A fading neon gleam casts shadows over stone The city's shining skin is shedding from the bone I've gone from pillar to pariah in the slide In seas of doubt I swim against the turning tide Broken bodies line the walls Midas empires crash and fall Wings that melt when we try to soar Close my eyes as I descend To the gold rush at it's end Take me back to before... This isn't human anymore Look into the natural heart Following the beat of the chemical This isn't human anymore Tearing the connections apart Crawling at the feet of our pedestals Are you still human at the core? Pushing the reflex Pressure the defects Breaking down is inevitable Spraining the rivets Straining the limits Breaking down is inevitable The ghosts of order dot the eye and the tilt the three I stalk the trinity into conspiracy They painted masterworks and set them all alight The scars of persecution always harden into spite Broken bodies line the walls Midas empires crash and fall Wings that melt when we try to soar Close my eyes as I descend To the gold rush at its end Take me back to before... This isn't human anymore Look into the natural heart Following the beat of the chemical This isn't human anymore Tearing the connections apart Crawling at the feet of our pedestals Are you still human at the core? Look into the natural heart don't let it turn to stone Are you still human at the core? Look into the natural heart don't let it turn to stone Pushing the reflex Pressure the defects Breaking down is inevitable Spraining the rivets Straining the limits Breaking down is inevitable

Stay the same, don't ever change Cause I'd miss your ways With your Bette Davis eyes And your mama's party dress While this city pumps its aching heart For one more drop of blood, We work our fingers down to dust And we wait for kingdom come With the radio on I wanna see you tonight Would you come for a drive? You can lean into me If you ain't, oh you aint been in love for a while I was born beside a river That flows to a raging sea That will one day serve to quell Or one day be the death of me In my faded jeans and far away eyes And salty carnival kiss That all my former lovers say Was once magnificent I wanna see you tonight Would you come for a drive? You can lean into me And if you ain't oh if you ain't... I wanna see you tonight Would you come for a drive? You can lean into me If you ain't, oh if you ain't been in love for a while And still this city pumps its aching heart For one more drop of blood We work our fingers down to dust While we wait for kingdom come With the radio on With the radio on It's been so long Mae, so long It's been so long Mae, so long But since the radio's on...

Have you seen my hands, they just flip and shake And the song just keeps on beating, drop the needle again And I dance with your ghost Oh, but that ain't the way I can't move on and I can't stay the same And all my friends say Ah hey, turn the record over Ah hey, I see you on the flip side There you go, turn the key and engine over Let her go, let somebody else lay at her feet But have you seen my heart? Have you seen how it bleeds? Every night's a so long baby Yeah, out here in the deep The tick-ticking of hours only I hear the alarm I used to hear when you were sleeping in my arms For better senses Ah hey, turn the record over Ah hey, I see you on the flip side There you go, turn the key and engine over Let her go, let somebody else lay at her feet And all my friends say Ah hey, turn the record over Ah hey, I see you on the flip side There you go, turn the key and engine over Let her go, let somebody else lay at her feet Where you used to be Where you used to be Where you used to be You with me

Mary, this station is playing every sad song. I remember like we were alive. I heard it Sunday morn' from inside of these walls. In a prison cell, where we spent those nights. And they burnt up the diner where I always used to find her. Licking young boys blood from her claws. And I learned about the blues from this kitten I knew. Her hair was raven and her heart was like a tomb. My heart's like a wound. I saw tail lights last night in a dream about my first wife. Everybody leaves and I'd expect as much from you. I saw tail lights last night in a dream about my old life. Everybody leaves, so why, why wouldn't you? Mary, I worried and stalled every night of my life. Better safe than making the party. And I never had a good time, I sat by my bedside, with papers and poetry about Estella. Great expectations, we had the greatest expectations. I saw tail lights last night In a dream about my first wife. Everybody leaves and I'd expect as much from you. I saw tail lights last night in a dream about my old life. Everybody leaves, so why, why wouldn't you? It's funny how the night moves. Humming a song from 1962. We were always waiting... always waiting. We were always waiting for something to happen. I saw tail lights last night In a dream about my first wife. Everybody leaves and I'd expect as much from you. I saw tail lights last night in a dream about my whole life. Everybody leaves, so why, why wouldn't you?

Sometimes I wake up In the morning Sometimes I dream some more I keep my wounds without a bandage Baby, as I come stumblin' through the door Spent my nights in this location Talking to spirits on the floor I think I came to find the feeling, baby Between what was mine and what was yours And I came to get hurt Might as well do your worst to me, yea-ea Have you come here to get hurt? Have you come to take away from me From me, from me Might as well do your worst to me I think I'm gonna move to California (I can start to love) Momma can you say a prayer for me? (Say a prayer for me) I heard they don't get so low-down (All my friends get so low-down) I heard they never bleed Not like we bleed I came to get hurt Might as well do your worst to me, yea-ea Have you come here to get hurt? Have you come to take away from me From me, from me Might as well do your worst to me And it gets pretty late And the stations will change And the things once in order now seem so strange Once I could tell All the hurt apart from myself Now all I can see is the need, the need I came to get hurt Might as well do your worst to me, yea-ea Have you come here to get hurt? Have you come to take away from me From me, from me Might as well do your worst to me And maybe you needed a change Maybe I was in the way Maybe some things they stay* And some things go away And maybe I was lying And maybe you were not the same

If I could write I'd tell you how much I've missed these nights Where we'd dig around the bones And try to find peace and patches for the holes I lit a cigarette on a parking meter The corner boys told her how I was dyin' to meet her Like a prayer I said, on a dead man's knee You drove up like a parade You and your high-top sneakers and your sailor tattoos And your old '55 that you drove through the roof Of the sky up above these indifferent stars While you just kept coming apart You and your high-top sneakers and your sailor tattoos And your old '55 that you drove through the roof Of the sky up above these indifferent stars While you just kept coming apart straight in my arm You fell straight in my arms And I miss it sometimes Shakin' like a leaf on the corner of wine But I heard it's alright The radio spoke to a good friend of mine And I can feel it comin' up as the night's gettin' warm Saw your summer dress hangin' on the back of the lawn Like a dream I remember from an easier time With the top rolled down on a Saturday night You and your high-top sneakers and your sailor tattoos And your old '55 that you drove through the roof Of the sky up above these indifferent stars While you just kept coming apart You and your high-top sneakers and your sailor tattoos And your old '55 that you drove through the roof Of the sky up above, these indifferent stars While you just kept coming apart right in my arms Right in my arms And I always dreamed of classic cars and movie screens And tryin' to find some way to be redeemed Bring a dollar with you, baby In the cold, cold ground You and your high-top sneakers and your sailor tattoos And your old '55 that you drove through the roof Of the sky up above these indifferent stars While you just kept coming apart You and your high-top sneakers and your sailor tattoos And your old '55 that you drove through the roof Of the sky up above these indifferent stars While you just kept coming apart straight in my arms You fell straight in my arms