Chiodos - Bone Palace Ballet lyrics
- Is It Progression If A Cannibal Uses A Fork?
- Lexington (Joey Pea-Pot With A Monkey Face)
- Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered
- A Letter From Janelle
- I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was A Wizard
- Teeth The Size Of Piano Keys
- Life Is A Perception Of Your Own Reality
- If I Cut My Hair, Hawaii Will Sink
- Intensity In Ten Cities
- The Undertaker's Thirst For Revenge Is Unquenchable. (The Final Battle)
Is It Progression If A Cannibal Uses A Fork?
Listen up sweetie.
We all know that you're a beautiful girl in this horrible world.
In this suggestion of horror.
The portraits on the walls...
Look at their eyes, they always seem to follow.
Look at their eyes, they always seem to follow me!
Out of tune this tale of terror.
The solemn tolling of the funeral bells.
I want to know what's going on in that pretty little head of yours
where everyday's a Bone Palace Ballet.
Biting the flesh from your finger.
You know, I just can't help myself.
I wish to believe, but belief is a graveyard.
May this light never see morning, as finally one will not.
Maybe you're the one that's overrated.
Shriek and scream much too horrified to speak.
Out of tune this tale of terror.
The solemn tolling of the funeral bells.
I want to know what's going on in that pretty little head of yours
where everyday's a Bone Palace Ballet.
(Flowers of red, begin to bloom on the white sheets in her room.
Our lifeless bodies lying there rotting. For all of time, and eternity)
This morning I woke up, I rubbed my eyes,
and I took a quick glance around the room,
and saw what happened here last night.
There was blood on the walls,
and the sheets smelled like sweat and sex.
We have narrowed it down to a butcher knife,
and the mockingbird with the blood.
Out of tune this tale of terror.
The solemn tolling of the funeral bells.
I want to know what's going on in that pretty little head of yours
where everyday's a Bone Palace Ballet.
Lexington (Joey Pea-Pot With A Monkey Face)
The fields are near and I wont trust the air with secrets
I can't stop holding this treasure in my arms
For all the water in the ocean could never turn
The swan's legs from black to white
Let them say. let them say. let them say what they please
You wont be leaving my arms ever. I promise you that.
Even if you want me to let go honey
Even if you want me to let go
You wont be leaving my arms ever. I promise you that.
Even if you want me to let go honey
Even if you say the things that make me want to lose you
We went on drinking, celebrating something
I looked at you and said that I'm forever yours
You looked at me and said oh the idea of being in love
The idea. the idea. of being forever yours. yeah.
You wont be leaving my arms ever. I promise you that
Even if you want me to let go honey
Even if you want me to let go
You wont be leaving my arms ever. I promise you that
Even if you want me to let go honey
Even if you say the things that make me want to lose you
Screaming from the inside of me, lonely and pleading phantasm
We only get what we see; gazing so desperately
Between the things that we fear; gazing so desperately
In love with illusions; were watching segregating illusions
Between the things that we see and the things that we fear
No no it wont make then disappear.
You wont be leaving my arms ever. I promise you that
Even if you want me to let go honey
Even if you want me to let go
You wont be leaving my arms ever. I promise you that
Even if you want me to let go honey
Even if you say the things that make me want to lose you
Even if you want me to let go honey..
Bulls Make Money, Bears Make Money, Pigs Get Slaughtered
I'm right here in front of you,
and I can't stop sh-sh-shaking
I can't stop sh-sh-shaking.
Come on and hold me still.
Did my heart love until now?
'Cause I feel as though I've never seen
beauty till this night.
I'm forever, yeah, I'm forever yours.
You're wearing your skin like it's too tight.
And there she was, reflecting so brightly the warmth that she installs.
And there she was, we were infinite for a moment
There's not one girl here that will be lead by her conscience
in a world where every girl wants to be a model
what's wrong babe?
did daddy not give you enough attention.
