Suicide MEDICINE LYRICS
1. The Light and Sound
are you gonna die with that music inside / did you catch the twilight on your way into work / you can live anything you can think / man I'm not lying to you and yeah that's a threat / I don't want to have to bury you like this / something's gotta get your attention / if I have to crack open your skull with my fist / I'll let the light and the sound escape
listen now / you can hear the sound / surrender and let the light come out / don't be afraid/ let me hear your voice / what you will live is what you make
I know you've worked hard your whole life / and now your tired the money is never enough / it's never gonna be enough man that's not even the point / the only thing you can't afford is to keep buying the lines your fed / I know it's comfortable to go back to sleep / take a look at what you've been lying in / before you wake up in search of your paycheck death / the demons of regret are making your deathbed
listen now / you can hear the sound / surrender and let the light come out / don't be afraid / let me hear your voice / what you will live is what you make / don't be afraid / let me hear your voice / let the light come out / cause I'm ready now / like I never was before / to see what this is all about
2. Suicide Medicine
a brain that never stops ticking / sometimes an on-off switch would sure come in handy / a mind that's constantly cutting up and dissecting / looking for answers committing murders along the way
is it the red wire or the blue wire / just pick one and cut / it just doesn't matter anymore / or did it ever / cause I could never control when the bomb would explode / oh god I love you / I mean forever / I left my body behind to break the news / looks like it's over / please remember all of the things I never got a chance to say / like you look smashing in your fourth grade picture the one that we hung by the door / in our house that was so beautiful / there in our little home
if this medication upsets your stomach / take it with crackers bread or a small meal / we understand it won't do shit towards the cure / but if you buy this I promise you're gonna like the way it makes you feel
is it the red wire or the blue wire / just pick one and cut / it just doesn't matter anymore / or did it ever / cause I could never control when the bomb would explode / oh god I love you / I mean forever / I left my body behind to break the news / looks like it's over / please remember all of the things I never got a chance to say / like you look smashing in your fourth grade picture the one that we hung by the door / in our house that was so beautiful / there in our little home
3. I'll Catch You
the days behind you are haunting / the ones your living in now / the ghost of your past carries / the weight of your name / where would you be who are you / without the scaring and the heals that stepped on you / that you cling to with all of your strength / let go - freefall - it's scary I know to forgive all of the devils / let go - i'll catch you / It's scary I know to understand what must be done
58 guthrie street / an old postcard you sent / to help close up wounds that I love to reopen / quarters in the tequila / on the streets of houston / you can keep on drinking / but never drown out where you've been / let go - freefall - it's scary I know to forgive all of the devils / let go - i'll catch you / It's scary I know to understand what must be done
there is a statesman servant beneath / the thick skin of remembering / armor for protection / let go - freefall - it's scary I know to forgive all of the devils / let go - i'll catch you / It's scary I know to understand what must be done
4. Automatic Rifle
the night I turned 25 it was legos on the floor / it seemed like a safe enough game / for a man to play with his daughter / an automatic rifle and a bullet through the window / and the troops are satisfied that justice had been delivered
that was enough to set the spark of a vision in another / 18 years - 18 year old girl - to see herself a martyr / to keep up with the cycle / of an automatic rifle and a bullet through the window / and the troops were satisfied that justice had been delivered
close your eyes to the suns blinding light / a three story concrete house and a steady paycheck / cause open eyes will be / infected with politics / and even a smart girl can end up / with a bomb strapped to her chest
5. Every Red Cent
we're moving on the bags are all packed / I'm feeling like less of a wreck / the plans for revenge have all been detailed and laid out / the graves have all been dug don't let me forget one for myself
I've got hate running through my veins / and my blood runs like the venom of a poisonous snake / emptiness, my old friend / keep me company as I hunt down and kill my enemies cause there must be someone to blame
someone to blame for the way I've been feeling / I've been shot at, I've been cheated, how could you send me to this place / I have every right to feel the way I've been feeling shut up - I don't want to hear anymore of your dirty excuses
