Bat Country
V1
A generation lost and smoke
Drunkenly inspired
Refugees of ugly love
Built our funeral pyres
V2
A I one-way trip
A disillusioned game
Drugs can only echo
It’s never been the same
CHORUS
Cars and ugly faces on the run
Shoes they melt like
Dreams in the Vegas sun
And I’ve got no sympathy
For the devil
I’ve got no sympathy for you
V3
The decades come faster
Give a part I didn’t ask for
In the decline
Of the dreams they bastardised
V4
You’ve got no manifesto
Join in fake a smile
Stop pretending to be
Anything but hollow
BRIDGE
Tune in, freak out
Get lost, fall down
But the ticket, take the ride
It’s all in your mind
Another Life (Song for Syd)
V1
Pacify your fragile mind
With perforated paper lines
The colours wash away in the shadow of your smile
You'll be fine, just close your eyes
V2
Electrify your nursery rhymes
Are you alone, are you alive?
In the fraying tapestries of your tangled arteries
Are you sure, have a little more
CHORUS
Tolerate, you can not take it with you when you go
Saturate your echoed fate
You can sing the blues next time
In your next life
V3
Leave your red shoes at the door
Rest your head now on the floor
Painted in your frozen time
A place where you won't sleep tonight
You'll be fine, just close your eyes
CHORUS
Tolerate, you can not take it with you when you go
Saturate your echoed fate
You can sing the blues next time
In your next life
Words Aren't Enough
V1
The animal inside has closed its eyes
But will I cease to be without the fire
But in symmetry is sympathy
Inheritance can't lie
And I've lived a fantasy
Most of my life
V2
Everyone is hungry I can see it in their eyes
So I must settle for a false compromise
Framed by insignificance
It's different in my mind
Vanity and confidence
Comes at a price
CHORUS
I don't mean half of what I say
If I was invisible maybe then I'd stay
Please forgive my inconsistencies
I'm not gilded gold
I'm somewhere in between
V3
I sit alone building broken things
All of my memories played on six strings
An antidote to every vice
Sanity by candlelight
Handpicked innocence
Won't die without a fight
V4
What's left of my own thoughts can't stand
For anything worthwhile up against my heavy hand
Brothers in another life
Ripped and wretched every time
How can I make this right
Reborn too many times
CHORUS
I don't mean half of what I say
If I was invisible maybe then I'd stay
Please forgive my inconsistencies
I'm not gilded gold
I'm somewhere in between
Golden Standard
V1
Built in the dark without one mistake
Sing like a sinner, speak like a saint
The golden standard breaks into threes
Is this honesty? Cause it's killing me
CHORUS
So watch your bridges burn
Empty fire twists your words
Monetise your pain
Like we rehearsed
It makes it worse
V2
You wrote this yourself now live out your trust
Contradict your twisted and wasted youth
I wanna break before I can bend
Cause my happiness feels like heroin
CHORUS
Watch your bridges burn
Empty fire twists your words
Monetise your pain
Like we rehearsed
It makes it worse
The Menagerie
V1
Brilliance ain't what it used to be
Stretched too thin to infinity
Are we there yet?
I just wanna be so far away from everything
PRE-CHORUS
Brush the dust off and sink into this
Meaningless false virtue
You turn away when I dream of home
And then talk of growing old
CHORUS
I'm too young to bite my tongue
V2
I'll let it pass me by
Cause there's war out there, and there's war inside
These tiresome catastrophes
We discard so carelessly
PRE-CHORUS
Brush the dust off and sink into this
Meaningless false virtue
You turn away when I dream of home
And then talk of growing old
CHORUS
I'm too young to bite my tongue
BRIDGE
I'm not impressed by your suffering
In this menagerie of worthless things
We're sinking before we know it
Too lonely to ever show it
PRE-CHORUS
Brush the dust off and sink into this
Meaningless false virtue
You turn away when I dream of home
And then talk of growing old
I'm too young to bite my tongue
I'm too young to bite my tongue
Plastic Halos
V1
Somewhere between the past and your new dreams
Lost your bias for catastrophe
And is this heresy, or is this silence?
Am I doomed to fail if I keep trying?
CHORUS 1
Sell me a halo
In plastic or in gold
Sell me a hero
Who never grows old
Tracking glory into the grave
Another martyr to fame
V2
I sreamed to heaven til my voice ran out
But the devil made a better deal so I followed him down
Call me a heretic, call me a liar
Throw all my truth into the fire
CHORUS 2
Plastic Halos they break before they bend
And all your angels stop breathing in the end
What's the secret? How do you sleep at night?
