The Mistake

AM Taxi

Matchbooks under cigarettes
Lighting your silhouette
Just accept I'll say anything
This place is a mess you think
Buy you another drink
Another drink anything you want
'Bout time that you lose your friends
Back to my place
I don't want to talk
I want everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?

Street lights on your coma eyes
I'm in no shape to drive
Besides you're fine
I'll say anything
Get us out of the parking lot
Swerving behind the cops
Eyes on the road
I got everything you want
Like secrets to haunt
I got memories to block
I got the gun
To blow everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?

I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I�ll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn't take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made

Your doubts follow you through the door
What do you do it for?
You need more and more
To feel anything
Each night and it�s someone else
It's the last time you can tell yourself
You can tell yourself
Anything you want
Coat off and you climb the stairs
Intentions are very clear
I don't want to talk
I want everything
Are you driving me home?
Are you driving me home?

I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I'll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn�t take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made

I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I'll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn't take
I am the mistake

I will be the razor baby
I will be the pill
I am the ambulance that never comes
The antidote you spill
And in the accident
I�ll be the failure in your brakes
I am the truth you couldn�t take
I am the mistake
Worst you ever made


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    :] come on guys, this song is just truely amazing.

    thedarkhasnoplacehereon April 15, 2010   Link

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