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
Expensive Mistakes
V1
Seventeen dollars and a subway ride
They go on with their lives
And you're the only one who pays
V2
You're in focus now, lights on you
Record your breakdown on the news
They don't deserve you
PRE CHORUS
It's gonna get so much worse before it gets better
So keep on making expensive mistakes
Hide behind what's in your brain
Cause you're insane
You're insane
CHORUS
No one's gonna save you now
Coming up, you know how
You won't survive the comedown
No one's gonna save you now
You're beyond what they got now
Turn and face the comedown
V3
The more you try to have it all
The harder you will have to fall
You're the only one who pays
V4
You have no choice if you don't choose
Yea that's why you always lose
They don't deserve you
BRIDGE
Yea that's just the price you pay
Up and down and in the way
Electrify and ricochet
Cause no one's gonna save you now
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
Alone
V1
From Denver to Las Vegas
It took you seven days
And I've forgotten your Kansas City smile
This long road has been so lonely
You are now my one and only
Whiskey soaked sunrise, ain't you babe?
PRE CHORUS 1
Your nonchalant, suicidal
Talk of getting high
And I can't take the way you said goodbye
You're young and fast you're moving on
You're coming on way too strong
Will you remember me when I'm gone?
CHORUS
I'll let go these heavy bones
Take it all, I'll go alone
And I will give all that I own
I'll take it all, I'll go alone
V2
Your silent ghost-like fading footsteps
Match my wrinkling, money-losing hands
And gambling ways
And I have made my own mistakes
And I can barely hold the weight
Of what I've seen, my love
PRE CHORUS 2
We went too fast, we'll never last
Our good old days are so long past
The summer's turned her fading back
And I'm unhinged I'll fall apart
I'll take revenge on my own heart
And spill the blood on the stage
CHORUS
I'll let go these heavy bones
Take it all, I'll go alone
And I will give all that I own
I'll take it all, I'll go alone
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