Short Songs (2012)



1.   Sick As Your Secrets
2.   Sin & Redemption
3.   SOS
4.   Brookfield
5.   La Marseillaise
6.   World On Fire
7.   Sleep Around
8.   My Miserable Life
9.   Truth & Temptation
10.   One Last Dance
11.   See Ya Bill
12.   Short Songs
13.   236 E. Broadway
14.   Good Intentions
15.   Destination: Blood!
16.   Coffee Mug
17.   xOn Our Kneesx
18.   Scenes From Parisian Life
19.   It's My Job To Keep Punk Rock Elite
20.   Quit Your Job
21.   The Ballad Of Wilhelm Fink
22.   You Gotta Stay Positive

"Sick As Your Secrets"
 
You're only sick as your secrets,
How many times did you disappear?
You're only good as your word,
How much longer can I believe?
I've buried bodies myself,
A hundred graves, a hundred ghosts
I see myself in you,
How much longer,
How much longer can I believe?

You paint a picture
in my head of where I've been
You write the scripture,
I hang on every word you say
As sick as thieves (As sick as thieves)
we huddle in you call the plays
How sick are we? (How sick are we?)
How sick are we now?

How can I believe?

"Sin & Redemption"
 
We kill time with sleep and heal
the heartache of thousands,
at the cost of ruining ourselves
Take it for granted.
We hone skills of cons and steal
the same hearts and bodies.
On our knees we're begging to be by ourselves,
but only in our heads.
Only in our heads.

You're laying down in front of me,
completely unaware I'm fantasizing
about everything I want,
and everything you're not,
we're screaming at the top of our lungs
but only in our heads.
Only in our heads.
Only in our heads.

"SOS"
 
And I can't protect this
anymore.
I can't reflect this light,
that you shine on me.
So I'm giving up, not giving in.
I'm selling out, not selling in.
Judge me for what I've done not who I am.
So take your shot now, so take your swing.
Start a fight because you know you will win.
A perfect storm touches down in your head.
You think you've found where the bodies are buried,
but you could never dig them up.
This is forever.
So take your shot now, so take your swing.
Start a fight because you know you will win.
You can't expect me to forget.
This is forever. This is forever.
You can't expect me to just accept the lies you've said.
This is forever. This is forever.
I won't be here for you with forgiveness.
We can't recover.
So take your shot now, so take your swing.
Start a fight because you know you will win.
So take your shot now, so take your swing.
Start a fight because you know....you will win.

"Brookfield"
 
A 26 ounce promise
The bottle still lays there
We'll make a right on Brookfield
Never took anyone else here
The days I sit for hours
This night I tried to throw these rocks in to
This dirty lake that's home

You standing in my backyard
Your hands up in the air
Calling out my name one hundred times but I'm not there
I think you telling secrets
To people who don't care enough to know
Why I'm so scared

I'll just sit in silence
Waves the only sounds
A sailboat divide the clouds that cover this whole town
So if it really makes no difference
I'll just see you around
And if it doesn't matter
I'll stay here til the sun goes down

I'm standing in your front yard
My hands aren't in the air
And I don't say a word you know exactly why I'm here
A 26 ounce promise
The bottle still lays there
So bury me on Brookfield
And then I won't be scared

"La Marseillaise"
 
Arise!
The children of the fatherland.
The day of glory as arrived.
Against us tyranny.
The bloody standard is raised.
The bloody standard is raised.
Do you hear in the countryside
the roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They're coming right into our arms to cut the throats
of our sons and our women.
In arms, citizens!
Form your battalions!
Let us march! (Let us march!)
Let this impure blood water our furrows.

"World On Fire"
 
I let it go and watched it fly,
So far away out of my sight.
I trusted in your eagle eye.
I let it go. I let it go.

I dug a hole into the ground.
I hid my chest, it won't be found.
I took a breath without a sound.
I let it go. I let it go.

Is this the start or end?

I've been told a thousand times it's good for me (good for me),
But I don't believe it.
I'm being warned by everyone that I meet (that I meet),
That I've set my world on fire.

Right now.
What it all comes down to.

I need to see it in your eyes (I need to see it in your eyes),
And never doubt it.
I need to know (Can you believe in something?).

I've been told a thousand times it's good for me (good for me),
But I don't believe it.
I'm being warned by everyone that I meet (that I meet),
That I've set my world on fire.

"Sleep Around"
 
Start with the best intent you've earned it.
Promise was made not kept you've burned it.
Sleep around, you sleep around.

He's driving around his stomach churning.
Peering in bedroom windows searching.
Sleep around, you sleep around with me.

A lie and excuse will make no difference.

And the shades don't ever make it down.
It's obvious, we're obvious, we walk and talk so loud.
In the morning we lock our bodies,
sleep around, we sleep around in red.

We'll safely stash away the guilt again.

"My Miserable Life"
 
It’s been four years of silence,
But there’s still so much left to say.
This dirty lens remembers,
I’ve tried to clean it and hide it away,
But it won’t forget you.

And if this picture tells the story of my miserable life,
Would you burn it for me or hang it up for everyone to see?
A thousand words judge me

"Truth & Temptation"
 
You can't stop it now,
it's already in motion.
Don't try to fight it now,
you're already dead again
She's taken over,
snuffed out the life you had,
the life you had.
It's coming down to this,
another year you can't have back.
You're a little older,
your lies a little bolder.
You've tried to change,
but the secret caged inside
won't escape you.
You should have stopped and told her,
your heart had gotten colder,
and make the change.
It's locked way deep inside,
you can't stop it now.