"Songs Of God And Whiskey" (2015)

• Poor Isaac lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Cocaine And Abel lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• A Certain Type Of Girl lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Change And Change And Change And Change lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• April Is The Cruelest Month lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• The Lines Of The Cars lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Strangers lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Why Why Why lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• California lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• The Fall Of Rome lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Poor Isaac lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Oh and God just leave that Abraham alone
He wants a son, he wants a son
Don't we all just want a home?

Though I'm not quite sure if poor Isaac would agree
My God, he said "What did I do
to make you wanna watch me bleed?"

And I feel sick tonight, I feel just like
The dancing flame in a funeral light
And I'm not sure if I want you to save me

And I'd be less uptight if I knew the sight
And blood is just a weakness, right?
And not the whole reason you made me

But sometimes I think it is...

Oh and God just go and leave me all alone
I'm not your son, I'm not your son
Everybody dies alone

In your world, was it not quite hard enough for you
I guess like anyone, you've got
Your own scores to settle too

And I'm so pissed tonight, I feel just like
The last remainin' Canaanite
And I'm not sure if I want you to save me

And I'd be less uptight if I knew the sight
And blood is just a weakness, right?
And not the reason that you made me

How does it feel?

And the sorrow that I feel when I'm alone, I can't express
All these darling angels singing in my ear
And the comfort of their touch, it cuts right through this loneliness

And it's everything I want
And everything I fear

That child was my friend
I spent a long time with his curse
I can feel him trembling beneath his plea

And I don't know if there's a water
All I know is there's this thirst
And it might be for the best

Though I'm not quite sure if Isaac would agree

Cocaine And Abel lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

And the second time,
You asked me to do the line,
You offered it so graciously.
So I think, what harm could be for me?
And you’re sure that this won’t last?
And this stuff sure works fast!
It’s like opening a vein,
And bleeding out my brain, brain, brain.

I love you too,
But I really love your shoes.
You look stunning decked in red.
Wait, what was it that I said?

And are you happy to be alive?
Are you frightened someday you’ll die?
Are you sharp?
Are you dull?
Are you that tiny sober dot,
At the center of my fevered skull?
Oh, no

When the conversation ends,
What happens when the conversation ends?
Oh tell me when the conversation ends,
Oh please don’t let this conversation end.

Jacoby, do you like to ski?
Do you like Kurt Vonnegut?
Do you like me?
Do you always quote Dostoevsky,
Or only when you snort a key, key, key?

I feel so sick.
Please don’t tell me this is it.
You gave me such a fright.
And let’s dance like ghosts,
Let’s haunt ourselves tonight.

A Certain Type Of Girl lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

When I was a boy
My daddy told me, “son
Don’t you ever mess with a certain type of girl”
No, I’ve wished more than twice that I’d taken dad’s advice
I wish it more than anything in this world
He grabbed himself a bottle and he looked me in the eye
And he’d take a plug and wipe it from his chin
He’d say “son, don’t put much part in those matters of the heart”
I wished I had listened to him

And tell me oh Jesus!
I’m asking you please
How do I make this endless heartache cease?
Lord, I’d believe in you if you’d believe in me too
I just want a little peace
(Come on now)

Us big city boys
We don’t think about it much
It’s all whiskey, wine, and messing around with drugs
All these secrets that we keep
Never knowing where we’ll sleep
I guess I always thought it was enough
But I’ve this feeling in my heart
These days of wanting more
Something to ease this weary head
So I guess I thought that girl might redeem me from this world
Lord, I should’ve asked you instead

And tell me oh Jesus!
I’m down on my knees
I know that I’m no long suffering priest
But I believe in you and could you believe in me too
I just want a little peace
Oh lord, I just need a little peace

Change And Change And Change And Change lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

“You’re totally ignoring me,” she said as she put on her shirt
I was lying on the bed, concentrating on her skirt
“Did you hear one word I said?” she said
“I don’t know, it’s all a blur”
I close my eyes

We fell in love in a great big rush
Three years ago this June, I do recall
Playing arcade games with her
And wanting nothing at all
Just this silly skinny girl
Who tended to trip and fall
On her lies

But then summer came and we felt the strain
Of the damning things we’d said
All the summer rains like hurricanes
That flew around our heads

All the endless conversations, you know
Like the things you could’ve done alone
Instead, instead, instead, instead, instead

