"Zulu"

I'm feeling what I want to feel
I'm saying what I've said all along
Because I know the things that are important to me.
Because life is too short to belong

And those thoughts
That I've kept inside
With those words
That I could not hide
Before those times that always remind me
That all I ever did was try.

So change your tune one step to make a stand
I want to speak my mind start my own african tribe
I'm alone now run into the deepest pile of shit
Cause that's where I'm going to blend in.

Go!

Those choices that I've never made
With those decisions that once cut me a break
Cause after all what's left in the end
There's somethings that they just can't take

So take a bow
Well you're not that great
So pat your back
Go off and masturbate
Cause one thing that you know for sure
Your hand is not a lonesome date.

Man Overboard

So sorry it's over
So sorry it's over

There's so much more that I wanted and
There's so much more that I needed and
Time keeps moving on and on and on
Soon we'll all be gone

Let's take some time to talk this over
You're out of line and rarely sober
We can't depend on your excuses
Cause in the end it's fucking useless

You can only lean on me for so long
Bring the ship about to watch a friend drown
Stood out on the ledge
Begged you to come down
You can only lean on me for so long

I remember shots, without a chaser
Absent minded thoughts, now you're a stranger
Cover up the scars
Put on your game face
Left you in a bar
To try and save grace

You can only lean on me for so long
Bring the ship about to watch a friend drown
Stood out on the ledge
Begged you to come down
You can only lean on me for so long

So sorry it's over
So sorry it's over

There's so much more that I wanted and
There's so much more that I needed and
Time keeps moving on and on and on
Soon we'll all be gone

Man on a mission
Can't say I miss him around
Insider information
Hand in your resignation
Loss of a good friend
Best of intentions I found
Tight lipped procrastination

Yeah later,
See you around

Neighborhoods (2011)



"Ghost On The Dancefloor"

I'll never let you down, boy
I'll never let you go
Her subtle hint of life
Is so innocent and scary

So, tell me that you're here, boy
She says as if she knows
When God took her with time
God made me quite alone

It's like the universe has left me
Without a place to go
Without a hint of light
To watch the movement glow
When our song was slowly starting
Your memory felt so real
At first against my will
But God invented chills

Yeah, I
I saw your ghost tonight
The moment felt so real
If your eyes stay right on mine
My wounds would start to heal

The kids are in a hurry
And I'm just full of fear
The lights make bodies blurry
It's getting hard enough to hear
It's like the evidence is cared for
And evidently clear
If I never leave this dance floor
I'll never leave you here

Yeah, I
I saw your ghost tonight
The moment felt so real
If your eyes stay right on mine
My wounds would start to heal

I felt your ghost tonight
And God, it felt like hell
To know you're almost mine
But dreams are all I feel

Yeah, I
I saw your ghost tonight
It fucking hurt like hell
I felt you here tonight
But dreams can't all be real

I saw your ghost tonight
It fucking hurt like hell
I felt you here tonight
But dreams can't all be real

"Natives"

I'm like a cat in a cage
Locked up and battered and bruised
I am the prodigal son
A shameful prodigy too
I am the love of your life
Battering ram and confused
I turn each day into night
I stand there waiting for you
There is desire to fight
But I have nothing to prove
But with the crowd and some lights
I start to feel things move
Do you have something to hide?
Because I think that we all do
I am a child inside
Back up and give me some room

I'm just a bastard child
Don't let it go to your head
I'm just a waste of your time
Maybe I'm better off dead
You turned us loose in the night
I'm fucking Jekyll and Hyde
We'll have the time of our lives
Although we're dying inside

So let me go, go
So let me go, go
Just let me go, go
I'd rather go it alone

So let me go, go
So let me go, go
Just let me go, go
I'm never coming home

Don't start to panic for me
Cause I have nothing to lose
I am as bright as the sun
I burn up all that I choose
Up on the side of the field
I see a city with lights
I touch her face and I kneel
She tells me she's not alive
I am too nervous to run
The kids who scatter and hide
To reach and grab for someone
But end up buried alive
The world is waiting for me
A move that I rarely use
I start to feel my feet
They kick down walls as they move

