speechless (g.chow/l.kennedy/r.c. welsh)
waking with a thought that fades, a glimmer gone for good/imagining the other face, I'm finding that I should not look beyond the comfort clause to see how this will end/the floor and ceiling never meet/I'm walking on my hands/I love you when you're miles away/I'm speechless in your presence/I'll think about you twice a day, and smile through my sentence/still all in all, the speechless call from my heart is your name/the endless ring of reckoning's the same/fading with a day that greys/a wish that won't but would/just let me know the time and place my statues never stood/I'm numb and cold from shoulders up, so self-absorbed, it stings/with feeling gone, I'm drained of thought/please tell me what this means/so now connect and fall apart/I'm speechless in your presence/no, you can't say we never tried to gamble with the heavens/still all in all, the speechless call from my heart is your name/the restless ring of reckoning's the same/the speechless call…/I love you when you're miles away/I'm speechless in your presence/I'll think about you twice a day, and smile through my sentence/so now connect and fall apart/I'm speechless in your presence/no, you can't say we never tried to gamble with the heavens

soapopera (l. wehler/g. chow/l. kennedy/b. connor)
I met her standing at a bus stop sign/came up to me, asked the time/I couldn't tell her, 'cause my arms were bare/she smiled and shrugged, didn't care that I couldn't help her out/I coudn't give her any information/she left me stranded with a nagging doubt, and with a sense of agitation/I saw her later at the laundromat/watched her as I washed my hat/I didn't notice that my clothed turned pink/she smiled, stood up, and she came over just to help me out/she got me through my color separation/was this my chance just to ask her out, or just idle conversation?/oh, no - here I go again/I'm crawling on the floor again/I'm falling for a girl again/my hands are wet, but my clothes are dry/I wish I'd known which brand of soap to buy/your place or mine, baby?/ oh, no - here I go again/I'm crawling on the floor again/I'm falling for a girl again

brand new sunglasses (l. kennedy/r.c. welsh/d. epperson)
waiting for something to come and engage him/he's waited so long to be where…/(I don't know this one) how does this one go?/(I'm alone and) I'm alone, staring down through his brand new sunglasses gone/her shiny smile makes him wanna try her on, but for her knees giving way again, the dance continues/insecurities are an ugly friend, oh yeah/waiting for something to come and engage her/she's waited so long to be where…/(I don't know this one) how does this one go?/(I'm alone and) I'm alone, staring down through her brand new sunglasses gone/his shiny smile makes her wanna try him on, but for his knees giving way again, the dance continues/ insecurities are an ugly friend, but then again… it's starting slow, spirits flowing through their veins will make a change, but there they go, spinning so their waiting will be through/waiting for someone to come and engage me/I've waited so long to be where… I've waited so long to be there… I've waited so long to be here/ (I don't know this one) how does this one go?/(I'm alone and) I'm alone, staring down through his brand new sunglasses gone/her shiny smile makes him wanna try her on, but for her knees giving way again, the dance continues/insecurities are an ugly friend, but then again, again

bittersweet day (b. connor/l. kennedy/d. epperson)
where to begin, pulling names from a hat with no brim/my patience wears thin/it's coming around/I just can't keep from smiling again/a painted-on grin/ I wonder why I never get to sleep/I'm lying down in emptiness too deep/ bittersweet something missing/kiss me, and I will be strong/just play along/ you were the first one listening to someone with nothing to say/bittersweet day/it's time to get down, pull myself off the ceiling again/I've got business outside, and I can't run away/have to be everywhere at one time, and I'm always behind/please tell her how I never get to sleep, 'cause I'm lying down in emptiness too deep/bittersweet something missing/kiss me, and I will be strong/and did I say you were the first one listening to someone with nothing to say?/bittersweet day/it's fine to let go of the anger that's building inside/all my motives collide, and it feels like the day to begin taking care of myself/ I've got places to go/please tell her how I never get to sleep, 'cause I'm lying down in emptiness too deep/bittersweet something missing/kiss me, and I will be strong/just play along/you were the first one listening to someone with nothing to say/bittersweet day

