AM Taxi

Lyrics to Woodpecker :
Someone's husband pays your rent with stacks and stacks of presidents
they blow it like it's counterfeit, believe me
They'll feed you lines and alcohol
and one by one they'll pay for all the little things you do that make you sick
You keep on running for your purse
the waitress said it's getting worse
try and try you can't reverse it now
And I said "You done nothin but hurt me
But you do it right, you do it right, you got me so right"
And I said "You done nothin but hurt me
But you do it right, you get it right, you got me so right"
Counting singles, fives and tens
the last call lights are back again
but that won't stop the gentlemen, believe me
they got ashtray smiles and dirty eyes,
you're not afraid to compromise, any virus in a shirt and tie can tell
keep on running for your purse,
the waitress said it's getting worse
Try and try you can't reverse it now
I don't ever gamble, but I'd bet you life is going, going, going, gone
There's something you should know, there's so much you don't know
Down in an alley behind your apartment,
we fall apart and we breathe it in.
I get off, but I know that I'm just as bad as them
Down in the alley behind you're apartment
you smoke and tell me it's nothing real
just something we need, just something to feel.
And I said "You done nothin but hurt me
But you do it right, you do it right, you got me so right"
And I said "You done nothin but hurt me
But you do it right, you get it right, you got me so right"

Lyrics to The Mistake :
Matchbooks under cigarettes
Lighting your silhouette
Just accept I'll say anything
This place is a mess you think
Buy you another drink
Another drink anything you want
'Bout time that you lose your friends
Back to my place
I don't want to talk
I want everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?

Street lights on your coma eyes
I'm in no shape to drive
Besides you're fine
I'll say anything
Get us out of the parking lot
Swerving behind the cops
Eyes on the road
I got everything you want
Like secrets to haunt
I got memories to block
I got the gun
To blow everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?

I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I?ll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn't take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made

Your doubts follow you through the door
What do you do it for?
You need more and more
To feel anything
Each night and it?s someone else
It's the last time you can tell yourself
You can tell yourself
Anything you want
Coat off and you climb the stairs
Intentions are very clear
I don't want to talk
I want everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?

I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I'll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn?t take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made

I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I'll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn't take
I am the mistake

I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I?ll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn?t take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made

Lyrics to Tanner Boyle Vs. The Seventh Grade :
You were the last thing I saw when
I dropped out of sight
For the first time in ages completely alive
These three A.M. stars
They got me to crawl back
I should've never left

Slowly replacing the years you spent chasing these fears
Now faced here with all that you could have been
Drown in neon and smoke
It's killing us slowly
There had to be something
There had to be someone
We stared at the headlights
Is this what we've become?

I guess something much bigger than life is holding you down
I bet now that you're older you're lying

He was the last thing you saw when the sedative hit
For the last time you just couldn't deal with it
Under three A.M. stars
Convinced you to come back
There had to be something
There had to be someone
We stared at the headlights
Is this what we've become?

I guess something much bigger than life is holding you down
I bet now that you're older this lie is nailing you into the ground
Into the ground

Your fears they grew into a mountain
Where you're freezing alone at the top
Still I'll wait everyday at the bottom
Just to catch you the second you drop

I guess something much bigger than life is holding you down
I bet now that you're older you're lying
I guess something much bigger than life is holding you down
I bet now that you're older this lie is nailing you into the ground
Into the ground
Into the ground

Lyrics to Shake, Rattle, And Stall :
We're living in her dad's car
Been high for days
We look between the seats
We sit and shake
I close my eyes it just won't go away
Yeah we've been high for days
She kicked me off
At the drugstore where I bought
The last pack with the money that I brought
She said she's leaving to someplace I'm not
Someplace I'm not

She headed north on Penn to score
She's gonna stay and do some more

These avenues are the dying proof
They fucking don't make these nights like they used to
You can come home anytime you want
But I'm sick and I'm thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you

It's been several weeks now
The family's getting pissed
Her brothers found me
Lyndale and 26th
I said "I'm sorry boys, it ain't me she's with"
No it ain't me she's with
I told them she'd been dying for a shot
Now she's in some courtroom tying some knot
They took me out back
To show me what they thought
To show me what they thought

Beat up in Loon's parking lot
I got a ride home from the cop

These avenues are the dying proof
They fucking don't make these nights like they used to
You can come home anytime you want
But I'm sick and I'm thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you

I'm at the Mousetrap in Georgia
I'm in the 404
They put lipstick on our T-shirts
They took our cash at the door
It was the 10:40 train home
It was the 3rd of July
Somebody's drink hit some passenger
They kicked us off in Riverside

