boleh Azka, boleh Fyyas !!: 2009

THE ONLY DIFFRENCE BETWEEN MARTYRDOM AND SUICIDE IS PRESS COVERAGE
album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out {2005}

Sit tight I'm gonna need you to keep time
C'mon just snap, snap, snap your fingers for me
Good, Good, now we're making some progress
C'mon just tap, tap, tap your toes to the beat

And I believe
This may call for a proper introduction
And well
Don't you see
I'm the narrator and this is just the prologue

Swear to shake it up
If you swear to listen
Oh, we're still so young
Desperate for attention
I aim to
Be your eyes, trophy boys, trophy wives
(x2)

Applause Applause
No wait wait
Dear studio audience
I've an announcement to make
It seems the artists these days
Are not who you think
So we'll pick back up on that on another page
And I believe
This may call for a proper introduction
And well
Don't you see
That I'm the narrator and this is just the prologue
Swear to shake it up
If you swear to listen
Oh we're still so young
Desperate for attention
I aim to be
Your eyes, trophy boy, trophy wives
(x2)
Swear to shake it up
If you swear to listen
(x3)
Swear to shake it up (whispers it)

Swear to shake it up
If you swear to listen
Oh we're still so young
Desperate for attention
I aim to be
Your eyes, trophy boy, trophy wives
(x2)

LONDON BECKONED SONGS ABOUT MONEY WRITTEN BY MACHINES
album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out {2005}

Stop stalling, make a name for yourself.
Boy you better put that pen to paper and charm your way out.
If you talk you better walk you better back your shit up
With more than good hooks while you're all under the gun

Start talking "a sensationalist"
Oh he's slightly clever to just a certain extent
If you talk you better walk you better keep your mouth shut
With more than good hooks while you're all under the gun

(Panic!: meet the press)
It's time for us to take a chance
It's time for us to take a chance

(Panic!: meet the press)
It's time for us to take a chance
It's time for us...

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine,
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine,
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

I'm burning and I'm blacking my lungs
Boy you know it feels good with fire back on your tongue
If you talk you better walk you better back your shit up
With more than good hooks while you're all under the gun

Start talking "a sensationalist"
Oh he's slightly clever to just a certain extent
Well keep quiet let us sing like the doves
Then decide if it's done with purpose or lack thereof.

Just for the record,
The weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of:
A. Indifference or
B. Disinterest in what the critics say

It's time for us to take a chance
It's time for us...

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine,
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine,
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

Just for the record,
The weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of:
A. Indifference or
B. Disinterest in what the critics say

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine,
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine,
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

Just for the record,
The weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of:
A. Indifference or
B. Disinterest in what the critics say

NAILS FOR BREAKFAST, TACKS FOR SNACK
album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out {2005}

Watch your mouth
O o o, because your speech is slurred enough
That you just might swallow your tongue
I’m sure you will want to give up the ghost
With just a little more poise than that

Or… was it God who chokes in these situations?
Running late?
No no, he called in
Or… was it God who chokes in these situations?
Running late?
No no, he called in

The hospice is
A relaxing weekend getaway
Where you’re cut above all the rest
Sick and sad patients
On first name basis with all the top physicians

Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should
Take it a day at a time

That’s when you stutter something profound
To the support on the line
And with the way you’ve been talking every word
Gets you a step closer to hell
(x2)

Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should
Take it a day at a time

Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should
Take it a day at a time

I… am
Alone in this bed, house, and head
And she never fixes this
But at least she makes
I… am
Alone in this bedroom
She never fixes this
But at least she…

Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should
Take it a day at a time

Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should
Take it a day at a time

The hospice is
A relaxing weekend getaway
Where you’re cut above all the rest
Sick and sad patients
On first name basis with all the top physicians

CAMISADO
album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out {2005}

(The IV and your hospital bed.
This was no accident.
This was a therapeutic chain of events.)

