Welcome to Appalachia, kingdom of frankincense (sp?)
My people live by TV my hobbies pay the rent
Our dirt roads reek of old flesh the boxes full of gold
Are taken to Hollywood and traded in for coal

CHORUS
Perfection in imperfection
Music in the silence
Pop culture and entertainment
When love is your violence you're truly alive

And all the mindless servants work for the common good
Cause MTV is cancer and running in our blood
I know the whole world's watching the H-bomb in our hands
I swear that we will drop it I swear that we will drop it

CHORUS

Its not like I didn't watch it happen x3
They make us struggle 'til we stop breathing

CHORUS

You've both been frozen for as long as I know
The warm exterior over layers of snow
Dead is the heartbeat of a love now gone
Though some here may question was it love all along

PRECHORUS:
I know you've seen better days
But all your childish angst and rage
Will take you farther away

They're all there for the benefits they're there for a smile
And someone will always be there, at least for awhile
I'm disappointed now in these things I heard you say
Cuz 4 years is more than ive lived any given day

PRECHORUS
CHORUS:
Hold out just a little bit longer
Hold in just a little bit more
She can't take what she knows makes you stronger
When you're an innocent and she's just a whore

Gather your hopes here and weigh all your sins
Question your reasons and what you have withing
Turn fear into anger, respect into hate
You know you still love her like you know your own fate

PRECHORUS
overly drawn out CHORUS x alot

Feel the air is it cold to the touch
I am dying will you be my last crutch

PRECHORUS
My love in my head:

its drifting away
fading away
the month of may
is dying

CHORUS
The meat hook may take getting used to
The cold steel dislodges your spine
Oh wait I forgot you don't have one
The one you've been using is mine

Make it last my only regret
Is that I have only one thing to forget

PRECHORUS
CHORUS

I have loved I have lost nothing x2

And maybe in sleep it will all go away
And maybe in safety it will all cool down
But now im dying a little with my dream
Just leave me alone

When the boy learns just what it takes to be a man
And the child looks back at him crying and
Wants to know why hes being so ignorant
To the tides of true love he's lost

CHORUS
Don't you think ill see right through you when youre sorry
Ive got a lot to learn and you've got a lot to teach

When the sky keeps on raining and it doesn't know what to do
And the ground thinks its silly to wonder just why
And about the things we think we are
And the things that we know we love

CHORUS x2

And it feels more everyday that you know much more than you can say
It's the lifeforce that's keeping us down all the time it's the spinning that
Turns us around
Keep it down it may be your last keep on living and nothing will pass
Stop your laughing its all that you had
Quit your crying your making me sad.

CHORUS x2 w/crazy whacko screaming if appropriate
Possibly : ahhhh craaaa heyyy!!!! Etc.
Or: don't you think the sun is good is it bright is it smiling
Does it love you like a man?

West

O' gracious god the fleas are here
And they've been gnawing at my heart
The only organ that I have
That is against the breaking up
Upon this house is where I sit
And all the fleas are here again
Boxes and boxes full of checks
They're here to bring us all good cheer
My mind is floating, floating innocent upon each wave

CHORUS:
Hey man, take the wheel
Like you said, im sleeping in here
Hey man, please be real
We can run from what we fear

Whose got these lies inside my mind
To understand the closing fate
Ive got ideas of the kind
That could destroy the mental hate
Shes beautiful in every way
But she does not exist
The reality is killing me
Im smothered in the hungry mist
My dying goal in life is to be
Lonely like the rest of you

CHORUS

These are the best days, these are the best days of my life x4
I wanna have you
I wanna love you
I wanna taste you
I wanna be you x2

CHORUS

Stay lonely
Lethargic
Complacent
Stay just how you are
You're always my star

the cement
And mortar
and I-beams
Press on to your goal
Of selling your soul

Cut loose and
Get out and
Don't look back
While you still have a chance
'Cuz you still have a chance

You know you're just like your mother
And you look like your friends

You got a reason to believe
That you're free
And you're free
X2

Ive got a disease cant diagnose it though I try
Saw you in a dream standing alone in the green water
Stabbing at dead fish with a balloon
Stabbing at your chest with a rusty knife

CHORUS (1st line only first chorus)
You know that god was smiling the day that we stopped whining x2
I love, I love a ghost x4

Follow me underground deep into these caves
I said to a widowed flower west upon the coast
Crawling with lies and closed shudders
I think I might believe you til the end til the end til the eend

CHORUS

I blew a fuse today trying to get you outta here
I blew a fuse today to make you wanna cry
But now we've died from all the tears we've cried
And now the world is drowning oh god what have I done in here

