-White Flag-

Stare if you stare
At the stars, the stars
They'll burn out and fall
In the fields that surround you

If you won't look up
If you keep your chin down

Raise the white flag
Just raise the white flag
If you're just gonna cave in

Just lay down and die
Just lay down and die

Trust me, trust me
I know you feel it deep down
Just breathe, just breathe If you want it bad enough
It'll come to you

You're giving up all you are
Why do you need a thousand
Eyes pointing back at you?
Why do you want your
Name in the empty banner
Of those with naught to say?

I can see you slipping
I can see you slipping away again
I can see you drowning in the midnight tide
In the tide

I can see the sunlight
Pierce through the door
You are all the things
I choose to ignore

I am a starving man who does impossible things
And you can't see fire if you're standing in flames
Just raise the white flag

Trust me, trust me
I know you feel it deep down
Just breathe,

Just breathe
If you want it bad enough
It'll come to you
If you want it
It'll come to you
But you don't want it

I can see the sunlight
Pierce through the door
You are all the things

I choose to ignore

Trust me
Just raise the white flag
Just breathe
Just raise the white flag
Burn and fall

-If He Dies, He Dies-

If you turn your head away
You will miss everything
(it's so sad)
It should mean everything
A love like this lost
And no remorse
"My son, it's just a burden of divorce"

Mark my words
I would drop everything
But a lie to the face
Is the ultimate way
Out of this

If you turn your head away
It might be easy to sleep
(but, it don't matter)
It festers underneath
The body just burns
Like open wounds
"My boy, there's just nothing left to do"

Like Oedipus
Like Laius
Like everything

-Falling In Style-

Take it all slowly
I'm a slave to the scent of your skin
And you're so lovely
Under the touch of my tongue
And you bite your lips
When you make that face
Heaven between your hips
I stand at the pearly gates

I want everything you have to give to me
So just give it to me

And I wonder
What you might be thinking
Somewhere deep behind your eyes
When I lay you down
On the bed at night
And you look back at mine

Come to me late at night when no one's around
I am the falling rain and you are the ground.

-Ivy & Wine-

Was born the son of the god of gods
Eaten alive
Saved in my father's thigh
Twice born to a mortal mother
Shot down with lightning bolts
With open eyes in the face of glory

Torn apart
Limb from limb
Payback is a mother fucker

Underneath the spell
Of the semi-precious
Holy god of ceremonial madness
Cast into the charm
Of the halfway diety
Holy god of divine ecstasy

Where is the new wine?
Dying on the vine
I want roses in my garden

I cam back to the motherland
To prove I am who they say I am
The moonstruck women
And elder statesmen
Await
Deep in the woods
Where you say you came from

-Prelude For A Ghost-

And I can feel it
Your eyes like rapid rivers
Move over me
Searching me
Like I can deal with it
Like I can take in everything
And lose you too...

-All Along-

I am no lover
I am no faultless man
Carry me closer
To where we once began
Because the days now burn
Like fresh lit cigarettes
You pull me closer
With perfect spinnerets

I feel the seams about to split
But you're wide-eyed and bushy-tailed
I won't be here forever

And I can feel it
Your eyes like rapid rivers
Move over me
Searching me
Like I can deal with it
Like I can take in everything
And lose you too
(I know you can)

I am no fucking lover
I'm just a burning bridge
These holy rollers
They just don't stand a chance
Because you speak so slow
In secret alphabets
You walk so tall now
On slender minarets

I am just a ghost

-She Is Well And Nothing Can Be Ill-

Oh my, my, my
My lonely love
Just rest your mind
And your soft green eyes
Those dirty red inflections
Are just burned into my brain
Those taunts from lesser loves
I push them all away

This is enough to kill me
(Just breathe deep)
It's just enough to run away
(Turn the other cheek)

I know it gets hard
They're out to get me
But, you'll miss the greatest part
I will do everything I can

I know you know
What I would give
To see that road
It leads to this
The cavern that we sleep in
And those perfect little trains
The lights that hang above us
And your candied leaves

