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1. _ Apologize
Yesterday's dinner's haunting me today
Blades in my stomach spinning
I awake with a fear of ??
Hiding by the stress of your love
I won't return your calls until it lets up
Oh, just one more season, you will be good
Tonight, oh
Don't even, don't even try, oh
'Cause when I'm concentratin'
On makin' statements
I will fool you into thinkin' we're fine
Yeah, I'll fool you, fool you, fool you, into thinkin' we're fine
Until you start to feel something outside
Yeah, well, you alone can visualize
Not worth the misery
A sordid history
The years of revelry
We converse endlessly
Those powdered lips that say you cry
You start to feel something outside
Tonight, oh
Don't even, don't even try
It's not me that was mistaken
For an earnest, heartfelt evening
For a moon-induced hallucination
Couldn't help but notice
Your eyes are losing focus
Such magnetism, now you're opposed
But if you're not begging for it
Then it's not yours
Once dependent, now no signs of withdrawal
Not worth the misery
A sordid history
The years of revelry
We converse endlessly
Those powdered lips that say you cry
Well, you start to feel something outside
Tonight, oh
Don't even, don't even, don't
Please talk softly now
No need to scream
The raise in decibels seems obscene
Please talk softly now
No need to scream
The raise in decibels seems obscene
Tonight, well, tonight
You sold everything you've been told
I apologize
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2. _ Even If
Doesn't seem that selfish
No, not in the least
What's so self-righteous
About this curiosity
This want for a meager exchange
So much time has passed but still it remains
This need for you
Is a reoccurring theme in my life
Don't you think I'm lonely
Eager to complete this story
Confused and still haunted
With why
You'd start over
And ignore me
It takes time to realize
The other side of you
That's controlling
Blind in hindsight
Of our lives
Even if you left me and my brother
Even if you left us and our mother
Want nothing more than to catch your eye
Would you be impressed with how far I've climbed
Without your assistance
With you nowhere in sight
Don't you think I'm lonely
Eager to complete this story
Confused and still haunted
With why
You'd start over
And ignore us
It takes time to realize
The other side of you
That's controlling
Blind in hindsight
Of our lives
Even if you left me and my brother
Even if you left us and our mother
She's had her share
More than we'll know
My brother won't
He just won't let go
They say you're sick and there's a name and a phrase
To apply and help explain
Still having trouble trying to separate
How you started a new family
Even after you left me and my brother
Even after you left us and our mother
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3. _ Stuck at Sea
Running in and out of breath
Staining skin and teeth to red
Incessant slamming and that tone
God forbid I spend one night alone
Out to the parking lot
Stumbling towards my apartment
Pressed you close against the screen door,
Close enough to feel underneath your clothes
You overcompensate for your own inexperience
Don't underestimate, oh, my fear of getting caught
So many words, so many words
So many you can't believe
So many words, so many words
So many stuck at sea
On the second story of your suburban home
Mom's asleep just two doors down
Funny how when stuck at sea
Things are never the way they seem
Clouds take the shape of gloves
Reaching over the flames at dusk
Missing clips in your consciousness
Just act as if I don't exist
You overcompensate for your own inexperience
Don't underestimate, oh, my fear of getting caught
So many words, so many words
So many you can't believe
So many words, so many words
So many stuck at sea
Felt the repetition of my ways
The lack of apprehension that once saved
So many words, so many words
So many you can't believe
So many words, so many words
So many stuck at sea
I keep burning my fingers
In attempt to rekindle the flame
The matches, so flimsy
And the wind just denies her name
So I pulled out the garments that were pressed between us
On that dreamless evening you refer to in disgust
So many words, so many words
So many you can't believe
So many words, so many words
So many stuck at sea
(Felt the repetition of my ways
The lack of apprehension that once saved)
So many words, so many words
So many you can't believe
So many words, so many words
So many stuck at sea
So many words, so many words
So many you can't believe
So many words, so many words
So many stuck at sea
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4. _ Wait Until I'm Gone
I'm lacking any discipline, pulling strings
Typing up your skin of porcelain stopped listening
No longer need, oh the sunlight
That night we had, it will suffice
Infatuation is the perfect camouflage
A warm and temporary place to go
I'm lacking any confidence, second guessing
Separate for perspective, is there nothing left?
And how I see for weeks and weeks
Judged hastily, no patience
I've seen you under every, every sort of light
From ideal perfection to the darker side
You always were
You always were
So good to me
I need a stimulant
Something to help reinvent
I need a stimulant
Something to help reinvent
Well I have only one request
Wait until I'm gone
Wait until I'm gone
Wait until I'm gone
Wait until I'm gone
Is there nothing left?
