Lyric Book

Verse 1

Now I'm freaking out

Now I'm freaking out

It's a quarter passing

central casting

I don't have a house

I don't have a house

That's a middle class thing

Slowly grasping

Pre-Chorus

Wonder flowing from the spout

Underestimated count

Oh you're growing take a bow

Build me up to cut me down

Chorus

It's a terrible time to be 

taking your time

Little Big Oak, don't fall now

It's a hell of an hour chime 

to flirt with the power lines

little big hopes in your branches

Verse 2

Change is in the air

Change is in the air

It's a silver dollar

I feel smaller now

It's raining at O'Hare

It's raining at O'Hare

but you never bothered

some old proverb

Pre-Chorus

flowing softly from your mouth

I can tell it's going south

knowing what you're on about

when they put me in the ground

Chorus

It's a terrible time to be

taking your time

Little Big Oak, don't fall now

It's a hell of an hour chime

to flirt with the power lines

Little big hopes in your branches

Pre-Chorus

Flowing softly from your mouth

I can tell it's going south

Chorus

It's a terrible time to be

taking your time

Little Big Oak, don't fall now

It's a hell of an hour chime

to flirt with the power lines

Little big hopes in your branches

Verse 1

The Mushroom cloud

gets closer every day

you're not around it's coming

It's up and blowing ahead

now the warnings overdue

I wonder how

I'll ever get away

from all the crowds that numb me

Too often going to bed

with the morning showing through

Pre-chorus

Take this

to make it last forever if you stay

low down living

in a smoked out double-wide

hide, I'm seeking a way

Chorus

I just know you so well sometimes

when I see you

figure it out

Sometimes, sometimes I do

Mademoiselle, I'm sorry the well's so dry

but i need you

digging around

Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes

Verse 2

I caught the caution

thrown into the window

by so many others

They say it's all in your head

but your head's not all in you

Forgotten blossom

growing in the bin

beside the pantry druthers

can make it over the edge

of the dread you fall into

Pre-chorus

Take this

to make it last forever if you stay

low down living

in a smoked out double-wide

hide, I'm seeking a way

Chorus

I just know you so well sometimes

when I see you

figure it out

Sometimes, sometimes I do

Mademoiselle, I'm sorry the well's so dry

but i need you

digging around

Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes

Bridge

Scraping up the asphalt

Can you tell me when it's easy living

I am burning away and dreaming a doubt

It's feeling like the last call

Guess it's better when they're unforgiving

Sigh, turning to face, getting it out

Chorus

I just know you so well sometimes

when I see you

figure it out

Sometimes, sometimes I do

Mademoiselle, I'm sorry the well's so dry

but i need you

digging around

Sometimes, sometimes, sometimes, sometimes

Verse 1

I stare under my bed as I just 

limp myself through cleaning

And find myself a skeleton again

It’s wrapped in some blue linen and the spine is surely cracking

from the pressure of my bed frame

now and then

I took it to the bridge and then

I threw it in the Severn 

and sank it to the bottom where we’d been 

I nearly hit a cutter as I watched the pages flutter

injecting every picture in my head

Pre-Chorus

Take it back

You were just overreacting

Still here in spirit I’m just gone in mind

Chorus

Tell me the truth

I don’t need you

Would I be better off 

without youth

Disillusionment is just another way of staying true

Chipping a tooth

Getting a clue

Gonna forget it all without

running away

when I clean up all this mess I've made

Verse 2

I’m cleaning out my closet

My security deposit

is ripped up like those pages that I tore in 114

And if she ever asks me then the scrapbooks in the Ashley

and I’ll never try to find it till the next time I spring clean

Pre-Chorus

Take it back

You were just overreacting

Still here in spirit I’m just gone in mind

Chorus

Tell me the truth

I don’t need you

Would I be better off 

without youth

Disillusionment is just another way of staying true

Chipping a tooth

Getting a clue

Gonna forget it all without

running away

when I clean up all this mess I’ve made

Pre chorus

Take it back

You were just overreacting

Still here in spirit I’m just gone in mind

Chorus

Tell me the truth

I don’t need you

Would I be better off 

without youth

Disillusionment is just another way of staying true

Chipping a tooth

Getting a clue

Gonna forget it all without

running away

when I clean up all the mess I’ve made

