Long Gone Before Daylight

It's way too late to think of
Someone I would call now,
The neon signs got tired.
Red-eyed flights help the stars south,
I'm safe in a corner,
Just hours before me...

I'm waking with the roaches
The world has surrendered,
I'm dating ancient ghosts,
The ones I made friend with.
The comfort of fireflies,
Long gone before daylight...

And if I had one wish fulfilled tonight,
I'd ask for the sun to never arise.
If God lend His voice to me to speak...

I'd say: "Go to bed World!"

I've always been to lame
To see what's before me
And I know nothing's sweeter than
Champaign from last New Years,
Sweet music in my ears
And a night full of no fear.

But If I had one wish fulfilled tonight,
I'd ask for the sun to never arise.
If God pass the might to me to speak...
I'd say: "Stay in bed, World... Sleep in peace!"

(one, two, three, four)

Hey baby, come around,
Keep holding me down,
And I'll be keeping you up tonight

For twenty seven years I've been trying
To believe and confide in
Different people I found...

Some of them got closer than others,
And some wouldn't even bother,
And then you came around.

I didn't really know what to call you,
You didn't know me at all,
But I was happy to explain.

I never really knew how I'd move you,
So I tried to intrude through
The little holes in your veins.

And I saw you.
But that's not an invitation,
That's all I get,
If this is communication,
I disconnect...
I've seen you, I know you,
But I don't know how to connect,
So I disconnect...

You always seem to know where to find me,
And I'm still here behind you,
In the corner of your eye.

I never really learnt how to love you,
But I know that I love you,
Through the hole in the sky,

Where I see you
And that's not an invitation,
That's all I get.
If this is communication,
I disconnect...
I've seen you, I know you,
But I don't know how to connect,
So I disconnect...

Well, this is an invitation,
It's not a threat,
If you want communication,
That's what you get.
I'm talking and talking,
But I don't know how to connect.

And I hold... a record for being patient
With your kind of hesitation.
I need you, you want me,
But I don't know how to connect,
So I disconnect,

I disconnect...

So you're trying to do what they did,
Your friends that turned to liquid,
And got lost in a sea...
Now you're drowning me

With your talk of four-leaf clovers
You turn to rock the no-man
To be the ambient heart
That is bruising your karma

Oh, I wish my arms were wider,
I wish that I could hide you,
So you can rest and repair
Without the blanket of sorrow...

The thick and the gray,
Your blanket of woe
Is so heavy and stained
And it only waste you down

Oh...

So you've thought that getting sober
Will mean your life was over...
I don't think it's that bad,
I don't think it's that sad.

Just you sleep a little baby,
Live the world alone and later,
If you wake up alive,
That old blanket of sorrow

Could be feathers and doom
Your blanket of woe
Would leave you alone
And I can only tell you to drown

Come to me, let's drown,
Come baby, let's drown
In feathers and down.

Oh, it's healing bang, bang, bang,
I can hear your cannons call.
You've been aiming at my land,
Your hungry hammers falling...
And if you want me, I'm your country.

I'm an angel bored like hell
And you're a devil meaning well,
You steal my lines and you strike me down
Come raise your flag upon me.
And if you want me, I'm your country,
If you win me, I'm forever,

Oh yeah!

'Cause you're the storm that I believed in,
And all this peace I spent deceiving,
I liked the sweet line and the silence,
But it's the storm that I believe in!

Come and conquer and drop your bones,
Cross my borders and kill the calm,
Bear your thanks the and burn my wings,
I hear bullets singing

Men I've had a few,
But they wouldn't quite blow me like you...
You gave me your name and signed
With a halo around my eye...

And it hits me like never before,
That love is a powerful force
Yes it struck me that love is a sport
So I pushed you a little bit more

Love, you're newest to me,
You're a little bit more that I thought you'd be,
A mole in my well-fed lawn
You're a nightmare beating the dawn

And it hits me like never before,
That love is a powerful force
Yes it struck me that love is a sport
So I pushed you a little bit more

Blue, blue, black and blue,
Red blood sticks like glue,
True love is cruel love,
Red blood say power fuel
Sweet love, tasty blood,
My heart overfloods

Oh, you hit me...
Yeah, you hit me really hard.
Man you hit me,
Yeah, you hit me right in the heart...

Lord I've had my deal,
But I never quite knew how it feels,
When love makes you wake up sore,
With fists that are ready for more.

And it hits me that love is a game
Like in war, no one can be blamed,
Yes it struck me that love is a sport
So I pushed you a little bit more

Oh, blue, blue, black and blue,
Red blood sticks like glue,
True love is cruel love,
Red blood says power fuel.
Sweet love, tasty blood,
My heart overfloods,
Man, you hit me...
Yeah, you hit me really hard.
Baby, you hit me,
Yeah, you punched me right in the heart...

...and then you kissed me...
...and then you hit me...
...and then you kissed me...
...and then you hit me...

Oh you haunt me with your violent heartbeat at night
Oh you strike me with your silence baby tonight
Oh you haunt me with your violence baby forgive me
you haunt me with your violent heartbeat