I'm awake
It was a half bad dream
That was way too long
My whole life it seemed
That 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

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 that fly in the ice is like three days old

so please don't say you wont be going out today
cause anywhere i go, wont be anything,
if your not hanging around

it's the blackest cloud,
and it opens up
when i walk outside, and i'm all alone
an empty cell, the furnace chokes,

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.
I hope this is goodbye.

I've got a regular problem
So my standard break from life is in order
I'm having trouble making sentences
I'm older but I don't feel any smarter
You see I don't know what I said to you
And now you're pissed at you know who
And I guess I deserve it
I wish I could waste my time without wasting all your time
I try to leave a good impression
But it's hard when my obsession's in a wine glass

I've got a regular problem
So my standard break from life is in order
I'm having trouble making sentences
I'm older but I don't feel any smarter
You see I don't know what I said to you
And now you're pissed at you know who
And I guess I deserve it
I wish I could waste my time without wasting all your time
I try to leave a good impression
But it's hard when my obsession's in a wine glass

I've got these thoughts in my head
dirty as fuck and never leaveing
and there best left unsaid
over drinks under breath
got some shit off my chest
Threw it on my back next to the monkey nest
that somebody left with me the day i was born

I've 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

I'm alone
Sitting with my empty glass
My four walls
Follow me through my past
I was on a Paris train
I emerged in London rain
And you were waiting there
Swimming through apologies

I remember searching for the perfect words
I was hoping you might change your mind
I remember a soldier sleeping next to me
Riding on the metro

You wore white
Smiling as you took my hand
So removed

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

I can't go on
You said my head's 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 sit and dream of better days
where we'd hit the ground running on empty
stories we've been told
and all those nights we spent together never felt this fucking cold
when we let the car run in the driveway
kiss you one last time

We can never break up
We can never not show
We can never go home
No, 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
Let's keep working it
And working it
Working it
And working it