"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

"Such Hot Blood" (2013)

• The Secret lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Timeless lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• What's In A Name lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• The Storm lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Safe lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Bride And Groom lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• True Love lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• This Is London lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• The Fifth Day lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Elizabeth lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

The Secret lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

The sound of the engine, the feel of the tires
Your hands on the wheel, and the smell of the fires
Streetlights and headlights on a road that goes nowhere
She left you, she left you
But you know she's still out there
And somehow it always seems
Like you are waiting for something
And somewhere they're dancing the night away madly
And the sweat fills their eyes as they're clutching so sadly
So you struggled for words you could never find somehow
And there's nowhere to hide, 'cause the secret's
Out now
Out now
It's out now
Out now

Somehow it always seems, like you'd wake up from a dream
She never knew you, she only knew what she heard
So just once you'd pull her close and you'd whisper the words

That you hated yourself for the things that you gave her
That you stole with your mind, when your heart was impure
So you think you'd forget, all these nights like a sickness
And there's nothing for miles, everywhere in the darkness

But somewhere they're dancing the night away madly
And the tears fill your eyes, as you're clutching her sadly
And you searched in yourself, but could not find an answer
Now the feeling grows inside of you like a cancer

And the roar of the engine on a road it's just endless
And a ghost is with you everywhere in the darkness
You struggled for words, you could never say somehow
But there's nowhere to run, 'cause the secret's
Out now
Out now
It's out now
Out now

Somehow she always knew.

Timeless lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

As she disappeared alone in the darkness,
I felt her spirit stay in the room.
And I wished that our lives were just endless
Cause it's all too short, and I'm leaving soon.

I want to hold on to all of the people I lost,
I want to keep them with me.
we will never part.

We are, we are,
We are timeless, timeless.
Everything we have, we have,
Everything oh my god.
You are, you are,
The only thing that makes me feel like,
I can live forever, forever.
with you, my love.

I see her, they run through the tall grass
Such thoughtless minds, I wish I was thoughtless too
Well this hole in my heart, that I cannot abide
Just want you to stay with me tonight.

We are, we are
We are timeless, timeless
Everything we have, we have,
Everything oh my god.
You are, you are,
the only thing that makes me feel like,
I can live forever, forever
with you-

Just help me through this moment
After everything I told you
How the weight of their loss is like the weight of the sun.
I see their faces near me,
I hear their voices callin,
It was like their lives were over before they begun.

oh ooohoohohoh oh

We are, we are
We are timeless, timeless
Everything we have, we have
Everything oh my god
You are, you are
The only thing that makes me feel like
I can live forever, forever
with you.

We are, we are
We are timeless, timeless
Everything we have, we have
Everything oh my god
You are, you are
The only thing that makes me feel like
I can live forever, forever
with you, my love

oh ooohoohohoh
With you, my love.

What's In A Name lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

There was nothing you could do but turn away
They told the fathers to hide all the girls away
It's just a name, a name, a name, a name, what's in a name?

And you were sleeping by the time I found you there
I said “It's a shame we got to cut off all that hair…”

But it's all right, I just hope it's nothing bad
You can call me if you're sad, I don't care what you father said

We were running through the halls of the middle school
Writing our names on the sides of the public pool
Like two ghosts in flight on a sleepless night, we were alive

And you told me you were scared of suicide
On the night that your best friend's brother died

But it's all right, I just hope it's nothing bad
You can call me if you're sad, I don't care what you father said

And I was lost in you dancing around in your living room
You said your mother's in the back on Valium
And she sleeps so hard that you wonder if she's alive

And so I parked my bike outside your house
You said, “There's nothing you could do to make me come out”
Because your daddy said I was the worst one yet, it was a lie, a lie, a lie, a lie

‘Cause I always loved the way you looked in the firing line
Just dancing around in some old sweater of mine

But it's all right, and I just hope it's nothing bad
Just promise me you won't get mad, I don't care what you father said

This is not a game. It would be a crying shame
I mean, honestly, what's in a name? Tell me, what's in a name, a name, a name...