The scent you gave to me
It's all that's saving me

-Counting Sheep-

Well don't cry your eyes out
On the ballroom floor
We're all murderers
In a martyr's world
So don't cry your eyes out
We're only lonely
When we're half awake

And it's only a matter of time
This pillow talk illusion
It feels so real

Just get me out of here
All you talk about is counting sheep
Anything to fall asleep
No light behind the window
Time just builds
Slowly kills

We don't give a fuck who you are
This time of night
Miserable empty arms
They tend to put up a fight
So when you open your mouth
You better bite your tongue
And God knows
You're not the only one

-Memorandum-

You're not gonna like this
The way it comes across the eye
I'm not gonna fight you
I'm just gonna open your mind
You'll catch your death out there
If you don't come inside
There's no need
To run and hide

None the wiser
Only real eyes realize
What the lies are
Realize from the start
What the lies are

I'm torn up inside from the sight of it
Young man, I'm a messenger
Yeah, a message that burns so slow
But, oh what a breathtaking scene
I'm not gonna fight you for it
I'm not gonna fight you
There's no need
To run and hide

I seldom dream of you
A dream of you would shroud my perfect view

I see clearly now
Shine so vibrantly
And stretch across the sky
As man,
We're just
Pacing back and forth
And walk between
The memories that hang
Across the earth

I see clearly now

-From May To Know-

After all this time
It starts to feel like years inside

It gets to be just like a day on avalanche
These words are a slow romance
I don't believe you would say
Anything to lead me astray

Three thousand miles from here
And nothing helps bring it near

I know you can't understand
My empty hands
I know it's times like these
These things just make you insane

I'm on the front porch with my bags packed
And where is my chariot?
I don't need golden wings
Just something that can make me free

Everything you say
It always adds another day
We are all soldiers with loaded guns
Ready for war

-Trapped Like Rats-

Bleeding a perfect war
Into deep peace
Graciously free
Overflowing
What did you say?
Push the love away?
What I feel is there forever
I thought you would know me better
There's no words
There's no feelings
Horribly trapped
Stuck like a rat
What did you say?
Push the love away?
What I feel is there forever
You've been breeding a perfect war
Breeding a perfect war
Breeding a perfect war

Hide your face
I never understood your modern taste
I fucking hate the person I've become
Just like you
One breath
And I've got nothing left for you
Breeding a perfect war
With blood
With lust
Breeding a perfect war
Breeding a perfect war
With blood
With lust
Breeding a perfect war

Into deep peace
Graciously free
Overflowing
What did you say?
Push the love away?
What I feel is there forever
I thought you would know me better
There's no words
There's no feeling
Horribly trapped
Stuck like a rat

What did you say?
Push the love away?
What I feel is there forever
And you've been breeding a perfect war
Breeding a perfect war
Into deep peace
Graciously free
Overflowing
What did you say?
Push the love away?
What I feel is there forever
You've been breeding a perfect war
Breeding perfect war
With blood
With lust
Breeding a perfect war
Breeding perfect war
Bleed perfect war
War!

-I Dug A Grave-

I dug a grave
I dug a grave for you
You and me, right off that ledge there
Your open eyes can make
A great mistake
Forget escape (forget escape)

I dug a grave for you (you)
You and me
I'd rather give up and jump off the edge tonight
To end my life
Like a dead, burned rose at the cemetary gate

Just give up in the end
Give up your problems
They haunt you
Dig into the raw nerve
It bites below the skin
Just give up in the end
Just give up in the end
Give up your problems
They drain your mind
It never mattered

I dug a grave for you (you)
You and me
I'd rather give up and jump off the edge tonight
To end my life
Like a dead, burned rose at the cemetary gate

Just give up in the end
Breathe whenever you can
And bite your tongue
If it ever mattered
You bite below the skin

Just give up in the end
Bleeding out of your hands
Your savior's gone
He was never with you

No matter what you say
No matter what you do
No matter what you think
No matter who you love
I'm gonna bury you

My inner self is bleeding out

I dug a grave
I dug a grave for you
You and me, right off that ledge there
Your open eyes can make
A great mistake
Forget escape (forget escape)
I dug a gravae for you (you)
You and me
Right off that ledge there
Your open eyes can make
A great mistake
Forget escape (forget escape)

