Verve Pipe

I met a girl with bottles of wine

Though i prefer red, they tasted all right

Very soon, the room was spinning

Tug of war, the floor was winning


That's when she said, i can't help but laugh when i'm caught in a lie

I'm not who you thought, but you can kiss me good night

Her mouth was full of dirty words

Then cigarettes burned afterwards, that's when she said


Having a headline must be some experience

Having a headline's a sexual experience


Letters and postcards i meant to respond

Turned out my all was just medium

Then came one that said the only thing you ever gave were bad directions

I'd say it to your face but i can't find you


Having a headline...


I loved the fame and fashion till she said you better ration the good times

I wouldn't count on the good times


Having a headline...

Turn the cushions over, tonight we're coming over

Angry once, we're not so anymore

And all that we desire is sweep the stage of fliers

It was funny once it's not so anymore


Me, i've got a supergig, got a brand new rig

I'll crank it for you all


The drummer's got a hard-on for every song he starts on

Once seemed loud, he's not so anymore

The catalog of ballads we played to clean your palates

We used to care, we don't care anymore


Me, i've got a super sound when i play around the gyms or parties

Me, i've got a super sound either way


There's not a missing link no matter what you think

Right before the break up we turn around and make up

Once stupid we are not so anymore

The fear of bargain basements are gone without a trace, yeah

We used to care, we don't care anymore


There ain't no way any super girl's gonna change my world

Or keep me down cause

Me, i've got a super rig whether at a gig or playing in my room

I can't believe that it was good for anyone, to me worth the wait

I doubt that anybody got their money's worth

But the attention sure felt great

With all eyes upon me, some filled with tears, some couldn't see


It burned like a cancer when the answer did occur to me

Creep from the cradle, but a hero's what i wanna be

Keep it moving people cause there's nothing more for you to see

I'm just a jerk, but a hero's what i wanna be yeah, oh yeah


Love me, love me sweet cowardice

Now that the thrill is mine for the moment

We really didn't need another suicide

Or a song explaining why, but it's not dignified

But i can't seem to kiss it goodbye


It burned like a cancer...

Keep it moving people...

It burned ...

Keep it.....

Erase this disaster even faster than you came to see

A creep from the cradle and a hero driven wanna be

For your abuse, but not intended for internal use

I'm just a jerk , but a hero's what i wanna be

She loves everybody she loves everyone

Like the picture taken twenty years ago that she keeps in her portfolio

He wants everybody he wants anything

And they part the rope outside the whiskey bar

A glitter gown in orbit left to satellite a waning star


I touch down in the heated land

And shiver in my bones as i look up to greet the clouds that wait for me

Washed aside by circumstance

The watercloth had cleared the answer in my mind

And you were there with me, there with me again


She loves everybody she loves everyone

The evidence sits in the vcr

He's choking on apologies, she's channeling a superstar


I tiny elbow through the crowd

Flashing lights, the music's loud, i'm questioning if this is destiny

Disappearing from the rants

Ignoring risen sycophants, i close my eyes

And you were there with me, there with me, there with me again


She loves everybody she loves everyone

Sometimes i wish we had a short term memory just enough to recognize each other's face

It would be the same old stories but you're hanging onto every single word i have to say

And to the world i'm not that clever but you would stay with me forever

I'd keep your friends from reminding, reminding you to


Save yourself, leave me behind you would if you had half a mind

I'd tell you every day's your birthday and every gift i bring could be the same

Or how i stood beside you at a shotgun wedding and the child we once would love but never came

Hearing stories that were never you would stay with me forever


But i'd forget to make money and you'd forget to


Save yourself, leave me behind you would if you had half a mind (how vulnerable you are)

Write a note to remind you you would if you had half a mind (how effortless to stay together)


For these ties you may have severed now you'll stay with me forever


And so you write on your forehead, or better yet you engrave

So when you look in the mirror, well you won't forget to


Save yourself, leave me behind you would if you had half a mind (how vulnerable you are)

Write a note to remind you you would if you had half a mind (how effortless to stay together)


If we had no memory whatsoever we would stay right here forever

I awoke to a threat that was empty, and a grandstand of i'm not through with you yet

A slamming door becomes my punctuation

I escape for a thrill ride with my friends, they agree to be temporary guardians


Man, it's so appreciated, summer day intoxicated

With those who can relate, 2 months, a day, a wakeup


Drink it down, dear brother, their generation smothers you

And we'll leave no trail to discover

Build a callus sister, they're generation blisters

Another wakeup with the morning hung over, we gonna pack up or waste another killer day

Then our heads exploded, overload when we decide


Hello... we're so out of here, hitchhike to canada with backpacks full of cigarettes and beer


Man, it's so appreciated, summer day intoxicated

With those who can relate, 2 months, a day, a wakeup


Drink it down, dear brother..

Listen up dear father, your generation bothers me and i'll leave you to grieve

With my mother

Build a callus sister, they're generation blisters


Now empty your bottles and open the throttles, there's plenty of fighting ahead

Those fists weren't made for resting your head


Shield your eyes, dear mother, from the pain that hovers

Round the mess of a man you've uncovered

Drink it down, dear brother...

We'll blister