“THE LAST BREATH OF ROCK & ROLL

Mess with my straight hair
Wishing I could pull it out
I need that long, curled shock of a god

Now that the snow’s cleared
Scrape the car, start it up
It’s a laugh track slide to a stop
I have to get my friends
The next town’s waiting
There goes the last breath
Of rock ‘n roll
There goes the last breath
Of rock ‘n roll
Of rock ‘n roll

Can’t afford the new digs
Money’s such a stupid drag
Ditching on the bills to collect my high

Get with the Dead Beat kids
Dance until we make ourselves mad
Spinning in the lipstick shade of light
Hold on, we’re picking up speed
No sense in leaving
There goes the last breath
Of rock ‘n roll
There goes the last breath
Of rock ‘n roll
There goes the last breath
Of rock ‘n roll
Of rock ‘n roll
Looking for no way out
We’re tied to the rails
With a smile that can eat the stars
Bend to “How Soon is Now”
We rise and we fail
But everything here is ours

There goes the last breath
Of rock ‘n roll
There goes the last breath
Of rock ‘n roll
There goes the last breath
Of rock ‘n roll
Of rock ‘n roll”

“NOT THAT KIND

Followed your stars around
Until they dropped in you in the center of town
Left you reaching for a spot on the ground
Lift you over the pitiful sounds
Of your romantic gaze
Talking up the better days

Put you in a valentine spell
Barricaded in a granite hotel
Where all the pictures have a kerosene smell
Rings the tone of drowsy bells
That pulls you far away
Head down and half awake

If I’m floating out there, kill me now
Is it the right time to push you over
The cold crash of one year older
The bones seem dry
I’m not that kind
I’m not that kind

Dressed as a parting gift
Caught your solo with a kodachrome click
While you worked on the bathroom brick
Every sensory is suddenly
Recalled in spades
Snapped on a counterfeit face

If I’m floating out there, pull me down
Is it the right time to push you over
The cold crash of one year older
The bones seem dry
I’m not that kind
I’m not that kind

I see you coming around
I see you cooking up dramatic plays
No reason to recount
You’ve got it all on your timeline
Waiting to be reviewed
I hope they peel you open
Oh, I hope their sights are all on you

If I’m floating out there, kill me now
Is it the right time to push you over
The cold crash of one year older
The bones seem dry
I’m not that kind”

“MINUS THIEVES

When they’re gone
Do you live like a holiday
Are you rested up inside
Is your heart back open wide
When they’re gone
Is it the middle of a hurricane
Where your head’s all crystal clear
A new romantic atmosphere
Are the colors getting brighter
Are you strong from your head to your knees
And down to your toes
You’ve needed to be minus thieves
You’ve needed to be minus thieves
You deserve to breathe
Minus thieves, minus thieves

All the talk
Curls around you in a fit of smoke
Standing center in the haze
Improvising some escape
Will they pause
Or fire off an anecdote
One repeated dull design
Trigger sure to change your mind
Are you riddled by their brilliance
As your brain just declines in degrees
Decidedly low

You’ve needed to be minus thieves
You’ve needed to be minus thieves
You deserve to breathe
Minus thieves, minus thieves

Always messing in your garden
Cause you don’t want to go
In the house when they’re home
Oh I know, oh I know
Try to redirect the target
But decided to be there
Why do you need them there
Overexposed
To the cold of a lasting stare

You’ve needed to be minus thieves
You’ve needed to be minus thieves
You deserve to breathe
Minus thieves, minus thieves

Minus thieves
Minus thieves
You deserve to breathe
Minus thieves, minus thieves”

“BELIEVE

Do you like the nights
When the lights get low
And the moon gets high
And the words move slow
Is it all alright
That you just give up
Cuz it’s all been stuck
Like it always was
And you don’t really care
And you don’t really care

Staring for a mile
With a hangdog face
A dead-weight pile
While your leg still shakes
There’s a loss of guile
For your next big grift
And the marks all left
So the odds just shift
And you don’t really care
And you don’t really care

Believe
I don’t believe…

Never on the fence
Then the call comes in
And your best intent
Is a bit too thin
Not a word drops yet
‘Til you suss this out
Hold your bullshit down
Like a cough in your mouth
And you don’t really care
And you don’t really care

Believe
I don’t believe

Every moment of silence is killing me (me)
Every moment of silence is killing me
It’s killing me

Do you like the nights
When the lights get low
And the moon gets high
And the words move slow
Is it all alright
That you just give up
Cuz it’s all been stuck

Believe
I don’t believe

Do you like the nights
When the lights get low
And the moon gets high
And the words move slow”

“SO FAR

You were wading in the water
I was resting on the shore
Couldn’t gauge if it gets better
Neither ever asked before
Who did you tell the reasons why

We took it so far

Slung your arm around my shoulder
Calm my nervous tendencies
Like some gentle fellow soldier
Always looking out for me
I couldn’t tell when we switched sides

We took it so far

We heard them rave about us
Talking like we walked the moon
When we were turning into glass
At the slightest push
Going out of our way not to move

We took it so far”

