Good Mourning

I thought that you were joking
When you said you couldn't breathe
You said you couldn't breathe
Turns out that you were choking
On a town you couldn't leave
You knew you'd never leave
It met your disapproval at the age of 8 years old
You were only 8 years old
From then on there was no removal
From that one way dead end road
That one way dead end road

I thought that you were laughing
When you cried your eyeballs out
You cried your eyeballs out
And i don't mean to be prying
But what were you so sad about
What are you still sad about
Met your disappointment at the age of 9 years old
You were only 9 years old
From then on there would be no ointment
To take away these burns
To make that pain grow dull and forever ain't that long
When your smile's stuck in your head like a pop song
All you think about is death
Your dirty head has gone unswept for way too long now
For way too long now

I thought that you were sleeping
When i found you there in bed
I found you there in bed
When i touched you you were freezing
It turned out that you were dead
It turned out that you were dead
It met your disapproval at the age of 8 years old
You were only 8 years old
From then on there was no removal
From your fucked up head and your broken home and forever ain't that long
When your smile's stuck in your head like a pop song
All you think about is death
Your dirty head has gone unswept for way too long now
For way too long now
For way too long now
For way too long now

i've got a dying urge to feel the way you do
too close for comfort, bed and breakfast in a spoon
the shortest breath of your young life
a long walk home on friday night
you made, one last stop at the store
so close to perfect, swear to hell thought it was you
this bouncing baby boys now turning baby blue
i've got your pictures on my walls, i got a long list of calls i must make...
to your existing family
you had 9 lives and one by one you chewed them up
your final coffin nails been driven far too much
this won't take long you said i'm not going far
go wait in the car
go wait in the car

i often wonder whats it feels like to be you
a mess like this stuck on your hands with crazy glue
ran out of time, no kiss goodbye
wish i oculd learn to let this sleeping dog die
with out lying to myself
you had 9 lives and one by one you chewed them up
your final coffin nails been driven far too much
this won't take long you said i'm not going far
go wait in the car
go wait in the car
you had 9 lives and one by one you chewed them up
your final coffin nails been driven far too much
this won't take long you said i'm not going far
go wait in the car
go wait in the car

ive got a book of matches
ive got a can of kerosene
ive got some bad ideas, involving you and me
i dont blame you for walking away
i touch myself at thoughts of flames
i shat the bed and layed there in it
thinking of you, wide awake for days
wide awake for days
and i found you tounge tied
my twisted little brain
you couldnt crack a smile
i didnt catch your name
i dont blame you for walking away
id do the same if i saw me
i swear its not contagious
four short steps we can erase this

step one, slit my throat
step two, play in my blood
step three, cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing
out of the house
step four, stop at lake michigan and wrinse your crimson hands

you took me hostage and made your demands
i couldnt meet them so you cut off my fingers
one by one
one by one
im like a broken record
ive got a needle scratching me
it injects the poison of alchohol IV
i dont blame you for walking away
id do the same if i saw me
i swear its not contagious
i swear to god its not contagious

step one, slit my throat
step two, play in my blood
step three, cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing
out of the house
step four, stop at Berkley Marina and wrinse your crimson hands

you took me hostage and made your demands
i couldnt meet them so you cut off my fingers
one by one

this could be love
(love for fire)
this could be love
(love for fire)
this could be love
for fire, for ever more

step one, slit my throat
step two, play in my blood
step three, cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing
out of the house
step four, stop off at pittsburg peir and wrinse your crimson hands

you took me hostage and made your demands
i couldnt meet them so you cut off my fingers
one by one
one by one

In the shadows where their heads hang low
You hear voices as the wind blows
Asking can't you see
Reminding you to breathe
It's only time before it catches up
To you and all your broken luck
I found a better way
To get even with my memory

In the darkness where the angels cry
Give us water, give us back our lives
I'll press this concrete floor
And it's all we have left to live for
They will never face
We're only second hand
It's sick and lonely fighting back the tears
Had every urge to fangle both our ears

That said we've had enough
Please turn that fucking radio off
Aint nothin on the airwave in the despair we feel

In the shadows where their heads hang low
You hear voices as the wind blows
Asking can't you see
Reminding you to breathe
It's only time before it catches up
To you and all your broken luck
I found a better way
To get even with my enemies

That said we've had enough
Please turn that fucking radio off
Aint nothin on the airwave in the despair we feel
That said we've had enough
But walk among us all and turn it up
Aint nothin on the airwave in the hatred we feel

This is our biggest fear
The only tunes that we hear
Come via antenna through your car radio

That said we've had enough (We've had enough!)
That said we've had enough (We've had enough!)

So it began this way, i can't recall how it got started
So it began this way, I don't recall a thing
And all in all I guess it's for the better if you don't remember anything
Sit and Sing
There was a time when everything we did seemed second nature
There was a time when everything we did seemed free
And all in all I guess its for the better if you dont remember anything
Sit and Sing

[Chorus]
And I wanted you to know it was you
that we were thinking of as we quietly died in the snow
A place we'll never leave
A place we never wanna call home
A place we'll call the final resting place in pieces

So it began this way, i don't recall how we got started
So we end this way, no trace of us in spring
And all in all i guess its for the better if you just can't feel a fucking thing
Fall Asleep

[Chorus]

[Bridge]

[Chorus]

thats it

It's about time that I came clean with you
I'm no longer fine, I'm no longer running smooth
I though that I found myself under something new
Just one more line I repeat over and over again
'Till I'm blue in the face with a choking regret
Because I talk in circles 'round you on my bed
Can't say I blame you one bit when you kept it all inside
When you left that night

It's about time that you got sick of me
No longer fun, and so far from interesting
I thought that I found me a cure for feeling old
Just one more line to keep me sleeping loudly and cold
In disgraced with a shameful regret
As I talk in tongues to myself in my bed
Can't say I blame you one bit when you kept it all inside
When you left that night

And all that followed fell like mercury to hell
Somehow we lost our heads for the last time
And all that followed fell like mercury to hell
Somehow we lost our heads for the last time

And I don't dream since I quit sleeping
And I haven't slept since I met you
And you can't breathe without coughing at daytime
And neither can I
So what do you say?
Your coffin, or mine?

train appeared intown one night
for some of us it changed our lives
a few of us never saw it coming
like the fire it disappeared
it happens at a wonderful age
with the traffic lights
your mind can change
we made up rules to follow for good
no wonder we're I fucked up
and some of us did
the night never ends if we never go inside
the moon is always full
your calender is always pinned on summertime

[chorus]
were you planning on staying forever
you don't fit in this hole
or don't you remember
hold your breath
walk don't run through the graveyard

train appeared in town one night
for some of us it saved our lives
a few of us never saw it coming
like the fire it disappeared
it happens at a wonderful age
with the traffic lights
you mind can change
We made up rules to follow for good
no wonder wer'e I fucked up
and some of us did
I'm just scared I may never say goodbye
I won't be around
to hold you down and pry open your ears
as we watch

[chorus x2]

isn't this why you worked so hard?
isn't this why you've run so far?
same place, same hello, same goodbye
helps you get through beat up insides

[chorus x2]