ALIEN NATION
WANDER AWAY
I don’t know what you see when you see me apologies can you forgive my lack of perception oh I need time to collect my mind I need time to correct my mind and I feel like a loaded gun that explodes in your hand
I don’t know what you see avert your eyes respectfully so much for immaculate contraception oh I need time to collect my mind I need time to correct my mind though I love when you speak in tongues that I don’t understand
I wander away you wander away
I wander away you wander away
REELING
Friday night I get my kicks cops kick down doors break heads with sticks but I still can’t no I can’t get no satisfaction I run my mouth I wet my beak everyone’s so pretty everyone’s so weak it’s a game it’s a call for disciplinary action
You’re what I wish for when I pray to the Lord
My favorite song is on repeat we stumble through the city streets like we’re balancing on knives then last call comes, say my goodbyes “Are you sure you’re okay to drive?” as if you give a fuck if I’m dead or alive
You’re what I wish for when I pray to the Lord
THOUGHTCRIME
You fall downstairs
Yeah, they drop you like they aren’t aware that you won’t fight still you keep on trying to get it right but all boys do is push and pull and spit on you you don’t get love those bruises fit just like a glove
Thoughtcrime we know everything all the time
You don’t talk much you can look but don’t touch and you know they mean well and you’d kill to be somebody else with a fake smile walk a girl down the aisle to be upright to be carefree and uptight
Stay blind don’t want to know about it you’re terrified and proud and your kind don’t want to know about it a lifelike shroud
But you are not right
Junior high this late at night nobody dies gotta burn clean our clothes smell like gasoline a modern pyre of fake grass and burning tires we watched the smoke rise we watched cinders dance like fireflies
GRAND ENCLAVE
You’re indifferent everything is a waste of time you could be right but you’re no different crawling along on our hands and knees under floodlights
Throwing rocks at all our neighbors’ expensive cars just to pass the time stealing wine and breaking into some rich kid’s yard was everyone blind?
I would watch the world all night and you would watch the world all night
And I would talk to you all night and you would talk to me all night
Nothing to lose except for your mind so many reasons to leave everything you know behind
I hope you’re better wherever you may fall to rest
CARESS
Hey everybody look who’s back in town he don’t come around much anymore he’s just looking around looking for his reward implicating everybody but yourself scoff at every hard-won insecure evasion
How’d you come to be so eloquent? It doesn’t make you less of an idiot I want to kill the rumors in your heart
Hey everybody look who’s back in town the entire world is your fault responsible to a fault steel glass and asphalt invited into every hole in the ground never learned to walk right can’t fuck, won’t fight
You expose a life as counterfeit it doesn’t make you less of an idiot I want to kill the rumors in your heart
RAT ROCK
I took you off of the wall, tomorrow I’ll put you back another day in bed, another plan of attack
I never said I wasn’t obsessed with the end maybe after I break you maybe we can be friends
What was it I wanted again?
I quit making sense and you act so surprised she’s hanging out to dry her eyes
I could manufacture the love you demand before I leave I’ll show you how to cry on command
Chained up and dragged behind a trend
She hates everything she can’t do for herself she’s fucked up but she can’t say why and I’m hopeless but at least I clean up after myself I don’t break what I can’t buy
Sometimes your hands are tied
LUXURY
Going out on the town with a cutter the little things that make life better sad but you know not why you’ll have nothing to do when you die
Run up a tab at the bar and you scratch and you purr you’re at the top of the list fucker sad but you know not why you’ll have nothing to do when you die
Don’t you come to me with low expectations whenever you get bored patience is a luxury that some of us can’t afford
LEFT ALIVE
I remember when I could not ask you your name I didn’t have a clue I remember the boredom, the void and the pain that went away with you
You’re never alone with a photograph you’re never alone with a photograph
I’m never alone alone with a photograph of you
Every couple of days I can see your light it comes shining through I’m getting through the days and the kid’s alright he looks a lot like you
We were in love and that’s enough
SUNRISE
Don’t tell me you care you could have come from anywhere give me back those shirts you used to wear
Somewhere in the night the street shines from a great height somewhere someone is doing something right the sun it will rise if you open your eyes
SUFFER
I pull you close spit inside my mouth it doesn’t mean I like you summer days naked in the shade a childish dream a youth betrayed I push you down, twist the sheets around the neck that swallowed me whole summer sun laughing having fun a clouded mind a dream undone
You know what you are? Gods die in hot cars so turn the lights out turn me on in the dark don’t you cry now we see eye to eye the race is on suffer til you’re done you always knew that you were the only one