Circa Survive

Sleep On The Ground

To blame them over years
Let out, nothing else
But you don't need your ears
To listen to yourself
don't talk then (don't talk then)
just keep your lips closed
sleep on the ground tonight
sleep on the ground tonight
If you were meant to save me
If you were me to save me
I didn't realize
'Cause this is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
sleep on the ground tonight
sleep on the ground tonight
sleep on the ground tonight
This is just for you and I..

The Most Dangerous Commercials

We've been terrorized
With television problems
At sale price
Well if it's too good to be true
We've been terrorized
With air-conditioned issues
In spare times
Well if it's too good to be true
I can't live without you

I've pretended to care for hours
I've pretended to care for days

But your mouth never closed
Your excuses are filled with holes
Suppose you're being lied to
Would you ever even know?

We've been terrorized
With air-conditioned issues
And spare crimes
What do you believe in more
We've been terrorized
The oldest magician returns
To steal your soul
(What do you believe in more?)

There's a special logic that grows with commercial perversion
(It'll put your mind at ease)
Just to be safe
(It'll put your mind at ease)
It's like being blindfolded all the time

But your mouth never closed
Your excuses are filled with holes
Suppose you're being lied to
Would you ever even know? Oh

Cause you'll be compensated for your testimonial
Just do your best to make it feel as real as possible
Cause you'll become ok with all the things you didn't know
Just to your best to make it seem natural

We've been terrorized
With television problems
At full price
Well if it's too good to be true
We've been terrorized
With air-conditioned issues
In spare times
Well if it's too good to be true
We've been terrorized [x4]

We'll be the last to know and the first ones to go

Miracle Sun

Where do you go,when it gets dark?
And is there room for me there?
How long will it take you to wake up?
Before you go will you wake me?

Or I'll sleep all day

Miracle sun
Stay with me tonight
We don't wanna be without you
We'll come along so
Save a place for us
We don't wanna be left alone

Where do you go,when it gets dark?
And is there room for me there?
How long will it take you to wake up?
Before you go will you wake me?

Or I'll sleep all day
Miss everything

Miracle sun
Stay with me tonight
We don't wanna be without you
We'll come along so
Save a place for us
We don't wanna be left alone

Miracle sun
Stay with me tonight
We don't wanna be without you
We'll come along so
Save a place for us
We don't wanna be left alone

Julian

who left the lights on julian?
make promises, broke them enough for being said.
who left the lights on julian?
they come, waking the whole house up.
you've been longing for....wake them up.
you've been longing for being too honest,
aiming without a cause.
who left the lights on julian?
make promises, broke them enough.
who left the lights on julian?
i'll be wrong waking the whole house up.

1,000 Witnesses

Don't aim without a target.
Where will we end up?

Don't tamper with the compass dial.
Where will it take us?

We're running back to the start.
Feels like its over.

Don't aim with out a target.
Where will we end up?

Where a fountain to fall from the sky.
There'd be a thousand witnesses.

But the crowd hears screams.
We don't see a thing.
Our eyes are open.

Are we looking the right way?
Cause we don't see a thing.
Our minds are open.
There'd be a thousand witnesses
There'd be a thousand witnesses

Stay in place.
Use it right.
It was an anchor.
Pour concrete on the roots.
Just to make sure.
Just to make sure you'd never move.

If a fountain did fall from the sky there would be a thousand witnesses.
Our eyes are open.
Were running back to the start it feels like its over.
Were running back to the start.
It feels like.

It was an anchor
Pour concrete on the roots.
Just to make sure.
Just to make sure you'd never move.

Suspending Disbelief

Twilight army,
Coming home.
Armor made of stone.
He who recollects, forgive us.
He who recollects, forgive us.
On the way down, we understand what it means to break down.
On the way out you decide you believe that on the way out its too late.
It's the same.
All lines you all used to know,
It's the same.
All lines you all used to know.
Trembling with no limbs, crow skin; a perpetual startled breed.
The ache, no one to fight
The writing was still traced and shy and never really aimed to show you.
We understand what it means to break down.
On the way out you decide you believe that on the way out its too late.
All lines you all used to know,
It's the same.
All lines you all used to know.
Still watching you rolling on what's good for
Mistaken but you were always once before you know.
We understand what it means to break down.
And on the way out you decide you believe that on the way out its too late.
It's the same.
All lines you all used to know,
It's the same.
All lines you all used to know.

