Untitled (Carl Bell)

I wanted to feel something

To be something

To see something

I wanted to find

One thing that was mine

And leave this behind

But I can't find my way

To get far away

And bury these days

Fantasy

Once reality

Becomes such a parody

If I could find

One thing that was mine

I'd leave this behind

But I can't find my way

To get far away

And bury these days

If shining

Or if shaking

It's reality faking

If I could find

One thing that was mine

I'd leave this behind

But I can't find my way

To get far away

And bury these days

Bittersweet (Carl Bell)

Seven sin of wantonness and everything that's good is gone

Sell it all for glory from the peers

Silicone priestess scratch the back and twists the knife to bone

Kick against the pricks and scrape the shins

I'm the enemy in the enemies now

Swallowed the pill

Drank to the fill

All these things I carry now

In this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now

Try to hold the world there sinking, swimming in a paper cup

Try to own the one beneath the skin

Held up to the flame 'till singeing skin begins to draw and tuck

Never told there's a chance to win

What couldn't be, wouldn't be now

Swallowed the pill

Drank to the fill

All these things I carry now

In this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now

Hold your hands up to the sky and try so hard to rise above

But everything is beating down

Swallowed the pill

Drank to the fill

All these things I carry now

In this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now

Shimmer (Carl Bell)

She calls me from the cold,

Just when I was low, feeling short of stable

And all that she intends

And all she keeps inside, isn't on the label

She says she's ashamed,

and can she take me for a while

And can I be a friend, we'll forget the past

But maybe I'm not able

And I break at the bend

We're here and now, but will we ever be again

Cause I have found

All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade

Away again

She dreams a champagne dream

Strawberry surprise, pink linen with white paper

Lavender and cream

Fields of butterflies, reality escapes her

She says that love, is for fools that fall behind

And I'm somewhere in between,

I never really know

A killer from a savior

And I break at the bend

We're here and now, but will we ever be again

Cause I have found

All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade

Away again

It's too far away for me to hold

It's too far away --

Guess I'll let it go

Jesus Or A Gun (Carl Bell)

Walk away, I walk the wire

And my fields are burning in the flames

Feel my way, blind in the mire

Struggling from your voice inside my head

But now everything's trying to drag me down

But I'll rip the sky from the ground

But tell me now, who's my saving one

Jesus or a gun

Stripped away my last desire

Nothing comes and nothing's sent away

Happiness I couldn't hire

Struggling from these thoughts inside my head

But now everything's trying to drag me down

But I'll rip the sky from the ground

But tell me now, who's my saving one

Jesus or a gun

All that's safter falls from my favor

When it's over who will cry for me

It's safe to say I don't desire

Everything you push inside my head

And I'll reject it until I'm dead

But now everything's trying to drag me down

But I'll rip the sky from the ground

But tell me now, who's my saving one

Jesus or a gun

Sunburn (Carl Bell)

The sky was dark this morning

Not a bird in the trees

And silence hung suspicious and anxious

Like a blanket covered scream

And you were gone

You were not there for me

And I cursed the sky and begged the sun to

Fall all over me

This life's not living, baby

Living ain't free

If I can't find my way back to me

Let the sun fall down over me

Let the sun fall down

All my friends are searching

Quiet, desperately

Look into their eyes you'll see the faithless crying

Save me, save me, save me

And what are they to feel

And who are they to be

And what am I to do with, do with me, but let the sun

Fall all over me

This life's not living, baby

Living ain't free

If I can't find my way back to me

Let the sun fall down over me

Let the sun fall down

Until my eyes cry out

'Til my head is free of doubt

'Til my lungs sigh right out

'Til I'm wiser

Let the sun

Fall all over me

This life's not living, baby

Living ain't free

If I can't find my way back to me

Let the sun fall down over me

Let the sun fall down...

Acoustic #3 (John Rzeznik)

They painted up your secrets

With the lies they told you

And the least they ever gave you

Was the most you ever knew

And I wonder where these dreams go

When the world gets in your way

What’s the point in all this screaming

No one’s listening anyway

Your voice is small and fading

And you hide in here unknown

And your mother loves your father

’Cause she’s got nowhere to go

And she wonders where these dreams go

’Cause the world got in her way

What’s the point ever trying

Nothing’s changing anyway

They press their lips against you

And you love the lies they say

And I tried so hard to reach you

But you’re falling anyway

Ana's Song (Open Fire) (Daniel Johns)

