Jesse, are you really gonna take me as I am? I think you’ll hate me. I’ll ape the dirt until it takes me, breaks me into Two chords in sequence, defining my moments on screen Two big thumbs down this talkie is Too slow, too scripted, the actors all missed all their cues I clear the room, oh I used to Seek out a meaning to moments and feelings now I Lock all my doors, my borders more Locked down than Fort Knox, all concrete and blood clots And scabs dressed for show waving their legs too and fro while Our hairlines are pursued by time We’ve said our lines Stage hook creeps its way around your spine marrow We are blown hollow To homemade bars Living off the heat of dying stars All the blood from the bodies Will spill out, form the Red Sea They’ll send crews To sew us closed Push us off Down here we all float But our hairlines are pursued by time We’ve said our lines Stage hook creeps its way around your spine marrow We are blown hollow To homemade bars Filling empty spaces with guitars

I am six feet, I’m six feet deep In my own head and it’s killing me ‘Cause I make things harder ‘cause I’m not one to talk But when I open my mouth I don’t know when to stop And I don’t think I can breathe or bleed And when everything starts to bother me I break down go, go, go, I let go No, no, no, no, I let go When everything starts to bother me I break down Go get your best friends, erase your records, bury everything you can remember You’re slipping slowly I said go get your best friends erase your records Bury everything you can remember You’re slipping slowly now When I said smoking when it wasn’t for me It was a big joke and now it seems Carcinogens are filling me There’s air in my lungs but I can’t breathe And I don’t think I can breathe or bleed And when everything starts to bother me I break down go, go, go, I let go No, no, no, no, I let go When everything starts to bother me I break down Go get your best friends, erase your records, bury everything you can remember You’re slipping slowly Go get your best friends erase your records Bury everything you can remember You’re slipping slowly now When everything starts to bother me I break down, go, go, go, I let go No, no, no, no, I let go When everything starts to bother me I break down Go get your best friends, erase your records, bury everything you can remember You’re slipping slowly I said go get your best friends, erase your records, bury everything you can remember You’re slipping slowly, now

Far away from home, didn’t get there on your own two feet Said I’d stop writing songs about you when you came back to me But you didn’t, and I still did I said go back to the place that you’ll call home, but you can’t go back no you can’t go back Home, it’s the place you wanna go but you can’t go back no you can’t go back, go And I don’t wanna know what you have left to say It won’t mean much anyways, ‘cause you are not the same And I don’t wanna know what you have left to do I don’t care where you’re going, I don’t belong with you I don’t belong with you I said go back to the place that you call home You left your family for some friends you can’t win this, God forbid, you’re not a kid You lost your innocence, but I still watch you reminisce as you get expressionless oh And I’ve been many places and I’ve done stupid things through the thick and the thin and shit your good side still remains I flushed away the bad times and made myself homesick Yeah I flushed away the bad times oh Gone so far away from home, you shout “look, I don’t see” If home is where the heart is then all you’ve got is me Straight shots are never easy, God knows it was my first Surefire for disaster, we turn for the worst They’ll say, “Look see, age sixteen has no meaning.” But it’s not that easy It was a first for me No, no, no, no, no, no, no I don’t wanna know what you have left to say It won’t mean much anyways, ‘cause you are not the same I don’t wanna know what you have left to do I don’t care where you’re going, I don’t belong with you I don’t wanna know what you have left to say It won’t mean much anyways, ‘cause you are not the same I don’t wanna know what you have left to do I don’t care where you’re going, I don’t belong with you