This is the scent of dead skin on a linoleum floor.
This is the scent of quarantine wings in a hospital.
And it's not so pleasant, and it's not so conventional.
It sure as hell ain't normal, but we deal, we deal.

The anesthetic never set in and I'm wondering where,
The apathy and urgency is that I thought I phoned in.

No it's not so pleasant, and it's not so conventional.
It sure as hell ain't normal, But we deal, we deal.

Sit back just sit back,
Just sit back and relax,
Just sit back just sit back,
Just sit back and relapse again,

Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid,
Sit back relax, sit back relapse again
Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid,
Just sit back,
Just sit back.

You're a regular decorated emergency (2x)

This is the scent of dead skin on a linoleum floor.
This is the scent of quarantine wings in a hospital.
And it's not so pleasant, and it's not so conventional.
It sure as hell ain't normal, but we deal, we deal.

The anesthetic never set in and I'm wondering where,
The apathy and urgency is that I thought I phoned in.

And it's not so pleasant, and it's not so conventional.
It sure as hell ain't normal, but we deal, we deal.

Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid,
Sit back relax, sit back relapse again
Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid,
Just sit back,
Just sit back.
Sit back, sit back,
relax, relapse,
sit back, sit back,
ba-ba-ba-da
You can take the kid out of the fight,

You're a regular decorated emergency
The bruises and contusion,
Will remind me what you did when you wake.
You've earned a place a top the ICU's hall of fame.
The camera caught you causing a commotion on the gurney again.
(2x)

Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid,
Sit back relax, sit back relapse again
Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid,
Just sit back,
Just sit back.

Sit back, sit back,
relax, relapse,
sit back, sit back,
ba-ba-ba-da
You can take the kid out of the fight

(The IV and your hospital bed, this was no accident, this was a therapeutic chain of events.)

TIME TO DANCE
album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out {2005}

Well, she's not bleeding on the ballroom floor
Just for the attention.
Cause that's just ridiculously on.
Well, she sure is going to get it
Here's the setting
Fashion magazines line the walls now
The walls line the bullet holes...

Have some composure
Where is your posture?
Oh, no, no
You're pulling the trigger
Pulling the trigger
All wrong
(x2)

Give me envy, give me malice, give me your attention
Give me envy, give me malice, baby, give me a break!
When I say "Shotgun", you say "Wedding"
"Shotgun", "Wedding", "Shotgun", "Wedding"

Well, she didn't choose this role
But she'll play it and make it sincere
So you cry, you cry
(Baby give me a break)
But they believe it from the tears
And the teeth right down to the blood
At her feet
Boys will be boys
Hiding in estrogen and wearing Aubergine dreams
(Baby give me a break...break...break...break)

Have some composure
Where is your posture?
Oh, no, no
You're pulling the trigger
Pulling the trigger
All wrong
(x2)

Come on this is screaming "Photo op." op...
(It's time to dance)
Come on
Come on
This is screaming
This is screaming
This is screaming "Photo op."

Boys will be boys, baby!
Boys will be boys
(x2)

Give me envy, give me malice, give me your attention
Give me envy, give me malice, baby, give me a break!
When I say "Shotgun", you say "Wedding"
"Shotgun", "Wedding", "Shotgun", "Wedding"

Boys will be boys
Hiding in estrogen and boys will be boys
Boys will be boys
Hiding in estrogen and wearing Aubergine dreams

LYING IS THE MOST FUN A GIRL CAN HAVE WITHOUT TAKING HER CLOTHES OFF
album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out {2005}

Is it still me that makes you sweat?
Am I who you think about in bed?
When the lights are dim and your hands are shaking as you're sliding off your dress?
Then think of what you did
And how I hope to God he was worth it.
When the lights are dim and your heart is racing as your fingers touch your skin.
I've got more wit, a better kiss, a hotter touch, a better f**k
Than any boy you'll ever meet, sweetie you had me
Girl I was it, look past the sweat, a better love deserving of
Exchanging body heat in the passenger seat?
No, no, no, you know it will always just be me

Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?