I never did believe in wrong or in right
Rotting Hollywood
V1
God lives in a tent on Sunset Boulevard
Trampled underfoot and disregarded
All you need to smile
Is a credit card
Find your salvation chasing stars
V2
So breathe in the smoky air
With the gaudy millionaires
From the 405 to the 101
Don't mistake freeways for freedom
CHORUS
Now you're surrounded, piss away your fortune
Bound to the cliche of California
Surrender your dignity
To the pageantry
Because your nightmares look so good on camera
V3
God lives in a tent on Sunset Boulevard
I know, I saw it on a postcard
You can walk these streets
With the angels and freaks
But you'll never see what they're looking for
V4
Cause they're all starving rich and poor
And they're always wanting more
Maybe when I'm thin
Someone will let me in
But I don't want to be adored
CHORUS
Now you're surrounded, piss away your fortune
Bound to the cliche of California
Surrender your dignity
To the pageantry
Because your nightmares look so good on camera
Paint it Blue
V1
Botched the landing on my touchdown from Mars
But what's a few broken bones to stand amidst the stars
It was so brutal and sardonic, so casually shambolic
But I can't resist it whatever you want to call it
CHORUS
I'll paint it blue if it's all the same to you
You're a mess, get undressed, tell me the truth
I'll paint it blue if there's nothing else to do
Another chance, no cosmic dance will save you
V2
Reflection in the mirror another delinquent wreck
Cover it up with makeup, the lights will do the rest
Surrender to your sins watch your laughing eyes go dim
Feigning irony won't get you out of this one
BRIDGGE
Such is my lack of pride
That I will cast aside
Settle my debts
Romanticise my regrets
And it may give you life but you gotta keep it to yourself
After Ending
V1
I've worn away my shine
I'm fading in the rain
Like children
We are all afraid
V2
A hero's welcome for the victors
In their neat picture frames
Does it scare you
That our walls are blank
CHORUS
If the only way out is through
When we get there what will we do?
I'll see you again
After the end
V3
Everything to say's
Been said so many times
Wake up each day
To this mundane divine
V4
Turning sins to stories
Like it used to be
Everybody's tired
Of repeat tragedy
CHORUS
If the only way out is through
When we get there what will we do?
I'll see you again
After the end
BRIDGE
You've got the same face but a new story
You're gonna fade into those tales of glory
It's coming soon the day that you fall down
With your broken dreams and your paper crown
CHORUS
If the only way out is through
When we get there what will we do?
I'll see you again
After the end
One Hundred
V1
I’d be your martyr, but I ain’t got the time
Another revival, just can’t get it right
Watching the faces pass through the light
Cause we’re fools,
But that’s alright
CHORUS 1
I’ll pretend to hang my head in shame
Too lighthearted to be blamed
We are here cause we’re all the same
You’ll find me at one hundred
V2
Let’s have our own war, just for tonight
I didn’t mean to steal your spotlight
But I can’t help laughing, I can’t help smiling
Together, on the outside
CHORUS 1
I’ll pretend to hang my head in shame
Too lighthearted to be blamed
We are here cause we’re all the same
You’ll find me at one hundred
V3
It’s not looking good kid, you’re losing fast
No one said that this would last
I’ll never call you and you’ll never write
But we’re blind and we’re helplessly dancing tonight
CHORUS 2
Go ahead and kiss me one more time
I’ve never been sorry once in my life
I’m shameless can’t blame this
Cause we are all dying
You’ll find it at one hundred
CHORUS 1
I’ll pretend to hang my head in shame
Too lighthearted to be blamed
We are here cause we’re all the same
You’ll find me at one hundred
Nihilst Lullaby
V1
We're too young to fall apart at the seams
It seems to me, seems to me
It's all just a bad dream
It's all coming with me
We can't lose again
V2
If you want the world to change
You're doing it the wrong way
Nobody's listening
Your passion is scripted
Your eyes give it away
CHORUS
If time's coming anyways, what's another day, what's another day
We're all dying anyways, what's another day, what's another day
V3
Watch them fall in love with the machine
While beautiful people die in the streets
Follow where they go
Just copy the echo
While egos tumble in the breeze
BRIDGE
Nobody's listening
No one can read
Your manifesto
Urgent apathy
Nothing worth going
Nowhere to be
So what's wrong with you
What's wrong with me?
CHORUS
If time's coming anyways, what's another day, what's another day
We're all dying anyways, what's another day, what's another day
(Won't) Fade Away
V1
Hey you, you got the world on your shoulder
Hey now, you're just getting older
I won't hold it forever but I'll take it for the night
You're so lost but wherever you go is alright
V2
Hey you, it's never been easy
What they don't tell you is that you'll never please them
So stop and breathe for an hour
Won't you stay here all night
Let it all go, lose your control, it's all right
PRE CHORUS
Ooo there's smoke in the air
Ooo I can see it from here
Through the telephone wires
We fight fire with fire
But you can fall apart if you want
It won't be long…
CHORUS
And I know that we'll never die
If you take yours, I'll take mine
So never go, even when we're far away
Won't fade away
V3
Hey you, you gotta keep it together
Hold your head high, they'll never sever
Your mind from your soul
From the sweet rock and roll in your heart
You're free to go, you have been from the start
CHORUS
And I know that we'll never die
If you take yours, I'll take mine
So never go, even when we're far away
Won't fade away