their hands fill with coins, they run to make it cash, and leave the town, but the buildings form, they're so large, you must get on out. before there was crime, we could lie, now we haul ass off the bridge to hide, and down to the water, swim to the house. they are covering the corners and the reason, their search, it died. we are at home, in the living room warm and dry.

but i can take it now, the erroneous and loud, all the beer and the oxygen, open up, look out, and breath it in, i want to be forewarned next time it's cut from the history books, and given no second looks, it's true things they follow form, i will not be around that long, i want to be left alone next time.

tastes change, hey look what's changing, look what's passed around, fake embrace it once, if it's good, spit me out, now you've covered all the corners and your richness blurs the light, we're here at home, in the living room getting high.

i'm a baby now, need to be rescued every hour, with all of you here i know what's formed, move into that ship i'm on, i want to be left onboard when you drown. but it's covered up and pissed away, you rewrote it everyday, now i really know what's gone, at the movies all the ends are long, i want to be forewarned next time.

regroup, just take a hard look and get out. that's the surefire moment, you knew it, and you sit on down. you can't look down the road if you get behind. we are at home in the living room warm and dry.

i keep on passing out, let me be awake as i'm carried out, through all the beer and the oxygen, open up and breath me in, i want to be left alone next time it's cut from the history books, and given no second looks. and it's true things they follow form, i will not be waiting long. i want to be down the road you're on when you say it's time, move ever upward 'til there's no going back in time.


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    this song fucking rocks

    man on tvon September 18, 2004   Link
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    amen brother

    magnifikoon September 21, 2004   Link
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    listening to it again.. wonderful.

    aestheticfrenzyon February 07, 2006   Link

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