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We’ll all look the same someday
And even now the robot starts to think
I wonder what it dreams
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Understanding In A Car Crash
Splintered piece of glass falls, in the seat, gets caught
These broken windows, open locks, reminders of the youth we lost
In trying so hard to look away from you
we followed white lines to the sunset
I crash my car everyday the same way
Time to let this pass
(the time it takes, the time it takes to let go)
Time runs through our veins.
(it starts and stops and starts and stops again)
We don’t stand a chance in this threadbare time
(the time it takes, the time it takes to let go)
Time to let this pass
(the time it takes, the time it takes to let go)
Staring at the setting sun
No reason to come back again
The twilight world in blue and white
The needle and the damage done
I don’t want to feel this way forever
A dead letter marked return to sender
The broken watch you gave me turns into a compass
It’s two hands still point to the same time 12:03, our last goodbye
So push the seats back a little further
I can see the headlights coming
So push the seats back a little further
Roll the windows down and take a breath
I can see the headlights coming
They paint the world in red and broken glass
Time to let this pass
(the time it takes, the time it takes to let go)
Time runs through our veins.
(it starts and stops and starts and stops again)
We don’t stand a chance in this threadbare time
(the time it takes, the time it takes to let go)
Time to let this pass
(the time it takes, the time it takes to let go)
Staring at the setting sun
No reason to come back again
The twilight world in blue and white
The needle and the damage done
I don’t want to feel this way forever
A dead letter marked return to sender
The spinning hubcaps set the tempo, for the music of the broken window
The Cameras on and the cameras click
We open up the lens and can’t stop
Staring at the setting sun
No reason to come back again
The twilight world in blue and white
The needle and the damage done
I don’t want to feel this way forever
The lights are on and the cameras click
We open up the lens (to broken glass!)
Staring at the setting sun (Understanding!)
No reason to come back again (In a Crash!)
The twilight world in blue and white (In a Car Crash!)
The needle and the damage done (I’ll Never Understand!)
I don’t want to feel this way forever (Understanding!)
(In a Car Crash!)A dead letter marked return to sender (In a Car Crash!)
In a Crash!
Concealer
With fists raised high in tightened knots
The room explodes and now this blood is on your hands
And there is no time for a second chance
To paint my face with blood and tears and cover up
In an open book that no one reads
A misspelled word that no one know
You stole the rain
Then you turned around and tore my life in two
Just like the picture that once hung on the wall in the room that we used to share
So fold me up and put me back in the place where you used to keep your heart
You think its getting smaller?
It’s been that way for quite some time now
The cadence beats down on the tar
It sounds the same as your fists raining down
(if you wanted to change the way I look at you…)
We’ve got to leave before the sun sets
Or maybe we don’t have time(time to waste.)
It won’t be long until you’re gone into the night
You won’t have time to paint my face with cover-up
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At the top of this timeline you’ll remember So write these words back down inside Everything you say you stole A Hole In The World When the world is crashing down, These notes will fold themselves We fell in this hole that opened up… Adjust the aperture to focus on the negative. There is no such thing as whole.
Asleep you set the fire in your own house Cross out the eyes A silent dance that we did into this hospital bed “We can rise on the wings of the dove It was the first time face to face (memories in flatlines!) Cross out the eyes with a set of these lines (cross out the eyes!) (Stretches out of this world, Paris In Flames Still you won’t let go of old ideals We all sing the songs of separation I think it’s going to rain, rain down Here in this collapsed lung of a borough The lower cast side is a jukebox playing the deadman’s crescendo Discard this message
And in a short time Distorient the senses Life runs through this trade I wake up every morning I woke up on the sidewalk and everything just changed Everything is falling apart: Standing On The Edge of Summer In this house of cards we’re all holding hearts and spades We drive for hours and still no end in sight at all.
I don’t know Winding up It’s the sound of your racing heart I’m falling to pieces It’s the sound of your shotgun pulse I’m falling to pieces A scream to guide me through my life This side of you and if it’s taken away And now it’s far to late I’m giving up How Long Is The Night How long is the night? Can you see the handwriting on the walls I will never sleep again If the sun is on its way How long is the night? It’s all I ever see anymore I’m falling down And you’re not here to catch my fall I’m falling down
Write these words back down inside
We have burned their villages and all the people in them died
We adopt their customs and everything they say we steal
All the dreams they had we kill
Still we all sleep sound tonight
Is this what you wanted to hear?
We erased all their images and dance
And replaced them with borders and flags
This is the lipstick on the collar
And in my own life I’ve seen it in the mirror
sometimes at the cost of others hopes
That’s where you need it the most
and without conviction of heart you will never feel it at all
Yeah, we all dance to the same beat when we we’re marching
Yeah, the TV tells us everything we need to know
And this scene is painting in all the fashions of the moment
And history is all the same
Every dream you dream you bought
In this blackout inertia will hold our thoughts.
And the exit sign offers no light to see by…
Can we cast our shadows alone in the dark?
I can’t see without you.
Part with it, start again.
When the world is crashing down.
Standing at the margin’s edge to see where the daybreak ends…
You can find compassion here,
But the page turns too fast.
Giving up on hope,
Living without love.