Handshakes At Sunrise

Arrive
Open your eyes
I'm freeing you
Take the time for passers by
To meet with you
We want it all
My friend I'm afraid that I've lost forever

The scream within the misteaching of a metaphor
Breathing out the lie (I've been fooled)

We wont stop until the dawn has
Given its all to you
A warm appraisal hides
Behind an audience member(remembering)
The last thing I want (freeing us all)

Who are replacing us...
[x4]

We wont stop until the dawn has
Given its all to you

Holding Someone's Hair Back

Don't say a word, don't be grateful if I ever made you laugh.
Let's make believe what's at stake here's more than just your reputation.
She's got the photos but no recollection.
He's got the motive but no transportation.
Purely courteous across my chest.
Are you cutting me out now, after crawling inside?

Turn away your head.
What do I deserve, what do I deserve instead?
It's a surprise you haven't caught on yet.
It's nothing personal, you're an embarrassment.
Don't cut me out.

We're offering nothing but the best accommodations.
Just tell us who you are, just tell us who you are.
We're offering nothing but the best accommodations.
Just tell us who you are, just tell us who you are.

Turn away your head.
What do I deserve, what do I deserve instead?
It's a surprise you haven't caught on yet.
It's nothing personal, you're an embarrassment.
Don't cut me out.

It's a surprise you haven't caught on yet.
It's nothing personal, you're an embarrassment.
Don't cut me out.

The Great Golden Baby

Other versions of this song:
The Great Golden Baby from ep "The Inuit Sessions"
Make your move, obvious humor,
desperate and respiratory plight.
Always on, dressed to impress,
I'll be the last one to find out why.

Time takes its toll on us (this changes everything).
I'd be a liar if I denied you at all.
Oh, now that I know,
This changes everything.

I've been trading ideas with intriguing men, and I...
I perceive an honest solution to all of your pride

Time takes its toll on us (this changes everything).
I'd be a liar if I denied you at all.
Oh, now that I know,
This changes everything.
Oh, now that I know...
Oh, now that I know...

And the amplifier screams out loud for the last time.
Wave your hands at the audience as you sink on in.
First chance to hide, you need desperately so, find me, so.

Motion gives up on you in the end.
I'll try my best to be home by then.
You'll see the grace we had,
She'll never have,
You'll never have.

I'm going home but my own way.
I'm going home by my own...
I'm going home but my own way.
I'm going home by my own..

I would really love if you'd sit him down.
I would really love if you'd sit him down.
I would really love if you'd pull this thread.
I would really love if you'd pull this thread.
I would really love if you'd sit him down.
I would really love if you'd sit him down.
I would really love if you'd pull this thread
I would really love if you'd pull this thread

In Fear And Faith

Can we last through the winter?
The water's starting to freeze.
The only one who remembers
Taking the wrong step, falling in front of me.
This body's already aging.
These nights are all ready long.
And if I last through the winter,
I swear to you now, I won't call.

Congratulations, go home now.

Will we last through the winter?
Will we make it to see?
I never wanted a partner and I never loved you,
Now you are free to leave.
This heart is already frozen,
I can't remember the fall.
And if I last through the winter,
I swear to you now, I won't call.

Congratulations, go home now.

It's too late, it's too late, they won't let go.
Follow five footsteps through that open door, open door.
It's too late, it's too late, they won't let go.
Follow five footsteps through that open door, open door.

It must be buried under the heart
That makes this pace consistent.
You'll find it torn, that gate's been opened?
I've been wondering if you've been real with us.

It's too late
It's too late, it's too late, they won't let go.
Follow five footsteps through that open door, open door.
It's too late, it's too late, they won't let go.
Follow five footsteps through that open door, open door.

It's start, stop and go you've been dying for, you've been dying for.

The Glorious Nosebleed

Forced, we forced feeding you lines, feeding you.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.

I know what it feels like
giving into something you don't understand

Forced, we forced feeding you lines, feeding you.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.

Walk into the light,
giving into something you don't understand.
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before...
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before impact.

Calcium waste, litter and falling like icicles.
Calcium waste, litter and falling like icicles.
Guess who's next?
You're just as guilty as them.

Forced, we forced feeding you lines, feeding you.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before...
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before impact.

Wish Resign

Alter and teach the ages.
Nothing you love lasts too long.
A marvelous calm, abandoned in the stages of
birth mother vs. the mid wife.
Who'll tell the children about her life?

