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"The Ballad Of Mona Lisa"

She paints her fingers with a close precision
He starts to notice empty bottles of gin
And takes a moment to assess the sins she’s paid for

A lonely speaker in a conversation
Her words are swimming through his ears again
There’s nothing wrong with just a taste of what you’ve paid for

Say what you mean, tell me I’m right
And let the sun rain down on me
Give me a sign, I want to believe

Woah, Mona Lisa
You’re guaranteed to run this town
Woah, Mona Lisa
I’d pay to see you frown

He senses something, call it desperation
Another dollar, another day
And if she had the proper words to say, she would tell him
But she’d have nothing left to sell him

Say what you mean, tell me I’m right
And let the sun rain down on me
Give me a sign, I want to believe

Woah, Mona Lisa
You’re guaranteed to run this town
Woah, Mona Lisa
I’d pay to see you frown

Mona Lisa
Wear me out
Pleased to please ya
Mona Lisa
Wear me out

Say what you mean, tell me I’m right
And let the sun rain down on me
Give me a sign, I want to believe

Woah, Mona Lisa
You’re guaranteed to run this town
Woah, Mona Lisa
I’d pay to see you frown

Say what you mean, tell me I’m right
And let the sun rain down on me
Give me a sign, I want to believe

There’s nothing wrong with just a taste of what you’ve paid for



"Let's Kill Tonight"

If I retreat
Words, wars, and symphonies
Make room we're taking over here
And you're the galantine
Cold and alone, it suits you well
Won't find me perching here again

May your feet serve you well
And the rest be sent to Hell
Where they always have belonged
Cold hearts brew colder songs
Fate will play us out
With a song of pure romance
Stomp your feet and clap your hands

Let's kill tonight!
Kill tonight!
Show them all you're not the ordinary type
Let's kill tonight!
Kill tonight!
Show them all you're not the ordinary type
Let's kill tonight!

May your feet serve you well
And the rest be sent to Hell
Where they always have belonged
Cold hearts brew colder songs
Fate will play us out
With a song of pure romance
Stomp your feet and clap your hands

Let's kill tonight!
Kill tonight!
Show them all you're not the ordinary type
Let's kill tonight!
Kill tonight!
Show them all you're not the ordinary type

Let's kill tonight!
Kill tonight!
Show them all you're not the ordinary type
Let's kill tonight!
Show them all you're not the ordinary type
Let's kill tonight!


"Hurricane"

Are you worth your weight in gold?
Cause your behind my eyelids when I'm all alone
Hey stranger, I want you, to catch me like a cold (achoo!).
You and God both got the guns, when you shoot I think I'd duck.

I led the revolution in my bedroom and I set all the zippers free.
We said "no more war", no more clothes beneath me
Oh kiss me!

Hey! Hey! We are a hurricane!
Drop our anchors in the storm.
Hey! They will never be the same,
A fire in a flask to keep us warm.
Cause they know, I know
That they don't look like me.
Oh, they know, I know
That they don't sound like me.

You'll dance to anything!
You'll dance to anything!

Oh I'd confess, I'd confess, in a room where I'm blessed

Cause he didn't come and speak to me,
Or put my heart at ease.
And I believe that half the time
I am a wolf among the sheep
Gnawing at the wool over my eyes.

I led the revolution in my bedroom and I set all the zippers free.
We said "no more war", no more clothes beneath me.
Oh kiss me!

Hey! Hey! We are a hurricane!
Drop our anchors in the storm.
Hey! They will never be the same,
A fire in a flask to keep us warm.
Cause they know, I know
That they don't look like me.
Oh, they know, I know
That they don't sound like me.

You'll dance to anything!
You'll dance to anything!
You'll dance to anything!
You'll dance to anything!

Fix me, or conflict me.
I'll take anything.
Fix me, or just conflict me.
Cause I'll take anything.

Hey! Hey! We are a hurricane!
Drop our anchors in the storm.
Hey! They will never be the same,
A fire in a flask to keep us warm.
Cause they know, I know
That they don't look like me.
Oh, they know, I know
That they don't sound like me.

You'll dance to anything!
You'll dance to anything!


