Saves The Day - Stay What You Are lyrics
- At Your Funeral
- See You
- Cars And Calories
- Certain Tragedy
- Jukebox Breakdown
- Freakish
- As Your Ghost Takes Flight
- Nightingale
- All I'm Losing Is Me
- This Is Not An Exit
- Firefly
At Your Funeral
This song will become the anthem of your underground
You're two floors down getting high in the back room.
If I flooded out your house,
Do you think you'd make it out?
Or would you burn up before the water filled your lungs?
And at your funeral,
I will sing the requiem
This song will become the anthem of your underground
You're two floors down getting high in the back room.
If I flooded out your house, do you think you'd make it out?
Or would you burn up before the water fills your lungs?
And at your funeral,
I will sing the requiem
I'd offer you my hand
It would hurt too much to watch you die
And you can bet when we mourn the death of you that night (of you that night)
They'll lay me on the dinner table
I will be the pig
With the apple in my mouth
The food that celebrates your end
And at your funeral,
I will sing the requiem
I'd offer you my hand
It would hurt too much to watch you die
And at your funeral I will sing the requiem
I'd offer you my hand
It would hurt too much to watch you die
See You
My gut is burning.
Won't you find me some water?
Hey, just forget it can you bring me gasoline?
Collect a couple forks,
Hold them three feet apart
And wait for lightening to strike to burn me up
Cause I don't think that I have got the stomach
To stomach calling you today.
My head is swirling.
Its been carried off in the sky
And where it lands is where it lands.
I guess that I will get another head
Then get on with my life
Leave you somewhere beneath the waves of time.
And I'll wear glass shoes and plastic wrap.
No, I'll just wear my insides.
You want to know who I really am?
Yeah, so do I.
Yeah, so do I.
Cause I don't think that I have got the stomach
To stomach calling you today.
Cause I don't think that I have got the stomach
To stomach calling you today.
Right now, I am turning off the lights
Cause I don't think
I have got the stomach to stomach calling you today.
Cause I don't think that I have got the stomach
To stomach calling you today.
Cause I don't think that I have got the stomach
To stomach calling you today.
Cars And Calories
Her life was magazines and faithful TV screens selling an empty dream
of cars and calories and everything in between the sun and Saturn's ring,
but the price tag can't be seen and it took bites out of her insides till she was just a hollow shell.
She grew up in east LA watching celebrities living out all of her dreams.
The plastic canopy of US royalty drew her gaze towards the sky and away from her own mind.
And it took bites out of her insides till she was just a hollow shell.
And at home her mother cried cause daddy had something on the side and they didn't look up when she sighed.
And when August came around, the bathing suits were on the ground replaced by a cotton cloak.
To see her own reflection was like squinting in the sun.
And when all tomorrow brings is a set if broken wings it takes bites out of your insides till you are just a hollow shell.
Certain Tragedy
And now I finally see that the further we go
We're only treading ground that we already know.
I could write you a song,
Send you a note,
Or empty out your trash
And buy a bucket full of diamonds
But even the most beautiful of all roses
Must someday crumble to dust and fade away.
It's certain tragedy.
So, it's on into the lonely nights and all the rest of it.
The empty space between me and the sunken walls
And feeling someone's hand around my neck
Choking away the life that I have left.
And I can finally see that the further I go
I'm only treading ground I don't want to know.
I'll probably hang upside down
From wooden rafters in my home
And look at old photos of you.
So, it's on into the lonely nights and all the rest of it.
The empty space between me and the sunken walls
And feeling someone's hand around my neck
Choking away the life that I have left.
I miss the warmth of the summer
When we were on our own,
But now it's winter and my bones are cold.
And now I finally see that the further we go
We're only treading ground that we already know.
I could write you a song,
Send you a note,
Or empty out your trash
And buy a bucket full of diamonds
But even the most beautiful of all roses
Must someday crumble to dust and fade away.
It's certain tragedy.
Jukebox Breakdown
If you've got a quarter
You can stick it in my neck
I'll sing whatever song you want
For whatever mood you're in
Isn't that what you expect?
I can sing you to sleep
Got a mouth full of blood
And I'll carry this casket if its what I have to do
So bring on the dark sky
Let it cover me entirely
Isn't that what you expect?
I can sing you to sleep
And all you want from me
Is a broken heart
And I'll run down to the river
Grab 5 buckets of water
Wait right where you are
And I will serve you at your table
Hope you like my restaurant
And the lighting is right
The jukebox is in the corner
My mouth is the speaker
And it plays your favorite songs
And you know where the coin slot is
Isn't that what you expect
I can sing you to sleep
And all you want from me
Is a broken heart
Isn't that what you expect
I can sing you to sleep
And all you want from me
Is a broken heart a broken heart
Freakish
As I'm talking my words
Slip to the floor
And they crawl through your legs
Slide under
The back door
Rendering me
Freakish and dazed
Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know
Is awkward silence
Your eyelids close
When you're around me
To shut me out
So I'll go walking in the streets
Until my heels bleed
And ill sing out my song
In case the birds wish to sing along
And ill dig a tunnel to the center of the universe
Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know is awkward silence
Your eyelids close when youre around me
To shut me out
I'll make my way across the frozen sea
Beyond the blank horizon
Where I can forget you and me
And get a decent night sleep
Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know is awkward silence
Your eyelids close when youre around me
To shut me out
Well here I am dont know how to say this
Only thing I know is awkward silence
Your eyelids close when youre around me
To shut me out
To shut me out
(dont shut me out)
To shut me out
(dont shut me out)
To shut me out
(dont count me out)
To shut me out
(dont shut me out)
As Your Ghost Takes Flight
The last time that I saw you, August of '99,
I should've had my hammer and a few rusty spikes
to nail you on a wall and use bottles to catch your blood
and display you for the neighbors so they'd know your time had come.
