Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon lyrics
- Apocalypse Now And Then
- Kill The Music
- Bored Stiff
- Easy Tiger
- Tusk And Temper
- The New Black
- Champing At The Bit
- Gloom And How It Gets That Way
- Guitarred And Feathered
- L'Astronaut
- Pretty Dirty
Apocalypse Now And Then
You got me right where you wanted me.
So what do we do if I can’t hold this pose for too long.
So we shoot again, or does this whole operation shut down and we go back to the board.
I practiced all my lines, oh yea I’d feed every child in the world.
But it’s a one night stand baby.
We gotta keep on.
If you got it all then you got it right.
I’m gonna do what you say and get way out of line.
Nobody’s gonna stop me now.
It’s not how it looks unless you say nothing
We all agree this proposal’s been sentenced to death.
Are we baiting the right hook to get your attention.
The media needs another blackout.
We’ve been calling.
Flooding hotlines.
We’ve applied mascara to the radio but that’s just a quick fix and we need a little more.
Does it matter to you at all.
Are you listening or have you tuned out.
We’ve gotta get it together.
But first we drink and we take it all apart.
Everywhere we go we’re the local boys and we’re back in town.
Well that’s the way it is.
It breaks my heart.
We’ve applied mascara to the radio, but that’s just a quick fix and we need a little more.
Does it matter to you at all.
Are you listening or have you tuned out.
Get by.
Get gone.
Get high.
Get wronged.
Kill The Music
Stutter to the beat of a disparaged lover
Dumb and pulsing we've become
The bedroom door is an old black lung; It's arrhythmic
Uninviting and pliable
With the noble irreverence of shrapnel she came for us
Bore into our heads and found thoughtlessness
Never minded the faithless courage of shame or the bravery of oblivion
When I'm on her mind
I'm never coming back
If two timing is all it takes
Then we'll both know
One take
Is all we need
We're not equipped to stay unloved
But it's all we've got and we're not at all alright
Come on baby and give me the creeps, yea
Either you or I or both must go
Either you or I or both must go
When I'm on her mind
I'm never coming back
If two timing is what it takes
Then we'll both know one take
Is all we need
We're not equipped to stay unloved
But it's all we've got and we're not at all alright
There's no difference between being holy and alone
That's why I'm eagerly fleeing the scene
Lead footed
Baby return the favor and leave somebody you love
If they come back they're drunk and they're lonely
We all get lonely
God forbid we endulge when at sea
Just the tempest, the temptress and me
Naturally bored thriller
Nobody knows the trouble I've been
Or the exacting improvement of sin
I'm handing myself over
I'm turning myself in
War has no glory like a woman ignored
So here's to the empires polluted with dead
And the truckers' wives who erected them
I know the stripper's real name
Stop me if I'm wrong
Bored Stiff
I was wrong, close one
I am wrong
I said it
I was wrong, I mean it
Did it stick?
Come down from there
I know it's hard to swallow
When your head is overturned
Hey there girls, I'm a cunt
There was venom in the heart of the dagger
They found a worm in your pearls saying prayers
All is finally infested, unless we blossomed in the cankerous air
Then only hell can help us
I got off
Just once, you were right
I admit it
We weren't soft, just better
Do you flinch?
Keep that radio dry
I'm sorry you were all mine
Let the boys find your body
Let love gnaw the meat from your bones
Admit the arrows, suffer the hot flash
We come together now
All together now
Easy Tiger
How you gonna get up
If you ain't never been down?
How you gonna move on
If you ain't never had enough?
Give the signal
Advance the pill pushers
Administer a change purse full of thorazine
Show this girl a little bar courtesy
And keep her senses clear of the scene
We've found a gentleman caller
Who goes by the name she's been weeping for
Turn her over
Easy in easy out
We've nearly got this situation stabilized
Just some winces to eradicate
Take a deep breath
Cut the blue wire
Keep your fingers crossed and pray she's been detached
She stirs and I'm emasculated
Doctor! Doctor!
Give her the blues
She got herself a varsity letter by loving you
Breach and clear
The abandoned back seat of the Cadillac
We've been altered by the local authorities
That regret has been seen on the grounds
Teasing the dogs, making the rounds
There's a heart shaped bed in the honeymoon ward
That circulates dust
Twitches and vomits in fits like the damned
Comforts none but the sloth
Yet we pay by the hour for the bricklayers view
Johnny, dream of your gun
Goddamit it Commander, she's a hopeless case
Note the time she arrived
I didn't think we would lose another one to the sound
There were too many fangs for us to tame
Someone fetch her blue eyes
From a restroom wall downtown
She stirs
We underestimated
Doctor! Doctor!