So I fucked it up like I always do, I was born to be alone
I don’t even know if the words were true that I screamed into the phone
All I know is everybody leaves or so it seems to me
When I’m alone, alone, alone, alone, alone

But I was younger then and stronger then, somehow I can’t explain
How these years can be so humbling, so strangely full of pain
Just how everyone and everything must change and change and change and change
And change and change and change

Just like that

Sometimes I feel just like a train that’s running off the tracks
And sometimes I think I’ve said too many things I can’t take back
And sometimes it seems like everything I do is just a waste
In fact, that’s it, I think oh wait, I’m sure

But I’m trying every morning that I wake to stand up straight
And to always tell the truth and give back more than I take
And to be kind and pure, less fucking scared of everything
I just can’t take much more of this, I’m sure

April Is The Cruelest Month lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

We imagined ourselves
As cathedral bells
Ringing out through the moribund streets
Like shrill courtesans
Making fanciful plans
That we whispered while drifting to sleep

And I told you I'd stay
In every possible way
Though we both knew that that wasn't true
You said "You would understand
If it was for something so grand
As this mirrored reflection of you"

And New York in October
Was never so sober
As the beatings on the windows in March
Trying so hard in vain
To stay out of the rain
Falling off our cathedral arch

You were Zelda, Isolde,
You were Audrey and Kate
You were Miss Cleopatra in heels
And then anonymously
You were April to me
Throwing rocks just to see how it feels

With those lines in your eyes
And that platinum crown
And that gaudy red rouge on your cheeks
You must've look so divine
To some neophyte trying
But you look like a common whore to me

And I liked you the best
When your a plain simple mess
Drinking wine from a big plastic cup
While the radio played
Some soft serenade
And we noticed the sun coming up

And the blue in your eyes
Looked like ice when you cried
You were always so cold when we touched
Happy birthday to you
I sure hope it's untrue
Even though I don't miss you that much

The Lines Of The Cars lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

All the lines of the cars at the college at night
All the pillows and blankets, their posters and lights
All their hopelessly young faces
Tight with the solace of years

And you look at me blankly, did I miss something?
All these kids seem to be less like ghosts on the ring
Of the graveyard we built from the sting
Of these horrible fears
And I try not to laugh as it brings you to tears

But I won’t tell your secret, if you won’t tell mine
I’ll just speak quietly, use a well-rehearsed line
My, my how time makes one long for such ignorant peers
And you grab hold of my hand as I whisper in your ear

On the day that you die, please remember these words
You were the luckiest gift that I’ll never deserve
I can feel you and me like my heartbeat
And bloodstream in turns

And it’s desperate, I know, but please don’t let go
I can’t begin to repay all these debts that I owe
I’m just a sketch of a man, I’ll let you know
When I sharpen the blur

I’ve hurt you, deserted you, left you alone
With your loneliness to wear like a crown on a throne
I’m as selfish and trite as anything God’s ever known

Oh but don’t be afraid ’cause I’m going down too
When I finally fade, I’ll be fading with you
I’ll just hold onto your hand, God I wish there was more I could do

These kids have no clue, it’s all happening too
Let’s not tell them, let’s pretend it’s just me and you
We’ll find out soon enough, but by then we’ll be dust on their shoes

And these kids have no clue, it’s just me and you
Let’s not tell them, let’s pretend it’s happening too
We’ll find out soon enough, but by then we’ll have nothing to lose

I’ll just hold onto your hand
God, I wish there was more I could do

Strangers lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Every day at sunrise, I’ve got to
Empty my pockets, I’ve got
Four cups of coffee
And these empty sockets
And the dreams I held so tender loom
In the air around my bedroom
I think about the rising sun
And the day to come and I wonder

Where you went, where you went
Are you wide awake?
Did you read all the letters that I sent?
Are you fast asleep?
Did you know I keep your memory buried away so deep?

Till all the walls fall we’ll just keep being strangers
As the world rearranges
Every blade, every seed, every ounce of green
And the sunrise is a welcome thing
But I wish it was more welcoming
‘Cause this life has such an awful sting
And a price to pay for everything

And every day they say, just get away
They say, just get back up
They say, stand tough you’ve got to keep it up
You’ve got to learn to play rough
You’ve got to run through a field on a sunlit day
Laugh it off and sleep at night

But I don’t care, I just don’t care
‘Cause if you’re not here there’s no one to laugh at the jokes we share
Are you fast asleep?
Did you know I keep your memory buried away so deep?

