- Awkward Conversations
Awkward situations followed by awkward hugs
And these bullshit conversations take what little air is left inside my
Nothing but I’m writing like I’ve had too much to drink
Letting go of what we've lost, come to terms with how you think of me
And I love what you've done
You’ve cut off ties, you turned and run
You built me up to take your fall
- Bae
When you realize the crew you roll with
Is actually what makes you anxious
When you realize the hand you hold with
Is opposite the hand it's supposed to be
Bae, bae, bae, bae
I gotta move my car, I gotta move your couch
- Bathtub
I am washing my hair with soap
I am sitting down in the shower
It is this dirty type of clean
That keeps me trapped in here for hours?
Still I scrub and scrub until my body bleeds,
Convince myself I am coming clean.
Forget and ignore who I used to be,
- Be Nice To Me
"Be Nice To Me"
I got boulders on my shoulders
Collar bones begin to crack
There is very little left of me and it's never coming back
There are certain things you ask of me
There are certain things I lack
The beginning, we were winning
- Burn Harvard Burn
Behind your anguish
Pools a passionate rage
Behind your rage
Is even more rage
Are you ready to step
Inside of the cage?
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
- Cought It Out
It’s snowing right now, I wish it was summer
But when the summer rolls around, I wish I was freezin’
They don’t call me Mister Green Side for no reason
When they do I pause and cough it out
I cough it out. [x3]
I cough it out
- Flying Model Rockets
Flying model rockets own the sky in the backyard next to mine
I get these strange phone calls at night with no one on the other side
My brother's friend explains to me with breathless words and bloody knees
It's a black eyed trust, respect with pain.
A love I'll learn when I've been through the same.
But there's nothing in California that you could not learn to hate here
The questions will all still be waiting for you, the answers will only be less clear
- Funny You Should Ask
The good thing about this cast is I can still hold a knife
So if you ever twist my arm again I'll be sure to put up a fight
You see I just don't wanna do the things that you want me to do
But I'm a sucker, so I do them cause I am still in love with you
She said
"Honey, y'gotta learn that love is simple just like mud.
If you play the dirt, then I'll play the water. All we gotta do is touch"
- Handcuffs
See I was in handcuffs, no one stood by my side.
No one to help me prove my charge was a lie.
Some prosecutor screams I’m a terrible guy.
That I’m guilty and I deserve 25 to life.
See I lost my temper and the cop lost his cool.
A whole can of pepper spray, man makin’ me look like a fool.
And he started stompin’ as I was gaspin’ for air.
- I Think Your Nose is Bleeding
Well every once in awhile she’ll find my number in her phone and we’ll talk for hours
She’ll tell me things I would have never known about when we were together
She’s saying sorry, it’s just such a long walk home
So she’s coming over cause it’s better than being alone
Well I will move to the city and I will sleep on a bench in central park
And I will make new friends and we can keep all our things in shopping carts
And when the cops come to find me new friends will hide me
- I Wrote a Book
Will you come over tonight? I need some inspiration for my story.
I know it's late but if you come now we'll be done by two or three in the morning.
And as you're laying on your back, I will realize we've gone too fast.
And then I'll stop writing the book because the book, I realized, was boring.
And when your parents find out where you've been
They will be singing, shame, shame, shame on you.
Shame on you.
- If it Were Up to Me
I need the summer so bad or the windows down
On the ride home even though it's cold out
I need to cut my hair I need to make new friends
I need to lie about the things that make me who I am
I need my skin burned red I don’t care how it hurts
I need to cut the sleeves off all of my old t-shirts
- If You're Happy
I think you think I'm someone else
Maybe it's me and you've been myself
And this is only a cry for help
You said watch me fade away.
She's cleaning out the closets
Because there's not much more to keep
Well I am laying on the bathroom floor
- Jim Bogart
I would sleep better on your floor, than I would ever in my bed.
And if your carpet makes my face itch, it’d still be heaven in my head.
I would play more than just four chords, if it’s a song that you might like.
And I am not very good, but I would practice every night.
And she said, “Sometimes, things just don’t work out the way you want them to.
Sometimes, things just don’t work out. It’s better me than it is you.
Sometimes, things just don’t work out the way they should flow through.
