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Good Mourning

01. This Could Be Love
I've got a book of matches
I've got a can of kerosene
I've got some bright ideas involving you and me
i don't blame you for walking away
i'd do the same if i saw me
i shat the bed and laid there in it
thinking of you wide awake for days

and i found you tounge tied
in my twisted little brain
you couldn't crack a smile
i didn't catch your name
i don't blame you for walking away
i'd do the same if i saw me
i swear it's not contagious
in four short steps we can erase this

step one: slit my throat
step two: play in my blood
step three: cover me in dirty sheets and run laughing out of the house
step four: stop off at edgebrook creek and rinse those crimson hands
you took me hostage and made your demands
i couldn't meet them so you cut of my fingers
one by one

02. We've Had Enough
in the shadows where the heads hang low
you hear voices as the wind blows
asking "can't you see?"
reminding you to breathe
it's only time
before it catches up
to you and all your broken luck
i found a better way
to get even with my memory

in the darkness where the angels cry
"give us water, give us back our eyes
our beds this concrete floor
and it's all we have left to live for
a day we'll never face we're only
second handed sick and lonely
fighting back the tears
and every urge to van gogh both our ears"

that said we've had enough
please turn that fucking radio off
ain't nothing on the air waving the despair we feel
NO!

in the shadows where the heads hang low
you hear voices as the wind blows
asking "can't you see?"
reminding you to breathe
it's only time
before it catches up
to you and all your broken luck
i found a better way
to get even with my enemies

that said we've had enough
please turn that fucking radio off
ain't nothing on the air waving the despair we feel
that said we've had enough
put "walk among us" on and turn it up
ain't nothing on the air waving the hatred we feel
NO!

this is our biggest fear
only tunes that we hear
come via antenna
through your car raid-ee-uh-oh-oh-no

that said we've had enough

03. 100 Stories
you're in the next room sleeping and i'm shouting out a song for you
i shouldn't wake you over the furnace, but i should swear to someone you'd have loved every note
so dream a good one tonight. i'll listen to the bad ones when they come
get up in my ear 'til i hear every word. with every turn of your tongue i will tighten my grip
no one could tell even if i fell one hundred stories straight down
no one could tell even if i fell one hundred stories down

i was getting bored with hurting myself
if you fall down enough, well soon enough, you will find hell
it can't be as pretty as we hoped it would be
it's not even warm here, not even ten degrees

this bed is too big to sleep in, and i'm dying just to feel you breath.
you couldn't see across the ocean, but i was turning over 'til the vampires sleep
so dream a good one tonight. i'll listen to the bad ones when they com.
get up in my ear 'til i hear every word. with every turn of your tongue i will tighten my grip
no one could tell even if i fell one hundred stories straight down
no one could tell even if i fell one hundred stories down

i was getting bored with hurting myself
if you fall down enough, well soon enough, you will find hell
it can't be as pretty as we hoped it would be
it's not even warm here, not even ten degrees

dream a good one tonight
i was getting bored with hurting myself

04. Continental
i've got a dying urge to feel the way you do
too close for comfort
bed and breakfast in a spoon
the shortest breath of your young life
a long walk home on friday night
you made one last stop at the store

so close to perfect swear to hell thought it was you
this bouncing baby boy's now turning baby blue
i've got your pictures on my walls
i've got a long list of calls i must make
to your existing family

you had nine lives and one by one you chewed them up
your final coffin nail's been driven far too much
this won't take long you said i'm not going far
go wait in the car
go wait in the car

i often wonder what it feels like to be you
a mess like this stuck on your hands with krazy glue
ran outta time no kiss goodbye
wish i could learn to let this sleeping dog die
without lying to myself

you had nine lives and one by one you chewed them up
your final coffin nail's been driven far too much
this won't take long you said i'm not going far
go wait in the car
go wait in the car

05. All On Black
i put it all on black
no color you're all dressed in
and a stab in the back
left you bleeding on the floor
and i'm mourning the death
the recent passing of your insides
i smile in regret
every time i think of how i spoke to you

i put it all in back
of my mind where i hold you
i'm just trying to keep track
how far back it really goes
and i'm living in lack
of the blood sent from the heavens
i'm just trying to relax
as a killer's waiting right outside my door

what's black and white what's
read all over?
this tired book this
organ donor

sweet blasphemy my giving tree
it hasn't rained in years
i bring to you this sacrificial offering of virgin ears
leave it to me i remain free from all the comforts of home
and where that is i'm pleased as piss to say
i'll never really know

i put them all in black
the four walls of my bedroom
and i trimmed them in red
peeled your picture off the wall
and i'm living in lack
of the blood sent from your heartbeat
that arrived in your neck
every time i salivated over you

what's upside down what's
coated in silver?
this crucifix is
my four leaf clover

sweet blasphemy my giving tree
it hasn't rained in years
i bring to you this sacrificial offering of virgin ears
leave it to me i'll remain free from all the comforts of home
and where that is i'm pleased as piss to say
i'll never really know

one of these days
it's gonna catch up to you
throwing looks like those around
one of these nights
i promise to you
i'll soon be sleeping sound
as soon as i leave town