And I'd drink your blood, feel it dripping down my throat
and heading for my heart.
And as your body sags and the stench rises in vain,
the people on the street are collecting in dismay.
Before their eyes your head lifts towards the sky
and that's the last thing they'll remember of you.
Cause I'd drink your blood, feel it dripping down my throat
and heading for my heart.
You've become a ghost.
You're floating somewhere in between
the waking world and a landscape of dreams.
Well it's nothing but dying.
Got a grenade stuck in your teeth and you're pulling at the pin.
You're an illusion, just a shadow flickering underneath the sun.
And I'd drink your blood, feel it dripping down my throat
and heading for my heart.
Nightingale
And I will flail under these lights
That seep down from the bitter sky tonight
And I will kick and beat my wrists together
And feel an ocean breathing waves,
Feel them licking at my face.
Ceilings don't exist
And there are no floors beneath me.
If I were king of this night,
Would you become my queen?
And I hope, your majesty,
That you like your position.
I'll do everything I can
To keep you by my side
And I'll stare off through the darkness
To find us a kingdom.
Just kiss me before I go.
I'll have to walk a thousand miles
Just to find the ground deserving of your feet.
You could throw me down
And walk on me.
And I'd just look on through my love
And through the haze.
And I hope, your majesty,
That you like your position.
I'll do everything I can
To keep you by my side
And Ill stare off through the darkness
To find us a kingdom.
Just kiss me before I go.
The nightingales are singing loud.
(yeah)They're calling out our marriage
To our subjects on their knees
Their jewlry is thrown into the air.
They sigh at the release
As their shackles hit the ground.
The trumpets call out now.
We're home at last.
And I hope, your majesty,
That you like your position.
I'll do everything I can
To keep you by my side
And I'll stare off through the darkness
To find us a kingdom.
Just kiss me before I go.
All I'm Losing Is Me
The moon hangs like the blade of an axe tonight
And it's poised to drop sometime soon enough
On this dumptruck where I lie.
Mixed up with the morning's trash
There's a piece of glass sticking in my back
And tar covering my mouth.
But it's ok 'cause I'm still breathing
And my hands are free of the money. *oh yeah*
And I think that I see that big blade falling.
And I think that I see that big blade coming.
And the pressure is getting to me.
And the waste in which I sit is just lurking beside me.
And I can't tell if it's me, or the meat that's rotting.
I'm gonna have to give up sometime soon.
But it's ok 'cause I'm still breathing
And my hands are free of the money.
And I think that I see that big blade falling.
And I think that I see that big blade coming.
You can watch me dissappear
You can watch me
All I'm losing is me
All I'm losing is me
All I'm losing is me
All I'm losing is me
And I think that I see that big blade falling
And I think that I see that big blade coming
To slice open a great canyon
Through the earth you can watch me dissappear.
This Is Not An Exit
Tonight will be
The night that we
Begin to ease
The plugs out of the dam
And we will stand
Knee deep in the flow
The undertow will
Grab our heels and won't let go
And while we hold
Our legs quivering
The water rises now
To our teeth when we just let go
Chorus: And sail, belly up to the clouds
The rocks scraping our backs
To breathe in the air will be
The only thing that we have
And all the wasted nights
And empty moments in our lives
Flushed away
As we sway with the rhythm
Of the waves
Bobbing us up
Crests fall to troughs
Feel our gills open up
Chorus
And if the hook sets in
The bottom of our lungs
We'll rip it out and
Lick the blood off with our tongues
Despair
Can ravage you
If you turn your head around
And look down the path
That's led you here
Cause what can you change?
You're a vessel now
Floating down the waterways
You can take your rudder
And aim your ship
Just don't bother
With the things left in your wake
Just sail, belly up to the clouds
The rocks scraping your back
To the breathe in the air will be
The only thing that you have
And your love will be warm nights
With pockets of moonlight
Spotlighting you as you drift,
The actor in this play
And you walk across the stage
Take a bow and hear the applause
And as the curtain falls
Just know you did it all
The best that you knew how
And you can hear them cheerin' now
So let a smile and show your teeth
Cause you know you lived it well
Firefly
I said I'd walk you home
After our third round
Of pouring whiskey down
The barrel of our guts
Grab hold of your hand
We're up and we're out and
We're yelling through the streets
And I'm out of my fucking mind
And I know you're next to me
But I must confess
What's in my head
Keep pumping now
Legs to beat the ground
And our hearts to beat the band
Sky's on fire again
Run down this alleyway
Lightning bolts again
We become fireflies
Just flashing at the ends
Rattle garbage cans
Prepare to be ravaged
By our lust burning mad
To find that we've become
And I know you're under me
But I must confess
What's in my head
To me you are the light
From a lightbulb that breaks sometimes
And the tender warmth inside
Is released into my life
To me you are the light
From a lightbulb that breaks sometimes
And the tender warmth inside
Is released into my life
And it smothers me in flames
That lick and scorch my face
As the smoke reaches the sky
Know I'm burning tonight
Know I'm burning tonight
Know I'm burning tonight
Know I'm burning tonight
know I'll burn for you tonight