Perfecting Loneliness

Jets to Brazil

I'm a long list with no time
Sunset panic on the street
Sugar and lightbulbs
The milk of kindness is behind us now
With all those stones in your coat
Did you think they wouldn't know?

The tea leaves of trashed sheets
Dirty needles and sweets
Zero to heaven in seven
A lifetime
A nanosecond
All the sand in your glass
Is going by so fast

The radio is playing our tune
I love it could you turn it down
The thought of you crying in my room
I miss you could you come around
Sometime?

When the night comes down
The world becomes a room
Under a microscope
With a labcoat and glue

I'm fixing this hole
With everything I knew

The music is making my head split
I love it could you turn it off
The thought of you is tearing me in two
I miss you could you come around
Sometime
Sometime

This list is what went right
Your name is written twice
We live like astronauts
And our missions never cross
The stakes are high
We're standing by

There used to be a hundred ways to put my arms around you
Every one seemed new
Natural and true
Perfecting loneliness
Til nothing's holding us
Consider earth
We could be the first


Lyrics submitted by jawbrokenrhymes, edited by ExtraFox

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    go chris, post them lyrics. long live JTB. if this song hints at what the new album will sound like; it's going to be fucking amazing.

    emoJustinon August 21, 2002   Link

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