I found myself in a brand new scene Where the blood runs thick, but the water runs clean Use our talent and turn a shitty day Into a shitty song and let the critics relate You stole my drummer and took my bassist Elusive truth in the look on my face says We captured the perfect stack Gotten totally smashed and nailed a hip-hop track You see this is the best way that I've found Of now and again Releasing my soul and making myself feel whole again We're sick with something I can never explain Oh we'll make it 'cause we love it again and again Even though we never were that satisfied So you really think it's a waste of my time To take everyday things, to add a beat and a rhyme Did you have something better in mind? Did you think your youth was less wasted than mine? When this is the best way that I've found Of now and again Releasing my soul and making myself feel whole again We're sick with something I can never explain Oh we'll make it 'cause we love it again and again Even though we never were that satisfied This is the pledge of the talented few There are more of us than there are of you We're just the ones who are in this room Singing songs from a guy who is just like you We churn out songs and we fight to keep them free 'Til the breadline taunts us with royalties True to our art and the passion inside We'll hand it to you on the day that we die I only wanted harmonies I'm not concerned with legacies I only wanted harmonies I'm not concerned with legacies Because this is the best way that I've found Of now and again Releasing my soul and making myself feel whole again We're sick with something I can never explain Oh we'll make it 'cause we love it again and again Even though we never were that satisfied At least we tried

As the sun was coming back up And you led me by the hand Away from where we'd slumped the night before I peeled my skin away from yours And left all pretence behind I brushed your cheek and stumbled through the door And I, I know you've given half away But my hand still shakes as you give the rest to me And why, when we've got everything we want Do our heartbeats race when we're left together alone? I would have thought that age would have shown How responsible we could be And let us throw away our lustful dancefloor turn But now faithful is only a little more than A theoretical running joke I'm scared losing it has made it even worse And I, I know you've given half away But my hand still shakes as you give the rest to me And why, when we've got everything we want Do our heartbeats race when we're left together alone? In the light of day I apologise You tell me no, we're both to blame It'd probably be more sincere to say I'm sorry for the lies But then there'd be no next time for it to be the same And I, I know you've given half away But my hand still shakes as you give the rest to me And why, when we've got everything we want Do our heartbeats race when we're left together alone? Why do we do Everything we shouldn't do For what's, on paper, clearly nothing More than other people's suffering I think we were Both surprised at how right it was If I felt bad that he was wondering It crossed my mind, if that counts for something As the sun was coming back up And you led me by the hand Away from where we'd slumped the night before

Alright, excuse me, can you take me to celebrity? Looks like your hair's straight, let's go Flashing teeth all night Well I'm sure they'll be expecting you Just check your name's not on the list It seems unlikely you'll be missed out Oh hi, remember him? The kid, wait, the star The child of falling out of cars Into drugs and more guitars No, why do you ask about his influence? Just show him to the decadence No, his throat's a little hoarse tonight Why does it seem your life Fails before even you've tried? You'll get everything you've earned Dream about tomorrow Sleeping through today Wonder who's to blame when Nothing seems to fall in your way Your light reflected in the golden streets No more likely to succeed Who needs talent looking like you? God conspires to ruin you with STDs And trick you into bankruptcy At least he knows he isn't you Why does it seem your life Fails before even you've tried? You'll get everything you've earned Dream about tomorrow Sleeping through today Wonder who's to blame when Nothing seems to fall in your Way? I'm sure You deserve a lot more What with all of your Imagery and minor chords Trying to carbon Copy what you can't be Fairly sure you'll never see Why you're you and that's not really me Go find your dad and punch your kin Go stand on your box and piss into the wind Do you need to be watched so you can begin? Or is one eye on your bubble and one on the pin? You're less convincing in despair With a petulent pout and flick of your hair If you think hard work is less than fair Please, find someone who doesn't have to pretend to care Why does it seem your life Fails before even you've tried? You'll get everything you've earned Dream about tomorrow Sleeping through today Wonder who's to blame when Nothing seems to fall in your way Why does it seem your life Fails before even you've tried? You'll get everything you've earned Dream about tomorrow Sleeping through today Wonder who's to blame when Nothing seems to fall in your way Your life Fails before even you've tried You'll get everything you've earned Dream about tomorrow Sleeping through today I wonder who's to blame when Nothing seems to fall in your way

