'a clean break' kid you're breaking my heart but i know the fault is mine i'm a dumb drunk asshole and i've been wasting all your time i love you but being around you makes me wanna die oh yea well you've cost me so many sleepless nights she said she knows what's good for me so she just left my vacant heart bleeding ohhhh and right now it hurts to breathe cuuuuz right now all i know is you and me spent five long years watching you get over me by watching you get under someone else she said she knows what's good for me so she just left my vacant heart bleeding ohhhh and right now it hurts to breathe cuuuuz right now all i know is you and me

'blood-sick dog' i see their lovely faces and i can't help but stare but i don't wanna know your story because it never goes nowhere i want their blood on my teeth when their scent's in the air and you don't wanna know the half when i can't help but stare ------------------ i dont wanna live my life like a blood-sick dog always pacing to the trace, trapped in a fog always itchin at my skin and tearing at the seams living like a killer in my sick, sick dreams free as can be, and outta my mind howling at nothing, dead drunk, half blind what's in my baser nature will always find a way keep me bound tight, keep me far away ------------------ so dont look my way just walk on by i can feel him stirring just writhing inside no dont tell me your story cause i couldnt care dont ask me what i'm thinking when i can't help but stare

'dont dick me around' everywhere i go you're always on my mind you're always playing with me feel's like i'm doing time dont dick me around dont dick me around no matter what you do dont dick me around you invite me around yer hikin' up that skirt with a laugh ya kick my ass i'm half naked in the dirt dont dick me around dont dick me around no matter what you do dont dick me around ya got me all dressed up with nowhere to go by the balls just waitin for your call looks like i'm drinkin alone dont dick me around dont dick me around i beggin please on my goddamn knees dont dick me around i dont wanna be on your hook no more nevermind that long term line i aint buying that anymore dont dick me around dont dick me around no matter what you do dont dick me around

'dead beat' its been five long years with out light i gotta put on my skin just to go outside i plan each step and take my time with my heart on my sleeve, i leave and my guts trailing me, dont look at me dead beat, dead beat that's what they see i was born a fuckin loser guess i'll die that way dead beat, dead beat that's all i'll ever be a monster in their eyes i feel it every day i watch them sneer through blank eyes a thousand faces just out of sight two fingers inside turn my vision white with my hurt on my sleeve, i leave and my guts trailing me, dont look at me some hurts never cease some cuts never heal i'm tearing off my skin just to ignore all the awful shit i think and feel

'kill the kool' know who you wanna be and go where you wanna go the choice is yours alone wear what you wanna wear and like what you wanna like and fuck them if they can't take a god damn joke life is lousy with the living dead worried more bout looking cool than whats in their head this town is lousy with lou reed wannabe's gainers and whores still hooked on heroin chic ---------------------------------- and every one under the sun is looking out for number one ---------------------------------- with every breed there is a norm a fashion type, a uniform change the venue, change the norm there's still a pressure to conform know who you wanna be and go where you wanna go fuck them if they can't take a god damn joke kill the cool and try to have some fun try to remember try to remember that ----------------------------------- every one under the sun is looking out for number one

'waking up alone' sick of waking up alone when i'm broke as bone creditors the only ones who call my phone and i'm sorry but my big hang up is never knowing when to shut the fuck up we will meet again my friend through the bitter end its what i tell myself to stay on the mend and i'm so sorry cause all this is and was is killin me sure as i'm killin your buzz -------------------------------------- i never wanted to be such a disease such a drag but i'm fighting it --------------------------------------- wish i could put out my lights til my world seems right and my poisoned mind won't keep me up all night there's a ghost here in my bed a horse beat way past dead and not a goddamn soul who cares what i said ---------------------------------------- i never wanted to be such a disease such a drag but i'm fighting it

'pictures of you' pictures of you looking so free wish i could see you in pictures with me a quiet grace, a loving smile i lie awake all the while ---------------------------------------- and now i know i lost my mind these same four walls, yellow with time a million conversations dead in my head and i can't think of, the first thing i said ---------------------------------------- i tied my tongue struck dumb my mind wishing we could share one minute's time looking back through your timeline i start to see myself right by your side ----------------------------------------- and now i know i lost my mind these same four walls, yellow with time a million conversations dead in my head and i can't think of, the first thing i said

'stay the night' never been much for red light cheer i got loneliness beyond my years if i could stay the night, just stay the night i wouldn't have to shiver til the morning light so let's pass the cheer, back and forth and wear dance steps deep in the floor draped in pine, fed on red not a shred of worry floating in my head -------------------------------------------------------------- i've wasted so much of my life waiting on one fucking sign that there's more to life then feeling down and chewing glass all over town so hex to the wreck of a sick, sad life i'm ready to start getting it right let's celebrate while we're alive let's act like we're both still alive -------------------------------------------------------------- i promise not to stare too deep or let my tongue get the best of me i wanna hold on to this memory just breathe, just breathe in and out, back and forth stay the night, stay the course let it snow until the end of time let's waltz on by til we're fuckin blind ---------------------------------------------------------- i've wasted so much of my life waiting on one fucking sign that there's more to life then feeling down and chewing glass all over town so hex to the wreck of a sick, sad life i'm ready to start getting it right let's celebrate while we're alive let's act like we're both still alive so hex to the wreck of a sick, sad life i'm ready to start getting it right let's celebrate while we're alive let's act like we're both still alive let's celebrate while we're alive let's act like we're both still alive let the world just walk on by celebrate while we're alive

'cold war' foreign wars, killin in the streets that gets you hot, but you're cold around me i ease on up, and try to touch but you dont give a shit about me lady by day, and a spy by night you get your kicks when you push my buttons right you bend the truth, reek of vermouth and you don't give a shit about me --------------------- i'm beginning to see that i'm in too deep i never learned to look before i leap i can't stand how you got it planned a cold war between you and me --------------------- you trade in secrets, and i pass em right back i'm at a loss with those skills i lack i deal it straight, leave it up to fate but you don't give a shit about me well facts are facts and its plain to see i've been barking up the wrong damn tree i may be broken and bitter to boot but i gotta set my own self free well that is that i'm done you see i'm gonna fly right overseas and go get killed on the BBC but you still..won't give..a shit about me

'american gothic' sorry dear but it appears that we should part our ways its getting clearer the end is near and we got nothing left to say there's no love here, nothing to hold dear but we got everything we want i should've left, a thousand times but i am weak and so i stay --------------------------------------------------------- forced routine time after time all love is deaf, dumb and blind i blink and watch my life pass by the bonds of love linger in lies white picket dreams a heavy sigh i think i get the joke this time ---------------------------------------------------------- dimly lit, our spirit quits the final frame burned in the screen repeat til truth i love you too and we forget we ever dreamed night burning blue and no sound from you as the tv burns our shadows in too bored to screw as we fade from view and our home will rot when winter thaws --------------------------------------------------------- growing bored in our routine we're only happy when we cheat aint that the american fuckin dream never wanted to take a fuckin wife two kids, a car, the perfect life a long day's journey into night forced routine time after time all love is deaf, dumb and blind i blink and watch my life pass by the bonds of love linger in lies white picket dreams a heavy sigh i think i get the joke this time