The Format Album

I can't stand to think about a heart so big it hurts like hell
Oh my god I gave my best but for three whole years to end like this
Well do you want to fall apart? I can't stop if you cant start
Do you want to fall apart? I could if you can try to fix what I've undone
Cause I hate what I've become

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You know me, oh you think you do you just don't seem to see
I've been waiting all this time to be, something I can't define
So let's cause a scene, clap our hands and stomp our feet or something,
yeah something I've just got to get myself over me

I could stand to do without, all the people I have left behind
What's the point in going around when it's a straight line baby, a straight line down
So let's make a list of who we need and we'll throw it away
'Cause we don't need anyone, no we don't need anyone

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And I hate what I've become.

You know the night life is just not for me
'Cause all you really need are a few good friends
I don't want to go out and be on my own,
You know they started something I can't stand
You leave for the city,
Well count me out
'Cause all this time is wasted on everything I've done

[Chorus x2]

Yeah
Over me
Yeah
Over me

The chords we play, ways left to communicate these roads are paved with plans we've made
And your headboards never felt so safe well they'll reach our graves where your friends
And i will kill the lights and hide, oh what a nice suprise dont,
Dont tell me when its coming (no) dont, dont i just want to see if for myself dont breathe,
Dont make a sound cause the song wont stop till the tape runs out when melody has nothing to hold,
I'll be the last sound that you hear as your eyes close and these chords remain
We'll use them to exploit the friends we've since forgot those friends we've lost you
All know just who you are cause ive since made graves but im too scared to etch the names
For fear that im the one whos changed
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The thought of death it scares me to death and i dont know why,
I dont know its just too much to never wake up
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Well i made my way back down to the valley, right on past 83rd street that's where we once belonged, but im gone i swear im
Long gone
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So give it, throw your hats in the air and change just as they land youre saying "we'll get out of here"
But something tells me your'e too scared to go so the stairs that you could climb are the ones youve left behind and your
Eyes light up when we talk about the past god i miss those songs we used to sing, talking like getting away would be the
Greatest thing well me, i got out, and you kept singing to me like that's really going to set this free
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Like a ghost youve been haunting all these dusty old roads and old homes the ones we swore we'd never go, never go as for joe,
Oh ive seen him around then theres adam, hes afraid to go out i dont blame him, i just wanted to go out to eat then theres mark
Goddamn i wish him the best we were kids back then as if we could progress but sometimes i just cant sleep, thinking of
Everything we could have been
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I'm in envy of addicts, you're obsessed with stars
Don't, don't you sound so excited just showing me your vanity
Whisper it once, just a little bit,
C'mon whisper it twice,
I cant stand to see the spotlight shine one more night
It's killing me to see you

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Just tie the rope and kick the chair
Leave me hanging there, gasping for air
Yeah, don't mind me three feet from the ceiling

You'd rather watch me drown,
Then see your hands get wet
You took the plot from stage to screen
And turned it to an epic scene

So whisper it once, tell me again,
C'mon, whisper it twice,
I cant stand to see my whole life flash before my eyes
When I'm with you there's no point in breathing,
No point in breathing

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Just tie the rope and kick the chair
Leave me hanging there, gasping for air
Yeah, don't mind me three feet from the ceiling
And I think I know (whoah oh oh)
Why you never get to close
It's cause you're too scared to
When I'm with you
There's no point in breathing

So so you run
Away for no apparent reason
'Cause you and I are changing with the seasons
Don't give me an answer as to why you're leaving
The tables are full but nobody's been dealing
So fold your hand, c'mon, and fold your hand

[Chorus:]
Just tie the rope and kick the chair
Leave me hanging there, gasping for air
Yeah, don't mind me three feet from the ceiling
And I think I know (whoah oh oh)
Why you never get to close
It's cause you're too scared to
When I'm with you
There's no point in breathing
No point in breathing
No point in breathing