If you were true x3
Id bleed until they couldn't find my head

CHORUS

If I reached out my hand to you would you hold it or let it fall
And every time I said I understand I lied about it all
I have sacrificed so much to find what I wanted to feel
Now my mistakes are more bitter but my life is more real

CHORUS x2
I cant make you feel the way I want you to
You cant make me turn and walk away from you

I am standing in an empty room screaming at the walls
And I hope that we will never find the reasons why we fall apart
You are my beauty im lost in you tidal waves
And maybe if I can escape my ugly then I can be saved

CHORUS

You said goodbye before you said hello
Oh how I hate to see you go
I watch you float through space
You'll never find your place

And through it all, if you lose all you've ever found
Ravens doves and old hearts will be around
You're plastered now and up against the wall
You only know what will make you fall

Do you like to make yourself sick
You want a love sprung from a hate so thick
That feeling in your heart's not what you need
Its just the place where the butterflies feed

CHORUS

I want to be more than you
And float through the sky so blue
I want to know what you always knew
So easy to say "I love you too"

CHORUS x2

Said the wall regarding the death of the egg,
"I don't care I'm just doing my job and"
Said the wall regarding the death of his boy,
"I will save you no matter how far I must fall"

CHORUS
And he falls apart from the very start
And he falls apart from his very heart

Said the wall regarding the death of his life,
"I don't know if I've lived at all and"
said the wall regarding the death of his love
"I can't love you, I can't love a thing in this world"

CHORUS

And do you know where the love between us will go
And all tied up kids meet confrontationally with things
You know you're right because your spit tastes sweeter
And might makes you a star, you're a star, so shine on, shine on, shine on, shine on, get off.

CHORUS x2

She Sails Away...

She doesn't know that I'm around
Cuz she keeps her eyes closed so tightly
That I never leave a doubt
When I walk away so slightly
I know I should tell her
Before its too late and my ship has sailed
Far away from me
And I'm stuck where i have failed

Chorus:
Is it too late
For me to tell you all the things I need to say
I only know how to wait
And I'm waiting til its over

She's gone and out of sight
And I try to replace her feeling all night
And I sleep til I get the feeling right

Chorus

Whydoidowhatidowhydoidowhatidowhydoidowhatidowhydoidowhatidowhydoido

These are all the words that I know how to say to you

White Earth

All day flowers fall from the trees
What trees, what trees do you live in?
The pale white ones flaking off like skin
From sunburns, sunburns and plaster
You can't see reality
when it hits you in your thick skull
I love my rationality
I can't set aside my reasons to be alive

You think they can save you, right? You think your friends are all you need?
What you need (what you need) is not your friends at all
You spark resistance to the attitude, I'm sure that you're frightened by it all
Never (never) be afraid of it

Nature created all things grand
But what's grand is that we've decided
What we all hold sacred is what's True
But what you hold close to you is dead
You're far too scared to think that your love is just a means
You don't know why our mates can love us, screw us, let us die

(When you find it lingering at the bottom of the pool will you see the tendrils that grow from it, the greed inherent in all living things, the cess pool has shown you that the ego drives the world and the engine will always be dirty)

(Our characters, played out, acted, we are the puppets of DNA, our genes will hold us to the path and we'll lose sight of truth )

Do you feel at home when you're alone
And thinking through what gets to you
Do you know your heart and play your part
On mother earth on god's white earth
Dew on god's white earth
Dew on god's white earth

Finally

I know it scares you, so run away
Across the street where you'll be ok
But if it knows you then you should stay
Here with me where you'll be ok

CHORUS:
I'll stay home forever
And watch the sunlight turn to rain
I want you out of here
By the time I see your face again

I know how you are, you'll use me up
And drain my body till I've had enough
When I'm sleeping you'll fill my head
With words that I know I should have said

CHORUS

I know it hurts, I'll never
Be comforted with all this pain
I need to think you're real
More than I need you to be that way

Your presence always fills my air
But I'll ignore what you will say
I think its much safer that way

Ant Farm

The world is severed from my head
The sky grows dark and smiles
The gods and angels watching me
I am their only child

This world seems bitter but you know it's just for show
To keep all struggling children from going out into the snow

I want no help from you
I'd rather join the dead
The gods and angels watching me
Are all just in my head

This world seems bitter but you know it's just for show
To keep all struggling children from going out into the snow

Ants march past columns and lines
To meet their final day
But I will be there watching them
I might stand up and say

This world seems bitter but you know it's just for show
To keep all struggling children from going out into the snow
Good morning mother, may I stand and greet the sun?
I want her spotlight looking down on number one
Good morning mother, may I stand and greet the sun?
I want her spotlight looking down on number …