UNINSPIRED

Feeling like a child again
My sandbox filled with hay
My struggles on display
Insisting everything's ok
You're foaming at your prey
The lights get dim you lay
Your purpose underway

But your shoes don't fit tonight
The mirror finds you uptight
And the words you thought could save
Obscured your right of way

I never thought I'd ever hear you say
That you'd want to take another day
You leave me uninspired
You leave me uninspired

I'm looking up and you're on your way
I never thought I'd ever hear you say
You leave me uninspired
You leave me uninspired

Now I'm climbing up you'll see
My heads above my feet
Still what can I do
With my impression of you

But I realize your claim 
That it's black or white not grey
That makes everything ok

I never thought I'd ever hear you say 
That you want to take another day
You leave me uninspired
You leave me uninspired

I'm looking up and you're on your way
I never thought I'd ever hear you say
You leave me uninspired
You leave me uninspired

THE BRAVE

The time...to be elastic thin
To stretch the soul within
To bind what's never in
All those reasons you gave me

The wringing in your ears
Because you'll find it here

So run the cadence refined
To try to scribble the rhyme
Fate awaits the few...the brave

The crime of wondering
The time and place you said

The wringing in your ears
Because you'll find it here

15 MILES AWAY

When thoughts are done colliding
I'll have the sense to tell you when...pretend
That it's your will that binds you...a second thought that you contend
When you've got lights in your eyes

Because I'm 15 miles away
Burning in this atmosphere...in the smoke that blew you away
(15 miles away...the bridge that fell in cold decay...because I'm 15 miles away)

So confrontation binds us...the common ground beneath our feet
Footsteps...that lightly echo your defeat
Drowning in the dust...from all those words that you speak

It's in the world you display...you can't take back what you say
Try to believe that the best is up my sleeve with every moment I lose
Falling free with no reason to believe 

TELL ME

I lose control, I'm tripping out on you
And it keeps flashing back, and it just burns right through
Can we just lock the door, so no one else can see
All that I say to you, and where you want to be
It's crazy and it drives me up the wall
Strike the match and flames consume me

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Tell me, why it is I'm going crazy
Desperately asking reasons why
The sky is always falling on me
So tell me how you want it to be
Watch your step, cause you might lose it all
But if you never try, you'll never hear it calling
Tied up between, and tasting bitter-sweet
But never let it go, and even dare to dream
Dosing off of hot anxiety
Lights go off you move right through me

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(Where did you come from, I must be dreaming
I'm going under, forget me now
These waves of pleasure wash the marks of pain
From everything you swore to be
So tell me how you want it to be.)

THE BIG BANG

I'm dying from these doses, it's psychosis and remarkably untame
But it sits in every image thundering while I'm convulsing under skin

(Chorus)

But face down in the sand
Set on fire the helping hands
See it underground
But shooting for the sun, I've got a reason to live
Falling one by one, darkness burning within
Fighting on the run.run.run.from the big bang
I'd be lying if I told you to console you that I've conquered all my fears
But I promise if you save me it won't change the things I've said or what I did

(Chorus)

Hold your breath for me (hold your breath)
So I can take it away (so I can take it away)

(Chorus)

Face down in the sand
Set on fire the helping hands
Feel it underground
But shooting for the sun, I've got a reason to live
Falling one by one, darkness burning within
Fighting on the run.run.run.from the big bang

MOVE ON

Memories flying by think of the way it's supposed to be
Broken dreams in your eyes it's in the way you look at me
But you spent years curled up inside afraid to live or die

(Chorus)

Move on there's nothing left for you to lie on
Pushed down left dry think back and look at what you've done
Tick tock your time with me is all but gone
But the best is yet to come
Remember me it's been so long and after all these years
I still can't see you falling calling out to me
But we live our lives a lie open your eyes

(Chorus)

But you look into your mirror with black streaming eyes
And you're tearing at the strings of this heart that used to beat with mine
It's hard to see you flying when I'm forced to see you fall

(Chorus)

Move on there's nothing left for you to lie on
Pushed down left dry think back and look at what you've done
Tick tock your time with me is all but gone
But the best is yet to come
So move on
Move on
Move on
Move on

NO NAME

Years and years ago, when time was younger
With all doors open, hearts unbroken
Stopped in time, now you walk the line

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But it's criminal, the way we live
It spills over my brain
A life of lust, rots you out
With the dopamine and pain
You're a No-name
The light is failing, the fool you're playing
Lost inside, there's only lies

(Chorus)

It's hard enough to live
When dealing with pain you swore not to give
I'm learning to forgive

(Chorus)

IT'S OK

Splintering my skin
I think I'm giving in
Cause I keep going off the deep end
Am I strong enough to just let this go?

