Left With Alibis And Lying Eyes

Emery

Watching someone stop breathing
Feel their arms and palms releasing
The smell, the color of the skin
All of this with your fingerprints

Drive, drive, drive
I don't want to get caught
We will say we're innocent
There is enough to prove we are not
They will believe anything
I am packing all my clothes and never going to go home again
There isn't one thing we've forgot
You will see
We will get away with this

My jeans, your shoes we will throw away everything we've used
But there is still your worried mouth to match your worried eyes
The only two things left to find

Drive, drive, drive
I don't want to get caught
We will say we're innocent
There is enough to prove we are not
They will believe anything
I am packing all my clothes and never going to go home again
There isn't one thing we've forgot
You will see
We will get away with this

There's no compromise so remember this
Your hands are lies
It is too late for if's
(Murder with your teenage eyes, resist confession
Oh, the weight is so much, my heart is hollow
With this foolish thing I've done)
We will go home and close the doors and pull the sheets up to our heads and sleep
And there isn't a thing that they can do

Drive, drive, drive
I don't want to get caught
We will say we're innocent
There is enough to prove we are not
They will belive anything
I am packing all my clothes and never going to go home again
There isn't one thing we've forgot
You will see
We will get away with this


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    this song is a metaphor for stabbing a friend in the back... they said it at their concert

    dbark9234on July 12, 2006   Link

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