Strata - Strata Presents The End of The World lyrics
- Night Falls - The Weight Of It
- Hot/Cold (Darling, Don't)
- The Dotted Line...
- Cocaine (We're All Going to Hell)
- Coma Therapy
- Poughkeepsie, NY
- Stay Young
- The Brothers
- Love Is Life
- The New National Anthem
- Natoma Alley
- Daylight In The City
Night Falls - The Weight Of It
The room filled up with water and the roar of the crowd died down
they didn't hold their breath, they just waited to drown
Now I'm just the ghost in the corner that nobody knows
I'm just a chill in the air that comes and cuts you to the bone
I've never seen it shine so bright before
I stumble blind into the light of it all
The walls of this city are all cold metal and stone
but we're nothing permanent we're just soft skin and bones
I'm just the pins and the needles attacking your toes
I'm just a message you saved in your phone a long, long time ago
where I'm singing how
I've never seen it shine so bright before,
I stumbled blind into the light, the light of it all
You've never seen it shine, so hard before
You'd crumble underneath the weight, the weight of it all
I'm always with you
I never left you alone
Hot/Cold (Darling, Don't)
You said your hope was lost
My eyes were stinging hot
The first of the tears to fall hurts the worst of all
I had it all planned out, what I was going to say
But then that lump in my throat stole my words away
Darling, if nothing else, I know that this is true
I'd have nobody if I don't have you.
But you said your hope was lost
My eyes were stinging hot
The first of the tears to fall...
Have you given too much away?
Are you giving us up?
Did the going get tough this time?
Don't give up on us
I said, "look at the map on the wall,
put your fingers on where we are,
no matter where I go we're just an inch apart."
You interrupted and said, "not that old speech again!
If we're just an inch apart, then reach out and grab my hand."
I know that this is true, at least it used to be,
you'd have nobody if you don't have me...
And didn't we say forever?
Didn't I promise you?
Didn't we say forever?
Darling don't
We didn't come this far just to throw it all away
The Dotted Line...
Your knees are bruised up
You don't even know what you're worshiping
Outside the sun rises in the silence of another suicide scene
There's nothing sacred here, no, nothing's left clean
Say it! Say it! I know what you're thinking now,
you're blowing your smoke in my face,
you just need a little taste of it
Say it! Say it! It's all in the script in L.A.
I don't even know your name, but you want everything
Somebody's kissing me
like it means everything and
somewhere someone's shaking my hand
in the back seat of a limousine
Now who can I trust?
These new friends are so dangerous
They don't love you, never give your heart away
They don't love you; they'll just take your heart away
Name your price
sign it away on the dotted line
and I'll make you famous
Cocaine (We're All Going to Hell)
She draws the costume correct
in thick, black and red eyeliner
She's too young for the club
but the guys at the door don't mind her
The boys are all lining up
for their chance to wine and dine her
She thinks she's working the scene
but she's caught up in a web full of spiders
(and all the drinks they buy her)
She don't like cocaine, baby
just likes how it smells says maybe
you can drive me home if you want
Then you wake up beside her saying,
"baby I think you should leave..."
She had a really rough night,
she got too high, now she can't breathe
and if the ambulance comes
you know they're gonna bring the police
so you wrap her up tight,
put her to sleep beneath a willow tree
and your hands are clean
So go out and have your fun tonight
you might as well
go out and raise your glass to life
Go out and have your fun tonight,
you might as well
go out and raise your drinks to life
'cause we're all going to Hell
And so no we can see how easily we become
hopelessly tangled up in the very webs we've spun
So give me one last line and I promise you I'm done
This is the story of how one night can weigh a ton
Coma Therapy
I felt you come to life on my fingertips
I mixed your blood with mine
wanted to feel like this forever
I've got nothing left to lose
but my memories of you
and there's no better cure for me
than this coma therapy
(so let me drift away)
You whispered in my ear like a bomb going off
What the Hell are we doing here?
Is this all we've got?
Poughkeepsie, NY
I met the Devil in Poughkeepsie, New York
He took a seat right beside me at the end of the bar
He said I looked familiar, had we met sometime before?
