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Stay On My Side Tonight ::
Disintegration | Over | Closer

Futures ::
Futures | Just Tonight... | Work | Kill | The World You Love | Pain | Drugs or Me | Polaris | Nothingwrong | Night Drive | 23

Bleed American ::
Bleed American | A Praise Chorus | The Middle | Your House | Sweetness | Hear You Me | If You Don't, Don't | Get It Faster | Cautioners | The Authority Song | My Sundown

Clarity ::
Table For Glasses | Lucky Denver Mint | Your New Aesthetic | Believe in What You Want | A Sunday | Crush | 12.23.95 | Ten | Just Watch the Fireworks | For Me This is Heaven | Blister | Clarity | Goodbye Sky Harbor

Jimmy Eat World ::
Your New Aesthetic (Demo) | Softer | Roller Queen


Stay On My Side Tonight

Disintegration
I've spent my last night
Strung up and pulled tight, holding out
Sleeping proud
An answer comes without a "please"
Do what you want
Wonder why I'm so caught off guard when we kiss
I'd rather live my life in regret than do this
What happened to the love we both knew?
We both chased?
Hanging on a cigarette
You need me
You burn me
You'll burn me
Hushed with a finger
Don't you'll never when you might...
Just another time
This poison comes with instruction free
Do what you want but I'm drinking
Wonder why I'm so caught off guard when we kiss
I'd rather live my life in regret than do this
What happened to the love we both knew?
We both chased?
Hanging on a cigarette
You need me
You burn me
You'll burn me
Try to lie better next time
Stay on my side tonight

Over
I'm not exactly sure what I should say
Everything I do is a mistake
Your attention is still attention,
It doesn't matter if it's fake or real
I'll take it if I get it
I've made up my mind
I'll do it over anytime
You're over it
Over me
Present just physically
The last words from the dying scene
You're over me
I really need to hear how great I am
Because I can't even get up, out of bed
Now say it like you mean it
It doesn't matter how it really feels
Sing it back softly
You've got to be strong
And I've been empty so long
You're over it
Over me
Present just physically
The last words from the dying scene
You're over me
The old days all went bad
Rotten wilted black
Before you'd have a chance to call
I'd be on the next train home
Add it to the endless list of al the things we'll never,
Never know
You're over it
Over me
Present just physically
The last words from the dying scene
You're over me
You're over me

Closer
Everyday I get a little closer, dear
Will you love me darling, when I get there
I'll need sunshine
I'll need rest
Pour us whiskey, water-kissed
Remember me
She said, smiling
Write my name somewhere safe
Touch and taste fades with space
I'll never be who you'll dream
Everyday I try a little harder, dear
But those things you do...
I don't want to hear
You'll have yours and I'll have mine
No one guilty
No one right
Remember me
She said, smiling
Write my name somewhere safe
Touch and taste fades with space
I'll never be who you'll dream
Everyday I get a little closer, dear
Going to drive fast
All night until I get there
Not much time we can waste
Nothing pretty left to say


Futures

Futures
I always believed in futures
I hope for better
in November
I try the same losing lucky numbers
It could be a cold night...
For a lifetime
Hey now,
You can't keep saying endlessly:
My darling,
How long until this affects me?
Say hello to good times
Trade up for the fast ride
We close our eyes while the nickel and dime take the streets
Completely
I always could count on futures;
That things will look up
And they look up
Why is it so hard to find balance
Between living decent...
And the cold and real
Hey now,
What is it you think you see?
My darling,
Now's the time to disagree
Say hello to good times
Trade up for the fast ride
We close our eyes while the nickel and dime take the streets
Completely
The past is told by those who win
What matters is what hasn't been
We're wide-awake and we're thinking
My darling,
Believe your voice can mean something
Say hello to good times
Trade up for the fast ride
We close our eyes while the nickel and dime take the streets completely
We close our eyes and the nickel and dime
Take the streets
Completely