Is there nothing left?
Is there nothing at all?
Is there nothing left?
Is there nothing left?
Is there nothing at all?
I need a stimulant
Something to help a reinvent
Well I need, I need, I need
Well I need, I need, I need
Well I have only one request
You always were
You always were
So good to me
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5. _ Thin Layer
Thin Layer Lyrics
Through a thin layer of rubber and a thick rusted armor of drunken lust
I think when our clothes were on we had a different image of
What this was supposed to be
My buzz allowed me to slip into you more comfortably
Here's what I intended, and here is the truth(x2)
The soundtrack to our meeting fills the awkward spaces between our strained breathing
And the only thing between, between the two of us, is your blood and our sweat
I can taste the cigarettes on your tongue while exchanging spit
Here's what I intended, and here is the truth(x2)
Here is the truth (x6)
Now disguise this whining with melody, and I hope that it leaves, leaves you intrigued
And I hope you feel, you feel what I did at the time that this was conceived
Well, the silence is pleasing, between our strained breathing, now it's over with
This is not what I intended
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6. _ City's Summer
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
You crawling through the dense green carpeting
Untamed and seventies, tiny fingers couldn't pry
Their way through that thick and knotted reverie
Relapse, fall backwards and slide
Are you suggesting that
I repress, repress and disguise?
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
The surge of static electricity
Brought on by the fear of being seen
Creeping up in silence on the battle scene
Slow and slithering
We stand still on 4th of July
Numb to explosions that
Scream and light, light up the sky
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
There's a solution, it's been tested
My desire will never persevere
When swimming in serotonin
The city summer smells like perfume
So rub your wrists together
Take a swing and you'll feel better
Once you close your eyes
Pretend to sleep for hours and hours spot on
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na
Na na na na na na na na na
(Through the kitchen then up the column of my spine)
Na na na na na na na
(All of this hatred and echoing despise)
Na na na na na na na na na
(Through the kitchen then up the column of my spine)
Na na na na na na na
(All of this hatred and echoing despise)
Na na na na na na na na na
(Just hold on, hold on)
Na na na na na na na
(Just hold on, hold on)
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7. _ Far More
Is this the sound of our demise
Or just the opposite?
I love you and I miss you
What else is there to say?
It takes a hell of a lot more to complete this
Far more, far more to recreate
Far more, far more, far more, far more
Far more, far more than we can take
When you decide how much time
Do you let, do you let, do you let, do you let
Pass before
These false starts, these small meals
They're for my, for my starving hands
Just treading, just treading shallow waters
Avoiding the drop, the drop in the ocean floor
Far more, far more, far more, far more
Far more, far more than we possess
How much, how much, how much
How much longer, girl
How much longer do we need to wait?
For a moment when the blare of the tv subsides
And then song fills the air, playing every night
A change in the key feels like a change in the season
I pretend almost every, every other night
That this body and its entirety belongs to me, every breath
It comes and goes
It comes and goes
All night
Well, you can't dictate the way, the way I'm gonna feel
No matter what, no matter what I'm forced to see
I'll be the one free of jealousy
Well, you can't dictate the way, the way I'm gonna feel
No matter what, no matter what I'm forced to see
I'll be the one free of jealousy
Far more, far more, far more, far more
Far more, far more than we can take
So well, so well, so well rehearsed
I coordinate this kind of mess
I'll do it like, do it like, do it like
Do it like, do it like, do it like
Do it like, do it like, do it like we used to
Like we used to do
I love you and I miss you
What else is there to say?
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8. _ Radiate
Let's leave this urban territory.
Won't settle less
Our children could be so much better off sacrificed than lost
Just two hundred miles out east
Smothering the sun's evening glare
Dispersing the colors as I stare
The rays that will spread and spray
From out only in between in my hands
Only in between
Radiate radiate radiate not only for
Radiate radiate radiate not only for you
Not only for you
If I could be as strong as my father was with us then
There's no reason to doubt resentment is out,
Absolutely out of the question
Smothering the sun's evening glare
Dispersing the colors as I stare
The rays that will spread and spray
From out in between in my hands
Only in between
Radiate, radiate, radiate, not only for
Radiate, radiate, radiate, not only
This life we have chosen's eating you up from the inside
I'm not asking
I am begging
Why won't you realize?
Say it in your own way
I know you wish we had stayed
Say it in your own way
I know you wish we had stayed
Radiate, radiate, radiate, not only for
Radiate, radiate, radiate, not only for you
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9. _ Only One Week
Have your lips graced another's yet
Or am I the only one?
