Say Anything Album

Here comes the sadness that I miss so much
That lonely aching comes from every touch
I’ve grown accustomed to the grays and blacks
Because they’re always coming back
Sit down for supper, won’t you dine with me
Or can’t you handle seeing all I see
I’ve grown to colorblind to cease my bitching
And I’ve grown to love the pain
And I move too slow and I think too fast and the first rainbow I see will be the last.
Here comes a view I’ve seen a million times
Here comes a boring song with thoughtless rhymes
I know you’re sick of me so tell me here
Because you could have be the one
To make it all disappear.

Meet me where the city turns to trees and nothing comes for free
Lets see just how imposing you can be to me
So far from road-marks or homecoming games
Go on and drop your fucking names
Try to shift the blame
Watch me take a crowbar
To your brand new car
Without the things your daddy bought you
You won't get very far
Without your plastic friends
And your odds and ends
Would you still be a star?
The idle rich cocooned away from earth
You're cynical from birth
Tell me what you think your pride is worth to me
When all that you can do is call me gay
I'm sorry I don't swing that way
And even if I did I'd still say
Do you think I'm scared to play your games?
Battle is my middle name
I hope that you're insured

If I was a fly
And I had a day left ‘til I died
I would lay down til tomorrow
You’re clipping my wings
I try to win you back with all my words that you know mean nothing
You could have believed in me
And I saw a tear on a rose and I clipped it off for you
As I gag on my guts ‘cause I’m watching you give up
I’m a tear in the clock as you walk away
I can almost taste the glaze on your lips
Smacking away into the night
They say at least he’s my friend
And he’ll treat you kindly in the end
Call me bitter but I’m brimming with hate for both of you
A film if playing in my head of you fornicating in his bed
The satin sheets are ruby red like your nails that scarred my back
And I saw a tear on a rose so I swept it off for you
I’m a fly on a wall and I’m watching you give up
I’m a tear in the clock as you walk away
I can almost see a shade of your blue eyes
Fading away into the night
You never believed in me
But I will believe in me
Because now I take a match to the rose that I gave, my love, to you
Won’t forgive
Won’t forget
And the rage will lift me up
I hope you choke on his tongue
As I walk away I will not watch his hands as they deftly pull you away
Into the night

They're turning away from me
Backstabbing places they roam
My friends are just neighbors
That steal from me when I'm not home
I am so damn trusting I do not see their malice
In this blackened wonderland I am the darkened Alice
Sometimes I can't fathom why everyone's so two faced
So I'll just backstab them back to get them back in their place

All my friends are enemies
And they just turn their backs to my face
their actions biting me
And all my friends are enemies
So I'm always on my own

I'm the ball, they're batters
They're climbing social ladders
I'm left at the bottom
On my goodness
they're fatter
Sometimes I remember the days when friends were loyal
Instead they backstab me
I'm falling down so royally

All my friends are enemies
And they just turn their backs to my face
their actions biting me
And all my friends are enemies
So I'm always on my own

Always on my own

All my friends are enemies
And they just turn their backs to my face
their actions biting me
And all my friends are enemies
So I'm always on my own

I'm always on my own
Always on my own
On my own
On my own

Stress can breed a psychopath
You’re all that calms me down
I forget that I’m a mess when you’re around
Please can you be home tonight
Say its not over yet
My human tranquilizer
My pretty percocet
I just want to chill with you tonight, girl
I wish that I could chill with you tonight
Stop the worries that keep forming in my head
I’ve got ants in my pants unless its you in them instead
Oh baby I was a faker before you
Tomorrow brings a busy day
Its overstuffed with time
I need to hear you breathing on the line
And you can be closed minded
If you have open arms
Why can’t I ever work my wily charms on you?
And you still weren’t home when I dialed up the phone in the evening
So I’m twiddling thumbs and I’m wondering what’s this I’m feeling
I may be strong below the belt
But not with what I thought and felt
That blissful knight I knelt
Between your legs
Between our heads
Between our hearts
I was a faker before you.