I see it everywhere I see it everywhere now
I see it everywhere I see it everywhere now
I see her everywhere I see her everywhere now
I see her everywhere I see her everywhere now

These avenues are the dying proof
They fucking don't make these nights like they used to
You can come home baby if you want
But I'm sick and I'm thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you
I'm sick of thinking about you

Lyrics to Paper Covers Rock :
I pray for the worst to hear you bitch about the
First real not when the needle hits
Your high five's rolling into a fist
"Oh, God! Turn the radio off!
He's getting into this!"
And your words
They were all that I knew
Until I died on page in your year-end review
Research you don't have a clue
I learned it all from you

You can swear like daggers right before my eyes
You can never be sure
You can switch to blood when the ink is dry
You will never be heard
Now I write words like a target and your aim is poor
So give me your worst I don't feel a thing anymore

My downward path
Don't you forget to mention
You're selling out tickets to my intervention
RSVP you're a hell of a friend
Somehow I'll still sleep tonight
Raised on your dial in a FM hiss
Until I died on the air at the top of your list
Pointing fingers would you ever have guessed that
I learned it all from you

You can swear like daggers right before my eyes
You can never be sure
You can switch to blood when the ink is dry
You will never be heard
Now I write words like a target and your aim is poor
So give me your worst I don't feel a thing
Give your worst I can't feel a thing anymore

They sing it back 'cause we let 'em know that we mean it
Eyes glow in the darkest rooms and I've seen it
I've been thee one down in the front believing
Believing you were the one
You knew the songs I needed

It killed me the first time when I saw the headline
We'll play it loud
We're drowning out
Your jaded heart tonight

I pray for the worst just to hear you bitch about the
Last real note that I'll ever hit
Your high five's rolling into a fist
"Oh, God! Turn the radio off!
He's getting into this!"
Turn the radio off

You can swear like daggers right before my eyes
You can never be sure
You can switch to blood when the ink is dry
You will never be heard
Now I write words like a target and your aim is poor
So give me your worst I don't feel a thing
Give me your worst I can't feel a thing
Give me your worst I don't feel a thing anymore

Lyrics to Maydays And Rosaries :
I been lost, lost as I can be
locked inside with my t.v.
I don't think about it that much anyway,
just stare at black and white and gray.
I've been safe, safe as I can be
I keep calm and out of reach
I don't think about you that much anyway,
I wouldn't even know what to say.
That don't mean that you shouldn't call
if you feel like it at all.
I'd love to hear your voice, love to hear your voice.
Lights are off and he's not around
do you think of me at all?
I'd love to hear your voice, love to hear your voice.
I don't sleep, lay awake instead,
alone on your side of the bed
until you're walking in my sleep again
and I pray the nightmare never ends.
that don't mean that you shouldn't call
if you feel like it at all.
I'd love to hear your voice, love to hear your voice
lights are off and he's not around
do you think of me at all?
When you're sending me away,
I'll be sending out maydays, and counting rosaries.
And if I fall into the blue,
I will always think of you, when the phone doesn't ring

Lyrics to Fed Up :
Nikki had the wildest of hearts
And a story that'll tear you apart
She's got her father's eyes and his credit card
Nikki had the wildest of hearts

Living in the town was a drag
The more you shrunk the more you sank
She said we may as well sleep in body bags
Living in the town was a drag

There was trouble ready to begin
Pressure rising up again
There was a bad idea at an ATM
There was trouble ready to begin

We climb to the roof to watch the drag race sunset
Beneath the power lines
It's car's first, it's dust tonight
Before the vampires come alive

And she's screaming

Wake up, is anyone else getting fed up?
Holding out for the wishing well
To pull us from the wreck
Stand up, stand up
We won't be the faded ones
Another silhouette
Is anyone else gettin' sick?

We were doused and ready to ignite
Out on the time bomb summer night
We were hooked by then to the other side
Waiting to ignite

There was trouble ready to begin
We were radiating heat again
There were some bad ideas at the ATM
There's no chance for recovering

And she's screaming

Wake up, is anyone else getting fed up?
Holding out for the wishing well
To pull us from the wreck
Stand up, stand up
We'll be the faded ones
Another silhouette
Is anyone else getting sick?

We were raised in the good old ways on the newest lines
Fast talk, cable boxed, fossilized
And Nicole said nights like this
There's not a pulse in this ghost town
Now the power has burned up
And the trapping got closed down

We climb to the roof to watch the drag race sunset
Beneath the power lines
It's car's first, it's dust tonight
Before the vampires come alive (x2)

And she's screaming

Wake up, is anyone else getting fed up?
Holding out for the wishing well
To pull us from the wreck
Stand up, stand up
We'll be the faded ones
Another silhouette
Is anyone else getting sick?

