FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND Chapter And Verse LYRICS
album: "Chapter And Verse" (2015)
Stand By Me For The Millionth Time
I’ve seen youth falter at the last fucking hurdle
Resentment of a homewrecker
Resentment from a homewrecker
And I don’t need your sympathy
I know what you did to me
I know what you did
I know what you did to me
For a change I would like more, more tattoos
For a change I could like myself
Cover up my flaws
Wrap me in plastic
Send me off downstream
The midtown rush and I’m stuck in line
Waiting for a sign… passing off metaphors
As conversation down some shitty fucking phone line
And I can’t think of a better place to be
And I can’t think of a better place to be
And I can’t think of a better place to be
I wish I could be a better me
For a change I would like more, more tattoos
For a change I could like myself
Cover up my flaws
Wrap me in plastic
Send me off downstream
I’ve sat and watched Stand by Me for the millionth time
It’s a lifeline… I wish I was Chris Chambers
But in truth I’m more like Vern and I’m okay with that
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For a change I would like more, more tattoos
For a change I could like myself
Cover up my flaws
Wrap me in plastic
Send me off downstream
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You've Got A Bad Case Of The Religions
An equal opportunist lever
A fair deal with maybe more to offer
But there is just a little piece of bullshit
That I can't work through
And I can relate to what you're going through
I'm going through the same old shit that we go through
Yes, we all go through
And it's never been anything else
So get on your knees and pray
Because you say I'm fucking laughing at you
Living life in chapter and verse
Some days it feels more like a curse
So I'd rather live my life
Well I concern myself about losing my hair
About losing my teeth and everything
And not a inch of self respect
That I will never meet again
And I'm happy
So happy
I don't believe in anything
The fakeness that you choose to live your life by
It means nothing to me
So get on your knees and pray
Because you say I'm fucking laughing at you
Living life in chapter and verse
Some days it feels more like a curse
So I'd rather live my life
And I'm not afraid of your doctrines
Religious persecution in the name of a "fake"
And I don't believe
And I won't believe
And I don't believe
Why, never believed in anything.
So get on your knees and prey
Because it seems I'm fucking laughing at you
Living life in chapter and verse
Some days it feels more like a curse
You lived your life in chapter and verse
Some days it feels more like a curse
But I'd rather live my life
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Pencil Pusher
Pass the fists and I’m pacified
I can hear the dogs bark behind the house
Clean sheets and an empty head
Salt in the wound
All these bad ideas just wear me thin
Like an empty head
Like an empty bed
[Chorus:]
I don’t feel anything
You don’t mean anything
When there’s nothing, regret nothing
Just a momentary lapse of judgement
I said something I should have kept to myself
And thought this over
I should think things over
[Chorus]
Sometimes I feel buried beneath the skin
Beneath these bones
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll ever feel so alone
[Chorus]
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You Should Be Ashamed Of Yourself
This used to be an open place
This used to be a place for conversation
A weary welcome and a tired embrace
You know I only wanted
I only wanted to see your face
[Chorus:]
Feminists are beautiful
And you can hold that against me
Born with a dick doesn’t mean that I’m a misogynist
Sex is meaningful
Don’t be complacent
Don’t sit and wait for your life to “arrive”
‘Cause they want to see you fail
[Chorus]
“Hey, so what if I thought we could be friends?”
Sex is meaningful, just not a means to an end
[Chorus]
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1%
When nothing is original
When it's all been done to death
Excitement level's at an all time low
Economy just takes a blow
And we're left holding your mistakes
And you think that stealing is acceptable
Would you steal from your friends
Did your parents teach you nothing
Would you steal from your friends
(Would you steal from your friends)
Putting on a soul without control in a form with focus
I never wanted anything else
Yeah I speak my mind
But don't claim it's a crisis
Yes I speak my mind
Just don't claim it's a crisis
Just don't claim it's a crisis
And you think that stealing is acceptable
Would you steal from your friends
Did your parents teach you nothing
Would you steal from your friends
I'm content with that I'm feeling
Feel the struggle between you and me
And seeing your face up close
Is better than through a telescope
Yeah I'm content with that I'm feeling
Feel the struggle between you and me
And seeing your face up close
Is better than through a telescope
Is better than through a telescope
Is better than through a telescope
When nothing is original
Because its all been done to death
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After All These Years… Like A Lightbulb Going Off In My Head
I hate this town, I’ve always hated it
Just too many things I’ve been meaning to say
And not enough reasons for me to stay
And how can we just carry on?
