This City (Is Bound To Do Us In)

We get by
and we take everything we see
'that is mine'
is the cry of the century
but I understand
because I don't want to be alone
I don't want to be left out
I don't care if I'm the one you love
just let me be the one you want right now

So take your place
right in front of your tv set
and don't look away now
we have to vote on who we like the best
and who we wish would get off the stage
we're so in love with ourselves
we'll show up with our tanks
pick up our feet and settle down

As the bombs fly overhead
this city is crashing in
in the space between what we should have said
this city is bound
this city is bound to do us in

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You Won't Be Able To Be Sad

I waited for too long just to knock at the door
and it's always been love songs that pick me up off the floor
then you said, 'I don't want you'
and you won't be able to be sad

If you want it you got it
written over your face
could you pay me a listen?
I could pay you a gaze.
Then you said, 'now's not a good time'
and you won't be able to be sad

You don't get it,
no you don't don't get it

We're coming up quickly to the end of the race
you're trying to figure out how many ways you've got to win
and I'm waiting around while you're working it out
so you won't be able to be sad

You don't feel the same way anymore

I can't get it into my head you're falling away
you're supposed to be there when I wake
then you said 'now's not a good time'
and you won't be able to be sad

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Forget About The Bright Side

Slow down this road that you're headed
I've seen it all time and again
surprise jumps from behind every corner
so stop before you get roped in
because I know if you let it, it will become deceptive
and make you think you can fit in
and you will look quite pathetic
when you become receptive
and then it smacks you hard right on the chin

A fall from grace at the speed of a plane
from as high as you'll ever be

Don't get caught now with your head in the clouds
singing 'everything's turning out great'
because if you decide that you feel good inside
things are surely to change
and you know I can't have it that way

So wise up and come to your senses
there's only one way this can end
you can't be seeing things clearly
or else you'd be covering your skin
it's a strong combination of fear and elation that makes you not able to think
so get on the right side and forget about the bright side
there's only so much you can take

all of the signs are out
they're plastered outside of your house
in the hopes that you'll want to see

dams do break on the worst of days

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Now We Become Part Of It

We're dancing past the sensible road
we're trying our luck wiht the great unknown
we're trouncing all the best ideas we've got
we're taking pride in the types of mistakes
cause everyone knows it's the way you fall that counts

And how it turns is just the way it turns out
and all we can do is follow along
and watch you grow up right or wrong
we'll make it up

We're throwing all the safety away, trusting in what we can bring these days
we're making it a point to feel unsure
and if you get further away, when you turn around you know we'll still be there

All around the world, take us all around the world
show us what it means to be alive

don't worry that we won't be enough
we'll fall in line
we'll jump at the chance to wing it

when nothing we could say will ever feel quite the same
the world is spinning on its own and now we become part of it

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Calling All Electrical Prints

calling all electrical prints
could you move around the way that you did
so something i could never forget
could come out to make sense of this

I've been hoping that this day would just end
taking everything it wanted to bring
this waiting feels a lot like a sting
I swear it makes a dent

the sun is never going out tonight

Behind in the way that I think
Is someone who's too afraid to commit
we haven't seen the worst of it yet
I'm not at my best, understand
nothing's coming

Well what a nice dream
keep holding on
so years from now
we'll finally know how it worked out
I wonder how it works out

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Life Gets Beautiful

all her tales from magazines are drying up
and all her words for little girls are losing touch
soul pours out from dumb, blonde mouth
maybe she has never seen how bad it looks
kissing out the syllables with blatant hooks
nothing worse than misplaced doubt
when life gets beautiful

don't he look so sad but touch in body art
screaming through distorted voice of broken hearts
he's so deep he turns his back
when life gets beautiful

there's nothing for me here now
not that there ever was
so why should I even care enough about it to go on
with the best part of waking up
do you want to tell me?

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I'm At A Low

You think I'm such a tired old savior
and you think I'm such a delicate boy
but I'm drinking my way to a coma
I'm drinking up the moon and the stars

so fast that you better come quickly
it's so quick cause I'm going in style
I think I could hold this against you
how's that for a delicate child

weigh me down so I'll sink fast
I'm aching to bruise I'm aching to crash
I'm at a low

I feel like I'm pissing on postcards
and I feel like I'm bathing in wine
you only let me down when it's so hard
so come and bathe in my wine for a while

all that progress is something I stop
on the border of a single shot
when all around us is a broken world I think I might have had enough

So come wipe my world away

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Your Numbered Days

you hold yourself like nobody else I have ever acquainted
so what is this pose that no one else knows
I believe that's the best one that I've ever seen
so let us begin where the devil came in
he was bringing the new style
and you reached across as not to get lost in the bustle
but still you won't let it die

And somehow I know that you'll figure it out before it's too late
your numbered days have counted all down
so won't you give up the act you've been saving 'til now?

Watching the pulse of every insult you've been spitting out lately
makes me aware of all the things that you're scared of
and all of the things you will never believe

This is the part you wrote down just to silence us all
you've been weighed against what split inside
entirely too long
so what do you want with all this loss?

You've been safe until now

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Won't Get Worse

Two steps here are broken
you're calling it a sign
to walk around, to step aside
but if all this anger just could use a laugh
then I'm way too tired to see it

We only break for what we choose
I'm giving into the habit
of spraying the ground
with applause for the dried leaves
every moment awake
has a moment we don't see
and all I have to say
is it won't get worse today

Fresh take in the mirror
well maybe just a phase
so won't you please just walk away
you think this film will have a bright refrain?
not this time, I've seen it.

So won't you help me please
there's nothing left in me

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The Most Somebody Can Know

all the dancers come out for the evening
their dresses are presents and gowns
the tables are matched at the ribbon
the turntable is spinning around
and you know that you can now relax
because that's what you've already found

Take a look at the pictures above you
as seen like no other before
their smiles are for what they have been through
the most that somebody can know
as they fall off the edge of the earth
is how much they should have been loved
and if they ask you now
you'll say that you've had enough

There's a field made of boxes of linen
for the patching of hearts that fall out
and on every one there is written
the things that we laugh about now
and the most that somebody can know
is how much they should have been loved
and if they ask you now
you'll say that you've had enough

there's nothing I can say
I'm standing at the break
and you're holding me up
I'm falling on my knees
the wind is out of me
and you're holding me up

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