martyrs (l. kennedy/g. chow/d. epperson/r.c. welsh)
climb into a burning cadillac to seal your suicidal pact, and get the monkey off your back, and maybe make some money/take a roundhouse on the chin, invite the boston strangler in, take a fall like gunga din/martyrs can be funny/well am I the worst case you've found holding you down?/ghandi and your mommy built a cross for you, then the dalai lama showed you that hair-do, but you were smarter, brand new martyr/brand new martyr, yeah - that's you/brand new martyr, yeah - that's you/god's new fool, that's so cool/throw your coat down in the rain, take a bullet in the brain, tell your friends you're not insane, but your nose is runny/burn with joan out on the stake, walk across the coals you rake, think of all the friends you make/martyrs sure are funny/am I the best friend you've got when I'm not around?/ghandi and your mommy built a cross for you, then the dalai lama showed you that hair-do, but you were smarter, brand new martyr/brand new martyr, yeah - that's you/brand new martyr, yeah - that's you/god's new fool, that's so cool/you can beat yourself 'till you're black and blue/maybe elton john will sing for you if this song is not an apt tribute to your star/am I the worst case you've found holding you down?/brand new martyr, yeah - that's you/brand new martyr, yeah - that's you/god's new fool, that's so cool

mite (l. kennedy/g. chow/b. connor/l. wehler)
jammin' me in like I waste your time/makin' me feel like I'm asanine/well, I'm trying just to get you on the telephone, moaning "it's the wrong time," or you just aint home/I'm ugly in my bed, crepe paper in my head, and my eyes roll back, my bones all crack inside, 'cause I'm a sucking mite/I'm a bleeding bite/I take away your daylight/I smash every picture, you're still around, sleep-walking naked all over town, and you're sucking, sucking, sucking all my energy/hands up in the air, there's nothing left of me, with eyes revolting red from all the things you said, I tuck my tail, and like a snail, I hide, 'cause I'm a sucking…/with eyes revolting red from all the things you said, I tuck my tail, and like a snail, I hide, 'cause I'm a sucking mite/yeah, I'm a bleeding bite/I take away your sight/I swallow all the light/I take away your daylight… your daylight/'cause I'm a sucking…

too far (l. kennedy/l. wehler/g. chow)
haven't seen you for awhile now/guess the time between us brought me back, you know/here I come again to listen/waited for a year to hear you speak/I'm so weak/I'm a planet, you're my star now/I'm following you, but you're burning me with distance/you're too far/stumble blindly, falling after you/can't see through these blisters on my eyes/count on me to tag along/ anywhere I go I don't belong/I'm always wrong/I'm a planet, you're my star now/I'm circling you, but I know I'll never reach you/you're too far/I'm a planet, you're my star now/you're all that I know, but I know I'll never reach you/you're too far/I'm a planet, you're my star now/I'm following you, but I know I'll never reach you/you're too far… too far

stupid one (l. kennedy/g. chow/s. yanek)
I suppose you're wanting me to get down on my hands and knees and say you are the only one I've found out there for me, but I hate to let you down/ you finally think you thought you found someone that you could use like this and always be around/well how does it feel to be the stupid one, trying to explain this ugly mess to everyone?/now that it's real, and what's done is done, there's no one left for you to blame, nowhere left for you to run/it's no big deal to be the stupid one/your mother always wanted you to grow up to be someone who could take the world right by the balls and crown yourself a queen, but like the cutest puppy dog that grows into a mongrel, you've screwed around and thrown away the chance you had with me/well how does it feel to be the stupid one, trying to explain this ugly mess to everyone?/now that it's real, and what's done is done, there's no one left for you to blame, nowhere left for you to run/it's no big deal to be the stupid…/a thousand times I told myself that there was you and no one else, but if that's true, I'm telling you I'm giving up, 'cause trying's only trying/truth be told, I'm glad you're crying/your souvenirs mean nothing to me now/hey - how does it feel to be the stupid one trying to explain this ugly mess to everyone?/now that it's real, and what's done is done, there's no one left for you to blame, nowhere left for you to run/it's no big deal to be the stupid one

overdrawn (g. chow/l. kennedy)
her talk is cheap, but she's making little sense/while I'm cashing it in, she's bouncing checks/counting every kiss, it amounts to this: she's getting me up, but she's letting me down/the owner has pilferred the store/she's tied all the knots in the noose that she bought, but her credit's no good anymore/her credit's no good anymore, and she's overdrawn again/talk is cheap, but it's not for sale/she keeps telling me hers is in the mail/staring at the screen at a dying scene/she listened intently, an evening was spent as he told her the tales of his life/he wanted to move her, but "he was the loser," she said as she pulled out the knife/she said as she buried the knife, and she ran into the night comes again, and the curtain comes down/she falls out of bed, but all that she leaves me are nails pounded into my head/she's getting me up, but she's letting me down/I'm pulling away from her shores, but her credit's no good anymore, and she's overdrawn again

