure, I'm bigger than that

The battles only halfway done
I might look young
But I'm no less defeated
How's the weather up there

She left me for herself
Considering I would too

Good God I wish I was tall
Good God I wish (x4)

Go figure, I'm bigger than that (x4)

08. MOVING PICTURES

Last night I saw a movie
and I thought about many movies I've seen at your house
excuse me if I'm rude
but I'd rather that we just strike from the record ones I'd see again without you
leaning on my shoulder
distracting me from the plotline

Where can I go when I want you around
but I can't stand to be around you
Go home
I'll walk myself to you
I'll walk myself away from here

Go to hell is all I thought for seven weeks
but I grew out of that phase looking at these broken photographs of people
looking glossed just like the way I still remember a summer ago

Where can I go when I want you around
but I can't stand to be around you
Go home
I'll walk myself to you
I'll walk myself away from here

Call me back I'm pleading with a cork in my head
It wouldn't be the first time
my pillow has been mistaken

Where can I go when I want you around
but I can't stand to be around you
Go home
I'll walk myself to you
I'll walk myself away from here

Can't stand to be around you
Around you, around you
Can't stand to be around you
I can't stand, can't stand
To be around you
Around you
Around you
Around you...

09. PARKER LEWIS CAN'T LOSE

You laughed off my affections
While I passed by your direction
I should have known from your walk, yeah
It was the end of you

It's not like I don't respect your opinion
Quick with lips, just rip me apart
Sometimes, it's times like this, yeah

I got a big mouth
And maybe you could handle shutting it up
A simple contradiction
Could shake my whole foundation
Parker Lewis can't lose

Taking back every step towards you
Still failing at everything I do
In the meantime just talking with my shoes
Converse with my Converse
At least they hear a word I say
And scrutinize it
Just as far as they can tell what I'm getting at
Tied my tongue around my neck
For the last time

It's not like I don't respect your opinion
Quick with lips, just tear me apart
Sometimes, it's times like this, yeah

I got a big mouth
And maybe you could handle shutting it up
A simple contradiction
Could shake my whole foundation
Parker Lewis can't lose, yeah
Yeah

This is the last song about you
This is the last song that I waste on you