‘Cause when you wake up, I’ll be gone
[Chorus:]
Building up your coffin
Burying your dreams
Making up excuses
To leave it all behind
It’s killing me
Your family and friends will always wonder “why?”
You hate this town, you’ve always hated it
Still too many things you’ve been meaning to say
And not enough reasons for me to stay
And how can we just carry on?
‘Cause when I wake up, you’ll be gone
[Chorus]
Baggage goes around the belt
These lies are killing my esteem
How much I want to laugh at the ones who carry on
Language barriers are keeping me awake
How do we translate the things that make us who we are
When it’s the same things that are keeping us apart?
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Modern Excuse Of A Man
Island liver like we think that we’re “oh, so special”
Like we’re owed the things that we can never quite hold on to
Let me ask you something
Do you think this weather suits you?
Let me ask you something
Do you think it suits you?
So if I see you and your words fail to connect with mine
Let me be the first to apologize
For every fucking thing that I haven’t done or will do
So you can quietly walk on by
Into a distant memory where I will lock you up
And throw away the key
We’re sick of playing these shitty games
I’m sick of playing these shitty games
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Inequality
We put the power in the hands of the wealthy
Elitist thinking they know what’s best for us
Not knowing, not knowing right from wrong
Just taking and never giving back
[Chorus:]
They stole what we gave and feathered their own nests
So while we die, they multiply
The symptoms of bigger problems
A distraction of our new world order meltdown
Everybody thinks they’ve got the answers
When there’s only one
Dumbing down as the race begins to falter
New generations of a mindless order
[Chorus]
We run around like headless chickens
Blame each other, blame the others
[Chorus]
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Brother
Decades of aggression through this revolution of the mind
This hole in my heart I feel right now
I see the same things in you
[Chorus:]
Dear brother, my life is in your hands
Another open wound that we must defend
If I die in this place, take my words to them
This family in the light and tell them I love them
[Chorus]
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Donny
Deep down like a small investment
Trained teeth that can bite and tear
Like it’s something that’s worth giving up everything for
And four hour sleep in someone else’s bed
It’s just a feeling I get
[Chorus:]
Do you feel the need like I feel the need
To feel love like a human car crash?
Like the way your parents shake
When you tell them “My life is mine”
Do you feel the need like I feel the need
To feel love?
It’s just a feeling I get
A feeling I get when I’m numb
When I can’t fall asleep
And I pick apart the things I hate about myself
So self-loathing is another trend
Amongst all you bloggers and you hipster teens
[Chorus]
I tied my brother to a tree in the woods
I could have left him there to die but I didn’t
‘Cause you see, there’s such a thing as family
And it means more to me than you ever could
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The Jade Tree Years Were My Best
Sometimes when the lights go out
I pretend that I’m someone else
I pretend like the best of them
If I hold, if I hold my breath just to feel
That my insides ache from the pressure
Then I breathe again
[Chorus:]
And if I could remember when it fell apart
The broken glass and bloody lips
I’m checking off your list
Another cold December spent waiting by the phone
The broken glass and bloody lips
I’m checking off your list
I’m calling ex-girlfriends
To tell them I’m sorry
Forgetting the next day
Trying to sleep it all away
Just to sleep it all away
Sometimes when the lights go out
I pretend that I’m someone else
I pretend like the best of them
If I hold, if I hold my breath just to feel
That my insides ache from the pressure
Then I breathe again
[Chorus]
I’m calling ex-girlfriends
To tell them I’m sorry
Forgetting the next day
Trying to sleep it all away
Just to sleep it all away
[Chorus]