Yeah, I drank with the Devil in Poughkeepsie, New York
And I confessed I hadn't prayed to God since nineteen-eighty-eight,
he said, " oh kid, you should try again, you know, before it's too late."
I asked him where my soul would go if I just dropped dead today,
he smiled and said "Oh, you've got some good friends waiting for you at the gates."
Hallelujah! O', Hallelujah!
He said, "Just say the word and I'll give you fame and fancy whores,
or would you rather die a simple man, just honest and poor?"
I said, "Well now I know who my real friends are and I can't ask for much more."
I thanked the Devil for my drinks and made my way for the door
Stay Young
Nothing to lose is a path you can choose
and it feels just right at the time
Then one day you awake with a fear you can't shake,
you're an actor forgetting your lines
You were a star when you started, so bright eyed and ready
but now you just can't seem to shine
Nothing to lose is a path that you choose
and it feels just right at the time
But can you still remember your very first kiss
or the future you hoped for when we were still kids?
Stay young, stay young
There are constants like gravity, heartbreak and shame,
you can never out-run them, they're part of your name
like lessons you learn from a past you can't change,
stay young, stay young
For a lifetime of paying dues and ruthless reviews,
yeah it's hard not to end up a cynic
when everyone's too scared to walk in your shoes
but can work up the nerve to be critics
No, don't lose you heart
Don't lose your soul
Don't give up control
It's the business end of a loaded gun,
facing tomorrows of black, useless lungs
with nothing but lies left on tips of our tongues,
stay young, stay young!
Oh can you still remember your very first kiss
or the future you hoped for when we were still kids
trying to keep up our innocence in this fucked up world?
Stay young, stay young, stay young...
The Brothers
(Instrumental)
Love Is Life
I've got enough wood and nails here
I've collected through the years
to build a few sturdy walls to keep us safe from all my fears
My insecurities are promises I was born to keep;
you know I live just to die for my beliefs
Well, I believe in myself and I believe in you,
if it's the last thing we both do,
let's take a good, deep breath
remember this...
Love is life, this love is my life
And in you I have all I need
I think we could stretch this out forever,
like a blanket on the sand
and we could learn a couple dances,
we'll do them hand in hand until we end and even after
'cause death can't tear apart these two hearts sewn together,
meant to be this from the start
In sickness and health and all that we've been through,
if it's the last thing we both do,
let's take a good, deep breath
remember this...
The New National Anthem
O' Say, can you see?
By the dawn's early light
we get 'em young, give 'em guns and ship 'em off to fight
While the rocket's red glare is keeping everyone scared
they say, "just relax - put your trust in me
and you can sit back and watch the war on your screen."
The country's run by lunatics, they're picking up their pens,
writing themselves into Revelation, "this is how it's gonna end!"
Well, I tried hard to bite my tongue, like a good American
but they recruited my little brother and they're shipping off my friends
Broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
you know those who stand to gain are not the ones who sacrifice
watching bombs burst in air from a comfortable chair,
they just say, "in God we trust, and God trusts in greed,
yeah as long as they never show real blood on TV."
I'm not sorry if this makes you mad, in fact I hope this wakes you up
'Cause you'll never see what's going on with your eyes so tightly shut!
There are too many unanswered questions,
from the towers in New York
to the lies leading up to another corporate sponsored war
Well I'll support the troops by asking what they're really fighting for
and I think that's more patriotic than flying a flag from my front porch
Come on, let's go out and start a fight!
'Cause you know two wrongs always make a right
Come on, let's go out and start a fight!
'Cause you know two wrongs never make a right
Natoma Alley
(Instrumental)
Daylight In The City
It's the start of a bright new day
as the light finds its way through the curtains
at the end of my night
I'm alive in a city of dead people rising for work
And as they ride through the cycle, the machine revving up,
I feel a little suicidal, just not high enough to jump
Oh who am I kidding now?
My plan to die young, somehow is just a memory now
It's daylight in the city, "just hold me,"
she said, "it's been a long night in the city,
just hold me, hold me..."
I had an old friend who said I should run
like today is the last of my sick, sorry little life
And as I stared into my own eyes in the mirror by my bed,
that's when I realized nobody ever told me that,
I'm just afraid of dying
She told me everything is gonna be all right
It’s been a long night
Everything is gonna be just fine