- Laugh Till I Cry
I guess I just don’t get your plan
Are you trying to smash my world up
I am trying to understand
You say you know me not truly who I am
You stress the modifier while I stress the adjective
But you’re in your car
And I’m on my motorcycle
- leaf pile
I wanna be that person again
The one I am right now, again
For the rest of my life, again
I wanna lay down in the leaf pile, but I can't
I wanna be that person again
The one that I am right now, again
For the rest of my life, again
I wanna lay down in the leaf pile
- Legit Tattoo Gun
My head has thoughts
What a ridiculous place to start
She said, well, how about my chest
Or, more specifically, my heart
Whenever I'm alone or feeling lonely
I pretend I can play the drums
- Lipstick Covered Magnet
"Lipstick Covered Magnet"
Love how you disagree
to tell me that I'm wrong
when every bone is healed
and every stitch is sewn.
I've got some words to share
- lone star
Goodbye future, once so bright, meet my pregnant girlfriend
Watch my bank account run dry, 437 dollars spent
To put things back to the way they used to be
Still, I woulda spent so much more
But 437 dollars somehow shakes all responsibility
But it's not easy
She looks me dead in the eyes and says "hey Brian
- Lonely Eyes
You've got me stuck to where I'm sitting
Looking at your eyes
Then I know I'm so pathetic
I wouldn't move to save my life
They tell me that you're lonely
It's no surprise
When you walk around all day wearing those
Lonely lonely lonely lonely eyes
- Looking like you just woke up
I love to wait.
I love girls with ex-boyfriends that they aren't really over.
and I love new mexico.
I love places I've never been.
I love the idea of places I'll never go.
so I’m swing like a fist fight
concrete-colored basement,
- Lover Boy
Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa
How was I supposed to know I'd feel it like that?
How was I supposed to know I'd need it so bad?
And now I'm acting like a tough guy
Tryna be cool, cool, cool
- Maps
There is a map in my room on the wall of my room and I've got big, big plans
But I can see them slipping through almost feel them slipping through
The palms of my sweaty hands
And I move slow,
Just slow enough to make you uncomfortable
You say I hate you, you mean it
- McDonalds, Suicide and Make Up
[Verse 1]
Your cousin told me right there in front of everyone
That you blew your brains out
When I asked how you'd been
He said you blew your brains out
So you could imagine the shock
Upon seeing you here
Working at the McDonalds
- Peach
You are my peach, you are my plum
You are my earth, you are my sun
I love your fingers, I love your toes
The back of your head, the tip of your nose
And you are the reason I'm smiling when there is nothing to smile about
Yeah, you are the reason I'm smiling when there is nothing to smile about
- Push-Ups
Don't mind me I'm only
Trying to get used to
That awkward inside that comes with standing next to you
They'll ask me are you okay
And I will say yes and walk away
But I've been reading all the signs
And it's not looking good for me
Cause I will never have the balls and I will never grow the nerve
- Raining
It was raining when they let me out of the hospital
I had nothing in my pockets
Still had the bracelet on
I still had the bracelet on, oh yeah
You and me get the chills at the same time
Who would have thought?
The exact vibrations
- Santa Monica
Sometimes I cry when I get sad
I guess it's true what they say
Emotional baby boy, emotional man
Emotional baby boy, emotional man, emotional man, emotional man
I am emotional
I wish we were forever lying on the Santa Monica beach
Drinking Tecate 24oz underneath the stars
- So Sick We're Dead
She's grinding her teeth
It's giving her headaches
Every breath that her words take
But she knows, that everyone of them have got to come out
Or they won't forgive her
The words will mean nothing
The only thing they need is for the words to come out
- Somebody Else
Two times in one night, two nights in a row
It's fine, I'm alright, but I will never let it go
It's cool, it's just getting old, it was never personal
Two times in one night, two nights in a row
And I have no idea what you're going through, so I won't act like I do
The silence in between the songs, it catches everyone off guard
- Summer Shandy
You caught me doing push-ups in the morning before everyone else woke up
And then the c-dog busted in he was out all night getting chased by cops
And in this moment, I was pretty pleased with the person I was pretending to be
I got them bad boy blues, baby
I got them bad boy blues, baby
When she asks me why they call me Brian instead of Steven
- Swear To God The Devil Made Me Do It
Space age crystals
I've been growing 'em since I was a kid
Like my mother plays the lottery
'Til I get rich some other way or she wins it
And there is someone out there just like me probably keeping to themselves
I know CPR, I know mouth-to-mouth
When your legs give in and your lungs give out
- Swimming Pool
There's comfort in the bottom of a swimming pool
I'm holding my breath for you
There's no doubt in my mind that if you could then you would try
To crack my ribcage open and pull my heart right through
There's comfort in the bottom of a swimming pool
I'm holding my breath for you
There's no doubt in my mind that if you could then you would try
- Tattooed Tears
You should know that you don't kick if you don't have to
All's fair in love and war, I know, don't get me wrong
But if you listen to your heart it may mislead you
Lord I should know, I've felt lost for so long
You had me go from what I thought was sliding carefully
To seriously slipping out of control
- Tattooed Tears.
