somethin' filled up my heart with nothin someone told me not to cry
but now that i'm older my heart's colder and i can see that it's a lie
children wake up hold your mistake up before they turn the summer into dust
if the children don't grow up our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up we're just a million little god's causin rain storms turnin' every good thing to rust
i guess we'll just have to adjust
with my lighnin' bolts a glowin i can see where i am goin' to be when the reaper he reaches and touches my hand
with my lighnin' bolts a glowin i can see where i am goin with my lighnin' bolts a glowin i can see where i am go-goin
rebellion (lies)
sleeping is giving in no matter what the time is sleeping is giving in so lift those heavy eyelids
people say that you'll die faster than without water but we know it's just a lie scare your son, scare your daughter
people say that your dreams are the only things that save ya come on baby in our dreams we can live our misbehavior
Every time you close your eyes lies, lies every time you close your eyes lies, lies every time you close your eyes lies, lies every time you close your eyes lies, lies every time you close your eyes every time you close your eyes every time you close your eyes every time you close your eyes
people try and hide the night underneath the covers People try and hide the light underneath the covers
come on hide your lovers underneath the covers come on hide your lovers underneath the covers
hidin' from your brothers underneath the covers come on hide your lovers underneath the covers
people say that you'll die faster than without water but we know it's just a lie scare your son, scare your daughter Scare your son, scare your daughter scare your son, scare your daughter
now here's the sun, it's alright (lies, lies) now here's the moon, it's alright (lies, lies) now here's the sun, it's alright (lies, lies) now here's the moon it's alright (lies, lies)
every time you close your eyes lies, lies every time you close your eyes lies, lies every time you close your eyes lies, lies every time you close your eyes lies, lies
every time you close your eyes every time you close your eyes
(lies, lies)
crown of love
they say it fades if you let it love was made to forget it i carved your name across my eyelids you pray for rain i pray for blindness
if you still want me, please forgive me the crown of love has fallen from me if you still want me, please forgive me because the spark is not within me
i snuffed it out before my mom walked in my bedroom
the only thing that you keep changin is your name, my love keeps growin still the same, just like a cancer and you won't give me a straight answer!
if you still want me, please forgive me the crown of love has fallen from me if you still want me please forgive me because your hands are not upon me
i shrugged them off before my mom walked in my bedroom
the pains of love, and they keep growin in my heart there's flowers growin on the grave of our old love since you gave me a straight answer
if you still want me, please forgive me the crown of love is not upon me if you still want me, please forgive me cause this crown is not within me it's not within me, it's not within me
you gotta be the one you gotta be the way your name is the only word that i can say
you gotta be the one you gotta be the way your name is the only word
neighborhood #1 (tunnels)
and if the snow buries my my neighborhood and if my parents are crying then i'll dig a tunnel from my window to yours yeah a tunnel from my window to yours you climb out the chimney and meet me in the middle the middle of town and since there's no one else around we let our hair grow long and forget all we used to know then our skin gets thicker from living out in the snow
you change all the lead sleepin' in my head as the day grows dim i hear you sing a golden hymn
then we tried to name our babies but we forgot all the names that the names we used to know but sometimes, we remember our bedrooms and our parent's bedrooms and the bedrooms of our friends then we think of our parents well what ever happened to them?!
you change all the lead sleepin' in my head to gold as the day grows dim i hear you sing a golden hymn the song i've been trying to say
purify the colors, purify my mind purify the colors, purify my mind and spread the ashes of the colors in this heart of mine
neighborhood #3 (power out)
i woke up with the power out not really something to shout about ice has covered up my parents hands don't have any dreams don't have any plans
i went out into the night i went out to find some light kids are swingin' from the power lines nobody's home, so nobody minds
i woke up on the darkest night neighbors all were shoutin' that they found the light (we found the light) shadows jumpin' all over the walls some of them big, some of them small
i went out into the night i went out to pick a fight with anyone light a candle for the kids jesus christ don't keep it hid
woohoo! woohoo! woohoo
ice has covered up my parents hands don't have any dreams, don't have any plans growin' up in some strange storm nobody's cold, nobody's warm
i went out into the night i went out to find some light kids are dyin' out in the snow look at them go, look at them go
woohoo! woo! woohoo
and the power's out in the heart of man take it from your heart put in your hand(hand)
what's the plan? what's the plan
is it a dream? is it a lie i think i'll let you decide just light a candle for the kids jesus christ don't keep it hid
cause nothin's hid, from us kids! you ain't foolin' nobody with the lights out
woohoo
and the power's out in the heart of man take it from your heart put in your hand and there's something wrong in the heart of man take it from your heart and put it in your hand (hand)(the lights out)(hand)(right now!)(hand)
cold wind
in the middle of the summer i'm not sleeping cold wind blowing in the middle of the night they try to find me but I'm still driving if you're going to san francisco lay some flowers on the grave stone there's music on the station but i'm just listening to cold wind whistling and if they ever find me tell the papers cold wind cold wind cold, cold wind blowing cold wind blowing hey hey hey something ain't right something ain't right and if they ever find me tell the papers cold wind cold wind cold, cold wind blowing cold wind blowing
in the backseat
i like the peace in the backseat i don't have to drive i don't have to speak i can watch the country side and i can fall asleep
my family tree's losing all its leaves crashing towards the driver's seat the lightning bolt made enough heat to melt the street beneath your feet
alice died in the night i've been learning to drive my whole life i've been learning
i like the peace in the backseat i don't have to drive i don't have to speak i can watch the country side
alice died in the night i've been learning to drive my whole life i've been learn oh...