Verse 1

One, two, will I still be with you when I’m three four

Are you gonna shut me like a screen door

just enough to possibly be seen or 

blowing off my hinges in a brain storm

You control the weather with your waveform

coming through the window of the same dorm

This is really what we gotta pay for

Verse 2

Blindside baby I’ve been caught up in a riptide

wondering how far I’m gonna drift I

hope that I can swim out if I slip by your mind

But you take me into my apartment and you break me

down like every second that you gave me

I don’t think a break is gonna save me this time

Pre-chorus

But you are still the only star that I have ever seen

Chorus

You are going supernova next to me

I can feel your ultraviolet burn

Maybe I’m too caught up in your gravity but I know when you

turn

Verse 2

Spacin just another miscommunication

How long are you gonna keep me waiting

Maybe it’s a permanent vacation

Hesitation

But I can’t tell

Spending all my life inside a motel

Sentiments are building me a jail

Sell everything and live out of a van for a spell

Pre-chorus

But you were still the only road that I had ever seen

Chorus

You are going supernova next to me

I can feel your ultraviolet burn

Maybe I’m too caught up in your gravity but I know when you turn

Chorus

You are going supernova next to me

I can feel your ultraviolet burn

Maybe I’m too caught up in your gravity but I know when you turn

Verse 1

Four thousand feet up over Braintree

after years of letting it go

It’ll flower in an hour when it’s out of the snow

The silver lining leaves a stained green discoloration

and don’t remind me how I got into this situation

But I can almost see you waving

from the emergency exit row

Chorus 1

Is it getting cold there in Massachusetts 

I’m on the T

Under the ground

we're painting the town a shade of crimson

Verse 2

This time of year the square is empty as the promises you broke

The yard is muddy and the studys a retirement home

It isn’t common to have fallen under these conditions

The sullen faces running races to their depositions

The opportunities are plenty

I’m just a bump in the road

Chorus 2

Is it getting cold there in Massachusetts 

I’m on the T

Under the ground

we're painting the town a shade of crimson

Is it getting old there

Not for nothing

I wouldn’t be

doubling down

and running around

if I knew there wasn’t anything

A hopeless romantic can dream 

Chorus 3

Is it getting cold there in Massachusetts 

I’m on the T

Under the ground

painting the town a shade of crimson

Is it getting old there

Not for nothing

I wouldn’t be

doubling down

and running around

if I knew there wasn’t anything

A hopeless romantic can dream

Verse 1

My eyes are baking in the filaments

that I could just turn off from my bed

I lie awake conflating memories 

with things that just went on in my head

Always darkest after dawn

under incandescent sun

and my complacency is evident

but I call it American fun

Verse 2

The television pumping photons through your cranium 

to sell you a lie

It must be true he’s in a suit he seems like 

he’d be so respectable I

think maybe I’ll just buy a gun

under incandescent sun

and I feel hated cause the anchor told me

my pretender secretly won

Chorus

Guess it’s an overnighter 

No I can’t think anymore

I lose my fuckin lighter

I lose my faith in the world

Verse 3

Which geriatric died and made you king of 

everything I do in my life

Mistranslations make the man upstairs 

a symbol of the radical right

Twisting every yarn he spun

is the incandescent sun

making prophets out of hypocrites who 

bail when all the money is gone

Guess it’s an overnighter 

No I can’t think anymore

I lose my fuckin lighter

I lose my faith in the world

Chorus

Guess it’s an overnighter

No I can’t think anymore

I lose my fuckin lighter

I lose my faith in the world

Intro

Are you ready

Everybody ready for the same old shit

over and over again

Are you ready

Everybody ready for the same old shit

over and over again

You know the one who wants to whittle 

always got the shorter stick in the end

Verse 1

Are you ready

Everybody ready for the same old shit 

never and ever before

Guess the oil on the canvas never trickled down

to brighten the floor

Are you ready

Everybody ready for the same old shit

Never been anything more

than a clever game of checkers over everything you need in the world

Chorus

Seven-sided prophets in a billion dollar telescope

Heaven guided rockets and a missile from a megaphone

Feed me lies and chocolates I don’t ever want to know

It’s coming on

It’s coming on

It’s coming on 

