"Vampire Money"
 
[Gerard:] Well, are you ready, Ray?
[Ray:] Yeah
[Gerard:] How about you, Frank?
[Frank:] Oh I'm there, baby
[Gerard:] How about you, Mikey?
[Mikey:] Fucking ready...
[Gerard:] Well, I think I'm alright
1-2-3-4

3-2-1 We came to fuck
Everybody party till the gasman comes
Sparkle like Bowie in the morning sun
And get a parking violation on La Brea till it's done
Hair Back, collar up, jet black, so cool!
Sing it like the kids that are mean to you, c'mon

When you wanna be a movie star (c'mon!)
Play the game and take a band real far (c'mon!)
Play it right and drive a Volvo car (c'mon!)
Pick a fight at an airport bar
The kids don't care if you're all right, honey
Pills don't help but it sure is funny
Gimme gimme some of that vampire money c'mon!

Oh you look like somebody I used to know

Well 3-2-1 we got the bomb
Everybody hurry till the tax man comes
Glimmer like Bolan in the morning sun
And get your finger on the trigger
Tap the barrel of a gun
Hair back, motherfucker! Jet black, so cool
Sing it like the kids that are mean to you (c'mon!)

When you wanna be a movie star (c'mon!)
Play the game and take a band real far (c'mon!)
Play it right and drive a Volvo car (c'mon!)
Pick a fight at an airport bar
The kids don't care if you're all right, honey
Pills don't help but it sure is funny
Gimme gimme some of that vampire money c'mon!

Oh fuck yeah
That's right
1-2-3-4

Well 3-2-1 we came to fuck
Everybody party till the gasman comes
Sparkle like Bowie in the morning sun
And get a parking violation on La Brea till it's done
Hair back, collar up, jet black, so cool!
Sing it like the kids that are mean to you (c'mon!)

When you wanna be a movie star (c'mon!)
Play the game and take a band real far (c'mon!)
Play it right and drive a Volvo car (c'mon!)
Pick a fight at an airport bar
The kids don't care if you're all right, honey
Pills don't help but it sure is funny
Gimme gimme some of that vampire money c'mon! c'mon!

(I sure like the way...
I sure like the way you look in that...
I sure like the way you look in that...
I sure like the way you look in that...
There! There! There!
Oh, I'm such an idiot!
Our music is way too loud!
Here, let me turn it down a little bit!
Sorry!)

"We Don't Need Another Song About California"
 
Give up and give it a shot
Dedication, to the places that you never need to hide
Occupations, the opportunity to see yourself in lights

And all the city fires and the tabloid lies
And the television guides
For the missions and the boulevards
And the way it is when money’s all you got

Stop and stare
At the accidents and stars that bore you
We don’t dare singing another song for California
Anywhere
Where the city lights are hopeless for you
We don’t care, I needed another song for California

Shut up and give me a shot
On vacation, to the places that you never want to die
On the station, everybody hears but no one needs to try

On the telephone, on the methadone
Every minute that you scrape
For the errant scars and the dying stars
Every second that you take to fake your life

Stop and stare
At the accidents and stars that bore you
We don’t dare singing another song for California
Anywhere
Where the city lights are hopeless for you
We don’t care, I needed another song for California

Stop and stare
At the accidents and stars that bore you
We don’t dare singing another song for California
Anywhere
Where the city lights are hopeless for you
We don’t care, I needed another song for California

"Zero Percent"
 
I don't like being alone
Burn up these streets
Turn up the stereo
Synthetic animals like me never have a home
I'm not the one you will be walking through
And if you kill him for me
Well, then I'll kill him for you

I'll meet you down at the metro station
'Cause this motherfucker's got my motivation
Now I'm gonna show you how much I love you
Oh, my magazine is full of ugly things

Don't need this system
We can kill them if we try
Shoot up everything we see
And we'll find it on the wall
I hope you die

Manipulation just to form an alibi
You're the prototype for me
And if heaven wants to take us they can try

Oh ah

Sometimes I sleep
I like to talk about television
Oh, I'm so glad right now
Heartbreak, heartbeats
Got the eyes on you
And give them something to say
'Cause I got something to prove

I don't have much of an education
But I got a knack for elimination
Now turn up the dial
Hit the tyres that screech

Let's go
Right here
Right now
This is the bonus stage!

