Alkaline Trio - Remains (2007) by Alkaline Trio (보컬) on maniadb.com

I gave up on you a long time ago
How can you blame me?
We made plans to meet and you never showed
You kept me waiting

They said everything would work out just fine
They said you'd help me
But as it turns out it was all a lie
And they're off someplace far away laughing at me

You've been there for me one time in my life
But it didn't matter
You came and went so fast all my hope
And faith in you shattered

And now here I sit, alone in this room
No one to confide in
You watched all my dreams come apart at the seams
You laughed, you left, you waited in hiding

Bless me dark father, I have sinned
I've done it before and I'll do it again
Cause it keeps me warm, and makes you smile
Been beneath me all the while, hell yes

You gave up on me a long time ago
I can't say I blame you
I rejected the faith in your holy rays
Is what it comes down to

They said everything would work out just fine
I just went crazy
But I'm better now having a good time
Being selfish and drunken and vulgar and lazy

Bless me dark father, I have sinned
I've done it before and I'll do it again
Cause it keeps me warm, and makes you smile
Been beneath me all the while

Bless me dark father, I can't win
Without you I'm as good as dead
Cause you keep me warm, you make me smile
You've been on my shoulder all the while

Whispering sweet nothings
You've been whispering sweet nothings

I thought that you were joking
When you said you couldn't breathe
You said you couldn't breathe
Turns out that you were choking
On a town you couldn't leave
You knew you'd never leave

It met your disapproval at the age of 8 years old
You were only 8 years old
From then on there was no removal
From that one way dead end road
That one way dead end road

I thought that you were laughing
When you cried your eyeballs out
You cried your eyeballs out
And I don't mean to be prying
But what were you so sad about?
What are you still sad about?

Met your disappointment at the age of 9 years old
You were only 9 years old
From then on there would be no ointment
To take away these burns
To make that pain grow dull

And forever ain't that long
When your smile's stuck in your head like a pop song
All you think about is death
Your dirty head has gone unswept for way too long now

I thought that you were sleeping
When I found you there in bed
I found you there in bed
When I touched you you were freezing
It turned out that you were dead
Turned out that you were dead

Met your disapproval at the age of 8 years old
You were only 8 years old
From then on there was no removal
From your fucked up head
Your broken home

And forever ain't that long
When your smile's stuck in your head like a pop song
All you think about is death
Your dirty head has gone unswept for way too long now

It's been a long time since I've been close to you
It's been a long time since I've been sad
It's been a while since I've really spent time with you
Wish I could take back the times that I had

The only thing that you ever really did for me
Was make me oh so miserable
And the hope that I never see your face again
Is anything but questionable

I hope this is goodbye

There was a time when I thought you were a friend to me
I think those times I was probably just drunk
And if they offered a test about being a good friend
I'd put money down that you'd surely flunk

The only thing that you ever really took from me
Were my records to sell them for dope
Now all I have left is this heart in my chest
And my happiness helping me cope

I hope this is goodbye

It's been a long time since I've been close to you
It's been a long time since I've been sad
It's been a while since I've really spent time with you
Wish I could take back the times that I had

The only thing that you ever really did for me
Was make me oh so miserable
And the hope that I never see your face again
Is anything but questionable

There was a time that I thought you were a friend to me
I think those times I was probably just drunk
And if they offered a test about being a good friend
I'd put money down that you'd surely flunk

The only thing that you ever really took from me
Were my records to hawk them for dope
Now all I have left is this heart in my chest
Your dishonesty helping me cope

I hope this is goodbye

There's a fire forming
Not too far from here
Out on the East Coast
Maybe it resides in you my dear

We're worn out on our courtesy
We've made our curtain calls
Like vampire bats deprived of blood
Into the New York City night we crawl

And you've got a funny way of showing off
Your bathroom surgery
You said you were just cooling down
From plans of leaving me

There's something I should tell you
For we may not have much time
I've never met arms like yours