Yeah, I saw her first on an ocean liner
Licking rust from the outside of the rails
And I knew then
She looked at me with a killers grin
I said "Hey, baby- won't you please lick me instead?"
It didn't make sense
But I said
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Just you and me and the deep blue sea
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Just you and me, baby
I found my way to her cabin room, she yanked me in and shut the door behind
It's loving time
Slid her tongue so forked and wet up the bone white staircase of my shaking spine
The perfect crime
Oh my god she's killing me
Oh my god I try to run
I try to run but I've got my pants around my ankles,
She drags me down and chews me up for lunch
And the waves the only witness said
She knew
She got me then

Last night I woke up in the evening just as the sun began to fall
Resolved to stroll down the street to your house just to show you I’ve got balls
But when I came upon your window I knew I’d come there far too late
Because someone beat me to you, and I guess you’re happy
Because I recognize that smile from better days
But he put the moves on you
The rain just won’t stop pouring since the day he put the moves on you
Now everyday is like a nightmare and at night in bed can’t help but stay awake
It wasn’t too long ago that I stood outside your window
Not some handsome boy I don’t know
And when he’s kissing you just like I always used to
I hope it kills you knowing what you did to me
He put the moves on you but you will break him too
The same as the last one

Remember when you heard it, you didn't think about it
You opened up your ears and listened
Felt it smashing through the pretense, through scabs of inhibition
That the world stitched to your shoulder like a mission
It echoed like lips meeting and it fluctuated violently
Filled your heart and lungs up with redemption
Kind of like an ending but more like a beginning
And even though you're losing then you're winning
If you say oh
Remember this forever
All that matters is a song
Singing "I will be with you
Everywhere you go
Every little thing you do
Our love is here to stay
Even when the skies are gray
Even when I'm away
I'll be with you."
Now you're so much older, so mature and insecure
You've grown out of yourself and into something else
Oh you crazy rebel tell me is this what you want to be
Would it kill you to be shameless?
If you say oh
Just scream this in defiance from the bottom of your lungs
What ever happened to the rock in roll in your eyes?
Oh I know its somewhere in you underneath the veil of lies
Oh why do you hide them, your rock and roll eyes?
They're crazy
Eardrums are like elephants, they don't forget the things they hear
And veins still carry fragments of the things fed to your ear
Let me do the honors and welcome you back to mankind
Just turn on the stereo and unwind
It goes "I will always love you."
And as for taking it in stride:.

If you seek pleasure in pain and comfort in the rain and having an open heart
And you can't sit through a class, you're head is half up in the clouds
Half up your ass
If dark days and bright nights make your world turn
Throw a finger up, light it up and let it burn
You may be lonely but you're not alone
If your tears come out like kidney stones
Stand up proud
We're screaming even if its not out loud
Complicate the world
We're an army of Cusack boys and Molly Ringwald girls
You don't speak words you exhale them
Keep them locked inside, you fail them
Old habits die hard, but there corpses always stay to haunt you
When starlight burns bright in the black sky
We'll be driving out, screaming towards the overpass
Rocking in, rocking out to the radio
Roll your windows down
Bump that Manilow
In every school in every home there is another sap like you
We're in the park looking up at the stars with nothing else to do
One day you'll me another one and you'll kicked out of our club; we never win in love
And we are the one who never see why growing up has got to be like war
Its touchy feely but its true: there's a loser in the same position
Standing next to you
Starlight burns bright in the black sky
We do what we want.

If I could take one thing back I would write
The perfect song for you
You would have never left
And if the chords progress
The way I mapped them out
They will wipe your tears away
And all your doubts

Cause it's always been for you
Every mountain scaled for you

And every single day I'm falling down
I never want to say you're mine right now
A tear rolls down your cheek
And hits the ground
I'm falling down (Lets go)

You sit alone inside your room and rust
You give your trust to those who don't deserve your trust
You put yourself through hell
As you sweat pound for pound
But as the drama fades
Tell me what will resound

Its always been for you
I sing every song for you

And every single day I'm falling down
I never want to say you're mine right now
A tear rolls down your cheek
And hits the ground
I'm falling down....
I'm falling down

Could you stay forever and a day
Together come what may
If only I could say what I'm thinking baby

And every single day I'm falling down
I never want to say you're mine right now
A tear rolls down your cheek
And hits the ground
I'm falling down

And every single day I'm falling down
I never want to say you're mine right now
If only I could finally face the truth
I have always loved you
loved you...
Loved you

I’m starting to notice all of these tails on people I know
And they weren’t there over an hour ago
My ears are ringing with the sound of squeaking
And I swear I may be the very last man on earth
I smell a rat
I smell a slew of them
Skittering around the ceiling and the ground
And its not myself
So it must be everybody else
I smell a rat
Board the doors, I’m staying in tonight
Won’t give in, give up, without a fight
Pick up an axe
Its time to fight for my life
I’ve got no one to come home to