Till all the walls fall we’ll just keep being strangers
As the world rearranges
Every blade, every seed, every ounce of green
And the sunrise is a welcome thing
But I wish it was more welcoming
‘Cause this life has such an awful sting
And a price to pay for everything

I saw you last night in the cell where I sleep
And your shyness was such a surprise
And you said, I hold you in me like a secret I keep
And the truth of that moment defies all that we know

Where we go

So I think till all the walls fall,
I’ll just keep getting stranger
The world will rearrange her
Into something just as beautiful
I know that I won’t know you then
But I see no reason to pretend
‘Cause I love you now and I’ll love you then
And the sun will shine on everything

Till all the walls fall,
We’ll just keep being strangers
And the world will rearrange us
Into things we never planned to be
As the sun rises around us
And continues to confound us
Its beauty will surround us
And share its life with everything

Why Why Why lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Was a summer’s day when you first walked away
At the time I wasn’t feeling so bad
Gave me shit while I looked away
Just like every big conversation that we ever had

And you know how a thing like that can be such a terrible shame
‘Cause it makes you feel mean
Your eyes were so very green

And it’s foolish to think
You would ever consider it again
After two or three drinks
All the books on the subject say
“Just move along, give yourself some time to think”

They say follow your heart,
What if your heart never knew where to go or why?

You’d have sang goodbye
To people whose every word is just a lie
Like a guilty man who knows he’s gonna fry
I was hoping to catch that old dreamy look in your eye

And it’s foolish to need any sign
You’d consider me again after smoking some weed
All our friends are so bored of hearing
Every tired and desperate word we’d ever plead

They say follow your heart,
What if your heart never knew where to go, or why?

You’d have sang goodbye
To people whose every word is just a lie
And you wonder just a little if your soul
Isn’t starting to die
You spend every waking moment wondering why
Why why why why why
Why why why why why

Was a winter’s day when I finally realized
I was the one always walking away
That you tried so many times and I’d ignored
Every word that you had to say

And you know how a thing like that
Can be such a terrible shame
‘Cause it makes you feel old
And your words were so very cold

And it’s foolish to think
You can bury it all in some endless drive to drink
Every person you meet can tell you’re a ship
Taking water in a storm and you’re starting to sink

If you follow your heart
Then you’re bound to become something else
You take one hard look at yourself

And you’ll say I’m gonna do everything
You said I couldn’t do when I was high
And I’ll write your name in stars across the sky
And we’ll meet somewhere someday and you’ll ask me why
Why why why why why
Why why why why why
Why why why why why

The Fall Of Rome lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

What ever happened to the fall of Rome?
What a strange thing to ask
When I was taking you home
As we walked alone through the parking lot
I said I don’t have much
You said I like what you got

And I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t picture you then
In your wedding dress
In the days I hoped we’d someday spend
In our Sunday best
We were light as a flame
Both batshit insane
We were lost
We were just the same

What ever happened to the fall of Rome?
You were a mystery to me
But the place felt like home
And there are no rules when you’re falling in love
You just take what you get and you hope its enough

And I’d be lying if I said that I didn’t picture you then
In your wedding dress
In the days I hoped we’d someday spend
In our Sunday best
We were wrong from the start
With our broken arms
You played your role
And I played my part

And the road was so long
I was never as strong
As the love you gave to me
And it all took its toll
You become so cold
You forget what you were born to be

What ever happened to the fall of Rome?
Those people all turned to ashes and stone
Its a trick of the mind when you think it won’t end
Its a contest with time
And time always wins
I saw a picture of you the other day
In your wedding dress
And wondered why I’d walked away
Like I had with the rest
The only thing that was worth saving
And I swear that I did my best
And sometimes at night
I dream of you now
In your wedding dress
And I hope it doesn’t seem somehow
Like I gave you less
I have nothing to show
From these years on the road
But these songs that I wrote you

"Dope Machines" (2015)

• Wrong lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• One Time Thing lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Dope Machines lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• California lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Time To Be A Man lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Hell And Back lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• My Childish Bride lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• The Thing About Dreams lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Something You Lost lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event
• Chains lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