"Memories"

He was the Congregation’s vagrant
With an unrequited love
When your passion’s exultation,
Then finding refuge is not enough
She was the youngest of the family
And the last to be let go.
They decided they would try
And make it on their own

Oh, memories, where’d you go?
You were all I’ve ever known.
How I miss yesterday
And I let it fade away
Where’d you go?
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh

When July became December
Their affection fought the cold,
But they couldn’t quite remember
What inspired them to go.
And it was beautifully depressing
Like A Streetcar named Desire
They were fighting for their love
That started growing tired

Oh, memories, where’d you go?
You were all I’ve ever known.
How I miss yesterday
And I let it fade away
Don't fade away!

Money lost momentum
And the bills were piling high
Then the smile, it finally faded
From the apple of their eye
And they were young and independent,
And they thought they had it planned
Should’ve known right from the start
You can’t predict the end.

Oh, memories, where’d you go?
You were all I’ve ever known.
How I miss yesterday
And I let it fade away
Oh, memories, where’d you go?
You were all I’ve ever known.
How I miss yesterday
And I let it fade away
Don't fade away!


"Trade Mistakes"

Placing a smile at the perfect event,
Gracing your skin with the side of my hand,
If I ever leave, I could learn to miss you,
But sentimental boy as my nom de plume.

Let me save you, hold this rope.

I may never sleep tonight,
As long as you're still burning bright,
If I could trade mistakes for sheep,
Count me away before you sleep,
I'll still wait 'til I trade my mistakes
So they fade away.

I feel marooned in this body,
Deserted my organs, could go on without me,
You can't fly these wings,
You can't sleep in this box with me,

Let me save you, hold this rope.

I may never sleep tonight,
As long as you're still burning bright,
If I could trade mistakes for sheep,
Count me away before you sleep,
I'll still wait 'til I trade my mistakes
So they fade away.

So let me save you, hold this rope,
And I'll pull you in,
'Cause I am an anchor, save her,
Oh, I feel it sinking in,
Let me save you, hold this rope,
I am an anchor sinking her.
(ho, oh, oh, oh)

I may never sleep tonight,
As long as you're still burning bright.

If I could trade mistakes for sheep,
Count me away before you sleep,
I'll still wait 'til I trade my mistakes
So they fade away.


"Ready To Go (Get Me Out Of My Mind)"

Oh uoohhhhhhh [x4]

You got these little things that you've been running from
You either love it or I guess you don't
You're such a pretty thing to be running from anyone a vision with nowhere to go
So tell me right now ya think you're ready for it
I wanna know why you got me going so lets go
Well take it outta here
I think I'm ready to leap I'm ready to live

I'm ready to go (get me out of my mind, get me out of my mind)
I'm ready to go (ohh uoohhhhhh [x2])

You got these little things you wanted something for em
You'll either get it or guess you won't what does it really mean
To get nothing from anyone there's a million ways it could go
So tell me right now ya think your ready for it
I wanna know
Why you got me going so lets go
Well take it outta here

I think I'm ready to leave I'm ready to live
I'm ready to go (get me out of my mind, get me out of my mind)
I'm ready to go (ohh uoohhhhhh [x2])

I think I'm ready I think I know I'm ready I know I think I'm ready I think I know
I'm ready I know I think I'm ready I think I know I'm ready I know I think I'm ready
I think I know

I'm ready to go (get me out of my mind, get me out of my mind)
I'm ready to go (ohh uoohhhhhh [x2])
I'm ready to go
(I think I'm ready I think I know I'm ready I know I think I'm ready I think I know
I'm ready I know I think I'm ready I think I know I'm ready I know I think I'm ready
I think I know) (Get me out of my mind)

I'm ready to go (ohh uoohhhhhh [x2])
I'm ready to go (get me out of my mind, get me out of my mind)
I'm ready to go (ohh uoohhhhhh [x2])


"Always"

When the world gets too heavy
Put it on my back
I’ll be your levy
You are taking me apart
Like bad glue on a get well card

It was always you falling for me
Now there’s always time calling for me
I’m the light blinking at the end of the road
Blink back to let me know

