Minds Like Minefields lyrics - Alkaline Trio
Once upon a time
When we both lost our minds
And our memories
Destroyed our common sense
And the letters sent
Suicidal tendencies
Deployed like a parachute
You had a hole in you
As we went tumbling through the sky
The only thing I'd change
Is the fear and rage
And the hell I put you through
So sorry
And I can't get up
The nerve to look you in
The eyes as I'm leaving
And I can't go on
This same old song and dance
Is murder on your feelings
I'm at a loss for words
As the tables turned
You placed me upon the wheel
In your torture chamber
My remains were
Left next to my last meal
Gone without a trace
You went off to taste
The fruit of the afterlife
As I sit and stir
Nightmares recur
Haven't slept a wink
In forty days or nights
And I can't get up
The nerve to look you in
The eyes as I'm leaving
And I can't go on
This same old song and dance
Is murder on your feelings
Now and again
Forgotten friends
Crossing my mind like a minefield
Stopping to stare
Asking, "Do I dare,
Defuse this or disarm my—
Disarm myself?"
And I can't get up
The nerve to look you in
The eyes as I'm leaving
And I can't go on
This same old song and dance
Is murder on your feelings
Now and again
Forgotten friends
Crossing my mind like a minefield
Stopping to stare
Asking, "Do I dare,
Defuse this or disarm my—
Disarm myself?"
Radio Violence lyrics - Alkaline Trio
I set down the dream with the rain boots
And decided to ride out the storm
Now I can't recall how to welcome the light
And I can't see not window or door
It's these four walls of mine
How they change colors
How they'd sing to me sometimes
So dark the verse, so comfortable the tune
Seduced to nothing
Just a servitude in size
All-seeing bloodshot eyes
Bruise colored our lives
Dreams that never stood a chance
We've been subtracting in the dark
Now in the dark is where we dance
To radio violence
Communicated, filters through
A lost transmission on repeat
No one else is listening to
If I went dark tonight,
Would I change colors?
Go from tip to tails in white
To southern stumbles soaked in rage by midnight
We saw it coming
A misfortune-teller knew
Made sure it all came true
Bruise colored our lives
Dreams that never stood a chance
We've been subtracting in the dark
Now in the dark is where we dance
To radio violence
Communicated, filters through
A lost transmission on repeat
No one else is listening to
But you
Bruise colored our lives
Dreams all soaked and innocent
We're left alone here in the dark
As in the dark was where we met
Through radio violence
Communicated, filters through
A lost transmission on repeat
No one else is listening to
Smokestack lyrics - Alkaline Trio
Filled myself with soot from top to bottom
I'm a smokestack
Turnin' blood into booze
Now my liver's on fumes
Little alcoholic
I'm always beating myself up
Why did I have to play so rough?
I tried to get the hell out
And I'm standin' in my own way
No, we can't skip school anymore
Do you miss those days at all?
I miss starting up fires
Throwing bottles at trains
Pissing on convenience store walls
Well it was time for me to go home
Let's go and make some flyers for our third floor show
Mom and dad can wait
This is the path that we chose
Do you really believe that didn't mean anything?
Now do you really believe those days didn't mean a thing?
'Cause I'm still believin', that means everything
Do you really believe those days didn't mean a thing?
'Cause I sure don't
You made my life
You changed my life
You changed my life
Well, I was scared as hell as I was standing
At that open bar
I saw a life go past that I guess I coulda had
But I didn't try very hard
You see, I knew you two would last
Why did you have to jump so fast?
Now put the baby to bed
'Cause it's time for me to go home
Do you really believe that didn't mean anything?
Now do you really believe those days didn't mean a thing?
'Cause I'm still believin', that means everything
Do you really believe those days didn't mean a thing?
'Cause I sure don't
You made my life
You changed my life
You changed my life
You changed my life
Is This Thing Cursed? lyrics - Alkaline Trio
Is this thing cursed?
This goddamn thing's the worst
Now one look in that direction
And everything starts to hurt
Is this thing cursed?
It's been around for years
And everytime my boat's about tits up
That goddamn thing is near
I tried to throw it in the river
But it washed up in my sink
And now the city cut my water
And it's all I have to drink
Is this thing cursed?
If it is then I'm the jerk
Who keeps on hanging around
When I simply should just burn it to the ground
Maybe it's some kind of spell
That I've been living under
Collecting coins found near a nightmare wishing well
Coldest regards signed my name and sealed the card
Tried to leave it all behind me and almost blew up in my car
Is this thing cursed?