Lyrics to Dead Street :
There's a lightning under the ceiling
Every struck kid looking for a feeling
Is gonna raise a cup
When the moon is up
Because there's nothing else here to do
She has a parked cab
Begging to leave this
With a bar tab bigger than Jesus
And a reason for every bullet hole in the
Plot laid out for her
All the strung-out kids on Dead Street
Gave her directions and a fix
She's got money left for a ticket out
She'd rather drink 'till she don't exist

Everybody knows
That there's no way out of here
Everybody's trying but we just can't leave
We got pushed about
And the end's not what it seems
Packing our bags to kiss it goodbye
In our wildest dreams
In our wildest dreams
In our wildest dreams

They give you TV
To buy what they sell you
They give you Bibles
To do what they tell you
Until the skin and bones
Of a programmed home
Are the only things to control
Between the schools and the factories
There's a hidden path that you can't see
One by one they keep turning up
They've got a new life here in store
And all the red lights took the night off
As the streets lay bored again
The old theaters and churches pray for the
Wrecking ball to swing

Everybody knows
That there's no way out of here
Everybody's trying but we just can't leave
We got pushed about
And the end's not worth the means
Packing our bags to kiss it goodbye
In our wildest dreams
In our wildest dreams
In our wildest dreams

So how are we gonna carry this ahead
Before their trite defeated eyes
I think they'd rather bury us instead
Under these dark and defeated skies
We hang like question marks at the end
Of every dream
I'd rather be a fugitive
Than die here in between

Everybody knows
That there's no way out of here
Everybody's trying but we just can't leave
We got pushed about
And the end's not what it seems
Packing our bags to kiss it goodbye
In our wildest dreams

Everybody knows
That there's no way out of here
(Not what it seems)
Everybody's trying, trying but we just can't leave
(Not worth the means means)
We got pushed about
And the end's not worth the means
Packing our bags to kiss it goodbye
In our wildest dreams
In our wildest dreams
Dreams
In our wildest dreams
Dreams
In our wildest dreams
Dreams
In our wildest Dreams
Dreams

Lyrics to Charissa :
Turn it up and meet me tonight
under the avalanche;
with all the cops and robber out there, we dont stand a chance.
Motorbikes run wild when lights turn,
this car soars alive.
The black sidewalks push and fight,
but we've got each other tonight
Charissa, I don't wanna hurt you, I don't wanna let you down
Charissa, I cannot dessert you, even if you hate me now.
And so the kids get smashed and throw fists- so dangerous.
And if they do got something to say, well, it's not making sense.
The bomb is wired to break the silence, before the avalanche.
With all the cops and neighbors out there, we don't stand a chance.
You sleep much better when I'm not around;
Charissa, I don't wanna hurt you, I don't wanna let you down
Charissa, I cannot dessert you, even if you hate me now
I don't wanna be near you, I just wanna be close
Not friends with the President, maybe I don't know the Pope
Sure not making a fortune selling your daddy's dope
I don't wanna be near you, I just wanna be close
Not friends with the President, baby I don't know the Pope
I'm just trying to make you a fortune and ripping off the Ramones
I don't wanna be near you, I just wanna be close
you sleep much better when I'm not around
I don't wanna hurt you I don't wanna let you down
Charissa, I cannot dessert you, even if you hate me now
Charissa I don't wanna hurt you I don't wanna let you down
Charissa, I cannot dessert you, even if you hate me now.

Lyrics to Champagne Toast :
New years came and went again;
I promised I would change
But I put all my words in a glass
And made them go away
quaratine with live t.v.
watching times square kiss
countdown til ashtrays commdeered
and cold air conferences
I don't need a champagne toast
keep it for someone with a shred of hope that'll hold you
and be there cause you know I won't
someone deserves you and you know I don't;
I'm sorry
I walked up to North Avenue
past St. Peter and Paul
it can seem long when you're alone, but it never seemed so cold
took back all my gifts for this; hallowed be thy name
I can't smoke anywhere anymore, but nothing else has changed
I don't need a champagne toast
keep it for someone with a shred of hope that'll hold you
and be there cause you know I won't
someone deserves you and you know I don't;
I'm sorry
I don't need a champagne toast
keep it for someone with a shred of hope that'll hold you
and be there cause you know I won't
someone deserves you and you know I don't;
I'm sorry
BNSF railway can never take me far enough away
not tonight, tonight
I don't need a champagne toast (3x)
keep it for someone with a shred of hope that'll hold you
and be there cause you know I won't
He deserves you and you know I don't;
I'm sorry
New years came and went again
promised I would change