Just Tonight...
I was scared but once I thought about, I let it go
Everything she said to me I guess I ought to know
We're all tired talk when it comes to shove
Put up put out or stay at home
We'll never be the same
Never feel this way again
I'd give you anything but you want pain
A little water please
I taste you all over my teeth
Never again
Just tonight?
Ok
All at once the music stopped
The feeling went away
An ugly picture, me and you
But nothing I can change
You know what happens with the lights back on
The less you know the more you want
And you want
You want
We'll never be the same
Never feel this way again
I'd give you anything but you want pain
A little water please
I taste you all over my teeth
Never again
Just tonight?
Ok
Never again
Just tonight?
Ok

Work
If you only once would let me
Only just one time
Then be happy with the consequence
With whatever's going to happen tonight
Don't think we're not serious
When's it ever not?
The love we make is give and it's take
I'm game to play along
All I can say I shouldn't say
Can we take a ride?
Get out of this place while we still have time
The best DJ's are saving their slowest song for last
When the dance is through it's me and you
Come on, would it really be so bad?
Things we think may be the same
But I won't fight for more
It's just not me to wear it on my sleeve
Count on that for sure
All I can say I shouldn't say
Can we take a ride?
Get out of this place while we still have time
You want to take a ride?
Get out of this place while we still have time
We still have time
Can't say I was never wrong
But some blame rests on you
Work and play they're never ok to mix
The way we do
All I can say I shouldn't say
Can we take a ride?
Get out of this place while we still have time
You want to take a ride?
Get out of this place while we still have time
We still have time

Kill
You're just across the street
Looks a mile to my feet
I want to go to you
Funny how I'm nervous still
I've always been the easy kill
I guess I always will
Could it be that everything goes around by chance
Or only one way that it was always meant to be
You kill me
You always know the perfect thing to say
I know what I should do but I just can't walk away
I can picture your face well
From the bar in my hotel
I wish I'd go to you
I pick up, put down the phone
Like your favorite Heatmiser song goes:
"It's just like being alone..."
Oh God, please don't tell me this has been in vain
I need answers for what all the waiting I've done means
You kill me
You've got some nerve but can't face your mistakes
I know what I should do but I just can't walk away
So go on, love
Leave while there's still hope for escape
Got to take what you can these days
There's so much ahead
And so much regret
I know what you want to say
I know it but can't help feeling differently
I loved you
And I should have said it
But tell me,
Just what has it ever meant
I can't help it
This is who I am
Sorry but I can't just go turn off how I feel
You kill me
You build me up but just to watch me break
I know what I should do but I just can't walk away

The World You Love
I've got a story
It's almost finished
Now all I need is someone to tell it to
Maybe that's you
Our time is borrowed and spent too freely
Every minute I have needs to be made up, but how?
I'm looking for a nice way to say I'm out, I want out
I fall asleep with my friends around me
Only place I know I feel safe
I'm going to call this home
The open road is still miles away
Hey, nothing serious, we still have our fun
Oh, we had it once
Windows open and close, that's just how it goes
Don't it feel like sunshine after all?
The world we loved forever gone
We're only just as happy
As everyone else seems to think we are
I'm in love with the ordinary
I need a simple space
And rest my head, everything gets clear
I'm a little ashamed for asking
But just a little helps, it gets me straight again
Helps me get over it over it
It might seem like a dream but it's real to me
Don't it feel like sunshine after all?
The world we loved forever gone
We're only just as happy
As everyone else seems to think we are
You should see the canals are freezing
You should see me high, you should just be here
Be with me here
It doesn't seem there's hope for me, I let you down
But I won't give in now not for any amount
Don't it feel like sunshine after all?
The world we loved forever gone
We're only just as happy as everyone else thinks
Now, don't that feel like sunshine after all?
The world we loved forever gone
We're only just as happy
As everyone else seems to think we are
We are

Pain
I don't feel the way I've ever felt
I know
Going to smile and not get worried
I try but it shows
Anyone can make what I have built
And better now
Anyone can find the same white pills
That take my pain away
It's a lie
A kiss with open eyes
She's not breathing back
Anything but bother me
Nevermind, these are hurried times
I can't let it bother me
I never thought I'd walk away from you
I did
But it's a false sense of accomplishment
Every time I quit
Anyone can see my every flaw
It isn't hard
Anyone can say they're above this all
But it takes my pain away
It's a lie
A kiss with open eyes
She's not breathing back
Anything but bother me
Nevermind, these are hurried times
I can't let it bother me
It's a lie
A kiss with open eyes
She's not breathing back
Anything but bother me
Nevermind, these are hurried times
I can't let it bother me

