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The New Amsterdams Drama Queen lyrics

Get over some how
my drama queen
old wounds and rebounds
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I got the time
you've got the notion
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my drama queen

"Turn Out The Light"

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I know that it burns like poison in the pill
Sing me to sleep, echoes in the hills
You can't hear a word
You can't hear my broken will

The world through a windshield is careless and cheap
I toss and I turn, I can't get to sleep
Counting the hours the days that turn into weeks

I've been wrong but it's alright
There've been long and lonely nights
I was lost till I found you
Turn out the light, I'll stay if you want me to

Somehow my time got out of my hands
I just wanna stop master commands
I'm telling you true it won't be this way again

Long ways away but you're never alone
Look at the sky over our home
I'll be around a few more miles to go

I've been wrong but it's alright
There've been long and lonely nights
I was lost till I found you
Turn out the light, I'll stay if you want me to

Don't have to say it you don't have to speak
I've been awake worried and weak
Don't say a word

I've been wrong but it's alright
There've been long and lonely nights
I was lost till I found you
Turn out the light, I'll stay if you want me to

"The Blood On The Floor"

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A long time driving for a place to stop
I wander in at quarter to four
No sense remembering what I forgot
Tending to the blood on the floor
Who would you save
Why would you trust
Do you suppose that they’re on to us?
The only way to know for sure…

Take this, promise me you’ll bury it deep
Treat it like you’re digging a grave
You’re the only evidence I want to keep
The only thing that I want to save
And how can you sleep?
And how can I trust whatever you say
Isn’t helping us
Take matters into my own hands

Take me away
See what you’ve done?
You’ve been a fool
And a fragile one
And now I have to lose you, too.

"Drunk Or Dead"

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Well little did I know it then
Our pictures on the heads of pins
They’re easier to live in this
They’re easier to watch you die
Lost what little luck was left
It’s not enough to pay the rent
Not enough to force repentance
Not enough to make you pray

And don’t tell me
About the sins of Man
I’ve felt the sting of God’s right hand

I find him after school in bed
I don’t know if he’s drunk or dead
A slow but steady breath means
He’ll live to wreck another day
It’s terrible to cross my mind
That I should do him in this time
Then I could find a better life
Become a burden on the state

You can’t run
When it’s all you know
You just have to wait to go

And you can’t hurt me, ‘cause
I’ve been true
Your horrid life caught up to you
I’ve got bruises you can’t see
If there’s a God,
Take him from me

"Lay On The Rails"

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Shaking this quilted cocoon
Just us two
Underneath Middle-western moons
By the back roads
I’ve got a secret
I don’t want to speak
The end came as such a relief
I’m so low

Take this from me
What it’s worth
When you heard I swore vengeance on heaven and earth
Till the end comes
And now if you’re listening
And if you’re at peace
Do you have wiser words for me
I could use some

“Lay on the rails
Withered and frail
Why bear this weight
When I’d escape”
I’m sorry I can’t say goodbye
You’re just not ready, you’re just not ready

I’m sure that I’ve been expelled
It’s hard to tell if the people you knew so well
Really knew you
A box of your letters and tapes of your songs
How could they be so wrong?

This vested trust
Beyond us
So show me then
I’m waiting
This vested trust
Beyond us
So show me then
I’m waiting

"Fortunate Fool"

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Take a walk on the wrong side
And put your feet on the floor
A long face for a long night
And you’re really what you came here for

And how did end, say everything
A long form letter that you’ll keep forever
You’re upside down, gave you the run around
Shouted the words aloud
Love is a battleground
Swallow a bitter pill
Maybe the poison will
Take you on a long road to forget what you came here for

Say hello to the wrong side
Here we go again
Hang on, it’s a long ride
Never seems to end

But how did end, say everything
A long form letter that you’ll keep forever
You’re upside down, gave you the run around
Shouting the words aloud
Love is a battleground
Swallow a bitter pill
Maybe the poison will
Take you on a long road to forget what you came here
Fortunate fool
Love got the best of you
This is just so cruel
But it’s the truth
Fortunate fool
Love got the best of you
This is just so cruel
But it’s the truth

"Story Like A Scar"

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You tell me I’ve got better things to do
But I’m all spent
Tally up the time that I’ve been waiting here for you
Haven’t seen you in so long
I blink, and then you’re gone

Had a conversation with a friend
You’re a big part
He’s in that place with you that
I used to be in
Story like a scar
A novel’s worth so far that you’ll write

I shouted the thing
I’m drowning in the drink
And I get lost in the memories
And so it seems
All too common themes
You got lost, you got a way out

I had a dream the other night
We were good then
And you told me all about the better place you’re in
I know you just too well
It’s hard for me to tell if you’re lying

I shouted the thing
I’m drowning in the drink
And I get lost in the memories
And so it seems
All too common themes
You got lost, you got a way out
I shouted the thing
I’m drowning in the drink
You got lost, you got a way out
I shouted the thing
I’m drowning in the drink
You got lost, you got a way out

"A Beacon In Beige"

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After this
High and low
A little late to let it go
Crooked road
To the end
Around the way and back again

Take your book
You forget
Liars, thieves and hypocrites
Take your place
In the square
Ceremonious spot in there

Lost all the others
That you love all your brothers
Do you, or did you miss the light
The tide is rising
A wind is rising
Don’t want to wait for you to die

