From Here To Infirmary

I wrote the words to this song on the back of a photograph
Behind your back it goes
A little something like this is way to big to miss
I got a letter in the mail
The sender failed to let me know where
It came from
Opened it up and sure enough there we were
Arm in arm (up in arms) again
I know it's small but my last calls been called a half an hour ago
I know it's late but do you think you could at least fix it for me
Then i'll go i'll go alone i swear
I won't tell a soul
I'll drink this beer and write in fear of a song everybody hates
Armageddon, let the light in
Before we say goodbye give us something to believe in
Armageddon, we're not begging
For too much i don't think
Just need a goodbye kiss (one last salute)
Before we sink
We sink

i dragged this lake looking for corpses
Dusted for prints, pried up the floorboards
Pieces of planes and black box recorders
Don't lie
And i've been preoccupied with these sick, sick senses
That sense dna on barbed wire fences
Maybe someday i'll find me a suspect
That has no alibi
New year's eve was as boring as heaven
I watched flies fuck on channel 11
There was no one to kiss, there was nothing to drink
Except some old rotten milk someone left in the sink
And there's no ring, no ring on the phone anymore
There's no reason to call i passed out on the floor
Smoked myself stupid and drank my insides raisin dry
But at the right place at the right time
I'll be dead wrong and you'll be just fine
And i won't have to quit doing fucked up shit
For anyone but me
And at the right place at the right time
It will have been worth it to stand in line
And you won't have to stop
Saying "i love cops" for anyone but me
Your private eye

What the hell is your name
And can you explain this mess
It seems your playing a game
Where you only know how to take out the best
Cause if assholes could fly
This place would be busier than o'hare
There's proof in the sky
It's as thick as our skulls yet it's thinner than air
I have something to say
If the chip off your shoulder should fall to your chest
Get it off right away
Cause if you don't then it won't be in peace that you rest
It's just a matter of time
That we all go away to a better place i'm told
It all sounds well and fine
But without you around i feel nothing but cold
And i now have nothing
But your heartbeat in my head
And a photograph of my traveling friend
And i became nothing when i found you were dead --- when i
Found out i'd never see you again
And all the time they took talking in circles
To get them off the hook would take
Miracle workers
We're nowhere near prepared there's
No way of knowing
Why don't they just admit they're scared
Cause its already showing

Waking up zeroed in on medicine
Am i waking up at all today
Seeing lights, feeling pain
There's a cure on ice
I can walk but i will crawl there
I will crawl there
Sitting straight, feeling faint
An exhausted smile screens my words
But i will hear them
Here's a phrase that we all know
But i can't make sense
I don't know words but i will hear them
I still hear them
Never ran away for the sake of scars
Tried not to move but she was armed
And shots were fired
Now a hole in the head of this wounded liar
Never had a drink that i didn't like
Got a taste of you, threw up all night
I got more sick
With every sour second rate kiss
Everything i never would miss again

Waking up I'm zeroed in on medicine
Am i waking up at all today
Seeing lights, feeling pain
There's my cure on ice
I can walk but i will crawl there
I will crawl there

Never ran away for the sake of scars
Tried not to move but she was armed
And shots were fired
Now a hole in the head of this wounded liar
Never had a drink that i didn't like
Got a taste of you, threw up all night
I got more sick
With every sour second rate kiss
Everything i never would miss again
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know who youre boyfriend is
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know who youre boyfriend is
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know who youre boyfriend is
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know who youre boyfriend is

These days go by like trucks and trains
Some hit so hard you barely feel a thing
Lights out right now back then and forevermore
Lights out left now these robots marching
To the nearest liquor store
There's something green that's leaving town
Always thought it was blue
Always knew i was wrong
Where it goes hell knows maybe somewhere better than here
And what they say of the grass on the other sides true
Too much time looking up is turning everything blue
Including me - including you
Including you
These times count down like boats and planes
Some wash away in undertow
Some plummet down in flames
Lights out right now back then and forevermore
With sirens on this ambulance is racing to the west coast shore
There's something blue that's leaving town
We always talked about black we're considering brown
Where it goes hell knows
Maybe somewhere better than here
And what they say of the grass on the other sides true
Too much time looking up's turning everything blue
Including me, including the ocean, including you
Feel the ocean blue
Engulfing you
I view the deep blue sea
It's turning red right in front of me
There's something gray that's leaving town
And it's way beyond me
How it gets off the ground
Where it goes hell knows
Maybe somewhere better than here
And what they say of the grass on the other sides true
Too much time looking ups turning everything blue
Including me, including the pilots, including you

Why you turned out the way you did
That thunderstorm is still crashing in
Your cranium
Find that all these funny faces look the same
I know who's to blame
But i swore i wouldn't say
Its time that i got moving on
As you're still burning the dress you wore to
Senior prom - try to forget how you've been touched
I loved you so i told you
But it didn't matter much
And i'm trying to figure out
What you're all about these days
I don't have much to say to you
And i've been drunker than a skunk
Ever since the day i left you
With your darkest secret safely packed away
Up in my steamer trunk
Why i turned out the way i did
Someone somewhere dropped me on my cranium
I'm sorry can you repeat what you just said
My short term memory is gone
But my long term's far from dead
I've been swearing like a sailor
Ever since the day i left her