That's why you never mentioned my name to them,
denying us all of the moment.
That's why you never mentioned my name to them,
denying us all of the moment.

What brought you back to this place?
I knew you'd never learn,
I knew you'd never...
Anything expected of you now,
I knew you'd never learn,
I knew you'd never...

I'd place my bet down now, you'll be the first one to sell me out

That's why you never mentioned my name to them,
denying us all of the moment.
That's why you never mentioned my name to them,
denying us all of the moment.

What brought you back to this place?
I knew you'd never learn,
I knew you'd never...
What brought you back to this place?
I knew you'd never learn, it's obvious.
What brought you back to this place?
What brought you back to this place?

Act Appalled

Other versions of this song:
Act Appalled from ep "The Inuit Sessions"
You walk straight, not like them.
To fool them in, make it seem like you're in trouble.
Make a sound, fake it enough.

"What made you so scared?"
Maybe you're mistaken for someone who cares.

If you remember, remember,
I've been trying to get back to the center.
I'm sure it's not like it was before.

To make them drink, tell them that it's only water
No one leaves 'till we figure this out

"What made you so scared?"
Maybe you're mistaken for someone who cares.

If you remember, remember,
I've been trying to get back to the center.
I'm sure it's not like it was before.

Patience,
Both we and our words are over produced by influence.
By influence.
Patience (patience),
Both we and our words are over produced by influence (by influence),
By influence (by influence).

I'm only asking:
If you remember, remember,
I've been trying to get back to the center.
I'm sure it's not like it was...

Oh, Hello

Didn't I know you, mystery man?
Strange as all new thoughts on impotence.

All I want are windows
It wouldn't be the first time.

Didn't I, didn't I know you?
Didn't I, didn't I know you, didn't I know you?
All along, all we've been given is the ugliest tidings.
All along, we've been a mess.
Now quick dilation is the only chance we have left.

A stranger's just someone that you've forgotten.
How will we know if we've met before or done this dance,
Mystery man?

Didn't I, didn't I know you?
Didn't I, didn't I know you, didn't I know you?
All along, all we've been given is the ugliest tidings.
All along, we've been a mess.
Now quick dilation is the only chance we have left.

House Of Leaves

hey now, overcome your concern about the weather
and whether or not i'm still alive
check the vital signs
so soft spoken and shy
never gets high anymore
did you poison my food, forgive me i've paranoid flu

i've been lying wide awake paralyzed by the buzzing of the television
these modern things we know, getting you off
these modern things we know, getting you off

haunting us, these different meanings and spectral beings.
We're fighting sleep with broken, rusted weaponry.
Sing so softly and low, like you want me to hear.
Stolen what you can't afford,
What's that muffle beating for?

i've been lying wide awake paralyzed by the buzzing of the television
these modern things we know, getting you off
these modern things we know, getting you off

Something I could never say, speak so softly and low.
Something I could never say.
(Yltfos os kaeps) [speak so softly backwards]
Something I could never say.
(Yltfos os kaeps)
Something I could never say.
(Yltfos os kaeps.)
(Speak so softly and low.)
Something I could never say, speak so softly and low.
(Speak so softly.)
(Yltfos os kaeps.)
If you love me let me go.
(Stolen what you can't...)
Speak so softly.
(Speak so softly.)
(Stolen what you can't afford, what's that muffle beat...)
(Yltfos os kaeps.)
(Speak so softly.)
(Something I can never say. Speak so softly and low.)
(Speak so... softly.)
(Yltfos os kaeps. Yltfos os kaeps. Yltfos.)

Meet Me In Montauk

Leave just as you came (without a sound),
Nothing to ruffle your ends.

I've been wandering around,
Making up movies in my head
So we say don't let it go,
let me try and pull out pride.
I already forget how I used to feel about you

Leave as fast you came, no invitation
Nowhere to go from here.

I've been wandering around,
Wondering how I got so, got so, so fucking boring
All the sudden, so fucking scared... I'm not scared.
You'd mean so much more to me if I remembered.

Always Getting What You Want

Borders that we say are policing you back to their arms.
Tension to take, pills that'll make you feel higher inside.

Do you often look back on us, feeling confidently?
Would it make any difference if I wasn't late,
Or I'd been too angry to show?

