The Bled

His First Crush


I'll open up my wrists to let you in and keep you where you belong. Nail my
hands into the oak if I can never touch your face again. Cardiac paralysis.
I cannot breathe. Swallow my tounge if I can't say the words that will save
your life. No matter what always remember you did this to me. I'm left with
when you turned and walked away. No matter what always remember you did this
to me. You've driven me to this. You've turned my heart jet black. Reopen
the wounds and let them drain. Swing the sledge to the mainframe. And to the
one that stopped my heart. I must return the crush. Pull up the floorboards
and expose the ghost of my first love.

Anvil Pinata


Someone go for help, she's not getting up. The cardboard spine has buckled
under the extension of her wings. It took my breath away. She fell for years
into this haven of infection. These hospital policies are burning my eyes.
Her swan dive antics will be the end of me. I can't save her as she falls in
love with disaster. She says these accidents will happen, but there's no
escape from the reaching.

Swatting Flies With A Wrecking Ball


I'll stand knee deep in your ridicule. Your tongue flickers as threats are
made. I've saved you a seat in hell. Lets begin. You can shove glass down my
throat. I need your fists against my flesh. That would move me an honest
inch. I am through with you. Turn your cameras off. Show me something real.
You are nothing now without your friends. I'll cut you to ribbons. My
favorite color of confetti. It's hard to threaten me with a brick in your
mouth. You are nothing without your friends.

Glitterbomb


Shatter the mirror on the wall and turn me into beautiful broken pieces. I
am a slave to my own reflection. Hollywood in a soft syringe push it in and
make a star out of me. Hollywood in a soft syringe and I'll forget who I am.
I wanna be your new big nothing, glowing on a silver screen. I'd like to
thank the academy. And all my family and friends. We'll make another
masterpiece. A monologue and a eulogy. I couldn't have done this without
you. I couldn't have made it this far without you. I forget who I am
sometimes. I forget my lines. Hollywood in a soft syringe pust it in and
make a star out of me. Hollywood in a soft syringe push it in and I'll
forget who I am.

F Is For Forensics


Spike the I.V. with kerosene as insects halo an open wound. They flutter
death threats in morse code and old habits are exposed. Secret handshake
decapitation. Push the knife back in before embalming fluid seeps. I'm
pulling out the scissors for old times sake. It's not fun and games until
someone loses an eye. Hi-fives with butcher knives, they're hoping for a
fast recovery.

Red Wedding


You are the teeth and the lungs. Biting back and breathing in. Cracked like
a frozen moon. The heat lampseeps into the pores. This is your interrogation
your fingerprints betray your eyes. Died on your honeymoon she made such a
lovely bride. Left the door unlocked for you. The leeches took their turn.
Deny. Your alibi was painted by a blind politician. Inside your swollen eyes
sleeps a genius buried by miscalculations. You are the teeth and the lungs.
Biting back and breathing in. Your love is homicide. The queen is beckoning,
get on your knees and beg for your life. You will pay the price. Close your
eyes and die.

You Know Who's Seatbelt


The signal flares will light the way to the scene of the accident, where
we'll dance like a pile of teeth in a broken mouth. Such a sick celebration.
Everyone loves a fucking tragedy in epic proportions. Lets set our hearts at
self-destruct. Like scarlet drips on a white tile floor. A cardiac
metronome. We'll scrape the guardrail from our teeth and start again.
There's a flood in the infirmary where we'll swim through broken glass. Our
prosthetic limbs will keep us afloat. Lets set our hearts at self-destruct.

I Never Met Another Gemini


Slowly we peel away the layers and the light seeps through the cracks. You
whispered softly in my ear "the birth of morning's upon us, dear," the
bandages feel upon the floor. And there was no one in that room. It's quiet
down the hallway where the doctors wash their hands. Behind my eyes I feel
the hollow jabs of your morphine kiss. Your anesthetic voice is autographed
upon my bones. This reception died in vein. In vain. A tarnished angel
leaves her ghost on the surface. A jealous daughter starves to death for the
mother as I awaited your return. I wait for your return. It seems the only
way that I will ever feel alive. Throw myself into my injuries and close my
eyes. I'd give anything to feel alive. And I will wait for you tonight. The
scalpel carves a map for you.

