Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory lyrics
- Attractive Today
- Everything Is Alright
- When You're Around
- Resolution
- Feel Like Rain
- Make Out Kids
- Time Turn Fragile
- Lgfuad
- Better Open The Door
- Together We'll Ring In The New Year
- Hangman
Attractive Today
I am wrecked, I am overblown
I am also fed up with the common cold
But I just hate to say goodbye
To all the metaphors and lies
That have taken me years to come up with
Say it's true, say you like me (I like you)
Just for the night
For me, it's been eternity
And as I gently sip this drink
I think about my lack of future
And all the places I could learn to fall in love
I know I shouldn't waste my time
Wishing I'd been better designed
Yet for some reason still think
I am wrecked, I am overblown
I am also fed up with the fucking common cold!
When I just want to feel alive for the first time in my life
I just want to feel attractive today
Everything Is Alright
Tell me that you're alright
Yeah, everything is alright
Oh, please tell me that you're alright
Yeah, everything is alright
Give me a reason
To end this discussion
To break with tradition
To fold and divide
'Cause I hate the ocean, theme parks and airplanes
Talking with strangers, waiting in line
I'm through with these pills that make me sit still
"Are you feeling fine?"
"Yes, I feel just fine"
Tell me that you're alright
Yeah, everything is alright
Oh, please tell me that you're alright
Yeah, everything is alright
I'm sick of the things I do when I'm nervous
Like cleaning the oven or checking my tires
Or counting the number of tiles in the ceiling
Head for the hills, the kitchen's on fire!
I used to rely on self-medication
I guess I still do that from time to time
But I'm getting better at fighting the future
"Someday you'll be fine"
Yes, I'll be just fine
Tell me that you're alright
Yeah, everything is alright
Oh, please tell me that you're alright
Yeah, everything is alright
Give me a reason (I don't believe a word)
To end this discussion (Of anything I've heard)
To break with tradition (They tell me that it's not so hard)
To fold and divide (It's not so hard)
So let's not get carried (Away with everything)
Away with the process (From here to in-between)
Of elimination (The long goodbye)
I don't want to waste your time
Tell me that you're alright
Yeah, everything is alright
Oh, please tell me that you're alright
Yeah, everything is alright
(Alright)
Tell me that you're alright (Hi, everything's great)
Yeah, everything is alright (Hey, everything's fine)
Oh, please tell me that you're alright (Hi, everything's great)
Yeah, everything is alright
(Hey, everything's fine)
(Everything's fine)
(Everything's fine)
(Everything's fine)
When You're Around
Midwest love affair, I bend when I am bored
Late-night-liquor-blue will lead me to the floor
Can we fake it?
Can we make-believe?
I'm so full of love it deeply sickens me
But all I could do was close my eyes
And cross my arms and hope to die
'Cause you don't fucking listen
When I'm around
The least you could do is take it back
All the vicious remarks and verbal attacks
'Cause I can't fucking stand it
When you're around
Midwest aftermath, the rumors start to rise
Did I truly do the things that you've described?
They must hate me, every single one
It just sickens them what I consider fun
But all I could do was close my eyes
And cross my arms and hope to die
'Cause you don't fucking listen
When I'm around
The least you could do is take it back
All the vicious remarks and verbal attacks
'Cause I can't fucking stand it
When you're around
But all I could do was close my eyes
And cross my arms and hope to die
'Cause you don't fucking listen
When I'm around
The least you could do is take it back
All the vicious remarks and verbal attacks
'Cause I can't fucking stand it
When you're around
No I can't fucking stand it
When you're around
No I can't fucking stand it
When you're around
Resolution
I like the universe
But she messes with my words
I'm not talking planets or galaxies
And the distance just makes it worse
I know what you're thinking
This probably sounds rehearsed
So let's give it up for the New Year
Did this party of two have you slightly confused?
Now that our things are divided
She refuses to speak and I'm driftin' to sleep at the wheel
Liquids, powders and pills
Not quite taken against my will
The taste tests of girls from all over the world
Who refuse to except my excuses
She put up with so much
Of my madness and my self-abuse
She would tend to my wounds
And fill me with food when I'd stumble in drunk for breakfast
She was right to take off before she was consumed
So let's give it up for the New Year
Did this party of two have you slightly confused?
Now that our things are divided
She refuses to speak and I'm driftin' to sleep at the wheel
Let's give it up for the New Year
Did this party of two have you slightly confused?
Now that our things are divided
She refuses to speak and I'm driftin' to sleep at the wheel
I like the universe
But she messes with my words
I'm not talking planets or galaxies
And the distance just makes it worse
You're totally right
Every action was well rehearsed
Feel Like Rain
And we feel like rain
When the words all sound the same
In the lifeless corners of this empty frame
Though we feel let down
By the same old autumn breathing
Winter's curse is just around the bend
With our hands all tied
To the blades of their design
We are armed and ready to commit this crime
We love that game but we never play
'Cause we will lose and we wanna stay
The way we are
The way we've been for far too long
From the falsest smile
To the fear of death is why
The pain reminds us that we're still alive
With our hopes on hold
And our lack of interest exposed
All hands damage our determined eyes
But the lines are drawn
And the red begins to creep
Its way from bored toward apathy
We love that game but we never play
'Cause we will lose and we wanna stay
The way we are
The way we've been for far too long
We love that game but we never play
'Cause we will lose and we wanna stay
The way we are
The way we've been for far too long
Say something finally we're alone
Alright is there anyone out there at all?