you've got hate running through your veins / and your blood runs like the venom of a poisonous snake / emptiness, my old friend / will be your victory and the riches you have earned you deserve every red cent
it's too late to turn back now / crying for a love that you know you never learned how to make / buried in what you dug / crying for a love when you know you never learned how
Hate is running through my veins / and my blood runs like the venom of a poisonous snake / emptiness, my old friend / keep me company as I hunt down and kill my enemies cause there must be
6. Montana
driving north on 35 heading into the night / the suns getting easier for me to look at / I've been singing these songs about you Montana / for so long without ever even knowing it / the things that you can't see / if you look you'll find / they'll deliver everything / somewhere somehow I got everything backwards
from the gas tank to the engine / ambition sets the pistons on fire / and when you feel the distance in an empty bed / lord you'll know that you're the woman of a hard working guitar pickin' man
you know my dream has always been / a freight train leaving town / I grew up small town but I always knew I'd get out of that somehow / I'm barely breathing on this stage / but it's keeping me alive / there's nowhere I'd rather be / than on my way home to you tonight
driving north on 35 heading into the night / the suns getting easier for me to look at / maybe Memphis TN, maybe New Orleans / maybe Arizona, I guess we'll see
7. Alabaster
on the outside looking in / i've never been able to crack the code / to break the secret spell / that would open up the door and let me in / to everything I've been looking for so hard I've never seen / but I feel my strength returning tonight / its flowing from the purest well to ever give water / It spills out into an ocean where the sharks are circling / a carnival of counterfeits has no room for something real
arrogance and ego wrapped around every word / shouted from the pulpit as a judgment to control / these were my roots my seed was thrown in shallow soil / I grew into the thorn bushes to be scorched by the sun / but I feel the gravel move beneath my feet / the smell of the gasoline mixed in with the trees / when my faith is strong I know my strength / the threats will be screamed when the vultures fell threatened
so I'll open up the door and let you in / I want to break the alabaster smell the sweet perfume / and when the bottle is broken I'll have nothing left to give / I'll know I'll already have everything worth having / but I feel my strength returning tonight / its flowing from the purest well to ever give water / it spills out into and ocean where the sharks are circling / a carnival of counterfeits want to crucify something real
8. The City Is Calling
the city is calling / everybody is searching for the keys / to all the prisons that the cruel and kind intention can create / the boys and girls of winter gather at the end of November / to drink the drops of joys and sorrows from each others dripping trees
all of life's secrets are in your branches / make sure it's the truth before you write it down kids / stair at the kiss-marks on a spiderman notebook / waxy sweetness, to explore every degree of your mental health
much better to pass into that other world / in the full glory of the passions that you found here / than to fade and wither with age / from watching the flickering light dim in the eyes of the living.
all of life's secrets are in your branches / make sure it's the truth before you write it down kids / stair at the kiss-marks on a spiderman notebook / to explore every degree of your mental health / save up all of your innocence and grow the ripe fruit / to explore every degree of your mental health
9. Secrets of a Salesman
these baby secrets have grown into children / through dirty adolescence and now into manhood / I locked the basement door and broke off the skeleton key / but it made no difference still they travel with me even though I killed them they haunt me and they help me / remember the lies in the shadows, the practiced charades / my hands are an axe chopping at the roots / of the only family tree that could ever bear fruit / to cripple you to make sure that you never reproduce / another heart of lies or house of haunted rooms
the arrow is thrown into your back nothing has ever been / so distant and weak / dreaded words whispered under her breath "your just like your father" / your ocean is a drop of water
tightly woven wire mesh beneath the broken salesman as he's rolling down the conveyer belt / the product is almost ready to be shipped out the door / out into the world to make a living selling plastic faces to everyone who needs em / to forget the lies in the shadows, the practiced charades / the enemy will make sure the ties on straight / it's always best to make an impression of wealth / no matter how much hatred and debt is boiling beneath the surface / "I love you" spills like vomit from her lips
the arrow is thrown into your back / nothing has ever been so distant and weak / the dreaded words whispered under her breath "you're just like your father" / your ocean is a drop of water / I locked the basement doors and broke of the skeleton key / forget the lies in the shadows, don't forget me
