"All At Once" (2011)

• All At Once lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Numb lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Changing lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• All For A Woman lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• It Doesn't Mean A Thing lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• The Kids Are Ready To Die lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Welcome To Your Wedding Day lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Half Of Something Else lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Strange Girl lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• All I Ever Wanted lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• The Graveyard Near The House lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Tokyo Radio lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Parson Redheads lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Halie lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

All At Once lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

We were born without time
Nameless in the arms
Of a mother, a father, and God
When the world would wait for us
A thousand years in the crush
Of our eyes, fearless, and awed
So quietly, we'd fade into sleep
With nothing on our mind(s)
Hoo, hoo, hoo..
And then we longed to be loved
In the rush, we become
Some things we thought we'd never be
We were surprised by how hard
Left wary and scarred
From the nights spent feeling incomplete
And all those evenings swearing at the sky
Wishing for more time
All the promises we broke when we tried
Just wastin' all our time

Hoo, hoo..

We grow old all at once
And it comes like a punch
In the gut, in the back, in the face
When it seems someone's lied
And our parents have died
Then we hold onto each other in their place
And I feel the water risin' around us
Maybe that's okay
Yeah, I feel the world changin' all at once
I guess it'll be okay

Hoo, hoo, hoo..

And we all had one hope
There was someone lookin' down
To return our bodies to each other
And the ground

Numb lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

I've been in a daze
It seems like days that I've been waiting
For this dream to pass
It goes so fast
It seems nothing lasts
I think I've lost something

Stuck here with these people
Wide awake, the crush of bodies in one space
I feel your hot breath on my tongue
I wonder where you've gone

And the ever-turning spinning wheel of people, places, lies
I feel the restless beat of the sleepless night to come

I just want to be numb

Hopeless these three years like smoking gears
I go from place to place just aimlessly and half asleep
Like I'm falling alone in some endless breach

I don't know where I am
I don't know what I've done
I just go over it and over it again and again and again
I can't sleep at night
I cant breathe
But If I drink tonight, I'll get you off my mind

And the ever-present pit I feel
I'm turning on some spinning wheel
The faces and the scenes I see
And none of it seems real to me
Just the bleary haze of the morning still to come

I just want to be numb [x5]

Changing lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

All these buckets of rain, I've heard enough about.
You say that I lied.
I am a gentleman didn't I ask for a place I could stay?
What were we both thinking?
The next part just got in the way.
You were just always talking about changing, changing
What if I was the same man, same man, the same I always was?

All these things that you say,
like I'll forget about the mind-numbing games that you play.
I am a gentleman, didn't I pay for every laugh every dime,
every bit every time and then you feed me some line.
I won't hear one more word about changing, changing
Guess what I am the same man, same man, same man I've always been.

Days pass and turn into weeks, when we don't even speak.
We just lay wide awake and pretend we're asleep.
You go home alone and you're checking your phone
and you're looking at me like I'm something you own.

All these buckets of rain, you can't forget about it, you say I never tried.
I am a gentleman, didn't I answer every time that you call, pick you up when you fall
But you never listen at all
You were just always talking about changing, changing
Guess what I am the same man, same man.
Changing, changing
Guess what I am the same man, same man.
Changing, changing
Guess what I am the same man, same man.

All For A Woman lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

All of these grateful looks
All these grateful eyes
All these furious stares, these fretful sighs

Promising everything
To everyone
"We'll be back soon,
You're my favorite one"

"I'll keep it quiet"
"I'll hold you dear"
The whispering fills the ear

"Tell me you'll stay,
We would have such fun"
And the lie you don't need anyone

And the screams, the wails, and the calls
The headiness of the fall
Ten thousand miles from where we began
I fell asleep with a picture in hand

It was all for a woman

You say that you're grateful for the time alone
Two years away, "No, I don't miss home"
And someone asks you if you ever think of her
And you smile politely and you demure

But then all at once your head starts to swim
And you can feel her breath on your skin
You find that you stare at the same spot for days
She's above you, below you in ways

