1. |
Scream So Loud
03:24
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he says these days
i don't even really want to be here
i'm reaching the point where i think i might flee dear
seems i might be
having trouble telling friend from a fiend
please don't tell me
everything happens for a reason
with the air still hanging so heavy with treason
seems like maybe your ideology is
open season on me
so now
i'll speak
so loud
i'll be allowed
she said these days i don't even really want to be here
those cretins cut down our wedding tree dear
flinging pieces
of little tiny existential debris
waking, dreaming
biting my tongue til it's bleeding
its freezing
its two hundred degrees
discretely keeping our shady history
under lock and key
so now
i'll speak
so loud
i'll scream aloud
i'll scream so loud
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2. |
Worth Your Life
05:27
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you wanted freedom more than you wanted life
you were denied
you were denied
might have failed left to your own device
but you never tried
no you never tried
you'll sit out in the parking lot
and never go inside
until you decide
that a woman's not worth your pride
i'm right here were you left me
met a man with eyes like metal spires
full of lies
he was dead inside
swore you'd never leave me there to die
but here I lie, here i lie
and they'll tear away at you each day
as you desperately oblige
until you decide
that the moneys not worth your life
i'm right here where you left me
i spent a lifetime trying to get inside
you were so callous
you're oblivious
take the time to look inside your mind
i'm sure you'll find
you were always mine
you can shove me in a corner
pretend that everything's all right
you can try to be a businessman
and a dull suburbanite
until you decide
you've had enough of that disguise
i'm right here where you left me
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3. |
Miracles
04:20
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not quite sure what to think
when faced with my own vanity
guess i'll just try and go to sleep
we never did believe in miracles
you never did believe in anything
so i protect myself
with shallow mediocrity
i've learned to make myself look clean
just don't look underneath the rug my dear
don't look too far beyond the cool veneer
i'll disappear
i can't hide
i can't fight
and here we are you see
we've learned to love our enemies
we're just so fucking pure and clean
we never learned to handle suffering
we were never taught to deal with anything
and here in silence
we will dance around this reckoning
it's all good
as long as we don't speak
we never did believe in miracles
i never did believe in anything
in anything
i can't hide
i can't fight
here in these frozen halls
the silences are deafening
you can pray to god
but god won't hear a thing
we never did believe in miracles
we never did believe in anything
in anything
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4. |
Land of Engineers
04:18
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not sure what to do with myself lately
me and all my friends we're just so weird
guess we'll hang on on the beach
make some babies
raise em up in the land of engineers
we'll put down roots somewhere sandy
close to everything that we hold dear
maybe take a couple
flights of fancy
but we'll end up back in the land of engineers
seems like everything's gone hazy
thousand pounds of concrete between my ears
work so hard
grow so lazy
living in the land of engineers
the war machine is always hungry
it feeds on all our most terrific fears
but i keep my head down
take the money
working in the land of engineers
you don't ever have to grow up baby
you won't ever need to face your fears
just buy a guitar
pretend like its the eighties
rocking steady in the land of engineers
they're selling off the pieces of our kingdom
bit by bit we watch it disappear
til there's nothing left
but parking lots and freedom
i'm saying goodbye to the land of engineers
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