So I guess we're back to us, oh cameraman, swing the focus
In case I lost my train of thought, where was it that we last left off?
(Let's pick up, pick up)

Oh now I do recall, we were just getting to the part
Where the shock sets in, and the stomach acid finds a new way to make you get sick.
I hope you didn't expect to get all of the attention.
Now let's not get selfish
Did you really think I’d let you kill this chorus?

Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?

Dance to this beat
Dance to this beat
Dance to this beat

Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster
Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster

I've got more wit, a better kiss, a hotter touch, a better f**k
Than any boy you'll ever meet, sweetie you had me
Girl I was it, look past the sweat, a better love deserving of
Exchanging body heat in the passenger seat?
No, no, no, you know it will always just be me

Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls,
Will you dance to this beat, and hold a lover close?

So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
Dance to this beat
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
Dance to this beat
And hold a lover close
Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster
Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster

BUT IT'S BETTER IF YOU DO
album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out {2005}

Now I'm of consenting age, to be forgetting you in a cabaret.
Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen may even ask my name
As she sheds her skin on stage
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.
The strip joint veteran sits two away
Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and lime daiquiri

And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety

But, but I'm afraid that I
Well, I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place

Well, I'm afraid that I
Well, that's right, well I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place

And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety

Well, I'm afraid that I
Well, I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place

Well, I'm afraid that I
Well, that's right, well I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place

And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety

Praying for love and paying in naivety
Praying for love and paying in naivety, oh

I WRITE SINS NOT TRAGEDIES
album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out {2005}

Oh, well imagine; as I'm pacing the pews in a church corridor
And I can't help but to hear, no I can't help but to hear an exchanging of words:
"What a beautiful wedding, what a beautiful wedding!" says a bridesmaid to a waiter
"Yes, but what a shame, what a shame, the poor groom's bride is a whore."

I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of, closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kind of things, with a sence of poise and rationality
I'd chime in "Haven't you people ever heard of, closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kind of things, with a sence of...

Oh, well in fact well I'll look at it this way I mean technically our marriage is saved
Well this calls for a toast, so pour the champagne!
Oh, well in fact well I'll look at it this way I mean technically our marriage is saved
Well this calls for a toast, so pour the champagne, pour the champagne!

I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of, closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kind of things, with a sence of poise and rationality
I'd chime in "Haven't you people ever heard of, closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kind of things, with a sence of poise and rationality

Again...

I'd chime in with a "Haven't you people ever heard of, closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kind of things, with a sence of poise and rationality
I'd chime in "Haven't you people ever heard of, closing a goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kind of things, with a sence of poise and rationality

Again...

I CONSTANTLY THANK GOD FOR ESTEBAN
album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out {2005}

Give us this day our daily dose of faux affliction
Forgive our sins
Forged at the pulpit with forked tongues selling faux sermons.
'Cause I am a new wave gospel sharp, and you'll be thy witness
So gentlemen, if you're gonna preach, for God sakes preach with conviction!

Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move.
Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move.

Just stay where I can see you.
Douse the lights!
We sure are in for a show tonight

In this little number we're graced by two displays of character,
We've got: the gunslinger extraordinaire walking contradictions
And I for one can see no blood from the hearts and the wrists you allegedly slit
And I for one wont stand for this if this scene were a parish you'd all be condemned.

Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move.
Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you, don't you move.

Just stay where I can see you
Douse the lights!
We sure are in for a show tonight
Just stay where I can see you
Douse the lights!
We sure are in for a show tonight

Stay where I can see you
Douse the lights!

Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move.
Strike up the band!
Whoa-oh, the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it, don't you get it? Now don't you move.
Don't you move
don’t you move
Strike up the band!

