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Cosmic Future (tour single)

Iron Chic/Pacer Split 7"

Not Like This

01. Cutesy Monster Man
02. Time Keeps On Slipping Into The (Cosmic) Future
03. Timecop
04. I Always Never Said That
05. Black Friday
06. Know What I Mean, Jellybean?
07. Awes-nificent
08. In One Ear
09. Bustin' (Makes Me Feel Good)
10. Every Town Has An Elm Street

Shitty Rambo E.P.

01. Shits/Giggles
02. The World's Greatest Detective
03. Don't Tell Me Stupid, Don't Show Me Fuck You
04. (I Never Get) Winded

Demo '08

Time Keeps On Slipping Into The (Cosmic) Future

the cycle goes on and on

an endless circle of scaring the shit out of me

as we get strung along

dragged 'til were nothing but cosmic debris

If there's something wrong

then there's something wrong with everything

and what spurs us on

will pull us apart

just trying to find our place

fight our way through a four dimensional space

and our reward for this

is not knowing why we exist

if there's nothing wrong

then there's nothing wrong with anything

and what spurs us on

will pull us apart

If I can ask one thing when I am dead

would you lay me down by the river bed?

let me wash away

let it take me back from where I came

all I am and all I was is just

blood and dirt and bones and mud

and I'm better off that way

I'm better off that way

Langoliers

here's my epiphany:
theres things i'll never know
my life's a glass full of unanswered questions
I broke it long ago
what i'm trying to say is
I couldn't really give a fuck
I don't know what to say
I probably never will
bad with names, better with faces
I was half dead when we met in the first place
what i'm trying to say...
Is that seconds fell like centuries
and every breath shaves years off me
stars are formed and lives are led
in the space between the words you said
and I can't hear them
I don't hear a thing
Seconds feel like centuries
there's light years between you and me
I re-live all my mistakes
in the space between each breath you take
it's pretty clear
I haven't learned a thing

Those Heads Are Our Heads

this starts and ends with me

a long dead branch on my family tree

their faith and my faith

just never seemed to mean the same thing

my fondest memory

I scared the devil so bad he sold his soul to me

what's next? what's left?

what can you do besides die a slow death

you try and you make it work

it's not real if it doesn't hurt

you wanna drown but you're still breathing

try to bite but you're only teething

don't over think it

we got a ship and the means to sink it

I've got a choice to make

almost every second that I'm awake

that may be the reason

that I'd rather be sleeping

you try and you make it work

It's not real if it doesn't hurt

you wanna drown but you're still breathing

try to bite but you're only teething

don't over think it

we got a ship and the means to sink it

I'm sick of hearing that i'm a victim

that not the cure it's a fucking symptom

try not to jinx it

a sinking ship and the means to fix it

Climate Is What We Expect, Weather Is What We Get

we're held together by diametric forces

you and i we're just walking corpses

I'm tired of living

so let's be dead together

i've been through hell with out you

i don't believe in heaven

we don't understand

because it's understated

we try so hard but it's complicated

we try so hard

just to communicate it

Cutesy Monster Man

I want to smash my face into that god damn radio

it may seem strange but these urges come and go

I'm seeing double now, I tell the truth in stereo

I don't say much and when I do it's not enough

I can taste the grief, feel that old anger bubble up

it makes it hard to breathe

it makes a case for throwing up

so I medicate and when my eyes are red enough

I start thinking straight and I can face the day

face down, lights out

put some music on maybe I'll come around

maybe find the will to sing

and all the things I could never say

will come pouring out of me

through my broken teeth

the best and worst of me

I sold my soul now I age but don't get old

and to this day it's the best deal I ever made

all the things i could never say

will come spraying out of my face

through my broken teeth

the best and worst of me

Time Keeps On Slipping Into The (Cosmic) Future

the cycle goes on and on

an endless circle of scaring the shit out of me

as we get strung along

dragged 'til were nothing but cosmic debris

If there's something wrong

then there's something wrong with everything

and what spurs us on

will pull us apart

just trying to find our place

fight our way through a four dimensional space

and our reward for this

is not knowing why we exist

if there's nothing wrong

then there's nothing wrong with anything

and what spurs us on

will pull us apart

If I can ask one thing when I am dead

would you lay me down by the river bed?

