Dashboard Confessionals: Aftermath

I want to change your mind Said, I want to set it right this time I'm looking through you You know who you are And planning for the apocalypse Is not considered Considered cool I don't suggest it myself But, no, I won't sweat I want to change your ways Said, I'm gonna get it right one of these days And I'm looking through you Riding the brakes Bringing about the apocalypse Is not considered Considered cool And you go setting it up But never give it a thought Just go setting it up My mathematical mind can see the breaks So I'm gonna stop riding the brakes No more riding the brakes Instead I'm gonna see your stakes Yeah, I'm gonna see the stakes Yeah, I'm gonna ride Yes, I'm gonna see

Well, into the desert we must go So into the desert we go Call it a ritual Call it whatever you will And you will grow out of me as naturally As branches from a tree Call it a ritual Call it whatever you will But you know, they will swing, swing their swords for show While your turn your flower petals so slow You said the desert will eat us alive I said I'll make the decisions, you just drive You just drive And I saw the windmill wings were gone I heard the wind come creeping around Call it an act of easy mercy To tear the structure down Call it whatever you will 'Cos you know, they will swing, swing their swords for show While you turn your flower petals so slow But I am amazed at how they go I am amazed at how they go So call it whatever you will Call it a ritual Call it whatever you will You know, they will swing, swing their swords for show

Watching the people get lairy It's not very pretty, I tell thee Walking through town is quite scary And not very sensible either A friend of a friend, he got beaten He looked the wrong way at a policeman Would never have happened to Smeaton An Old Leodensian (I predict a riot) I tried to get to my taxi The man in a tracksuit attacks me He said that he saw it before me And wants to get things a bit gory Girls scrabble 'round with no clothes on To borrow a pound for a condom If it wasn't for chip fat they'd be frozen They're not very sensible (I predict a riot) And if there's anybody left in here Who doesn't want to be out there

Brain fried tonight through misuse You can't avoid static abuse Without these pills you're let loose Stand up, get out, no excuse What's that coming over the hill Is it a monster? Confused, mind bruised, it seeps out Face down, home town looks so gray Convexed, you bend, twist and shout Stand up, brush off, get moving What's that coming over the hill Is it a monster? Whole face down Home town It looks so gray

Say, say, my playmate Won't you lay hands on me Mirror my malady Transfer my tragedy Got a curse I cannot lift Shines when the sunset shifts When the moon is round and full Gotta bust that box, gotta gut that fish (My mind's aflame) We could jet in a stolen car But I bet we wouldn't get too far Before the transformation takes And blood lust tanks and crave gets slaked My mind has changed my body's frame, but, god, I like it My heart's aflame, my body's strained, but, god, I like it My mind has changed my body's frame, but, god, I like it My heart's aflame, my body's strained, but, god, I like it Charge me your day rate I'll turn you out in kind When the moon is round and full Gonna teach you tricks that'll blow your mongrel mind Baby doll, I recognize You're a hideous thing inside If ever there were a lucky kind It's you, you, you, you I know it's strange, another way to get to know you You'll never know unless we go, so let me show you I know it's strange, another way to get to know you We've got till noon, here comes the moon, so let it show you Show you now Dream me, old dreamer Down to the floor Open my hands and let them weave onto yours Feel me, completer Down to my core Open my heart and let it bleed onto yours Feeding on fever Down on all fours Show you what all the howl is for Hey, hey, my playmate Let me lay waste to thee Burned down their hanging trees It's hot, hot, hot, hot here Got a curse we cannot lift Shines when the sunset shifts There's a curse, comes with a kiss The bite that binds, the gift that gives Now that we got gone for good Writhing under your riding hood Tell your grandma and your mama too It's true, true, true, true We're howling forever Oh, oh

Beetlebum, what you done? She's a gun Now what you done, beetlebum? Get nothing done, you beetlebum Just get numb Now what you done, beetlebum? And when she lets me slip away She turns me on and all my violence's gone Nothing is wrong I just slip away and I am gone Nothing is wrong She turns me on I just slip away and I am gone Beetlebum, because you're young She's a gun Now what you done, beetlebum? She'll suck your thumb She'll make you come 'Cos she's your gun Now what you done, beetlebum? And when she lets me slip away She turns me on and all my violence's gone Nothing is wrong I just slip away and I am gone There's nothing wrong She turns me on I just slip away and I am gone He's on, he's on, he's on it

It's been a long time coming It's not up for debate You've been a hollowed-out apple though you're standing up straight It's later than you think and we're not gonna wait If you continue to tell us If you continue to tell us "The universe is gonna catch you" Well, it was fine until you fell off of the face of the earth Because we would call you at home and no one picked up the phone But we were worried that you'd fallen in the river or worse But then you sent us back a letter It said in capital letters "THE UNIVERSE IS GOING TO CATCH YOU" Come back inside To this house To your home Made of steel-structured styrofoam Nobody's out there But someone is singing you Back to your birthplace That voice is the same voice You heard on the same night that Everything glowed Took you into the air And the arms of the universe Kept you from falling But after that happened Those arms did not come back So when you leapt up And nobody caught you Your neck broke

Man, you are the madness in my ear I'll be alone tonight and I'll be in the clear Take me for a night, I said Take me for a year I'll be your ear, my dear When I go and when my heart is right It's up and over and over every night I call you up, two soldiers I've been holding near You're here, my dear Up and over and over every night I call you up and hold me on the flight I'll be your up-stock cowboy I've been holding near You're here, my dear When the night is over and the time's a'come I hold you for the matter I've been holding from I call you up and over Hide my sorrow near You're here, my dear You're here, my dear You're here