I'm just a bastard child
Don't let it go to your head
I'm just a waste of your time
Maybe I'm better off dead
You turned us loose in the night
I'm fucking Jekyll and Hyde
We'll have the time of our lives
Although we're dying inside

So let me go, go
So let me go, go
Just let me go, go
I'd rather go it alone

So let me go, go
So let me go, go
Just let me go, go
I'm never coming home


I'm just a bastard child
Don't let it go to your head
I'm just a waste of your time
Maybe I'm better off dead
You turned us loose in the night
I'm fucking Jekyll and Hyde
We'll have the time of our lives
Although we're dying inside

So let me go, go
So let me go, go
Just let me go, go
I'd rather go it alone

So let me go, go
So let me go, go
Just let me go, go
I'm never coming home

"Up All Night"

Everyone wants to call it all around our life with a better name
Everyone falls and spins and gets up again with a friend who does the same
Everyone lies and cheats their wants and needs and still believes their heart
And everyone gets the chills the kind that kills when the pain begins to start

Did I get this straight
Do you want me here
As I struggle through
Each and every year
And all these demons
They keep me up all night
They keep me up all night
They keep me up all night

Everyone's cross to bear the crown they wear on endless holiday
Everyone raises kids in a world that changes life to a bitter game
Everyone works and fights stays up all night to celebrate the day
And everyone lives to tell the tale of how we die alone someday

Did I get this straight
Do you want me here
As I struggle through
Each and every year
And all these demons
They keep me up all night
They keep me up all night
They keep me up all night
They keep me up all night
They keep me up all

"After Midnight"

I can't get my feet up off the edge
I kinda like the little rush you get
When you're standing close to death
Like when you're driving me crazy

Hold on as we crash into the earth
A bit of pain will help you suffer when you're hurt, for real
Cuz you were driving me crazy

Bite your lips, your words a robbery
Do you grin inside? You're killing me
All along we talked of forever
I kinda think that we won't get better
It's the longest start, but the end's not too far away
Did you know? I'm here to stay

We'll stagger home after midnight
Sleep arm in arm in the stairwell
We'll fall apart on the weekend
These nights go on and on and on

I can't keep your voice out of my head
All I hear are the many echoes of
The darkest words you said
And it's driving me crazy

I can't find the best in all of this
But I'm always looking out for you
Cause you're the one I miss
And it's driving me crazy

Bite your lips, your words a robbery
Do you grin inside? You're killing me
All along we talked of forever
I kinda think that we won't get better
It's the longest start, but the end's not too far away
Did you know? I'm here to stay

We'll stagger home after midnight
Sleep arm in arm in the stairwell
We'll fall apart on the weekend
These nights go on and on and on

We'll stagger home after midnight
Sleep arm in arm in the stairwell
We'll fall apart on the weekend
These nights go on and on and on

We'll stagger home after midnight
Sleep arm in arm in the stairwell
We'll fall apart on the weekend
These nights go on and on and on

We'll stagger home after midnight
Sleep arm in arm in the stairwell
We'll fall apart on the weekend
These nights go on and on and on

"Snake Charmer"

I felt a stutter and a waiver
Cutting like a razor
Like fire through the snow
Then straight down to the bone

She creeps up like a spider
And wants you deep inside her
She turns you into stone
A twisted little show

That's how it was to all begin
'Cause good girls they like to sin
Way back at the starting line
When Eve was on Adam's mind
And he was the first to go
In search of the great unknown
And falling yet again
'Cause good girls they like to sin

You are a hero and survivor
Your eyes are getting tired
There's claw marks up your spine
It happens all the time
Those silent evil daughters
Like sirens on the water
You bend the perfect crime
It happens all the time

