NEWS • SHOWS • TOUR DIARY • BIOGRAPHY • LYRICS DISCOGRAPHY • GALLERY • PRESS • MUSIC • CONTACT • LINKS • LYRICS ALBUMS EVERY NIGHT (CD/LP) Polyvinyl Records, September 14, 2004 Since You Stole My Heart I don’t know what’s come over me Since you stole my heart You’ve got a power that no one can see And it reaches down to the ocean Seagulls fly in circular motion Children spinning in roller coasters Since you stole my heart And every time you’re close to me Since you stole my heart I feel an electricity And it just won’t go away And no, I can’t give it a name And nothing seems to feel at all the same Since you stole my heart I walked through the graveyard And sang to the cold stars All the names on my dance card Left me standing down by the ocean All alone and out in the open I don’t know what’s come over me Since you stole my heart Somebody told me that everyone’s lonely But I was the only fool there Waiting down by the ocean With my heart half the way broken I don’t know what’s come over me Since you stole my heart. Until The World Stops Spinning (see also: Sound On Sound) There are secret cities buried somewhere underground But whether or not we find them the world keeps spinning around Everyone’s pretending that there’s nothing left to say But no matter what you tell them, the truth shows anyway But don’t walk out that door You know I need you here So I won’t disappear into myself Like everybody else Until the world stops spinning You spent all your money, you got brainwashed like before And you get so tired of sleeping on the filthy kitchen floor You think you’re something special now But the girls know you’re a joke With your jacket from the thrift store And your little rum and coke But don’t walk out that door You know I need you here So I won’t disappear into myself Like everybody else Until the world stops spinning There are secret cities burning somewhere underground But whether or not we find them, they rise up somehow Everybody’s acting like there’s nothing new to say But no matter what you tell them all The truth shows in your face. Keep Walking Just keep walking Because it won’t be worth your time tonight I’m not listening It seems like you only ever want to say goodbye And I feel it every time that you walk into a room Lights start flashing inside of my head I can’t get past all the things you said I believed in even though I knew they just couldn’t be true Not coming from you Don’t start acting like you’re the only one who’s ever cried There’s someone just like you For every burned-out building filling up the sky And I feel it every time that you walk into a room It’s so hard to stay in love When you can’t trust anyone. All Over Town I hear you whispering When you think that I’m not listening But I can hear your voice Echo through the alleyways And now I’m guessing That you’ll come with some elaborate confession You can save your breath Cause there ain’t nothing to explain You been saying one thing to me And saying something else to everyone else that you see And it’s all over town Did you think that I missed it Just because I keep my number unlisted? I can see your lies moving through the summer breeze And now the night sky is breathing While all of your followers are leaving Don’t you know by now That they only come to leave? You keep saying one thing to me And saying something else to everyone else that you see And it’s all over town When it finally comes out I know you been keeping it down But don’t think that I can’t hear you talking underneath your breath I hear you whispering But you know the lines of division are already drawn Down the center of the neighborhood And I keep on thinking About how when one things’ beginning then another’s ending You’ve been saying one thing to me And saying something else to everyone else that you see And it’s all over now. The Girl’s Distracted If there’s a girl that’s ever looked better Well you ain’t never met her You see her walking’ around carrying her records She’s into the Upsetters And you don’t know her name but you’ve seen her around But you know where she’s from because you live in her town You’re asking mutual friends if you could be introduced But the girl’s distracted and it’s just no use You’re taking looks at her over your shoulder But she don’t even notice She can’t concentrate, she can’t focus Your situations’ hopeless There’s always something more interesting catching her eye She’s not the type to let opportunities pass her by You think she’s playing it cool But that just isn’t true No, the girl’s distracted and she don’t see you You call her up on the phone but she just doesn’t care She’ll be telling her mom to tell you she’s not there I know you wanted to get a little time all alone But the girl’s distracted and she’s just not home! If You Ask If you ask, I won’t keep nothing from you What good would I be to you if I couldn’t tell the truth? But there’s a chance that even while we’re still dancing The answer to what you’re asking will split your heart in two And the blue, blue sky Will be the only thing you find on the other side of the night Look around See all the buildings burning Watch your surroundings turn from beautiful to plain But don’t get so down There’s no use shooting all your arrows at the sun It will all come undone before it gets a name Before they even give it a name And the blue, blue sky will find a way to change your mind Or pass you by while you leave yourself behind. Empty Room Scream your complaints Slam the door and break all of the plates But you give more away than anyone could ever steal You feel erased I can tell by the look on your face You don’t have to say a word I know just how you feel You feel like a paper heart coming unglued Like the ceiling of an empty room You’d better do everything you want to do ‘Cause there’s no pill or promise That can do those things for you And when you do, do it exactly the way you wanted to ‘Cause there’s no going back to fix it after you’re through While you wait for something to say Children in the balcony smile and sing along You’ve gotta do everything you want to do ‘Cause there’s nobody else who’s gonna do those things for you. When The Party Ends Despite everything you've heard You still get what you deserve The world just can't find the words To tell you what they think about you The bus comes every morning Under long lists of reasons Everyday you're still sleeping And everyday it leaves without you Now you're talking on the phone to all your angry friends You know it doesn't matter what you say to them Because when you hang up Everything will feel just like a dream But until you do Let's keep it between you and me Despite everything you heard From the bumblebees and the mockingbirds There still aren't any words To all the songs they wrote about you The bus comes early in the morning You are forever sleeping And even with your reasons It's still gonna