Wide eyed

Knee deep in surprise

Just below your thighs the temperature drops 5 degrees
Your stand-by flight has just arrived

Tongue-tied bleeding from your eyes

Even Christ himself would cringe

at the sight of your scars

While you're counting sheep

I'll count my lucky stars

You were the last good thing I ever saw

I lost it all

I lost it all

Burned out on 2 hours of shut-eye

Wonder what it was that made you this way

Maybe as a baby you dropped your rattle

And it still rattles you to this day

You better practice your evil looks in the mirror

They don't work on me

Slowly crawling up from the down low

The other cops still call you 'fatso'

Short fuse and a top to blow

Unhappy wife, shitty life, hit the bottle

Your whole world dropped from under you

Choking on the thought of leaving
Drinking to keep from sobbing
4pm, 4 dollar pints - SFO - the time and price

With all my happiness aborted
The PA painfully starts boarding
I sink deep, 30 thousand feet
Into my window seat, electric chair
And I was drinking you goodbye
A heart floats in the bay
From sour home Chicago
I hear it beating far away
There's no telling what I'll do

Crack my head open on your kitchen floor
To prove to you that I have brains
Meanwhile tin men are led by little girls
Down golden roads that lead to nowhere

Fine time to fake a seizure
Feel your mouth on mine, you're saving me

Whatever happened to that silly dream you had
I want to make it real
I'd love to rub your back
Like a plane crash that never hits the ground
I fall in love with you

Stale as a 2 day half full beer

Cigarette boats float around in here

A field in my gut lacking sunshine

Put down like a teenager's first drink
I cough up compliments I think

You're better off walking away while you still can

She was passing through to climb a hill

As you slipped and slid on my gut spill

My better half was praying for you to fall

So where'd you go
How was your vacation home
Well obviously you were busy, too busy for me
So this is how you leave me
I'm broken hearted on the floor,
My tears seep through the crack under my door
Where I am locked in, shut down,
I'm so tired of picking myself up off the ground

So Happy Valentine's Day
I hope the sun's out in New York
I hope he bought you roses

Been on top of the world since about six months ago

Marking the first time I laid eyes on you

I lost all train of thought as I entered the room

Saw what looked like really good food then I saw you
And so did you

I want to wake up naked next to you

Kissing the curve in your clavicle

Kissing your clavicle

Been on top of the world since about 1 week ago

I'll come down to get you high
Or maybe sing you a lullabye
Sing you to sleep - a sleep you'll never wake from
Sing you to coma so to speak

When I fall down I'll fall apart
Trade in my bike for a shopping cart
and beg change from a world that needs some
like I need someone
So where are you my little needle
The stack's been burned away
But I'm so inebriated that I cannot see

I can't believe my heart's still pounding
I can't believe how close I came
And meanwhile heaven's falling
The fallen angels flown away
And that'll be me someday
With stolen wings and evil ways
Straight south with the keys to the pearly gates

Hard to believe my heart stopped pounding
Hard to believe I played this game
My worst nightmares became real

I guess I'll always stop and see you
And we'll run into each other's lives
Yeah, I guess, although it tears me up inside
Everytime it burns my eyes with tears
But I know you're worth the pain
I've so much more to gain by waiting for you

You're going away but you're not going far
So if he decides to leave you alone and crying
You know I'm still here, the faithful one

You told me that you want to die
I said I've been there myself more than a few times
And I go back every once in a while
You called me lucky, you.. you called me lucky

You said tonight is a wonderful night to die
I asked you how you could tell
You told me to look at the sky
Look at all those stars
Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are

It's one or another
Between a rope and a bottle

It hasn't been that long
Since we drank to the sunset, until it was gone
And down with it went our pain and fear
As we slowly broke contact
more and more with every beer
And we passed out in each other's arms
Both admitting we'd never felt better
Never felt so warm
But awoke in each other's eyes
Without wearing a stitch of clothing
We were both deeply in disguise

You came to me like a dream.
The kind that always leaves
Just as the best part starts.
It ends so abruptly
And leaves you stunned and naked
In your bedroom all alone.
It's kinda funny how something so soothing
Gets interrupted by the ring of a telephone.

And you broke me like the cigarrette
That I busted on the day I quit.
But now that I've been drinkin'

Wonder what it was that made you this way.
Maybe as a baby you dropped your rattle
and it still rattles you to this day.
You better practice your evil looks in the mirror,
they don't work on me.

Slowly crawling up from the down low.
The other cops still call you 'fatso'.
Short fuse and a top to blow.
Unhappy wife.
Shitty life.
Hit the bottle.
Your whole world dropped from under you.

I dont care who you've been sleeping with these days
You're outta my hair
It's growing just above my smiling face that I wear
Every night I drink myself to sleep
Not thinking about you
Not thinking about anything at all

I don't care who you've been dining with these days
It's more than fair
Much rather be drinking anyways
With my friend Peter
Who lives so fucking far away
Yet not as far as you