Ruth Buzzi Better Watch Her Back


Somewhere between the frozen layers sleeps a fragile woman. Waiting for her
husband to remove the shards of glass. The sun betrays the light that it
once shed. And daughter cuts the hair. Tangled in a silver brush. Spitting
at a broken mirror. I feel the movement of ghosts in the room. She keeps a
photograph locked in her mouth. The smell of turpentine drips from the
walls. Forgive and forget. Relive and regret. You're not alone. I've seen
the dead arise. The ice will someday thaw and she will wait no more.

Sound Of Sulfur


Waiting for the sun to set my wings ablaze. The show must go on. The funeral
needs star. Tonight I have become the gossip and the choir. The useless and
the used. The one who reaches for her arms. I am denial. You are the one who
fell from grace for them. Is there a reason why? The funeral needs a star.
As you walk away for the last time could you hear my heart consumed behind
you? As you turn your back from the dying did you feel the sun burn out
inside you? You set my wings ablaze. You will run from familiar arms into
their embrace. I hope they love you like I did when you needed me and I came
for you that night.

Porcelain Hearts And Hammers for Teeth


I'd burn alive to keep you warm when you're alone. Shiver under blankets in
the basement where our secrets sleep. You pour the liquor on the staircase,
girl. Pass the flask and close your eyes. Are you grieving for what we've
become? Are you running from that room? We set the evidence on fire. We
light cigarettes and chase out old regrets. Are you grieving for tonight? I
smell the sulfur on her skin (breathe in). Yesterday will be the end of you
and I. Yesterday will be the end of shoulders where we rest our head. Now we
grieve for tomorrow goes on without us. Now we breathe for no one else.
Everything is broken slowly sinking under waiting for tomorrow waiting for
the grave to tell me that she's lonely. Open up and hold me slowly feel my
body becoming one and only. Death is just an excuse to forget you. Now we
run from ourselves. Hope lies not in the mirror. I'll burn alive for you.

Get Up You Son Of A Bitch, Cause Mickey Loves Ya


The telephone swallowed the child. This is the last time I say your name.
The crackle and hiss from the walls. You smile like a catholic in heat. Just
don't forget what you've done. Just don't forget. This is the last time that
I say your name. Forget the fuck away from me. The child is sleeping under
the wires.

Spitshine Sonata


I lost my voice in the fire. I burned my eyes staring at your eclipse. I was
just a child. My father's favorite. Such delicate arms keep reaching toward
the horizon. As we keep starving for this beauty we are sick with distance.
Grieving for his failure. We are sick with distance. Starving for this beauty.
You keep me on my knees mummified in your arms. This is the last chance that
you will get to breathe my name into his chest. Only the deaf find peace. Only
the blind won't reach.

We Are The Industry


You plug me in and turn me on. Turn on me. I am your device of manufactured
hope. You plug me in and turn me into wires and blood. I am your trophy wife
shaking hands with your guests. Hi my name is "yours". The unfortunate ones
will be spared. We are the industry. I'm sorry but your name is not on the
list. Your results do not comply. Your ashes will fuel the machine. We are
the industry. We are the birth and the death.

Nothing We Say Leave This Room


Your eyes being to stare at the polygraph machine as you become aware of the
satellites that call her name. It's as if the ocean swallowed the city
lights that we fell in love with. Paralyzed and paranoid, we withdraw the
hands we held. This is beginning to get ugly, dear. You feed me to the
lions. Now the tongue becomes the bridge between broken teeth. Now you feed
me to the lions. How we reach for the arms but only clasp the knees. How we
reach for each other only to die alone. How we reach for the stars only to
swim through the dead. How we strive to connect only to fall apart. Just
between me and you I felt the rapture in your arms.