Let me show you my pet monkey I give him everything he needs That's just him saying that he loves me When he struggles on his lead I'll dress him up, a pointless shave Crash course in how my friends behave I won't encourage him to leave this time Play one more time with your monkey friends While I go build your monkey pen I see you've built an impressive zoo Did those sweat and tears belong to you? He'll quit to work and gather food His dreams replaced by you Just one last question still stands out About a monkey in a reptile house We missed him at first, but now he's covered in The smell of a barely human being We fight the urge to reject the homo Erectus he's trained to be I'm sure he'll Run back to the zoo again With his tail between his legs In a level of irony reserved for few Does Stockholm Syndrome mean anything to you? It's quite simple, the games are over I won't stand for your own kind Now get your arse back on my shoulder And leave those other chumps behind With any luck, one by one They'll forget you, where you've gone Truth be told, I couldn't care less Your friends'll have to go away now You other shits wave this monkey out When he bares his teeth in a lonely grin And his eyes light up with resentment when He claps the cymbals she tied to his hands In an effort to make him understand Exactly what sucks about marching bands We missed him at first, but now he's covered in The smell of a barely human being We fight the urge to reject the homo Erectus he's trained to be I'm sure he'll Run back to the zoo again With his tail between his legs Oh, visiting hours are over now At least the rest of us can scamper out We missed him at first, but now he's covered in The smell of a barely human being We fight the urge to reject the homo Erectus he's trained to be I'm sure he'll Run (why would he run?) back to the zoo again (when I'm having so much fun) With his tail between his legs (I made him better than you) Holy shit, someone call the animal league She's managed to squeeze him into jeans You don't know anything about our love Not quite, I just don't know what he's thinking of But agree to disagree I (You've) seen enough You know we're not that different, you and I I'd believe you if you weren't holding that monkey knife But agree to disagree (yeah, you're probably right) It's his life (Mine for life) We missed him at first, but now he's covered in The stink of a barely human being We fight the urge to reject the homo Erectus he's trained to be one day he'll Run (Won't let him run) away One day he'll bust out of his cage And he'll snatch that shocked look off your face

I'm flattered you use my stories to try and come off better It might be more impressive if I'd actually ever said them I guess it must be tempting to try and push the rest of us down When the things you had to offer are slowly falling to the ground And I'm sure you've done it better And I'm sure I couldn't care less And I'm sure you're keen to emphasise All the things that you possess And I'm sure we'd get on better If you weren't so keen to win You'll rattle around your empty house And rule it like a king If young is dumb and worthless and our training you can't trust Then who are you going to look to, when you start to gather rust? Have you come to a decision that implies that we're the best? Just change your mind a couple of times And let retcon do the rest And I'm sure you've done it better And I'm sure I couldn't care less And I'm sure you're keen to emphasise All the things that you possess And I'm sure we'd get on better If you weren't so keen to win You'll rattle around your empty house And rule it like a king Now I've offered you this tune As a window to someone else's room But you won't look through, I know Because the views contained here aren't your own And I'm sure you've done it better And I'm sure I couldn't care less And I'm sure you're keen to emphasise All the things that you possess And I'm sure we'd get on better If you weren't so keen to win You'll rattle around your empty house And rule it like a king