Drugs or Me
Stay with me
You're the one I need
You make the hardest things
Seem easy
Keep my heart
Somewhere drugs don't go
Where the sunshine slows
Always keep me close
I only you could see the stranger next to me
You promise,
You promise that you're done
But I can't tell you from the drugs
Don't let go
We'll dig a great big hole
Down an endless hole,
We'll both go
You're so blind!
You can't save me this time
Hope comes from inside
And I feel so low tonight
If only you could see the stranger next to me
You promise,
You promise that you're done
But I can't tell you from the drugs
I wish that you could see
This face in front of me
You're sorry, you swear it: you're done
But I can't tell you from the drugs
I need your hands to pull me up
Take the wheel out from me
Take me so far
Keep my heart
Somewhere drugs don't go
Where the sunshine slows
Always keep me close

Polaris
I'll say it straight and plain:
I know I've made mistakes
I've always been afraid
A thousand nights or more
I travel east and north
Please answer the door
You say that love goes anywhere
In your darkest time
It's just enough to know it's there
When you go I'll let you be
But you're killing everything in me
Get down on your knees
Whisper what I need:
Something pretty
I feel that when I'm old
I'll look at you and know
The world was beautiful
Then you tell me...
You say that love goes anywhere
In your darkest time
It's just enough to know it's there
When you go I'll let you be
But you're killing everything in me
I'm done, there's nothing left to show
I try but can't let go
Are you happy where you're standing still?
Do you really want the sugar pill?
I'll wake up tomorrow and I'll start
Tonight it feels so hard
As the train approaches gare du nord,
I'm sure your kiss remains employed,
Am I only dreaming?
You say that love goes anywhere
In your darkest time
It's just enough to know it's there
When you go I'll let you be
But you're killing everything in me
When you go I'll let you be
But you're killing everything in me

Nothingwrong
Hold them down, our bleeding suspects
Just because
Just cause?
Just who are you
By candlelight burn, burn, burn baby
Burn, burn whose turn
Who gets a taste today?
We've done nothing wrong
But we've done nothing
We can't look away
But we're just looking
It's second nature to say:
We've done nothing wrong
Turn them off, our blacklist singers
Don't ask why
Don't cry; don't make a scene
On 45 spin, spin, spin give in
Spin, spin who wins?
Who's not afraid to play?
We've done nothing wrong
But we've done nothing
We can't look away
But we're just looking
It's second nature to say:
We've done nothing wrong
Done nothing but take what's handed down,
Said nothing but what's approved to shout
We want to know that we own the cake we're eating,
Then spit it out
Out
Hold them down, our bleeding suspects
Turn them off, our blacklist singers
We've done nothing wrong
But we've done nothing
We can't look away
But we're just looking
It's second nature to say
We've done nothing wrong

Night Drive
Lay back baby and we'll do this right
There are blankets in back we can use
I'll start the car but we'll stay in park
The cold can kill us before fumes
Now's the right time for a good song
Get something to say what I can't
Do you feel bad, like I feel bad?
Pour us a road, we'll both drink and drive.
Kiss me with your cherry lipstick
Never wash you off my face
Hit me, I can take your cheap shot
Leave you with the love we made
Come alive on the driver's side
So close I taste your breath
Your lips go dry but there's sweet inside
Wine must go right to your head
It'd be easy if you'd get mad
But three fingers point back to you
We could stay here
Stay out all night
No one would know,
Us and the moonlight
Kiss me with your cherry lipstick
Never wash you off my face
Hit me, I can take your cheap shot
Leave you with the love we made
I set my watch by a street-side clock
A needle in echo groove
You pierce my heart like a willing arm
Your ticking makes my blood move
There's no way out,
This fade out
Be happy to get what you do
Make him notice...
With both fists
Quitting alone will never get you dry
Give me everything you've got now
I don't feel a single thing
Drag me out into the cold rain
Let it hover over me
Kiss me with your cherry lipstick
Never wash you off my face
Hit me, I can take your cheap shot
Leave you with the love we made

