1. THE CALMING COLLECTION

Collect your head, collect yourself, collect your severance
What on earth will you tell the wife and kids?
You pace the hallway till your paranoia peels (Off your feet)
We're only flesh and bone

(In disbelief, you'll see so clearly)

Burn all your clothes and all your photographs and embrace the concrete
(You'll never feel it coming)

I'll see you there
On the hinge of your life decision
Are we going nowhere till we're gone?
Shaking in our great collapse, we are

The calming collection
Just breathe in and out with me

Can we escape without the effigies?
Penniless isn't worthlessness
So just for now, spare your tears of your empty pockets

I'll see you there
On the hinge of your life decision
Are we going nowhere till we're gone?
Shaking in our great collapse, we are...


2. CARRY THE BANNER

This morning crawls
My motivation's been snowed in
And I finally caught that glimpse
Of the edge I've been avoiding

So try your best
To keep these bullets from my chest
As I wipe the blood out from your sweat
Talking seems useless, doesn't it?

Live through, live strong
Carry on and on and on
No more false-start life
At traffic lights, no

Like trying to shake a dream
You might not quite remember completely
We're killing ourselves to live
(Inhale, exhale unlike anybody)

We've just been bleeding
Feel the cold swell in your throat
When this shit is getting old

Live through, live strong
Carry on and on and on
No more false-start life
At traffic lights, no

Live through, live strong
Carry on and on and on
No more false-start life

Don't disagree
That what we've come to ain't so pretty
And all I can think
Is we're begging for change in our own way

Cry knowing
I'm the one who let you down when leaving town
A moment of clarity

Don't
Let it tear out your throat
After chasing lines all fucking night

And the wrongs you shouldn't write about
I speak from experience (Of all of the fear in us)

Live through, live strong
Carry on and on and on
No more false-start life
At traffic lights, no

Live through, live strong
Carry on and on and on
No more false-start life


3. BLEED

Four walls surround my bleeding heart by my own hand
You are an angel and I know you understand
But that don't keep the blood from rushing to my face
Or keep the darkest days away

The feeling's numb and hollow and it calls my name
It moves my feet; it's in my blood, every last vein
My words will never

You said it, you said it
Our time's a waste but you can't
Bleed this out; forget it
Drained, dried and overrated

Regret it, yeah, I regret it
Letting those words escape, but they're
Dying out now

(Come bleed this out with me) Come bleed this all out with me
(Come bleed this out) We'll have an endless dying dream
(Come bleed this out with me) We'll talk in circles in our
Sleep it off; the damage will repeat

I did it, I did it
I did it all knowing I was
Killing that, that feeling
Are we numb and out of touch tonight?

And all those hours spent in a
A panic sweat, I hope they
Amount to something
Or I've been burying myself

(Come bleed this out with me) Come bleed this all out with me
(Come bleed this out) We'll have an endless dying dream
(Come bleed this out with me) We'll talk in circles in our
Sleep it off; the damage will repeat

Four walls surround my bleeding heart by my own hand
You are no stranger and I hope you understand
But that don't keep the blood from rushing to my face
Or end the darkest days

To all the times that we forget
To take our time, swallow regret

Remember we frequent the fire, she said
Let's burn it all again; what were you saying?

(Come bleed this out with me) Come bleed this all out with me
(Come bleed this out) We'll have an endless dying dream
(Come bleed this out with me) We'll talk in circles in our
Sleep it off; the damage will repeat


4. HERE COMES TREBLE

I wrote this for my brother
I didn't mean to become a stranger
And this is for my mother
How could I ever turn and leave this place?

Now listen, Father
I need to tell you all I've learned from you
It's written on my face
As I drive 'round the world in disgrace

Does the telephone ring?


Can't wait to show you what a jaded fuck I've become
I'm officially finished singing about some better way
Because we're all so young and there's time to change
Just tell me, aren't these the reddest eyes you've ever seen?

Sitting on the steps of where my family's grown
I fold from this game
After the hundredth time, this feeling's passed over me
I'll try my best not to take my time

Making the telephone ring
I'll waste my life and never make up the time

I wrote this for my brother
I didn't mean to become a stranger
And this is for my mother
How could I ever turn and leave this place?

Now listen, Father
I need to tell you all I've learned from you
It's written on my face
As I drive 'round the world in disgrace

I'm not gonna take my time

Making the telephone ring
I'll waste my life and never make up the time
Are you still happy to see my pale face?
Oh, tell me why I rot on the inside

Dry your eyes off in half-time
We'll only speak when it matters to me
How I despise this disguise
I'll never take my time

Making the telephone ring
I'll waste my life and never make up the time
Are you happy to see my pale face?
Oh, tell me why I sit and I rot on the inside

I can't find
The words to dry your eyes
(Ain't life grand sometimes?)