Did my heart love until now?
'Cause I feel that I've never seen
beauty till this night.
I'm forever, yeah, I'm forever yours.
Take back what's mine. (yeah, I'm forever yours)
Just leave me in it,
and everything that I believe in (yeah, I'm forever yours)
She's shaking. She's shaking.
Please act surprised.
She's shaking. She's shaking.
Please act surprised.
She's shaking. She's shaking.
Please act surprised.
She's shaking. She's shaking.
And there she was, reflecting so brightly the warmth that she installs.
And there she was, we were infinite for a moment
And there she was, we were infinite for a moment
A Letter From Janelle
We make the sun shine, we make come on
Move with me. Move with me.
Move with me. Move with me.
Don't you think I could tell that you were trying to, trying to
Make a fool out of me. a fool out of me.
Don't you think I could tell that you were trying to, trying to
Make a fool out of me. a fool out of me.
To remember who you really are.
It's so easy to get lost in constantly having to present
whatever face you believe a person wants to see rather than your own.
Yet we hesitate to surrender all of our insecurities
Move with me. Move with me.
Only the ones we are most comfortable relinquishing
Move with me. Move with me.
Don't you think I could tell that you were trying to, trying to
Make a fool out of me. a fool out of me.
Don't you think I could tell that you were trying to, trying to
Make a fool out of me. a fool out of me.
Such a paradox,
Isn't it, isn't it?
[x5]
I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was A Wizard
And the moment that she left the room
The album started skipping
Goodbye to beauty, shared with the ones that you love
A shadow that has fallen over this town
A shadow that has fallen over this town
Attention, all of my worst critics
Who were once the best of friends
You're all just crows on the power lines
Into romantic speculations
Into romantic speculations
Sightings of shape shifting
Dissolved into the darkness
A final opinion is of less value
Than an appreciation of,
And tolerance for obscurity
Theatrics, all made up and pianos all playing at once through the dust
I found it difficult in my excitement to keep from floating off
To keep from floating off and off and off
Into romantic speculations
Into romantic speculations
Sightings of shape shifting
Dissolved into the darkness
A final opinion is of less value
Than an appreciation of,
And tolerance
A shadow that has fallen over this town [x6]
[In background:]
I'll rest on nets made by spiders fed on drug dosed flies
The spider sings alone
The spider sings alone
He paced the room with hurried steps
And placed his hands upon his head
As if he were afraid
His thoughts were bursting from his brain
Sightings of shape shifting
Dissolved into the darkness
A final opinion is of less value
Than an appreciation of,
And tolerance
Sightings of shape shifting
Dissolved into the darkness
A final opinion is of less value
Than an appreciation of
As if he were afraid!
Teeth The Size Of Piano Keys
I dropped all of my lovers.
I stood up and screamed 'I'm in love!'
You gave it to me through the eyes, hatred.
Centuries deep and true.
I was wrong, graceless, and sick.
All of the things that I had learned had been wasted.
There was no living creature as foul as I,
and all of my poems were false.
I could feel my soul, dropping down through the mattress.
I had to leap up before it hit the floor.
and I'm so alone.
Illumination held out in front of my reaching arms.
The darker things get the better i see.
I'm so alone and so are you,
we all live and die that way.
You gave it to me through the eyes, hatred.
Centuries deep and true.
I was wrong, graceless, and sick.
All of the things that I had learned had been wasted.
There was no living creature as foul as I,
and all of my poems were false.
There was no living creature as foul as I...
I could feel my soul, dropping...
I could feel my soul, dropping down...
Life Is A Perception Of Your Own Reality
I'd like to take this time to detach my jaw,
And really take a look.
I think that I'm done.
Put away this old guitar,
And on my way out,
Hang my vocal chords up on the door.
If I could just do these things
(If I could do these things)
If I could maybe do these things
Each and every day wouldn't pass
The way that they so often do
That they so often do
And maybe, just maybe.