leave without you Now I see you going out with all your useless friends You know it doesn't matter what you do with them Because when you come home Everything will just have been a dream But until you do Let's keep it between you and me I hear your conversations with your boring friends You know it doesn't matter what you're telling them 'Cause you'll be sleeping over when the party ends And we'll wake up tomorrow and we'll start again And anything outside of that is just pretend And if you tell them different then you're lyin' The things that people say don't make no difference Now we can talk it over or just go to bed Or we can go to all the places where the money's spent And buy whatever new distraction that the suits invent They know the demographic that we represent Because they heard all of our secrets through the heating vent So write another song about your discontent And wax nostalgic for a time less turbulent With metaphors like closet doors that won't open And you can use your list of words that rhyme with 'opulent' Now someone said that you should throw in 'malcontent' Maybe somebody can tell us where the liquor went And we can raise our glasses while they raise our rent And search for a solution that's more permanent But there isn't any doctor or a medicine That's gonna make you feel less insignificant Another bunch of words that you can soon forget Another bunch of crooks disguised as gentlemen Now you wonder why the notes are always bruised and bent You think that it's your song but it's your instrument You want to turn invisible and try again I'll kiss you in the kitchen and I'll count to ten And then when you wake up All of this will just have been a dream But until you do Let's keep it between you and me. Dialtone Beside the drum kit in the basement I was trying to get to sleep I heard your voice come through the floorboards On my answering machine But by the time I reached the phone’s ring The only thing still singing was the dialtone I couldn’t find you in my dreams So I went out into the night I heard you talking somewhere soft Your voice bounced off a satellite But by the time I reached the place From where the sound originated you were gone Oh, but I smelled summer in those letters That you sprayed with your perfume I breathed your breath and I was left swaying With the curtains in the room In the knowledge you would leave me Beneath the angry April moon Where you first found me You got one too many lovers But you’re still my only friend You got more secret admirers Than there are snakes in the garden But by the time you’re finished kissing Whoever’s come around hissing You’re spitting out poison And all the people have their reasons For the things that they think they have to do But none of the reasons you keep speaking Sound anything like the truth Each one sounds like a composite Each one sounds like a new excuse for letting go So let go if all that’s left is letting go As the x-ray clearly shows This thing was broken long ago The bars will close And the ashtrays overflow I won’t be there on Thursday night But I hope you all have fun You may not recognize my absence But I won’t be the only one Who goes missing from your party as the stitches come undone. We Can’t Work It Out (see also: Love Will Find You) After the alcohol and the anniversary You’ll still be happier with a memory And all of the taxicabs that were fit to drive Pointed in a line and never did arrive How many episodes will you put us through Before you realize there’s better things to do? How many autographs can anybody sign Before the people get tired of standing in line? And I gotta let you know I gotta let you know I gotta let you know that we can’t work it out I gotta let you know that we can’t work it out That we can’t be helped now You and me can’t work it out You drove down the Brooklyn Bridge In your expensive car You lost all your magic when you left it at the bar How many accidents can a single person have Before they can’t go back? And I gotta let you know I gotta let you know I gotta let you know that we can’t work it out I gotta let you know that we can’t work it out That we can’t be helped now You and me can’t work it out. Lift Me Up (see also: Sound On Sound) You can tell me secrets if you want to But my house ain’t got no ceiling And my heart won’t hold no lies I’m not like everybody that you talk to And I just might shoot your helicopter Right out of the sky I was so excited I would fall down in a pile I’m always reminded every time I see you smile Walking by I see you through your window You’re higher than a fever And there’s something on your mind You’re daydreaming through another winter But the dreams that you keep leaning on Have got to wait this time I was so excited but that only lasts a while I’m always reminded now you’re walking down the aisle Baby, baby you make me so nervous I think you do it on purpose You know you do Lately I just don’t think that it’s worth it Better call the taxidermist You can tell me anything you want to But I’m leaving in the morning And that’s the only thing that’s true Look at me up in your helicopter All alone watching the city Sinking slowly out of view Baby, baby you make me so nervous I think you do it on purpose And you know you do Lately I just don’t think that it’s worth it Better call the taxidermist! When You Got To New York When you got to New York you were sleeping on floors But you were sure it was better And you would get hungry You didn’t have money But you drank every night Between the subways and sunshine There just wasn’t the time to write any letters But it was out of your hands You hoped your friends would understand You’d never felt so high in your life But now you’re out of breath from your cheap cigarettes And the wrong side of seven a.m. You can’t sit still, but you eventually will ‘Cause every night comes to an end So draw up a list of new things to resist And the people you kissed last year And then on the back draw a map To the ones that are still there Not one part of your skyscraper heart Can figure out which is for real You can’t come clean when you’re stuck in-between These ways that you constantly feel So what do you tell yourself? What do you tell the strangers that sleep in your room? What do you tell your friends? What do you tell the lovers that left you too soon? Where did they run off to? Give me a reason that I can believe in And I will believe in you Tell me a reason why I should believe ‘Cause I want to I want to Tell me a story or tell me a secret It don’t have to be nothing new Just hold onto me while we walk through the leaves If you want to ‘Cause I want to know what do you tell yourself? What do you tell the darkness that stays in your room? What do you see at night when all of last year’s lights Are no longer of interest to you? What do you hold on to? RETURN TO LYRICS INDEX BACK TO TOP OF PAGE • HOME