Oh we were so young, we were so wrong

The Storm lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Before it took you away
I tried to think of something I could say
I watched the shadows in the hall
How they danced with the light and the white on the walls

Your face in these pictures looks like a poem
Your eyes lit up like a river stone
Your body so much like a blanket thrown
On a warm bed at night, like a house in a storm

Then you walk right through the doorway
You tell me you're here to stay
The worst is gone and by God I love
If you'd been here this way

I surprise myself sometimes
The way the days unfold and this road unwinds
You tell me you see it too
And the miles seem like inches when I think of you

Its been 25 day since I've been gone
25 weeks since I've seen my home
I spent 25 months chasing this song
and all of this time I've been alone

Then you walk right through the doorway
You tell me your here to stay
The worst is gone and by God I love
If you'd been here this way

And you knew it all along
I wasn't happy all along
and your body all I wanted
let me to just come home

Then you walk right through the doorway
You tell me you're here to stay
The worst is gone and by God I love
If you'd been here this way

And I only just learned how to stand like a man
I've got 25 years of running instead
How could I see the ground at my feet
The truth is to me that I was caught in the storm
That I wasn't alone

Safe lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

It was early for a summer
All the people and the noise from the bar
You in your gray dress, your arm on the window
You said, what's the difference, what's the difference?

Just say it to me
Just say it to me
And let's not make it a thing
It will be OK, babe

And that was love, when we were sober
And you're so nervous and all
And the air is getting colder

OK everything, everything, it's everything
Everything, everything, it's everything
Everything, everything, it's everything
Everything, everything, it's everything
Everything, everything, it's everything
Everything, everything, it's everything
Everything, everything, it's everything
Everything

Do you really want to hear that?
Why is everyone staring?
Were you happy?
Were you honest?
Did you ever believe that any of this was real?

We can't just slow down now
It is not safe for driving out this town
I wanted just one thing from you

Everything, everything, it's everything
Everything, everything, it's everything
Just say it to me
Everything, everything, it's everything
Everything, everything, it's everything
Just say it to me
Everything, everything, it's everything
Everything, everything, it's everything
I don't care if you mean it
Everything, everything, it's everything
Everything

We can't just slow down now
It is not safe for driving out this town
I wanted just one thing from you
And mean it

So you got out of the car
You left your bag in the backseat
And walked inside
And that was love

Bride And Groom lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

This city is haunted by the ghost of failure
I am one and you are one
We've spent this whole time on the run
From a lie that I told
That you closed your eyes and you chose to believe

So now you ask me for honesty
Just to take a second, breathe
I'm not good enough for you
You were never good enough to me
No one's ever good enough to be
Or have something so naïve

When I broke my hand on your car
When you told me you were leavin'
And I begged for your forgiveness
My broken fingers bleedin'
My heavy heart repeatin', afraid,
Just stay here with me

Then you took your clothes off instead
And you danced around my room
Don't worry, you said,
'Cause the end is coming soon
And we'll meet again someday
And we'll toast these stunning ruins
For the bride I'll never be
And the groom

Now I picture you like snowflakes
Like desperate pouring rain
Like the beating of the drum
In the parade of the insane
You are the whisper in my ear
When I wake and no one's here
There's just the echo of your name

So now you ask me for honesty
I close my eyes, breathe,
I'm the one who always is
So ready to leave
To be a distant memory
To be a ship disappearing in the sea

And I crashed upon your rocks
When I heard your voice singing
And I begged for your love
With my busted ears ringing
My hopeful heart repeating
You are more than the promise of the sea

Then you took your clothes off instead
And you danced around my room
Don't worry, you said,
'Cause the end is coming soon
And we'll meet again someday
And we'll toss the cursed ruins
Of the bride I'll never be
And the groom

True Love lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

My heart, my head
My head, my head
This blood, this bed
This bed, this bed

If I can feel the angels falling down around my head
Their bodies spinning endlessly in circles 'round this bed
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love

'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love

And you don't know what to do sometimes
and you're just lost there for days
And everyone tells you just calm down
remember what she said

And she's standing by the record store
She's got her whole life in her hands
She says she's crazy man but I'm crazy too
And I'm crazy for what we had

It was true love, it was true love
It was true love, it was true love

It was true love, it was true love
It was true love, it was true love

It was true love

And everyone told me that I was wrong
But I thought that it wasn't true
And everyone told me that I was wrong
But I'm going home with you
'Cause I was there

And I tore myself apart that night
Just wondering where you had gone
With the [?] in the alleyway
And all the angels on your lawn

They're standing here in front of me
You got the whole life in your hands
I know I'm crazy love, but you're crazy too
You're the only thing in my prayers

'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love

'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love
'Cause it's true love, 'cause it's true love

'Cause it's true love

And everyone told us just go find
a [?] song
But they don't know a god damn thing about us
Or a thing about holding on
'Cause we were wrong

This Is London lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

This is London, the place where you're a god or a disgrace
The whole wide world at your feet to see the look upon your face
And you watch the BBC and you think, "Well, what if that was me?"
Such a promising life to waste.