23
I felt for sure last night
That once we said goodbye
No one else will know these lonely dreams
No one else will know that part of me
I'm still driving away
And I'm sorry every day
I won't always love these selfish things
I won't always live
Not stopping
It was my turn to decide
I knew this was our time
No one else will have me like you do
No one else will have me
Only you
You'll sit alone forever if you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
I'm here I'm now I'm ready
Holding on tight
Don't give away the end,
The one thing that stays mine
Amazing still, it seems
I'll be twenty three
I won't always love what I'll never have
I won't always live in my regret
You'll sit alone forever if you wait for the right time
What are you hoping for?
I'm here I'm now I'm ready
Holding on tight
Don't give away the end,
The one thing that stays mine


Bleed American

Bleed American
I'm not alone because the t.v.'s on
I'm not crazy because I take the right pills every day and rest
Clean your conscience
Clear your thoughts with speyside
With your grain
Salt sweat sugar on the asphalt
Our hearts littering the topsoil
Tune in
We can get the last call
Sign up
It's the picket line or the parade
Our lives
Our coal
I bled the greed from my arm
Won't they give it a rest now?
Now?
Now?
Now?

A Praise Chorus
Are you going to live your life wondering
Standing in the back, looking around?
Are you going to waste your time thinking
How you've grown up
How you've missed out?
Things are never going to be the way you want
Where's it going to get you acting serious?
Things are never going to be quite what you want
Even at twenty five you got to start sometime
Are you going to live your life standing in the back looking around?
Are you going to waste your time?
Got to make a move or you'll miss out
Someone is going to ask you what it's all about
Stick around nostalgia won't let you down
Someone is going to ask you what it's all about
What are you going to have to say for yourself?
I'm on my feet
I'm on the floor
I'm good to go
So come on Davey, sing me something that I know
Want to always feel like part of this was mine
Want to fall in love tonight
Here, tonight

The Middle
Hey
Don't write yourself off yet
It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on
Just try your best
Try everything you can
And don't you worry what they tell themselves when you're away
Hey
You know they're all the same
You know you're doing better on your own so don't buy in
Live right now
Just be yourself
It doesn't matter if that's good enough for someone else
It just takes some time
Little girl, you're in the middle of the ride
Everything everything will be just fine
Everything everything will be all right
Do your best
Do everything you can
Don't you worry what their bitter hearts are going to say

Your House
When you're on, I swear
You're on
I think the whole room can hear me clear my throat
Then out of nowhere you put me right back there
We know what happens when we get to your house
You're winning me over with everything you say
When I let you closer,
I only want you closer
You rip my heart right out
I throw away everything I've written you
Anything
Just to keep my mind off it
Thinking how I had you once
No, I can't forget that
Sometimes I wish I could lose you again
If you still care at all don't go tell me now
If you love me at all please don't tell me now
If you love me at all
Don't call

Sweetness
String from your tether unwinds
Up and outward but only to bind
I was spinning free with a little sweet and simple numbing me
Tell me what do I need when the words lose their meaning
Stumble until you crawl
Sinking into sweet uncertainty
I'm still running away
I won't play your hide and seek game
What a dizzy dance
This sweetness will not be concerned with me

Hear You Me
There's no one in town I know
You gave us someplace to go
I never said thank you for that
Thought I might get one more chance
What would you think of me now?
So lucky
So strong
So proud
Never said thank you for that
Now I'll never have a chance
If you were with me tonight
I'd sing to you just one more time
A song for a heart so big God wouldn't let it live
May angels lead you in
Hear you me my friends
On sleepless roads the sleepless go
May angels lead you in

If You Don't, Don't
What's wrong baby?
Don't they treat you like they should?
Did you take them for it
or every penny that you could?
We once walked out on the beach and once I almost touched your hand
O, how I dreamed to finally say such things
Then only to pretend
Don't you know I'm thinking?
Driving 405 past midnight
You know I miss you
Ninth and Ash on a Tuesday night
I would write to you from Museum Mile
Toast to you:
Your whisper
Your smile
Up the stairs at Wheatherford
A ghost each place I hide
I left you waiting
At the least could we be friends?
Should have never started
Ain't that the way it always ends?
On my life I'll try today
There's so much I've felt I should say but
Even if your heart would listen I doubt I could explain
So here we are now
A sip of wine
A sip of water
Someday maybe
Maybe someday we'll be smarter
I'm sorry that I'm such a mess
I drank all my money could get,
Took everything that you had and never loved you back
Would you mean this please if it happens?
Won't you get your story straight?
If you don't know, honey why'd you just say so?
I need this now more than I ever did
If you don't know,
Well honey,
Then you don't

