THE BLED - found in the flood (2005) 1. Hotel Coral Essex 2. Gutter Shark 3. My Assassin 4. Antarctica 5. She Calls Home 6. The Last American Cowboy 7. Daylight Bombings 8. Millionaires 9. With An Urgency 10. I Don't Keep With Liars Anymore ~~~~~~~~~~Hotel Coral Essex If it starts to feel, then we'll just shut it off again We won't convince the jury, we're guilty till we die If it starts to sing, reach in remove the sirens This respirator keeps a countdown to our cancellation If it starts to bleed, do not adjust the contrast Doctor, deliver us Heaven holds no truth for dreamers like you and I Remember the day they cut our throats, we learned to smile from our necks This is a breech of etiquette, with wires jutting from our arms I'll never look at you again, if it's only a mirror in the end And if there's no one afer us, we'll turn the lights out when we leave I'll never look at you again, if it's only, it's only, it's only a mirror I'll never look at you again, if it's only, it's only a mirror We're guilty till we die, I'll never look at you again We're guilty till we die. I'll never look We're guilty till we die, I'll never look at you again We're guilty till we die, I'll never look at you, till we die Siphon the ivory from the tusk, we're guilty till we die We only bleed when the knives are drawn Vultures pick the meat from the bones, we're guilty till we die If it starts to feel, then we'll just shut it off again We won't convince the jury, we're guilty till we die If it starts to feel, then we'll just shut it off again We won't convince the jury, we're guilty till we die Do not adjust the contrast, my love, our days are numbered We'll remain guilty until our hearts give in and pull us under Do not adjust the contrast, my love, our days are numbered We'll remain guilty until our hearts give in and pull us under We left our corpses on the beach untouched and slightly out of reach We paint the walls with our dreams We'll turn the lights out when we leave We left our corpses on the beach untouched and slightly out of reach We paint the walls with our dreams We'll turn the lights out ~~~~~~~~~~Gutter Shark I crawled for miles, slit open by a trail of thorns I prowled, I prowled the vapid avenue Sluring every word I wished I said Stranded, a nocturnal hellhole I have a dread of becoming a martyr Pry it out, pry it out Pavement spits back when the clock strikes I crawled for miles and miles Take the palms. save the fright from... I sprawled, prototypical creature Mouthwide and cobblestone canvas Time lapse Rejected donors Flee from the scne Blind numb on a whiskey slicked highway. I'm reeling toward the temptation at hand Fog lights Disjoiinted lightning Nauseous nauseous I'm drooling right on cue I'm sleeping in a pew, it's all misconstrued Goddamn this night Fabricate, deny Until the beat makes you sick Guttershark Prescribe The man is void of reason I crawled for miles and miles Till the palms called it quits, yeah I crawled for miles and miles and miles Take the palms, save the fright from... Fear grips me Drained Pissed Drowned You might cut a man just to watch him bleed You might cure yourself of this plague You might spill your guts to this bloodthirsty crowd They might think I'm you, I'm gonna end up you You can't shake it; the fear, the vice, the tremble The bittersweet melody is deafening, so hide your broken halo from me You can't shake it; the fear, the vice, the tremble The bittersweet melody is deafening, so hide your broken halo from me I crawled for miles I crawled for miles I crawled for miles ~~~~~~~~~~My Assassin The sky blistered red, shots ring overhead I'm scaling walls that the soldiers built to muffle out your screams The message was mislacted, misconveyed, incinerated In the wake of war, just listen for the flood The arthritis in us all is choking me out It's spilling me Maybe you could finally be the one who reaches in and saves me from the flood Collapse, this is our last chance, there's no time for relapse Just listen for the flood If not us, can I just save you? Can't you hear the bombs are calling all our old habits their own? A sniper patiently awaiting me in every catacomb, are you scared girl? Won't you be my assassin? Hunted down for the last time and carried you home The arthritis in us all is choking me out It's spilling me Maybe you could finally be the one who reaches in and saves me from the flood Collapse, this is our last chance, there's no time for relapse Just listen for the flood If not us, can I just save you? Bring on the love, cause here comes the flood Bring on the love, cause here it comes We must have been seduced by the calm of the isle as we tied our wrists Our wrists too tight in the shallow Maybe you could finally be the one who reaches in and saves me from the flood Collapse, this is our last chance, there's no time for relapse now Just listen for the flood If not us, can I just save you? ~~~~~~~~~~Antarctica The rain begins, the tide it pulls and drags me down It doesn't end, keep rolling in, keep rolling in Alone you float, she won't let go, and it spins you out Keep rolling in, keep rolling in, keep rolling in Underneath a web of satellites Concrete structures puncture holes in the sky Nothing lives here and no one comes here anymore Redesign me I lost your grip, peeled apart by the owned Stick beside me on the road Redesign me I lost my grip, peeled apart by the owned Stick beside me on the road She winks and glows If I could run from this I swear I'd take you with me But this place has got the best of us again And it won't just go away We're diving in with our hearts and halfmast and there's nothing left to say Redesign me I lost your grip, peeled apart by the owned Stick beside me on the road Redesign me I lost your grip, peeled apart by the owned Stick beside me on the road Keep rolling in ~~~~~~~~~~She Calls Home I've got such a filthy heart sometimes When you take me to that place and I never want to leave In the middle of the night, when everyone is sound asleep Where will you be? You'll be waiting with a gasmask in the dark I can't stop myself She calls home when i'm not there so I won't freeze I need to learn how to breathe when I'm inside you Sever the ripcord, sever it I drift away, I drift Further down, inside it gets so fucking cold I come to you to feel helpless Further down You know it's hard to free myself and you just keep on driving until it's over Until they swallow every last drop of me and you I need to learn how to breathe I need to learn how