Is this thing cursed?
Is this thing cursed?
My haunted head aches so much worse
Than those that can't remember
How dismemberment works
Is this thing cursed?
It's been around for years
And everytime my life's about tits up
That goddamn thing is near
I tried to throw it in the river
But it washed up in my sink
And now the city cut my water
And it's all I have to drink
Is this thing cursed?
Blackbird lyrics - Alkaline Trio
She's black and red and built just like a spy plane
Extracting information from my mind
The photographs she takes save to a mainframe
For your eyes only lonely cold war time (of mine)
Now after all the city falls just like the night or an angel does
Leave me here alone to collect my things
She sees music in the terror she brings
And like a Technicolor dream
The light in your eyes blinded me
From your perch you softly smiled
My Blackbird softly smiled
She's built for speed and made for keeping secrets
Stark and dark against enemy skies
From miles above the earth no one can detect her
My Blackbird blows a kiss that ends mankind (goodbye)
And all this time there is no crime of treason that she hasn't seen
Leave me here alone to collect my things
She sees music in the terror she brings
And like a Technicolor dream
The light in your eyes blinded me
From your perch you softly smiled
My Blackbird softly smiled
SR 71
Blackbird from the hell above
She's the only one
Only spy I ever loved
She's the only spy I ever loved
Now after all the city falls just like the night or an angel does
Leave me here alone to collect my things
She sees music in the terror she brings
And like a Technicolor dream
The light in your eyes blinded me
From your perch you softly smiled
My Blackbird softly smiled
SR 71
Blackbird from the hell above
She's the only one
Only spy I ever loved
Demon And Division lyrics - Alkaline Trio
I got some poison on the brain
And I'm not scared I'm not ashamed
No more of anything, anything, anything but the rain
It melts my smile straight down the drain
I found black magic and white shame
And I lost everything, everything, everything but the pain
I set my alarm for an early start that I slept through
I've torn apart all chances of stealing your heart
That sunless morning
I got my start on the mean streets
Where Demon and Division meet
Been dodging bullets and dirty looks all fucking morning
Now I have violence on the brain
You're not in love you're just insane
Afraid of everything, everything, everything and the shame
It wipes that smile right off your face
Lost in confusion and disgrace
I once had everything, everything, everything but you
I set my alarm for an early start that I slept through
I've torn apart all chances of stealing your heart
That sunless morning
I got my start on the mean streets
Where Demon and Division meet
Been dodging bullets and dirty looks all fucking morning
Jaw dropped, here in shock on the icy streets (You're killing)
All the alcohol in hell and I just watched it freeze (You're killing)
Now I'll skate on through
Si tu veux
Have it, I'm finished
I'm getting out, set the clock for an early start
Dodged a bullet, saw my shadow get blown apart
I won't apologize
You are killing me
I set my alarm for an early start that I slept through
I've torn apart all chances of stealing your heart
That sunless morning
I got my start on the mean streets
Where Demon and Division meet
Been dodging bullets and dirty looks all fucking morning
I got some poison on the brain
Little Help? lyrics - Alkaline Trio
Does anybody know where I can go get high?
Does anybody know where I can go get high?
See I've been working like a dog all night
So I can't sleep, but I'm feeling alright
And I've got nothing to do, so I'd rather go get high
Can anybody here buy this old fool a drink?
Can anybody here buy this old fool a drink?
See my old lady poured it all down the sink
But then she left me and took everything
Now I've got nowhere to go and I sure could use a drink
It sure beats waiting on the next train
Back to that old scene, I leave it behind
It sure beats waiting on the next little girl
Who grabs my heart just to squeeze the blood
Right out
Can anybody here give this old fool a lift?
Can anybody here give this old fool a lift?
I left my old Chevy down at the shop
I couldn't pay for it and they stripped it for parts
Now I just look at my shoes, oh I sure could use a lift
Does anybody here got a place where I could sleep?
Does anybody here got a place where I could sleep?
I rented me a place and it burned to the ground
I lit a cigarette then I passed the fuck out
Oh lord, what did I do, now I need a place to sleep
But it sure beats sleeping on the next train
Back to that old scene, I leave it behind
And it sure beats waiting on the next little girl
Who grabs my heart just to squeeze the blood
Right out
Does anybody know?
Does anybody know where I can
Does anybody know where I can go get high?
Does anybody know?
Does anybody know where I can
Does anybody know where I can go get high?
