Anberlin - Cities

Anberlin - Cities lyrics

Debut
Godspeed
Adelaide
A Whisper & A Clamour
The Unwinding Cable Car
There Is No Mathematics To Love And Loss
Hello Alone
Alexithymia
Reclusion
Inevitable
Dismantle. Repair
*fin
Uncanny
There Is A Light That Never Goes Dope
The Promise

Godspeed

Burnin' down neverland (Scatter the ashes)
White lines black tar the matches
Is this another death by misadventure?
Tell me what you got, what you really got (Hey! Hey!)

We'll rest in our graves
Lexington, course your veins
Sleepers can't just wake the dead
When needles and lovers collapse on guilty beds

Fall asleep... (Don't fall asleep...)
Don't fall asleep...

(They lied when they said
That the good die young)

They lied when they said the good die young
Whoa-oh-hoa-oh
They lied when they said the good die young
Stay with me, stay with me tonight

Burnin' down bridges now (Scatter the ashes)
Godspeed to all your efforts
Is this the life left just to remember
Tell 'em who you were, who you really were (Hey! Hey!)

Kill yourself slowly over time (Over time)
Fashion statement suicide (Suicide...)
She's asleep in the Chelsea hotel
Bad turns to worse and then worse turns into hell

Fall asleep... (Don't fall asleep...)
Don't fall asleep...

(God, save the eyes
That doomed tonight)

They lied when they said the good die young
Whoa-oh-hoa-oh
They lied when they said the good die young
Stay with me, stay with me tonight

Whoa-oh-hoa-oh

They lied when they said the good die young
Whoa-oh-hoa-oh
They lied when they said the good die young
Stay with me, stay with me tonight

You're repeating me lines that you think I wanna hear
But I don't wanna hear anymore
As if sorry is any consolation
For what it's worth, you're stringing me along
Sh sh shouldn't need anyone
Shouldn't need anyone
Just scared of being alone
But by the time you figure this out
And I'm already gone

You keep giving me signs that you think I wanna see
But you're nothing like you seem
Hide behind your half smile
But the truth is so undeniable
Sh sh shouldn't need anyone
Shouldn't need anyone
Just scared of being alone
But by the time you figure this out
And I'm already gone

Like lipstick traces on pillow cases
Some things in life are unforgettable
Like love, loss, lies and us and woh ohh
Some things in life are undeniable

Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene
Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene
Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene
Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene

A Whisper & A Clamour

Growing tired of bedside resolve
Public display of depression
Something's got to give now
Something's going to break down
I grow tired of writing songs
While people listen but never hear what's really going on now
Tell me what's so wrong now

For most who live and breathe
Hell is never knowing who they are now
Tell me who you are now
Finally safe from the outside trapped in what you know
Are you safe from yourself? Can you escape all by yourself?

Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering
Clap your hands tonight
Hear what the silence screams
Clap your hands
Clap your hands now all ye children
Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering tonight
Clap your hands
Clap your hands now all ye children
Clap your hands
There's a clamor in your whispering tonight

It's not the lies that you sing
But what the silence will scream
It's not the lies that you sing
But what the silence will scream
It's not the lies that you sing
But what the silence will scream

The Unwinding Cable Car

Emotive unstable
You're like an unwinding cable car
Listening for voices,
but it's the choices that make us who we are
Go your own way
Even seasons have changed
Just burn those new leaves over
So self-absorbed
You've seemed to ignore
The prayers that have already come about

This is the correlation
Of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
I'll guard your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you in

La La La...

Backing away from the problem of pain
You never had a home
You've been misguided
You're hiding in shadows for so very long
Don't you believe that you've been deceived?
That you're no better than,
the hair in your eyes, it never disguised
What you were really thinking of

This is the correlation
Of salvation and love
Don't drop your arms
I'll guard your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you in

You're so brilliant
Don't soon forget
You're so brilliant
Grace marked your heart

La La La...

This is the correlation (La La La...)
Of salvation and love (La La La...)
Don't drop your arms (La La La...)
I'll guard your heart (La La La...)
With quiet words I'll lead you in (La La La...)

There Is No Mathematics To Love And Loss

If you're leaving, leave the cigarettes.
You've already got the lighter and the keys.
She packs her boxes.
He knows that she's serious
Not by the look in her face but by the lack of rings.
Words lost their meanings long ago.
Right around the time when she let him know.