And you're shivering cold
Like you're just ten years old
And she's lying asleep in your bed
And you're standing beside her
The light from inside her
Filling up the darkness in your head

It was all for a woman

And you've drowned in the teasing
You've forgotten the reason
The muse inspires the art
You'd give anything for her to say them once more
The words you believed at the start

Ten thousand miles from where it began
Falling asleep with her picture in hand
It was all... it was all
For the look in her eyes
For the promise and the lie of a woman

It Doesn't Mean A Thing lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Well I never knew my mother
But I can't say it was so bad
She was still a girl of seventeen on the night she met my dad
He was just six months out of Chino
Trying his hardest to stay clean

And they'd sing and they'd sing and they'd sing
Like doves sleeping with broken wings
In a bed made for a king
It didn't mean a thing

It was a shotgun forest wedding
But they forgot to bring the guns
They were too busy counting promises
To the children not yet born
No one could afford the ride
They just hitched up the 101

And they'd sing and they'd sing and they'd sing
Like doves dancing with broken wings
With a view fit for a king
It didn't mean a thing

There was a loneliness they would confess
Like the world had gone bad, I guess
So they'd hold hands looking to the eyes of God
They'd say "Tell me why'd you hide from us?
Why'd you fill this world with wickedness?
Why'd you spare us from your grace, but not the rod?"

Now my dad says, "Fuck the details,
Just keep your head down hard
You got to find yourself alone
Before you'll find the eyes of God
You may be broke and scared and mad and tear
At the flesh of your heart-strings
But you were born to be a peasant not a king
So just stop acting like you're running from something
You're gonna leave the way you came without a thing
With your heart tied to your mind tied to a string
You just sing and you sing and you sing"
It doesn't mean a thing

The Kids Are Ready To Die lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

All these inanimate places feel like they're changing.
And the kids all lined up on the wall look like they're ready to die.
These forms they're sending me, it's like they just rearrange them.
We were caged up like animals questioned and ready to cry!

'Cause I was just 13 when I got my first taste of danger.
Standing by the church, I had a bottle and a pen in my hand.
Oh I said, "Father, I'm sorry. I just don't know what to do with this anger.
And this behavior is correctable. I know this wasn't part of your plan."

Oh but punks like us, we were always receiving instruction.
And you could burn our clothes, you could wash out the ink and the dye.
But you can't look me in the eye and say you don't feel like a little destruction.
And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die.
And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die.

All these days just seem like they're getting longer.
The view from my room is a gloomy and overcast grey.
The weakness we left behind seems to be getting stronger.
I swear there's something in the air, and I don't know what anyone could say.

'Cause I saw it in the news this morning, there was another
Boy by the side of the road, he had a gun in his hand.
And I thought "Well what could you say to make it ever make sense to his mother?
'Oh ma'am, he was excitable, we were just trying to make him a man.'"

But the day will come when it falls like a cheap house of plastic.
And the cards that were dealt, will be tossed like a storm in the sky.
'Cause you can only lie for so long before you get something drastic.
And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die.
And the kids are lined up on the wall and they're ready to die.

Welcome To Your Wedding Day lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

It's another fine day of nation-building
Let's have a parade
You can dance on the graves and the bones of their children
If you know what to say

And you know it's begun from the beat of the drum
And the screams from the mouths of babes
And we pray as we're watching the charade
Welcome to your wedding day

And it's a damn good day
For the heart and the mind
And the party's happening here
If you'll avert your gaze form the word on the sign
Let me whisper it in your ear
Cause the sign says "run"
Cause the sign says "run"
Cause the sign says "run"
Cause the sign says "run"

And you know it's begun from the crack of the guns
And the screams from the mouths of babes
And we pray as we're watching the charade
Welcome to your wedding day
Welcome to your wedding

"And we want peace"
"Yeah, we want peace"
"And we don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We don't negotiate with terror"
"We only watch them beg."