It’s coming on a rope

Verse 2

Are you ready

Everybody ready for the same old shit

over and over again

All the talking heads drumming up a beat

to march you into the end

Are you ready

Everybody ready for the same old shit 

Over before it begins

Let the refugee hanging on the wall

take the fall for your sins

Chorus

Seven-sided prophets in a billion dollar telescope

Heaven guided rockets and a missile from a megaphone

Feed me lies and chocolates I don’t ever want to know

It's coming on

It's coming on

It's coming on

It's coming on a rope

Verse 3

Are you ready

Everybody ready for the same old shit

Leaving the key in the door

He’s got the fat man’s weapon 

and he’s not little boy anymore

Are you ready?

Everybody ready for the same old shit

Nuclear war

Let the clouds rain acid over new lake placid

We can only ever settle the score 

Chorus

Seven-sided prophets in a billion dollar telescope

Heaven guided rockets and a missile from a megaphone

Feed me lies and chocolates I don’t ever want to know

It's coming on

It's coming on

It's coming on

It's coming on a rope

Verse 1

Dorothy missed the poppies

She's pulling the curtain back

Alice in curiosity

may have just killed the cat

It takes one to know one

and I know you better than that

Painting a brittle picture

of everyone in the room

Johnny's a little quicker

I'm subtly out of tune

It takes one to know one

and I know me better than you

Chorus

I'm flipping the breaker

to turn all the power off

Taking a holiday

and breathing a song

Meeting in passing

through all this grey matter

It's making its getaway

and dragging me along

Verse 2

Little big oaks have tangled

the screamer within the log

Look at the jokers mangle

the lever to spin a cog

It takes one to know one

and I've known them all for so long

The proof is in all the paisleys

but it wouldnt get you far

The roof isn't made of daisies

or opening up to stars

It takes one to know one

and I know they aren't but 

I'm slowly releasing my grip on the bar and

Chorus

I'm flipping the breaker

to turn all the power off

Taking a holiday

and breathing a song

Meeting in passing

through all this grey matter

It's making its getaway

and dragging me along

Verse 3

Dorothy missed the poppies

She's pulling the curtain back

Alice in curiosity

may have just killed the cat

Chorus

I'm flipping the breaker

to turn all the power off

Taking a holiday

and breathing a song

Meeting in passing

through all this grey matter

It's making its getaway

and dragging me along

Verse 1

It’s so cold this November

Is it just the seasons changing or maybe 

just lower pressure than September

I don’t remember

It’s getting old

and it is me

Being told that things get better doesn’t matter

if you let her let it be

One day we’ll see

Chorus 1

Maybe I’m not jaded yet and

I think she can see right through my doubts

Will you look around after landslide

and dig me out

Verse 2

Cast your stones

Close your gates

Build your homes upon foundations 

of complacent adoration and they’ll stay

locked away

But for now

smile and wave

standing solemn in your columns

if you want to you could blow them all away

but they decay

Chorus 2

I cant be persuaded 

only looking through the windows of my house

Will you look around after landslide

and dig me out

Outro

When it’s cold

this november

will it just be seasons changing or maybe

just lower pressure than september

I won't remember

Verse 1

Another day

Another dollar

Another way

And a new heart to follow

Didn’t pick right yesterday and I’m sure I won’t tomorrow 

humming little nothings to myself

Do I drink

Do I smoke

Cause it’s been linked to

some problems down the road

Four short years to find careers

and by the end I’m broke

You can bet that I’ve been doing both

Chorus

We don’t notice all the time that's passing by

We don’t ever get to sleep

We’re busy living the American dream

but I know one day I’ll come crawling back to me

Verse 2

I’ve met friends

and dead ends

Missed flights

sticky lights

and Friday nights at bents 

Happy hours and whisky sours

I've got to pay my rent

and wonder how much I have overspent

Chorus

We don’t notice all the time passing by

We don’t ever get to sleep

We’re busy living the American Dream

but I know one day I’ll come crawling back to me

Verse 3

If I had another day

and I had another dollar

I’d throw it all away to say

the things that I have swallowed

I didn’t pick right yesterday

but I guess I’ve got tomorrow

To hum these little nothings

Just humming these little nothings

All of these little nothings to myself