You told me, "Just be brave. Remember all the gifts you gave.
And how you felt like you were saved,
Like you were singing from beyond the grave."
And you said you'd wait for me until the day I could sing on key
"There's just something about your face."

Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me,
And I wanted us to be fast asleep, closer than anything to me,
Like we were home again...

There was just no way to know what was real and what was show
A future unfolding before my eyes, and a past that I could not let go
And how the feeling is so deep
when you're running down the London streets
Like there's nowhere left to go.

Among the faceless dizzy whores, the unimaginable bores,
Evenings stumbling from the pub, mornings shivering on the floor
Then the careless way you say, "Yeah, we were just glad we got to play."
When you're empty to the core.

Then you'd call, I could feel your body fall down next to me,
And I wanted us to be fast asleep, closer than anything to me,
Like we were home again.
I'm so tired of the rain.

This is London, the place where you get lost without a trace
Among the beautiful remains of this shattered human race
All the words that go unsaid, all the sacrifices of the dead,
"We'll fall quietly into the past or we'll just burn the streets instead"
In the clamoring of the crowd, you think, "I'll just stay quiet, instead."

All the fallen dizzy angels crawling through the street,
The pleas of people weary on their feet,
And you're half a world away from me,
As the clouds drown the light.

I wonder where you are tonight.

The Fifth Day lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

And I was alone
On the fifth day since you've gone
This broken glass; this early morn
I rub my eyes in the haze
I'm not sleeping anyway
I watch the sun rise up
In the city where I was born

I could call you now
Wouldn't matter what I'd say
Words just aren't enough
I hear our song; press repeat
I smell your perfume on the sheets
You always said, "Boy, you're not so tough"

And only now can I say,
"No matter how I shake and shape
It's these things that make you a man"
And frozen mind begins to thaw
You think, "My God, my God, my God
Where was it I began?"

"I wish you were," is what I'd say
If you asked me in the light of day
But these nights are like a dream I can't shake
And there's your hair and there's your head
And there's your empty place on the bed
I wish I could scream myself awake

But I won't go back to what I was
And I know now that you are lost
It's your choices that make you a man
And frozen mind begins to thaw
You think, "My God, my God, my God
Where was it I began?"

Elizabeth lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

There’s a distance in your eyes
That’s why a smile is always a surprise
When you call and you talk to me
I wonder which person you’re going to be
She said, all your songs are sad songs
Why do you always have to see the worst of it
Could you write me just one love song?
Put my name somewhere in the middle of it
It’s not hard to write Elizabeth
Just close your eyes boy and take your best guess
Cause the truth is hard, isn’t it?
She said “I’ll be listening in my favorite white dress”

All these quite afternoons,
She said, “I wonder if I’ve given up my love too soon”
As her hair fell from her curls
I said you’re pretty uptight for a Mexican Girl
She said, all your songs are sad songs
Why do you always have to make me feel like shit?
Could you write me just one love song?
And put my name somewhere in the middle of it
And if you call the song Elizabeth
All my friends will know it’s about me
Cause the truth is hard, isn’t it?
Don’t take too long, I just know you’ll come back to me

I said all these songs are love songs
Just love at times can make you feel like shit
So you write a string of words down
It’s better if there’s some truth in it
It’s true I love you Elizabeth
I love the way you move in that silly white dress
Because the truth is hard to admit
I’ve never known love
This is just my best guess.