Every time I try to speak to you
Those are the thoughts that run
Say something else, girl
I don't want to have to leave
Our communication is hardly what it used to be
When can I claim you to be my own, so selfishly?
When can I claim you to be my own, my only?
Want nothing more than our futures to collide
Can tell this is going to be one of many disappointing nights
Traces of you are so minimal
A black and white ?? photobook with us
When can I claim you to be my own, so selfishly?
When can I claim you to be my own, my only?
And I have only one week to make you mine
And I may never see you again
It's not only for me, it's not only me
There's a little bit, a little bit here for you
But I'm willing to wait
I'm willing to wait
Day time is no longer the hours spent
Lit by sunlight ?? the hours to obsess
And the night is far worse
'Cause I know you're alone with her
And thoughts of, of us have been deserted
It'll never be the same
I'll never be the same again
I'll never be the same again
I have only one week to make you mine
And I may never see you again
Time is few and far between
There is someone else who needs
There is someone else who needs your attention
But I'm willing to wait
I'm willing to wait
I'm willing to wait
I'm willing to wait
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10. _ Along the Way
Resurrect the evening, brought it back as it filled in
Filled in something missing
Something never there to begin
You were so distraught
Had never been in love
Guess you learned your lesson
Don't starve a poor boy
You could not help yourself from crying
The entire night
It's painful when you realize your lives are intertwined
It's helped me somewhat
Well, I'll be yours forever
Just tell me when to start
There are just a few place
That I'll need to stop
Some along the way, some in the midst of
In the midst of our eternal love
And you could not help yourself from crying
The entire night
It's painful when you realize your lives are intertwined
It's helped me somewhat
It's helped me somewhat
Why lie?
The truth's easy to find in time
Forgive me of this crime
It's alright
I swear I'll never, swear I'll never
Swear I'll never do this again
Why lie?
The truth's easy to find in time
Forgive me of this crime
It's good night
I don't even, I don't even
I don't even know her name
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11. _ Stay Away
Are you not the slightest bit confused?
Just the truth
The speed at which we move blends so well
It's too soon
Separate yourself from what compels you to relinquish us
Push your way on to me entirely
Stay away from me, stay away from me now
Unless you gonna see, unless you gonna see me out
No, I can't dance unless it's slow or sad
To a song that's far less obvious
You're using me, do it slowly
Make it last until I have to go
Trust me when I say just a few more weeks
Don't move
Resist temptation or do as you see fit?
Just choose
Separate yourself from what compels you to relinquish us
Push your way on to me entirely
Stay away from me and stay away from me now
Unless you gonna see, unless you gonna see me out
No, I can't dance unless it's slow or sad
To a song that's far less obvious
You're using me, do it slowly
Make it last until I have to go
No, I can't dance unless it's slow or sad
To a song that's far less obvious
You're using me, do it slowly
Make it last until I have to go
No, I can't dance unless it's slow or sad
To a song that's far less obvious
If you're using me do it slowly
Make it last until I have to go
Stay away from, stay away from
Stay away from me
Stay away from, stay away from
Stay away from me
Stay away from, stay away from me
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12. _ Untouched and Intact
Maybe it's time to hold onto one side, one decision
Let go of the hand that holds me high above that great divide
And beauty is the ease required for you to understand
That single frame of animation
I think you know
I think you know
I realize when you wake up that sometimes
I appear unfamiliar but these prints can't lie
I realize when you wake up that sometimes
I appear unfamiliar but these prints can't lie
These prints can't lie
Possessing all the features I've predetermined to objectify
Effortless and rubenesque, yet so perfectly-ly aligned
And beauty is the ease required for you to understand
That single frame of animation
I think you know
I think you know
I realise when you wake up that sometimes
I appear unfamiliar but these prints can't lie
I realize when you wake up that sometimes
I appear unfamiliar but these prints can't lie
Nine or ten songs I had let pass before
I had broke that first thought progression
And there we were, in the same restaurant grazing legs underneath the table
And I will always, always
I will watch over you
I will always, always
I will watch over you
Over you, over you
I realize when you wake up that sometimes
I appear unfamiliar but these prints can't lie
I realize when you wake up that sometimes
I appear unfamiliar but these prints can't lie
These prints can't lie
I want you back
This means untouched and intact
(You always were so critical)
I want you back
This means untouched and intact
(You always were so critical)
I want you back
This means untouched and intact
(You always were so critical)
I want you back
This means untouched and intact
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