I Can't Believe lyrics - Alkaline Trio
I can't believe anything that you're saying to me
I just can't see how you ever dreamed this was for the best
I can't believe in these things that you pretend to see
I just don't see how the fuck you could ever think that I'd agree
Leave me on the outskirts of this
Seven headed whore of a one horse town
Nothing to see here, move along
Nobody to hear your black swan song
Someone please do something, something's wrong
He's no longer breathing, but singing along
(Along, Along, Along)
I can't believe anything that you're saying to me
I just can't see how you ever dreamed this was for the best
I can't believe in these things that you pretend to see
I just don't see how the fuck you could ever think that I'd agree
Leave me on the outskirts of this
Seven headed whore of a one horse town
Nothing to see here, move along
Nobody to hear your black swan song
Someone please do something, something's wrong
He's no longer breathing, but singing along
Nothing to see here, move along
Nobody to hear your black swan song
Someone please do something, something's wrong
He's no longer breathing, but singing along
Someone to hold onto
Some place like Space I've never been
Nothing left to get through
A name and a face I'll never see again
Someone to hold onto
Someone to hold onto…
Nothing to see here, move along
Nobody to hear your black swan song
Someone please do something, something's wrong
He's no longer breathing, but singing along
Nothing to see here, move along
Nobody to hear your black swan song
Someone please do something, something's wrong
He's no longer breathing, but singing along
Nothing to see here, move along
Nobody to hear your black swan song
Someone please do something, something's wrong
He's no longer breathing, but singing along
Sweet Vampires lyrics - Alkaline Trio
You were the downright all time love of my life
You showed up, and showed me so wrong, you were right
Alone in this ocean, floating in the moonlight
At home with the notion it's me, myself, and I
I was the live fast, car crash, Mulholland Drive
Open the flood gates, this love-hate is making me cry
But tears fill the tub with the blood from your wrist that night
If we should live forever
Like sweet vampires
When we can reign together
Our own empire
Now we should try to sever
All our past ties
But it's me and you
And the skies are blue
Both bleeding from our eyes
I was a love-sick, dumb dick, top off the stock
Came to shove, when you push and locked his keys in his car
I feel like an animal that's been kicked around too long
An eel whose electric circuitry has been wired all wrong
If we should live forever
Like sweet vampires
When we can reign together
Our own empire
Now we should try to sever
All our past ties
But it's me and you
And the skies are blue
Both bleeding from our eyes
Now where the hell have you
Gone off and flown away to
Some shit hole you call home (some asshole)
Told me I won't survive
Somehow, I'm scraping by
We're reduced to ruin
Rubble, rags and bones
If we should live forever
Like sweet vampires
When we can reign together
Our own empire
Now we should try to sever
All our past ties
But it's me and you
And the skies are blue
Both bleeding from our eyes
Both bleeding from our eyes
Both bleeding from our eyes
Both bleeding from our eyes
Both bleeding from our eyes
Pale Blue Ribbon lyrics - Alkaline Trio
There's no prize for winning this race
No prize for winning this race
So what's the hurry in the first place?
No prize for winning this race
No prize for winning this race
So why you running off to first base?
It's supposed to hurt sometimes
And we lick these wounds together
Stand up, we're fine
It's okay to need sometimes
And I'll be your hand, your band-aid
Your middle finger
'Cause I want your real life moments
I wanna taste your pain
And I wanna see your war face on that day
You get no prize for winning this race
No prize for winning this race
So why you hurry in the first place?