The Airborne Toxic Event other songs:

A Letter To Georgia lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

How can I explain to you
The picture of this avenue
The rain falls on the street outside
And I wonder why on this Tuesday afternoon
I sit alone inside
Same four walls I lived inside
So many lives I lived and died
None so much as I lived with you
I see you on the highway
A thousand miles away
Rain falls through your hair and cheeks
Your tears and mascara streaks
Your face reflected in the glass
Lines in the pavement go past
Just like the lines around your eyes
That held the weight of endless sad goodbyes

Everybody that I know
Thinks that I should just let you go
You run from everything you see
You hurt the ones you love like me
But here I sit and picture you
Your fingers worn and your shirt torn too
Your heart so big and broke in two
Your mind drifting through all you knew
Afraid to love
Afraid to lose
Afraid to start
Afraid to choose
Afraid to live
Afraid to die
Afraid to let the days slip by
Afraid you'll change or stay the same
Afraid you'll lose yourself again
Afraid of the truth that love
Can cause you so much pain
I know
I felt it too
I know, I know
Darling I wish it wasn't true

Duet lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

I've been away for far too long

I've had my mind wrapped around this one song

I heard last week on the radio while

Driving near that place we used to go

Where the track homes all look the same

With the roofs and the tiles and the similar frames

All these streets are so wide and these cars are so lame

And on every block I heard the whisper of your name

I spent so many evenings in my head

I'd lie alone on an unmade bed

Counting the minutes like numbered clocks

Should I call, should I write, should I read, should I stop?

I'm a child, I'm a ghost, I'm a slur, I'm a boast

I'm a prince, I'm a king, I'm a ryhme, I'm a ring

I'm unable to sleep, I'm unable to sing

I'm a desperate and lonely, frightened, unholy thing

And you'd say la la la I'm so glad I'm over you

As you reach for your drink and you tell me you like my shoes

And I smile like a wretch, there's not much else I can do

I say I know what you mean, yeah it's weird for me too

Besides what would I sing about if I had you?

Kinda sounds like la la la...

La la la...

I think maybe it was Radiohead

That had this weird little beat and a keyboard instead

Of guitar playing chords, I remember how bored

You would get with those bands

You always said they play the same three chords

And you'd dance around in your t-shirt and sing

Don't you love Modest Mouse and adore Promise Ring?

Don't you wish that you could just avoid everything?

Join a band, go on tour, and think of me when you sing?

And I'd think la la la yeah that sounds okay to me

And you'd fall on the bed and I'd fall down to my knees

And I'd smile like my life depended on it

That's so weird I was mostly right about that

Always eager to love and eager to leave

La la la la la la la la la la la la la la...

And I'd think la la la all these songs are so untrue

As I stare at this space inside of you

And we don't belong and it sounds so wrong

And you're beautiful with that gray scarf on

I think yeah okay but maybe it's just the song

And I miss you but it might just be the song

Neda lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

I held my head in my hands, and I trembled.
The cries from the crowd and the girl in the camera.
I said, in a prayer, a kind of surrender I wished her peace, wondered what she rendered.

Neda, you made a place for the innocents, a prayer for the dissidents.
Afraid I gave up; I never thought the world could be so small.

And the loss of your innocence wasn’t enough, I guess.
The cost of what you’re holding in wasn’t everything.
All the leaders say, "they’ll forget someday,"
but what you’d live to see would take their breath away.

These ragged smoldering lines and these embers,
the cries in the night to say they remember the face of a girl,
who faithful and tender, wanted only peace and not to surrender.

Neda, your mother can’t cry for your memory or mourn for the tragedy.
They tore your grave up.
I never thought the world could be so small.

And the loss of your innocence wasn’t enough, I guess.
The cost of what you’re holding in wasn’t everything.
All the leaders say, "they’ll forget someday,"
but what you’d live to see would take their breath away.

And the flowers on your grave. ??
And the things you gave away were another kind that day.
And the flowers on your grave.

And the loss of your innocence wasn’t enough, I guess.
The cost of what you’re holding in wasn’t everything.
But all the people say, "we won’t forget the day, and what you lived to see takes our breath away."

Neda, you made a place for the innocents, a place for the dissidents.
We nearly gave up.
I never thought the world could be so small.

