The Words Behind the Music



Pretend to Lie

you count on me, and I believe
you are my friend, here hand in hand
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I will tell you now, just how I feel, and you pretend
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you can have my hand
I will have my way
you will pretend
I love you anyway
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every time I stand,its not the end
no one will think
every single time, you pretend to feel
kills me every way
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you can have my hand
I will have my way
you will pretend
I love you anyway
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closer you stand, further you fall, I will hold your hand
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you will have my hand
I will have my way
you will pretend
I love you anyway
Better Side

consider this side, a better side of me
remember this face, to face all I can see
consider you my love, my only greater side
any other half of me, finds a dormant place to hide
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the walls are closing in with pictures on the wall
things that are simple watch the complex things fall
mirror mirror in my mind who's the better half of all?
everybody should learn to walk before they have to crawl
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you never walked away from me
you never stopped talking to me
you never gave up on me
you never walked away from me
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consider this my love, forgiveness to everything
remember my better side, the only half worth seeing consider everything, people considerate to me any other better side, is the greater side to see ------------------------------------------------------- my better side (and you would talk away, talk away from my better side) my better side (and you would walk away and talk away from me) my better side (and you would give me up and give me up) you're my better side.... Rain Who told me I have to be a man about it? Who put these killing thoughts in my goddamn head? --------------------------------------------- Who listened to what they said? Put these voices into my head. "I'll always love you" is all she said. And it's raining inside my head --------------------------------------------- And you will be, and it's raining again ---------------------------------------------- Who's the one who made me cry? Who made up my lonely bed? ---------------------------------------------- Who listened to what they said? Put these voices into my head. "I'll always love you" is all she said. And it's raining inside my head. Asleep in the Backseat with Prufrock Remember my voice I'll remember you I can see your eyes Wish you would see mine too Then I remember your name, and you -------------------------------------------------- Close my eyes, Believe my lies, Would I mind afterall? -------------------------------------------------- Time we've shared will never be You won't remember a thing Found a million ways to fix myself And thousand nights to try -------------------------------------------------- Close my eyes, Believe my lies, Would I mind afterall? ------------------------------------------------- It's not all it seems A new emptiness in my eyes No one I know sings to me anymore She sings this way for me Tomorrow's yet another turn And I know its me Yesterday's all a blur It's me -------------------------------------------------- Then you look away Never knew I was near Then one day, I looked at you I walked away Easier than talking back I sent me home ------------------------------------------------- Close my eyes, Believe my eyes, Would I mind afterall? -------------------------------------------------- It's not all it seems And I'm not believing it anymore No one I know sings to me anymore And will I ever see you away? Tomorrow's yet another turn And I will float away, again Yesterday's all a blur Again Star-Crossed Eyes Allow me one last, everlasting kiss Divide by moonlight, ignore what we miss Silent protest of my loneliness And paste your face among those who you wanna be Blocked off you leave me nothing left Cross out my eyes, cross out my hands, see what you see Too hard is it to forget you- so confused And I know that you are there ------------------------------------------------ And I stand up and watch you go(fall) ------------------------------------------------- Drive out over foggy crystal roads Crumble and return back to Earth Why was it faith among those that you chose? Rain down and bring some life to me This kingdom sits deadly here in my heart Hard to admit it's all for you- all for you This missing piece of this puzzled love Fallen December's cold like everyday It's winter's time to break away Here I am frozen in my mind Swimming in all of my spare time -------------------------------------------- Fallen angels send me fallen stars Hey angel, where's my fallen stars? -------------------------------------------- Remember the tragic sunny day? There in my heart, yesterday Surrender all of the magic that you can find Here in my life and my mind A Song for a Dream Awaking in mourning Favourable outcome keeps me high Like a German Lullaby Only your touch can get me through Breaks down the hope that's in my mind --------------------------------------- Tomorrow will always come With a smile to greet me at the door Her smile meets me there Half way down the road to somewhere --------------------------------------- Talk of our mistakes Sound of our sickness makes me cry Brings down the hope that's in my mind Forever haunted by your face Makes me want to wilt and die -------------------------------------- *You're running, you're running You're running out that door To the place we were before --------------------------------------- I'm dying, I'm dying I'm dying to touch you there If only you seemed to care --------------------------------------- So why must we still pretend? Our fallacies our only sins * Album