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Alkaline Trio lyrics
Album: Alkaline Trio / Hot Water Music [2002]
| Queen of Pain | |
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There's a fire forming not too far from here.
Out on the east coast maybe it resides in you my dear.
We're worn out on all courtesy
We've made our curtain calls.
Like vampire bats deprived of blood
into the new york city night we crawl.
And you've got a funny way
of showing off your bathroom surgery.
You said you were just cooling down
from plans of leaving me.
There's something I should tell you
for we may not have much time..
I've never met arms like yours.
And the stars at night are big and bright
deep in your eyes miss vincent.
You told me once I made you smile
we both know damn well I didn't.
I'm not much of a jester
but I'd test poison food for you your majesty.
You're royal blue.
I'm loyalty, my king of pain there's a hard rain falling,
flooding your attic it's clear.
I can't put out the fire which resides in you my dear.
There's something I should tell you
for we may not have much time.
I've never seen scars like yours.
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| While You're Waiting | |
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There's a hope in my head that's been cut
and bled dry as your bloodshot eyes.
And there's smoke in the air
and it's soon to clear revealing our demise.
There are some who say that it's a.o.k.
if it makes you feel alright.
It's just way too bad
now you're worse than sad
all locked up there inside.
And I don't know how you feel
but I'll make you a deal
if you make it out alive.
My shoulders and ears are all yours my dear.
I hope it comes as no suprise.
You've been known to say that you're a.o.k.
when you're feeling sick(dead) inside.
I just want you to know
I've got no place to go until the day you die.
While you're waiting, be thankful for your fingers.
I'll be fading with the colors of your pictures.
"I'm not crying wolf" you whispered,
"I'm really dead this time."
They locked you up.
They threw away the key.
Sutured your mouth shut.
Murdered your family.
Right before your eyes, what could you do?
Right before your eyes, they took it all from you.
You're contemplating you hanging from your ceiling.
I can't help hating you for having that feeling.
I'm not joking when I tell you I'd miss you all the time.
I already miss you all the time.
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| Rooftops | |
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I've got the scars to remind me,
Of watching clocks go round,
Warm myself through somedays,
Better put me where I am,
In another time, in another place
All things might have been in place,
But for now I'm finding myself,
fighting standing on a rooftop screaming,
Hey world are you listening?
Listen to me
I'm hear and I'm hurting
To begin again
It's another time, It's another place
We all make it more the same,
But for now I'm finding myself,
Fighting, standing on the door step screaming,
Hey world are you listening?
Listen to me
I'm hear and I'm hurting
To begin again
Hey world I'm ready to listen
Learn something new
I'm here and I'm willing
To get ourselves through
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| Radio | |
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Shaking like a dog shittin' razorblades,
Waking up next to nothing after dreaming of you and me
I'm waking up all alone, waking up so relieved
While you're taking your time with apologies,
I'm making my plans for revenge.
Red eyes on orange horizons
If columbus was wrong I'd drive straight off the edge.
I'd drive straight off the edge.
Taking your own life with boredom,
I'm taking my own life with wine -
It helps you to rule out the sorrow,
It helps me to empty my mind.
Making the most of a bad time
I'm smoking the brains from my head
Leaving the coal calling the kettle black and orange and red
This kettle is seeing red.
I've got a big fat fuckin' bone to pick with you my darling.
In case you haven't heard I'm sick and tired of trying.
I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you,
Plugged in and ready to fall.
Shaking like a dog shittin' razorblades,
Waking up next to nothing after dreaming of you and me
I'm waking up all alone, waking up so relieved
While you're taking your time with apologies,
I'm planning out my revenge.
Red eyes on orange horizons
If columbus was wrong I'd drive straight off the edge.
I'm seeing red.
I've got a big fat fuckin' bone to pick with you my darling.
In case you haven't heard I'm sick and tired of trying.
I wish you would take my radio to bathe with you,
Plugged in and ready to fall.
Plugged in and ready to fall.
Plugged in and ready to fall.
Plugged in and ready to fall.
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| Bleeder | |
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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 cigarette that I busted on the day I quit
But now that I've been drinking I'm outta smokes and I wish that I had it.
Woke up to my daily headache and the realization that you are gone.
Oh my sweet darling happiness you've been away from me all along.
One thing that I've never said-
I'm truly happy in my heart and in my head.
A lonely liver suspended in liquid.
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.
One thing that I've never said-
I'm truly happy in my heart and in my head.
A lonely liver suspended in liquid.
It's one thing that I never did was smile
Missing a case - lacking a lid.
My heart bleeds for what you never did
You never did
For what you never did
Never did
For what you never did
Never did, never did, never did
You never did, you never did
It's one thing that I've never said-
I'm truly happy in my heart and in my head.
A lonely liver suspended in liquid.
It's one thing that I never did was smile
Missing a case - lacking a lid
My heart bled for what you never did until now
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