haiti
haiti, mon pays wounded mother i'll never see ma famille set me free throw my ashes into the sea
haiti, never free n'aie pas peur de sonner l'alarme tes enfants sont partis in those days their blood was still warm
neighborhood #4 (7 kettles)
i am waitin' 'til i don't know when cause i'm sure it's gonna happen then time keeps creepin' through the neighborhood killing old folks, wakin' up babies just like we knew it would
all the neighbors are startin' up a fire burning all the old folks the witches and the liars my eyes are covered by the hands of my unborn kids but my heart keeps watchin' through the skin of my eyelids
they say a watched pot won't ever boil well i closed my eyes and nothin' changed just some water getting hotter in the flames
it's not a lover i want no more and it's not heaven i'm pining for but there's some spirit i used to know that's been drowned out by the radio!
they say a watched pot won't ever boil you can't raise a baby on motor oil just like a seed down in the soil you gotta give it time
neighborhood #2 (laika)
alexander, our older brother set out for a great adventure he tore our images out of his pictures he scratched our names out of all his letters
our mother shoulda just named you laika!
come on alex, you can do it come on alex, there's nothin' to it if you want somethin' don't ask for nothin if you want nothin' don't ask for somethin'!
our mother shoulda just named you laika! it's for your own good it's for the neighborhood!
our older brother bit by a vampire! for a year we caught his tears in a cup and now we're gonna make him drink it come on alex don't die or dry up!
our mother shoulda just named you laika! it's for your own good it's for the neighborhood!
when daddy comes home you always start a fight so the neighbors can dance in the police disco lights the police disco lights now the neighbors can dance!
headlights look like diamonds
the red lights mean you're leaving the white one's mean returning tell me how this story ends and i'll keep them fires burning
the headlights look like diamonds the taillights burn like coals tell me how this story ends before the fires go cold
the countryside's deserted there's no one on the farms the suburbs all are sleeping the earthquakes set off car alarms
all after all now we aware all after all the time we share there's so much fears of world hopes of world, Tears of world
i'm sleeping in a submarine
she's gone to sea she's fightin' for me what bravery!
i'm sleeping in a battle ship i'm sleeping in a submarine i'm sleeping in a fighter plane i'm sleeping going down the drain
all hads on deck! the radio address what a mess!
a cage, is a cage
intervention
keys taken back i throw the people they all grow and choose what they want written on their stone all quiet and alone
you can taste the fear lift me up and take me out of here i know i want to fight i want to die just tell me what to say
working for the church while your family dies little baby sister gonna lose her mind every spark of friendship and love will die without a hope
hear the soldiers groan all quiet and alone
there's something in the air the people they all sit and stare and tell me what they point to tell me where and tell me…
who's gonna throw the very first stone? whose gonna re-set the bone? sitting with his head in a sling i hear the soldier sing
working for the church while your family dies little baby sister gonna lose her mind every spark of friendship and love will die without a hope
hear the soldiers groan all quiet and alone
sunshine light someone teach me how to fly and onto something for wish i would die but i just don't know what though i can taste the fear lift me up and take me out of here and make it all concisely clear you know i'm gonna fade
working for the church while your family dies little baby sister gonna lose her mind every spark of friendship and love will die without a hope
hear the soldiers groan all quiet and alone hear the soldiers groan
no cars go
we know a place where no planes go we know a place where no ships go
(hey!) no cars go (hey!) no cars go where we know
we know a place no space ships go we know a place where no subs go
(hey!) no cars go (hey!) no cars go where we know
(hey!) (hey!) (cars go!)
(hey!) us kids know (hey!) no cars go where we know
between the click of the light and the start of the dream
i don't want any pushing, and i don't want any shoving we're gonna do this in an orderly
manner. women and children! women and children! women and children let's go! old folks
old flame
you knew in five minutes - but i knew in a sentence you knew in five minutes - but i knew in a sentence
so why do we go - through all of this again your eyes are flutterin' - such pretty wings a moth, flyin' into the - same old flame again it never ends
it's not like i dropped the bomb on my conscience mom it takes fightin' day and night to make such a good thing die
out, everyone out - i give too much shit a home in my heart and mind - it gets me every time
so why do we go - through all this shit again your eyes are flutterin' - such pretty wings a moth flyin' into me -the same old flame again