One Time Thing lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

When I woke up today
I got your message on my phone
You said I had fun
Did you ever make it home?
I tried to read between the lines
Oh yeah, I’m doing fine

Feels like my head is made of moonshine
And cheap-ass wine
My best friend told me I should just stop looking for a sign
Babe

So okay
You told me it was just a one time thing
A spark on gasoline
So what could I say?
If you tell me it don’t mean a thing, yeah
Somebody told me you were mean

Then in a couple of days
I get this photograph of you
The message says you’re lonely too
Do you wanna tell me what to do?
I thought maybe it was a line
When we spoke that one last time

Sounds like your breath is full of moonshine
And cheap-ass wine
My best friend told me I should just stop looking for a sign
Babe

So okay
You told me it was just a one time thing
A spark on gasoline
So what could I say?
If you tell me it don’t mean a thing, yeah
Somebody told me you were like a machine
And so damn mean
My mind’s falling to pieces every time I try to jump up
On this trampoline

Why don’t you tell me what you mean?
Why don’t you tell me what you mean?
Why won’t you tell me I was just your mistake?
How long can this take?
How many sleepless nights can I go over every second
While I’m lying awake?
Babe

So okay
If this is really just a one time thing
I think I’ve lost something
What else can I say?
I don’t blame you for a single thing, yeah
Somebody told me I should stay away
But I can’t help it I want one more thing
Silence is deafening
I can’t put you away
And I don’t blame you for a single thing, yeah
Somebody told me you were mean

Wrong lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

All my young life
I’ve been trying to say
Just one thing right
And now
We’ve come to the day
You’re here in my arms
I don’t know what to say

I believe I was wrong
Probably most of my life
Or I'm just hearing it wrong
I’m just watching the fire light

I see the look in your eyes
Am I trying too hard?
Am I doing this right?
So I fall
I fall down to my knees
I’m not easy to soothe
I’m never easy to please

I believe I was wrong
Probably most of my life
Or I'm just hearing it wrong
I’m just watching the fire light
I don’t care if it’s right
I know your friends are opposed
But we’ve still got tonight
We’ll just keep our eyes closed

I believe I was wrong
Probably most of my life
Or I'm just hearing it wrong
I’m just watching the fire light
I don’t care if it’s right
I know your friends are opposed
But we’ve still got tonight
We’ll just keep our eyes closed

Dope Machines lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

You keep me up some nights, trying to figure what you mean.
I don’t know if it’s right. I don’t what you’re asking.
When you laugh and you say, “I was only joking.”

And it still feels wrong. I’m always asking these questions:
“Are you just playing dumb? Or trying to get a reaction?”
When you laugh and you say, “I was only joking.”

We got our eyes on screens, all of these dope machines.
Isn’t it funny how they feel so much like dreams?
Am I trying too hard, oh I’m not trying at all…

I see it in your eyes, I feel it in my bones,
You coming out tonight? We gonna end up alone?
Just so I could pretend I was only joking.

We got our eyes on screens, all of these dope machines.
Isn’t it funny how they feel so much like dreams?
Am I trying too hard, oh I’m not trying at all…

I got three or four things I’ve always wanted to tell you.
I got two or three secrets I don’t think you could handle.
A little closer to me, I was never joking.
Come a little closer to me, I was never joking.

California lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Someday they’re going to write about us, living here in the shadow of this gathering dust,
As the waves build up and drown the light, while we’re hanging from buildings on a Saturday night.

And the words she said… I could barely hear over the blare of the speakers and the smell of beer,
As she got up to speak, she lifted her dress. I remember her face but I forget the rest.

Here in California, I was
Just a name and a number, a face on a tumblr.
Here in California, we’re all stuck in the same scene,
All nightmares and daydreams
In California.

She said, “I got money, but I got no friends,” as we drove through the valley in her daddy’s Benz.
She said, “These pills wear off, but the pain don’t end. I never thought it would matter so much to pretend.”

And the thing about her that haunts me still: as her hands fell down to the steering wheel,
And a shock of light fell across her face, she said there’s only two ways out of this place.

Here in California, I was
Just a name and a number, a face on a tumblr.
Here in California, we’re all stuck in the same scene,
All nightmares and daydreams
In California.