Its your bed, so please choose a side ill take the one closest to the door and you start to speak the words that try to
Justify do far more wrong then anything you do so grab the coat, the keys, the tension speaks but we're singing it
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Ill tap the break while you crack the window the smell of smoke is making my lungs explode the 51 is backed up and too slow
Lets tune out by turning on the radio and this town is dead weve been caught in these sheets way too long lets just see whos
Up on this screen no one i know is more depressing then me or should i say the two of us cause after all we're all weve got
And tension speaks but we're singing it
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And oh my love youre all i need backed behind a frequency they played this
Song an hour ago lets tune out by turning on the radio havent we heard this song about a thousand times before oh well after
Awhile it all sounds the same i guess its better then silence and better then shame
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Im nicotine, im coming clean i fooled the crowd when i made it sound like i was more then ready strike up the band, deprive
My sleep cause theres no love like apathy the bell that tolls rings loud enough that it should have woke us up
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Im trying to find truth in words, in rhymes, in notes, in all the things i wish id wrote cause i feel like ive been losing you
I read your last entry overprivelaged kids keep crying the need to fit in is harder when living life from a screen old
Classmates please drop all your pens dont write a word cause i wont reply and im not bitter, no its just ive passed that
Point in my life
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Each night it ends too soon you dont hold me like you used to and your eyes look like theyve seen
Too much its always some excuse too tired, too obtuse you look so far removed, this time i fear im losing you im nicotine im
A cash machine im the colour green and you should have seen the looks i just recieved i need a reason to let go an
Intervention, a lulluby something to cure me please believe me
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I was on your porch, the smoke sank into my skin so i came inside to be with you and we talked all night, about everything
We could imagine cause come the morning ill be gone and as our eyes start to close i turn to you and i let you know that i
Love you well my dad was sick and my mom she cared for him her love it nursed him back to life and me i ran, i couldnt even
Look at him for fear id have to say goodbye and as i start to leave he grabs me by the shoulder and he tells me whats left
To lose, youve done enough and if you fail well then you fail but not to us cause these last three years, i know theyve been
Hard but now its time to get out of the desert and into the sun even if its alone so now here i sit, in a hotel off of
Sunset my thoughts bounce off of sams guitar and thats the way its been, ever since we were kids but now, now weve got
Something to prove and i, i can see there eyes but tell me something, can they see mine cause whats left to lose, ive done
Enough and if i fail well then i fail but i gave it a shot and these last three years, i know theyve been hard but now its
Time to get out of the desert and into the sun even if its alone i was on your porch last nite, the smoke it sank into my
Skin

Forgive me you cut out again, it seems so easy just to blame the reception but theres something wrong and i dont know why
Why you, you never say goodbye so please just leave, you dont mean that much to me you keep the ring, ill take those
Saturdays in bed cause i know you need them as for me its nothing new just another two years i wish we'd always wake up new,
Refreshed and born again with nothing left to lose but we dream too much and who needs a crutch pull off the bandage, theres
No wound so please just leave, you dont mean that much to me give back the ring, keep all those summers with your friends
Cause you know you need them as for me its nothing new just another two years that im here losing sleep your sore thumb,
Your best defense is miles from home oh and it reads like a letter, with the words all broken erased them with a razorblade
Cause youre gone i was lost then i found you but im breaking down now that
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In a dream that i cant seem to shake she is, she is standing alone by the fence i see tears in her eyes why she crys i just
Dont know what a mess that i make of my days then theres you, youre a mess to be made, a mess to be made and the dream
Starts to fade away so youre leaving for months at a time, i help you out the door but once youre gone i just stare out the
Window please, could you please come back home what a mess that i make of my days trying to save myself, save myself then
Theres you, youre a mess to be made a canvas only paint could change and a voice on the other end of the phone, says why
Dont you write a song about it well here goes, i was raised on something that youll never know id hate this place if it
Werent for the waves if it werent for the fact that you love it where they measure a man on the money he spends well my love
Is not a bank statement what a mess that i make of my days trying to save myself, save myself then theres you, youre a mess
To be made, a mess to be made, a mess to be made and the dream starts to fade away

Weve just got to take our time its like nothing really matters, so lets make this moment a crime I know, I know youre left
Behind but I'll do my best to feel broke down its been a minute, a second, I'll wait for you to come around but I know, I
Know youre taking time maybe its just too late, ive got to get away when everything feels the same, ive got to get away tell
Me its not too late

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On and on and on you wait and oh the days they fade away and all the nights theyve never felt
The same if I was wrong then I was wrong and on and on and on and on the things we do are never going to change well you
Havent got a lot to say but you never want to stop you always want to feel this way I know I know youre taking time

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We wait forever, if ever and youre too hip to saying never I'll never get it, oh I shouldnt sweat it not
Like it matters, its over, yeah at least till you come over so much for shutters, we're living under covers

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Todays been a career day, futures made and fortunes lost as im standing in the lobby, im waiting for the elevator to take
Me away up to nine or ten, maybe eleven the sound of sirens fading as she whispers in my ear shes saying, its too late to
Wish success so get undressed and please just come to bed cause im the last real thing youve got youre cursed by all
Ambitious thoughts is that all youve got as for you, you spin a story like a spider spins a web see thats a metaphor, no
Wait, a similie im still learning but i think im getting better oh if im not tortured how are you ever going to relate ive
Been condemed by those i love, wishing me the worst as im trying my best but shes the last real thing ive got im cursed by
All ambitious thoughts is that all youve got love close your eyes and cover, cover your ears, for the end is near but the
Beginning is here in with the outro and out with the old i'm gonna tie all the loose ends i once pulled in with the outro
And out with the old (headed, paired, paired up, i really have no idea) for failure, from what we've been told in with the
Outro and out with the old with nothing to offer, so nothings been sold in with the outro and out with the old forgive me
And give me one more chance to fold in with the outro and out with the old there's nothing to lose when there's nothing to
Hold we'll be together in the morning

It feels like youve been asleep for days the television is on, i cant stay awake ill fall down, again and when your friends
Leave, oh they get gone its such a pet peeve when you prove me wrong ill fall down and we all fall down i need to get back
To tempe, its been two years since ive been here before back down to the streets that lead me the ones that keep me, away
From glendale o-o-open your eyes and let me in i swore to god id never swear again and we all fall down yeah we all fall
Down again