"Novella"
 
WASTING TIME, it's over and ended
WASTING TIME, we deserve
HOLD THAT LINE, they ask us in safety
Hold that line, when we talk

I can see the headlights and pavements
My legs can't carry me that far
If this distance isn't enough they'll cry
Another river to see you drown (see you drown)

FACELESS LIES, it's easy to speak when
Every word is your own
SELFISH EYES look onward in protest as we
Tear down their disguise
THEIR DISGUISE

(I can see the headlights)
I can see the headlights and pavements
My legs can't carry me that far
If this distance isn't enough they'll cry
Another river to see you drown (see you drown)

I can see the headlights and pavements
My legs can't carry me that far
If this distance isn't enough they'll cry
Another river to see you drown (see you drown)

Your days were golden
Your days were golden while we bled...
Your days were golden
Your days were golden while we bled...
While we bled...
While we bled...

Hours (2005)



1.   All The Rage
2.   Streetcar
3.   Roses For The Dead
4.   Hospitality
5.   Drive
6.   Monsters
7.   History
8.   Recovery
9.   The End Of Nothing
10.   Alvarez
11.   Sonny

"All The Rage"
 
Why do we need this
Who was it that said
That great things come to great men
Well that fucker lied to us
There's nothing here but a wasteland,

But I can still see the graves of the dead
but it's useless
most of us would rather sit
than see this wound
that we have created
Let's not last the night
Let's not last the night

I'm sick and I'm tired of always being the good guy
I'm sick and I'm tired of always being the good guy

Senseless and I'm not sure why
I'm not going to pretend that I know all the answers
Of all of these questions
It's got to be good for something

So we'll chalk this up and we'll mount the dead
on the fireplace above right above our guilded heads

I'm sick and I'm tired of always being the good guy
I'm sick and I'm tired of always being the good guy

Like sitting in the back seat (it's all the rage)
and boring me with your body (it's all the rage)
and how many times can I say I'm sorry (it's all the rage)
and really mean it (and really mean it)
and really mean it (and really mean it)
Like sitting in the back seat (it's all the rage)
and boring me with your body (it's all the rage)
and how many times can I say I'm sorry (it's all the rage)
and really mean it (and really mean it)
and really mean it (and really mean it)
and really mean it

Go

Why do we need this
Who was it that said
That great things come to great men
Well that fucker lied to us
There's nothing here but a wasteland
There's nothing here

"Streetcar"
 
[Number dialed]
(Hello!?)

And there's the rub, we can talk for a while
But I have sweet nothings to say
You don't want me anyway, you don't want me anyway
So why, why should I stay?

So goodbye to you and your life
Your new best friends, your confidence
And I'll be here when you get home

Sitting halfway, away from nowhere
Praying for our lips to touch
Holding myself for a second
Just to catch you smile on this line

So goodbye to you and your life (two months, eight weeks)
Your new best friends, your confidence (turn my hours into days)
And I'll be here when you get home (when you get home)

So goodbye to you and your life (two months, eight weeks)
Your new best friends, your confidence (turn my hours into days)
And I'll be here when you get home, when you get home

[Voices:] I can't feel the same about you anymore [many times]

Is it just like you said it would be (it's never easy),
I can't feel this way about you anymore
Is it just like you said it would be (it's never easy),
I can't feel the same

I can't feel this way,
I can't feel the same about you anymore (it's never easy)
About you anymore (it's never easy)
No, I can't feel this way
I can't feel the same about you anymore (it's never easy)
About you anymore (it's never easy)
About you anymore

[Dial tone]

"Roses For The Dead"
 
Just to say we're sorry,
For the black eyes and bleeding lips.
And it's hard to forget
How many lies we've told.

Or how old we'd grow,
Before I said goodbye.
So let's scrape our knees on the playground.

It's not your fault,
You feel okay.
It's too late in the day.
It's not your fault,
You feel betrayed.
You can't come out to play.

I never listened to a word you never said.
I never listened to a word you never said.

Wasting the hours now,
We're all suckers for tragedies.
And start this over again,
And you bring us to our knees.

As sunrise comes,
And the story will sell,
A few hundred papers,
So we'll follow you up.

It's not your fault,
You feel okay.
It's too late in the day.
It's not your fault,
You feel betrayed.
You can't come out to play.

I never listened to a word you never said.
I never listened to a word you never said.

So raise your hands up high,
And let this rain pour on.
So raise your hands up high,
And wash us away.

Like innocence and childbirth,
You look just like your mother
And you look just like your father.
Forgive him our father,
Your son is smiling,
So lay roses around you.