And oh, I hope it’s clear: there’s no room for us anymore in the atmosphere,
But darling I always liked the desperation in your eyes,
The way you’d dance in the glow of the Hollywood Freeway lights.

Someday they’re gonna forget about us and we’ll wonder if we were ever good enough.
It hit me last night, in this song I heard, I remember the feeling but forget all the words.

Here in California, I was
Just a name and a number, a face on a tumblr.
Here in California, we’re all stuck in the same scene,
All nightmares and daydreams
In California.

Time To Be A Man lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

You’re wide awake tossing
And you can’t even sleep,
With all these secrets you keep.
The way home is so steep.
And then it’s midnight,
And you feel so alone.
You’ve got your radio on.
You don’t know if you can face the dawn.

And it’s time to be a man.
Tell me how does that go?
What the hell are you waiting for?
The whole world is at your door.

All these lies that you told to yourself.
Like you don’t need no one else.
Don’t put your pride upon the shelf.

And it’s time to be a man.
Tell me how does that go?
What the hell are you waiting for?
The whole world is at your door.

It’s time to make a plan
For the rest of your life.
Just stop saying that you’re over it, over it.
You know that’s a lie.

But you were never alone.
You were never alone.

When she gave you all that she had to give.
You have to know where you live.
Do you even know what you did?

And it’s time to be a man.
Tell me how does that go?
What the hell are you waiting for?
The whole world is at your door.

It’s time to make a plan
For the rest of your life.
Just stop saying that you’re over it, over it.
You know that’s a lie.

You just have to let it go.
You just have to let it go.
You just have to let it go.

Hell And Back lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

I held on as long as I could possibly
My blind faith pushing me to my knees
I felt the warmth of a touch
And it made me believe
And I knew it well

I stood at the doorway hoping you might let me in
My head spinning 'round
My nerves jumping from my skin
I felt the stinging ragged cold
Of the devil's hot embrace
And I knew it well

And you took me to hell and back
How many times can I walk away from you?
My mind's like a one way track
And every one is taking me back to you
And you tell me "Just one more time"
And you're lying like you always do
And I know it well

I must have walked a thousand miles or more tryin' to keep you off my mind
I've knocked on a thousand doors I'm sure, just to see what I might find
I slept in the arms of a fallen angel cryin' next to me
And I knew her well

And you took me to hell and back
How many times can I walk away from you?
My mind's like a one way track
And every one is taking me back to you
And you tell me "Just one more time"
And you're lying like you always do
And you give me just one more line and there’s nothing that I can do
If I do it just one more time, then I swear that I’ll be through
Yeah I know it well

And you took me to hell and back
My mind's like a one way track
And you tell me "Just one more time"
And you're lying like you always do
Yeah I know it well

And you took me to hell and back
How many times can I walk away from you?
My mind's like a one way track
And every one is taking me back to you
And you tell me "Just one more time"
And you're lying like you always do
And you give me just one more line and there’s nothing that I can do
If I do it just one more time, then I swear that I’ll be through
Yeah I know it well
Yeah I know it well

My Childish Bride lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Have you ever seen a map laid flat, four corners pinned back, all the lines and the legend in black,
so clear that you feared it was nearly all in your mind?
And the phrase that fell from her lips left a rip from the top of your shoulders to the point of your hip;
and the feeling that you get is if God exists he’s really unkind.

But it’s not what you want to say when you’re losing.
All the meaning’s lost in the choosing: the right side, the wrong side, the side that’s been winning.
Forget the words, look back to the beginning.

My childish bride, Oh how I, miss your face
Sometimes, I see my life slip by across your face

There’s an ocean on land. There’s a plan. There’s a plan.
There’s a fifty-foot tower running power over sand.
There was a city on a hill. It was a thrill but the lights are all gone.
Now we stare at each other like a sister to a brother, like a pusher to a shover,
like a secret to a cover, like a lover to a lover under covers with the stereo on.

But it’s not what you said to me when you were leaving.
Oh this mass of bodies, we’re heaving the right way, the wrong way, the way that they taught us.
Forget your words, remember they got us.

My childish bride, Oh how I, miss your face
Sometimes, I see my life slip by across your face

Tell me are you real? Do you feel? Do you steal these moments you reveal with those eyes that can’t conceal?
Were you wronged? Was your song just some clever thing that you made up?
‘Cause the words are just right and I could listen all night.
I could whisper. I could bite. I could write. I could write. I could sing. I could cling.
There’s not a single thing I’d ever give up.