06. Emma
emma appeared like an angel.
emma fell like rain
into my lap like a heart attack. like lightning from her name i'm running dry of bad excuses. don't want to lie or seem intrusive, but time hasn't told me anything, and neither has she

a poinsettia in poison rain... traded true love for insult and injury we washed it down the drain with one silver bullet and two vicodin

emma woke up in darkness, suitcase already packed note on the bedstand signed in blood, "sincerely, never coming back." a nightmare on my street the day she arrived a nightmarish household in which she died, 'cause it made her feel at home somehow made me feel at home

a poinsetta in poison rain... traded true love for insult and injury we washed it down the drain with one wooden stake through the heart, and two vicodin

a poinsetta in poison rain... traded true love for insult and injury we washed it down the drain with one silver bullet and two vicodin and we watched the sun fall crown on a city that sleeps in a world upside down a slow ticket straight out of town you went out with a bang when you took with you all my dreams underground

07. Fatally Yours
there's no mystery no more just no talking to you guess you had other things in store guess i just felt i was through i answered every question as accurately as i could

i don't hear from you no more but i get the message you crashed your car through my front door i pulled you from the wreckage you told me that you missed me but you meant with the grill and hood you'd kill me if you could

and if it's ok i'll just grab my shit and leave i won't say one word i'll keep my tricks up my sleeve flew off of the handle you opened fire on me put me down, put me out of misery i'm fatally yours

you set fire to me that night you lit and left me burning out of my mind but in my sights i saw the tables turning i had a friend that needed me you made a wish that won't come true and now it's killing two

and if it's ok i'll just grab my shit and leave i won't say one word i'll keep my tricks up my sleeve flew off of the handle you opened fire on me put me down, put me out of misery i'm fatally yours

i'm fatally yours i'm fatally yours i'm fatally yours i'm fatally yours

08. Every Thug Needs A Lady
i know it's dark here, you know that i'm scared too for some reason right now, of everything but you right now you're all that i recognize you know i came here when i needed your soft voice i needed to hear something that sounded like an answer now i wait here and sometimes i get one

it's nothing i'll forget when the moon gets tired you are stuck to me everyday believe in what i am because it's all i have today and tomorrow who knows where we'll be from here i can hardly see a thing but i will follow anyone who brings me to you for now, forever, for on and on and on

you know it starts here, outside waiting in the cold kiss me once in the snow i swear it never gets old but i will promise you i can make it warmer next year you know i came here when i needed your soft voice i needed to hear something that sounded like an answer now i stay here, and everyday i get one

so go plug in your electric blanket we can stay in 'til our southern summer wedding day go plug in your electric blanket, we can stay here

09. Blue Carolina
it's everything that i can do right now to not think about you moving further off with every passing second and every night of this lonely summertime i feel you missing from my heart, a part was kidnapped from my soul

well i can hardly wait... until i get the sun and your lips both pressing on my skin well i can hardly wait... until i feel that thrill my heart that starts inside your eyes and a song in my head that burns so good on my tongue yes i will

the night is aging as the sun warms your face won't you turn around and stay for good, the air is getting much too cold i am nervous and anxious. it really counts this time and you know all my favorite singers have stolen all of my best lines

someday i'll burn this bed, only two feet wide but where i'll hide... for the next seventeen days...i will ask myself, "how badly do i want this?" i really want this

10. Donner Party
so it began this way i can't recall how it got started so it began this way i don't recall a thing and all in all i guess it's for the better if you don't remember anything sit and sing there was a time when everything we did seemed second nature there was a time when everything we did seemed free and all in all i guess it's for the better if you don't remember anything sit and sing

and i, i wanted you to know it was you that we were thinking of as we quietly died in the snow a place we'd never leave a place we'd never want to call home a place we'd call a final resting place in pieces

so we began this way i don't recall where we got started and so we end this way no trace of us in spring all in all i guess it's for the better if you just can't feel a fucking thing fall asleep and die

i wanted you to know it was you that we were thinking of as we quietly died in the snow a place we'd never leave a place we'd never want to call home a place we'd call a final resting place in pieces

11. If We Never Go Inside
a train appeared in town one night. for some of us it changed our lives a few of us never saw it coming, then like the fire it disappeared. it happens at a wonderful age, with the traffic lights your mind can change we made up rules to follow for good, no wonder we're fucked up, some of us did

tonight never ends if we never go inside. the moon is always full your calendar is always pinned on summertime

were you planning on staying forever? you don't fit in this hole or don't you remember....hold your breath walk don't run through the graveyard

a train appeared in town one night. for some of us it saved our lives a few of us never saw it coming, then like the fire we disappear it happens at a wonderful age, with the traffic lights your mind can change we made up rules to follow for good, no wonder we're fucked up, some of us did

i'm just scared i might never say goodbye... i won't be around to hold you down, pry open your ears and ask you why

were you planning on staying forever? you don't fit in this hole or don't you remember....hold your breath walk don't run through the graveyard

is this why you've worked so hard? is this why you've run so far? same place, same hello, same goodbye... helps you pick through beat up insides

12. Blue In The Face
it's about time that i came clean with you i'm no longer fine and far from running smooth i thought that i found myself onto something new one more line i repeat over and over again 'til i'm blue in the face with a choking regret as i talk in circles 'round you on my bed can't say i blamed you one bit when you kept it all inside when you left that night it's about time that you get sick of me no longer fun and so far from interesting i thought that i found me a cure for feeling old just one more line to keep me sleeping loudly and cold in disgrace with a shameful regret as i talk in tongues to myself in my bed can't say i blamed you one bit when you kept it all inside when you left that night and all that followed fell like mercury to hell somehow we lost our heads for the last time now i can't dream since i quit sleeping and i haven't slept since i met you and you can't breathe without coughing at daytime neither can i so what do you say? your coffin or mine?