I’m a fly that’s trapped in a web
But I’m thinking that my spider’s dead
Lonely, lonely little life
I could kid myself by thinking that I’m fine

It was always you falling for me
Now there’s always time calling for me
I’m the light blinking at the end of the road
Blink back to let me know

That I’m skin and bone
Just a cane and rusty throne
All the castle’s under siege
But the sign outside says 'leave me alone'

It was always you falling for me
Now there’s always time calling for me
I’m the light blinking at the end of the road
Blink back to let me know
Blink back to let me know


"The Calendar"

(Only for you
Only for you)

They said if you don't let it out
You're gonna let it eat you away
I'd rather be a cannibal, baby
Animals like me don't talk anyway

Feel like an ambulance
Chaser of fame
Pray I could replace her
Forget the way her tears taste
Oh, the way her tears taste

Put another X on the calendar
Summer's on its deathbed
There is simply nothing worse
Than knowing how it ends
And I meant everything I said that night
I will come back to life
But only for you
Only for you

The world may call it a second chance
But when I came back it was more of a relapse
Anticipation is on the other line
And obsession called while you were out
Yeah it called while you were out

Put another X on the calendar
Summer's on its deathbed
There is simply nothing worse
Than knowing how it ends
And I meant everything I said that night
I will come back to life
But only for you
Only for you

Asleep in the hive
I guess all the buzzing got to me
The rest of the life
At night your body is a symphony
And I'm conducting

They said if you don't let it out
You're gonna let it eat you away

Put another X on the calendar
Summer's on its deathbed
There is simply nothing worse
Than knowing how it ends
And I meant everything I said that night
I will come back to life
But only for you
Only for you
Only for you
Only for you
Only for you
Only for you

"Sarah Smiles"

I was fine just a guy living on my own
Waiting for the sky to fall
Then you called and changed it all, doll.

Velvet lips and the eyes to pull me in
We both know you'd already win
Mm, you're original sin

You fooled me once with your eyes now honey,
You fooled me twice with your lies, and I say,

Sarah Smiles like Sarah doesn't care
She lives in a world so unaware
Does she know that my destiny lies with her?

(Sarah, Sarah Sarah Sarah, Oh Sarah, Sarah.)
Oh Sarah are you saving me.

Waking up to a kiss and you're on your way,
I really hope that you would stay
But you left and went your own way, babe.
I don't mind take your time, I've got things to do,
Besides sit around and wait for you
Oh and I hope you do too.

You fooled me once with your eyes now honey,
You fooled me twice with your lies, and I say,

Sarah Smiles like Sarah doesn't care
She lives in a world so unaware
Does she know that my destiny lies with her?

Sarah, Oh Sarah, are you saving me?

And it's killing me inside
Consuming all my time, you've left me blind
And when I think I'm right you shook away my pride
You cast it all aside. But I say...

SARAH SMILES LIKE SARAH DOESN'T CARE.
She lives in a world so unaware
Does she know that my destiny lies with her?

(Sarah, Sarah Sarah Sarah, Oh Sarah, Sarah.)
Oh Sarah are you saving me


"Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met...)"

Kids, you have to remember I’m up here conducting you for a reason, okay?
Watch me, watch my fingers.
Here we go, ready?
Watch me.

Dиs le premier jour
Ton parfum enivra mon amour
Et dans ces instants
J’aimerais кtre comme toi par moment
Mais depuis ce jour
Je n’ai qu’un seul et unique regret


My wing tips waltz across naive
Wood floors they creak
Innocently down the stairs

Drag melody
My percussive feet serve cobweb headaches as a
Matching set of marching clocks
The slumbering apparitions
That they've come to wake up

(do do do do)

Here I am composing a burlesque
Out of where they rest their necks
Sunken in their splintered cradles
And ramshackle heads
They asked for it
As a girl

You have set your heart
On haunting me forever
From the start
It's never silent

Ever since we met
I only shoot up with your perfume
It's the only thing
That makes me feel as good as you do
Ever since we met
I've got just one regret to live through
And that one regret is you

How does a heart love, if no one has noticed its presence
And where does it go?
Trembling hands play my heart like a trombone
The beats gone and lost in the show

You have set your heart
On haunting me forever
From the start
It's never silent

Ever since we met
I only shoot up with your perfume
It's the only thing
That makes me feel as good as you do
Ever since we met
I've got just one regret to live through
And I regret never letting you go!