lyrics: Sometimes I feel like I've already lost Then you turn me around again And when it seems like the day is lost Then you kick me around again Angel Butterfly Love, isn't everything, everything isn't, love of love Life, isn't every dream, dream first fall asleep, asleep on the floor ---------------------------------------------- When the lights go out and out goes the lights beneath my ceiling Stealing a glimpse of you When my ceiling falls and falls away my empty room falls down And away ---------------------------------------------- You're an angel butterfly Prom Dress with Open Arms you put your prom dress on, you leave me on the bed I tell you how you look so great, you won't look back it never mattered to me, now its your love but you look so beautiful now, into your beauty ---------------------------------------------------------- you lift your hands up high and fall back into my arms again ----------------------------------------------------------- one more dance as the music provides, give me that smile just hold the sound for a little while, stop time for me still as the clock I fight so often, I broke the spell I won't ever drop you now, into my arms again ----------------------------------------------------------- you lift your hands up high and fall back into my arms again --------------------------------------------------------- one more dance for me one last chance to change the song in your heart place your hands in mine this last dance is for me --------------------------------------------------------- I've thought it through, mind you I'd give my price for night time, alone with you you laugh, you laugh, gimme back that smile this time's its for me... --------------------------------------------------------- one more dance for me (you lift your arms up high) one last chance to save your heart (fall back into my arms again) put your heart in mine (one more dance) this dance is all for you and me.... --------------------------------------------------------- (you life your hands up high) Toast the Stars simple place of a cynical life where a vengeance escapes the independent mind touch my face with an innocent lie of abandoned dreams not allowed to fly so toast the stars a happy dream, things are always as the seem over-head it seems a flash of light, too bad they already passed us by ------------------------------------------------------------------------ its passed us by its passed us ------------------------------------------------------------------------ by love to a simple life, that cheers the heart for a perfect time let me sleep the beauty week, spark a heart so lovers be toast the stars a happy dream, things are always as they seem over-head they seem a flash of light, too bad they already passed us by ------------------------------------------------------------------------- its passed us by its passed us by ------------------------------------------------------------------------- part of me dies with every dream, a disappointed mind, I don't know what to fight, where every lie is a choice at retail price leave it alone, its a symbol to last, with a scripture's heart and the truths that clash, where every line is a choice at retail price ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- so toast the stars a happy dream, things are always as they seem over-head they seem a flash of light, too bad they already passed us by ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- its passed us by its passed us by Happy Land every hour awake something new I can't take every standing hour no I won't go down ---------------------------- everyday is the same to me filling me with a boring personality stranded in suburban local hell driving aimlessly fits me as well ------------------------------------ take me away ------------------------------------ just let my realistic life go all I have is my freedom to show hours asleep drown my disease carry me oh please please please ---------------------------------- take me away to happy land -------------------------------- take me away -------------------------------- everything is nothing now I will never show you how everything will disappear all my love in the fear ---------------------------------- take me away to happy take me away to happy land (take me down) Right for Me I take a sip of my coffee and I look towards you wish I could believe that its not you I can't really think this picture's so true so I slam it on the table what else can I do I definitely think its now or never I look you in the eyes to see you forever ------------------------------------------------ then you tell me that I'm not right for you ------------------------------------------------ well this time and every time its up to me sit back and drink its all right for me ------------------------------------------------ then you tell me that I'm not right for you ----------------------------------------------------- but all that I can see, is that you're so right for me ----------------------------------------------------- I tell you what it is, its somthin' 'bout your eyes and your face is smiling, it seems so real, every little piece of beauty that withholds you is right for me -------------------------------------------------------------- then you tell me that I'm not right for you ------------------------------------------------------------- but all that I can see, is that you're so right for me One More Time I told you how I feel this time I give you every piece of me ---------------------------------- what can I do? ask you for my love? every time it happens so fast, now.... ---------------------------------- I've given you everything I've given you every part of me I want to tell you how I feel I want to show you how I feel what is taking me? that I can't understand a piece of emptiness and pain.... ----------------- I don't know something's left in me I don't' know ------------------ one more time I'd like to give you one more time ---------------- I don't know one more time This Knight