Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning

Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning lyrics

This Could Be Love
We've Had Enough
One Hundred Stories
Continental
All On Black
Emma
Fatally Yours
Every Thug Needs A Lady
Blue Carolina
Donner Party (All Night)
If We Never Go Inside
Blue In The Face
Dead End Road
Old School Reasons

This Could Be Love

I've got a book of matches
I've got a can of kerosene
I've got some mad ideas
Involving you and me
I don't blame you for walking away
I touch myself at thoughts of flames
I shat bed I laid there in it
Thinking of you wide awake for days
Wide awake for days

And I found you tongue tied
At my twisted little brain
You couldn't crack a smile
I didn't catch your name
I don't blame you for walking away
I'd do the same thing if I saw me
I swear it's not contagious
In four short steps we can erase this

Step one slit my throat
Step two play in my blood
Step three cover me in bloody sheets
And run laughing out of the house
Step four stop off at Edgebrook Creek
And rinse your crimson hands
You took me hostage and made your demands
I couldn't met em so you cut off my fingers one by one
One by one

I'm like a broken record
I've got a needle scratching me
It injects the poisons
Of alcohol IV
I don't blame you for walking away
I'd do the same if I saw me
I swear it's not contagious
I swear to god it's not contagious

Step one slit my throat
Step two play in my blood
Step three cover me in bloody sheets
And run laughing out of the house
Step four stop at Lake Michigan
And rinse your crimson hands
You took me hostage and made your demands
I couldn't met em so you cut off my fingers one by one

This could be love
(Love for fire)
This could be love
(Love for fire)
This could be love for fire forever more

Step one slit my throat
Step two play in my blood
Step three cover me in bloody sheets
And run laughing out of the house
Step four stop at the Berkely Marina
And rinse your crimson hands
You took me hostage and made your demands
I couldn't met em so you cut off my fingers one by one
One by one

We've Had Enough

In the shadows where the heads hang low
You hear the voices as the wind blows
Asking can't you see?
Reminding you to breath
It's only time before it catches up
To you and all your broken luck
I've found a better way
To get even with my memory

In the darkness where the angels cry
Give us water, give us back our lives
Our beds, this concrete floor, and it's
All we have left to live for
A day we'll never face, we're only
Second-handed, sick, and lonely
Fighting back the tears
And every urge to Van Gogh both our ears

That's it, we've had enough
Please turn that fucking radio off
Ain't nothing on the air wave in the despair we feel
No!

That's it, we've had enough
Please turn that fucking radio off
Ain't nothing on the air wave in the despair we feel

That said, We've had enough
Put 'Walk Among Us' on and turn it up
Ain't nothing on the air wave in the hatred we feel
No!

This is our biggest fear
The only tunes that we hear
Come via antenna to your car radio, oh no, no
No!

That's it, we've had enough
(We've had enough)
That's it, we've had enough
(We've had enough)

One Hundred Stories

You're in the next room sleeping and
I'm shouting out a song for you
I shouldn't wake you over the furnace,
but I should swear to someone you'd have loved every note
So dream a good one tonight
I'll listen to the bad ones when they come
Get up in my ear 'till I hear every word
Every turn of your tongue, I will tighten my grip
No one could tell even if I fell 100 stories straight down, down, down
No one could tell even if I fell 100 stories down

I was getting bored with hurting myself
If you fall down enough, well soon enough,
you will find hell
It can't be as� as pretty as we hoped it would be
It's not even warm here, not even ten degrees

This bed is too big to sleep in,
and I'm dying just to feel you breath
You couldn't see across the ocean,
but I was turning over 'till the vampires sleep
So dream a good one tonight
I'll listen to the bad ones when they come
Get up in my ear 'till I hear every word
Every turn of your tongue, I will tighten my grip
No one could tell even if I fell 100 stories straight down, down, down
No one could tell even if I fell 100 stories down

I was getting bored with hurting myself
If you fall down enough, well soon enough, you will find hell
It can't be as� as pretty as we hoped it would be
It's not even warm here, not even ten degrees

Dream a good one tonight
Dream a good one tonight
Dream a good one tonight
Dream a good one tonight

I was getting bored with hurting myself
So dream a good one tonight
I was getting bored with hurting myself
So dream a good one tonight
I was getting bored with hurting myself
So dream a good one tonight
I was getting bored with hurting myself

Continental

I've got a dying urge to feel the way you do
Too close for comfort, bed and breakfast in a spoon
The shortest breath of your young life
A long walk home on Friday night
You made one last stop at the store

So close to perfect, swear to hell, thought it was you
This bouncing baby boy's now turning baby blue
I've got your pictures on my walls
I've got a long list of calls I must make to your existing family

You had nine lives and one by one you chewed 'em up
Your final coffin nail's been driven far too much
This won't take long, you said, I'm not going far
Go wait in the car
Go wait in the car

I often wonder what it feels like to be you
A mess like this stuck on your hands with crazy glue
Ran out of time, no kiss goodbye
Wish I could learn to let this sleeping dog die without lying to myself