"The Airborne Toxic Event" (2009)

• Wishing Well lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• Papillon lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• Gasoline lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• Happiness Is Overrated lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• Does This Mean You're Moving On? lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• This Is Nowhere lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• Sometime Around Midnight lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• Something New lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• Missy lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• Innocence lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• The Winning Side lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• This Losing lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT
• The Girls In Their Summer Dresses lyrics - the airborne toxic event

Wishing Well lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

Standing on a bus stop
Feeling your head pop
Out in the night
In the kind of night
Where you want to be out
On the street, on the street
Crawling up the walls
Like a cat in heat

And the air is thin
And it blows through your skin
And you feel like something
Is about to begin
But you don't know what
And you don't know when
So you tear at your hair
And you scratch at your skin

You wanna run away, run away
Just get on the fucking train and leave today
And it doesn't matter where you spend the night
You just might end up somewhere in a fight, in a fight
Or calling your room on a concrete shelf
Fighting all alone, with yourself, with yourself
And you just wanna feel like a coin that's been tossed
In a wishing well, a wishing well
A wishing well, a wishing well
Well you're tossed in the air
And you fell and you fell
Through the dark blue waters
Where you cast your spell
Like you were just a wish that could turn out well

So you stand on the corner
Where the angels sit
And you think to yourself,
"This is it, this is it
This is all that I have
All I can stand
Is this air in my lungs
And this coin in my hand."
That you tossed in the air
And I fell, and I fell
All the way to the bottom
Of the well, of the well
Like those soft little secrets
That you tell, that you tell
To yourself when you think
No one's listening too well

And the walls spin
And you're paper-thin
From the haze of the smoke
And the mess calling
The threat of your brow
Under unmade sheets
In your ear with the noise
From the darkest streets
We ran far and wide
You screamed, you cried
You thought suicide was an alibi
But you were always a mess
You were always aloof
Yeah, it's awful, I guess
But it's the awful truth
It was truth from the first
To the last words that she read

And she emerged from the dark
Like a ghost in my head
She said, "I haven't forgot
Any words that you said
I just stare at the clocks
And I cry in my sleep
And I tear up your letters
And I burn them in heaps
And I gather the ashes
In that hole in the ground
Where we fell"

Papillon lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

All dressed up, no place to run
No car, no girl, no pills, no fun
Nothing to do in this empty room
I gotta get my head together soon

Alone again, no plans, no friends
You call me up at half past ten
You say "How are you holding up my friend?
Are you sitting around getting drunk again?"

And I hear the desperation of those lines
Wasted hours, all this wasted time
Oh yeah, I been just fine!

Then you're at my door in an hour more
I stumble down from the second floor
And we're swaying and braying
We don't know what we're saying

And you grab my shirt, you're way so curt
I swear to God that this doesn't hurt
When you stare like that, you put on that act
You say something and then you take it back

And I feel as though I've done something wrong
Oh, how I miss you and your gun

And I wish I had the guts to scream,
"You know, things aren't always what they seem"
When you walk away, I want you to stay
Don't leave me here to pace and pray

All these nights I burnt, the hours I turned
You think that by now I learned
That you're only what you pretend to be
I guess that was just lost on me

I can't stand the way you look at me in that dress
Oh, happy, I will be alright I guess
If I wasn't such a mess

I'm such a mess

Gasoline lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

..Five, six, seven, eight!

All the time, awake
You're still on my mind
But we were on our own
Almost all the time

And she'll step away
For a second or two
And I close my eyes
And I think of you

We were only seventeen
We were holding in our screams
Like we'd torn it from the pages of some lipstick magazine
And you scratch and turn
And say, "let's burn ourselves up 'til we scream"
Like gasoline

Those tender days
At your mother's house
And your father would find my hand inside your blouse

But they tell me that
You're married now
Oh my dear, I fear I can't understand how

When we were only seventeen
We were holding back our screams
Like we'd torn our lives from the pages of some girly magazines
And you scratch and turn
And say, "let's burn these sheets down to the seams"
Like gasoline

I was only twenty one
I wasn't having any fun
And the words you said tore through my head
Like bullets from a gun
And I shoulda just shown up and said,
"Get in this car, let's run"

And these years have seen so many imitations turning green
Each like the last, they go right past like credits on a screen
But your memory blazes through me
Burning everything
Like gasoline
Like gasoline
Like gasoline

Happiness Is Overrated lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

And speaking of
Little Miss Catherine
I feel swell, oh well
Because losing you
Was something I always...

