Alkaline Trio Album

Take your wings outside
You can't fly in here
Besides a purple sky
Is better soaring
For you my angel
You're an angel
You little devil
As for me I'll stay inside
I'll be a spy
And I'll watch from the window
Cannot categorize
The nature of this sickness
A miracle that you're alive
Stuck to the roof of my mouth with a staple
Remember last April
When we saw you at Staples
Somehow the singer showed the Fireside exactly how I feel
As we say goodbye
And go underground
Or up towards the sky
Up in smoke burnt down to size
At least we're still friends
At least we're still alive
Take your wings outside
No use for them in here
Bad luck to open inside
Work like umbrellas like a broken mirror
It's getting clearer
This end is closer than ever before
And you'll want something more
When your head hits the floor
And you're lost in the darkness
As we say goodbye
And go underground
Or up towards the sky
Up in smoke burned down to size
At least we're still friends
At least we're still alive
As we say goodbye
And go underground
Or up towards the sky
Up in smoke burned down to size
At least we're still friends
At least we're still alive

Today I woke up, younger than I've been in years
Not concerned with what's outside and peers
I don't have any
No one is my equal because I'm the King of Rain
Controlling with my mood swings
Threw a thunderstorm your way
Drowning girls is a game I play

Today I woke up, more awake than I have felt in years
Not concerned with anything, no tears
I'm done with that shit
No one is your equal because you're the Queen of Pain
Controlling with my moods
I'm staring at my shoes while running away
Drowning myself is a game I play
Drown myself away
Drown myself away
Goodbye

And this is getting over you
And this is getting over you
This is getting over you

You came to me like a dream.
The kind that always leaves
Just as the best part starts.
It ends so abruptly
And leaves you stunned and naked
In your bedroom all alone.
It's kinda funny how something so soothing
Gets interrupted by the ring of a telephone.

And you broke me like the cigarrette
That I busted on the day I quit.
But now that I've been drinkin'
I'm out of smokes and I wish that I had it.
Woke up to my daily headache
And the realization that you are gone.
Oh my sweet darling happiness
You've been away from me all along.

One thing that I never said
I'm truely happy in my heart and in my head.
A lonely liver suspended in liquid.

You came to me like a dream
The kind that always leaves.
Just as the best part starts
It ends so abruptly.
And leaves you stunned and naked
In your bedroom all alone.
Kind of funny how something so soothing
Gets interrupted by the ring of a telephone.

One thing that I never said
I'm truely happy in my heart and in my head
A lonely liver suspended in liquid.
It's one thing that I never did was swallow.
Missing a case
Lacking a lid
My heart bleeds for what you never did.
Never Did.

It's one thing that I never said
I'm truely happy in my heart and in my head
A lonely liver suspended in liquid
It's one thing that I never did was swallow.
Missing a case
Lacking a lid
My heart bleeds for what you never did.
My heart bleeds for what you never did until now...

Well it's not fair, it's not even close
You tied me down where I'm forced to watch
As you poke holes in every part of me
Containing something secretly
Something sacred to me
Well I lied my face off when I said that I would be okay
It's never fine when you go away
These cuts run deep, these scars are permanent
And always on display
This makes things difficult for me

It's not fair, it's not even close
You fed me the sun, burned me up inside
And watched me choke on everything we did
On everything we lived
Let's see if I can live again
Well I lied my face off when I said that I would be okay
It's never fine when you go away
These cuts run deep, these scars are permanent
And always on display
This makes things difficult for me

Head like an empty, sterile room
Somehow I made a mess
Like watching newborn babies crack
from work related stress
Head like an empty, sterile room
Somehow I made a mess
Like watching newborn babies crack
from work related stress
I'm bad luck, can't fuck, got no reflection today
Maybe I'll stay down next time I get hit by a train
By a train
Well I lied my face off when I said that I would be okay
It's never fine when you go away

I dont care who you've been sleeping with these days
You're outta my hair
It's growing just above my smiling face that I wear
Every night I drink myself to sleep
Not thinking about you
Not thinking about anything at all

I don't care who you've been dining with these days
It's more than fair
Much rather be drinking anyways
With my friend Peter
Who lives so fucking far away
Yet not as far as you
Even though you live right down my fucking street

And I'm tired of sleeping with myself
I'm tired, all these drinks and drugs no longer help
I'm tired of lying about not thinking of you
Maybe my friend Peter can tell me what to do

