You unlock your bike In the dark, dark night Jump on and ride away But you stop at the tracks Filled with angst and hope Its an Amtrak not a freight train You thank the stars its a passenger car And one of them looks and waves Are they headed to a better place? It's almost guaranteed There's nothing in the shadows As scary as what you see In the...Learn More

I guess we finally crossed the finish line And we celebrate with bread and wine You can sit all day and laugh it out But there's not a goddamn thing To laugh about As soon as you say so We put away the halos We’re done with the lay-low As soon as you say so Now the rest of them are choosing sides And we're picking out a place to hide With...Learn More

All the leaves are yellow In the park right down the street It happens every year, but only for a week A flask is filled at home And drained under the trees You laid on the coo, bright ground And slowly fell asleep Ya I think I heard the story But you couldn't bore me Not if you tried We’re dreaming in a hopeless city But there's always that one...Learn More

I tried, I really really tried To give him that benefit of doubt But now it sounds like a whole different species When words come out their mouth Books will be written On this so called mystery But now he's here and It's the worse fucking deal in history So now you're crying on my shoulder I'm searching for the strength that's There's no time to...Learn More

The less I think The more my imagination runs wild And I've got these dumb designs on Trying to make you smile Oh so many have tried and Just as many have failed Still holding it close to the chest It's always been a cheater's world I'm stuffing aces up my sleeves but All the corners are torn and curled I'll saving for a rainy day Dream maybe...Learn More

You didn't lose your crown It's just melted down And you mixed it up in a highball cup So you drink alone in a Bucky dome On a high up hill with tastes that kill And you look on down At an old coal town It's almost alright When the sun sets right But it's a cloudy sky So you can't deny It's exactly as cold And empty as it looks I just can't...Learn More

It’s five o’clock and the house is bright But we can’t survive in artificial light So you walk away And I walk away this time You know how it always goes with that stuff Ones too many And a hundreds not enough So you walk away And I walk away this time And this cold, It makes you feel your age These unfamiliar shakes But now remind us of warmer...Learn More

You can't believe it's really happened But none of us are waking up It's just to find what's a nightmare Over a coffee cup You try to carry on the small talk But they're just no use No ones heart is really in it Or that's a least a good excuse Time changing, you stay the same Start to see how resentment It flows each and every way Please go back,...Learn More

I can't write you off There's just something I'm really trying but I can't write you off Always one thing So I'm begging you to brush me off I can't take this Make it quick and vicious Brush me off Before you put me away In an old junk drawer I'll sit In a cobwebbed corner where light Never seems to shine Maybe you'll be something someday I'm...Learn More

You can talk circles round me til you're blue in the face Beat around the bush til there's no other place But your heart's still pounding four on the floor Til you can't tell it apart no more You can testify, if it pleases the court Plead the fifth loud enough that is goes in the report But your heart's still pounding four on the floor Til you...Learn More

Looking straight into the Illinois sun In a ditch by some other ones Ya I guess you're gonna Take some thawing out 10 years and you're still cold to the touch But together we're warm enough So I guess you might still want me around Sometimes there were good days Even down in the trenches A quick scent of sea spray Or afternoon benders And...Learn More

There's more of us than there are of them I know that's not a perfect answer But the longer that I go the less I understand Sometimes I just want it over with And I mean all of it, light a match Let's get on with it right now There's not enough room in the world For people living like me and you So we just sort and separate shit Into bins painted...Learn More