The stars at night are big and bright
Deep in your eyes, Miss Vincent
You told me once I made you smile
We both know damn well I didn't

I'm not much of a jester
But I'd test poison food for you
Your majesty, you're royal blue
I'm loyalty, your king of pain

There's a hard rain falling
Flooding your attic, it's clear
Can't put out the fire
That resides in you, my dear

There's something I should tell you
For we may not have much time
I've never seen scars like yours

The stars at night are big and bright
Deep in your eyes, Miss Vincent
You told me once I made you smile
We both know damn well I didn't

I'm not much of a jester
But I'd test poison food for you
Your majesty, you're royal blue
I'm loyalty, your king of pain

There's a hope in my head
That's been cut and bled
Dry as your bloodshot eyes
And there's smoke in the air
And it's soon to clear
Revealing our demise

There are some who say
That it's a-ok
If it makes you feel alright
This is way too bad
Now you're worse than sad
All locked up there inside

And I don't know how you feel
But I'll make you a deal
If u make it out alive
My shoulders and ears
Are all yours my dear
I hope it comes as no surprise

You've been know to say that you're a-ok
When you're feeling sick inside
I just want you to know
I've got no place to go
Until the day you die

While you're waiting
Be thankful for your fingers
I'll be fading
With the colors of your pictures
I'm not crying wolf, you whispered
I'm really dead this time

I'm really dead this time

There's a hope in my head
That's been cut and bled
Dry as your bloodshot eyes
And there's smoke in the air
And it's soon to clear
Revealing our demise

You've been know to say that you're a-ok
When you're feeling dead inside
I just want you to know
I've got no place to go
Until the day you die

While you're waiting
Be thankful for your fingers
I'll be fading
With the colors of your pictures
I'm not crying wolf you whispered
I'm really dead this time

I'm really dead this time

They locked you up
They threw away the key
Sutured your mouth shut
Murdered your family

Right before your eyes
What could you do?
Right before your eyes
They took it all from you

Contemplating
You hanging from your ceiling
Can't help hating
You for having that feeling
I'm not joking when I tell you
I miss you all the time

I already miss you all the time

I got the scars to remind me
I've watched the clocks go round
I've walked myself through some days
That have put me where I am

Un another time, in another place
All things might have been in place
But for now I'm finding myself
Out here standing on a rooftop screaming

Hey world are you, listening?
Listening to me?
I'm here and I'm hurting
To begin again

It's another time, it's another place
We are making more old days
But for now I'm finding myself
Out here standing on the doorstep screaming

Hey world are you, listening?
Listening to me?
I'm here and I'm hurting
To begin again

Hey world, I'm ready to listen
Learn something new
I'm here and I'm willing
To get myself through

I got these thoughts in my head
Dirty as fuck and never leaving
And they're best left unsaid
All the drinks under breath

Got some shit off my chest
Put on my back next to the monkey nest
That somebody left
With me the day I was born

I got a hole in my head
The size of lake fucking Michigan
My pipe's lined in lead
Got old school reasons to die

All my money's been spent
On a face lift via alcohol
As this sinner repents
To an empty bathroom reflection

Please take these words
And do with them what you would like
It's a dream I had, it drove me mad
It's just your time, it's just my fucking life

I got a bottle in hand
Straight to the ground with all my memories
It's best left unsaid
When they've all been left behind

All my money's been spent
On a DIY lobotomy
This sinner repents
To a lake and bathroom mirror

Please take these words
And do with them what you would like
It's a dream I had, it drove me mad
It's just your time, it's just my fucking life

So take these words
And do with them what you would like
The dream you had, it drove me mad
It's just your time, it's just my fucking life

And that's my life
Over and over again
It's just my fucking life

It might seem meaningless to you
But it means everything to me
And I'm fucked without you

Please take these words
And do with them what you would like
The dream I had, it drove me mad
It's just your time, it's just my fucking life

And that's my life
Over and over again
It's just my fucking life

I can't go on
You set my head too heavy
I need that song
Those trusty chords could pull me through