Get It Faster
I don't care what you do
I'm getting out
No, nothing ever shames me
Don't want a thing from you
I'm going out
I don't care if you're angry
I should have thought things through
I'm holding out but not getting an answer
I want to do right by you
But I'm finding out cheating gets it faster

Cautioners
The time I would spend with pictures I would not send
I watched you go from left to right
I followed you all night across my blinds
Making my peace
Making it with distance
Maybe that's a big mistake
You know I'm thinking of you
I miss you
You'll change your mind come Monday and
Turn your back on me
Take your steps away with hesitance
Take your steps away from me

The Authority Song
It's how the hustle goes:
See what the jukebox knows
Put my last quarter on
I play "Authority Song"
The DJ never has it:
J A M C, automatic
If those were Roy's headphones
You bet he'd play "What Goes On"
Honesty or mystery?
Tell me, I'm not scared anymore
Say anything you want
I'm not scared anymore
Want something else? Just tell me
I got no secret purpose
I don't seem obvious, do I?
I'm here
That means something doesn't it?
Won't you dance with me a little bit?
You don't notice
I guess the music is too loud

My Sundown
I see it around me
I see it in everything:
I could be so much more than this
Said my goodbyes
This is my sundown
I'm going to be so much more than this
I need you to show me the way from crazy
I want to be so much more than this
With one hand high you'll show them your progress
You'll take your time
But no one cares
Lovely time, tinsel shine
Goodbye, I'll be fine
Good good bye
Good good night


Clarity

Table for Glasses
Sweep the dirty stairs
The ones I waited on
This is just for me
I felt it watching her
It happens too fast to make sense of it
To make it last
Where do you intend to go with you dirty dress
Lead my skeptic sight to the table and the light
It happened too fast to make sense of it
To make it last
Not asking of me anything
Saying nothing about what it means
Without anybody telling me how I should feel
Lead my skeptic sight

Lucky Denver Mint
This time it's on my own
Minutes from somewhere else
Somewhere I made a wish with lucky denver mint
Hurry go on ahead
Good things won't let you wait
I'll catch up when we get home
At home I'll leave
A dollar under water keeps on dreaming for me
You're not bigger than this
Not better
Why can't you learn

Your New Aesthetic
We're lowering the standard in a process selective
The formula is too thin
But it takes more than one person
So everyone jump on
I'll miss you when you're just like them
I remember back then thinking
Easy comes but doesn't stay
What comes easy never stays
But the politics need means
And business never leaves
You better sing now while you can
Imitate and water down
Until we crash I'll write it out
Selection breathes on its own
Make them open the request line and let selection kill the old
Turn off your radio

Believe in What You Want
Don't bother going through your motions
Nothing that makes sense ever works out
Dont't kid yourself
You know they want money
Nothing can be good on its own merit
Put your trust in simple acts
Make the flyers get them up all over town
Don't kid yourself
You know they want money
Please keep in sight what makes you care
You have it always
Spinning and spinning
Dancing in plastic
Shake-up snow
Do you believe in what you want
Your camera flash
On us
Meaningless
You cannot waste a single night
What you ignore is priceless to me

A Sunday
On a Sunday I'll think it through
On the drive back I'll think it through
What you wish for won't come true
Live with that
On a Sunday she thought it through
Now as I drive back
There's thirty-six less hours I have to change the course I send myself
Live with that
On a Sunday go once around
Because when the ride's done
The hopes that you have carried
They fall out from your hands back to the ground
Live with that
Learn as the drugs leave
Learn as you lose it
You will
The haze clears from your eyes on a Sunday