Did so well
I guess I just can't tell anymore
And the feeling I get when I see your clothes spread out on my floor
Oh, I'm such a bore, I'm such a bore
I don't do anything anymore
I just count these ceiling tiles falling to my floor

Sorry, I nearly lost my head
I'm sorry, I nearly lost my head
But you know those words that you said
They get stuck here in my head
And this feeling I dread, it makes me wish I was dead
Or just alone instead, I'll be alone instead
I don't need anyone in this bed
Just these ceiling tiles falling through my head

Sorry, I really lost my head
I'm so sorry, I really lost my head
Oh, those words you said

Does This Mean You're Moving On? lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

And the funny thing is, it has no end
I try to call you up, at 2am
In a crowded bar, your ringer tones
Grab my mind

I can see you through the phone,
The phone, the phone
And I'm wide awake at home
At home, at home
So I think I'll see my coquette
And hope you don't catch
The bourbon on my breath
My breath, my breath

Catch a cab outside on Seventh Street
And the cars fly through the Bowery
I come to your door and I hear a moan
Then another voice, so Christ, she's not alone
Alone, alone
And my heart sinks like a stone
A stone, a stone
And the tears won't even come
I feel so numb
So swept aside, so dumb
So dumb, so dumb

When the words are wrong
And my patience gone
Will you tell me
Does this mean you're moving on?

From the balcony, you call my name
I see you standing in the rain
Your words so dry, your face so wet
Said I broke your heart,
But it hasn't happened yet
I'll bet, your friends all hate me now
I get the strangest looks,
From that bitchy crowd
And though, they must think
They have every reason to
I guess I'm still not quite yet over you

When the words are wrong
And you're hanging on
Another guy's arm
Does this mean you're moving on?

This Is Nowhere lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

We all sit on the curb
And we stare at the rain in our boots
The car, the clouds, the sky
While Ishmael wraps himself in the sheet again
He'll clench the fists and close his eyes
I don't know how many times I can loan him my cigarettes
When I don't even know if he's alive
Do prophets lie?
It makes me feel less horrified

And my closet's filled with
All these endless accouterments
These shoes, these scars, these shirts, these ties
And these things I say to make myself feel good again
I'll speak, I'll write, I'll laugh, I'll lie
I can't bear to sit here and drink myself sick again
Another night
When everything I know was just a lie
And I don't even know where I'll sleep tonight

I got nothing to do but stare at these walls
And take some time to screw my head on right
We all ended up alone, wasted here at Silver Lake
We'll work, we'll feed, we'll change, we'll try
I can't make any sense of this or you or anything
I'm wide awake, and all our parents lied
It's not alright, and all our words collide
Awake all night

Sometime Around Midnight lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

And it starts
Sometime around midnight
Or at least that's when you lose yourself
For a minute or two

As you stand
Under the bar lights
And the band plays some song about forgetting yourself for a while
And the piano's this melancholy soundtrack to her smile
And that white dress she's wearing, you haven't seen her
For a while

But you know
That she's watching
She's laughing, she's turning
She's holding her tonic like a cross
The room suddenly spinning, she walks up and asks how you are
So you can smell her perfume
You can see her lying naked in your arms

And so there's a change
In your emotions
And all of these memories come rushing like feral waves to your mind
Of the curl of your bodies, like two perfect circles entwined
And you feel hopeless, and homeless, and lost in the haze of the wine

And she leaves
With someone you don't know
But she makes sure you saw her, she looks right at you and bolts
As she walks out the door
Your blood boiling, your stomach in ropes
And then your friends say "What is it? You look like you've seen a ghost."

And you walk
Under the streetlights
And you're too drunk to notice that everyone's staring at you
You don't care what you look like
The world is falling around you

You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her
You just have to see her

You know that she'll break you in two

Something New lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

What's passed these hands?
All these drugs and one night stands
So I tremble when I think of what she'd do
She'd say something like, "You're no good,
You're like the junkies in this neighborhood"
We all need a fix, I guess I need one too
But I'm trying madly to calm these nerves with something new

I got this heavy debt, I've got nothing left
But this daunting weight slung 'round my neck
You got the callous mouth, all your endless doubts
We spent this fifteen weeks, trying to work it out
Do you think we're getting to something new?

Oh God, not another fight
I'm always trying to get the details right
I remember when you told me you felt saved
When you promised you'd lay flowers on my grave
Just like they used to do
Is it something new?