let me wash away

let it take me back from where I came

all I am and all I was is just

blood and dirt and bones and mud

and I'm better off that way

I'm better off that way

Timecop

remember when time was all we had?
no care for the sand in the hourglass
each new night was another shot
to stake our claim on a parking lot
remember when friends we're all we'd need?
day followed the night and we'd let it lead
in the basement
on the pavement
we couldn't conceive of an end to it
but it's not like that anymore
re-group, re-calculate
rushing in was our first mistake
re-think, re-calibrate
set our sights on something bigger
(maybe move on to better things)
remember the pain of growing up?
it may have hurt but it sure was fun
it made us who we are now
it gave us a mystery to figure out
this is what we waited for
these days not much has changed
except how we feel and whats at stake
but we are still the same
should we chose to linger
or move on to better things

I Always Never Said That

life is weird but were together here

so what's the use in being normal

burn the village and take what's left

do the things that we've been doing to death.

taking things too seriously

that's a motherfucking time bomb

so bite the bullet and take a breath

look at me I'll be laughing to death

If I hear another word about a better place

I'll paint these walls with my fucking brains

you say I wouldn't but if I did you don't think I'd go to hell for it

I agree and then we laugh

a cosmic joke or a master plan?

the best part of it is

either way we couldn't give a shit.

there's no answers, so take a guess and make up the rest.

I may start to reminice about better days

or the obliteration of the human race

if it never fucking ends

I can't begin to make sense of it

so let's agree we'll always laugh

not miss the joke and do what we can

to take it all with a grin

and not be so fucking humorless

Black Friday

we get up early, we come home tired

our lives for hire, we're making money for someone else

can't breathe like there's hands around my throat

can't scream this place is filled with ghosts

every bodys looking for something

can't leave or we're left with nothing

clap your hands do the dead man shuffle

slouch our way into an early grave

is it disappointment or mild annoyance?

a sense of contentment or fucking resentment?

move your feet to this dead end beat

slouch our way into an early grave

get out of bed, get fucking dressed

and think of better ways to keep busy

clap your hands do the dead man shuffle

killing ourselves for a living wage

get out of bed

get fucking dressed

and get busy

Know What I Mean, Jellybean?

by then I'd had enough

I couldn't stand to watch you die

so I died first, that's how I survived

now i cant Feel the ground tremble beneath my feet

and I won't make a sound while

this town crumbles into the sea

It's been years, even after all this time

I'm still here there's simply nothing inside

when I held your head and whispered into you ear

" it's okay to leave now, there's nothing left for you here."

I knew I had nothing left to fear

it's not hard to keep it inside

a feeling so hard to describe

I don't know if that's okay

i'm gonna do it anyway

do it anyway

yeah it hurt, it's almost something else now

I cried so much I thought I might drown

I'm out of tears, I'll make no concessions

through all these years I've learned a lesson

every thing I love will die

in due time

Awes-nificent

not like this, it's a parable

it's a fucking myth it's a show

and honestly Im not a dishonest guy

but that doesn't mean that I can't tell a lie

if you don't believe me take a look in my eyes

you see we're all faking and it's no big surprise

everybody just makes it up as they go along

with a mind like this who needs enemies

this antagonist keeps me honest

silly as it seems

this nonsense means everything

it's kind of an inside joke

but truer words were never spoke

everybody's stuck but were fucked 'til we move along

It's a mystery

why we see things so differently

but something has got to give

I can't say why it's just the way it is

everybody just makes it up as they go

and everybody's fucked

but we hope we can move along

In One Ear

is the song worth singing
when there's no one listening?
you know the words
you know they hurt
but you know they're right
when you got the urge
you thought you were the first
but you will never be first at anything
are your ears still ringing?
are the wounds still stinging?
you know the words
you know every verse
you know what's right
that's what makes this worse
so fucking absurd
you have never been so sure about anything

Bustin' (Makes Me Feel Good)

there's a kind of focus

a subtle art to losing sleep

it takes a certain special kind of person

to make decisions as fucked as these

but thats just the start just a small part

of what makes us who we are

we make our intentions clear

we choose our words carefully

we don't believe everything we hear

we still have some noise to make

If there's a god he hates us

does what he can to see us fail

but were not superstitious

so we don't fucking care

we just need a spark, a light in the dark

to show us where we are

defend against the hordes

with rusty shields and broken swords

all we need are words

a handfull of drunken slurs

truth be told, we'll always know

that we will never be alone

Every Town Has An Elm Street

you took the first fucking chance to get out of town

I'm cool with that but I still want you around

I wouldn't say I'm stuck here but that's irrelevant

because you're free and clear

but don't sweat it

I'm just saying

I couldn't really make a case for staying

I don't think I'm wrong, I don't think you're wrong

in the worst fucking case we could lose ourselves

each of us in a personal hell

we can take the heartache

as we stumble our way

through our old mistakes

and I get it

I don't regret it

I just want to be the one who said it

right or wrong it's different when you're gone

we made a hell of a mess out of this poor town

we've been given the chance to spread it around

we do things the hard way

we all fall apart at our own pace

ugly bedrooms bred bad habits

made it hard to see through all the static

does it ever end? It never fucking ends

we saw it coming

from a thousand miles away

it's a brand new day

and we all find our way (home)