Say something finally we're alone
How 'bout a phone call now?
We love that game but we never play
'Cause we will lose and we wanna stay
The way we are
The way we've been for far too long
We love that game but we never play
'Cause we will lose and we wanna stay
The way we are
The way we've been for far too long
We love that game but we never play
'Cause we will lose and we wanna stay
The way we are
And we feel like rain
When the words all sound the same
As the curtain closes on another day
Make Out Kids
They carved the message deep within
Our broken hearts that failed to mend:
Make out kids never had a chance to be best friends.
She's into math and magazines,
Director's cuts and gray-cell green
Armed with an eye for contradictions,
She sees completely through me.
I'm fond of Twin Peaks afternoons
Inexpensive wine
With cordon bleu..
Armed with a plethora of insecurities, we keep each other amused..
Hooray for the madness, we are better by design,
Let's hope we never have to say goodbye..
Say goodbye
Snowed in, sleep over winter break
Cocktails and miniature mistakes
Lights out, we're covered in each others' warm embrace..
And we sing..
Hooray for the madness, we are better by design
Let's hope we never have to say goodbye
Say goodbye [x2]
If we keep swimming, maybe this will never die [x4]
We fail to keep in touch these days
I'm liquid cold, she's murder grey
Hollowed by circumstance that pushed us both away
They carved a message deep within our broken hearts that failed to mend:
Make out kids never had a chance to be best friends
Time Turn Fragile
Tiny hands, recycled cans, the metal bands I could not stand..
The time you cried and threw your crayons across the floor...
These are the things I think about when I'm alone without you
I wonder of your whereabouts and hope like hell you're happy where you are.
You used to say that "you're just fine!"
But I still wonder all the time.
Hockey games, medical claims, police reports, terrible grades,
J, I'm so proud of all the things that you have done.
These are the things I think about when I'm alone without you
I wonder of your whereabouts and hope like hell you're happy where you are.
I'm alright,
I can see through everything you say, and all the lessons I never learned..
You used to say that you were just fine..
But I still wonder all the time.
Do you still believe in the stories told
To you by my friends and I when you were four years old?
how it got so cold, that words just froze,
we had to wait 'til summer to find out what was said
One of the best times that we had..
I know I say that I'm just fine,
But I hope you wonder from time to time.
I was nervous from the start that our muscles might tear us apart,
(are muscles tearing us apart?)
From the words that carve our lives to the words that take us by surprise,
(I was never taken by surprise)
From the sounds that disappeared to the changes we'd begin to fear,
(I can hear you clearly!)
One day I'll fail to breathe, and all you'll have are memories..
(All we are are memories...)
Lgfuad
Not found
Better Open The Door
You better open the door before I take a hammer to the walls around it
I cannot let you inside my cell for fear I'll sink the ship and drag us both down
Our hell ends every weekend
But it's all I have to believe in
[x2]
Matt makes his murderous demand: foreign films
I take a stand and it's all uphill from here (at least I hope so)
Kate claims she can't depend on me for anything and I agree
It's crystal clear
I reach for the bottle and disappear
Our hell ends every weekend
But it's all I have to believe in
[x2]
Frank fails to see the humor in my sad attempts at breakdancing in every bar along Lyndale Avenue
Liz likes to liquor up my thoughts from the C.C. Club to the Triple Rock
There's no escape from the chorus of people screaming:
You better open the door before I take a hammer to the walls around it
I cannot let you inside my cell for fear I'll sink the ship and drag us both down
Our hell ends every weekend
But it's all I have to believe in
[x2]
I'll swim backwards [x6]
I'll swim alone the long goodbye
You better open the door before I take a hammer to the walls around it
I cannot let you inside my cell for fear I'll sink the ship and drag us both down
Together We'll Ring In The New Year
This must be it
Welcome to the new year
The drinks were consumed
The plants were destroyed
And the hors d'oeuvres dismantled
I'm not smiling behind this fake veneer
I am often interrupted or completely ignored
But most of all I'm bored
I'm trying to find out if my words have any meaning
Lackluster and full of contempt when it always ends the same
Why won't she listen to me?
Why did I come?
Oh why did I come here?
These humands all suck
I'd rather be home
Feeling violent and lonely
I'm not trying to sound so insincere
But the postcard that's taped to the freezer reads "Wish you were here"
How I wish I could disappear
Heads up!
Damage control
There's a ring around her finger
Last chance
For changing lanes and you missed it by a mile
Hangman
Fed up with "made you look"
And dirty crooks without a clue
They all wear the same face
And it says, "Hangman, I'm on to you"
Hangman, it's not your fault
Commit this to memory
The bright ideas always get lost along the way
Last call for medicine
To count me in and turn me loose
I never meant to hide anything
But I'll never tell the truth
Hangman, it's not your fault
Commit this to memory
The bright ideas always get lost along the way
Commit this to memory (commit this to memory)
Commit this to memory (commit this to memory)
Commit this to memory (commit this to memory)
Commit this to memory
I'm just a guy that never tried
I'm just a stupid fuck with brilliant luck
And sometimes a bright idea
So shower me in a chorus of compliments
And verse I don't deserve
I might run but I'll never hide
Hey, that's not right
You can't complain
"Everything's gonna be just fine"
Said the pen to the dotted line
If memory serves, then mark my words
This game's called "catch me if you can"
And with wine will salute all our bitterness
Fed up with "made you look"
And dirty crooks without a clue
They all wear the same face
And it says, "Hangman I'm on to you"