And now here I stand with these blood soaked hands
On this sleepless night, that never ends
And these songs I sing
With these hopes that I cling to
Desperately wondering
Are we finally getting to something new?

Is it something new?
Are we finally to something new?

Missy lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

Missy got off the bus one day in a crowded depot, downtown LA
She looked around as if to say, 'I'm home'
Well I'm home

I find someone to love
And some place to drink
And some time when I can just sit and think
And I don't mind if I catch the stink of these drones
Lord, of these drones
Just as long as I'm never alone

She had eyes as big as porcelain plates
And skin as thin as paper drapes
And she loved the Lord the way an apostate loves songs
And she'd sing to him before she went to sleep,
"I pray to you, my soul to keep
You're shepherd, then I'll be your sheep until dawn
Oh until dawn
Well I'd follow you, even if it was wrong"

I met her one night at the coffee shop
Her face so bright, my heart just stopped
Hello my dear, I fear I'm not what I seem
Not what I seem
I should've become a better man
I should be more deserving than
The beggar, thief, and courtesan I've been
Oh, that I've been
Well I swear, I lie, I curse all of my dreams

But I swear there's still some good in me
And I think if you stuck around you'd see
All the honest attempts at integrity, I was had
Maybe if you helped me, I'd get it right
I stay awake every night, staring at the ceiling
Wondering why I feel so bad, why I feel so bad
Oh I swear, I swear, I swear I'll never get sad

Innocence lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

Well, I lost my innocence today
I could feel her in my bones
My bones, my bones, my bones
My blood, my blood, my blood, my blood

And I woke up, tired, scared, and sad
Soaked, drained, I felt so bad
Today, today, today
What you still, you still, you still, you still
Won't you say, you say, you say, you say
What you feel, you feel, you feel, you feel
Which is nothing but hollow feelings, yeah
I am done, I just don't care

And forget happiness, I'm fine
I'll forget everything in time
I swear I didn't know,
You know me, how I can't let go
And we're not gods, we're just hacks
All that life amongst the cracks
The scars, the siege that breaks
The ugliest scene, the worst mistakes
And everywhere I see her face
Such a beautiful child, such an awful waste
And there's no innocence like hers
Just emptiness and nerves

And this light from the window of my car
She'll never see it
Oh my God
I was so surprised, it blew up in my face
Lord, I lost my nerve, oh my God
Oh my God
Oh my
God

And I tear, I tear, so hard
And I tear, I tear, so hard
And I beg and scream, "I was wrong"
It's over, she's gone

The Winning Side lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

Well I made some mistakes
At least privately it takes
And here's another one
And I said "it would be okay"
"But that's a lie, man"
I mean..
"Hey, we're all dying.. young!!"
Now it's all reality.. but it's more like a terrifying dream
And I'm serious!!
It's either whiskey, or a bong, or a car crash, or a bomb
I'm serious!!
It's the only thing I think
When I wake up in my bed
With my stomach churns, as these pages turn
Is the world burnin'
Or is it only.. in my head??

On a screen on a tv
On a scene in front of me
With all the white woods n the static
And the static n the screams
This is war, this is death, this is really very bad
On the winning side, the winning side,
The winning side, the winning side

And I'm sick of the train
Over Brooklyn in the rain
All by myself
When it finally occurs to me..
That all these people wanna be
Just some where.. else
Like every day is just the last bit
To argue with your boss over a coffee break
Well it seems to me, I mean, want more dignity
Or I'm going to.. break
Because the only thing I think
When he walks out on the street
He says, the sky falls
And you're duty calls man,
It takes some balls to be
So I'll see..

On a screen on a tv
On a scene in front of me
With all the white woods n the static
And the static n the screams
This is war, this in death. this is really very bad
On the winning side, the winning side
The winning side, the winning side
The right side, the right side
Oh the shit you watch
When your parents cry
And it all falls away so quietly
When you wake up to reality..

A Reality??
What's reality?? What's reality?? What's reality??
YOU DON'T FUCKING BREAK!!

Well I got a brother in Iraq
I got no way to get him back
Like all those people in the sands,
Buried in Afghanastan
I got a child in a crib
I got a father in a bed
I got no pills
I got no skittles
I know I do what I did
I just wonder every second
As they wheel the bastards by
Are we living??
Are we dreaming??
Are we winning??
Were we dying..
In a cloud of dust
In a mushroom burst
In a series of deaths
As the agents burst??
Or all alone in a hospital bed??
Wondering what we might of done instead??