Hotel Coral Essex


If it starts to feel, then we'll just shut it off again.
We won't convince the jury, we're guilty till we die.
If it starts to sing, reach in remove the sirens,
This respirator keeps a countdown to our cancellation.
If it starts to bleed, do not adjust the contrast.
Doctor, deliver us.
Heaven holds no truth for dreamers like you and I.
Remember the day they cut our throats,
We learned to smile from our necks.
This is the breech of etiquette, with wires jutting from our arms.
I'll never look at you again, if it's only a mirror in the end.
And if there's no one after us, we'll turn the lights out when we leave.
I'll never look at you again, if it's only, it's only, it's only a mirror.
I'll never look at you again, if it's only, it's only a mirror.
We're guilty till we die, I'll never look at you again.
We're guilty till we die.
I'll never look.
We're guilty till we die, I'll never look at you again.
We're guilty till we die.
I'll never look at you.
Till we die.
Siphon the ivory from the tusk, we're guilty till we die.
We only bleed when the knives are drawn.
Vultures pick the meat from the bones.
We're guilty till we die.
If it starts to feel, then we'll just shut it off again.
We won't convince the jury.
We're guilty till we die.
If it starts to feel, then we'll just shut it off again.
We won't convince the jury.
We're guilty till we die.
Do not adjust the contrast, my love, our days are numbered.
We'll remain guilty until our hearts give in and pull us under.
Do not adjust the contrast, my love, our days are numbered.
We'll remain guilty until our hearts give in and pull us under.
We left our corpses on the beach untouched and slightly out of reach.
We paint the walls with our dreams.
We'll turn the lights out when we leave.
We left our corpses on the beach untouched and slightly out of reach.
We paint the walls with our dreams.
We'll turn the lights out.

Guttershark


I crawled for mile.
Slit open by a trail of thorns.
I prowled, I prowled the vapid avenue.
Slurring every word I wished I said.
Stranded, a nocturnal hellhole.
I have a dread of becoming a martyr.
Pry it out, pry it out.
Pavement spits back when the clock strikes.
I crawled for miles and miles.
Take the palms.
Save the fright from...
I sprawled, prototypical creature.
Mouthwide and cobblestone canvas.
Time lapse.
Rejected donors.
Flee from.
The scene.
Blind numb.
On a whiskey slicked highway.
I'm reeling toward the temptation at hand.
Fog lights.
Disjointed lightning.
Nauseous nauseous..
I'm drooling right on cue.
I'm sleeping in a pew.
It's all misconstrued.
Goddamn this night.
Fabricate.
Deny.
Until the beat makes you sick.
Guttershark.
Prescribe.
The man is void of reason.
I crawled for miles and miles.
Till the palms called it quits, yeah.
I crawled for miles and miles and miles.
Take the palms.
Save the fright from...
Fear grips me.
Drained.
Pissed.
Drowned.
You might cut a man.
Just to watch him bleed.
You might cure yourself of this plague.
You might spill your guts.
To this bloodthirsty crowd.
They might think I'm you.
I'm gonna end up you.
You can't shake it; the fear, the vice, the tremble.
The bittersweet melody is deafening, so hide your broken halo from me.
You can't shake it; the fear, the vice, the tremble.
The bittersweet melody is deafening, so hide your broken halo from me.
I crawled for miles.
I crawled for miles.
I crawled for miles.