Oh oh oh oh ohoh oh oh

Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love, than alive with you and dead.
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time (Hear me out this time).
Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love, than alive with you and dead.
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time (Hear me out this time).

There is algebra in gasoline.
Burning pictures, pages and photographs.
Fire can make a conscience clean.
(Strike the match, we'll see)
Rolls the window down, calls his name and pulls away.
Rethinks every word he's said in disarray.
Watched their house burn and in turn.
(What made it home, drive away)

Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love than alive with you and dead.
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time (Hear me out this time).
Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love than alive with you and dead.
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time (Hear me out this time).

Where does one start
To pick up pieces
Of a gasoline heart?
When all he has is driving away.

Hello Alone

Is this where the interstate ends?
In coastal towns like this.
Waiting for my world to cave under.

We seem to invent ourselves,
In places left unknown.
If hope could only find me out.

Is this the end of everything we know?
This is the end of everything I am.

Is anybody out there? Hello, hello.
Broken hearts like promises,
Are left for lesser knows.
Is anybody out there? Alone, Alone.
Because the coldest winters thrive.

Depression is the unholy ghost,
In the coastal town ahead.
Though I know a thousand names,
I seem my only friend.

I've got the gun, all I need is ten cents for the bullet.
I feel helpless, sleeping at best. Waiting for your return,
Are you ever coming home?

Is anybody out there? Hello, hello.
Broken hearts like promises are left for lesser knows.
Is anybody out there? Alone, alone.
Because the coldest winters thrive on broken homes. (Broken Homes)

Does anybody, (does anybody)
Do they ever listen, (Do they ever listen)
Does anybody, (does anybody)
Care at all?
Do they care at all? Do they care at all?
Do they care at all? Do you care at all?
Do you care at all!?

Is this the end of everything we know?
This is the end of everything I am.

Is anybody out there? Hello, hello.
Broken hearts like promises are left for lesser knows.
Is anybody out there? Alone alone.
Because the coldest winters thrive on broken homes.
Is anybody out there? Hello, hello.
Broken hearts like promises are left for lesser knows.
Is anybody out there? Alone alone.
For lesser known.
I'm here and there's hope. There's hope.

Alexithymia

Don't try to wake me up even if the sun really does come out tomorrow
Don't believe anything you say anymore, in the mourn, in the morning
Bricks to this old house are breaking
Steel would have weathered but now forlorning
It's alarming how loud the silence screams
No warn, no warn, no warning

Addictions fill the table where the family used to sit
and conversate, conversate to the sounds
To the sounds of the record player
With its jumping needles and the lights that grow dim over time

With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive

Are you where you thought you'd be
So beautiful and only twenty-three
Opposition rests in the hearts
With no, with no, with no opportunity
It's not that we don't talk
It's just no one really listens and honesty fades
Like a politician lost in the course
All smiles and no one remembers our names

With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive

Don't try to wake me up even if the sun really does comes out tomorrow
Don't believe anything I say anymore, in the morn, in the morning

With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive

Reclusion

There's something inside me
That softly kills everyone around
They don't know their dead to me 'cuz
Intent never makes a sound
All along they have found I've strangled
Lovers who've learned from slower hands
In these eleven minutes I can teach you what I am

You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide
You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide

There's an art in seclusion
Production in depression
If a stranger turns up missing
This song is my confession
Tell the tails of the trails of dead
Lovers learn from slower hands
Losing myself in myself
Inner demons, make demands

You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide
You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide

You're suffocating me
So very hard to breath
My mask is growing heavy
But I've forgotten who's beneath

You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide
You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide

Inevitable

Do you remember when we were just kids?
And cardboard boxes took us miles from what we would miss
School yard conversations taken to heart
And laughter took the place of everything we knew
We were not

I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now, hey? Is it over now?

I wanna be your last first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last first kiss

Amazing how life turns out
The way that it does
We end up hurting the worst
The only ones we really love

I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now, hey? Is it over now?

I wanna be your last first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last first kiss

(Is it over now, hey? Is it over now?)
Is it over now? Hey, it's not over now!