(Chorus)

It's OK
I wanted you to know
That I tried my best to cut you out
Because your mix isn't pure
Twitching like a child
Just waiting for my turn
Cause I am stuck looking in fast-forward
And it seems that I get stuck in the lines

(Chorus)

I'm wasting the time on my side
And I'm stealing these lines from your heart
And I'm just holding my breath

(Chorus)

It's OK
I wanted you to know
That I tried my best to cut you out
And it's OK
I wanted you to know
That I tried my best to cut you out
Because your mix isn't pure

STRATA RED

I can't wait for the sun to rise
And I can go and see your face
Waiting for the moments past
I've lost my time but won the race
I love your eyes I love your hips
I love to taste your cherry lips
Adrenaline it fills my tank
So hit the gas don't call it quits

(Chorus)

Cause I see you your eyes are strata red
And I feel you running through my head
I look up in the starry skies
Your silhouette eclipses mine
So strap on in and hold on tight
And do those things you know I like to do

(Chorus, repeats)

I look up in the starry skies
Your silhouette eclipses mine
So strap on in and hold on tight
And do those things you know I like to do

(Chorus, repeats)

LET ME TAKE YOU AWAY

I can't escape this feeling and I've known it all along
In the way you move when it's dark and we're alone
And it's in my every hour and every second that I wait
For reason to lose meaning and for thought to fly away

(Chorus)

Look in my eyes
Your face is burned ingrained
It's only you
That I need to see again a
Let me take you away (let me take you away)
And now I find I'm helpless I'm flying blind into a wall
And it seems that when I stand I'm bound to fall

(Chorus)

Falling closer to you
Losing all my restraint
From which I have no return

(Chorus)

Look in my eyes
Your face is burned ingrained
It's only you
And I can't put out this flame
Let me take you away (let me take you away)
You're in every word I say
Let me take you away (let me take you away)
Let me take you away

© Michael Gossard (co-written by M. Whitaker)

CLOSER TO THE SUN

I'm faltering again, rain down on me
Cold and broken waiting for the winds to change my way

(Chorus)

But I watch your whirlwind underneath
This blundering catastrophe
Flying closer to the sun
I'm painting with my hands, it clouds in me
Breaking on the pieces of what words were supposed to mean

(Chorus)

One look will set me in flames
This is the last I will take
Go on and blow me away

(Chorus)

LIAR

This has gone too far for you to walk away
With the vice you claim
From the tides that swing me in and out of time
Removing what remains

(Chorus)

Liar
Took what we didn't give throw the rest away
Because you're on fire
Burns as it spreads til you wish for better days
So run away
You're dusting off the scars pavement cracks are home
Faces drain and bend
Cause you're a liar burning into the flesh
Seconds you extend

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© Michael Gossard 10/15/09

WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO TAKE ME HOME

Closing to the end and now I'm leaving
And tonight the choice is yours
Cynical and tired give me a reason to go for good
I was waiting for someone to take me home

(Chorus)

Paralyzed by where it was misleading
I wanted to stay calm but words ran dry
I've been hearing voices telling me stop waiting for your call
But I'm still waiting for someone to take me home
Shooting up the lies that keep me moving
It stops with you
And I was waiting for someone to take me home

(Chorus)

These rumors they keep knocking on my windows
And they've started beating underneath my feet
But I'm still waiting for someone to take me home.
Closing to the end and now I'm leaving
And tonight the choice is yours

RETROGRADE

Tunneling beneath the grade
Washed up in this self disgrace

(Chorus)

Burning through those days I fell on my face
I'm here to watch it burn
Running from those thoughts that clog up your brain
Please will you let this die
Spinning out in retrograde
Thoughts of you have gone to waste

(Chorus)

Please will you let this die
Please will you let this die

MAYBE

I've catalyzed what time has tried to mend
With rippled cries sterilizing trend I bend

(Chorus)

But maybe you'll give me lines to say
And maybe the good will come and I'll stay away from you

(Chorus)