When I find the right words to say she’ll slip away, she’ll slip I’ve held my tongue for too long, I’m on this losing streak She breaks me down, I can’t compete with myself When I find the right words to say she’ll slip away, she’ll slip I’ve held my tongue for too long, I’m on this losing streak She breaks me down, I can’t compete with myself She comes and goes in dreams I have, she’s this beating heart, she’s this aching head Sweep me under the rug with a dirty broom, not another excuse Break me down waste me, I thought she wasn’t like that She wasn’t like that I never thought she’d rob me like a criminal with a cynical mindset She’s bringing Bonnie & Clyde back Don’t run away, I won’t sit quietly Your blood’s hot when you see a long-shot but you know me I’m stone boned and mean well, your water drowns slowly Your blood’s hot when you see a long-shot but you know me I’m stone boned and mean well, your water drowns slowly I am stone She comes and goes in dreams I have, she’s this beating heart she’s this aching head Sweep me under the rug with a dirty broom, not another excuse Break me down waste me, I thought she wasn’t like that She wasn’t like that I never thought she’d rob me like a criminal with a cynical mindset She’s bringing Bonnie & Clyde back

I think that I am colorblind To what’s black and white and the things that comes with like who’s nice And who doesn’t care and who is just there to watch me fall Assuming anyone’s watching me at all But I’m not weakness given its form Though I may fuck shit up, it’s not like it was good before It’s not like it makes a difference where I stand or in what order Either way I am just fodder For what comes next Probably some kid with a blindfold on and a grin that’s read; “The goal was never just to make a dent, but rather to make up for time I spent" Playing the victim nailed to the floor trying to scream my way out of my body Bloodied eyes striking a chord with every other pair they meet Breeding wolves brought up as sheep, made to sleep on the bones of their fathers Taught to dance and sing in key They sing “Do Reh Mi" "Do Reh Mi” And if the timing is right someone can take your place where You waited with bated breath If the timing is right someone can take your place where You waited with bated breath If the timing is right someone can take your place where You waited with bated breath And if the timing is right someone can take your place where You waited with bated breath And if the timing is right someone can take your place where You wait Playing the victim nailed to the floor trying to scream my way out of my body Bloodied eyes striking a chord with every other pair they meet Breeding wolves brought up as sheep, made to sleep on the bones of their fathers Taught to dance and sing in key They sing “Do Reh Mi" "Do Reh Mi”

Take two, press rewind Assuming it works right I’ll be Catatonic, the chronic could push me upright but I need a view With no windows, I would let the darkness go On and on and on and on rather than make a decision In your room I’ll say goodbye I will be the good guy with my histrionic, melancholic, don’t-you-forget-me eyes I wanted to trick you into leaving the room on your own Your voice is louder than their call but your throat is choking up and choking down the Notion that I’d let myself equate you to Money or success or whatever it is Fuck me for thinking that way I don’t need a degree to know you’re worth more than myself And I will hold you close You and me are homegrown And I will hold you close You and me are homegrown Look back to the past and think to yourself, “Should I have turned out differently, did I sell out?” Look at all the people who have all crashed and burned well we Put them all on pedestals truly lamentable Look at all the “Save-Me” youth can’t seem to give a fuck I don’t half blame them when their parents find the key to their wedlock Look I love this generation and this time in my life Can’t look forward to a future with more wrong than there’s right Look that man just beat his wife and all these women want more rights Forget about that murder it was just another wipe Look a criminal gave me a college degree in a time where education funs on hard earned money Men and women fight against each other to reach the top I want equality not injustice Just make it all stop And I never want these words to be too distant, too soft, too pop punk Your voice is louder than their call but your throat is choking up and choking down the Notion that I’d let myself equate you to Money or success or whatever it is Fuck me for thinking that way I don’t need a degree to know you’re worth more than myself Your voice is louder than their call but your throat is choking up and choking down the Notion that I’d let myself equate you to Money or success or whatever it is Fuck me for thinking that way I don’t need a degree to know you’re worth more than myself And in the coming days when we are all alone I will carefully close my eyes and pray that you’d come home In the coming days when we are all alone I will carefully close my eyes and pray that you’d come home I never claimed I’d move a mountain make an army of myself All I wanted was to prove to someone I could rub off It’s always who’s had it first they say we haven’t been through shit Well forget about the relevance we evidently did To my brothers and my sisters we are still kids in my eyes don’t you blink because you know the goddamn time passes by And I know that I won’t be there in the summer of the fall because Labor Day is bad for lovers