I dont care who you've been kissing on these days
It's out of my hands
and in my mouth with such a pleasant taste
I need a beer to wash it all away without a trace
And then i'll drink 23 more
To wipe this stupid smile off my fucking face

I'm tired of sleeping with myself
I'm tired, all those drinks and drugs no longer help
I'm tired of lying about not thinking of you
Maybe my friend Peter can tell me what to do

this time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with
resembling a faker charming snake oil tankers,
don't let them strike you down
i know that you wish i was dead,
i know cuz you told me last weekend,
and Christmas has never felt colder, ive never felt colder
this time you've dug yourself an anchor too heavy to move ahead with
resembling a faker charming snake oil tankers,
don't let them strike you down
i know that you wish i was dead,
i know cuz you told me last weekend..
and Christmas has never felt colder,
i haven't felt colder since

I can't believe my hearts still pounding
I can't believe how close i came
and meanwhile heavens falling
Fallen angels flown away
and that'll be me someday
With stolen wings and evil ways
Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates

Hard to believe my heart stopped pounding
Hard to believe i played this game,
My worst nightmares became real
I got so scared that i forgot my name
and that'll be me someday
With stolen wings and evil ways
Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates

Sorry I'm late, I was out spoiling my liver, I couldn't wait..
the sun was up for far too long today,
and I cant see straight but the two of you look awfully pretty..
and I couldn't wait, been awake for far too long today...
and is it strong enough, to burn away the cooking wine?
and I'm just tired enough,
if I closed my eyes I'll sleep for days I'll sleep for days...
sorry im late, I was out spoiling my liver, I couldn't wait..
the sun was up for far too long today,
and I cant see straight but the two of you look awfully pretty.
you're fucking beautiful.
and is it strong enough, to burn away the cooking wine,
and I'm just tired enough.
if I close my eyes I'll sleep for days, I'll sleep for days.

A right turn gone wrong
Nothing but the dust left to fill your lungs up
Have to choke and choke and choke
Reprecussion, what got us this form?
Facilitation for feeling listless
Reprecussion, what got us this form?
Facilitation for feeling listless
The son sits out in the sun
And that's when he calls 'father'
He realized a long time ago
He's never coming home, no
Reprecussion, what got us this form?
Facilitation for feeling listless

i couldn't hear a word you said
i couldn't hear at all
you talked until your tongue fell out
and then you talked some more

i knew if i turned (knew if i turned)
i'd turn away from you
i couldn't look back (i couldn't look back)

tell yourself we'll start again
tell yourself it's not the end
tell yourself it couldn't happen,
not this way
not today
not today

[Repeat entire song]

You were like a toilet bowl at the end of the rainbow
Something like a pot of gold stuck under my pillow
Keeping me up at night you kept my head splitting
And wishing there were windows to throw you from
Throw you from
Day or night
Fuck if I know
Hard to tell with no fucking window
And sundials
What good are sundials once the sun is gone?
What are you good for?

And we laid in my bed like a train wreck
And we both got laid like concrete
And we fought like soldiers
But we died.. we died like flies
Day or night
Fuck if I know
Hard to tell with no fucking window
And sundials
What good are sundials once the sun is gone?
What are you good for?

Crack my head open on your kitchen floor
To prove to you that I have brains
Meanwhile tin men are led by little girls
Down golden roads that lead to nowhere

Fine time to fake a seizure
Feel your mouth on mine, you're saving me

Whatever happened to that silly dream you had?
I want to make it real
I'd love to rub your back
Like a plane crash that never hits the ground
I fall in love with you
I'm nose over tail for you
Your voice like the sound of sirens to a house on fire
You're saving me

I've got it now
A thorn in my side the size of a Cadillac
Drive it through
'Cause backin up now would be next to impossible
I had it all
When I was with you I forgot about everything
Eighteen months
Eighteen months seems like fucking eternity

But you'll be there, to dry my eyes
When I breathe you in, in '97.. in '97

I've got it now
Like a thorn in my side the size of a Cadillac
Drive it through
'Cause backin up now would be next to impossible
I had it all
When I was with you I forgot about everything
Eighteen months, I won't breathe for eighteen months

I don't deserve this, I don't deserve this,
I don't deserve this, no I don't deserve this
I don't deserve this, no I don't deserve this,
I don't deserve this, no I don't deserve this,
No I don't deserve this, no I don't deserve this no