The sovereign statement's wrong.
It's a bylaw and a valiant one
To honor hopeful thoughts.
It's the talent, not the promo shots

Story has shown you all felt alone.
Story has shown you all felt alone.
Even if... if the sound it makes when it's tightening,
Sweet winding up of a mandolin hurts your fingers

And you try to hold on but it's not quite working.
This reminds me of the sound you make when we disagree.

Story has shown you all felt alone.
Story has shown you all felt alone.
Even if you've been so close you're not alone anymore,
Still we grow.
Still we grow.
Even if it reminds the sounds you always used to make.

We're All Thieves

Lost in a haunting thought, spinning me around once more.
I wake just to feel the way as the daylights comes around,
I turn with my eyes are on the backdoor.

Your face is light and cocaine white.
One message beating through.

Smoke's filled the air and I'm struggling to breathe.
Let them be calm, so I finally can sleep.
Everything you intended to say,
Don't go back on your words.
You always said you'd tell me first.

Verse after endless verse, I can't escape the echoed words.
I long to find a cure for the feeling I find in these chords.
I smile as it burns.

Your face is light and cocaine white.
One message beating through.

I've been erased.
I've been erased from the picture.
Excuse, oh no, anything goes.
Excuses, you know it doesn't work.
Excuse, oh no, anything goes.
Excuses don't work.
Excuse me, this will calls out desperate end.
Excuse me, this will calls out desperate:

Smoke's filled the air and I'm struggling to breathe.
Let them be calm, so I finally can sleep.
Everything you intended to say,
Don't go back on your words.
You always said you'd tell me first.
Smoke's filled the air and m struggling to breathe.
Let them be calm, so I finally can sleep.

Stop The Fucking Car

Don't be alarmed, I feel we're falling back to ground.
Don't be afraid, I hear in every word they say,
That even if you don't look back, be sure and find out who was there,
And what they wore, and ten more reasons.
Don't be alarmed, I feel we're falling back to ground

Your face is light and cocaine white.
Your face is light and cocaine white.

Misleading at most, I'm supposed to imposter a new you (imposter a new you).
And even if you're woken up, make contact both at once.
We've made mistakes like this.
And I'm just learning.
And I'm just learning.
Your face is white in spinning lights.

Spinning lights, don't be scared.
You have given so much more
Spinning lights, take me there.
He has risen, pull me under.

Don't stop talking to me, I haven't been listening.
Don't stop talking to me, I haven't been listening.
This operation's been abandoned once again.
This operation's been abandoned once again.

Cut me gently, cut me out of mind.
Cut me gently, cut me out...
Cut me gently, cut me out of mind.
Cut me gently, cut me out of mind.

Spinning lights, don't be scared.
You have given so much more
Spinning lights, take me there.
He has risen, pull me under.

Don't stop talking to me, I haven't been listening.
Don't stop talking to me, I haven't been listening.
This operation's been abandoned once again.
This operation's been abandoned once again.

Cut me gently, cut me out...
Cut me gently, cut me out of mind.

Mandala

Dance with me for I'll be leaving soon.
Afterbirth on the keypads overwhelm
"Did he who make the lamb make thee?"
Help me find its origin.

In a cartoon house, in a cartoon car.
There are cities buried underneath our cities
"Let the people be free...let the people be free"
It's all around us.

Dance with me for I'll be leaving soon
Afterbirth on the keypads overwhelm
"Did he who make the lamb make thee?"
Help me find its origin.

In a cartoon house, in a cartoon car.
There are cities buried underneath our cities
"Let the people be free...let the people be free"
It's all around us, it's all around...
"Let the people be free...let the people see"

We so obviously had another hand and oh so separated
How do I act like I've made this when I... when I...
When I so obviously had another hand.

Dance with me for I'll be leaving soon
Afterbirth on the keypads overwhelm
"Did he who make the lamb make thee?"
What happens when we reach for each other?

. Travel Hymn

It came across like you were mad
Holding in your breath with everything you had
Until your face began to turn red
"This is why I turn and walk away from everything"
I need to feel it closer now.
"This is why I turn and walk away from everything"
I never thought it'd be like this

Between the seal a church is revealed.
And I would rather be...

Lonely along the way
Something set us off into the wrong direction
but within this particular space,
Time goes to waste.
Time goes to waste...
Time goes to waste...
Time goes...

It came across like you were mad,
Holding in your breath with everything you had...
Until your face began to turn red.

Between the seal a church is revealed
And I would rather be...