And early on
They saw the warning signs and symptoms all day long
We'd sit and dream of better days

When we'd hit the ground running on empty
Stories we've been told
And those nights we spent together
Never felt this fucking cold
When we let the car run in the driveway
Kiss you one last time
Before we brought the horses in before
The storm of 59, of 59

I can't go on
These limbs have grown too heavy
I need that song
A night on earth could pull me through

And early on
They saw the warning signs and symptoms all day long
Wonder how far from here we'll fall

Before we hit the ground running on empty
Stories we've been told
And those nights we spent together
Never felt this fucking cold
When we let the car run in the driveway
Kiss you one last time
Before we brought the horses in before
The storm of 59, of 59

Well, I'll sit here to convince myself its true
If you keep on telling your friends that we're through

I've got nothing here but loneliness
Holes in walls and bleeding fists
My head is pounding like a pillow
Like a big black song

My friends and I try to tell me you're gone
Won't listen to myself or anyone

You got on a plane and off you went
You're never coming back again
I'm trying to convince myself it's true
Convincing myself

I'll be just fine without you
I'll be just fine without you
I'll be just fine without you
I'll be just fine without you
I'll be here telling myself it's true

Well I sit here to convince myself its true
If you keep on pretending to have no clue

That I'd kill for you and eat the flesh
Give you the heart and burn the rest
A thousand miles ain't shit to walk
If I'm walking to hold you

I'll be just fine without you
I'll be just fine without you
I'll be just fine without you
I'll be just fine without you
I'll be here telling myself it's true

Sit down and please make yourself comfortable
I might need some time
To dance around what I need to say
I love you to death, I think I need a break

I spend my days worried out loud
I gag in my head, I choke it back down
It hurts me inside to save you inside
So close my lips tight, move eyes to the side

This is the way we disappear
It's easy if you burn out like a star
This is the way we disappear
It's easy like a 50-foot fall

I'm waiting for whatever bit of time
To evict these words that, that have rented out my mind
I'm hating every minute that I don't speak aloud
Like a year laying down, a year laying down

Relax on this bed of nails
On this plastic sheet, your blood leaves a trail
Right back to me, a problem you see
Would you please allow a moment to think?

This is the way we disappear
It's easy if you burn out like a star
This is the way we disappear
It's easy like a 50-foot fall

I'm waiting for whatever bit of time
To evict these words that, that have rented out my mind
I'm hating every minute that I don't speak aloud
Like a year laying down, a year laying down

A deep dark secret down at the bottom
But this bay can't keep it unforgotten
And a story that was told has now grown taller than we'd ever wish to be
Beyond belief

I'll grab the boat if you go grab the anchor
The tarp and twine and the weights that sank her
They weren't enough, look who showed up
A new light shed is shining through, illuminating you

As we lay side by side, dead and broken
Our lives aren't the same since the night yours went stolen.
Blood ran black beneath the moonlight, your lover's blood ran cold
Cutting off the hands he used to hold

A deep dark secret down at the bottom
But this bay can't keep it unforgotten
And a story that was told has now grown taller than we'd ever want to be
Beyond belief

Side by side, dead and broken
Our lives aren't the same since the night yours went stolen.
Blood ran black beneath the moonlight, your lover's blood ran cold
Cutting off the hands he used to hold