We still type black lines…
When the world is crashing down,
These notes will fold themselves.
Like phosphors in the darkroom ignite,
Like dodging faces in the corner of the print,
Frame by frame this hole is opening up and we fall in.
There is a hole in the world.
Let’s call this the quiet city:
Where screams are felt as a wave of stoplights
Drive through the streets as gunshots punctuate the night
The sides we take divide us from our faith
And the morning dove gets caught in the telephone wire
And the night was a knife that cut
And I’m paralyzed
Blur all the lines
Tearing this canvas from the wall
We crossed out the eyes
Put lines through these cries
We pulled all the leaves from the trees that fall
Hear voices from another room
“It happens all the time”
But July in the sand
The leaves falling
And counting down our days to live….
Drain the blood from this valentine.
See blue skies getting caught in the trail of all this smoke
We can rise like candles in the dark-yours always”
and an envelope marked with your new address
I’m crossing the line
Talking to the other side of death
Hearing the words that choke memories into flatlines
I’m calling your name hoping for something to wash these dreams of you away
(can’t we die!)
Cross out the eyes with a set of these lines!
Our fence was blown down in a winter storm and this field
(Cross out the eyes!)
Stretches out of this world into the sound
(A trace of)
What can we do to put a stop to these coming white days
(A love song)
I’m hoping the snow will wash these dreams of you away
let’s drive back the dead.
Stretches out of this world.
Stretches out of this world.)
Now its time to wrap our fears in the night
And on the first day we’ll dress this city in flames
After all the things you say
You hate me for being this way
There is no headline to read at night
When the record skips and you’re not holding the needle
And we watch our lives bleed out through our hands
Thats how it was on the first day
We saw Paris in Flames
There is no sunlight
The sunlight is manufactured in a windowless room
Distant and incoherent
Businessmen hang themselves
The needle is a vector
An intersection that we all must cross
A dimly lit hallway where shadows of moths decorate the walls
Discard this message
Burn this city down
Throw this bottle back in the ocean
Rip this page from the history books
Smash all the street signs
Erase all the maps
Forget my name
Forget my face
Because it’s going to rain (it’s going to rain)
And it never ends
Tuesday wakes up silent
And there aren’t enough pills to sleep
And then it cuts out like miswired shortwave radio
It’s over
But nothing can change to ever make it right
When you live in a nightmare
It’s written all over your face.
You’re never the same again
The distance is streamlined
Between decision and defense:
Loss of identity
No one to trust
I am no killer
But I still hide my face
In the coming days
From the same dream
And then I kill it
But you can’t change the letters when the ink dries
Now the lights are blinking but I can’t see anything
Crumpled paper
Crushed tin cans
Broken bottles
Paper scraps
We all look the same
We all look the same
But I am the killer
In this room I’m sitting by your side.
‘Cause it rains for hours and the phone is off its hook.
Standing on the edge, casting lots to set me up before you knock me down,
off the summer’s edge and drown me.
We’re betting on our own lives, making up for all the time we lost.
(one breath, one step could knock it all down)
but you lead with your eyes and you give it away
(decide, design to cut from the clouds).
When the people you love get lost in the shuffle,
(when you leave, you leave nothing but broken heart)
you let it go and then you fold.
So we stay on the open road.
Driving in your car, miss the stop sign, fall in love, just to get knocked out.
Pull your punches and burn with your cigarettes.
Pulled like a punch and burnt like a cigarette?
forever.
Just ahead I see you winding up
And you’re dressing this color on the edge of fire
Until these tightened strides
They march in time again
I don’t know where I will go
I don’t know
I don’t know
I don’t know if I will cut through
I don’t know
if my heart will beat without you guiding it
Leading me
Winding up to explode
That beats in time with every start
(the start of the year. the start of life. the start of war)
That reaches up and across the sky
That makes us want to rise
I can’t let go
Tearing apart your lies
I want to live
Beating over and over in your silent halls
It’s a thought that keeps us alive
It makes us want to try
I can’t let go
Tearing apart your lies
I want to live
Winding up
Leading me
Winding up to what you can not unwind
You won’t know what to do
You’re stretching to meet expectations that you will never reach
And now it’s far to late
far to late
to ever leave this cold
Marching in time with your drums
I’m letting go of everything I once loved.
If we run far away do you think we will ever die?
We’ll throw these books in the fire
Can you stop the train
Cause it some delay?
The change machine lied
And it’s too late to scream
It’s never over
The ribbon was tied
But the card was never read
The ribbon was crimson
The color of the night
And on the autumn leaves that fall
“What are we gonna do?”
The trees are giving up on us
The needle and the thread
Won’t stitch us to the branch
And the night never ends
(I will never even close my eyes)
Then we will never die
And we’ll follow these tracks to the sight
Now the lungs collapse
And the air is getting thin
All breath expired
Is too late to heal?
But the day was so bright in the pictures
In the photo album that you gave me
It’s all I have to live for
I’m falling down
And you’re not sad to break my fall
I shut my eyes when you’re around
I hold my breath to kill the sound
I’m falling down
I’m falling down
I shut my eyes when you’re around
I hold my breath to kill the sound
I’m falling down
And you’re not here to catch my fall