That's how it was to all begin
Cause good girls they like to sin
Way back at the starting line
When Eve was on Adam's mind
And he was the first to go
In search of the great unknown
And falling yet again
'Cause good girls they like to sin

Good girls they like to sin
Falling yet again
Good girls they like to sin
Good girls they like to sin

That's how it was to all begin
Cause good girls they like to sin
Way back at the starting line
When Eve was on Adam's mind
And he was the first to go
In search of the great unknown
And falling yet again
'Cause good girls they like to sin

"Heart's All Gone"

Take off the gloves.
We fell in love by the side of the road,
This desert will break you down.
The veins you cut,
Your smoking tongue is the end of us all,
but you only care about fame and fortune.
Watching others tortured.
Casting your reflection.
Grocery store perfection.
This is the last time.
Sent to the front line with dirty boots on the ground,
You said "I'll make this all mine."

You seemed so sweet at the start but the start's all wrong.
You say you speak from your heart but your heart's all gone.
Yeah your heart's all gone!

Blackjack and architect.
Let's drink ourselves to death.
The crimes of everyone.
Passed down from father to son.
Hopeless and destitute.
Destroyed my gratitude.
Your strongest lines of defense are all just self-inflicted wounds.

You seemed so sweet at the start but the start's all wrong.
You say you speak from your heart but your heart's all gone.
Yeah your heart's all gone!
[x2]

You seemed so sweet at the start but the start's all wrong.
You say you speak from your heart but your heart's all gone.
Yeah your heart's all gone!
[x2]

"Wishing Well"

Been gone a long time
I kind of lost my way, can't find it
And I caught a short ride
To the grave and back this season
I can try to get by
But every time I start to panic
I'm a little bit shy
A bit strange and a little bit manic

La da-da-dah, da-da-da-dah
La da-da-dah, da-da-da-dah-dah
La da-da-dah, da-da-da-dah
La da-da-dah, da-da-da-dah-dah

I went to a wishing well
It sank to the ocean floor
Cut up by sharper rocks
And washed up along the shore
I reached for a shooting star
It burned a hole through my hand
It made its way through my heart
Had fun in the promise land

On the narrowing line
What a way to sort my troubles
In a very short time
Gonna pop, better duck and cover
Can you figure me out?
I got caught like a little kid stealing
Did I say it too loud?
A bit hard or a little misleading

La da-da-dah, da-da-da-dah
La da-da-dah, da-da-da-dah-dah
La da-da-dah, da-da-da-dah
La da-da-dah, da-da-da-dah-dah

I went to a wishing well
It sank to the ocean floor
Cut up by sharper rocks
And washed up along the shore
I reached for a shooting star
It burned a hole through my hand
It made its way through my heart
Had fun in the promise land

"Kaleidoscope"

Stop banging away on my kaleidoscope
Stop draining the color out of my scene
Just play me something I can dance to
I can dance to anything you wanna sing

So lock me up in a studio
Fill it up with soundless scenarios
Stop blocking the driveway with your car
Put the butterfly in the bill jar

It's the first time that I'm worried
Of a bad dream of a journey
On the highway, through the valley
It's a long road through the night
It's a long road

There's a strangers voice in the front yard
Let the hours tick past the deadline
Get another stamp in your passport
Wash your breakfast down with some red wine

Delete the progress on your game
Try to fall asleep while your ears ring
From the loudest songs on your mixtape
I can dance to anything you wanna sing

No reason, no action
No silence, no help here
Nobody came running up by my side

It's the first time that I'm worried
Of a bad dream of a journey
On the highway, through the valley
It's a long road through the night

It's the first time that I'm worried
Of a bad dream of a journey
On the highway, through the valley
It's a long road through the night
It's a long road to get it right

It's the first time that I'm worried
Of a bad dream of a journey
On the highway, through the valley
It's a long road through the night

It's the first time that I'm worried
Of a bad dream of a journey
On the highway, through the valley
It's a long road through the night
It's a long road (to get it right)