(home) is where the heart stays

when the heart strays

home is where we are today

Shits/Giggles

i'm anxious, i think i'll be alright
and i'm wasted but i'm not gonna waste the night
maybe i'll go outside, maybe get a life
making stupid faces
i'm begging the question
and wasting the answers
just for the fuck of it
i'm staring x-rays, i can see whats inside
i'm weightless but i'm not gonna wait all night
desperate places call for more desperate measures
we're destined for failure
playing our parts in it
i'm braced for the ending
i'm through pretending now
like i'd been from the start of it

The World's Greatest Detective

do we think about the lives we've led
or where we'll go when we are dead?
of course we do
do we pack it in and hedge our bets
or believe, every now and then
that we made the best of it?
do we live for a paycheck?
would we pay for a new life?
spend all our days in a world that is plagued
by motivations that are selfish at best
lock our hopes up in our head
and hope that we can forget

Don't Tell Me Stupid, Don't Show Me Fuck You

i can't stand the cold, it cuts to the bone
and you can't wear good intentions
what's plan B for mice and men
when your best laid plans have shit the bed?
we'll survive on the lies we're fed
because you can't eat promises
will we even live to see the end?
posters and peeling paint
the walls, the floors they all seem the same
any difference feels insignificant
will we even live to see the end?
it's an arrangement that tends to disappoint
we're not mis-informed we just miss the point
the silence grows, turn on the stereo
anything to break the tension

(I Never Get) Winded

these are the risks i take, this is the life i chose
and if i make mistakes at least they are my own
there is no fate but what we make
and in the end we all terminate
if we try and make our time worthwhile
then we've done alright
the lights are out the doors are closed
the end of the show the end of the road
we can pretend that we don't know
but we know

In One Ear

Timecop

Steel Wall Method

i cant explain it, it came to me in a dream
can you keep a secret? it's my greatest weakness
i never really know whats impossible
i've fucked up before
i cant really say that i wont fuck up anymore
(i don't really have a choice)
it doesn't matter anyway, free will will be the end of me
it will be the end of me
the feeling's nameless, it changes me while i sleep
i've fucked up before
i cant really say that i wont fuck up anymore
(i don't really have a choice)
but it doesn't matter anyway
free will will be the end of me
it will be the end of me
can you keep a secret? it's my greatest weakness
i never learned how to be responsible
i've fucked up before
i cant really say that i wont fuck up anymore
(i don't really have a choice)
but it doesn't matter anyway
free will will be the end of me
it will be the end of me

Sensitive Dependence

a little blood in the water but thats all it too
a talking snake in the garden now all hell's breaking loose
if you could open your eyes you'd fucking see for yourself
the simple truth of it is we let them take our future
and fuck it to death
we are aware of what they are saying, no one cares if it's true
the light at the end of the tunnel is a rope that ends in a noose
we could put an end to the lies that we've been telling ourselves
just know that we're part of it now
if we don't keep moving we'll be eaten alive
are we strong enough to take a long hard look right at the guts?
roll our shirt sleeves up and get to the heart of what's hurting us
put a price on life and we're buying it
but the cost is high and who's paying for that?
maybe we can get rich off them
maybe it's just a means to an end
like trying to breathe underwater it hurts and it don't work
ache for the sake of a dollar and all that it's worth
would you just roll your eyes and put an end to yourself
if you found truth of it was that we're as much to blame as anyone else?

Cry-Baby

there's a shiver running down my spine
i've got half a mind to break the laws of space and time
(and one day we'll scream it)
right here from the the top of the world
(someday we'll mean it)
you can see my house from here
we've seen better days
when all is said and done we can't complain
there's a song thats running through my mind
there's a range of things i think about but cant define
(and one day we'll scream it)
when we take over the world
(someday we'll mean it)
we can ruin everything