Ever since we met
I only shoot up with your perfume
It's the only thing
That makes me feel as good as you do
Ever since we met
I've got just one regret to live through
And that one regret is you

Mona Lisa pleased to please ya
(And that one regret is you)
Mona Lisa pleased to please ya
(And that one regret is you)
Mona Lisa pleased to please ya


Bonus track

"Stall Me"

Fall to your knees and kiss the ring
The crowds rejoicing
All of my dreams wake up to despise
A world I once loved

Why did you bring me in
If you knew what you'd become
So curse everyone and everything
even the sun

Stall me, stall me I'm all in
Stall me, call me out or break me in
A dark room and the wallflower
got in at the party
She's got four on the floor
She's waiting to kickstart me
So just stall me

I had a rosy dream
You gave up on you
And I gave up on me
Well love came along and said,
“Leave them be.”
We were wrecked on every rocky tasted
Light a cork my pretty little angel
I’m singing to empty bottles everywhere, everywhere

Stall me, stall me I'm all in
Stall me, call me off or break me in
A dark room and the wallflower
got in at the party
She's got four on the floor
She's waiting to kickstart me
So just stall me

She counts on stars, astrology
My moods are mercurial
But I know Mercury
Don’t hold your breath
Baptized in the river of you
Hold on death, the moon,
the stars a sliver of you

Stall me, stall me I'm all in
Stall me, call me off or break me in
A dark room and the wallflower
got in at the party
She's got four on the floor
She's waiting to kickstart me
She said she’s got more
where that came from to spark me
So just stall me


"Oh Glory (Demo)"

I can only hope it's true enough
That every little thing I do for love
Redeems me from the moments I deem worthy of the worst things that I've done
And saves me from myself in times of envy when I'm missing everyone

If I wake in the morning
I only need two more miracles to be a saint
Everything I promised, everyone I'd be
Well I just ain't

Lately it seems like
Everybody's sick, everybody's tired
Build myself a wall of unhappy hearts
And only my heart knows my head is lying, lying

Oh glory
I think I see you round the bend
And I think I'd try any
Pose and get there in the end
Oh glory

When I'm looking past the silken sheets
Take a breath to notice I'm between
Every little piece of thread and memories
That constitutes your dreams

If I wake in the morning
I only need two more miracles to be a saint
Everything I promised, everyone I'd be
Well I just ain't

Lately it seems like
Everybody's sick, everybody's tired
Build myself a wall of unhappy hearts
And only my heart knows my head is lying, lying

Oh glory
I think I see you round the bend
And I think I'd try any
Pose and get there in the end
Oh glory

Lately it seems like
Everybody's sick, everybody's tired
Build myself a wall of unhappy hearts
And only my heart knows my head is lying, lying

Oh glory
I think I see you round the bend
And I think I'd try any
Pose and get there in the end

Oh glory, oh glory, oh glory


"I Wanna Be Free"

Is there a heart inside the night
I can feel its vital signs
The beat goes dry, and the spirit dies
Ohhhhh

I wanna dig this Tinseltown 'til its six feet underground
It's safe to say, that timing is everything (everything)

I wanna be free, I wanna be loved, I wanna be more than you're thinking of
Everything seems to be estranged when you're alone

Played our parts and covered ground
Drowned our sorrows laid em' down
My memory is keeping the effigy

I wanna be free, I wanna be loved, I wanna be more than you're thinking of
Everything seems to be estranged when you're alone

One day I'll stop keeping track and give myself time to react
One day, one day

I wanna be free, I wanna be loved, I wanna be more than you're thinking of
Everything seems to be estranged when you're alone
Wanna be free, wanna be loved, wanna be more than you're thinking of
Everything seems to be estranged when you're alone
Ohhhhh yeah!