It is a moonlit face that reveals the night A closing of a chapter that covers the light This knight of passion that wields his arms Undoing his closure to misdirect harm ------------------------------------------------ Please share with me this night I will defend this night Stare with me into this night Please share with me this night ------------------------------------------------ Hello new, the beginning is here One smile, one grace and his love is near This knight of passion that stands up tall Who reveals his name, his love, to all ------------------------------------------------ And I will follow you, Into this darkest hour And I will cover you, Into this darkened day There will be no cover there, Stand about this darkened shower And I will follow you, Into this darkest day --------------------------------------------------- And I, the wiseman, that giveth my breath Restrict me night of all that is left This knight of passion stands his ground And does turn his head where the love shall be found. Riddle Me You choke me up without your hands tied safely around my neck Give me a sweet lie and make me feel alright inside --------------------------------------------------------- Riddle me ---------------------------------------------------------- Look me in the eye and tell me what you see tonight Is it me or is it us that's killing you that's killing me ---------------------------------------------------------- Riddle me ---------------------------------------------------------- Cut back the dark that's in the light With every riddle on your min Play the game's that's in the right Losing the match before you're out of time Answer me this what's in the right I cannot see clear, step in the light killa This ain't no thing without your luck But I ask you now, who gives a fuck? ---------------------------------------------------------- Answer me, answer me, answer me this Riddle me
Painting the Final Scene It’s a story with your eyes, and you left out the best punch line I walked away carefully, through your words, and left my intentions with a curse It took me twenty times to get it right, sixteen right to twenty four, the chances are mine Hold off the last words till’ the move Before the camera, your eyes are blue ---------------------------------------------------------- Forget what’s in your eyes Forget just passing by Forget fog was in your eyes ------------------------------------------------------- scarecrows the audience falls to it’s feet empty canvas i’m painting the final scene ------------------------------------------------------- telling secrets won’t bother me stealing glances won’t help me see burn away the backdrop cover up the sky dose the fields with gasoline kill the fire brush aside the ocean that floats away scare away the trees that come my way we are only happy pasted in the stars it would only make sense to paint over the scars ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- remember me, remember me, remember when, remember when your passion is breakin ’ free, to kill me, you’re killing me, don’t forget to remember me, don’t remember me Pretty Little After Thought I run up to your pretty house and I saw you standing in the rain Never knew that you were following me I ran through you pretty little yard and you watched me as I carried away Who know that you were following me --------------------------------------------------------- Just so you know, Salinger and tea were waiting there for me And just so you know, oh this pretty booth, is there for you and me --------------------------------------------------------------- I knew we had our precious time and I saw it in your pretty face as I drove through Lewisville in the rain I went to my bedroom and cried all night while your pretty face was there in the back of my mind -------------- ------------------- I'm sorry I left you there What was I thinking? Capture the Flag Size up what we know when time's out for me Turn down the sounds the stereo's playing me I'm singing for you and my words can't breathe This music's for you and I can't breathe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Distant waves are here and always hear the talk outside your room I'll only recognize the plan when plans of love are mentioned, capture the flag ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'll leave a message on you phone when I can see I'm tied down to my bed and I can't speak I can see the burning in my own face Its sad tonight because you don't know a thing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's some fucking nerve you've got That's some fucking nerve Serene, Instead of Me Outside my faithful ship I stand and Watch the ocean rise, outside ----------------------------------------------- In the morning sun, I wince at roadside passer by's The sky is hidden in its light And I'm sure it's leaving The sun is quickly moving up and I am falling down around The motion leads to here, the sounds are all we hear ----------------------------------------------------- My own Life ------------------------------------------------------ You're overlooking an honest truth, I'm drinking a higher fascade The night is beautiful in its blur And reality's truth always lies in ------------------------------------------------------------ My own Life Sloan Hey, you're right My friends are talking behind my life And hey, you're wrong Your friends are floating right along -------------------------------------------------------------- And hey, it's alright I've hidden my roots and you've let your's grow And hey, it's ok We'll always have eachother to show --------------------------------------------------------------- So hey, I'm fine This turnaround's around my mind And hey, you're alright Let's just pretend to lie tonight
The Downside of Falling Up