Lonely along the way
Something set us off into the wrong direction
but within this particular space...

Time starts to slow down
and all of these patterns never change.
So slow down,
'cause nobody looks at life the same.
And no one was like this 'til you came along
and reset our dials all wrong.

Lonely along the way
Something set us off into the wrong direction
but within this particular space,
Time goes to waste.

Lonely along the way
Something set us off into the wrong direction
but within this particular space,
Time goes to waste.

The Difference Between Medicine And Poison Is In The Dose

Move one inch at a time.
Don't make shit rhyme.
Would it be easy to repeat the first line?
My mind's not a well;
It won't run dry.
Just keep drinking water and you'll be alright.
This is paralysis with no time at all to let go.

Well don't call me by my full name,
And all this is temporary.
It feels much better to know that you won't feel a thing.
Well don't talk about it;
Write it down but don't ask for help.
I can't be honest with even myself.
Did you ever wish you were somebody else?

Accomplishments are transient.
They pulled me in unremittingly.
Just lasting this long,
I feel relieved to let repetition save me.

Well don't call me by my full name,
And all this is temporary.
It feels much better to know that you won't feel a thing.
Well don't talk about it;
Write it down but don't ask for help.
I can't be honest with even myself.
Did you ever wish you were somebody else?

Move one inch at a time.
You'll be just fine.
Move one inch at a time.
You'll find...
They pulled me in but accomplishments are transient.
They pulled me in but accomplishments are transient.

Well don't call me by my full name,
And all this is temporary.
It feels much better to know that you won't feel a thing.
Well don't talk about it;
Write it down but don't ask for help.
I can't be honest with even myself.
Did you ever wish you were...
Did you ever wish you were...
Did you ever wish you were somebody else?

The Greatest Lie

This building smelled so familiar
Well I had thought the sense was lost
And in a day dream I imagined my house
Where all my father's sense of strength was lost

It's all we have
It's all we have
So find me a place to begin

If I could get this feeling to end
Trembling idle hands holding me there
We laugh in the face of love
Cause nobody's really there
Nobody's real

Desire, I would try it either way
We believe in something invisible
The sense of smell that you use all your life
Well now you know your father lied

It's all we have
So find me a place to begin

If I could get this feeling to end
With trembling idle hands holding me there
We laugh in the face of love
Cause nobody's really there
Nobody's real

And I could never find my way without
But you're already there
And we, we've come a long long way without
Without maps in our hands

It's all we have
So find me a place to begin

If I could get this feeling to end
Trembling idle hands holding me there
We laugh in the face of love
Cause nobody's really there
Nobody's real

In The Morning And Amazing...

Infinite silence
flowing right in with the dawn
This is wrong, this is wrong
And I cannot sleep without the radio on

And how could anyone
You are in my dreams
Half human, half machine
You with someone else that I have felt and seen
I cannot rest, or my consciousness contest
Looking right through the lens
From winter brings the spring again

Infinite silence
flowing right in with the dawn
This is wrong, this is wrong
And I cannot sleep without the radio on

And we fall asleep again with ties to mend
So please let the cleaning begin with evolution

Hold my breath 'til communication is
Only just a test
Hold my breath 'til communication is
Only just a test
Hold my breath 'til communication is
Only just a test

You are in my dreams
Half human, half machine
Looking right through the lens
From winter brings the spring again

Infinite silence
flowing right in with the dawn
This is wrong, this is wrong
And I cannot sleep without the radio on

Infinite silence
flowing right in with the dawn
This is wrong, this is wrong
And I cannot sleep without the radio

Living Together

It starts out like a season in reverse
A way to set your mind above and over words
Attached means identity
Erases things so how can we record?

Distress call code-word is I wanna live
He makes it up as it goes, it goes away
To places he can only hide in other peoples minds
He makes it up as it goes
It goes away

Your rational mind's insane
Taste the sound you make
When the light from the sun
It's the story that never gets sold
When the light from the sun, it is your mother

Attached means identity
Erases things so why should we...

Distress call code-word is I wanna live
He makes it up as it goes, it goes away
To places he can only hide in other peoples minds
Uh, he makes it up as it goes

With an effortless smile you pervade to be
And in-between aisles
They would say you stare to see
With an effortless smile you pervade to be
Always in-between aisles
Optimistic daring me
would you trade your soul for gold?
Would you trade your soul?
Would you trade...