My Assassin


The sky blistered red, shots ring overhead.
I'm scaling walls that the soldiers built to muffle out your screams.
The message was dislocated, misconveyed, incinerated.
In the wake of war just listen for the flood.
The arthritis in us all is choking me out.
It's spilling me.
Maybe you could finally be the one who reaches in a saves me from the flood.
Collapse.
This is out last chance.
There's no time for relapse.
Just listen for the flood.
If not us, can I just save you?
Can't you hear the bombs are calling all our old habits their own?
A sniper patiently awaiting me in ever catacomb, are you scared girl?
Won't you be my assassin?
hunted down for the last time and carried you home.
The arthritis in us all is choking me out.
It's spilling me.
Maybe you could finally be the one who reaches in and saves me from the flood.
Collapse.
This is our last chance, there's no time for relapse.
Just listen for the flood.
If not us, can I just save you?
Bring on the love, 'cause here comes the flood.
Bring on the love, 'cause here it comes.
We must have been seduced by the calm of the isle as we tied our wrists, our wrists too tight in the shallow.
Maybe you could finally be the one who finally reaches out and saves me from the flood.
Collapse.
This is our last chance.
There's no time for relapse now.
Just listen for the flood.
If not us, can I just save you?

Antarctica


The rain begins.
The tide it pulls.
And drags me down.
It doesn't end.
Keep rolling in.
Keep rolling in.
Alone you float.
She wont let go.
And it spins you out.
Keep rolling in.
Keep rolling in.
Keep rolling in.
Underneath a web of satellites.
Concrete structures puncture holes in the sky.
Nothing lives here and no one comes here anymore.
Redesign me.
I lost your grip.
Peeled apart by the owned.
Stick beside me on the road.
Redesign me.
I lost my grip.
Peeled apart by the owned.
Stick beside me on the road.
She winks and glows.
If I could run from this I swear I'd take you with me.
But this place has got the best of us again.
And it wont just go away.
We're diving in with our hearts and halfmast and there's nothing left to say.
Redesign me.
I lost your grip.
Peeled apart by the owned.
Stick beside me on the road.
Redesign me.
I lost your grip.
Peeled apart by the owned.
Stick beside me on the road.
Keep rolling in.

She Calls Home


I've got such a filthy heart sometimes.
When you take me to that place and I never wanna leave.
In the middle of the night, when everyone is sound asleep.
Where will you be?
You'll be waiting with a gasmask in the dark.
I can't stop myself.
She calls home when I'm not there so I wont freeze.
I need to learn how to breathe when I'm inside you.
Sever the ripcord.
Sever it.
I drift away.
I drift.
Further down.
Inside it gets so fucking cold.
I come to you to feel helpless.
Further down.
You know it's hard to free myself and you just keep on driving until its over.
Until they swallow every last drop of me and you.
I need to learn how to breathe.
I need to learn how to breathe.
Further down.
I reach inside.
Further down.
I can't hide.
I tried to show you that there's nothing you can take away from me.
Nothing you can take away from me.
Kill me.
You're such a beautiful liar.
Take me to the place where I'm king.
Nothing just like the way that you wanted.
When you left me behind.

The Last American Cowboy


Brace yourself for the plight of the born.
As the spotlight strips you bare.
Just a useless Act in the Play of Life.
Cast as the role of "The Lover".
And I feel slightly misplaced in a world of "Fuck or Be Fucked".
Kill the lights.
Letch.
One more time and say it like you mean it.
Lush.
One more time and tell it like you feel it.
Lover.
You've got talent but I just don't see it.
Wrap your hook around my neck and get me off, get me off, get me off your stage.
In every coma-lover's kiss collides with truth.
And every tongue that slips will drip onto your bruise.
And I know disguise the lies that you fed me last night these plots are breeding grounds for nothing but the worst and nothing could be worse and I know why.
And what do I have left?
The composer just went deaf.
The singer lost his breath.
In the glow of the crowd.
The dancer's on a crutch.
The writer drank too much.
The director lost his touch.
In the glow of the crowd.
Can you resist the urge to burn the script we wrote? bring on the flood before we choke.
Applause engulfs the room.
We bow into out tombs.
Sing me one more line so I can sleep.
Sing me one more line so I can sleep.
Sing me one more line so I can sleep.
This is all you need.
My love, it follows you to your grave.
To your grave.
My love, it follows you to your grave.
To your grave.
In every coma-lover's kiss collides with truth.
And every tongue that slips will drip onto your bruise.
And I know disguise the lies that you fed me last night these plots are breeding grounds for nothing but the worst and nothing could be worse and I know why.
In every coma-lover's kiss collides with truth.
And every tongue that slips will drip onto your bruise.
And I know disguise the lies that you fed me last night these plots are breeding grounds for nothing but the worst and nothing could be worse and I know why.