You had nine lives and one by one you chewed 'em up
Your final coffin nail's been driven far too much
This won't take long, you said, I'm not going far
Go wait in the car
Go wait in the car

All On Black

I put it all on black
no color you're all dressed in
And a stab in the back
Left you bleeding on the floor
And I'm mourning the death
The recent passing of your insides
I smile in regret
Every time I think of how I spoke to you

I put it all in back
Of my mind where I hold you
I'm just trying to keep track
How far back it really goes
And I'm living in lack
Of the blood sent from the heavens
I'm just tryin' to relax
As a killer's waiting right outside my door

What's black and white?
What's red all over?
This tired book (this tired book) this organ donor

Sweet blasphemy, my giving tree
It hasn't rained in years
I bring you this sacrificial offering of virgin ears
Leave it to me, I'll remain free
From all the comforts of home
And where that is, I'm pleased as piss to say
I'll never really know

I put 'em all in black
The four walls of my bedroom
And I trimmed them in red
Peeled your picture off the wall
And I'm living in lack
Of the blood sent from your heartbeat
That arrived in your neck
Every time I salivated over you

What's upside down?
What's coated in silver?
This crucifix is my four leaf clover

Sweet blasphemy, my giving tree
It hasn't rained in years
I bring to you this sacrificial offering of virgin ears
Leave it to me, I'll remain free
From all the comforts of home
And where that is, I'm pleased as piss to say
I'll never really know

One of these days
It's gonna catch up to you
Throwin' looks like those around
And one of these nights
I promise to you
I'll soon be sleeping sound
As soon as I leave town

Emma

Emma appeared like an angel
Emma fell like rain
Into my lap like a heart attack, like lightning from her name
I'm running dry of bad excuses
Don't want to lie or seem intrusive
But time hasn't told me anything, and neither has she

A poinsettia in poison rain
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with one silver bullet and two vicodin
With two vicodin

Emma woke up in darkness, suitcase already packed
Note on the bedstand signed in blood, "Sincerely, never coming back."
A nightmare on my street the day she arrived
A nightmarish household in which she died, because it made her feel at home
Somehow made me feel at home

A poinsettia in poison rain
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with one wooden stake through the heart and two vicodin

A poinsettia in poison rain
Traded true love for insult and injury
We washed it down the drain with one silver bullet and two vicodin
We watched the sun fall crown on a city that sleeps in a world upside down
A slow ticket straight out of town
You went out with a bang when you took with you all my dreams underground
With you all my dreams underground

Fatally Yours

There's no mystery no more, just no talking to you
Guess you had other things in store
Guess I felt I was through
I answered every question as accurately as I could

I don't hear from you no more, but I get the message
You crashed your car through my front door, I pulled you from the wreckage
You told me that you missed me
But you meant with the grill and hood
You'd kill me if you could

And if it's okay, I'll just grab my shit and leave
I won't say one word, I'll keep my tricks up my sleeve
Flew off of the handle, you opened fire on me
Put me down, put me out of misery
I'm fatally yours

You set fire to me that night, you lit and left me burning
Out of my mind, but in my sights, I saw the tables turning
I had a friend that needed me
You made a wish that won't come true, and now it's killing two

Every Thug Needs A Lady

I know it's dark here, you know that I'm scared too
For some reason right now, of everything but you
Right now you're all that I recognize
You know I came here when I needed your soft voice
I needed to hear something that sounded like an answer
Now I wait here, and sometimes I get one

It's nothing I'll forget when the moon gets tired
You are stuck to me everyday
Believe in what I am because it's all I have today
And tomorrow who knows where we'll be
From here I can hardly see a thing
But I will follow anyone who brings me to you
For now, forever, for on and on and on

You know it starts here, outside waiting in the cold
Kiss me once in the snow, I swear it never gets old
And I will promise you I can make it warmer next year
You know I came here when I needed your soft voice
I needed to hear something that sounded like an answer
Now I stay here, and everyday I get one

So go plug in your electric blanket
We can stay in 'till our southern summer wedding day
Go plug in your electric blanket
We can stay here

Blue Carolina

It's everything that I can do right now
To not think about you moving further off with every passing second
And every night of this lonely summertime
I feel you missing from my heart, a part was kidnapped from my soul

Well, I can hardly wait until I get the sun and your lips both pressing on my skin
Well, I can hardly wait until I feel that thrill in my heart that starts inside your eyes
And a song in my head that burns so good on my tongue
Yes I will, yeah, yeah
Yes I will

The night is aging as the sun warms your face
Won't you turn around and stay for good, the air is getting much too cold
I am nervous and anxious, it really counts this time
And you know all my favorite singers have stolen all of my best lines

Someday I'll burn this bed
Only two feet wide, but where I'll hide for the next 17 days
I will ask myself, "How badly do I want this?"
I really want this
Well, I can hardly wait until I get the sun and your lips both pressing on my skin
Well, I can hardly wait until I feel that thrill in my heart that starts inside your eyes
And a song in my head that burns so good on my tongue
Yes I will, yeah, yeah
Yes I will, yeah, yeah
Yes I will

Donner Party (All Night)