THERE'S A GOOD REASON THESE TABLES ARE NUMBERED HONEY, YOU JUST HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF IT YET
album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out {2005}

Please leave all overcoats, canes, and top hats with the doorman
And from that moment, you'll be out of place and underdressed
I'm wrecking this evening already and loving every minute of it
Ruining this banquet for the mildly inspiring and

Please leave all overcoats, canes, and top hats with the doorman
And from that moment, you'll be out of place and underdressed
I'm wrecking this evening already and loving every minute of it
Ruining this banquet for the mildly inspiring and

When you're in black slacks with accentuating off-white pinstripes, whoa-oh
Everything goes according to plan

I'm the new cancer, never looked better
And you can't stand it
because you say so under your breath
You're reading lips, "When did he get all confident?"
Haven't you heard that I'm the new cancer?
Never looked better
And you can't stand it

Next is a trip to the ladies room in vain
I bet you just can't keep up with fashionistas and
Tonight, tonight, you are, you are the whispering campaign
I got to them your name is "Cheap", I got to them you look like shit
Talk to the mirror, choke back tears
And keep telling yourself that, "I'm a diva."

Oh, and the smokes in that cigarette box on your table
They just so happen to be laced with nitroglycerin

I'm the new cancer, never looked better
And you can't stand it
because you say so under your breath
You're reading lips, "When did he get all confident?"
Haven't you heard that I'm the new cancer?
Never looked better
And you can't stand it

Haven't you heard that I'm the new cancer?
I've never looked better and you can't stand it
Haven't you heard that I'm the new cancer?
I've never looked better and you can't stand it

And I know, and I know
It just doesn't feel like a night out with no one sizing you up
I've never been so surreptitious
So of course you'll be distracted when I spike the punch
And I know, and I know
It just doesn't feel like a night out with no one sizing you up
I've never been so surreptitious
So of course you'll be distracted when I spike the punch
And I know, and I know
It just doesn't feel like a night out with no one sizing you up
I've never been so surreptitious
So of course you'll be distracted when I spike the punch

BUILD GOD THEN WE'LL TALK
album: A Fever You Can't Sweat Out {2005}

It's these substandard motels on the (lalalala) corner of 4th and Fremont Street
Appealing only 'cause they're just that un-appealing
Any practiced catholic would cross themselves upon entering
The rooms have a hint of asbestos and maybe just a dash of formaldehyde
And the habit of decomposing right before your very (lalalala) eyes.

Along with the people inside
What a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy

Tonight's entrants range from: a lawyer and a virgin
Accessorizing with a rosary tucked inside her lingerie
She's getting a job at the firm come Monday
The Mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney
Moonlighting aside, she really needs his money
A wonderful caricature of intimacy

Yeah (Yeah)

Oh, and not to mention the constable and his proposition for that "virgin"
Yes, the one the lawyer met with on "strictly business"
as he said to the Mrs. well only hours before
After he had left, she was fixing her face in a compact
There was a terrible crash
(There was a terrible crash)
Between her and the badge
She spilled her purse and her bag, and held a "purse" of a different kind

Along with the people inside
What a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy

There are no..
raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses
And sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses
shades of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things

Raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses
And sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses
shades of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things

Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy

Raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses
And sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses
shades of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things

Raindrops on roses and the girls in white dresses
And the sleeping with the roaches and the taking best guesses
shades of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things

WE'RE SO STARVING
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

Here we come!

Oh, how it's been so long
We're so sorry we've been gone
We were busy writing songs for you
Oh, how it's been so long
We're so sorry we've been gone
We were busy writing songs for,

You don't have to worry cause we're still the same band
You don't have to worry, you don't have to worry, you don't
You don't have to worry, you don't have to worry, you don't

Oh, how it's been so long
We're so sorry we've been gone
We were busy writing songs for you...

