Dead Songs
Kill The House Lights Tracklist
Album art for Kill The House Lights
1. ”Ladies and Gentlemen: My Brother The Failure“
2. ”Dead Songs“
3. ”Voices on A String“
4. ”Signals Over the Air [Live at Starland Ballroom]“
5. ”How Long Is the Night? [Original Intro]“
6. ”Sketch for Time's Arrow“
7. ”Panic on the Streets of Health Care City [War All the Time B-Side]“
8. ”Roar of Far off Black Jets [Full Collapse B-Side]“
9. ”Paris In Flames [Demo Version]“
10. ”Telegraph Avenue Kiss [Rich Costey Mix]”
11. ”Wind-Up [Demo Version]”
12. ”Music from Kill The House Lights [Demo Version]“
== Best Buy Bonus Tracks ==
* Cross Out the Eyes [Live at The Grove]
* Steps Ascending [Live at The Grove]
* How Long Is the Night? [Live at The Grove]
== Hot Topic Bonus Tracks ==
* Concealer [Demo]
* Telegraph Avenue Kiss [Demo]
Lyrics
Dead songs are drowning out voices of compassion with a sigh
“Alright?” Alright.
Deadlines are winding down
Fatal clocks keep ticking off dead time
Nothing hurts, nothing moves, nothing stays
(No one hopes and no one dreams)
Nothing matters when the dead songs play
(Reject the death)
When all the color fades away,
The world is black and white
Dead breath from TV sets fill the empty houses with a dead white light
It's no surprise
Dead checks, dead sex,
Dead cigarettes flood the ambulance in the dead of night
Alright? Alright.
Nothing hurts, nothing moves, nothing stays
(No one hopes and no one dreams)
Nothing matters when the dead songs play
(Reject the death)
When all the color fades away,
The world is black and white
There's a dead song on the audio tape
The strongest magnet couldn't wipe away
Singing, “It's alright.”
But it's not alright
Then: pinpricks on the back of your neck
A little voice inside you says
“When you hear dead songs, don't sing along–let it die.”
Lift your small voices up
And we'll stitch these cries into a choir
Our lonely notes form chords that the orchestra just can't divide
Alright?