You should know that you don't kick if you don't have to
All’s fair in love and war, I know, don't get me wrong
But if you listen to your heart it may mislead you
Lord I should know, I’ve felt lost for so long
You had me go from what I though was smart and careful
To seriously slipping out of control
- The Bass Is Too Loud
The bass is too loud, the bass is too loud
The bass is too loud, the walls are too thin, it’s making it hard to sleep
While God helps those who help themselves, he ain’t done much for me
And our relationship is changing, it’s not such a bad thing, it’s just not what it used to be
And it doesn’t make it better when I save up all my money, then you tell me you could get it for free
Just stop, it doesn’t even matter anymore
'Cause it is darker than black, and it’s lighter than white
- The Beers
There's beer in coffee mugs, water bottles and soda cups
And it's clear as the windows I came through
That you are in one of those moods and I am in one of them, too
And it's hard to communicate anything
And I will remember that summer
As the summer I was taking steroids
Because you like a man with muscles
- The Boredom Is the Reason I Started Swimming, Its Also the Reason I Started Sinking
Foreign countries,
Hardwood floors and trying to sleep,
Foreign Languages,
On all three channels of TV.
I don't want no drama or baggage,
Don't tell me complicated stories
About who you used to be but are different
- The Cops
The end of the world makes me nervous
'cause I, for one, have not found god yet.
Or someone to fall in love with
Rob a bank, shoot a cop with.
I watched this girl being choked
By a man she hardly knows
In a room full of strangers
- the feud
I was so bored before I met you
But then I met you and everything changed
And now it seems I could be amused at the littlest things
If I told my truth
She says you, you should admit it
She knows I, I probably won't
That he's the sound you want now
- The Wrong Way
I'll paint my face on the wall in your bedroom.
I would say anything if it would make you happy.
I'm tripping acid while you're tripping mushrooms.
I'm falling through the floors and walking on the ceiling.
I'll paint my face on a wall in your bedroom.
I'm stabbing at the thoughts only to see what's bleeding
While I'm tripping acid and you're tripping mushrooms.
The walls are black and moving, but you tell them I'm happy.
- Tighten Up
I'm from the future
thats the last thing
they'll hear me say
as i begin to
uncontrollably shake
so please allow me
to shed some darkness
step into the summer
- Twin Size Mattress
This is for the lions living in the wiry broke down frames of my friends bodies.
When the flood water comes, it ain't gonna be clear. It’s gonna look like mud.
But I will help you swim.
I will help you swim.
I'm gonna help you swim.
This is for the snakes and the people they bite;
For the friends I’ve made; for the sleepless nights;
- West Virginia
Is it raining where you are?
The only thing I could think to ask
But nothing ever hurt so bad
As the “no” that you said back
But ain’t that the truth, man
Those are just facts
The farther you go from where you start
The harder it is to get back
- Wolfman
[Verse 1]
Deep and slow, that's how it goes
If anyone asks, yeah I already know
Cause I got this pain in my chest
Every time I swim to consciousness
And I misspelled every word perfectly
Every mistake made was purposely
And my head is pounding to the beat of my heart
- You Wouldn't Be Laughing.
I made a list of all the friends that I never wanna see again,
And I am sorry but your name fell below every single one of them,
High school is over and I've wasted too much time,
Making sentences of words just because they rhyme,
You wouldn't smile if you knew how I felt about every single one of you
So stop please I want to go home
But if I do I know these guys aren't gonna leave you alone