ALKALINE TRIO - GOODBYE FOREVER

Take your wings outside
You can’t fly in here
Besides a purple sky
Is better soaring
For you my angel
You’re an angel
You little devil
As for me I’ll stay inside
I’ll be a spy
And I’ll watch from the window

Cannot categorize
The nature of this sickness
A miracle that you’re alive
Stuck to the roof of my mouth with a staple
Remember last April
When we saw U.S. Maple
Somehow the singer showed the Fireside exactly how I feel

As we say goodbye
And go underground
Or up towards the sky
Up in smoke burnt down to size
At least we’re still friends
At least we’re still alive

Take your wings outside
No use for them in here
Bad luck to open inside
Work like umbrellas like a broken mirror
It’s getting clearer
This end is closer than ever before
And you’ll want something more
When your head hits the floor
And you’re lost in the darkness

As we say goodbye
And go underground
Or up towards the sky
Up in smoke burned down to size
At least we’re still friends
At least we’re still alive

As we say goodbye
And go underground
Or up towards the sky
Up in smoke burned down to size
At least we’re still friends
At least we’re still alive

ALKALINE TRIO - STUPID KID

There are things that used to make me smile
One of them was you for just a little while
You left me for dead so far away
I replaced you with fear and shame
You’ll be happy on the day I die

There are things that used to make me laugh
But now they’re deeply buried in the past
I left them there so far away
Replaced my humor with my pain
I’ll be happy on the day it dies

Remember when I said I love you
Well forget it I take it back
I was just a stupid kid back then
I take back every word that I said

There are things that used to make you cry
One of them was me for just a little while
Why is it that you had to say
Goodbye in your special way
You slashed the tires on my car

Remember when I said I love you
Well forget it I take it back
I was just a stupid kid back then
I take back every word that I said

Remember when I said I love you
Well forget it I take it back
I was just a stupid kid back then
I take back every word that I said

ALKALINE TRIO - TIME TO WASTE

There’s someone down below blowing you a kiss
They watch from their windows
As all arms fall to their sides
And all eyes fix on the death of tomorrow
And you found everything you need
To make a life complete
Completely revolting and they have safety and relief
For sale on the street
I see you in line everyday

You had time to waste and I’m not sorry
Such a basket case, hide the cutlery
I had time to kill its dead and buried
You’ve got guts to spill but no one trustworthy

These creatures are waking up in these dark trees
Waiting like vultures
Eyes roll back turn white in time to feed
They salivate in hunger
For you and everything they need
To make a death complete
Completely unnatural and salvation lies
Behind those dead eyes that watch you while you sleep every night and…

You had time to waste and I’m not sorry
Such a basket case, hide the cutlery
I had time to kill its dead and buried
You’ve got guts to spill but no one trustworthy

You had time to waste and I’m not sorry
Such a basket case, hide the cutlery
I had time to kill its dead and buried
You’ve got guts to spill but no one trustworthy….

ALKALINE TRIO - BURN

There’s a lightning storm each and every night
Crashing inside you like motorbikes
We toss and turn, sleep so loud
Grind the teeth in our empty mouths
Our empty

There’s a forest fire burning bright
Spreading quickly towards our last rights
Nowhere to run, pointless to hide
Just lay there and scream, pretending to try
Pretending

Intending to burn, pretending to fight it
Everyone learns faster on fire
Things took a turn, lost all desire
You live and you burn
You live and you burn

This impending doom is left deep inside
And it’s haunting you each and every night
Like starving wolves, drowning sheep
We close our eyes, pretending to sleep
Descending

Intending to burn, pretending to fight it
Everyone learns faster on fire
Things took a turn, lost all desire
You live and you burn
You live and…

Like hell, we are anxiously waiting
Like hell burning silently strong
Somehow we fell down by the wayside
And somehow this hell is home

As we burn, pretending to fight it
Everyone learns faster on fire
Things took a turn, lost all desire
You live and you burn
You live and
Like hell, we are anxiously waiting
Like hell burning silently strong
Somehow we fell down by the wayside
And somehow this hell is home
Right now, this hell is my home

Here’s what’s currently in heavy rotation in iTunes for me. Give me some suggestions of what else I might enjoy:

• Alkaline Trio
• Augie March
• Be Good Tanyas
• Belly
• Billy Bragg
• The Clash
• Descendents
• Eddie Spaghetti
• Flogging Molly
• Gillian Welch
• Hank Williams III
• Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
• John Lurie
• Jolie Holland
• Kelly Hogan
• Kristen Hersh
• The Lawrence Arms
• Lisa Marr Experiment
• Lori McKenna
• Mike Ness
• Neko Case
• New Pornographers
• NOFX
• Pennywise
• Rancid
• Regina Spektor
• Supersuckers
• Tanya Donelly
• Throwing Muses
• Tom Waits
• The Weakerthans

More, more, more … give me more. Especially if it’s available on eMusic.com.

ALKALINE TRIO - MERCY ME

It’s been a long day living with this
It’s been a long time since I felt so sick
I took a long walk straight back home
I could’ve walked back to San Francisco
I used to long for time alone
I used to long for a place of my own
and I’m losing faith in everything
I’m lost, so lost, i’m lost at sea, you’ll see

I used to long for broken bones
I used to long for a casket to call my own
I never had a problem facing fear
but I’m done, over and dumb my dear and

Oh mercy me
God bless catastrophe
There’s no way in hell
We’ll ever live to see through this so
Drive yourself insane tonight
It’s not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today
(Yeah!)

It’s been a long day living with this
It’s been a long time since I felt so sick
I took a long walk straight back home
I could’ve walked back to Chicago
I used to long for time alone
I used to long for a place of my own
and I’ve lost faith in everything
I’m lost, so lost, I’m lost without you

Oh mercy me
God bless catastrophe
There’s no way in hell
We’ll ever live to see through this so
Drive yourself insane tonight
It’s not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today
(Yeah!)

So drive yourself insane tonight
It’s not that far away and I just
filled up your tank earlier today
(Yeah!)

ALKALINE TRIO - WE’VE HAD ENOUGH

In the shadows where the heads hang low
You hear voices as the wind blows, asking “can’t you see?”
Reminding you to breathe
It’s only time before it catches up to you and all your broken luck
I found a better way to get even with my memory

That said, we’ve had enough
Please turn that fucking radio off
Ain’t nothing on the air waving the despair we feel
NO!

In the darkness where the angels cry
Give us water, give us back our eyes
Our bed’s this concrete floor, and it’s all we have left to live for
A day we’ll never face
We’re only second-handed, sick and lonely
Fighting back the tears and every urge to Van Gogh both our ears

That said, we’ve had enough
Please turn that fucking radio off
Ain’t nothing on the air waving the despair we feel
That said, we’ve had enough
Put “Walk Among Us” on and turn it up
Ain’t nothing on the air waving the hatred we feel
NO!

In the shadows where the heads hang low
You hear voices as the wind blows, asking “can’t you see?”
Reminding you to breathe
It’s only time before it catches up to you and all your broken luck
I found a better way to get even with my enemies

That said, we’ve had enough
Please turn that fucking radio off
Ain’t nothing on the air waving the despair we feel
That said, we’ve had enough
Put “Walk Among Us” on and turn it up
Ain’t nothing on the air waving the hatred we feel
NO!

This is our biggest fear
The only tunes that we hear
Come via antenna through your car raid-ee-uh-oh-oh-no

That said, we’ve had enough, we’ve had enough!
That said, we’ve had enough, we’ve had enough!