So it began this way, I can't recall how it got started
So it began this way, I don't recall a thing
And all in all I guess it's for the better
If you don't remember anything, sit and sing
There was a time when everything we did seemed second nature
There was a time when everything we did seemed free
And all in all I guess it's for the better
If you don't remember anything, sit and sing

And I wanted you to know
It was you that we were thinking of as we quietly died in the snow
A place we'd never leave
A place we'd never want to call home
A place we'd call a final resting place in pieces

So we began this way, I don't recall where we got started
And so we end this way no trace of us in spring
All in all, I guess it's for the better if you just can't feel a fucking thing
Fall asleep and die

If We Never Go Inside

A train appeared in town one night, for some of us it changed our lives
A few of us never saw it coming, then like the fire it disappeared
It happens at a wonderful age, with the traffic lights your mind can change
We made up rules to follow for good
No wonder we're fucked up, some of us did

Tonight never ends if we never go inside
The moon is always full
Your calendar is always pinned on summertime

Were you planning on staying forever?
You don't fit in this hole, or don't you remember?
Hold your breath
Walk, don't run, through the graveyard

A train appeared in town one night, for some of us it saved our lives
A few of us never saw it coming, then like the fire we disappear
It happens at a wonderful age, with the traffic lights your mind can change
We made up rules to follow for good
No wonder we're @#%$ up, some of us did

I'm just scared I might never say goodbye
I won't be around to hold you down, pry open your ears and ask you why

Were you planning on staying forever?
You don't fit in this hole, or don't you remember?
Hold your breath
Walk, don't run, through the graveyard

Is this why you've worked so hard?
Is this why you've run so far?
Same place, same hello, same goodbye
Helps you pick through beat up insides

Were you planning on staying forever?
You don't fit in this hole, or don't you remember?
Hold your breath
Walk, don't run, through the graveyard

Blue In The Face

It's about time that I came clean with you
I'm no longer fine, I'm no longer running smooth
I though that I found myself under something new
Just one more line I repeat over and over again
'Till I'm blue in the face with a choking regret
Because I talk in circles 'round you on my bed
Can't say I blame you one bit when you kept it all inside
When you left that night

It's about time that you got sick of me
No longer fun, and so far from interesting
I thought that I found me a cure for feeling old
Just one more line to keep me sleeping loudly and cold
In disgrace with a shameful regret
As I talk in tongues to myself in my bed
Can't say I blame you one bit when you kept it all inside
When you left that night

And all that followed fell like mercury to hell
Somehow we lost our heads for the last time
And all that followed fell like mercury to hell
Somehow we lost our heads for the last time

And I don't dream since I quit sleeping
And I haven't slept since I met you
And you can't breathe without coughing at daytime
And neither can I
So what do you say?
Your coffin, or mine?

Dead End Road

I thought that you were joking
When you said you couldn't breathe
You said you couldn't breathe
Turns out that you were choking
On a town you couldn't leave
You knew you'd never leave
It met your disapproval at the age of 8 years old
You were only 8 years old
From then on there was no removal
From that one way dead end road
That one way dead end road

I thought that you were laughing
When you cried your eyeballs out
You cried your eyeballs out
And I don't mean to be prying
But what were you so sad about
What are you still sad about
Met your disappointment at the age of 9 years old
You were only 9 years old
From then on there would be no ointment
To take away these burns
To make that pain grow dull and forever ain't that long
When your smile's stuck in your head like a pop song
All you think about is death
Your dirty head has gone unswept for way too long now
For way too long now

I thought that you were sleeping
When I found you there in bed
I found you there in bed
When I touched you you were freezing
It turned out that you were dead
It turned out that you were dead
It met your disapproval at the age of 8 years old
You were only 8 years old
From then on there was no removal
From your fucked up head and your broken home and forever ain't that long
When your smile's stuck in your head like a pop song
All you think about is death
Your dirty head has gone unswept for way too long now
For way too long now
For way too long now
For way too long now

Old School Reasons

I got these thoughts in my head
dirty as fuck and never leaving
and they're best left unsaid
all the drinks on your breath

got some shit off my chest
threw it on my back next to the monkey nest
that somebody left
with me the day I was born

I got a hole in my head
the size of lake fuckin' michigan
my pipe's lined in lead
got old school reasons to die

all my money's been spent
on a facelift via alcohal
as this sinner repents
to an empty bathroom reflection

please take these words
and do with them what you would like
the dream I had, it drove me mad
it's just your time, it's just my fucking life

I got a bottle in hand
straight to the ground with all my memories
It's best left unsaid
when they've all been left behind

all my money's been spent
on a DIY lobotomy
this sinner repents
to a lake and bathroom mirror

please take these words
and do with them what you would like
the dream I had, it drove me mad
it's just your time, it's just my fucking life

so take these words
and do with them what you would like
the dream you had, it drove me mad
it's just your time, it's just my fucking life

and that's my life
over and over again
it's just my fucking life

it might seem meaningless to you
but it means everything to me
and I'm fucked without you

please take these words
and do with them what you would like
the dream I had, it drove me mad
it's just your time, it's just my fucking life

and that's my life
over and over again
it's just my fucking life

Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning lyrics

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