Something Corporate Album

Maybe when the room is empty
Maybe when this bottle's full
Maybe when the door gets broke down love can break in
Maybe when I'm done with thinking
Maybe you can think me whole
Maybe when I'm done with endings this can begin
This can begin, this can begin
You could be my punk rock princess
I could be your garage band king
You could tell me why you just don't fit in
And how you're gonna be somethin'

Maybe when your hair gets darker
Maybe when your eyes get wide
Maybe when the walls are smaller there will be more space
Maybe when I'm not so tired
Maybe you can step inside
Maybe when I look for things that I can't replace
I can't replace, I can't replace

You could be my punk rock princess
I could be your garage band king
You could tell me why you just don't fit in
And how you're gonna be somethin'

If I could be your first real heart ache
I would do it over again
You could be my punk rock princess
I could be like heroin

It was this time Last Year
You're so much different now
You watch the traffic clear
You hear the cars spin out
I never thought you'd last
I never dreamed you would
You watch your life go Past
You wonder if you should

If you should be my punk rock princess
So I could be your garage band king
You could tell me why you just don't fit in
And how you're gonna be somethin'
If I could be your first real heart ache
I would do it over again
If You could be my punk rock princess
I could be like heroin

Whoa Oh You know, you only burn my bridges
Whoa Oh You know, you just can't let it sink in
Whoa Oh You know, you only burn my bridges
Who Oh You know, you just can let it sink in

You could be my heroine

Climbing out of the sky
A man who could a fly
and a painting anyone could play
It's a comic book crush that taught you to trust
Staring out from the stands
At a rock n roll band
And a hero no one else could save
It was never much
But it's all that you gave

And I wonder, if you wonder
Or did your stars finally explode
Did the thunder pull you underneath the haze
I'm amazed what you don't show

Little Minds let little pain
Burn big old dreams with little flames
And you don't think I understand
Little holes in parachutes
Won't leave you falling
If they do
It's because you want to land

Climbing out of his chair
To fix the TV glare
Is a man, but no one knows he's there
It's a Dramamine dream
that keeps us awake but lost
She keeps her plastic friends
and a brand new Benz
She always says "hell, sometimes life ain't fair"
It's a comic book crush that got them nowhere

And I wonder, If she wonders
Or did her star finally explode
Did the thunder pull her underneath the haze
I'm amazed what we don't know

Little Minds let little pain
Burn big old dreams with little flames
And you don't think I understand
Little holes in parachutes
Won't leave you falling
If they do
It's because you want to land

These elevator doors are closing
Again you leave before I planned
I can taste you walking down the hall
You left your perfume on the night stand

I can't imagine all the people that you know
And the places that you go
When the lights are turned down low
And I don't understand
All the things you've seen
But I'm slipping in between
You and your big... dreams
it's always you and my big dreams

And you tell me
That it's over
But I can't stand here in a patch of four leaf clover
And your restless
And I'm naked
You've got to get out
You can't stand to see me shaking
no, cuz you let me go

and you don't want to be here in the future
So you say
**the presents just a pleasant
Interruption to the past**
And you don't want to look much closer
'Cause you're afraid to find out all the hope
That you had sent into the sky by now had... crashed
and it did because of me

And then you bring me home
Afraid to find out that you're alone, no
And I'm sleeping in your living room
But we don't have much room
To live

I had dreams that I would learn to play guitar
Maybe cross the country
Become a rockstar
And there was hope in me
That I could take you there
Dammit you're so young
But I don't think I care
and if I hurt you then i'm sorry
its just this guilt has got the best of me

And then you bring me home
'Cause we both know what its like to be alone, no
And I'm dreaming in your living room
But we don't have much room
To live

Konstantine is coming down the stairs
Doesn't she look good
Standing in her underwear?
And I've been thinking
What I've been thinking, you know
But she's been drinking
And it doesn't get me anywhere.

Konstantine came walking down the stairs
And all that I could do
Was touch her long blond hair
And I was thinking
What I was thinking
But we've been drinking
And it doesn't get me anywhere.

This is because I can spell konfusion with a K
It's hard to like it
It's to dying in anothers arms
and why i had to try it
It's to jimmy eat world
and those nights in my car
but this time I'm alone
and I don't see those stars
I'm not your star
Isn't that what you said
what you thought this song meant
you thought this song meant

If this is what it takes
to lie in my mistakes
and live with what I did to you
and all the things i've put you through
I always catch the clock it's 11:11
And now you want to talk
it's not hard to dream
You'll always be my Konstantine

They'll never hurt you like I do
No, They'll never hurt you like I do
No, No, No, No, No, No, No, No

This is to a girl who got into my head
with all these pretty things she did
Hey Baby, You know that you keep me up in bed
It's to a girl who got into my head
with all the fucked up things I did
Hey Maybe Baby, You could keep me up in bed
My Konstantine

Spin Around me like a Dream
We played out on this movie screen
And I said, did you know I missed you
Did you know I missed you
Did you know I missed you
Did you know I missed you
Did you know I missed you
Did you know I missed you
Did you know I missed you