The day you move I'm probably going to explode It's true, I'm probably going to explode You'll pray for proof I'm probably making this up It's true, I'm probably making this up Because my body is your body I won't tell anybody If you wanna use my body Go for it, yeah If no one moves then nobody's gonna get hurt Don't move, 'cos nobody wants to get hurt You'll pray for proof I'm probably making this up It's true, I'm probably making this up Because my body is your body I won't tell anybody If you wanna use my body Go for it, yeah My body is your body And I'm not just anybody If you wanna use my body Go for it, yeah

I am the dotted line And you fill me in with whatever you like I'm just going through the motions I need an old-fashioned potion There's gotta be some old recipe 'Cos I gotta get drunk I gotta forget about some things I lived in lies all my life And I've been living here for a long, long time And I know it's been coming down awhile now When it shows then you get me on the dial But right now you're halfway around the world Maybe I'll see better days, but I'm not so sure I will I'm still hanging round and round Sometimes it's a racket, but lately not a sound In the bowels of history and time I have learned to stand back and never shine Now I feel stupid when I smile For not a journey, a circus are our lives I can't make up for everything I waste And I know that I could never afford a taste Of anything that your lovely hands make It eats away with a force so great Just because it brings a smile to my face Such a bad memory, you just can't erase I know of a city to steal from And I know of a city to cheat on And I know of a city of sin And that's the place that I wanna meet you in And say hello all over again Romance me, take it back to the beginning

I went to the desert 'cos I wanted to find my pistol I wanted to see what it would feel like to be invisible But a man I met said Boy, you ain't seen nothing yet Let me take you for a ride So I got in his truck and he took me to the mustang range I paid my forty bucks to the girl at the windowpane Under the cover of darkness and behind my disguise She said, kid, won't you come inside? She said Don't you worry, I won't tell anybody about it You can do what you like until the morning light I can be who you want me to be Don't you worry your sweet little head about it I'll have you then You know you'll have me back You can have me again, but then you had me at hello I want you to love me as if you got no principles I want you to love me as if love is invincible Under the cover of darkness and behind my disguise I could tell she could see my eyes You had me on the kitchen floor, you had me on the bed You had me by the nick on the rug with the tiger head You had me fast, you had me slow You had me on the pillow where you lie at night and dream You had me dressing up in your Alexander McQueens You had me till they made me go You had me at hello She said Don't you worry, I won't tell anybody about it You can do what you like until the morning light I can be who you want me to be I want you to love me, so don't feel sorry about it I can hold you tight through the lonely night I can be who you want me to be Don't you worry your sweet little head about it I'll have you in then, you know you'll have me back You can have me again, but then I'll have you back You can have me again, but then you had me at hello

I am the cavalry captain I am the remedy to your heart I am the common collective I am imprinted upon your skies And when you shine, shine your eyes Looking lost, looking bright Wheel away on the light brigade And if only for a second And if only for a time We'll be alive There is a world, there is a time Looking calm, looking kind We'll away at the break of day And if only for a second And if only for a time We'll be alive

I had a dream you left me for someone who was mean to me So I cried and left for Mexico Where I tried to learn to surf By riding a machine I kept beside the window It was not a good way to be Not a good way to be I had a dream I was in school I was learning from the best how to overcome my blues They said Here's a spider in a bowl Here's Poseidon's white bull Now just pretend you have the right to choose And I said Am I an alien here? Here in the cave of my skull Crawling around in the dark Dark to the ones I love Put fodder on the fire Get water from the well It's a simple kind of life And happiness is easy It's a story that you tell It's a teardrop in your eye And I had a dream that he died, and then he died, and then he died And then mama died too And somewhere in the world, an evil genius was on the rise And then Bowie died, and everybody said Oh, what are we gonna do? Am I an alien here? Here in the cave of my skull Crawling around in the dark Dark to the ones I love Am I an alien here? Here in my room

Something filled up My heart with nothing Someone told me not to cry Now that I'm older My heart's colder And I can see that it's a lie Children, wake up Hold your mistake up Before they turn the summer into dust If the children don't grow up Our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up We're just a million little gods causing rainstorms, turning every good thing to rust I guess we'll just have to adjust With my lightning bolts a'glowing I can see where I am going to be When the reaper he reaches and touches my hand With my lightning bolts a'glowing I can see where I am going You better look out, below

Headlights and red eyes A warm beer between your thighs Mess of pills, Hollywood hills The red lights read me my rights Going in a circle, getting tighter every turn Think you're getting better but you're never quite sure Say it's all ahead of you How far can you see? You're living on your knees Driver, please find your feet The light's green but you spaced the keys You're going fast but it won't last You're all speed and no gas Going in a circle, never getting to the point Burning up the atmosphere, my rocket ship boy You say there's a finish line You're already beat You're living on your knees Rocket boy, my only son You look so sad but you're so young You get so high You're all alone Rocket boy, come home Notebook, some notes you took A big hit with a crooked hook Your best friend is you again You can't win but you won't give in Going in a circle, getting lower every time Say it isn't hurting but I never see you smile Asking for the doctor and calling you a priest You're living on your knees Rocket boy, you burn so bright And I believe You lie so beautifully When you get high You're all alone Rocket boy, come home Dad, it's me again I hate to call Could you come down? There's been an accident Were you involved? Yes, sir, no, sir They say I was Got home, cried alone The video will surely show No one knows I came this close To being a man But I lost us both Going in a circle and it's keeping you around You've been here forever but you've never been found You didn't want a witness and I didn't want to see You living on your knees Rocket boy Come home