She was a real royal lady, true patron of the arts She said the best country singers die in the back of classic cars So if I ever got too hungry for a suitcase or guitar To think of them all alone in the dark So I laid some nights beside her in a bed made for a queen She said I kissed her different, that all the men her age were mean Gave me...Learn More

See the soul singer in the session band Shredded to ribbons beneath a microphone stand Felt the quickness of pity like a flash in a pan For the soul singer in the session band Now a red carpetbagger makes a Blackberry call To the plastic piranhas in the city of salt Wasted wheat paste campaign, post no bills on the wall You mean nothing to no one...Learn More

I keep floating down the river but the ocean never comes Since the operation, I heard you're breathing just for one Now everything's imaginary, especially what you love You left another message, said it's done It's done When I hear beautiful music, it's always from another time Old friends I never visit, I remember what they're like Standing on a...Learn More

I traveled though the atmosphere As a wall of feedback climbed The pegs were gold, the band was old They played in half time Now every dream gets whittled down Just like every fool gets wise You will never read of any seed Deprived of sunlight So I've become the middleman The gray areas are mine The in-between, the absentee Is a beautiful...Learn More

[Intro Skit: Blake Sennett & Jenny Lewis] Seems like it, right? Don't you think? You going in that side? You wanna drive? No, you can drive It's kind of cold in here Go left here, then up here, now take a right We'll go up to... Take a right here, can you make a right here? Yeah And then maybe left, 27... Oh, he told you where it was? No, he...Learn More

When panic grips your body and your heart's a hummingbird Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse All your friends and sedatives mean well but make it worse Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt Better find yourself a place to level out Got a cricket for a conscience, always looks the other way A cocaine soul starts...Learn More

I heard you're scheming new pyramids Another big idea to get you rich Make a plan to love me sometime soon You said you got a foot in the door You buy and you sell, you buy some more Make a plan to love me sometime soon Life is too short, death doesn't ask It don't owe you that Some things you lose you don't get back So just know what you...Learn More

Our love is dead but without limit Like the surface of the moon Or the land between here and the mountains Well, it is not these hiding places That have kept us innocent But the way you taught me to just let it all go by And so we've learned to be as faithless Stand behind bulletproof glass Exchanging our affections through a drawer And it was...Learn More

[Pre-roll samples] I, basically, woke up and--- The oldest story... It was sun--- How long will it take to get to my voice? Well I, I took history class and I--- [What's a pretty old standard??] Amazing grace, how sweet--- ...Saturday and that's why the... I realized that I like what it is... ...saved a wretch like--- [Verse 1] There is no...Learn More

The rain, it started tapping On the window near my bed There was a loophole in my dreaming So I got out of it And to my surprise my eyes were wide And already open Just my nightstand and my dresser Where those nightmares had just been So I dressed myself and left then Out into the gray streets But everything seemed different And completely new to...Learn More

[Verse 1] I was living in a devil town I didn't know it was a devil town Oh lord it really brings me down About the devil town [Verse 2] All my friends were vampires I didn't know they were vampires Turns out I was a vampire myself In the devil town [Verse 1] I was living in a devil town I didn't know it was a devil town Oh lord it really brings...Learn More

Shrill as a choir of children Urgent like the first day of May False and inflatable feeling Tugs at my senses, big as the Macy's Parade One brick on top of another Such is the measure of man Planets are inset like diamonds On a gravity halo, eternity's wedding band I slept with that dealer all summer The ecstasy's still in my spine Coat check I...Learn More