With a lifetime..
A lifetime, a lifetime, a lifetime
A lifetime, a lifetime, a lifetime
A lifetime, a lifetime, a lifetime
With a good attitude..
Yeah, we did our job
But can you tell me,
Exactly what was our job??
Well I'm still stuck
With this body of mine
Well were you inside,
when a militant died??
I hope you choke..
I.. Own.. Your Life!!

This Losing lyrics - THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT

Standing at your doorway
With my stomach all tangled n tight
Have it your way
Oh God, where are you tonight??
Cuz I don't know what I'm doing here
Or where to begin
So take a deep breath
But darling, don't let me in

A thousand times we've said,
"I'm sorry it's over again"
I can't live like this
Or feel like this in my own skin
It all seems so degrading
And the mourning such sin
Face just like a child's
Oh darling, don't let me in

And we laughed just like children
In waiting, in sheets on your bed
Why we secretly pray
Like we're mourning the dead
And you tell me you're so weary
I know
Cuz I'm weary too
But hold back a tear
But darling, what a way to do

[Instrumental to outro]

And the wine, and the rain
And the feel of your skin
Against mine
I'm swimming, I'm flying, I'm dying
This face n this fear
Stay with me, Oh stay with me my dear

This hand
This glow
It's only thing that I love

There's losing
There's losing
There's losing
There's losing
There's losing
There's losing love

The Girls In Their Summer Dresses lyrics - the airborne toxic event

It's so quiet on this wind swept day
The city's lights
And the golden rays
Of sunlight on a subway'a tracks
Are you mad again??
If you like
I'll take it back
They're just your feelings
I wasn't looking at her hands
Oh, do you mean it??

It's so lonesome
In "this happens" stance
If you asked me?
Yes, I'd like to dance
Just show me a glove-covered hand
A perfumed dress is more than I can stand..
And you approach me with your hollow hearted hand
And you tell me:
"It's uncivilized
It's unfair to me
The blues, the grays, the olive greens"
I'll take you far away from me

The girls in their summer dresses see
Though you don't notice
They all look back at me
Is this on purpose??

Oh no, no, no..
Oh no, no, no..
Oh no, no, no..

May offer to you..
This, my olive branch??
It's not as though they're always so keen
And we're both just the victims of circumstance
Do you understand,
Do you know what I mean??

Oh no, no, no..
Oh no, no, no..
Oh no, no, no..
Oh no, no, no..

I'm a husband first
I'm a childless curse
I'm a faithful man
With a face that's blessed
I'll stay with you
Oh please don't sigh
I try to explain
But you would cry, and cry, and cry
And you hate me
When I asked the reason why
You'll trade me a dollar for some sense?
But don't blame me
I was only making sense
Oh I'm so sorry
I was only making sense

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I Don't Want To Be On T.V. lyrics - the airborne toxic event

Beat by beat as Becky falls to sleep
She sits in her electric chair and watches the TV.
And its so quiet here in tonight, she looks skinny in the light,
In her under wire her face so fair, she’s higher than a kite.
She says: "well, what about me; am I dying silently?
Have you ever wanted anything so bad you couldn’t see?"

No oh oh;
no oh oh not me;
no oh oh...
I don’t wanna be on TV

And the man down at the TV station, cracks his knuckles bare.
He’s starin at a woman, she is starin back at him.
You can cut the tension with a knife; we’re expecting rain tonight.
There’s a weather system blowing in from Santa Ana all night.
She thinks: "well what about me? So what, you're on TV?
I don’t care about your pompous ass, I care about this baby."

No oh oh;
no oh oh not me;
no oh oh...
I don’t wanna be on TV

Everyone in this city seems to take it like a drug.
Sit up all night, faces so white, they just can’t get enough.
And the shows are all the same, and there’s something I can’t name.
The snickering on this flickering screen, the noise numbing my brain.
So I think: "Well, what about me? Will I just die silently?
With all these walls and bars and endless whores just dying next to me?

No oh oh;
no oh oh not me;
no oh oh...
I don’t wanna be on TV
No oh oh;
no oh oh not me;
no oh oh;
no oh oh...