In my dreams we fly away from all the palm trees of this place and the smell of its decay
I can taste the clouds and my wings can carry me to your window
Where you will hold me in your arms and kiss me softly as you stroke my cheek
And say “Oh my angel, you hold my heart, I’ve been dreaming of you like you have me
Can you touch my skin and lay your kisses on my cheeks
And to Manhattan sweep me away?”
No more, no less
In pools of water after all the rain has left I see your gaze
No more, no less
I’m longing for a Neverland where I can make you oh so happy
In my dreams we fly away from all the pain and school bell rings
To a city that never sleeps and I can see you smile all day
And I can show you just how beautiful complications can be
From the roof top I can lean in close and whisper in your ear:
“Can you see, its not the same, the stars are spelling out your name”
And the moon can only frown because it will never be as beautiful as you
I’m dreaming of Manhattan
Dreaming of where we are so in love
I can make you oh so happy

Driving off through the downtown streets
I am all alone with my allergies
The night grows cold and I think of her
Like it helps at all when the music dies
And the song on the radio reminds me of her
And in my head, my mind goes back to a moment lost
A flashback scene from before the fall, before it was over too soon
Of upper arms, and auburn hair and the smell of her that filled the air
The car goes on, a bullet of thundering loss
And the song on the radio reminds me of her and it goes
Sugarpie honeybunch, I don’t want to lose you and I can’t help myself I love you
And nobody else will do

It's the last time I'll fight the wrongs, I'll sing about the girls who left me
The last great punk rock song before I unspike my hair and carry on
And I will wail about anarchy, drums will blare in rhythmic harmony
Anti establishment just gets me nowhere fast
And it's the last great time I'll try
Please give me a reason not to cry
And it's the last great punk rock song
I hope you'll listen to me when I won't carry on
I have a few songs about remorse, and I sing until my voice gets hoarse
But most are about girl problems
Until I put down my strat
And stop acting dumb

To you my friend, I send my best regards
I hope that all is well and good in Neverland
It's been one month since goodbyes rang out and echoed long
Across the distance time had carved
It seems there's nothing left to do since you've gone and left me here in the street
The taste of ocean water is bleak and the cold wind's scraping at my bleeding feet
Why can't I keep you from my heart?
Why is there nothing I can do but get over you
Could be regret time I've lost, could be I see mountaintops
Baby miss you since you've gone
We stared up high out where the stars almost burnt out a hole in the sky
But now the sky is faded and its burnt around the edges
From this lawn all crisp and yellow where I lie
I should have known not to seal up my mouth and leave it alone
But now I scream across this gap across this endless space
Cause you blessed me girl
Then you robbed me of my fragile world
And I miss you, girl, more then anything in the world
Take me as I am
I would do anything if only I could see you
I'm deprived of hope, I'm God's sick joke, because he took you away
I've learned to hate this place
I want to burn it down and run away
Until I see your face I will loathe this house I will hate this house
Home is where the hurt is
Because its far away from you
Falling out of love is like giving up a drug
I can't move on with my life
You have my heart as fractured as it is
Even if we have to say goodbye

Thank God I don't think out loud
Too many thoughts in my head
Right now
Mostly concerning the moonlight
As it dances across your neck. I'm out of practice
And you smell like roses. I'm the mortal soldier
Your queen of hearts
All that I want is to show you how you you're nothing like all of them tell you.
To be more than just a cricket on your shoulder
A little closer.

Feelings choke me
Don't let me leave without a word
Never give in
I've been letting my mind win the war with my heart. You are timeless
I am a fool in love with time

I've always believed in you
Want to be more than that tonight
And live for the moment
But that takes too much pride. You will say what I never have

I'd shape up and put on weight
Cross out my calendar marked to the date where we'd meet on some mystic veranda
To dance I'd show you skills. I'm not forgotten. I'd spoil you rotten.
So Don't be afraid
For better or worse
Lets die
And first we can think about this later when were not so jaded. So jaded.
I can't go on the way I've gone forever. A new endeavor is oh so needed and

Feelings scare you
You never look me in the eye
Don't ever change I just want you to know the complacencies always been staged
I was blinded until you opened up my eyes
I've always believed in you

Want to be more than that tonight
And live for the moment
But that takes too much pride
You will say what I.. Never had if I tried
Damned if I don't. What if I died without being with you
I can try all I want
The feelings would taunt saying ‘loser we see through you.’ And forgive me love
These thoughts are not my own
They were put in my mind by aliens
To keep me home alone. And forgive me love
For wanting you. Blame it on those eyebrows arching over baby blues
Oh you. Oh you.....

And live for the moment but that takes too much pride.
You will say what I never have.
Oh can you see me now?
Do you hear me now?
Do you see Me now?
Could you save me now?
Do you hear me now?
Could you see me now?
Could you save me now?
I'm choking... I'm choking...