NINE IN THE AFTERNOON
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

Back to the street where we began
Feeling as good as lovers can, you know
Yeah we’re feeling so good
Picking up things we shouldn’t read
Looks like the end of history as we know
It’s just the end of the world
Back to the street where we began
Feeling as good as love, you could, you can

Into a place where thoughts can bloom
Into a room where it’s nine in the afternoon
And we know that it could be
And we know that it should
And you know that you feel it too

‘Cause it’s nine in the afternoon
And your eyes are the size of the moon
You could ‘cause you can so you do
We’re feeling so good, just the way that we do
When it’s nine in the afternoon
And your eyes are the size of the moon
You could ‘cause you can so you do
We’re feeling so good

Back to the street, down to our feet
Losing the feeling of feeling unique
Do you know what I mean?
Back to the place, where we used to say
“Man it feels good to feel this way”
Now I know what I mean

Back to the street, back to the place
Back to the room where it all began
Hey!
Back to the room where it all began

‘Cause it’s nine in the afternoon
And your eyes are the size of the moon
You could ‘cause you can so you do
We’re feeling so good, just the way that we do
When it’s nine in the afternoon
And your eyes are the size of the moon
You could ‘cause you can so you do
We’re feeling so good, just the way that we do

When it’s nine in the afternoon
And your eyes are the size of the moon
You could ‘cause you can so you do
We’re feeling so good, just the way that we do
When it’s nine in the afternoon…

SHE’S A HANDSOME WOMAN
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

Innocence.
Sunk the glow and drowned in covers,
send for all your absent lovers things.

Sheepish Wolves.
Looking lived in eating buttons,
Wink; just don’t put your teeth on me.

Accidents.
Let the evening in the backdoor,
filled the room ceiling to the floor.

Beat backbones.
Grazed the poem and made it strange,
I wasn’t born to be a skeleton.

Go on,
grab your hat and fetch a camera.
Go on; film the world before it happens.

Jealous orchard
the sky is falling off the ceiling
while I’m tucking fibs into a cookie jar.

Reverie
it’s useless searching in the cupboards
when everything you have is on your back.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT I’M SEEING?
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

Clouds are marching along,
singing a song, just like they do.
If the clouds were singing a song,
I'd sing along, wouldn't you too?

If you just knew, what they could do.
Oh, if you just knew, what would they do?
And if the birds are just hollow words,
flying along, singing a song.
What would they do, if they just knew,
what they could do?
Oh, if they just knew.

I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,
and it never gave a damn about me.
I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,
and it never gave a damn about me.
No, it never gave a damn about me.

I know it's mad, but if I go to hell,
will you come with me, or just leave?
I know it's mad, but if the world were ending,
would you kiss me, or just leave me?
Just leave me.

Clouds are singing a song,
marching along, just like they do.
If the clouds were playing a song,
I'd play along, wouldn't you too?
If you just knew what they could do.
Oh if you just knew, what would they do?

And if words are just hollow birds,
flying along, singing a song.
What would they do, if they just knew,
what we could do, oh, if they just knew?

I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,
and it never gave a damn about me.
I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,
and it never gave a damn about me.
No, it never gave a damn about me.

I know it's mad, but if I go to hell,
will you come with me, or just leave?
I know it's mad, but if the world were ending,
would you kiss me, or just leave me?
Just leave me.

I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,
and it never gave a damn about me.
I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,
and it never gave a damn about me.
I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,
and it never gave a damn about me.
I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,
and it never gave a damn about me.
No, it never gave a damn about me.

THAT GREEN GENTLEMEN [THINGS HAVE CHANGED]
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

Things are shaping up to be pretty odd
Little deaths in musical beds
So it seems I'm someone I've never met

You will only hear these elegant crimes
Fall on your ears from criminal dimes
They spill unfound from a pretty mouth

And everybody gets there, everybody gets their
And everybody gets their way
I never said I missed her when everybody kissed her
Now I'm the only one to blame

Things have changed for me, and that's okay
I feel the same, I'm on my way, and I say
Things have changed for me, and that's okay…

I want to go where everyone goes
I want to know what everyone knows
I want to go where everyone feels the same

I never said I'd leave the city
0I never said I'd leave this town
A falling out we won't tiptoe about

And everybody gets there, everybody gets their
And everybody gets their way
I never said I missed her when everybody kissed her
Now I'm the only one to blame

