Fuel - Something Like Human

Last Time

 

 

i'm not the first you sucked down

i drank your pleasure slow

then stumbled out from your veil

still i've come for you tonight

choke my faith and stab my pride

and tell myself that

 

chorus:

this is the last time

this is the last time

this is the last time now

i'll bleed for you

 

preservation or predation

as i'm reeling i don't know

crumbled i spill out of your hand

i want to fall

and you see it all

and you'll just laugh when i say

 

chorus

 

and everything i feel i know you know

and everything that heals i know you know

and everything that steals i know you know

and everythingthat kills you know

 

and tell myself that

 

this is the last time

this is the last time

this is the last time now

 

 

Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"

 

 

memories are just where you laid them

drag the waters 'till the depths give up their dead

what did you expect to find?

was there something you left behind?

don't you remember anything i said when i said

 

don't fall away, and leave me to myself

don't fall away and leave love bleeding

in my hands, in my hands again

leave love bleeding

in my hands, in my hands

love lies bleeding

 

oh hold me now i feel contagious

am i the only place that you've left to go

she cries her life is like

some movie black and white

dead actors faking lines

over and over and over again she cries

 

don't fall away, and leave me to myself

dont fall away, and leave love bleeding

in my hands, in my hands again

leave love bleeding

in my hands, in my hands

love lies bleeding

 

and i wanted

you turned away

you don't remember, but i do

you never even tried

 

don't fall away and leave me to myself

don't fall away and leave love bleeding

in my hands, in my hands again

leave love bleeding

in my hands, in my hands

love lies bleeding

 

 

Empty Spaces

 

 

mister could you maybe lend a hand

to help a drowning, starving, soulless man

whose eyes are blind and feelings all but numb

whose ears are all so deaf and mouth is dumb

 

chorus:

this is the way, is the way

i fill your spaces now

it's the way, its the way

cause all thats been left for me

is to fight to fill these empty spaces now

 

night is day and day is night again

and all thats eating bites with toothy grins

the pages of my memory torn in twain

where reconstructing lies could not contain

 

chorus

 

 

Scar

 

 

chase the sun in my head

blistered skin turning red

i can't complain

it's something to do

cloud my my mind and erase you

 

chorus:

since you're gone

all is wrong

nothing seems the same down here

and if your gone

and i'm alone

whose heart will i scar now dear?

 

fall in fall out

break free break down

 

feel my legs pushing through

this world i built around you

i know the blame

is not upon you

i know the heartless things i choose

 

chorus

 

fall in fall out

break free break down

one look and i die

one kiss goodbye

 

drag this frown from my face

force a smile to take its place

i can pretend that i'm not confused

and i don't need the likes of you

 

fall in fall out

break free break down

one look and i die
 
 
one kiss goodbye

 

 

Bad Day

 

 

had a bad day again

she said i would not understand

she left a note and said i'm sorry i

had a bad day again

 

she spilled her coffee, broke her shoelace

smeared the lipstick on her face

slammed the door and said i'm sorry i

had a bad day again

 

and she swears there's nothing wrong

i hear her playing the same old song

she puts me off and puts me on

 

and had a bad day again

she said i would not understand

left a note and said i'm sorry i

had a bad day again

 

 

Prove

 

 

lay me down in sheets of linen where she lies

i know if she's grinning in there

crossed your heart and hoped to die

and still you broke that spirit that i bear

 

chorus:

lay me down for a while

maybe you can tell me why

all my dreams are so defiled

and prove to me

you're something like human

 

lay me down in sheets of linen where she hides

i know i'm going nowhere

everything i hoped to be and feel

 

is in those lies you're telling somewhere

 

Chorus

 

 

Easy

 

 

i've seen your "johnny come lately"

seen your exiled love parade

for you another hit is so easy

one more mask for the charade

 

chorus:

yeah, you don't hear the sounds i hear

yeah, you don't feel the fear you fear

the distance that is there

well it's wearing pretty thin now

and breaking you down is gonna be so easy

 

i've felt your high and mighty

parasols and darkest shades

your sideways glance says maybe

longing eyes give you away

 

chorus

 

We'll walk this way now baby

Bring the pleasure, bring the pain

your secret's safe with me for saving

no one has to know you came

 

chorus

 

 

Down

 

 

i gave you everything

i gave you trust and salvation

i gave you everything that i could provide

i gave you strength to stand and you shoved me down

 

chorus:

i know you want me to love you

but all you ever do is bring me down

won't you go away forever

 

i felt the world of pain

brought to the water then left me dry

took the drug from the user

took all my strength to run then shoved me down

 

chorus

 

it's kinda freaky just to see you crawl

and all you can do is stare

i know you're tripping

while i kick you to the curb

like you kicked me

 

chorus

 

 

Solace

 

 

draw the shades to close my eyes

i never want to see again

i found the cost of courage high

sometimes hard to pay

i hear the songs the sirens sing

calling on the shores for me

so sell your soul and try to fly

the tether still remains

and all the finer things they laid upon my table

smiled as their hooks were slowly sinking in

 

another pill for me to consume

to make me feel again

is followed by another one

to make me loose the same

god if i could recognize

the things to make me whole again

and draw this air into my lungs

remember how to breathe

 

for as the curtain rose i danced as i was able

felt my deception slowly sinking in

 

and so i turned to you my love

for the solace that is there

and offer any cherished thing

for a slight repreive

i hoped that you might find me here

and i could learn to smile again

and as a balm for these wounds

take away the sting

 

and as the band did play your body i did cradle

i should have known that song would have to end

 

 

Knives

 

 

give me one good reason

to why you're so blind

i covered your back again

now you'd better cover mine

 

chorus:

if i turned and walked away

would you stick your knives in me

how much longer till you break

until i walk away, walk away from you

 

give me one good reason

to why your so unkind

you know i believe its true, believe its true

you know i believed in you

 

chorus

 

 

Innocent

 

 

satan, you know where i lie

gently i go into that good night

all our lives get complicated

search for pleasures overrated

never armed our souls

for what the future would hold

when we were innocent

 

angels lend me your might

forfeit all my lives to get just one right

all those colors long since faded

all our smiles all confiscated

never were we told

we'd be bought and sold

when we were innocent

 

this prayer is for me tonight

this far down that line and still ain't got it right

and while confessions not yet stated

our next sin is contemplated

never did we know

what the future would hold

or that we'd be bought and sold

we were innocent

 

 

Slow

 

 

all this time

i thought this coming down was fine

now everythig i fought to grow

is whithered hanging on that vine

 

Chorus:

and all i wanted

was all i needed you know

and everything good in my life

if you have to take it all away

oh no, take it all away, oh no, no, no

take it slow

 

everything i try to find

is every love i'll never hold

and in your garden now

the weeds are choking seeds we've sown

 

chorus

 

now you find

your own savior for a time

and if you try my love

i hope you'll find your cure in time

 

chorus