And you know it's begun from the crack of the guns
And the screams from the mouths of babes
And we pray as we're watching the charade
Welcome to your wedding day
Welcome to your wedding

Half Of Something Else lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

On the night that we met
You said that you wanted
Something more from me
And it was all that I could do

I remember your face, like a child
The way that you blushed and
The way that you smiled

And now it's all that I can do
And I wake up feeling new
There's so much more I never knew

So I think of all the years spent alone
It's like you're searching for something
To make you feel whole

Like you're half of something else
Like you're half of something else
Just a fraction of yourself

Don't take it so hard;
We did what we could
There were no easy answers
To be understood

It was all that we could do
We're the only ones who knew
Now all I think about is you

The way that you screamed
The way that you cried
The way that you wipe your eyes
And fall against my side
The way that you told
Told me I was wrong
And the way that you'd sing
When you'd hear a song

And the way that you answered
When you knew I was gone

Now I know that I'm blind
And that you're all I see
And yeah I know it's not clever
But I just want you with me

I'm only half of something else
I'm only half of something else
I'm only half of something else

Strange Girl lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

It was an old song from,
"Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me" that she sang
It was an old line
I kept it with me, with me, with me when she rang

You're such a strange girl
You're such a strange, strange girl
You're such a strange girl

It's all been erased
Everyone is telling me
It's slightly deranged
Everyone is telling me

We traded blindness for wisdom
And some lines around our eyes
But you just act like it was a fact of life
It didn't come as a surprise

You're such a strange girl
You're such a strange, strange girl
You're such a strange girl

And no you can't ever go home
Everything has changed and people are gone
Some close your eyes
You try to summon a song
And you feel your life falling under you like a slide,
Like a slide

It was an old song
I once knew every note and every line
It was a long night
When I carried you and you carried me for a time

You're such a strange girl
You're such a strange, strange girl
You're such a strange girl

It's all been erased,
Everyone is telling me
It's slightly deranged,
Everyone is telling me

I dreamt of your face
And what the song was telling me
Time has made it all obscene
And trapped us in our dreams

All I Ever Wanted lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

I can only say these things to you while you're sleeping.
I hear the hum from the wires, the sounds of the morning creeping.
I lie awake and pretend, you can hear me.

You tell me that you're scared that you're turning into your mother.
I feel myself turning into my father.
We could lie to each other like they do and say we're so happy.
It's easy when you're young and you still want it so badly.

And I feel my heart pounding
And I think I might scream.

I can tell you that you're all I've ever wanted, dear
I can utter every word you'd ever hope to hear.
I shudder when I think that I might not be here forever, forever, forever.

All the nights you whisper like a ghost and you look so shaken
You're so quiet and small and you tell me you want to be taken.
I just never think of you as the kind of girl who would say that
You suddenly seem like some faceless thing in my grasp.

Your eyes so wide, your face aglow,
It's the face of someone I don't know.

I can tell you that you're all I've ever wanted, dear
I can utter every word you'd ever hope to hear.
I shudder when I think that I might not be here forever, forever, forever.

All I can think is that it must be a kind of rebellion,
To arm your fears like soldiers and slay them.

I can tell you that you're all I've ever wanted, dear
Through the din of your breathing while you're sleeping here,
You wake and you ask me if I'm gonna be here forever, forever, forever.

Your face so twisted and your eyes alight,
I want to tell you I can change it when you cry at night,
But I'd be lying.
Love is defying.

The Graveyard Near The House lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

The other day when we were walking by the graveyard near the house you asked me if I thought, we would ever die. And if life and love both fade so predictably, we've made ourselves a kind of predictable lie. So I pictured us like corpses lying side by side in pieces in some dark and lonely plot under a bough. We looked so silly there all decomposed, half turned to dust in tattered clothes, though we probably look just as silly now.

Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye all this dog-eared innocence. I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next or how to be.
But you have no idea about me. Do you?