I wanna be your last first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last, first love (that you'll ever have)
Till you're lying here beside me with arms and eyes open wide
I wanna be your last first kiss
For all time

Dismantle. Repair

One last glance from a taxi cab
Images scar my mind
Four weeks felt like years
Since your full attention was all mine
The night was young and so were we
Talked about Life, God, Death, and your family
Didn't want any promises
Just my undivided honesty

And you said,
"Oh, oh, things are gonna change now for the better (and)"
"Oh, oh, things are gonna change. Oh, they're gonna change"

I am the patron saint of lost causes
A fraction of who I once believed (Change)
Only a matter of time
Opinions I will try and rewrite
In my pen, background music
Playing your song
I've got to be honest
I tried to escape you
But the orchestra plays on

And they said,
"Oh, oh, things are gonna change now for the better (and)"
"Oh, oh, things are gonna change"

Hands like secrets are the hardest things to keep from you
Lies and phrases like knives your words can put me through
Dismantle me down, (Repair) you dismantle me, you dismantle me

Give me time to prove
To prove I want the rest of yours (Prelude)
Call this a prelude to a lifetime of you
It's not that I hang on every word
I hang myself on what you mean
Its not that I keep hanging on
I'm never letting go

Save me from myself
Help me
Save me from myself

Oh, oh, things are gonna change now for the better
Oh, oh, things are gonna change

*fin

Feels like you're miles from here,
in other towns with lesser names.
Where the unholy ghost doesn't tell
Mary or William exactly what they want to hear.
You remember the house on Ridge Road
told you and the Devil to both just leave me alone.
If this is salvation, I can show you the trembling.
You'll just have to trust me. I'm scared.

I am the patron saint of lost causes.
Aren't we all to you just near lost causes?
Aren't we all to you just lost

Tommy, you left behind
something that will mean everything right before you die.
What if you gained the whole world?
You've already lost four little souls from your life.
Widows and orphans aren't hard to find.
They're home missing daddy who's saving the world tonight.
Wish your drinking would hurry and kill you.
Sympathy's better than having to tell you the truth.

That you are the patron saint of lost causes.
All you are to them is now a lost cause.
All you are to them is now, causes.

Billy, don't you understand?
Timothy stood as long as he could and now
you made his faith disappear.
More like a magician and less like a man of the cloth.
We're not questioning God.
Just those he chose to carry on His cross.
We're no better, you'll see.
Just all of us, the lost causes.

Aren't we all to you just lost causes?
Are we all to you lost?
Lost causes
So all we are to you,
Is all we are, is all we are
All we are is all we are

[Choir:]
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
(Lost causes, all we are is all we are)
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
(To you, lost causes)

Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?

Uncanny

Airports to Amsterdam
There's nothing that we can do now
I'm convinced that you're right
You're right where you belong
Beside me, to remind me
Did you ever think this far behind me?
We would see the world for what it was
And who we really were

Oh, they love us American boys

Anywhere, say anywhere
As long as I'm with you
Anything, ask anything
We'll watch the world go by

Trains to Tokyo
Staring out windows
A place we've never been
While soundtracks play in backgrounds
To the stories of our lives
Nonfiction or envision
If we never met and what we'd missed and
Never really learned Pacific Standard Time

Oh, they love those American boys

Anywhere, say anywhere
As long as I'm with you
Anything, ask anything
We'll watch the world go by

There Is A Light That Never Goes Dope

Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people who are young and alive,
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one, anymore

Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and I want to see light,
Driving in your car
Oh please don't drop me home
Because It's not my home, It's their home
And I'm welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us
To die by your side, such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well the pleasure and the privilege is mine

Take me out tonight
Oh take me anywhere, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass I thought oh God, my chance hascome at last
But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldn't ask
Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care
Just driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one, Oh Lord
No I haven't got one.

There is a light that never goes out...

The Promise

If you need a friend,
don't look to a stranger
You know in the end
I'll always be there

And when you're in doubt,
and when you're in danger,
Take a look all around
And I'll be there

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be
But if you wait around a while
I'll make you fall for me
I promise
I promise you I will

When your day is through
And so is your temper
You know what to do
I'm gonna always be there

Sometimes if I shout
It's not what's intended
These words just come out
With no gripe to bear

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be
But if you wait around a while, I'll make you fall for me,
I promise, I promise you...

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be
And if I had to walk the world, that make you fall for me
I promise you, I promise you I will

I gotta tell ya, I need to tell ya, I gotta tell ya, I gotta tell ya...

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be
But if you wait around a while, I'll make you fall for me
I promise you, I promise you

I'm sorry, but I'm just thinking of the right words to say
I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be
And if I have to walk the world to make you fall for me
I promise you, I promise you I will

Anberlin - Cities lyrics

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