Don't need this system
We can kill them if we try
Shoot up everything we see
And we'll find it on the wall
I hope you die

Manipulation
Just to form an alibi
You're the prototype for me
And if heaven wants to take us they can try

I want annihilation
A new design for X and Y
I want your violation
Deflect the system with our mind
Exterminate the dream
Extermination you can buy

Don't need this system
We can kill them if we try
Shoot up everything we see
And we'll find it on the wall
I hope you die

Manipulation just to form an alibi
You're the prototype for me
And if heaven wants to take us they can...

I hate you
Kill everybody!

I hate you
Kill everybody!

Conventional Weapons (2013)



1.   Boy Division
2.   Tomorrow's Money
3.   AMBULANCE
4.   Gun.
5.   The World Is Ugly
6.   The Light Behind Your Eyes
7.   Kiss The Ring
8.   Make Room!!!!
9.   Surrender The Night
10.   Burn Bright

"Boy Division"
 
If all my enemies threw a party,
Would you light the candles,
Would you drink the wine,
While watching television,
Watch the animals and all the tragedies,
And sell your arteries and buy my casket gown

It better be black,
It better be tight,
It better be just my size,
I'm stalking these metro malls,
And airport halls,
And all these schoolgirls say

I'm not asking,
You're not telling,
He's not dead, he only looks that

Way out nowhere, take me out there,
Far away and save me from my
Self destruction, hopeless for ya,
Sing a song for California.

I buy my enemies rope to hang me
And the knives to gang me
You can watch them stab me
On your television
Stalk the halls
Because the bathroom walls
Would have a lot to say
About the lines you're putting down

It better be white,
It better be cut,
It better be just my size.
Until my capillaries
Burst from boredom,
I'll be waiting.

I'm not laughing,
You're not joking,
I'm not dead I only dress that

Way out nowhere, take me out there,
Far away and save me from my
Self destruction, hopeless for ya,
Sing a song for California.

Wherever you are,
Wherever you are,
Whoever you are,
Whoever you are!

La la la la!

'Cause we got the bomb, we got the bomb, lets go!
We got the bomb, we got the bomb, lets go!
We got the bomb, we got the bomb, lets go!
We got the bomb, we got the bomb, lets go!

Way out nowhere, take me out there,
Far away and save me from my
Self destruction, hopeless for ya,
Say a prayer for California.

We got the bomb!
We got the bomb!
We got the bomb!
We got the bomb!

"Tomorrow's Money"
 
Fell in love with a vampire
You want to get it for free
Say hello to the brush fire
You want to take it from me
I'm gonna take it from you

Say hello to the good times
Burning up in the sun
You're sitting back on an empire
While the world lays back
Puts a kid behind that gun

If we crash this time
They got machines to keep us alive
When the mixtape lies
Choke down the words with no meaning
I stopped bleeding 3 years ago
While you keep screaming for revolution
Me and my surgeons and my street walking friends
We got no heroes cuz our heroes are dead

Say hello to the program
They're gonna give it for free
Hook up the vein to the antibodies
And cut it with the disease
I'm gonna give it to you

Put on your smile for the good times
You're loaded up with the fame
You're dressing up like a virus
But the words get lost when we all look the same

If we crash this time
They got machines to keep us alive
When the mixtape lies
Choke down the words with no meaning
I stopped bleeding 3 years ago
While you keep screaming for revolution
Me and my surgeons and my street walking friends
We got no heroes cuz our heroes are dead

You fell in love with a vampire
A torch-song for the empire
So say hello to the brush-fire
The microphones got a tap-wire

If we crash this time
They got machines to keep us alive
While the army wives
Choke down a war with no meaning
I stopped bleeding 3 years ago
While you keep screaming for revolution
Because rebellions not a t-shirt you sell
You keep your money and I'll see you in hell

"AMBULANCE"
 
You don’t know a thing about this life
And we are up for everything it takes to prove we’re not the same as them
And we will wear our masks again out after dark
‘Cause we are up for everything it takes and we are not the same

‘Cause we are not afraid
And we are not ashamed

And if you save my life
I’ll be the one who drives you home tonight
And if I ever let you down
I’ll be the one who drives you home tonight

Remember, once you walked this kind of life
Quietly I’ll sleep behind the wheel and passing every face you see the first time
Singing every piece as you walk by
Proving that with all of my mistakes that we are not the same

‘Cause we are not the same
And we are all to blame

And if you save my life
I’ll be the one who drives you home tonight
And if they ever let you down
I’ll be the one who drives you home tonight
You home tonight

It's dropping you down
It's dropping you down
It's dropping you down
It's dropping you down
It's dropping you down
'Cause it's dropping you down
And it's dropping you
Dropping you down

You don’t know a thing about this life
And you don’t know a thing about this life
And you don’t know a thing about this life
‘Cause you don’t know a thing about me
You don’t know a thing

And if you save my life
I’ll be the one who drives you home tonight
If they ever let you down
I’ll be the one who drives you home tonight
You home tonight
Drives you home tonight

'Cause it's dropping you down
'Cause it's dropping you down
'Cause it's dropping you down
'Cause it's dropping you
Dropping you
Dropping you down

"Gun."
 
