LYRICS

DON’T DESERVE YOU

Been taking lives like you take your liquor
Cold and hard in a plastic shaker
Maybe one day you’ll come and knock one back to one of my beats

Been making time with a crooked banker
Who wears his heart like a broken sprinkler
He likes to dance and maybe with a loosing chance
One day you’ll come and shake one out to one of my beats

The only witness to this
Will trade his soul for a kiss and tell

You know they don’t deserve you

If you listen to this
I’ll take a ride and I wont tell
I’ll break your spell

You know they don’t deserve you

IT’S A DRAG

Losing Philly in the rear-view mirror across the C&D
Mom and Dad won’t whisper after two more B&Bs
Spent our lives in crisis just a-hopin’ to get a break
There ain’t a lot to live for and there’s nothing to take

It’s a drag they’re always bitchin’
It’s a drag when they are done
It’s a drag we’re always witness
It’s a drag when
No one’s havin’ fun

Just another poor bastard born under a bloodshot moon
Daddy prayed for my little sister she came out too soon
We’re hangin’ on the boardwalk hopin’ that it don’t get rough
Got nothing better left to do we’ll just all jump off

MEANT TO BE

Stupid us getting bolder for nothing
We’re still breaking keys with our hearts
We’re making out with the losers just waiting to see all the things that were not
Baby were just walking hazards
Maybe we always knew when to duck
It’s getting cold
And I ain’t looking for shelter and you can’t afford to get stuck

Maybe I should return
When the light on your porch forever burns

We can feel it
More than we ought too
Is it stealing
If no one else wants it?
Hiding in the back in your car
We can feel it
We were meant to be wrong

Looking up from the ledge I was thinking
There’s only one way to get down
Hurry up cause the exits are fading there’s nothing left for you to give up
Baby we ought to be masters
If only failure was common as luck
Look around no one’s counting their blessings
Don’t count what you’ve given up.

It’s better you follow your heart than follow me
I’ll be running when I ain’t hiding

We can feel it
If no one else wants it
Is it stealing
If no one is gone?
And we’re hiding in the back in your arms
I can feel it
If no one else wants it

ALL THIS WAY FOR NOTHIN’

Look at your life in the morning sun as you start the day down on your knees
Church bells ringing so out of key don’t you wonder who’s listening to me

You think you’ve seen it all, but you ain’t seen a murderers smile
You say you don’t need much because you’ve taken all they had
You just thought they’d understand
You’ve come all this way for nothing

Come so far on this broken road there’s so much for you to resist
Lost your place on the second page but there’s really nothing there to be missed

You came across the desert with your trailer full of ghosts
You take them out on weekends just to see how much they know
But it’s really all for show
You’ve come all this way for nothing

You’re hocking your shadows, your lighting your candles
Hoping the world isn’t round
You concede your fate
You can see it in your face

COME TO HIDE

Used to watch you walk into this place
You live the part no one is ever good at playing
Always laughing about L.A.
The trick is to laugh where know one has seen you cry

Always need a place to lay your glass
Like you need a good place to lie
Or maybe just stretch the truth a bit sometime

But now you come to hide
The world outside is getting bright, and you feel too dull to shine
Now you come to hide

Did you look too deep? Step too far into the light?
Did you hear them laughing as you crawled back into your old life?
Your hair combed back and your blue eyes sinking too
Looks like something’s coming over you
You’re holding on for dear life
You’re holding on too tight

Always need a place to hang your hat
A doorknob or someone else’s lap
The evening is gonna feel so trite
By the end of the night

But now you come to hide
Comfort is just a myth that you only hear about on the news
Now you come to hide

In this place no one is here to blame
In this place no feels ashamed
In this place we’re nowhere near the flame
We just die a little more each day

SEIZE THE MOMENT

Looks like a star that’s traded all
The lusters for scars
Stick another Band-Aid on your mood
‘fore the dancing starts
Shakin’ outta tune maybe you
Should take another blue
Maybe you could use a bit more room
For shakin’ it solo

You look outta place
Can’t you handle the pace?
What you won’t be
What you won’t be won’t last
What you won’t be is a moment you can’t have

Makin’ good time catching up to
Those left behind
Maybe you could use a GPS
Without all the stop signs
Followed your heart, and everyone
Is weighing their part
Maybe you should take it all apart
And see if it sparks

You look outta place
Can’t you handle the pace?
What you won’t be
What you won’t be won’t last
What you won’t be is a moment you can’t have

The fly on the wall has seen you
Stayin’ way too long
What you won’t be
What you won’t be has past
What you won’t be has come and gone to fast
What you won’t be

ZERO TO STUPID

Used to stay home on Fridays just to talk
Just one nightcap before the day is done
Used to wake up in the morning still in love
She used to love me
Now she hates me
Since she’s been gone I go from zero to stupid in
Just one drink

She said she used to love the way I played guitar
Didn’t like drinking hard liquor or fast cars
Now she’s going down to the bar to watch Nascar
She’s drinkin’ gin now
From what I hear now
Since she’s been gone she goes from zero to stupid in
Just one drink

The latest fool done left her for the pits
He’s changing tires now for the champion here as I sit
Trying to erase her from my mind and my soul
I used to love her
I used to miss her
My life goes on
It just can’t go from zero to stupid in
Just one drink

MATCH MADE IN HELL

You say I’m a bore and I say
I’m just not interested
Yeah cause we’re great at wasting time

I say you could use to see the light
Instead of standing right in front of it
Cause we’re missing every sign

As a matter of fact we’re both equally inept
As a matter of fact it’s failure we expect

We’re a match made in hell

You say love don’t mean a thing and I
Say you’ve never been in it
I can’t wait to get it right

You can’t cook but you could fix a flat
Took a stab once at fixin’ us

Like a watchmaker with boxing gloves

As a matter of fact we’re both equally to blame
As a matter of fact we’re legally insane

We’re a match made in hell
(Blow me out before you throw me out)

Be careful how you treat me tonight
I might get the urge to finally put up a fight

You wake with a furry eyeball
I’m fishing for purpose
I wouldn’t trade it for the world

DESTROY ME

Don’t dim the lights baby
I couldn’t bear not to see
You’re makin’ wounds that don’t bleed
I can almost feel them when I look into your face

Can’t justify all my needs
I get too bored too easy
You make me wait my turn when you
Can’t wait to see me

I love the way you look
As you destroy me
I love the way it feels
As you destroy me
You destroy me

Can’t you see us breakin’ down
You’re in your hepburn gowns
Not making a sound
Didn’t mean it, but we said it anyway
We’ll take it back once again

Leanin’ on a weakened crutch
Stayed up to late
Thought too much
Didn’t feed it
We’re just starving it to death
What we need is
To take another breathe
What we feel is getting hard to accept

I love the way you look
As you destroy me
I love the way it feels
As you destroy me

I love the sound we make
As you destroy me
You destroy me

ONE MAN MUTINY

I can hear all the things you’re saying
I just don’t give a damn
You say you got ten good reasons
Well I bet I got about ten you ain’t ever had

I won’t rest until I’m free of your phony empathy
Look what it’s done for you
You think you got the good life
But you ain’t fooling me

I’m one man who don’t think like you
One man who waits to see
One man who’ll stand up to you
One man just like me
A one man mutiny

I don’t want to talk too much
Don’t tell me where to go
You say you’ve been to hell before

You must have left your pretty face outside the door
I don’t see all the colors of the rainbows
They’re all shootin’ at
Truth be told I need a new pair of eyes
To see all the colors mine lacks

You say you want what’s best for all of us
You just don’t remember why
They all just sit there and stare
Trying so hard not to run and hide