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And the sad act like lepers
They stick to the shadows
They long to ring bells of warning
To tell of their coming
So that the pure can shut their doors.
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
The world's become a little too mean.
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)
You took off your clothes and left on the light,
You stood there so brave, you used to be shy,
Each feature improved, each movement refined,
And eyes like a showroom.
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)
I think it is more like a ghost
that has been following us both.
Something vague that we're not seeing,
something more like a feeling.
Fevers and Mirrors (2000)
I started to sink like the moon tends to do if you stare at it too long
Then you blink and it's gone
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)
It's not a movie,
no private screening
This method acting,
well, I call that living
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
And me I'm in the bathroom
crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man
when you're scared, just like a little kid.
A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (1998)
There is no Hell when you die
so don't look so worried
Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)
I'd rather be working for a paycheck, than waiting to win the lottery.
Besides, maybe this time it's different, I mean,
I really think you like me.
I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (2005)
I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.
I tried to pass for nothing
But my dreams gave me away
Cassadaga (2007)
I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.
I know that it is late,
But thank you for talking, because I needed to.
Some things just can't wait.
Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)
The hook is in deep boys,
there is no more time.
So you can struggle in the water
and be too stubborn to die,
or you could just let go and be lifted to the sky.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment.
We're still the pawns in their game.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
The drunk kids, the catholics
They’re all about the same
They’re waiting for something
Hoping to be saved
Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)
Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
Cassadaga (2007)
Well is it your fear of being buried
that makes you so afraid to speak?
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
Do what you want, when you want, with whoever you wanted to
Cassadaga (2007)
"Honesty" "Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion."
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)
If I could act like
This was my real life,
And not some cage where I've been placed,
Well then, I could tell you
The truth like I used to
And not be afraid of sounding fake.
Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (2002)