Daylight Bombings


The air raids at night.
Are keeping things serene.
The president's men are closing in on me.
And the crosshair grin you hold me in still does not propose an argument convincing me to shed the devil's clothes.
Electrodes to spine.
Tonguing my wounds clean.
That's when the nightmare stops.
Oh yeah, I had a dream, I had a dream.
It went - shackled to the lover of another in a chapel so pristine.
Baptized at athiests.
I never felt to clean.
The more I hear doves cry the less I want to fly.
The more I hear them crying out...
When does the seizure end?
When does the cyanide kick in?
I'd like to hike you up over the waste of love and back again.
Oh my mistress, whoa, sweet distress.
Your dress is bringing it all back to me.
And we are closer than whores caught up in a roundabout in hell.
Twilight isn't in the dark on this one.
You can play me out on the hotel floor.
Twilight isn't in the dark on this one.
You can play me out.
The more I hear doves cry, the less I want to fly.
The more I hear those doves crying.
This is where the plot thickens.
Not behind the ribs but below the truth.
You can use your sleuth.
'cause I'm begging for proof.
This is where the plot thickens.
Not behind the ribs but below the truth.
You can use your sleuth.
'cause I'm begging for proof.
Begging for proof.
When does the siezure end?
When does the cyanide kick in?
I'd like to hike you up over the waste of love and back again.
Oh my mistress, whoa sweet distress.
Your dress is bringing it all back to me.
And we are closer than whores caught up in a roundabout.
No need to run away.
The pig was snuffed and laid.
We saw this happening all on the front page.
This is the last time we bet on landmines.
We've got a lot riding on this one.
So save your bullets for the call back.
We've got a lot riding on this one.
Don't turn your back till you see the blood flow back.

Millionaires


We fall asleep on the runway underneath the noon crucifix.
Where they left the light on for us tonight.
Fed myself to the sickness and purge myself of the cure.
We watch the nurses pace the cage.
You and I we're never gonna die.
Never gonna die in the white lights.
You and I are never gonna die.
Servants.
Suffocate the king.
We'ce come to take what we don't need.
And built a prison where catherdrals used to be.
We burn every office.
Zombies prowl through the school chanting "This is ours to love and take apart at will".
Here we are right now.
Here we are right now.
These wires, these woven webs, conceal blueprints from me.
Here we are right now.
Sometimes we kill the lights.
Pretend that we survived.
We're never gonna die.
We're never gonna die.
We're never gonna die.
We're never gonna die.

With An Urgency


Hey you, young love.
Don't let them cut out your tongue.
Swallow the key to your heart and smile through your teeth.
Hey you, young love.
Don't let them cut out your tongue.
It's only over when we choose to forgive them.
Give me your hand when no one else understands.
The day the hostages start makeing demands.
We gave ourselves.
When there was no body else.
We found what we were looking for in the summer.
I never begged to be immune to love a heart so out of tune.
But I believed you when you told me I was ruined.
And if the sun comes up again, I'll be waiting for the others to come in.
They'll never take us alive.
And they can never take away what keeps you safe when you're afraid to lose it all.
Just love nothing more until we are nothing more.
Until we love.
I never begged to be immune to love a heart so out of tune.
But I believed you when you told me I was ruined.
And if the sun comes up again, I'll be waiting for the others to come in.
They'll never take us alive.
I never begged to be immune to love a heart so out of tune.
But I believed you when you told me I was ruined.
Hey you, young love and all that's left of us.
Hey you, young love.
Hey you, young love and all that's left of us.
Hey you, young love.