Spectacular, the sight of the surviving uninfected by the firelight You won't survive the night without the proper skills to Make sure they're dead Like removal of the head How many nights left? Maybe one, two, three, four? We moved along that night, right after the seventh wave attacked We got our bearings and we shouldered our packs While all of our friends were lying dead on their backs, if only for the minute And Bear seemed confident there'd be a helicopter waiting just a hill away He crossed the river nude and I followed suit, it seemed a little bit gay, but Bear, they're dead Now they're crawling after our heads I'm losing faith in your smiling claim that rescue's on the way Bear, they're dead But with a little bit of help from me You'll find the survivors and bring the rest to their knees He fashioned us a twelve-guage catapult from some broken bones We managed shelter from a log and skin he made a home, if only for a minute He waded through the human entrails looking for a protein source Beware of branches bent, they can snap back at you with surprising force, look Bear, they're dead Now they're crawling after our heads I'm losing faith in your smiling claim that rescue's on the way Bear, they're dead But with a little bit of help from me You'll find the survivors and bring the rest to their knees Then one night as the sun came down Bear was pacing around, picking at a bite on his arm He was reading my thoughts when I looked in his eye He crafted me a spade and he begged me to die A poorly-timed swing hit him right in the eye His lips moved once as he gasped a final cry, man alive Bear, you're dead Bear, you're dead Bear, you're dead Bear, you're dead A stoving spade is ineffective when One minute you're down, now you're back up again I didn't have the heart to finish the job But now ironically neither do you, make the best of it You're not like the rest of them You've still got some fingers left, look One, two, three, four Bear, you're dead Will you stop lunging at my head I've come to believe we never would have seen a chopper on the way Bear, you're dead But with a little bit of help from me We'll put you to work as a menial member of society

Riding the bus Paranoid, check for my keys again I think she thinks I'm watching, that I'm staring when I fidget in my favourite seat, loudest demos on repeat Do they know who I am? Maybe I should show them, brand new pad and pen This lyricist who - what, now she's glaring again? I'm the only sane one on this trip We're becoming best friends When did me drawing conclusions about you and me From scrapes and contusions and marks on your sleeve Change from the act of someone in control to Someone who's lost underneath? I'm lucky I'm the only one trained not to slouch Don't these people know your lumbar's hooked up to your mouth? I'm surrounded by fools, why do idiots surround? Why does my head keep rewording this for grammar and sound? I'm thinking too quickly for my hand with a pen My 'a's look like 'o's, so they're kept in my head I look like I'm preparing my words, it won't help I'm set with two seconds on everyone else I can feel time, it's stretching and it's bending around I feel one with the lights and the merry-go-round Give no shit that the tiniest shifts won't be seen I would teach you, but no-one wants sane like me I'd rather die for an idea than follow it through My nose is so far up against a tree, the forest is lost on you You can't see how important what I'm doing is There's no such thing as overthinking this How disparate, intellect and sanity How multiple, my personality And then I snore myself awake to fears I'm losing sleep Let's all pick at where it's coming apart and focus on me

I'm just a girl, she said She said help me get by, I've been hurt before I guess she could see I was a little more Than a regular piece of her game They go first, she said But the first to go was the second son, he Couldn't watch it burn for love and money While she called him all of her names Don't you think that's crossing a line? I'll let it slide again this time I've been eight years broke No debts to pay Spent my love for spending's sake What are you going to tell her now That there's nothing left for you to take? It's been eight long years 'til I opened my eyes And I shook my jacket clean I'll step outside myself and I'll be free You've got to go, they said She's built a fire with your pots and towels You might need those when it all goes sour If you'll forgive us for planning ahead You can't leave, she said You're no good for anyone else any more Take your monkey ass back to your filthy whore And leave your chequebook by the bed Don't you think you've crossed a line? I won't have to let it slide this time My heart breaks that you'd be surprised But I think I'll be just fine And I'm eight years broke No debts to pay Spent my love for spending's sake What are you going to tell her now That there's nothing left for you to take? It's been eight long years 'til I opened my eyes And I shook my jacket clean I'll step outside myself and I'll be free I wish I could say this was the end of it all You know what? Fuck the house, you can keep it all I found the things that matter waiting for me She painted me pictures of death and defeat What, lilies again? That's, wow, no, you keep it Now I don't care that you won't ever see I pity the world for years to come 'cause I think I paid for another one I've been eight years broke No debts to pay Spent my love for spending's sake What are you going to tell her now That there's nothing left for you to take? It's been eight long years 'til I opened my eyes And I shook my jacket clean I'll step outside myself and I'll be free I've been eight years broke No debts to pay Spent my love for spending's sake What are you going to tell her now That there's nothing left for you to take? It's been eight long years 'til I opened my eyes I shook my jacket clean I'll step outside myself and I'll be free Yeah, I'll be free