Please die Ana

For as long as you're here we're not

You make the sound of laughter

and sharpened nails seem softer

And I need you now somehow

And I need you now somehow

Open fire on the needs designed

On my knees for you

Open fire on my knees desires

What I need from you

Imagine pageant

In my head the flesh seems thicker

Sandpaper tears corrode the film

And I need you now somehow

And I need you now somehow

Open fire on the needs designed

On my knees for you

Open fire on my knees desires

What I need from you

And you're my obsession

I love you to the bones

And Ana wrecks your life

Like an Anorexia life

Open fire on the needs designed

On my knees for you

Open fire on my knees desires

What I need from you

Open fire on the needs designed

Open fire on my knees desires

On my knees for you

Semi-Charmed Life (Stephan Jenkins)

I'm packed and I'm holding,

I'm smiling, she's living, she's golden and she lives for me,

She says she lives for me, Ovation, She's got her own motivation,

she comes round and she goes down on me,

And I make her smile, It's like a drug for you,

Do ever what you want to do, Coming over you,

Keep on smiling, what we go through.

One stop to the rhythm that divides you,

And I speak to you like the chorus to the verse,

Chop another line like a coda with a curse,

And I come on like a freak show takes the stage.

We give them the games we play, she said,

I want something else,

to get me through this,

Semi-charmed kind of life,

I want something else,

I'm not listening when you say, Good-bye.

The sky it was gold, it was rose,

I was taking sips of it through my nose,

And I wish I could get back there, Some place back there,

Smiling in the pictures you would take,

Doing crystal myth, Will lift you up until you break,

It won't stop, I won't come down, I keep stock,

With a tick tock rhythm and a bump for the drop,

And then I bumped up. I took the hit I was given,

Then I bumped again, And then I bumped again.

How do I get back there to,

The place where I fell asleep inside you?

How do I get myself back to,

The place where you said,

I want something else to get me through this,

Semi-charmed kind of life,

I want something else,

I'm not listening when you say, good-bye,

I believe in the sand beneath my toes,

The beach gives a feeling,

An earthy feeling,

I believe in the faith that grows,

And the four right chords can make me cry,

When I'm with you I feel like I could die.

And that would be all right, All right,

When the plane came in, She said she was crashing,

The velvet it rips, In the city we tripped,

On the urge to feel alive,

But now I'm struggling to survive,

The days you were wearing, That velvet dress,

You're the priestess, I must confess,

Those little red panties, They pass the test,

Slide up around the belly, Face down on the mattress, One,

Now you hold me, And we're broken.

Still it's all that I want to do.

Feel myself with a head made of the ground,

I'm scared but I'm not coming down.

And I won't run for my life,

She's got her jaws just locked now in smile but nothing is all right,

All right,

I want something else,

To get me through this,

Semi-charmed kind of life,

I want something else,

I'm not listening when you say,

Call and Answer (Stephen Duffy, Steven Page)

I think it's getting to the point

where I can be myself again

I think it's getting to the point

where we have almost made amends

I think it's the getting to the point

that is the hardest part.

And if you call, I will answer

and if you fall, I'll pick you up

and if you court this disaster

I'll point you home

You think I only think about you

when we're both in the same room

You think I'm only here to witness

the remains of love exhumed

You think we're here to play

a game of who loves more than whom

And if you call, I will answer

and if you fall, I'll pick you up

and if you court this disaster

I'll point you home

You think it's only fair to do what's

best for you and you alone

You think it's only fair to do the same

to me when you're not home

I think it's time to make this something that is

more than only fair

So if you call, I will answer

and if you fall, I'll pick you up

and if you court this disaster

I'll point you home.

But I'm warning you, don't ever do

those crazy, messed up things that you do

If you ever do

I promise you I'll be the first to crucity you

Now it's time to prove that you've come back

here to rebuild.

It's Over Now (Neve)


She comes up and over time She'll see what I could be A cold routine or something It just won't stop touching me And I wait here another time Like a thousand times before I'm dropping out and faded But I keep on wanting more


She comes up another time And she really really doesn't care That I can't keep time or the rhythm straight 'Cause it's one thing she don't dare And it's alright I drop the line Now it's one thing to be free Well I never really had a thing for that But it's everything I need


And you don't ever understand It's right here in our hands The outline of our lives It's over now


And she wakes up from a deeper sleep A nightmare through and through She won't stop trippin' on the daytime vibe But that's one thing I won't do Then it's over and back again And she's still on the attack But I'm convinced I've found a reason To keep her coming back


And you don't ever understand It's right here in our hands The outline of our lives It's over now


You won't ever be happier Until you find that special place where you belong And you won't ever be happier Until you find that only way Until you find the only way back home


You don't ever understand It's right here in our hands The outline of our lives It's over now It's over now It's over now