We're supposed to bleed sometimes
And we make these scars together
They fade, tears dry
Bones will break and realign
There is your crutch you've leaned on
Now stretch out and move on
'Cause I want your real life moments
I wanna taste your pain
And I wanna see your war face on that day
At this rate, you'll get there before I do
And I'll be there before long
Slow down and let's walk it out together
Loser's strong
Goodbye Fire Island lyrics - Alkaline Trio
Burning on an autumn night
A piece of me has been set alight
Moving like a locomotive
To tear you up and take your life away
Coming down like Christmas lights
Strung up on these walls for countless nights
Douse my house in gasoline
Strike a match and walk
Away, yeah
Feeding on the fading models
Hey, yeah
White meat festival, yeah
Hey, yeah
Ocean filled with plastic bottles
Hey, yeah
And tidal waves will wash us all away
Wash us all away
I'm turning in this burning wreck
Shattered windshield, broken back
Crawling on your arms to safety
Before the flames take your life away
Stab me with stiletto heels
Feed me pills and happy meals
Leave me here to bleed out slowly
Smile, spit, and swiftly walk
Away, yeah
Feeding on the fading models
Hey, yeah
White meat festival, yeah
Hey, yeah
Ocean filled with plastic bottles
Hey, yeah
And tidal waves will wash us all away
They left us here to wander
They left us here to stay
Our dreams were torn asunder
And quickly washed away
Stranded in the ocean
Lost our only boat
Abandoned here and broken
Cost us everything we own
Hey, yeah
Feeding on the fading models
Hey, yeah
White meat festival, yeah
Hey, yeah
Ocean filled with plastic bottles
Hey, yeah
And tidal waves will wash us all away
Wash us all away
Wash us all away
Wash us all away
Wash us all away
Stay lyrics - Alkaline Trio
Things have been getting pretty rough around here
No coffee cups flying 'round the room
Just daggers born from tears
Let's try to crawl out from under our breath
We can never break up, so I'll love you to death
The man I'd become was so comfortably dumb
I believe you could mean it, but you're not having fun
And I'm sorry
I learned to breathe I guess some time ago
But just recently I learned what it means to take it slow
I'm lousy with excuses and you know I love to swear
So goddammit, I swear to whatever's out there
That I love you more now than I ever have, so
Let's pick another day to call it quits and walk away
Let's find some other time to break down
The storm has gone and blown on through
Shake off the darkness and I will too
You might leave me still, but not today
For now, can we just stay?
Can we just stay?
You would think by now that I'd be fine
Ya' know, like really stretching out
But it would all be lies
I'm no longer in control of my own shoes
There they go
Quickly running out of booze
Drinking to kill myself to live without you
Over there, where I still stare
Sometimes
Let's pick another day to call it quits and walk away
Let's find some other time to break down
The storm has gone and blown on through
Shake off the darkness and I will too
You might leave me still, but not today
For now, can we just stay?
Can we just stay?
For now, can we just stay?
Can we just stay?
For now, can we just stay?
Heart Attacks lyrics - Alkaline Trio
It's time I should be leaving, it's time for me to go
A painting on my ceiling and your footprints in the snow
They found you Christmas morning beneath the tree in the front yard
The sound, the screams, the mourning as we send sympathy cards
Hydrocodone acid-washed brain
A shame, a total loss
They said that they did all they could
That boy's been dead since childhood
Leave me alone to analyze
The sour power of surprise
A ticker out of time and whack
Too young to die of heart attacks
I guess I should be going, there's nothing I can say
To keep your dad from throwing up at least 3 times a day
They found you Christmas morning beneath the tree in the back yard
The pounding of your mother's fist while freezing in the car
Oxycodone acid-washed brain
A shame, a total loss
They said that they did all they could
That boy's been dead since childhood
Leave me alone to analyze
The sour power of surprise
A ticker out of time and whack
Too young to die of heart attacks
I'd kill for a drink (Fetch me a drink)
Casket to carry
Try not to think (Try not to think)
About you dead and buried
Hydrocodone acid-washed brain
A shame, a total loss
They said that they did all they could
That boy's been dead since childhood
Leave me alone to analyze
The sour power of surprise
A ticker out of time and whack
Too young to die of heart attacks
Worn So Thin lyrics - Alkaline Trio
I'll start out fresh
A brand new beginning
It goes like this so I
Never finish anything
And all of this was totally worthless
If I get through a week or two, or let's just say a year or so
'Cause that's the way these days seem to go and go
And I just feel so helpless
Don't tell me to just calm down
Now there's a shortcut right under my skin
And all I want is to freak out
But my apologies are worn so thin
(Hey!)