(We could get somebody else, but we want someone like you) [x6]

Well, as soon as I get my gun
I’ll point it out the window at the setting sun
As soon as I get my gun
I’ll tell you all about it when you fall in love
As soon as I get my gun
I’m gonna make a call
Well as soon as I get my gun
Get my gun

Well the uniform isn’t fun
They make it like we give ‘em out to anyone
As soon as we get your gun
A pocket full of pistol is a lot of fun
It’s just the kind of place we run
Because the government
Because the government wants your gun
Wants your gun, whoa

Well, if I’m old enough to die for your mistakes
Then let’s go
Can we bleed enough to fill up what the engine takes?
We don’t know
But if you’re watching, up above
They’re teaching me to kill
Who’s teaching me to love?
Now baby
Isn’t it crazy?

Well as soon as I’ve got my gun (as soon as I’ve got my gun)
Put me on vacation underneath the sun
As soon as I get my gun (as soon as I’ve got my gun)
I’ll holler and flash it at my belting blood
Out on the sand
We’re like a hold from a IED
‘Cause I’m holding up my gun
Holding up my gun
Yeah

And if I’m old enough to die for your mistakes
Then let’s go
Can we bleed enough to fill up what the engine takes?
We don’t know
And if you’re watching, up above
They’re teaching me to kill
Who’s teaching me to love?
Now baby
Isn’t it crazy?

"The World Is Ugly"
 
These are the eyes and the lies of the taken
These are their hearts but their hearts don’t beat like ours
They burn ‘cause they are all afraid
For every one of us, there’s an army of them
But you’ll never fight alone
‘Cause I wanted you to know

That the world is ugly
But you’re beautiful to me
Well are you thinking of me now (now)

These are the nights and the lights that we fade in
These are the words but the words aren’t coming out
They burn ‘cause they are hard to say
For every failing sun, there’s a morning after
Though I’m empty when you go
I just wanted you to know

That the world is ugly
But you’re beautiful to me
Are you thinking of me
Like I’m thinking of you
I would say I’m sorry, though
Though I really need to go
I just wanted you to know

I wanted you to know
I wanted you to know
I’m thinking of you every night, every day

These are the eyes and the lies of the taken
These are their hearts but their hearts don’t beat like ours
They burn ‘cause they are all afraid
When mine beats twice as hard

‘Cause the world is ugly
But you’re beautiful to me
Are you thinking of me
Like I’m thinking of you
I would say I’m sorry, though
Though I really need to go
I just wanted you to know
That the world is ugly (I just wanted you to know)
But you’re beautiful to me (I just wanted you to know)
Are you thinking of me

Stop your crying, helpless feeling
Dry your eyes and start believing
There’s one thing they’ll never take from you

(And we’ll never be the same
Like ghosts in the snow
Like ghosts in the sun)

"The Light Behind Your Eyes"
 
So long to all of my friends,
Everyone of them met tragic ends,
With every passing day,
I’d be lying if I didn’t say,
That I miss them all tonight

And if they only knew,
What I would say,
If I could be with you tonight
I would sing you to sleep,
Never let them take the light behind your eyes
One day, I’ll lose this fight
As we fade in the dark,
Just remember you will always burn as bright

Be strong, and hold my hand.
Time becomes for us, you’ll understand.
We’ll say goodbye today,
And we’re sorry how it ends this way
If you promise not to cry,
Then I'll tell you just what I would say.

If I could be with you tonight,
I would sing you to sleep,
Never let them take the light behind your eyes.
I’ll fail and lose this fight,
Never fade in the dark
Just remember that you will always burn as bright.

The light behind your eyes…
The light behind your

Sometimes we must grow stronger
And, you can’t be stronger in the dark.
When I’m here, no longer,
You must be stronger and

If I could be with you tonight,
I would sing you to sleep,
Never let them take the light behind your eyes.
I failed and lost this fight,
Never fade in the dark,
Just remember you will always burn as bright.

The light behind your eyes…
The light behind your eyes…
The light behind your eyes…
The light behind your eyes…

The light behind your eyes…
The light behind your eyes…
The light behind your eyes…
The light behind your eyes…
The light behind your eyes…
The light behind your eyes…