Life would be everything we wanted it to be.
I could even peel the skin hiding my face
And ballroom dance with the cartilage of my nose
Just to show you how to really move
I'll show you how to really move
If I could just do these things
If I could maybe do these things
Each and every day wouldn't pass
The way that they so often do
That they so often do
And maybe, just maybe.
Life would be everything we wanted it to be.
I'll show you how to really move
I'll show you how to really move
If I could just do these things
(If I could do these things)
If I could maybe do these things
Each and every day wouldn't pass
The way that they so often do
That they so often do
And maybe, just maybe.
Life would be everything we wanted it to be.
If I Cut My Hair, Hawaii Will Sink
You keep tugging on my shirt,
just to pull me closer.
One single step at a time.
Your skin against mine.
I can just feel you wondering.
Fit to be tied,
Fit to be tied.
Fit to be, fit to be tied.
I feel weak.
Thrown in wide open spaces.
We turn ourselves inside out,
expose what we're afraid to see.
And I know what you're thinking.
I tell myself.
I keep pulling
I keep pulling
Now grown numb.
Petrified, I think.
No, no you don't mean it.
You simply say it, because you like the way that it sounds
I feel weak.
Thrown in wide open spaces.
We turn ourselves inside out,
expose what we're afraid to see.
And I know what you're thinking.
I feel weak,
And I give up.
And I give up.
Sell it well.
C'mon and sell it, sell it.
Sell it well.
C'mon and sell it, sell it.
I feel weak
Intensity In Ten Cities
I'm not the one that you want, I'll only let you down.
And I'm pretty sure that you've caught on.
And you can say that 'Oh, I'm just feeling sorry for my...'
I think it's every time I walk into a room
a silence so sudden that I seem to hear it
(Smiles turn to frowns)
Contact saying that you are the rain on their parade.
And how long could you hang on to a word?
Tell me, how long could you hang on to a word?
I'm not the one that you want, I'll only let you down.
And I'm pretty sure that you've caught on.
And you can say that 'Oh, I'm just feeling sorry for myself'
Or maybe it's all eyes on him
in love with ego and intention
the eyes that are just begging me for more.
This is gone and I can see it
your head is full of words,
full of words that don't mean anything.
And how long could you hang on to a word?
Tell me, how long could you hang on to a word?
I'm not the one that you want, I'll always let you down.
And I'm pretty sure that you've caught on.
And you can say that 'Oh, I'm just feeling sorry for myself'
I'm not the one that you want, I'll always let you down.
And I'm pretty sure that you've caught on.
And you can say that 'Oh, I'm just feeling sorry for myself'
(If that's how you feel, then what's there to do?
I'll keep this feeling in my heart
but when you look in my eyes, you will know the truth.)
The Undertaker's Thirst For Revenge Is Unquenchable. (The Final Battle)
My eyes are glistening with the ghosts of my past
The memories that we once had
Now that you've turned the world against me
I'm only trying to win them back
With my eyes sewn shut
To shut down and bathe in these words about me
And now you're standing alone with your eyes to the sun
Standing alone with your eyes to the sun
That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together
Worlds are ruined this way,
And we've all been there time and time again
Before the battle always seem so still
And I will see you someday again in the clouds
And I will see you someday again in the clouds
All the world's a stage!
And all the world's a stage!
With my eyes sewn shut
To shut down and bathe in these words about me
And now you're standing alone with your eyes to the sun
Standing alone with your eyes to the sun
That heaven and earth may strike their sounds together
Worlds are ruined this way,
And we've all been there time and time again
Time
My eyes are glistening with the ghosts of my past
And what we once had
All the world's a stage
I existed because I dreamed
And well, I dream no more
I've given up on the entire human race
[Spoken:]
Empty is the sky before the sun wakes up
Empty is the eyes of animals in cages
Empty are the faces of women in mourning
When everything has been taken from them
Me? Don't ask me about empty