to breathe Further down, I reach inside, further down I can't hide I triedt o show you that there's nothing you can take away from me Nothing you can take away from me Kill me You're such a beautiful liar Take me to the place where I'm king Nothing just like the way that you wanted when you left me behind ~~~~~~~~~~The Last American Cowboy Brace yourself For the plight of the born As the spotlight strips you bare Just a useless act in the play of life Cast as the role of the lover And I feel slightly misplaced In a world that's fuck or be fucked Kill the lights Letch One more time and say it like you mean it Lush One more time and tell it like you feel it Lover You've got talent but I just dont see it Wrap your hook around my neck And get me off get me off get me off your stage In every coma-lover's kiss collides with truth And every tongue that slips will drip onto your bruise and I know Disguise the lies that you fed me last night These plots are breeding grounds For nothing but the worst and nothing could be worse And I know why And what do I have left? The composer just went deaf The singer lost his breath In the glow of the crowd The dancer's on a crutch The writer drank too much The director lost his touch In the glow of the crowd Can you resist the urge To burn the script we wrote? Bring on the flood before we choke Applause engulfs the room We bow into our tombs Sing me one more line so I can sleep Sing me one more line so I can sleep Sing me one more line so I can sleep This is all you need My love, it follows you To your grave, to your grave And I know My love, it follows you To your grave, to your grave In every coma-lover's kiss collides with truth And every tongue that slips will drip onto your bruise and I know Disguise the lies that you fed me last night These plots are breeding grounds For nothing but the worst and nothing could be worse And I know In every coma-lover's kiss collides with truth. And every tongue that slips will drip onto your bruise and I know Disguise the lies that you fed me last night These plots are breeding grounds For nothing but the worst and nothing could be worse And I know why ~~~~~~~~~~Daylight Bombings The air raids at night are keeping things serene the president's men are closing in on me And the crosshair grin you hold me in still does not propose an argument Convincing me to shed the devil's clothes Electrodes to spine tonguing my wounds clean that's when the nightmare stops oh yeah I had a dream I had a dream It went - shackled to the lover of another in a chapel so pristine Baptised as atheists I never felt so clean The more I hear doves dry The less I want to fly. The more I hear them crying out... When does the seizure end? When does the cyanide kick in? I'd like to hike you up over this waste of love and back again Oh my mistress whoa sweet distress your dress is bringing it all back to me And we are closer than whores caught up in a roundabout in hell Twilight isn't in the dark on this one you can play me out on the hotel floor The more I hear doves cry The less I want to fly The more I hear those doves crying This is where the plot it thickens not behind the ribs but below the truth You can use your sleuth cause I'm begging for proof When does the seizure end? When does the cyanide kick in? I'd like to hike you up over this waste of love and back again Oh my mistress whoa sweet distress Your dress is bringing it all back to me and we are closer than whores caught up in a roundabout No need to run away The pig was snuffed and laid we saw this happening all on the front page This is the last time we bet on landmines We've got a lot riding on this one So save your bullets for the call back We've got a lot riding on this one Don't turn your back till you see the blood flow black ~~~~~~~~~~Millionaires We fall asleep on the runway underneath the neon crucifix Where they left a light on for us tonight Fed myself to the sickness and purge myself of the cure We watch the nurses pace the cage You and I, we're never gonna die Never gonna die in the white lights You and I are never gonna die Servants Suffocate the king We've come To take what we don't need and build a prison where cathedrals used to be We burn Every office Zombies prowl through the school chanting "this is ours to love and take apart at will." Here we are right now These wires, these woven webs, conceal the blueprints from me Here we are right now Sometimes we kill the lights Pretend that we survived We're never gonna die ~~~~~~~~~~With An Urgency Hey you, young love Don't let them cut out your tongue Swallow the key to your heart and smile through your teeth Hey you, young love Don't let them cut out your tongue It's only over when we choose to forgive them Give me your hand when no one else understands the day the hostages start making demands We gave ourselves When there was nobody else We found what we were looking for in the summer I never begged to be immune To love a heart so out of tune but I believed you when you told me I was ruined And if the sun comes up again I'll be waiting for the others to come in they'll never take us alive And they can never take away what keeps you safe when you're afraid to lose it all Just love and nothing more until we love nothing more Until we love Hey you, young love and all that's left of us Hey you, young love ~~~~~~~~~~I Don't Keep With Liars Anymore I see right through you when you sing it back to me I read that fine print and I saw you staggering Regurgitate the shit you find in the dirty dreams of a rapist's mind Congratulate the corpse you drag, put the money in the body bag Right in front of us The stop and start machine You've been singing with the liar's tongue With every crippled word you said to me With every fractured breath and broken glare You were pawning off your babies' debt with a cold paycheck Abandon what you built Repair your hope with guilt There's nothing left here to suffocate With razor wire arms you reach and miss the throat There's nothing left to love about this city anymore The politics and the hired whore Now, save your breath Now, into your mouth Did this to yourself You can't repair the punctured lung Secrets seep thru the stress cracks Shut your mouth I read the fine print Now, shut your mouth You did this to yourself Now shut your mouth and pay the rent You say it Like your life depends on believing in your own lie I see right thru you when you sing it Sing it back to me Now, say it like your life depends on believing in your own lie