Faces From The Masquerade

Deadlines (Live at Brooklyn Steel)

That’s not what I meant to say at all 
I mean, I’m sick of meaning 
I just wanna hold you 

But that’s not what I wanted to say at all 
I mean, I’m sick of meaning 
I just wanna hold you 

(Is it the chorus yet? 
No. It’s just a building of the verse 
So when the chorus does come, it’ll be more rewarding.) 

I would speak to you in song 
But you can’t sing 
As far as I’m aware 
Though everyone can sing 
As you are well aware 
I keep so quiet 
It’s hard to tell I’m alive 

Everybody’s swinging their hips 
Everybody’s giving the waitress tips 
Everybody’s dancing all of the dances 
Everybody’s dancing every dance now 

Those are you got some nice shoulders 
I’d like to put my hands around them 
I’d like to put my hands around them 

I have enough trouble controlling my own limbs 
Stealing alcohol from our parents and grandparents 
There’s no devil on one shoulder and angel on the other 
They’re just two normal people 

These are the people that I get drunk with 
These are the people that I fell in love with 
These are the people that I get drunk with 
These are the people that I fell in love with 

But if you keep giving me your empty hands man I am tempted to say let’s piss up another rope boys this one has grown old and bitter 

Well, so what? So what? 
We’re young 
We’re thin (most of us) 
We’re alive (most of us) 

Don’t you realize our bodies could fall apart at any second? 
I am terrified your body could fall apart at any second 
Those are you got some nice shoulders 
I'd like to put my hands around them 
We can get real horny 
And keep messing around 
We can keep real quiet 
Won’t be making no sounds 
I’ll try my best 
not to touch your face 
Next time can we 
please meet at my place 

I know that I don’t talk a lot 
But I know that you don’t care a lot 
As long as we move our bodies around a lot 
We’ll forget that we forgot how to talk 
When we dance

Bodys

I should be glad to have you back 
But this time around, something’s turned to black 
Your pale body a projection screen 
I know every frame, so many times that I’ve seen - 

Will it be like before? 
Will it ever be the same? 
If we reuse the cels 
Would the color start to fade? 

It’s history that hasn’t happened yet 
Last time I cried, this time I sweat 
And doesn’t it seem an awful waste 
That all of our cells will get replaced? 

Will it be like before? 
Will it ever be the same? 
If we reuse the cels 
Would the color start to fade? 

Will it be like before? 
Will I lose you again? 
If we reuse ourselves 
Could there be any other end? 

If it’s just like before 
If I’m losing you again 
Still we reuse the cels

Reuse The Cels

Do you want an accident to happen? 
Don’t think I don’t know what you’re asking for 
You think that I’m in love, punk 
You’ve been a punk since the day you were born 

I’ve never been good with weapons 
But you want me to teach you with my bare hands 
I really liked your solo album, but, punk, 
Don’t think I want to be in your band 

Cause you’re in love with jerks 
And I’m not confident 

I get concerned when accidents are happening 
Hate is raining down like piss 
Piercing my ears, yeah you’re out for blood, punk 
Don’t think I want to listen to this 

Careful with the love police! 

Maybe sunglasses to cover the bruises 
Maybe a hole in a bathroom stall 
Maybe somebody that you’re thinking of, punk 
Ain’t thinking about you at all 

Cause you’re in love with jerks 
And I’m not confident 

I wanna be your jerk 
Cause you in love with jerks 
Revival of the jerks 
You waste your life on jerks

Jerks

This plane is going down 
Anything to make you feel better 
At least this time when it explodes into flames 
No one could say that you’re to blame 

I forgot how to drive 
That’s why I’m taking this flight 
With all of my shit piled on the passenger seat 
I just couldn’t keep my eyes on the street 

Now I go 
oooh 

This weather’s making me crazy 
Lightning keeps thinking it likes me 
And I guess I can see why it wants to hit 
But I am not a light though I am lit 

I’m just cruising through the stop sign 
Sorry officer, the radio was blowing my mind 
They were playing a song that’s gone out of tune 
I’ll take the rhythm but fuck them blues 

I’m not sad I’m sad I’m not sad I’m sad not sad at all 

That’s not bad, man, keep going, you can do it, you already did it! 
You can make no mistakes, you’re perfect, you totally got this! 
Just shut up shut up shut up shut up with all this negative vibes, all this yelling 
Just shut up 

And if your luggage got lost, you can leave without it 
And if you run out of drugs, you can sleep without it, you know you can! 
And if you want to go home, you can call a taxi 
And if you don’t want to talk, you can sit in the backseat 

Ooh

Plane Crash Blues (I Can't Play The Piano)

You can drive across the whole thing 
in four days if you really wanted 
leaving custom thank you notes 
in all the houses you ever haunted 

in this whole solar system 
we've only met one type of life 
it's the living kind of life 
and it's not one I recognize 

America 

I said "excuse me" to the ocean 
because I thought I had got in its way 
at first I didn't think it heard me 
but then I saw it wave 

you can spend every living moment thinking 
how can I get out alive? 
but is it really then, can you really call it 
hey man, just shut up and drive 

I thought we'd be on the road all night when that ice storm hit in Texas 
and when we pulled into the gas station it was like a frozen oasis
oh, sweet mama, does that neon sign shine for me? 
Is there a street where my name glows all through the night? 

and I've never read (America) 
no I've never been (America) 
I just never went (America) 
I have never seen (America) 

all my fantasies are faking orgasms 
they're only in it for the money I made up for them 
I trade in ideas, opinion and artistry 
and my face is on every dollar 

this is heaven but heaven is here 
this is heaven but heaven is hard 
because your lover is listening to music you don't know 
and you're tangled up in the headphone wires 

you know our problems, they don't end 
just because we get boy/girlfriends 
is this your salvation plan? 

there's only one type of love 
it's the loving kind of love 
but when you're mad at me it's the end of times 
and I'm mad at you all the other times 

have I ever really been in love? 
I guess I've never really been in love 
have I ever really 
not in the way I'm thinking 

real life's a mess 
but at least you're not paying rent 
you've been making it, maybe even breaking even 
you oughta be content 

it doesn't make sense 
you're still sitting on the fence 
when the yard is yours 
and it was money well spent 

and I've never read 
no, I've never been 
I just never went 
I have never seen 
America 
America 
democracy 
biographies 

civil rights! basically 
bright lights! living in the city 
second prize in a beauty pageant 
200 dollars, this is life, this is your life! 
America! 
this is heaven 
this is the place

America (Never Been)

Gethsemane

CCF (I'm Gonna Stay With You)

The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)

The Scholars

Equals

Lady Gay Approximately

True/False Lover

Reality

Devereaux

Planet Desperation

Something Soon

Teens of Style

Maud Gone

psst, teenagers, take off your clo

Teens Of Denial

Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales

Destroyed By Hippie Powers

1937 State Park

Fill In The Blank

Unforgiving Girl (She's Not An)

(Joe Gets Kicked Out of School for Using) Drugs With Friends (But Says This Isn't a Problem)

I have been working
Working on something
Something you’ll never see

It is a boat
It’s almost done
There’s just enough room for me

You heard the hammer and
You had the question but
Instead you just let it be

Cause it’s been raining
Pretty hard and
You know we live right by the sea

Does it feel good to say goodbye?
Bye bye bye

I had a good friend
We had a good fight
We’re not friends anymore

He cut me down
I asked him why, he said
That’s what friends are for

At the time I thought
He might be right
And it shook me to the core

I found out later
He’d just seen his ex-girlfriend
Just another vote for the war
Well, fuck you, man

Does it feel good to say goodbye?
Bye bye bye

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