Things have changed for me, and that's okay
I feel the same, I'm on my way, and I say
Things have changed for me, and that's okay
I feel the same, and I say

Things have changed for me, and that's okay
I feel the same, and I say
(x2)

Oh… Well, things have changed for me
Come on everybody let's dance and sing
I'm singin' it all night long
Come on everybody and join along…! I'm sayin’…
Well things have changed for me
Come on everybody let's dance and sing
I'm singin' it all night long
Come on everybody and sing along…

Things have changed for me
And that's okay…!
I'm on my way, and I say…

Things have changed for me…

I HAVE FRIENDS IN THE HOLY SPACES
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

You remind me of a former love that I once knew
And you carry a little speech with you
We were holding hands walking through the middle of the street
It's fine with me, I'm just taking in the scenery

You remind me of a few of my famous friends
Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends
You remind me of a few of my famous friends
Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends

Take a chance, take your shoes off, dance in the rain
And I was flashing around and the news spread all over town
I'm not complaining that it's raining, I'm just saying that I like it a lot
More than you think, if the sun would come out and sing with me

You remind me of a few of my famous friends
Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends
You remind me of a few of my famous friends
Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends

NORTHERN DOWNPOUR
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

If all our life is but a dream
Fantastic posing greed
Then we should feed our jewelry to the sea
For diamonds do appear to be
Just like broken glass to me

And then she said she can't believe
Genius only comes along
In storms of fabled foreign tongues
Tripping eyes, and flooded lungs
Northern downpour sends its love

Hey moon, please forget to fall down
Hey moon, don't you go down

Sugarcane in the easy mornin'
Weathervanes my one and lonely

The ink is running toward the page
It's chasin' off the days
Look back at boat feet
And that winding knee
I missed your skin when you were east
You clicked your heels and wished for me

Through playful lips made of yarn
That fragile Capricorn
Unraveled words like moths upon old scarves
I know the world's a broken bone
But melt your headaches, call it home

Hey moon, please forget to fall down
Hey moon, don't you go down

Sugarcane in the easy mornin'
Weathervanes my one and lonely
[x3]

Sugarcane (hey moon) in
(Hey moon) the easy mornin'
Weathervanes (hey moon) my
(Hey moon) one and lonely

Sugarcane (hey moon) in (hey moon)
The easy (hey moon) mornin'
Weathervanes (hey moon) my (hey moon)
One (hey moon) and lonely

[Continues in background:]
Sugarcane (hey moon) in (hey moon)
The easy (hey moon) mornin'
Weathervanes (hey moon) my (hey moon)
One (hey moon) and lonely

Hey moon, please forget to fall down
Hey moon, don't you go down
You are at the top of my lungs
Drawn to the ones who never yawn
[x2]

WHEN THE DAY MET THE NIGHT
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

When the moon fell in love with the sun
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night

When the sun found the moon
She was drinking tea in a garden
Under the green umbrella trees
In the middle of summer

When the moon found the sun
He looked like he was barely hanging on
But her eyes saved his life
In the middle of summer (summer)

In the middle of summer
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night
Summer (summer)
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night
Summer, summer, summer, summer
All was golden when the day met the night

So he said, "Would it be all right
If we just sat and talked for a little while
If in exchange for your time
I give you this smile?"

So she said, "That's okay
As long as you can make a promise
not to break my little heart
or leave me all alone in the summer."

Well he was just hanging around
Then he fell in love
And he didn't know how
But he couldn't get out
Just hanging around
Then he fell in love

In the middle of summer
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night
Summer
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night
Summer, summer, summer, summer
When the moon fell in love with the sun
All was golden in the sky
All was golden when the day met the night

Summer, summer, summer, summer
In the middle of summer,summer,summer, summer
the middle of summer, summer, summer, summer
the middle of summer, summer, summer, summer
In the middle of..