But it’s not what you meant to me when you were leaving.
Oh this mass of bodies all heaving the right way, the wrong way, the way that they taught us.
Forget yourself, remember they bought us.

My childish bride, Oh how I, miss your face
Sometimes, I see my life slip by like a taste of death.

The Thing About Dreams lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

The thing about dreams
Is that everything seems
Like you're riding a wave
That's been forming all day in your mind

The thing about time
Is all in your mind
Days turn to weeks turn to years turn to infinite signs:
What you're leaving behind

And the hell with the rest
You gave them your best
You talk through your teeth
And the black cigarettes
In your hand

I always believed
You were more than impossible
More than you seem
And partly responsible for my life
From my eyes
Let's stay the night
We'll leave with the sunrise

The thing about me
Is I wanted to be
More than just friends
And hardly acquaintances
I, I wanna know why
You turn in your sleep
The secrets you keep
The things that you bury so deeply, discreetly inside
My, oh my

And the hell with the words
Or haven't you heard?
Nobody says what they mean
'Til the second or third
Whiskey rye

I always believed
You were more than impossible
More than you seem
And partly responsible for my life
From my eyes
Let's stay the night
We'll leave with the sunrise

The thing about love:
It's never enough
Circumstance changes
And life's always calling your bluff
Enough is enough

And when you sleep
You're alone
When you dream you're just one
Of a million small pieces
My darling, I see you, I'm one

I always believed
We were more than impossible
You're more than you seem
And partly responsible for my lies
From my eyes

And now I've said too much
I'm not givin' up
I can't carry the weight
Of this overfilled cup
I just close my eyes
Like you're close to the touch and I'll dream, dream

You're not what you seem
You're not what you seem

Something You Lost lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

She'll never know
When she tells you goodnight
The fear that you hide
As she lays by your side

When you stand
All the faults of a man
Etched right in your face
Still she lays there in place

How the warmth
Of the garden you sowed
Is the stuff of these bones
Once broken and cold

And you go home
And you sleep in your bed
Feel like your dancing in sync
With the ghosts in your head

And she wakes
You say, “go back to sleep”
You dare never say
The greatest secret you keep

Is that you might be alone
That you might have to run
That the rest of your life
Will be a series of nights
That you spend in your mind
Staring backwards through time
At something you lost

And you'll never be home
You'll never be one
Eyes closed in the sun
On a warm day in June
But on the damp dirty floor
Of your wintry cold room
You see her face in the dust
How it fills you up

And you say hello
Hello
Please don't ever leave
Please don't ever go
And you can call me a man
It's etched right in my face
But it could never span

The endless expanse of space
All around us alone

And just this one small home
One brief moment of time
The only thing I call mine
Is this line that we crossed
And how it came at the cost
Of everything that I lost

Chains lyrics - The Airborne Toxic Event

Midnight
I stare out the window from my room
I hear the dogs it’s going to be dawn soon
I wonder where you are

In my mind’s eye
I’m floating alone in the night sky
The treetops, the buildings beneath me
I feel my heart beating

So I try to find anything
To kill the time
To quiet my mind
There’s got to be something
There’s got to be someone

Else still awake in this city
I can’t take another night
I can’t stay
I’ve got to break and break and break
These chains away, away

Bars close
We stumble around through the echoes
Hiding our past in some old clothes
Like its some dirty secret

And I see a face
In the passing light
It’s so good tonight
I’m tired of putting up this fight
There’s got to be somewhere
There’s got to be someone

Else still alive in this city
I can’t hide another night
I can’t stay
I’ve got to break and break and break
These chains away, away
These chains away, away

We lean into the wind
Riding our nerves and choking engines
Built for a time not 50 years old
I can hear the whispering at the door
When I’m alone in this cell
With 10,000 words and nowhere to go
And I wish you could know
How much I still need you

The spell of this town, the graves on the hill
Lit up like a crown
The names on the signs
I can’t even say
Have to break and break and break
These chains away, away
These chains away, away

Sometimes I feel the pain
At the heart of this ember
All these ashes I choke on
Does anyone remember
Where we came from, where we came to
A place with no center and no edge
And no end

"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