No matter what you say
No matter what you do
No matter what you think
No matter who you love
I'm gonna bury you

(You say)
No matter what you do (what you do)
No matter what you think (what you think)
No matter who you love
You're fucking dead to me

-How To Survive Suicide-

Bright, heavy like-minds
Cutting like knives
Bright, heavy like-minds
Pulling all sides
Bright, heavy like-minds
Cutting like knives
Bright, heavy like-minds
Pulling all sides

Take away the selfish pleasure
This is better
Draw yourself a brighter picture
Live forever
With light
With light, with heat

I should ask you
Something that I've been needing
Desperately to know

Take away the selfish pleasure
Draw yourself a brighter picture
Take away the selfish pleasure
Draw yourself a brighter picture

There's a draft and a hanging shadow
Coming in underneath the door
I am lost in an aimless army
I am leaving a perfect war

As impossible as it seems to even breathe
I am living to show you light and help you find your way
We're colossal with thicker skin and built to flee
And I'll always prefer a life that sails on calmer seas

There's a draft and a hanging shadow
Coming in underneath the door
I am lost in an aimless army
I am leaving a perfect war

And I'll always prefer a life that sails on calmer seas

Bright, heavy like-minds
Cutting like knives
Bright, heavy like-minds
Pulling all sides
Bright, heavy like-minds
Cutting like knives
Bright, heavy like-minds
Pulling all sides

Take away the selfish pleasure
This is betterv Draw yourself a brighter picture
Live forever
With light
With light, with heat

I should ask you
Something that I've been needing (needing)
Desperately to know
I should ask you
Something that I've been needing

Bright, heavy like-minds
Cutting like knives
Bright, heavy like-minds
Pulling all sides
Bright, heavy like-minds
Cutting like knives
Bright, heavy like-minds
Pulling all sides

-Soul Is Dead-

My soul is gone and I've got nothing left
My mind's in the open arms of death to the lion
Tonight, I'm an apparition
Filthy kid
Bleeding on my skin again
I don't need your problems
I've got mine
I've got my own

I fucking hate the person I've become
Just like you
One breath from the soulless scum
I fucking hate the person I've become
Just like you
One breath and I've got nothing left

My mind's in the open arms of death to the lion
Tonight, I'm an apparition

How can I feel alright?
You've lost your fucking mind
How can I feel alright?
You've lost your fucking mind

It's perfect war
It's perfect war

If the axe keeps falling down
Don't let it catch your neck
Take hold of it now
And swing it the fuck back

I fucking hate the person I've become
Just like you
One breath from the soulless scum
I fucking hate the person I've become
Just like you

Nothing left
My soul is gone and I've got nothing left
My soul is gone and I've got nothing left
My soul is gone and I've got nothing left
Nothing left

-Lilac-

Maybe I've been breathing in too long
Ever since the last time I checked anyway
Burning at both ends just to feel OK
Maybe I've been breathing in too long
Ever since the last time I checked anyway

Something's pulling me
Maybe I'm seeing things, free and clearly
Or maybe I'm just fucking dead
This feeling takes me over
Endlessly in hopeless need
Maybe I'm just seeing things
Maybe I just feel like I've been
Breathing in too long
Ever since the last time I checked anyway
Burning at both ends just to feel OK
Maybe I've been breathing in too long
Ever since the last time I checked anyway

You never wait for me when you go
You've already gone
At least I know, you keep me in the sun
Away from breeding hate and dying slow
If I can't have you
You can leave me in the afterglow

These things
They always end the same
Way out of line
These things, they always end the same
Nobody gets out alive
These things, they always end the same
Way out of line
These things, they always end the same
Nobody gets out alive

They want you to be something
You will never be

Find your place
Turn your back and run

These things
They always end the same
Way out of line
These things, they always end the same
Nobody gets out alive
These things
They always end the same
Way out of line
These things, they always end the same
Nobody gets out alive
They always end the same
Way out of line
These things, they always end the same
Nobody gets out alive