5. HE WAS A JAZZMAN

I see you gripping tight to the rails of your hospital bed
You move so slow
You say the pain you feel is too great to be inside your head
I know, I know

You move so slow
Yeah

It don't mean anything to me
We start to die when we begin to breathe
But I'll keep scratching at your sympathy

I'll wander these white halls
Scale all the walls for a thread of hope
Wrap it around myself
And cross my fingers I don't choke

I'd pray if it meant anything to me
One day I'll die and finally see
What all the fuss is about
Prepare yourself for the big sleep

It don't mean anything to me
We start to die when we begin to breathe
But I'll keep scratching at your sympathy
Until you're good and ready to leave

Until you feel a lot like me
Yeah

With curved eyes, I smile
As a bad excuse sits next to you
Grinning crooked teeth
They'll all be gone soon

As the door handle swings
I'm having trouble hearing you
You think I'm crazy, don't you?

Count your bones and clean 'em good
It's come to this, just like we knew it would
We knew it would, we knew it would

The world's become a hospital
Will someone medicate us please?
I'd pray if it meant anything to me

One day I'll die and finally see
What all the fuss is about
Prepare yourself for the big sleep

It don't mean anything to me
We start to die when we begin to breathe
Yeah

Gotta count your bones and clean 'em good
It's come to this just like we knew it would
Yeah

It don't mean anything to me
We start to die when we begin to breathe
Yeah


6. SHITHAWKS

You're telling the world they're going deaf
We all become reluctant participants
With no word of consequence
Burning ears are everywhere; the looming smell of flesh

You're talking shit
And cold-hearted abandonment
But I can handle it
(Oh, feel that subsequence)

I hear you rattling them bones holding you tight
You're not alone; go fucking figure

Overcomplicated is teenage blight
Are you surprised they're giving you the finger?
Let it be known that they've got all the right

Cut me up and cut me out
C'mon, return the favour and sing it loud
Oh, louder now

I never meant quite what I said (Get over it)
My clumsy words were retrofitted
Watch what you say till you're fucking dead
And think of all the time we wasted

I've never been much for the afterglow
So let go and let's go
And watch it burn a hole
As all of the smoke escapes out the window

I never meant quite what I said (Get over it)
My clumsy words were retrofitted
Watch what you say till you're fucking dead
And think of all the time we wasted

And every breath you took that left you choked and exasperated
I'll fix my eyes down to the floor as your abilities are celebrated
Just string those words along and end up red-faced, devastated

(And if your mouth stays open, I'll start pulling teeth
Until your words catch up with you; just wait and see)

Wait for the things you do to follow you around
Wait for the things you say to bring in skies of rolling black clouds
I've never been afraid of the rain; these birds are circling overhead
We've grown suspect and I expect to lose my head one day in this horrible mess

I never meant quite what I said (Get over it)
My clumsy words were retrofitted
And all that I can smell's that stench there your breath
From talking shit on all the rest of us


7. MONUMENTAL

Ever since I pulled over
I've been looking for you in the strangest places
With desperation painted on my face
And I'm shaking as I check

Every car window in the parking lot
Swallowing these ashes whole
And know that soon I'll be en route to the hospital

You'd think I've got it all
Till tires start to crawl
I'm asleep at the wheel
This binge is monumental

Getting high in a borrowed car
And listening to the songs that got me this far
Into my own head
Just thinking of this, always thinking of this

Put on a pair of sunglasses
That turn February grey
Into everything yellow
You'll always wanna see as much of the sky

As much of the sky as possible

You'd think I've got it all
Till tires start to crawl
I'm asleep at the wheel
This binge is monumental

And I feel no pain at all
When these tires screech down to a halt
Asleep hitting the wall
This binge is monumental

Greet the world with a poker face
Through empty bottles in a haze
They won't suspect a thing now, will they?

Itemize your life in a panic state
So you can sleep at night and dream about
Never turning old and grey

Catching my breath now seems as
Useless as airplane conversations
'Cause I enjoy toiling in all of my frustrations

You'd think I've got it all
Till tires start to crawl
I'm asleep at the wheel
This binge is monumental

And I feel no pain at all
When these tires screech down to a halt
Asleep hitting the wall
This binge is monumental

Our skin is peeling from the
Searing steel surrounding us


8. FILTHY HABITS

Why won't everyone just forget about it?
I left a trail of blood with love, not violence
And I don't deserve anything you're providing
I am cold; leave me alone

I tiptoe corners these days, always hiding
My mind, it swallows whole every last distraction
And all that I'm left with are a million questions
Like, have you grown cold? Are you fucking miserable?

I just can't listen to sad songs anymore
I get fucking bored

Jealous of friendships that I can't abide by
(Jealous of these sinking ships)

Watch the water swallow all of us whole
This time, I swear it's over
Jump in with your lungs wide open
Haven't you heard? Cynics never recover

There are words that I can't even breathe
Those are the ones I've been dying to scream

Still jealous of friendships I can't abide by
(And we'll watch these sinking ships)

And the water swallow all of us whole
This time, I swear it's over
Jump in with your lungs wide open
Cynics never fucking recover

Spit on the stories you've been told
'Cause now you're so much older
It's clear you've forgotten all about this
I don't think I'll ever recover


9. LIVER ALONE

I'll force these feet to move
And I feel my liver bloom
Before the room explodes again
I smell, I smell your blood, my friend