Dot the “I’s,” cross the “T’s”
Models of efficiency
Bittersweet victory
Hope you live to see defeat

Lost all the others
That you love all your brothers
Do you, or did you miss the light
The words are binding
The sun is rising
You’ve come to fight
Because it takes generations
To replace apparitions
That you recognize the right
The tide is rising
The wind is rising
Don’t want to wait for you to die
Don’t want to wait for you to die

"Hughes"

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Love is a long shot
Love is a bird in hand
When this stops
We’ll be laughing
Sing our songs
Though they’re barely heard

You be the prom queen
I’ll be the malcontent
In this scene
Just pretend
Nobody cares about
Social standing

Hughes
Hughes you knew me
You promise me maybe that
Nobody talks to me
I’m all alone

People are misplaced
People are full of shit
In this place
I’m over it
I’ve got a right mind
To call it in

Cause even the sun stays
Even the words turn good
In the heat wave
It’s understood
Nobody gives a damn for their neighbor

Hughes
Hughes you know me
You
Will promise maybe later
Nobody talks to me
I’m all alone

You’ve had a bad year, you’ve got a place to stay
And it’s clear, you’re on your way
I won’t tell your friends a thing

"Lost Long Shot"

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You’ve got a world wide face
And I’ve been away for a year
I’ll hide it in someplace safe
Where even the spies don’t hear
I’ve been a lost long shot
A prodigal son by trade
Somehow the words won’t stop
Even when deals are made

Time and space
We can be distant
Running a different race
And nobody really wins
And only the fools rush in
And only the frightened wait
I’d rather be foolish than
Be scared of my own mistakes

"Silverlake"

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Silver Lake
With the fakes
I’ve got nothing but old things
To display
By the bay
Old jeans and your gold rings

How’s your faith
My mistake,
I thought you’d grow to good things
To be safe
You were late
You missed everything I’ve seen

Life is too rich
To waste it waiting around for you

Silver Lake
With the fakes
I’ve got nothing but old things
Can you take
How I ache
And make songs that the girls sing?
Does it shake
You awake
When you see what the job brings?
Anyway
My mistake
You spin straw into gold strings

Life is too rich
To waste it waiting around for you
Life is too rich
To waste it waiting around for you
Whatever you want to do

"Without A Sound (Eleanor)"

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Your lawyer can go to hell.
The ink’s still wet on our wills.
That’s when I told her,
“It’s time to start over.”
Now there’s a house to sell.

Take this ring of keys
The copies you made for me
Tell me the truth, then.
Tell me you love him.
Because, baby, this scar won’t heal

I’m just a fool you
Love to be cruel to
The gravel under your wheels.

Without a sound,
I’m hiding out, I’m hiding underground.
Eleanor,
I’m hiding out on your back porch.
Without a sound,
I’m hiding out, I’m hiding underground.
Eleanor,
I’m hiding out on your back porch.

As soon as the fog lifts,
As soon as the smoke drifts.
Nearly November then.
Maine has those sweet pines
Bells and your wind chimes,
I’ll never be back again.

"This Day Is Done"

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Now you’re the only son
Everybody’s come and gone
A song for the lonely one
The loneliest song

Now you’re the poster boy
Sulking with expensive pills
Your heart breaks like everyone
Swears it will

In full view of the aftermath
Stare at a computer screen
You used to be everyone and everything
But now that the sun sets
Wasn’t it a perfect storm?
All of your regrets,
Rolled in one?

Reason
To say this day is done
Reason
To say this day is done
Reason
To say this day is done
Reason
To say this day is done

"Fountain Of Youth"

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Come if you can
Call if you must
Drink what you bring
Don’t share it with us
Wearied, then rest
Don’t drink if you drive
We’ll save you the best
Take what you like

Dive through the pond
The lake is a pool
And do what you want
Laugh like a fool
A secret to this,
I’ll tell you the truth
Maybe this is the fountain of youth
Maybe this is the fountain of youth
Maybe this is the fountain of youth

Come if you can
Call if you must
Drink what you bring
Don’t share it with us
A secret to this,
I’ll tell you the truth
Maybe this is the fountain of youth
Maybe this is the fountain of youth
Maybe this is the fountain of youth
Maybe this is the fountain of youth
Maybe this is the fountain of youth

"Wait"

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Wait
Maybe this place is everything
Maybe we don’t need anything
Concrete

You say
To hold on to little securities
I hope that the world won’t carry me
Away, away

All of the pounds of gold
The moments we lost or sold
All of this
Will go to waste

Wait
What if the world’s gone back to it
The darkness before the enlightenment
What then?

Faith
Is hardly a wall of security
It won’t stop the blows of our enemies
They’ll win, they’ll win

All of the pounds of gold
The moments we lost or sold
All of this
Will go to waste
It’s just not a mystery
The lack of our expertise
Won’t be good for anything
Anything

"Revenge"

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So tell me everything
Don't leave minor details out
Come clean
Quit trying to sell me out

Revenge
I take your hints
It's all I have
Revenge
Once you forget
I'll be back again

Blind blood brothers' bond
Was a lie, now I know what's right
Good God
How do you sleep at night?

Revenge
I take your hints
It's all I have
Revenge
Once you forget
I'll be back again
Once you forget
I'll be back again