But maybe you'll give me lines to say
And maybe the good will come and I'll stay away from you
(and maybe this truth will not decay)
(and maybe you'll see it in my eyes)
(and maybe I'll know what's right and I'll stay away from you)
just watch the skies and wings will soon take flight
and breathing free thoughts will lead you back to the end

(Chorus)

Cause you're clouding up my light of life
It's getting harder to fight
I refuse to draw the line

(Chorus)

But maybe you'll give me lines to say
And maybe the good will come and I'll stay away from you
(and maybe this truth will not decay)
(and maybe you'll see it in my eyes)
(and maybe I'll know what's right and I'll stay away from you)

HER WALLS

I'm standing all alone watching the moments pass
Till I fade away.
Now I'm on my own, looking through this mask
Waiting to decay.
Till I see it in her eyes...

(chorus)

The curtains fall, the blinds unfold,
She shatters like the glass of a broken home.
And she sees my face and I won't back down.
What she does to me and I hit the ground.
Her walls are coming down.

Now I stand disgraced, the beacon of life unknown.
All that's seen is her.
And I lose the race, through all the aches and moans.
Now that life's a blur.
Till I feel it in her heart...

(chorus)

LOST THE WILL

Trashed and high slashed like rag, I see all armies dressed in drag.
Stuck with my psychopathic thoughts, all by myself I won't get caught

(chorus)

When you fell to the ground you left me bleeding like a sieve.
I've lost the will to live.
When you won't stop to look inside, Your heart's beating out of time.
you go...

Your mind is flying off the ground, you charge back up to fall back down.
'Cause I feel so stupid and alone.
You've had enough now just go home.

(chorus)

Now I've gone away from here.
As you sit, look in the mirror.
You're haunting me.
'Cause you won't stop to look inside.
Your heart's beating out of time.
you go...

(chorus)

MOVE ON

Memories flying by
Think of the way it's supposed to be.
Broken dreams in your eyes
It's all in the way you look at me.
But you spent years curled up inside, afraid to live or die

(chorus)

Move on, there's nothing left for you to lie on.
Pushed out, left dry,
Think back and look at what you've done.
Tick-tock, your time with me is all but gone.
But the best is yet to come  (so move on)

Remember me. It's been so long
And after all these years
I still can't see you falling,
Calling out to me.
But we live our lives a lie, open your eyes.

(chorus)

But you look into your mirror with black streaming eyes.
And you're tearing at the strings of
This heart that used to beat with mine.
It's hard to see you flying when I'm forced to see you fall.

(chorus)

THE ADDICT

I watch your eyes they blister.
An image I cannot clinch.
The addiction twists and burns
To the strange black labyrinth.

I never learned to listen.
I feel my heart beat through broken glass.
Picturesque position
Tick! Tick! Cardiac arrest!

(chorus)

Cause I thought I needed you.
Addiction I couldn't shake.
I've got a strange affliction baby.
I guess I blend into the proof.
Addiction to you.

I finally feel your burn now.
The tension is sure to ache.
As the bruise turns black and blue now.
The world around us starts to shake.

(chorus)

BLACK BOX

I've got these visions that run through my head.
Fill me up until they wind me up dead.
Now I've had sweet time, but here I hang on a thread.
Run me on empty and play games with my head.

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She is a wrecking machine.
Set me in a little black box.
Locked me up and threw away the key.
Guess you define insanity.

You give me patience, I make you feel dread.
Pushed off my perch, so I knocked you off your pegs.
So you make me feel? Yeah, that's what she said.
This life is surreal, take a gun to the head.

(chorus)

WITHOUT A TRACE

Start me up and turn me out,
And throw me up in flames.
I need you, more than you think that I do.
You're my cocaine.

(chorus)

Life in the fast lane,
Slow it down, you said.
Leave me hanging by a thread.
A life so dull, what a disgrace.
Now you're lost without a trace...
Without a trace.

Jump off a cliff, crawl up again,
Told me I was insane.
Kept me close and filled me up
Then blew me off again.

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YOU'RE SO DANGEROUS

You, rock me to my core.
All I want and more,
Falling to the floor.
I'm wasting all your time,
Taking what's not mine,
Knocking at your door.

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'Cause you're so dangerous.
One more time, you watch me say goodbye.
Give you the blame (forget the fame),
You're still the same.
Still falling frame by frame.
'Cause you're so dangerous.

Now, it's just you and me
Catching your disease,
Falling to your knees.
And we had our good times,
But now I say good-bye.
Watch me walk away.

(chorus)