PAS DE CHEVAL
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

Oh, little did she know
Couldn't let me go
Already a part of her

So, often do I need
People in between
That just can't get a hold of it

So we'll just sing it for them
Ahhh
Yeah, we'll just sing it for them
(Just can't get a hold of it)
So we'll just sing it for them
Ahhh
Yeah, we'll just sing it

It's the greatest thing that's yet to have happened
Imagine knowing me
It's the greatest thing you'd ever imagine
But you'll never know until you're there
No, you'll never know until you're there

Slow, leave walking to the world
Give your feet a chance
They'll do all the thinking
Toast, high until they find
Less pathetic wine
Until they get a better blend

And we'll just drink it for them
Ahhh
Yeah we'll just drink it for them
(Until they get a better plan)
So we'll just drink it for them
Yeah we'll just drink it

It's the greatest thing that's yet to have happened
Imagine knowing me
It's the greatest thing you'd ever imagine
But you'll never know until you're there
No, you'll never know until you're there

It's the greatest thing that's yet to have happened
Imagine knowing me
It's the greatest thing you'd ever imagine
But you'll never know until you're there
No, you'll never know until you're there
No, you'll never know until you're there

THE PIANO KNOWS SOMETHING I DON’T KNOW
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

I won't cut my beard and I won't change my hair
It grows like fancy flowers but it grows nowhere
My hair, my hair

If I could build my house just like the Trojan horse
I'd put a statue of myself upon the shelf
Of course, of course, of course

She's the smoke
She's dancin' fancy pirouettes
Swan diving off of the deep end
Of my tragic cigarette
She's steam
Laughing on the windowpanes
The never-ending swaying haze
Oh, that ever smiling maze
Oh, that ever smiling maze
Ballet

Everything's gone missing
I've lost more songs to floods
I can't prove this makes any sense but
I sure hope that it does
Perhaps
I was born with curiosity
The likes of those of old crows
The likes of those of old crows

And oh, how the piano knows
The piano knows something
I don't know

I won't cut my beard and I won't change my hair
It grows like fancy flowers but it grows nowhere
My hair, my hair

If I could build my house just like the Trojan horse
I'd put a statue of myself upon the shelf
Of course, of course, of course
Of course, of course, of course
Of course, of course, of course

Of course

BEHIND THE SEE
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

A daydream spills from my corked head
Breaks free of my wooden neck
Left a nod over sleeping waves
Like bobbing bait for bathing cod
Floating flocks of candled swans
Slowly drift across wax ponds

The men all played along
To marching drums
And boy did they have fun
Behind the sea
They sang (hey!)
So our matching legs
Are marching clocks
And we're all too small
To talk to God
Yes, we're all too smart
To talk to God

Toast the fine folks casting silver crumbs
To us from the dock
Jinxed things ringing as they leak
Through tiny cracks in the boardwalk
Scarecrow, now it's time to hatch
Sprouting suns and ageless daughters

Don't you know
Don't you know
That those watermelon smiles
Just can't ripen underwater
Just can't ripen underwater

The men all played along
To marching drums
And boy did they have fun
Behind the sea
They sang (hey!)
So our matching legs
Are marching clocks
And we're all too small
To talk to God
Yeah, we're all too smart
To talk to God
Oh, we're all too smart
To talk to God

Ooooh

Legs of wood waves, waves of wooden legs
Waves of wooden legs
Legs of wood waves, waves of wooden legs
Waves of wooden legs
Legs of wood waves, waves of wooden legs
Waves of wooden legs
Legs of wood waves, waves of wooden legs
Waves of wooden legs

Oooooh

"So close"

SHE HAD THE WORLD
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

She held the world upon a string
But she didn't ever hold me
Spun the stars on her fingernails
But it never made her happy
Cause she couldn't ever have me
She said she'd won the world, at a carnival
But she couldn't ever win me
Cause she couldn't ever catch me

I, I know why
Because when I look in her eyes
I just see the sky
When I look in her eyes
Well I, just see the sky

