I am the keeper of my death More attempts without success Than times my name's been on your fucking breath This not a lesson or a test This is a fucking threat I don't forgive - I don't forget And I don't have much patience left Get back behind the glass words that you spit I almost can't believe You think you could be anything to me Please... my name is misery How many times could you spit in my eye Before you thought that I'd take your hide I tried playing nice, let you live your lies But lightning won't strike in the same place twice Done is done and you're out of time We're way past the point of me wasting mine Still got shit on your lips from the next in line Get the fuck off your cross bitch it's my time 2 shine Crawl your way through I almost can't believe You think you could be anything to me Please. my name is misery And misery is everything Cold - ink black and writhing - a living hell From my fractured teeth I've made Poison blades for you all, and you'll all kill yourselves In my shadow where your sorrows dwell Larger than heartlessness and just as well Bullshit banter from a limelight whore With nothing actual to fucking live for Borrow the image - suck up motherfucker Keep kissing mirrors from your spot in the gutter I just can't believe You think you could be anything to me Please... my name is misery I'm much more than your "woe is, me" Or something that you take or leave And contrary to belief... I don't keep company

When August comes I don't count the days Transitory views From the subway train How strange When life unfolds this way In the driftless zone Sky's are prone to stay off-gray Clouds are omens too Fading at the rate Most pleasant memories do This is a lost taste

I saw a banner on the overpass And caught the message on the lower half Now repent The end is here at last But we shrugged and hit the gas It's a long drive back to you The kind that always takes a day or two I didn't know what love like that could do I need you in my life to make it through I'll see you soon Holdin' on about as long as I can In a landscape I don't understand For a long while inside of a van Where I miss you days on end cause It's a long drive back to you The kind that always takes a day or two I didn't know what love like that could do I need you in my life to make it through All cause it's a long drive back to you The kind that always takes a day or two I didn't know what love like that could do I need you in my life to make it through I'll see you soon

Nice to see you, how you doing? Did you know you're really something? You make me feel things I don't believe in It's all up in my heart And all up in my spine, those chills I suppose someday these roads will reach the sea It's safe to say they're tailor-made for replaying scenes But I'm too pensive to decide what's real All 'cause you left me with a heart chock-full of chills In the morning sun, you and I are one Fingers through my hair, feel them everywhere Don't know what to think, am I still dreaming? You're so perfect, baby, were you made for me? Nice to see you, how you doing? Did you know you're really something? You make me feel things I don't believe in It's all up in my heart And all up in my spine, those chills Hope it works out in the long run I think about you and then the month's gone I raise the issue in tangential love songs It's all up in my heart And all up in my spine, those chills Those chills, ah, those chills Hold me, baby Oh, you saved me

Thinking back to phase one With woolen mallets and the bass drums Early hours in the drive-through Playing early DIIV and Nite Jewel We found ourself in stage three Observing murals dotting Lake Street With every story comes a stalemate When you've been living in a failed state The night gets cold but there's smoke in the clouds I'm having trouble sleeping and it's stressing me out The words may fall short of something profound But every time I'm with you I'm just glad you're around How's this sound? Laid out in programmatic sets of three We keep the time and music sets the scene What's after the dream? My point of reference is the northern sky Sometimes the synthesizer makes me cry We'll dance for a while (Two, three, four) I guess you caught me in a dark mood Which is to say I'm missing part two I'm always hoping life will start soon No one else can make my heart swoon, like you do The night gets cold but there's smoke in the clouds I'm having trouble sleeping and it's stressing me out The words may fall short of something profound But every time I'm with you I'm just glad you're around When the night got cold, there was smoke in the clouds Then you came and found me when the world let me down The words may fall short of something profound But every time I'm with you I'm just glad you're around How's this sound?

There is a street lamp Twenty feet outside From where I sit in bed Waiting out the night Left your keys on the table It's clear we've no need to drive It's you and I floating through space Fates intertwined And as the snow fell While the cars passed by The window was obscured Frost blocked the light I've not changed I've merely stayed the same I've been dreaming so it seems less strange I'm unsure if I will ever be Sure of who I am before I leave Maybe check back in awhile with me I'm just trying to feel ok