I'll stop at nothing to get some
Fill this dirty glass for the wrong reasons

Just stop and smell the stale stench
Wafting through the air
Let it wheeze right out of you
'Cause you are lost and you no longer care

About the things you used to
You're fluid, unaware
We overflow going nowhere

Get up, get up, get up
You gotta drown it out and then drain the memory
Get up, get up, get up
Get up in arms over the way it could've been

Scratch your name through the surface again
I'll be with you, cursing the morning

(Once excitable)
Your face contorts into a mess
(Get your back up off the wall)
When six drinks just won't do the trick

So bottoms up and cheers alike
To the memory of this wreck
Have we become what our friends hate?
(Well, fuck 'em in the end)

Get up, get up, get up
You gotta drown it out and then drain the memory
Get up, get up, get up
Get up in arms over the way it could've been

Scratch your name through the surface again
I'll be with you, cursing the morning

Get up, get up and start over again
Drink up and over the edge, my friend

Poison diluted by the sea
But once the ocean rolls out
It leaves the shit behind in me

Get up, get up, get up
You gotta drown it out and then drain the memory
Get up, get up, get up
Get up in arms over the way it could've been

Scratch your name through the surface again
I'll be with you, cursing the morning


10. SLEEP YOUR LIFE AWAY

I've been in a room with my regrets
Strangled, cold and queasy now
You and all your friends have got your heads
Screwed on right; it brings me down

I heard your voice and started to sweat
You saw my eyes dart to the
Corner of the restaurant
Where we'd make excuses and horrible mistakes

(We're killing time and saving face)

And everything could work out just fine
I might as well be a blind man
'Cause I'm sick and tired of feeling around all my life

I could stare a whole year away
Just to hear that there is some good news
My heart is open, bleeding
I'm suffering from the medicine-bottle blues

I'm biting the head of small-town loyalty
'Cause I can't take it
Don't hate yourself for your blackened veins
I'm the one that cause the hemorrhage

Have you heard that love is dead?
Now remember, I'm the one who faded
And couldn't handle simple conversation
And ended up just singing about it

We don't have to laugh about it
Or ever tip our fucking hats about it
Asleep, you're falling asleep

My thoughts weigh heavy on the coldest shoulder
Is everyone alive and doing well?
I can't wait till I'm older
So you won't recognize me running like hell

And everything could work out just fine
I might as well be a blind man
'Cause I'm sick and tired of feeling around all my life

Sleep it all away and dream of something
So incomplete
I'm drowning in disaster
Next time I'll live life faster

Sleep your life away with me


11. COUNT YOUR BRUISES

From the echoed streets of The Mission
Where the night can save your life
To the rows of narrow corridors
Where the world looks nothing like

Anything your eyes have ever seen
In your entire life
San Francisco can be short and louder
Than the world at night

And the world exhales
And none of us can even stand still
Let it rain all day on our asshole parade
'Cause we're smiling still

Count your bruises one by one and laugh it off
And stick around down here with us

There's unity in detachment
We're not on trial
So let the time you spent on the Backbench
Make the life you've lived worthwhile

In a city blanketed with revolution
You can't live in denial

And none of us can even stand still
Let it rain all day on our asshole parade
'Cause we're smiling still

Count your bruises one by one and laugh it off
And stick around down here with us

Don't go living life inside those quotations
Look to your friends for your inspiration
Chicago rooftops will take me away from the ugly city
By the 405, where every palm tree dies and the world is burning alive

And none of us can even stand still
Let it rain all day on our asshole parade
'Cause we're smiling still

Count your bruises one by one and laugh it off
And stick around down here with us

Count your bruises one by one and laugh it off
Count your bruises one by one and laugh it off


12. NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS

I hate to repeat myself
But all I can do is ask the same old questions
Life changes so much in the blink of an eye sometimes
You've gotta catch up with it

Half a year spent in black
Are we riding the tails of a heart attack?
We come and go; we're free to roam
I don't think I'm ever coming back

So go ahead; retrace your steps yet again
Find a way to keep every heart beating loud
Roses mark a box that's buried underground

You can't trash determination
Breathe all the air back into your exhaustion
Brandish uneven teeth to smile (Just wear it out, yeah, wear it through)
Then all these words come spilling out to you (In this disillusion)

If this year continues how it's been
You're likely to never see my face again
So, just in case, farewell, my weathered friend

So go ahead; retrace your steps yet again
Find a way to keep every heart beating loud
Till then, live it just for what it's worth and
Know one day you will come crashing down

I'm told that's life somehow

(What we've lost this time cannot be found)
We're all in the corners, hiding our faces now
No more funerals (No fire)
And I'll miss all of you until the day I die

No more funerals
No fire

No more funerals
No fire

Have you found your way out
Of being afraid of sleeping sound
And getting stirred awake
As the night gives up like the dust that's settled

To the ground
Where we walk on buried names till we all fall down?
Have you found your way out?

Have you found your way out
Of being afraid of sleeping sound
And getting stirred awake
As the night gives up like the dust that's settled

To the ground
Where we walk on buried names till we all fall down?
Have you found your way out?