"Hospitality"
 
Forget the letters just sleep sound tonight
Pull back the covers without a fight
But as we dance by emergency light
I fail to swallow my tongue
And I'm still here bleeding

So pull this switch and see my body twitch
Oh, as we dance on this memory
A light left blinking on it's own
And my blood is flowing
Down through this machine
In hope and desire in hope I expire

[Chorus]
Turn off this machine
Cause this is the only thing that's keeping me alive
Turn off this machine
Cause this is the only thing that's keeping me alive

So pull this switch and see my body twitch
As we dance on this memory
Despair has devoured me whole
A seed wont grow from this soul
This pill wont cure my disease
Can't you kill this beating heart

[Chorus]

Please nurse my batteries are running low
Please nurse oh I think I'm running low
Left here swallowed by this fear
That you will always keep me here
To close your eyes and pray for this to go away

Cause I'm not angry, tired or sore
More of a man than I was before
Is this the cause I'm looking for?

I plead forgive me
Cause I'm no martyr
Is this the cause that I'm looking for?
[x2]

Cause I'm not angry, tired or sore
More of a man than I was before
Is this the cause that I'm looking for?
[x2]

I plead forgive me
Cause I'm no martyr
You're not the cause that I'm looking for
[x3]

"Drive"
 
And I wish it was sweeter
The taste of your mouth
Because right now, it hurts too much to be
Closer than this
And with one hard look
I can tell
That you've had enough of these useless sunsets

[Chorus]
This could be a movie
And this could be our final act
We don't need these happy endings
This could be a movie
And this could be our final act
We don't need these happy endings

So tell your father that
That you're mine
And I'll swear we'll run away
And I'll make a plan and save
Everyone from themselves
And put them in the ground
And put them in the ground

[Chorus]

Sitting in the car
With the radio
Turned to static
Feeling quite tragic
And with one strategic blow
And you find yourself
Back in the hold
That you used to sit so comfortably in

Sitting in the car
With the radio
Turned to static
Feeling quite tragic
And with one strategic blow
And you find yourself
Back in the hold
You used to sit so comfortably in

[Chorus]

Sitting in the car
With the radio
Turned to static
Feeling quite tragic
And with one strategic blow
And you find yourself
Back in the hold
That you used to sit so comfortably in

Sitting in the car
With the radio
Turned to static
Feeling quite tragic
And with one strategic blow
And you find yourself
Back in the hold
That you used to sit so comfortably, comfortably in

"Monsters"
 
Scattered seeds and breaking storms
Won't make a decent lie for you
Naked and with every breath you climb the stairs

Step by step and I don't need this
And I don't need to be saved

Five steps away from this cliff top
And birds sing their praises
To this weary world that haunts my weary soul

There are monsters here
And as you scream it makes no sense
It makes no sense
It makes no sense at all
There are monsters here
And as you scream it makes no sense
It makes no sense
It makes no sense at all

And in every despair I'll find you standing there
Waiting with the bitter taste of envy on your sleeve
'Cause tonight is our night
And I don't want this
No, so won't you let me go

There are monsters here
And as you scream it makes no sense
It makes no sense
It makes no sense at all
There are monsters here
And as you scream it makes no sense
It makes no sense
It makes no sense at all

And every animal will find itself a home
And every man and woman, well they'll just lose control
And we can make ourselves believe
That I don't want this, I don't need this
No, I have this to myself

There are monsters here
And as you scream it makes no sense
It makes no sense
It makes no sense at all
With every despair I'll find you standing there
It makes no sense
It makes no sense at all

Sense at all
Sense at all

"History"
 
Dear friends of this academy
Oh, Romeo is bleeding to death..
To see a friend bleed to death
What for, some kind of metaphor
That I can't see..
So I'll drink until I see it.

This sky will make me sick,
So I'll give up on you,
I'll give up on this.
This sky will make me sick,
So I'll give up on this,
I'll give up on you.

[Chorus]
Archers in your arches,
Raise your fingers for one last salute..
And bleed this skyline dry
Your history is mine.

So you want to hold me up and bring me down?
Yes, you want to hold me up and break me down

I don't care for your sweet scent
Or the way you want me more than I want you.
I don't care for your sweet scent
Or the way you want me more than I want you.

[Chorus x2]

It's all mine.. it's all mine.. it's all mine...

[Chorus x2]

"Recovery"
 
Scared to open up these eyes
See just what's inside
This tree is dead and cold
This house is not a home
Help me now
I'm dying here all alone

This is not a new game
So don't think that you know

Casually I confide
Awake and paralyzed
Forever in one word
Forever is the longest time
It's the only cure
I'm not sure I'll survive

This is not a new game
So don't think that you know

Can you see these blood shot eyes?
And can you see...

That my strength is failing
And I can't go on this way
And this heart's not beating
It just doesn't seem the same
And my strength is failing
And I can't go on this way
Can't go on this way

Promise me, promise me
Promise me, you will not ever leave
Promise me, you will not ever leave
Promise me, you will not ever leave
Promise me, you will not ever leave
You will not ever leave

And my strength is failing
And I can't go on this way
And this heart's not beating
It just doesn't seem the same
It doesn't seem the same
It just doesn't seem the same