Oh God I Miss You

And then you bring me home
And we'll go to sleep but this time not alone, no No,
And you'll kiss me in your living room, oh
And you see no,
what I've been missing in my living room
Cause it's all you
yeah this is what i've missed
what i've missed
We don't have much room
I said, Does anybody really need that room
'cause we all need a little but of room
To Live

...My Konstantine

You grand dad left home for the circus
He was young just like me
With hope to explore
He married a girl in Virginia
She could swing the trapeze
They could sleep on the floor
Mother was born in December
One sunny day
That winter gave up
The warm summer eyes
That flicker like fireflies
She stared at the world
So why do you leave these stories unfinished?
My Cheshire cat doorstop with tears in your eyes
And why do you look when you’ve already found it
And what did you find that would leave you walkin by?

She was raised in a New England village
And she moved to LA
With a Firefly stare
And you loved sunset strip when it sparkled
You grew up and you sparkled but why don’t you care?

And why do you leave these stories unfinished?
My Cheshire cat doorstop with tears in your eyes
And why do you look when you’ve already found me
And what did you find that would leave you walkin by?

And these nights I get high just from breathin
And I lie here with you
I’m sure that I’m real like that
Like that firework over the freeway
I could stay here all day
But that’s not how you feel

So why do you leave these questions unanswered?
The circus awaits but you’re already gone
My Cheshire cat doorstop, with fear in your smile
What makes it so easy for you to be walkin by?

What did I do that you can’t seem to want me
And why do we lie here an whisper good-byes
And where can I go that your pictures won’t haunt me
What makes it so easy for you to be walkin by?
Walkin by
Walkin by

On Christmas morning
Outside it was pouring
All was hopeless in this home
And no one speaking
No one creeping
To see if she was on the phone
And u were quiet
This routine riot is all but practical to me
And if we see it why can't we be it?
Can we let each other be?

Forget December
It won't be better than I remember it before
And this month only
Would be so lonely
And not so homely anymore

New years eve came
But nothing had changed
All the problems just got worse
We sat in silence
The routine science could heal the sickness we rehearse
And if I'm talking
My words are mocking
The deaf ears they have fallen on
These words are tainted
With years of jaded
In a sense that's all but gone

Forget December
It won't be better than I remember it before
And this month only
Would be so lonely
And not so homely anymore..
Anymore...anymore...anymore...

Forget December
It won't be better than I remember it before
And this month only
Would be so lonely
And not so homely anymore

Forget December
It won't be better than I remember it before
A silent night won't feel quite right
It's not so silent anymore..
Anymore...anymore...anymore...

On Christmas morning
Outside it was pouring
All was hopeless in this home

Standing on the edge of morning
Scent of sex and new found glory
Playing as she's pulling back her hair
She drives away
She's feeling worthless
Used again but nothing's different
She stayed the night
But knows he doesn't care

Home by three
Deafening quiet
The porch light's off
Yes they forgot it
She'd cry herself to sleep
But she don't dare
Then she wants to be a model
She wants to hear she's beautiful
She's beautiful

I want to save you
I want to save you
I need you
Save me too
I want to save you

Dressed by dawn and out the door
No light
She memorized the floor
So she could leave without being detected
She works till three
It's uniform
She dreams that he'll come by the store
She prays for days
The boys mean she's protected
And she wants someone to see her
She needs to hear she's beautiful
She's beautiful

I want to save you
I want to save you
I need you
Save me too
I want to save you

And she won't sleep
She won't sleep
And she won't sleep
At all

I want to save you
I want to save you
I need you
Save me too
I want to save you
(Let me save you)
I want to save you
(Let me save you)
I want to save you
(Let me save you)
I want to save you

Staring into the intersection
she thinks that she can fly and she might
holding on in a new direction
she's gonna try it tonight
the closer I get to feeling
the further that I'm feeling from alright
the more I step into the sun
the more I step out of the light

Jessica is covered in a blanket
on a Sunday porch
thinking on the weekends
she would party in the city
she doesn't have a flame
she'd prefer to burn out
like a torch
If she gets nowhere in life
At least she knows she's pretty

She says
Hey Now The Straw dog's out in the street
Hey now there's chemicals in the clouds
Hey now they're calling all the police
But they wont get to us anyhow

The moon is shining now
And shadows are what's left of all the noise
simple silhouettes and cut outs
As if we had a choice
he listens closely now
swears that he can hear a voice
that's calling him

and saying

Hey now the straw dog's out in the street
Hey now there's chemicals in the clouds
Hey now there calling all the police
but they wont get to us anyhow... No

What does it take to be a super hero in my world
make no mistake that these villains always get the girl
we can escape and then we'd skate away from all of this
but no one ever does

She's saying

Hey now the straw dog's out in the street
hey now there's chemicals in the clouds
hey now they're calling all the police
but they wont get to us
No they'll never get to us
hey now the straw dog's out in the street
hey now there's chemicals in the clouds
they're calling all the police
but they wont get to us
na na na na na na na na now