Give me the news
She caught herself a cause of the wilds by loving you
She caught a bad case of the wilds
She caught a bad case of the wilds
And she flatlines
Tusk And Temper
Bedeck your gown in bricks
There's leeches stealing across the stage
Come hell or ocean water
I won't end up without
Applaud the gall of the black cloud
Groping a drunken teenage vow
As saline drips from her prom dress, damp hands are dessicated
There's a wolf at the window of the second floor
who kidnaps your date with a new car
We both want the same thing
Bad poetry and assaults at the bar
Just try and stop me
We are the only one in the world
Prepare the ballroom
Quicksand in front of the coat check
Waltz with the scarecrow in the spotlight through the rye
I was born a wanted man
But I'll die a sailor's wife
God help me pick the lock to her room
I have to make this right
Scream the hounds to sleep for me
I'm creeping around in your head like a vine
Your spit is the meat
of the rose harvested by the dull
Let the doves fly,
unhook their leather wings from the fog
Put your foot and mouth together
for the sweethearts of Vietnam
In a photo taken of us
at the reception held at the jail
loverboy is breaking up
just to the right side of me
I will stop at nothing
I am the siren that sings you home
Is that clear?
I will stop at nothing
I am the tooth in your jewelry box
Is that clear?
Let pry the crows
Unhook their crooked beaks from the clock
Bolt the gate and head for the ivory tower
Adoration is cutting the phone lines to your heart
Love is here
I am the snarling and starry-eyed
We both want the same thing
Better aim at the stranger in our yard
Just try to stop me
I am the blinding light of your life
Prepare the body
I've been better but thanks for asking
Wait with the scarecrow for the spotlight in the rye
I'll eat you alive
The calm will come again
The New Black
Baby, you got me all wrong
And maybe I am not all down and out
I'm high and I'm in
Don't you know who I am?
I'm the jaded one with pop insensitivity
When I finish struggling
we can make our way to the dance floor
and stand like strangers
in an elevator stuck between stories
I always find myself in the middle of your stories
With the cameras as a witness I will suffer
If everything I do is wrong
then by god I'll do it right
We don't dance no, no, no
We got class
No, we don't have any fun at all
It's the new style and we know it
We're not stunning, we're just stunned
and we're lying for a living
We're lying for a living
Don't you know who I am?
I'm the real thing with low-key sensibilities
I don't need what I got
half as much as everyone covets it
If loving me is wrong,
then god damn you do it right
It turns us on to turn you down
Champing At The Bit
We drew a crowd. The crowd drew the blood. Fawning swindlers.
There's a shark in the stream where the newborns are baptized.
Who let the flatterer into the gallery on our sweet sixteen?
Take him away. Get him against the wall for the witnesses.
This is doom in a borrowed suit. It's a pickup line at a funeral.
Cannibals along side the catwalk.
But it's ok we've got old blood and our veins are rooted to the hornets nest again.
New love is tasteless.
We're wearing down.
This is the year of the party crasher.
What is charm? Where are the heroics?
What is harm to the perfumed wrists of the stoics?
Designer impostors find us twitching in the claws of the snake.
A fin is circling around the floor.
It appears we've lost our way.
The tide is swelling and we've fallen asleep on the shore.
Get inside.
Someone's yelling fire in the theater.
Oh dear god. Everybody stay calm.
Tell your husband that his screaming just invited it in.
The horsemen are crashing through the gates.
We had better learn to play dead.
Our hands are reeking of rapture.
It's dripping from our chins.
The tragedy of infant hearts.
But it's ok we've got old blood and our hair is woven to the same hotel again.
New love is tasteless.
We're wearing down.
This is the year of the party crasher.
It's you and me for the first time in history.
We're history.
Gloom And How It Gets That Way
Pull the car over you're frightening the kids.
What did you promise us
about grinning in the rear view mirror
without your fake teeth in?
Keep your glass eye glued on the end of the highway up ahead of us.
The collision is always licking it's lips.
You weren't supposed to open the door.
Just keep the plane from drifting off course.
We'll attend to the terrified first class
convinced there's a hoof print on the bow.