I saw you through the window I’m not one to complain about the weather Things could be better and this forecast is calling for one way glass And blacktop heat is bringing the worst out of me It’s not about the fucking summer It’s always cold in Michigan And things could be better still but I’ll leave 'em the way they’ve been You’ll scan the front row seat, tear it up piece by piece Fade away from me, fade away I’ve been out here, I’ve been outside I’m just trying to find my way back in Call me out for calling it quits I, I never figured out where I should begin My will is weak, I am so dumb, where are my eyes, Am I just young, Is this the man I will become? ‘Cause I’ve been out here I’ve been outside, I’m just trying to find my way back in Fade away from me fade from me I am gone Fade away from me fade from me I am gone On your left side I’m waiting Hear the countdown initiating 4,3,2 boom and a breakdown Tell my former that you’re waiting for me On your left side I was waiting Fuck it who have I been kidding Cartoon devil on your shoulder Only grew as you got older to me What I thought was a god Just a voice in my head When looked at the people they just looked back and said, “Was a friend of mine then, you fucked up again, friend” You turn the tables but I’ll turn them red She said don’t take this to heart take this to the grave The night he pulled the trigger, the night he’d fade away ‘Cause things were better than, things were better than, things were better than Fade from me my friend ‘Cause things were better than, things were better than, things were better than Fade away from me, fade from me I am gone Fade away from me, fade from me I am gone And I’ll never see your basement Or the way that your face changes That’s where the kids they go to die Where teenage spirit comes alive And I’ll never see your basement Or the way that your face changes That’s where the kids they go to die

In the summer and the pre-falls When we signed ourselves away And looked back at all our close-calls Not as lessons but mistakes And we tied ourselves off from One another to make it look Like we’d closed the door behind us Like we’d never left a mark on Anything we kept around [Hearing passing train lullabies] Talking just to hear a sound [From porches moving cars] Everything that I keep down is [Never thinking where they’re going] Doubling back to snuff me out [just wondering where they are] And if they are nearby How many minutes would it take to get there? How deluded and stupid But good enough to pass the time Take a hint, get the fuck out and ask yourself Is this it? Am I just a piece of you and nothing else? I don’t know if I’m cool with that Like a stone I am unmoved, fill my letters in And we tied ourselves off from One another to make it look Like we’d closed the door behind us Like we’d never left a mark on Anything we kept around [Hearing passing train lullabies] Talking just to hear a sound [From porches moving cars] Everything that I keep down is [Never thinking where they’re going] Doubling back to snuff me out [just wondering where they are] And if they are nearby How many minutes would it take to get there? How deluded and stupid But good enough to pass the time Take a hint, get the fuck out and ask yourself Is this it? Am I just a piece of you and nothing else? I don’t know if I’m cool with that Like a stone I am unmoved, fill my letters in Everything that I keep down is doubling back to snuff me out Everything that I keep down is doubling back to snuff me out Everything that I keep down is doubling back to snuff me out [Never thinking where they’re going, just wondering where they are] [Am I just a...Am I just a piece of you and...]

I hope to get a new pair of eyes and teeth Mine are dead and rotted, were buried by me Some dead due to disuse, one falling for each word never said And each word in this song is one that I will probably soon regret 80 wide sheets And all I can think to say Is something weak So I will stick to mumbling pleasantries And with daytime Came a way out in the form Of your hand in mine I was sleeping grasping straws I remember a parking lot, a cold window cracked with snow frost January or December maybe, I don’t have the exact time or date but the Who was you and my pilot was shaking I could hardly walk away, the sky was red and violet blue The light up top flickered over you 80 wide sheets And all I can think to say Is something weak So I will stick to mumbling pleasantries And with daytime Came a way out in the form Of your hand in mine I was sleeping grasping straws And with daytime Came a way out in the form Of your hand in mine I was sleeping grasping straws