And it left me to wonder if people ever know each other or just stumble around like strangers in the dark. Cause sometimes you seem so strange to me, I must seem strange to you. We're like two actors playing our parts. Did you memorize your lines? 'Cause I did. Here's the part where I get so mad. I tell you that I can't forget the past. You get so quiet now and you seem somehow like a lost and lonely child and you just hope that the moment won't last.

Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye all this dog-eared innocence I can't pretend that I can tell you what is going to happen next or how to be.
But you have no idea about me.
You have no idea about me.
Do you?

Still, there's always a way around. There's something tying our feet to the ground. A moment passed, we hear how it sounds. And it seems a little less profound, like we're all going the same way down. Yeah we're all going the same way down.

I'm just trying to write it all down.

Cause I write songs, and you write letters. We are tied like two in tethers, and we talk and read and laugh and sleep at night in bed together. And you wake in tears sometimes, I can see the thoughts flash across your eyes. They say, "Darling will you be kind? Will you be a good man and stay behind if I get old?"

Then the letters all pass through my head, with the words that I was told about the fading flesh of life and love, the failures of the bold. I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will.

And I'll defy every one and love you still. I will carry you with me up every hill. And if you die before I die, I'll carve your name out of the sky. I'll fall asleep with your memory and dream of where you lie.

It may be better to move on and to let life just carry on and I may be wrong. Still I'll try.

Cause it's better to love whether you win or lose or die.
It's better to love whether you win or lose or die.
It's better to love and I will love you until I die.

Tokyo Radio lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Well the radio waves, that crowd, the sky,
The buildings, trees, and the power lines.
I'm ten thousand miles away,
From home.

And the DJ shakes me in my seat,
I'm sorry I haven't slept in weeks,
It's a waking dream at best,
I could use a little less.

So I finish the song, and the DJ sings,
And I stare at the ground, and I tune my strings,
We got three days to the show,
I got nowhere else to go.

All the bowing and waving, so goddamn polite,
I was thinking of jumping from my window last night,
I got one more year to live,
I got nothing left to give.

Hello from Tokyo [x5]

Parson Redheads lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Sometimes the people that you meet in your life can seem
Just like characters that populate some quiet childhood dream.
It's so easy to get caught up in just one poetic line,
While the Parsons have their cross to bare,
I know I've got mine.

And it's a quiet night in Silver Lake, all the people crowd this scene.
Well they look so much like cardboard cut-outs placed upon a screen,
And I feel this sinking feeling as Missy grabs my hand,
And we lose ourselves in the harmonies, the white-robed beauty of this band.

(Aaaahh Ooooohhh...)

And the singers all cry as she whispers in my ear,
and I stare down at the ground, holding tightly to my beer,
Do you feel the strain between us, yeah I know I feel it too,
And I wish I believed in anything as much as the Parson Redheads do.
I wish I believed in anything as much as the Parson Redheads do.

Halie lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Haile, I've been wonderin' lately
If you ever thought about maybe
Spendin' some time here

You know me
How these days are so lonely
And everyone just tells you
What they think you want to hear

Hey ey ey Oh e Oh e Oh
I can barely think about anything at all
I wonder if you'll ever know

Hey ey ey Oh e Oh e Oh
I forgot the words to this song and no one knows
Just tell me, how am I supposed to feel

Haile, you think that you could just save me
The trouble of trying to think clearly
When I only want to drown

And these problems
I never know how to solve them
I only know how to say them
And keep my head down

Hey ey ey Oh e Oh e Oh
I can barely think about anything at all
I wonder if you'll ever know

Hey ey ey Oh e Oh e Oh
I forgot the words to this song and no one knows
Just tell me, how am I supposed to feel

Hey ey ey Oh e Oh e Oh
I can barely think about anything at all
I wonder if you'll ever know

Hey ey ey Oh e Oh e Oh
I forgot the words to this song and no one knows
Just tell me, how am I supposed to feel

Hey ey ey Oh e Oh e Oh
I can barely think about anything at all
I wonder if you'll ever know

Hey ey ey Oh e Oh e Oh
I forgot the words to this song and no one knows
Just tell me, how am I supposed to feel