I've found something better prepared for you to believe I think what I know, you're going to want to need We can't be sure, but I'm happy enough to hold the pieces like a chimpanzee We can't know it all, but the least we can do is keep the pictures of the places we've been I've found something better prepared for you to believe I think what I know, you're gonna want to need We can't be sure, but I'm happy enough to hold the pieces like a chimpanzee We can't know it all, but the least we can do is keep the pictures of the places we've been You've got to see how much sense you ignore to make your simplified solution fit At what point in your biology school did you suspect that you were full of shit? And I can explain this to you if you'll listen We're no better at facing the end It's more perfect than you'd ever imagine Would you feel better with the fake and pretend? I will see with the product of eternity And the shadows you need'll grow thin It's no rehearsal, please forgive me But we'll never meet like this again It's not strong to live behind your faith and stick your fingers in your ears so far The academic argument goes la la la, no I can't hear you, la la la la la I've found something better prepared for you to believe I think what I know, you're gonna want to need I can explain this to you if you'll listen We're no better at facing the end It's more perfect than you'd ever imagine Would you feel better with the fake and pretend? I will see with the product of eternity And the shadows you need'll grow thin It's no rehearsal, please forgive me But we'll never meet like this again And I can explain this to you, even if it hurts oh-ah-ah-ah Honestly faith without truth only makes it worse oh-ah-ah-ah Brainwashed children have grown And their views truly shown Now the seeds that you've sown Have been pulled from the roots By an ounce of the truth When your grip was too loose God forbid this was us God forbid us be proud of our role I can explain this to you if you'll listen We're no better at facing the end It's more beautiful than you could imagine Let me open your eyes, my friend And we will see with the product of eternity And the shadows you need'll grow thin There's no rehearsal, please forgive me But we'll never meet like this again

It seems we've come to the end of the line Between making a difference and wasting time I know you're scared, but for what it's worth It was a pleasure to cross it first Pronounce my life with Melissa again Take what has been and make it what has Ben I know the theory inside out I just don't know what you're worried about You may lose faith if you realise I can't concentrate with my hands near your eyes What did you want for eleven pounds I laugh the more sincere you sound Results are back and the papers are in When did responsibility begin? Maturity infects in insistence This chord progression's the pill for resistance And we will never die by serious And we will give up on success to make you smile And then we'll live forever How about trying, just for today And let your targets carry me away I hear tell of a thing called 'ambition' But now I'm breaking out, on a mission If all that matters is mobile phones The MEGApixels everyone owns Why so keen to walk like me The more I demonstrate my perfect insanity? And we will never die by serious And we will give up on success to make you smile And then we'll live forever And we will be those who still believe in us And we will break our souls up for the ride And then we'll live forever I can't shake the feeling I'd have better spent my time I'm looking for the answers instead of screaming clever rhymes And we will never die by serious And we will give up on success to make you smile And then we'll live forever And then we'll live forever All the work of blistered hands And all the worlds I understand Can you see what I said Was not that relevant Waiting for me at the line I'll meet you there in my own time Forgive my confidence You'll die with my regrets And we will (we will, we will) And we will (we will, we will) And we will (we will, we will) And we will (we will, we will) And we will (we will, we will) And we will (we will, we will) Well that all sounds very interesting I'm sorry, I wasn't listening And we will never die by serious And we will give up on success to make you smile And then we'll live forever