You're on your own my little nightmare
you cannot stay here
It's far too bright for you
If they attack you just lay there,
Play dead dear, it's your only hope of pulling through.
And seconds they seem like a lifetime.
A dream, recurring, a dream that can't come true.
And they'll pin it all on you
after all you've been put through.
""Sadie G. she's crazy, see?""
That's what the white coats say.
Now Ms. Susan A. you're losing
every opportunity to put us all away.
Now run along my little nightmare.
Your job is done here.
You've scared them all to death.
If they revive them just sit there.
Just smile dear. Make them thankful for every breath.
The sentence may seem like a lifetime,
a scream, that's curdling the blood they found on you.
And your knives and clothing too.
Charlie's broken .22
""Sadie G. she's crazy, see?""
That's what the white coats say.
Now Ms. Susan A. you're losing
every opportunity.
Well they found you and they shipped you up the river the same way that you've bound and gaged.
You've shot and stab.
You tried to set them free,
but they've thrown away the keys.
[Spoken:]
""He represented a God to me that was so beautiful that I'd do anything for him.
I'd do anything for God.
Even murder, if I believed it was right.
How could it not be right if it is done with love?
I have no remorse for doing what was right to me.
I have no guilt in me.""
Whoa
Whoa
Whoa
Whoa

If you had a bad time
At one of my parties
Well I wouldn't expect to be seeing you soon
And that's fine

You have to know what and why
Those things make you happy
You have to know that a second guess
Ain't worth a try

Just some words of advice
Maybe you've heard them before but here goes
Just be true to yourself
If it lands you in hell, well at least now you know

Loud and clear is your heart
Big and bright are the places you might someday go
With one million things holding you down
Why you're one of those things, I don't know

No big deal, gotta go

If you're up to your ears
In blood, sweat, and wasted years
I'm hoping you're going to open your throat
And just scream

You have to know who and why
Which ones miss you when you die
You have to know that a second guess
Ain't worth the salt in your eyes

Just some words of advice
Maybe you've heard them before but here goes
Just be true to yourself
If it lands you in hell, well at least now you know

Loud and clear is your heart
Big and bright are the places you might someday go
With one million things holding you down
Why you're one of those things, I don't know

No big deal

It just sits on my shoulders, you're breaking my neck
We get crazy with age, now you're under my bed
And it s dark all the time

Just some words of advice
Maybe you've heard them before but here goes
Just be true to yourself
If it lands you in hell, well at least now you know

Loud and clear is your heart
Big and bright are the places you might someday go
With one million things holding you down
Why you're one of those things, I don't know

No big deal, here I go

Don't you ask me to come out
When the sun does shine
Rather stay here with curtains drawn
In darkness you'll be mine

Let's wait for the blackout
The light is too bright
Let's wait for the blackout
Wait for the night

Well welcome to my basement flat
No windows to see through
When darkness falls again, my friend
We'll both know what to do

Let's wait for the blackout
The light is too bright
Let's wait for the blackout
Wait for the night

Wait for the blackout
The light is too bright
Let's wait for the blackout
Wait for the night

Come walk with me upon the earth
It keeps us both alive
No other thing can last in here
Where we can both survive

Let's wait for the blackout
The light is too bright
Let's wait for the blackout
Wait for the night

In darkness there is no sin
Light only brings in fear
Nothing to corrupt the eyes
There is no vision here

At first you may find it strange
But please don't go away
There's power in the nighttime
That you won't find in the day

There is no vision here
There is no vision here
No vision here

We can never break up, we can never not show
We can never go home and we can never elope
We've only got one choice
So let's keep making it and making it, making it and making it

A lot of things can change, a lot of tears will dry
There's no way out of your head, I can't still drink like I'm trying
I never had to work too hard
But let's keep working it and working it, working it and working it

You're like a test I can't fuck up
You're like a song in my head, like a la la la la la
You're ike a dream, don't wake me up
And if I never see the light again
I guess they put me in the ground with this smile on my head

My love, my love

We can never break up, we can never not show
We can never go home and we can never elope
We've only got one choice
So let's keep making it and making it, making it and making it

You're like a test I can't fuck up
You're like a song in my head, like a la la la la la
You're ike a dream, don't wake me up
And if I never see the light again
I guess they put me in the ground with this smile on my head

It's a girl in here, not as sweet as you
It's a guy like me, some bad tattoos
An empty bar filling up with smoke
And I fry in the ashes, I'm 3 days old

So please don't say you wont be going out today
Cause anywhere I go won't be anything if you're not hanging around