10. Prison Is Private Property
the have nots have had enough and now they're out to kill the king / of what looks to be an evil empire where short-term earnings mean everything / there's a pressure to deliver here, your gonna get hurt if you don't play this game / nobody will ever know, just the CEO to the CFO / if you can work some magic, we can double our paychecks, so make the #s look right / wall street is a ruthless mistress with a quick and painful judgment / temptation is in deep now, threads of greed run through this fabric / weaving tapestries over your eyes to prepare the landscapes for disaster / anthrax or a plane crash, biochemical, or even nuclear attacks / integrity is too damn expensive, discount the price but still / nobody's buying so come up with the money boys or you'll be chocking on a barrel / and it just might be your own finger squeezing on the trigger / call in the reinforcements
you're working hard on a life of your own / three square meals and a place to call home / the American dream can be found here if you keep your mouth closed / but the teeth you keep clinched is what's killing the chance / your mouth is watering as you imagine / swallowing each new possession / its building a prison
you'll think there's a place where you made it / you searched for this your whole life / new answers will satisfy but then you realize it's never enough / that's the slickest marketing I've ever seen - a spiraling trap / with enough ambition and a firm set of rules you can have anything you want / you can walk right out into the world and capture and kill god / in a little box or a little book to be understood / but no one can argue with the good sense and strength of a solid foundation / or with the weakness born when corruption is the rule and not the exception / I'm trying hard to forget everything I thought I knew / you've climbed much too high to let the truth stop you now / or to concern yourself with the investments of
lesser honest men / the ladder's been brutal but the payoff is just around the corner / call in the reinforcements
you're working hard on a life of your own / three square meals and a place to call home / but you keep getting lost each time you walk out your front door / me I've got a family I know real well what it means / to make sure there's enough food on the table each day / but I'd rather starve than be a whore for an empty living
11. Death - Right
you'll die young if you live so carefully / there are risks you must take to pay this world / I know it would never be that easy / I have not yet earned the right to die / I want you to hear me screaming / I want you to notice what goes on / temptation and evil demons crawling the earth hiding in every corner
I've seen men crippled in anger / the sun burns alive in silence / I've seen men wallow in fear / inaction acts as a blade across the throat / I'll learn how to make decisions / I'll stick by my word - won't let you down / I swear by the grave that's calling / nothing will stop me from doing what must be done
something here is still innocent / It doesn't matter if you decide not to believe it / There are still places where the magic can breathe / I want to breathe it in / I want to lay down and never leave
we're stalking the ancient mariner / through waters he takes his lonely course / once powerful once beautiful / extinction lingering these things are no more / I love you I'll never leave you / though I may be gone for years on end / I will never be separate / lovers through the lives before and after
something here is still innocent / It doesn't matter if you decide not to believe it / There are still places where the magic can breathe / I want to breathe it in / I want to lay down and never leave
12. Mix Tapes / Cellmates
I am a prisoner in the sunlight / you are my cellmate in the darkness / there's a box full of mix tapes with titles you came up with / they can show us where we came from but not how to get back there / listening to the songs can't heal my broken fingers it's just weight for the anchor to keep your ship here
goldfish crackers in a zip-lock bag / in a gas station garbage can / I'm filling up this evening so I won't have to at 6am / on my way into work but that could have been me / working behind that counter on the curb there smoking / we're really not that different just a few steps from exploding
now I'm serving time / till I've earned the right / to go back to the place where we started from / now I'm serving time / till I've earned the right / baby I swear one day we'll get the money straight
I am a prisoner in the sunlight / you are my cellmate in the darkness / I just hope I wake up before this streetlight changes / you know this world is eating him alive / but you just can't find the metaphor to describe / the bottle of pills and the emptiness in the soft light
now I'm serving time / till I've earned the right / to go back to the place where we started from / now I'm serving time / till I've earned the right / baby I swear one day we'll get the money straight