Crush
Faintest snow keep falling
Hands around your waist
Nameless
Standing cold
Take in restraint like a breath
My lungs are so numb from holding back
Walk close to the fence
Feel it hit your clothes
Turn and smile nice
Smile say goodnight
Say goodnight in a breath
Simple discourse breaks you clean in half
Regret
Do try it once and then you know
Your move
Settle for less again

12.23.95
Didn't mean to leave you hanging on
All alone
Merry Christmas baby

Ten
We left behind the busy crowd
So it seems we slow down
Meet me with a way out through the lies
Nowhere
Going nowhere in the fake yellow light
The feelings change so fast
Safety scares them away
I can't bring myself to say it's my own advice I need
Nowhere and then nowhere
Living trapped inside the chase
Our weakness is the same
We need poison sometimes
So take another drink with me
Blame no one
Look in my eyes and blame no one

Just Watch the Fireworks
Here you can be anything
I think that scares you
I've been here before but only by myself
What giving up gives you and where giving up takes you
I've had and I've been
Here in center frame
There's only air
Just enough space to fit
I said it out loud over and over but what do I know
I said it out loud but it did not help
I'll stop now
Just so I can hear you I stay up as late as it takes
As long as it takes
I promised I'd see it again
I promised I'd see this with you now

For Me This is Heaven
The first star I see may not be a star
We can't do a thing but wait
So let's wait for one more
The time such clumsy time in deciding if it's time
I'm careful but not sure how it goes
You can lose yourself in your courage
The mindless comfort grows when I'm alone with my "great" plans
This is what she says gets her through it
"If I don't let myself be happy now then when"
If not now when
When the time we have now ends
When the big hand goes around again
Can you still feel the butterflies
Can you still hear the last goodnight
Close my eyes and believe wherever you are
An angel for me

Blister
Take advantage of these times
You said
You let me down
It hasn't been the first time
As I'm falling in the pit of fire my mind's made up
I'm never coming back here
How long would it take me to walk across the United States all alone
The west coast has been traumatized
I think I'm the only one still alive
Is it just a coincidence to see you by yourself with no direction
Now it's time to move on
Don't you know that things aren't getting better
Don't try and stop me
Because I'm falling fast into this pit of fire which surrounds us all
In a blanket of fear that I've been wrapped in for years
You can't stop me
When the world caves in what are you going to do for me

Clarity
I'll take your words as if you were talking to me
Say what I know you'll say and say it through your teeth
With pride keep every failure in
And with pride hold on to the sinking
Now in the deep and down your heart moves
Now in the deep and down
I don't know how but I know I want out
Wait for something better
Will I know when it can be us
Maybe that doesn't mean us
Wait for something better
I shouldn't
It's not enough
Pull one excuse from another
Just one excuse from another
This time it means us
Stop

Goodbye Sky Harbor
"Is tomorrow just a day like all the rest"
How could you know just what you did
So full of faith yet full of doubt I ask
Time and time again you said don't be afraid
"If you believe then you can do it"
The only voice I want to hear is yours
Again
I shall ask you this once again
And again
He said
"I am but one small instrument"
Do you remember that
So here I am above palm trees so straight and tall
You are smaller
Getting smaller
But I still see you


Jimmy Eat World

Your New Aesthetic (Demo)
For your time it's written out
Work means nothing by itself
These days are numbered,
I can tell
Until the crash I'll write you down
Selection kills the old
Selection breathes on its own
Sing while you can
Now, while you can

Softer
She's perfect in her own way
Smoke rings rising to the winter grey
Shining, stepping off a silver train
She's amazing in her own way
Always moving to a better place
Laughing, you won't get to her softer traits
I'm getting that sick taste in my mouth from the medicine I can't keep down
You know time heals nothing by itself
I see that ever so clearly now
The lights had just gone out at Rockerfeller Center
Take it slow and make it softer
Easy likes it nice and steady
She looks just a little bit different now
Maybe a little bit softer around her eyes

Roller Queen
I blame it on my entrance
It may have seemed too much like confidence
Let me start it over
Help me get to what I can from when I did
Had to leave me reasons
It may have seemed too much,
The consequence
In your busy, dizzy life you will become everything you said you would
All that I know is how I can hold on but all that you see is how I let go
How about once around?



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