my favorite fear (l. kennedy)
oh, no/there's nothing like relief because you're already dead, nothing wrong believing all the crap that you've read/in a nutshell, it's okay to be all the stupid things you've grown to be/it's everything to be in love and just wanna die, nothing when the thing you want just spits in your eye/can you beat it, when below your feet, the ground opens up, and prepares to eat?/(oh, no) - it's trouble here again/(oh, no) - my favorite fear again, catching me without the eyes to see… my favorite/it's nice to cry your eyes out with a paper and pen, contemplating suicide with coffee and zen/it's prolific I long to be, with a donor card and hypocrisy/(oh, no) - it's trouble here again/(oh, no) - my favorite fear again, catching me without the eyes to see… my favorite, my…/oh, no - oh, yeah/it's my… it's my… it's my favorite/it's my middle name that gets me, yes, I think that's the rub/is it everything I wanted?/is it worthy of love?/is it pompous?/that's what I tend to be/a walking greeting card's type philosophy/(oh, no) - it's trouble here again/(oh, no) - my favorite fear again, catching me without the eyes to see my… my favorite, yeah/(oh, no) - my favorite fear, yeah, catching me without the eyes to see/my favorite, my… / oh, no - you're catching me without the eyes to see

fingernails (l. kennedy)
get it right this time/learn to pay no mind/try to see it through/pray it all comes true, and it's alright if inside you've already succumbed to the gloom/ you're the uncoolest thing that I've run into, but I can't pull my fingernails from you/is it funny as hell to watch me lose?/mouth to mouth insight/nothing else seems right/thirsting for this pain/unwashable blood stain/if it comes out, with no doubt, I'm a fool who knows way more than you/you're the screwed-upest thing that I've run into, but I'm feeling my fingernails pull through/is it funny as hell to watch me lose?/… to watch me lose… to watch me lose/live through all I do, shameful, sad, and true/do it all for you/a one-way fist-class fool/you're the uncoolest thing that I've run into, but I can' pull my fingernails from you/is it funny as hell to watch me lose?/… to watch me lose… to watch me lose

prerequisite rocker (l. kennedy)
the last time I had one, it bit me/you said, "take a chance,"/see what it's gotten me/so I put my foot down, and said: bone-crunching, blistering, bad-acid bowling for premature pregnant teenagers with no soul, with deestortion, black-lighted tube tops, a magic potion/I've got a bone to pick/ watch out for the explosion/so I put on my make-up and hit the town/ strapped on my hairspray for a go-around/I waxed down my axe, now, for a splinter-scene, and then I twist my head 'round, and said: bone-crunching, blistering, bad-acid bowling for premature pregnant teenager with no soul, with deestortion, black-lighted tube-tops, a magic potion/I've got an axe to grind/watch out for the explosion/the last time I had one, it bit me/you said, "take a chance,"/see what it's gotten me/so I twist my head 'round, and said: bone-crunching, blistering, bad-acid bowling for premature pregnant teenagers with no soul, with deestortion, black-lighted tube-tops, a magic potion/I've got a bone to pick/watch out for the explosion

so many times (l. kennedy/g. chow/ s. yanek)
what would you think of me tomorrow, if I let you down today, looking for the words to say?/how could I face a day without you?/I couldn't find the strength alone/I could not make it on my own, if you're not there/so many times you try to catch me/so many times you watch me fall/so many times to try to help me make some sense of it all/so many times I've been afraid to even call/ when all these words are left unspoken, will they shadow all our doubts?/can we learn to live without all these fears?/so many times you try to catch me/so many times you watch me fall/so many times to try to help me make some sense of it all/so many times I've been afraid to even call/don't watch if I go, and I leave you here again/these things stay the same, and the cycle never ends - and when the silence has been broken, would you listen to my song, even if it came out wrong?/it's loud and clear/so many times you try to catch me/so many times you watch me fall/so many times you try to help me make some sense of it all/so many times you catch me running/ so many times you slow me down/so many times I've been afraid to even call

only smile (l. kennedy/l. wehler/b. connor)
well you can take your sweet old time/I am resigned to hang around on your front porch, and outside your door/I'll rack my brain to let you know you're my only smile today/don't you ever go away/you're my only smile today/ don't go away/when you're not home I lose my breath/I sing this song, this song that takes me to your front porch, and outside your door/I've racked my brain/I turn to go/you're my only smile today/don't you ever go away/you're my only smile today/don't go away