THE INVITATION

it's happening again
but this time you know it isn't real
you know it's a mistake
but mistakes are all you ever get
once you thought you'd found a way
but now you know you should have known
nothing ever rhymes
and you know you should have just gone home

the darkness around the corner wore her name
a name that you knew well
you knew that she was trouble
and you knew you just could not leave it alone
and when the invitation came
you knew it was an introduction to the end
so this is how it ends
oh well i guess you should have guessed

it's happening again
but this time there's violence in your eyes
violent and strange they seem to stray
as if they're always on their way
but as they see her shadow edging around the corner
they just don't know where to go
nothing ever rhymes
and you know you should just go home

cold, when you see that girl
you get cold when you see that girl
you thought that your luck would turn
you always thought that your luck would turn
never thought that you'd lose your nerve
you never thought that you'd lose your nerve
but you get cold when you see that girl
you get cold when you see that girl

THE PASSAGE

we learn our way from watching the sun
we find our way by watching the sun

can't come with you when you go south (x2)
come back 'til spring (x2)

i'll have to stay behind this year
i'll try to stick it out this year

can't come with you when you go south (x2)
come back 'til spring (x2)

THE RAGING SUN

These are hands made to dig holes
One for every waiting soul
These are eyes made to deceive
To serve the lie we're made to believe

This is what I got for staring the sun in the eye

I will surely be condemned
For this sin I will go to hell
For the warning that I never got
For my dreams of a raging sun

This is what I got for staring the sun in the eye

Why is the sun so bright?
Why is the sun so bright?
Why is the sun so bright?
Why is the sun so bright?

Here it comes, full war, a fucking chronic alarm
I

THE SMOKE WILL LEAD YOU HOME

By God i'm tired
I'm tired and i want to go home
She's warm, like a fire
The smoke will lead you home

My hands are tied
Tied to the evil I know
It's wild, like fire
The smoke will lead you home

My heart has tired
Tired from the bag of stone
She's wild, like fire
The smoke will lead you home

THIEVES IN THE PALACE

there, in the dust at my feet something flickered in
the heat and then just like that it disappeared
last night the mutiny spread
the cops were on the run, the kids were out for blood

you can see for miles but there's not a thing in sight
not one sign of life

i've tried but i can't feel a thing
could this really be right?
someday i will stop trying
fights for imitations of life
everything is predefined
no surprises, no defiance

you can see for miles but there's not a thing in sight
not one sign of life
but you can see for miles
for miles

the pool was ours for just a fraction of time in the
cover of night
flashlights tight in our shaking hands, too rare to die

weekend comes in the wastelands
you're always, or at least sometimes, on my mind
disillusion tears new holes, miles wide, through an
already empty space
coming to at the waters edge
i feel the waves embrace

you look so handsome on my bathroom floor, like the
blond side of life
the scent of gasoline still fresh on your hands in the
cold neon light

THIN LINES

You know love for love knew of the blood on your shoes
For sure is that blood is what love is

The black dust kicked up by your black shoes in my black
heart
has choked up the thin lines that carry love

Briefly the sky wears thin lines
White trails like lifelines

TRACE BACK THE PARTICLE TRACK

I chocked, woke up high
The morning drenched in light, in fire

My mind hurled and turned
My thoughts coiled and curled like wires

Mary, I saw the eye
it rearranged my mind
I saw the eye

It cut the logic line
I reassessed the world that i had defined

How long? Where and why?
Whatever this is it's alright tonight

Mary, I saw the eye
It rearranged my mind
I saw the eye

WEATHER ISLAND

i can't, i can't understand
how the winter can stay this long and so cold
it gets worse it only gets worse
and the weaker i get the deeper it bites

everything is on ice it's so cold outside
everything is on ice it's so cold outside

thinking it's beginning to sink in
i guess you can turn into whatever you like
then what have i become?
a monster scary only to itself?

everything is on ice it's so cold outside
everything is on ice it's so cold outside
tonight i'll try to go outside
i'll close my eyes and hope i got it all right
and everything, everything will change
and someday i'll trick myself, forget all this, rewrite
the whole thing and the ice will melt and the winter will
end and then I'll be ok and then it will, then it will be
spring again for a while

YELLOW LIGHTS MEAN SLOW DOWN

the night is calm so lets go for a ride
it's these simple things that keep us alive
left the children sleeping for all i know now
let the neons show us the way to go

the night is calm but a cold wind blows
living is dying sometimes i know
there's a bad unkind thing in the air tonight
but we let the neons show us where to hide

alright