In time, we’ll never see what it is In time, I’ll never know what you meant In my life, I’ve seen you walking there In time, I’ll never know what you meant ---------------------------------------------------- Breathe in, Let yourself be scared Breathe out, Fall away again ---------------------------------------------------- No I can’t, be there On your own, on your own ---------------------------------------------------- White, fortune, smile Past is here Shot in the Dark (With an Empty Gun) time is going slow as i wait here for you, all that you said even now rings true, eyes to the ground and ears to the door, its the sound of your voice that im longing for. ------------------------------------------------ left to myself possiblities grow, dismissed one by one as i watch time go, until you arrive its wait and see, but youll turn away inevitably. ---------------------------------------------- and i feel it, in my soul, with you, im whole. Trading Faces I saw you turn around to see what happens when you're gone I knew you'd never grow up I found a place to be that doesn't kill my heart or mind I knew you'd never find me here ------------------------------------------------------------------ Falling down ---------------------------------------------------------------------- When was the last time I saw you and you didn't cry I knew you'd never be strong Can you just tell me everything you have deep inside I knew you'd waste my love away --------------------------------------------------------------------- I promise I'll see you again Venus is Falling Venus is falling while Jupiter’s calling me names that He can’t take back I sent you a letter begging that much later you’ll show me a star that is black He said “away good friend I can’t fall down” I said “give me one moment to cushion a comet so you can keep spinning around”...or not ---------------------------------------------------- Saturn left me here (right away) ---------------------------------------------------- Venus is Falling Take down my satellite ---------------------------------------------------- When the morning rolls over I’ll be waiting in my mind When I see you just standing there I’ll sit and cry Silence is Folding You sit up, you see them You fall off the moment You stand up, and walk out The rest is all you ever wrote I know that, we share it We'd move on without masterminds It's all I'll ever write --------------------------------------------------- Pick me up, pick me when she goes Pick me up, pick me if he goes Pick me up, pick me when she goes Pick me up, wake me if you go -------------------------------------------------- You sit up, you see them You fall off the moment And you will walk out I know that we share it We'd move on without masterminds Oh, you're bright --------------------------------------------------- Sometimes You know the sun is boring I think we just died Glitter You're a talker, I am impressed Copy of Coupland and a half pack of cigarettes What's your story? Tell me tall tales Carry comfort in one side of paradise ------------------------------------------------------ You can tell me things I don't know All about you, all about you ----------------------------------------------------- For the moment, forget me forever ----------------------------------------------------- Now you're smiling, are your eyes green? Killing causual in a formal evening dress What's your secret? Teach me new things Cup of coffee and a single cigarette Anomia It seems the same to me The way that we all seems And if we're causualties It seems a caustic dream I don't love everyone A face without a crowd I swear from outerspace Next chance we'll come back down ----------------------------------------------- I'm not alright now A quick solution is here I'm not alright now But a solution is here, and a solution is here ------------------------------------------------- You seem so plain to me, that's everything to me It's so simple to be, ordinary to me And I'll read everything, giving perspective to me I'm not too far from sleep, I'm naming everything ---------------------------------------------------- Just think it over now, just think it over Teach me ability, teach me everything Just talk it over now Failure Thankyouyourewelcome Repeater, she repeats me I love you She can say it, I can say it, I can’t feel it She can see it in my eyes She sees right through me ------------------------ I’ll go away ------------------------ I’m clumsy with what I know Feelings divided by the sum Thank you, you're welcome ------------------------- Stutter, she stumbles on my words I can say it but I say it and she hears me I’ll ignore her when she speaks It’s how I breathe -------------------------- I’ll stay away ------------------------- I'm clumsy with what I know Feelings divided by the sum Thank you, you're welcome --------------------------- Never, I’ll never give into you Never, I’ll never understand you I’ll never understand myself and when she speaks it reminds me it’s not easy to be alone ----------------------------- I’ll go away I’ll stay away ------------------------------ I’m clumsy ------------------------------ Hold on, hold on, I can’t hold on to you, or you, can’t hold on to you ------------------------------- I’ll go away, I’ll go away ------------------------------ You’re inside of me ------------------------------ Oh until the day, the day you ran away, I know I was not around, I unravelled to the ground, so no thank you We Came to Breathe Better that you can stand around and never amount to anything that means anything to all these people coming in Set up for a let down for the masses never scheme in anything that means a thing to the played out games for a long winter to see --------------------------- Came out of my hole to see my shadow Valentine's left without a hero Sugar coated for your disaster Rings inside the radio We came to breathe (alone without regards to someone) We came to breathe (alone with misery on our heels) Never mind that saturation is setting in and forget about the rust that's forming on my skin, its better without a formal excuse as to why I am very tired, speaking for the better partener try and see me try all of everything at once Came out of my hole to see my