I'm sorry friend
With all these fucking problems, I should pay you rent
Doors are open in the cell block of my filthy head
And these days I smoke less
Don't tell me to just calm down
Now there's a shortcut right under my skin
And all I want is to freak out
But my apologies are worn so thin
Yeah, that's a quality I've worn so thin
When we empty out like paper cups
Yeah, parking lot, it's hard
To feel like anything but garbage, wasted
Now we empty out (empty out)
And we empty out (empty out)
Until there's nothing left (nothing left)
'Til there's nothing left (nothing left)
Don't tell me to just calm down
Now there's a shortcut right under my skin
And all I want is to freak out
But my apologies are worn so thin
Don't tell me to just calm down
Now there's a shortcut right under my skin
And all I want is to freak out
But my apologies are worn so thin
Yeah, that's a quality I've worn so thin
Throw Me To The Lions lyrics - Alkaline Trio
I'm having trouble keeping focus, craving double-feature love
From the gods of hocus pocus to the goddesses above
I'm gonna have to slack that fever dream I've just awoken from
Live with these uneasy feelings of the nightmare you've become
So go, throw me to the lions
Listen for the screams
Show me how the scientist inside of you thinks
Anything but silence
Feel like I can't breathe
Bring me ultraviolence and a reason to bleed
You're having trouble keeping focus, craving me and all my blood
It's raining cats and dogs of locusts from that sicko up above
Burning up just like that fever dream you'll never wake up from
The devil's in the doorway, and unholy ghost above
So go, throw me to the lions
Listen for the screams
Show me how the scientist inside of you thinks
Anything but silence
Feel like I can't breathe
Bring me ultraviolence and a reason to bleed
Give me one good reason to bleed
Give me violence
Give me one good reason to bleed
Give me one good reason to bleed
Throw me to the lions
Listen for the screams
Show me how the scientist inside of you thinks
Anything but silence
Feel like I can't breathe
Bring me ultraviolence and a reason to bleed
Give me one good reason to bleed
Give me violence
Give me one good reason to bleed
Give me one good reason to bleed
Violence
Krystalline lyrics - Alkaline Trio
Never said what I was thinking the night you turned up at my door
I could tell that you'd been drinking, as we went crashing to the floor
You came from Santa Monica with teardrops in your eyes
We passed out in the shadows of a lonely Thursday night
We kissed away our memories and fucked away the pain
We went out for some coffee then we did it all again
My Krystalline
Ohhh, I want you Krystalline
Ohhh, I want you Krystalline
Couldn't tell what you were thinking the night I turned up at the bar
I told you I quit drinking and you laughed 'til you saw stars
I came to Santa Monica with flowers in my hand
I grabbed you by the lips with mine and slowly pulled you in
We kissed away our memories and fucked away the pain
You called in sick to work and then we did it all again
My Krystalline
Ohhh, I want you Krystalline
Ohhh, I want you Krystalline
Ohhh, I want you Krystalline
Ohhh, I want you Krystalline
Christmas Eve In The Gutter lyrics - Alkaline Trio
Christmas Eve in the gutter
My heart was a flutter
Saw the face of my mother
Back in Vietnam
I was broken and wasted
The fresh air I tasted
Blew in and erased
All the bullets and bombs
I woke up so thirsty
Blinded by fury
I ran in no hurry
To empty my guts
And I fell to my knees
I begged and I pleaded
This blood for no reason
This treason, these cuts
And I leapt to my bath love
For no one up above
Could hear the crushing of
My bones and my soul
I went to sleep worried
These dreams would come hurried
When judges and jury
Send me to the hole
Christmas Eve in the gutter
My heart was a flutter
Saw the face of my mother
Back in Vietnam
Therapy lyrics - Alkaline Trio (feat. James Newman)
I can't dance, 'cause my feet won't let me
And I can't love, 'cause my heart won't let go
I can't tell no one the way I really feel
'Cause I don't feel nothing no more
And I came here
To remember what it's like
To hold someone
And then I saw you dancing on your own and
You look like therapy
Exactly what I need
You're where the darkness meets the light, yeah
The perfect remedy
To heal what's hurting me
Come be the therapy for me
And me for you, tonight
I can tell by the way that you move
There's a cure for me somewhere in you
Your touch, your kiss, and your body next to mine
I just want a bit of your time
And I came here
To remember what it's like
To hold someone
Now I'm close enough to you to know that
You look like therapy
Exactly what I need
You're where the darkness meets the light, yeah
The perfect remedy
To heal what's hurting me
Come be the therapy for me
And me for you, tonight
And I came here
'Cause I'm trying to numb my pain
And oh, my dear
I think you might be trying to do the same, yeah
You look like therapy
Exactly what I need
You're where the darkness meets the light, yeah
The perfect remedy
To heal what's hurting me
Come be the therapy for me
And me for you, tonight
Come be the therapy for me
And me for you, yeah
C'mon, now-now
Therapy, therapy, therapy, yeah
You look like therapy
Exactly what I need
You're where the darkness meets the light
Where the darkness meets the light, yeah
The perfect remedy, ooh
To heal what's hurting me
Heal what's hurting me
Come be the therapy for me
And me for you, tonight
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