I don’t love you I'm just passing the time
You could love me if I knew how to lie
But who could love me?
I am out of my mind
Throwing a line out to sea
To see if I can catch a dream

The sun was always in her eyes
She didn't even see me
But that girl had so much love
She'd wanna kiss you all the time
Yeah, she'd wanna kiss you all the time

She said she'd won the world, at a carnival
But I'm Sure I didn't ruin her
I just made her more interesting
I'm Sure I didn't ruin her
I just made her more interesting

I, I know why
Because when I look in her eyes
I just see the sky
When I look in her eyes
Well I, I just see the sky

I don’t love you I'm just passing the time
You could love me if I knew how to lie
But who could love me?
I am out of my mind
throwing a line out to sea
to see if I can catch a dream

FOLKIN’ AROUND
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

Allow me to exaggerate a memory or two
Where summer's lasted longer than
Longer than we do
When nothing really mattered
Except for me to be with you
But in time we all forgot and
We all grew

Your melody sounds as sweet
As the first time it was sung
With a little bit more character for show
And by the time your father's heard
Of all the wrong you've done
Then I'm putting out the lantern
Find your own way back home

If I've forgotten how to sing
Before I've sung this song
I'll write it all across this wall
Before my job is done
And I'll even have the courtesy
Of admitting I was wrong
As the final words before I'm dead and gone

You've never been so divine
In accepting your defeat
And I've never been more scared to be alone
If love is not enough to put my enemies to sleep
Then I'm putting out the lantern
Find your own way back home

FROM MOUNTAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF CABINS
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

Lying there with a halo in her hair she cried,
there are feathers everywhere but it's fine.
You do this all the time.

Crying now,
through a rusted smile she knows
this isn't how he paid the bills before.
Drug farm entrepreneur.

Go spin circles for me,
wound relentlessly around the words we use to sling.
Oh such torturous things
always chewing up the only ones I ever mean.

If you’re going then go.
Go, go, go.
(x2)

Watch love get strangled by a kite's cold strings.
Fall comes early and summer leaves
as a storm with the car keys.

Spark your heels up against the picket fence I built.
All your wishes they will sink like stones
slowly down a lonely well.

Go spin circles for me,
wound relentlessly around the words we use to sling.
Oh such torturous things
always chewing up the only ones I ever mean.

If you’re going then go.
Go, go, go.
(x2)

MAD AS RABBITS
album: Pretty Odd {2008}

(Brendon)
Come save me from walking off a windowsill
or I'll sleep in the rain.
Don't you remember when I was a bird
and you were a map?

(Ryan)
Now he drags down miles in America
briefcase in hand.
The stove is creeping up his spine again,
can't get enough trash.

Ahhh-Ohhh...

(Both)
He took the days for pageant
Became as mad as rabbits
With bushels of bad habits
(Brendon)
Who could ask for anymore?
Yeah who could have more?
(Oh no)

(Ryan)
His arms were the branches of a Christmas tree
preached the devil in the belfry.
(Brendon)
He checked in
to learn his clothes had been thieved at the train station.
(Both)
The rope hung his other branch
and at the end was a dog called Bambi
(Brendon)
Who was chewing on his parliaments
(Both)
when he tried to save the calendar business,
he tried to save the calendar business

(Both)
He took the days for pageant
Became as mad as rabbits
With bushels of bad habits
(Ryan)
Who could ask for anymore?
Who could have more?

(Brendon)
The poor son of a humble chimney sweep
fell to a cheap crowd
So stay asleep and put on that cursive type
(Both)
you know we live in a toy.
(Ryan)
You know that Paul Cates bought himself a trumpet from
the salvation army
But there ain't no sunshine in his song
(Both)
We must reinvent love,
reinvent love,
reinvent love.

(Both)
He took the days for pageant
Became as mad as rabbits
With bushels of bad habits
(Ryan)
Who could ask for anymore?
(Brendon)
Yeah who could have more?

(Both)
We must reinvent love,
reinvent love,
reinvent love.