shadow Valentine's left without a riddle Sugar coated for your disaster Rings inside the radio Movie Star I never knew that you'd go that far I always knew that you were a moviestar I saw the timing in your eyes Glitter gold surprise ----------------------------------------------------- What did you just say, it's all you ever made? When you're coming down, coming down to me What did you just say, it's all you'll ever fake? You're a moviestar, you're a moviestar ----------------------------------------------------- Now to the plot That last scene was hot All it means is the same Remember to renounce your name I see it all coming back Break my heart, heart attack ------------------------------------------------------- Misery loves poetry, when you set me up to talk me down ------------------------------------------------------- Generation points the time you took me back To the right, to the wrong, you were all so wrong I took the dialoge to the point where you're obsessing over the last line, the last time, the last time...shut it The Sounds You're Feeling Sat in September rain (October air), it's moving inside of someone You pull these gentle strings that move inside of everything It's almost Winter (summer) now, screaming softly out loud Yell to talk to me ------------------------------------------------------ When were you planning to tell me? ------------------------------------------------------ I wrote it down and I don't know the words I know you're standing on the scene and I'm standing right there in between I know you left me on the rocks with a twist of lime I'm out of luck I saw you building the sounds you're feeling in bed ------------------------------------------------ No you are not, no we are not
Eight Months Away
Good-byes sting, I know I know You run away, I know I know But anyway, I know I know You don't know, no clue I know -------------------------------------- And we're eight months away, but I'm glad because you're happy ------------------------------------- He loves you still, I know I know That'll hurt you, I know I know But selfish feels, I know I know You run away, I know I know Kari, How’s the Weather? When I come around here I'll be sure to tell you when I come around here and then we can go off and talk somewhere, and I'll send my love My hands are cold Hey Kari, how is the weather today? Is the wind blowing this way? So will you keep me warm today? Cause I wanna know
In a Quarterly Fashion

Such a young kid, out of who knows where
Who piles on the lies
The sky's the timid when we're disguised
So what do your friends care(fear)?
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I promise, I cannot tell a lie, I chopped down the scary tree
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Roses are red, why are you blue?
And I'm here too, push you through the misery, out past everything
You Fit Nicely

Who are you all who taught me this?
Who am I who always talks like this?
Let's go off to a place where we can be, other things
And you fit so nicely on my shelf
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Who are you, watch my eyes
You fit so nicely on my shelf
Who can we seem like nicer things
You fit so nicely on me
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What you want is what you need of me
And you fit so nicely on my shelf
Stand down to me, other things
Your One Mistake

She said “it’s over”
He said “that’s what she said”
He said “it’s in the letter that you never read”
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Is that what you said
Fuck my opinion? Yours keeps changing direction everyday
Is that what you said
Fuck my opinion? Yours quit changing dimentions everyday
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She said she said she said she said she said she said “it’s in your head,
it’s written in the letter that you never even read”
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You’re way off, with what you said, you’re way off
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Her philosiphy, is killing me, and your one mistake was loving me (fucking me)
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The letter that you never read
Is that what you said
Fuck my opinion? Yours keeps changing direction everyday
Is that what you said
Fuck my opinion? Yours quit changing dimentions everyday
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What’cha crying for?
That’s what you get for cryin’
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Right here, in your instances, of your friends, of your friends

The Style Academy

Can you catch fame before death?
Ask the ghosts to learn
And when you hold your breath
Do the planets turn?
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I'll light the fire sometime
I'll burn the oil all night
Until you're gone, until you're gone
The race is on and I'm long gone
Just shut your mouth and listen up
All you need is lack of love
Nod and smile, blink and smile
Always remember you're always on trial
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Until you finally give up
No need to prove a thing to me
Enough will always be enough
At the Style Academy
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Blackmail your friends for fun
Show us that you have won
The head of the class with too much class
Keep it up it's bound to last
I've tried my luck, I gave a fuck
I've spun the words now I give up
One last time, one last time
Come with me and you'll be fine
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Too many things, I want to be the one
That's a nice dress, won't you put it on
Nice dress won't you put it on for me
(you're always on fire, I want to be the one)
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Pretend to Lie
Better Side
Rain
Asleep in the Backseat with Prufrock
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Fallen
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Happy Land
Right for Me
One More Time
This Knight
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