It's the blackest cloud, it opens up
When I walk outside, and I'm all alone
An empty cell, the furnace chokes,
When I walk through the door of my broken home

So please don't say you wont be going out today
Cause anywhere I go won't be anything if you're not hanging around

Please don't say you won't
Please don't say you won't

I'm awake, it was a half bad dream
That was way too long, my whole life it seemed
Then someone started digging me up
Turned my headstone into dust

The sun was swallowed by the trees
The night was here for good
You pulled my hand and my head up
You put oxygen into my blood

You walked me through the gates
Like we were visitors for the day
You laid me down in the back seat
And you drove till I woke up to hear you say

You never lie but it's no fun to tell the truth
I guess I've never loved but I will see what I can do
Got so much life to waste
That I would take my days and hand them to you

I'm awake, it was a half bad dream
That was way too long, my whole life it seemed
Then someone started digging me up
Turned my headstone into dust

I know you'd never lie but it's no fun to tell the truth
I guess I've never loved but I will see what I can do
Got so much life to waste
That I would take my days and hand them to you

It's been a long day living with this
It's been a long time since I felt so sick
I took a long walk straight back home
I could've walked back to San Francisco
I used to long for time alone
I used to long for a place of my own
and I'm losing faith in everything
I'm lost, so lost, I'm lost at sea, you see
I used to long for broken bones
I used to long for a casket to call my own
I never had a problem facing fear
but I'm done, over and out my dear and
Oh mercy me
God bless catastrophe
There's no way in hell
We'll ever live to see through this so
Drive yourself insane tonight
It's not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today
Yeah!
It's been a long day living with this
It's been a long time since I felt so sick
I took a long walk straight back home
I could've walked back to Chicago
I used to long for time alone
I used to long for a place of my own
and I've lost faith in everything
I'm lost, so lost, I'm lost without you
Oh mercy me
God bless catastrophe
There's no way in hell
We'll ever live to see through this so
Drive yourself insane tonight
It's not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today
Yeah!
So drive yourself insane tonight
It's not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today
Yeah!

Calling all cars, all coroners, we've got a dead one here
And anybody else receiving this,
the west coast is far from clear
Like a time bomb or sudden death
It's gonna find you when you least expect
It's gonna leave you with the emptiest feeling inside (over analyzed)
They found me face-down in the street
on the night you left to find,
Another place to sleep in rain and regret
They said they tried everything but it was no use
Yeah, they tried everything and everyone but you
Falling like stars into the ocean black,
we're gonna disappear
And anything left recognizable is rubbed away with fear
We've got our hearts dipped in time release
We've got the know-how and the elbow grease
We've got our victim all cut up down here on the floor (over and out the door)
They found me face down in the street
on the night you left to find,
Another place to sleep in rain and regret
They said they tried everything but it was no use
Yeah, they tried everything and everyone but you
...One but you
...One but you
They found me face down in the street
on the night you left to find,
Another place to sleep in rain and regret
They said they tried everything but it was no use
Yeah, they tried everything and everyone but you.

I'm dying tomorrow
In this house, this street, Chicago
I'm dying tomorrow
Did I, did I do it right?

Did I remember to sleep in?
Take lots of pills, commit irreversible sins
Did I, did I at least try
To kiss the prettiest girl at the right time?

Did I remember to keep your beer as full as mine?
Did I, did I remember to say cheers?
Did I, did I at least try
To make sure everybody had a good time?

Had the best time

I'm dying tomorrow
In this house, this street, Chicago
I'm dying tomorrow
Did I, did I do it right?

Did I remember to stay up late?
Drinking for the fun, singing for the taste
Did I, did I run outside
To catch the rain under electrical skies?

Did I remember to keep your beer as full as mine?
Did I, did I remember to say cheers?
Did I, did I at least try
To make sure everybody had a good time?

Had the best time

I'm dying tomorrow
In this house, this street, Chicago
I'm dying tomorrow
Did I, did I do it right?