All hail the wounded heart contingment
who've given us something more than faultlessness to sing about.
Long live prosthetic live wires.
The faulty mechanism of hope has disintegrated.
Your captain nailed his feet to someone else's ship at the sight of me.
Do what your mother tells you and put down the sheriff's horse.
The choir on the black box rejoiced splendidly,
singing hallelujah the king is dead.
The king is dead.
Guitarred And Feathered
There is a cause for celebration here in the belly of the swarm.
The situation demands that we raie our glasses in honor of the spoesman we've fixated to the florr.
Give us your headlines hymns and your saddest verse.
You're not partnered with the half hearted anymore.
Our legs are spread wide open, our weary heads are splitting at the seams and we all know your proficient in the idioms of grief.
We are capable of the of the kind of love about which only the petrified can speak.
Concede him the microphone let him sing the triumphs of the frauds to all his loyal sycofanatics.
We all cater to the fire, once the walls come rushing down for shame.
I can say it better than you felt it.
And I can be it bigger than you needed it.
I haven't spent a day of my life apart from the one everyone's read about.
I'll spark de-evolution.
I was specially bred for the cover page of your magazines.
I've been fattened up for the guillotines.
Sweet talker, you're goddamn right I'm a blessed lamb.
I can show you how to have a good time.
I know why you came here, but neither of us will get what you want out of me.
This room has one too many laureates so I'm keeping my peace.
Every canidate ends his life with a cliche, and the paths of glory lead to nowhere but the grave.
I've been spoiled rotten.
Every thought I've authored has curdled.
Not everything is poetry but I can't convince you of that.
I've been drawn and quartered.
I've been twice picked over.
And it's sickening what you've come here today to celebrate.
F**k yea we're gonna party tonight.
I am capable of the kind of love about which only the intoxicated and the California bound can weep.
L'Astronaut
Drifting on rescue, parade through the town square.
Waving to the families of victims of the flood.
Straddling the front door of a catholic orphanage.
I decorated it myself.
Thank you, you’re too much.
Honestly, it was nothing.
We should all just thank god I’m alive.
Don’t shout I get a little confused sometimes.
I can’t make out a word you’re saying.
I’ve got a 21 gun salute playing over and over and over in my head.
Can’t it wait.
I’m on call to be somewhere.
Somewhere I’m not.
In case the cleaning lady has found my head.
Forgive my delay lieutenant, I’m the man the whole country requires.
Take your gun out of my mouth.
You are ruining my appetite.
Get your bear trap off of my neck.
I’m already running late.
You’re distress is confounding the tightrope walker.
Just so we’re clear, you’re saying we’re all lost.
Maybe I’m wrong but weren’t we just dancing.
Oh, the way that we moved had every marauder curious.
Sniffing at the trash in our shoes.
Sharpening knives on the grindstone watch gears.
I don’t miss that much about anything you said.
After all, we’ve never met.
I’ll get it right, and stick my tongue down the throat of the moon.
Pretty Dirty
The great American mischief has muted our hearts
And our rhythms are met with the inharmonious grunts of electric guitars.
It's all but too much.
So nobody out there believes the obscene are reprieved.
Everybody get fed up.
My baby better get high cause, I've got something that I need to confess.
The dead men talking are longing for so much more than simply the obvious.
Cut us off.
We're suffering, hysterical, lighting the flare from the foot of her bed.
I've been begging you for less mercy than this.
But the only thing you need to know, is that you never wanted to know.
Take it off, take it back, or take cover because we're nearing a nerve.
Dead is wasted on the patient, so make haste and head for the wake.
Now the hornets inhabit the hearts we've abandoned.
We are gone.
Cast aside our clothes like funeral roses, and dance straight through the psalm.
I was right all along
I'm dead, in the water.
Don't come for me.
I was once alive in the desert’s eyes on the day it wed the sea.
I drew a chalk outline around your city.
I hushed the sobs in your halls.
But we both know that it's killer, baby he'll outrun them all.
There is so much shame in how little we've gained for so long.
Now the sky is falling.
And you're just repeating everything I say.
And you’re not listening close enough,
It's a catastrophe.
You have not been concentrating.
Pay attention there will be an exam.
Build an ark.
Build an ark.
Come bring us back to the ruin.
Drifting out of our heads.
Taped off the sky above your city.
Dusted for prints on the chapel wall.
But we all know that it's killer, baby I will outrun them all.