"Turn Off The Lights"

I got so sick of being on my own
Now the devil wont leave me alone
It's almost like I found a friend
Who's in it for the bitter end
Our conscious's are always so much heavier than our egos
I set my expectations high
So nothing ever comes out right

So shoot a star on the boulevard tonight
I think I'll figure it out with a little more time
But who needs time

Turn off the lights, turn off the lights
Turn on the show for me tonight
I've got my heavy heart to hold me down
Once it falls apart my heads in the clouds
So taking every chance I got
Like the man I know I'm not

So sick of wasting all my time
How in gods name did I survive
I need a little sympathy
To sore my insecurities
Our conscious's are always so much heavier than our egos
I set my expectations high
So nothing ever comes out right

So shoot a star on the boulevard tonight
I think I'll figure it out with a little more time
But who needs time

Turn off the lights, turn off the lights
Turn on the show for me tonight
I've got my heavy heart to hold me down
Once it falls apart my heads in the clouds
So taking every chance I got
Like the man I know I'm not

Oh oh oh, mhm
A heavy heart on the boulevard tonight, oh
Shooting stars watch me fall apart tonight, woah

Turn off the lights, turn off the lights
Turn on the show for me tonight
I've got my heavy heart to hold me down
Once it falls apart my heads in the clouds
So taking every chance I got
Like the man I know I'm not

Oh woah, oh woah, oh woah
Oh woah, oh woah, oh woah


"Bittersweet"

I'm just setting, I'm just setting a trap
And I'm not pulling, no
I'm not pulling for you, you're just pulling at me
I'm not a betting man but this is a sure thing

I've been to Tokyo and to South Africa
So many places that you might say I've seen it all
But my favorite place is the warm embrace
Of holding your hair back in a bathroom stall

Everything I do is bittersweet
You could tell me secrets that I'll probably repeat
I'm not trying to hurt you, I just love to speak
It feels like we're pulling teeth
So bittersweet

I guess thats how its gotta be
I guess thats how its gotta be

All that hate is gonna burn you up
It keeps me warm at night
Warmer than anyone
I think how many drinks I've had
No more in either hand
I'm slurring on purpose
And it's certainly worth it

Everything I do is bittersweet
You could tell me secrets that I'll probably repeat
I'm not trying to hurt you, I just love to speak
It feels like we're pulling teeth
So bittersweet

I guess thats how its gotta be
I guess thats how its gotta be
I guess thats how its gotta be

You and me
Another puppetry
It's such a mystery why you're here
And you became as clear as cellophane
My voice of reasoning
I don't think I can take the way you make me out to be

I'm just setting, I'm just setting a trap
And I'm not pulling, no
I'm not pulling for ya

Everything I do is bittersweet
You could tell me secrets that I'll probably repeat
I'm not trying to hurt you, I just love to speak
It feels like we're pulling teeth
So bittersweet

It feels like we're pulling teeth
So bittersweet

It feels like we're pulling teeth
So bittersweet


"Kaleidoscope Eyes"

I'm a disappearing act done poorly
But if I ever get it right, you'll miss me sorely
I look like the cat that just ate the canary
Coughing up feathers
There's a "get out of jail" card if I can think of something clever

I'll plead the fifth on all of this

When your chips are down, and your drinks are all gone
I'll still be here, wishing and waiting for you to come home
Kaleidoscope eyes, sparkle at the world
My emerald city, downtown girl
In the sickness of you, I'm just a white blood cell
Fighting like hell for you

Oh, I'm just a crack, with no intent or stash
Pour gasoline on the vault just to burn the cash
I swear to God, I'd never heard a better sound coming out
Then when you're whimpering my name from your mouth

I'll plead the fifth on all of this

When your chips are down, and your drinks are all gone
I'll still be here, wishing and waiting for you to come home
Kaleidoscope eyes, sparkle at the world
My emerald city, downtown girl
In the sickness of you, I'm just a white blood cell
Fighting like hell for you

I've got an insatiable desire for your insides
It's undeniable, I'll conspire and pull against your body tonight

When your chips are down, and your drinks are all gone
I'll still be here, wishing and waiting for you to come home
Kaleidoscope eyes, sparkle at the world
My emerald city, downtown girl
In the sickness of you, I'm just a white blood cell
Fighting like hell for you