“RESCUE ME

I get my headaches
I get my heartbreaks
I leave those cities in the dust
And keep my old ways
It’s not my sorrow
Or lack of purpose
There’s no anger underneath
It’s on the surface

Nothing can be said to make me change
I’m not running from the world
I walked away
Though I try to fall in line
I start turning on a dime
I can’t believe
Why they want to try to rescue me

Lay my head down
But I’m not resting
Count the crimes
My mind’s been quietly confessing
Some toward others
Some were against myself
But they all worked well together
As the night fell

Nothing can be said to make me change
I’m not running from the world
I walked away
Every change I took apart
Is resurrected in the dark
And I’ll never see
Why they want to try to rescue me

Don’t be alarmed
It’s not something that I start
Just for the need burn it down
Don’t be alarmed
I’m too tired to ever waste your time
By coming back around

Nothing can be said to make me change
I’m not running from the world
I walked away
Though I try to fall in line
I start turning on a dime
I can’t believe
Why they want to try to rescue me”

“GOOD

Do you believe
That there’s something in the water
Everybody’s dragging everybody down
And it’s making it harder
Do you believe
They’ve been messing with your babies
Since you brought them back home
They’ve been dicks
But they left like daisies
Once upon a fantasy
I was good to you
But buddy, buddy were you good to me?

I get confused
Every time I let myself out
Oh there’s little understanding
That you’re not the only fucker in a whole crowd
I get a little tuned up
Say a lot of harsh things
But I shouldn’t really worry
Cuz I’m banking on the fact that you’re not listening
Once upon a fantasy
I was good to you
But buddy, buddy were you good to me?

I think you ought to get head checked
Cuz your hell bent
On strange tradition
You really need to quit that dead sect, man
It’s been clouding the conversation
Put it all on faith, not on information
Put it all on faith, not on information

I can’t talk to you...

I think you ought to get head checked
Cuz your hell bent
On strange tradition
You really need to quit that dead sect, man
It’s been clouding the conversation
Put it all on faith, not on information
Put it all on faith, not on information
Good to me
Were you you good to me”

“WANTED BLUE

Ooooo you only wanted blue
You only want the 4th of July
Without a flash in the sky in June
Ooooo you only wanted blue
No other color filling your eye
No talking too bright to you

It’s so automatic
I’ve got to give it up for what you do
Wrap your hands ‘round the throat of
Whatever won’t change hue
On the talk back
You let a lot of parables slip through
You’ve got so much to say
On so much you just can’t prove

Ooooo you only wanted fun
A simple conversation resigned
Replaced by the sight of your gun
Ooooo you only wanted blue
The resolution cleany displays
The art and the shade of your mood

All your lovers dance along
All your lovers dance along
Until they’re gone
Until they’re long gone
Ooooo you only wanted blue
No other color filling your eye
No talking too bright to you

It’s so automatic
I’ve got to give it up for what you do
Keep your hands ‘round the throat
Of whatever won’t change hue
There you’re on the talk back
To let a lot of parables slip through
You’ve got so much to say
On so much you just
So much you just
So much you just can’t prove”

“SIGN (WAKE MY HEART HEART)

When no one’s gonna lay beside you
No one’s gonna lay beside you
That’s when you only want to wake my heart up
Only want to wake my heart up
When no one’s gonna lay beside you
No one’s gonna lay beside you
That’s when you only want to wake my heart up
Only want to wake my heart up
If I get caught again
I know it’s pretend
Until the day begins

When no one’s gonna lay beside you
No one’s gonna lay beside you
That’s when you only want to wake my heart up
Only want to wake my heart up
When no one’s gonna lay beside you
No one’s gonna lay beside you
That’s when you only want to wake my heart up
Only want to wake my heart up

Know it’s a sign

Aching from a battle cry kiss
Hiding the marks by your heart-shaped fist
Keep my back to the wall so I can see what’s next
Note all the exits and cover my chest
Should be protected by the cover of dark
The light of my phone has been making it hard
I’ve been clutching my keys that go to my car
No isn’t too far, No it isn’t too far

Know it’s a sign

When no one’s gonna lay beside you
No one’s gonna lay beside you
That’s when you only want to wake my heart up
Only want to wake my heart up
When no one’s gonna lay beside you
No one’s gonna lay beside you
That’s when you only want to wake my heart up
Only want to wake my heart up”

“GETTING HOME

When the sun goes down again
Will you remember where you were
Four hours earlier
Will you remember
How you got here
And how you’re getting home

All the churches filled with arrows
Pointing the tips of their hands to the sky
Flipping them off as you’re passing them by
Will you remember
How you got here
And how you’re getting home

What’s her name
Did you think that if you followed
You’d be taken over
Now you miss that train
So you keep on walking on

To a place
Where you feel strong
One less day
To play it hard or have to play along

What’s her name
Did you think that if you followed
You’d be taken over
Now you miss that train
So you keep on walking on
To a place
Where you feel strong
One less day
To play it hard or have to play along

When the sun goes down again
Will you remember where you were
Four hours earlier
Will you remember how you got here
And how you’re getting home”