American Dream Lyrics

X's on calendars became a way to spend your days before they truly came, and so in seconds you could waste entire years away, yet never show your age. Wanting, waiting, hoping, pat...Read Full Lyrics

Cast your stones, make them count, while I'm still unarmed, because when it comes to my turn, all I need is one. Make your cut, wipe the knife across my white shirt. Bandange me wi...Read Full Lyrics

I once gave a girl a gold ring, it hung from her neck on a chain. I thought its possession would be a constant reminder of me, but sadly that ornament lacked the presence devotion ...Read Full Lyrics

He began speaking apologies before she had opened her door. It was safer that way, to have had something to say at the moment when Fate chose its course. Both of them stood there e...Read Full Lyrics

I saw that mansion of glory. It lit the hills with subtle fires so bright it hid my suffering, 'til shame made me avert my eyes. I walked along 'til evening. My heavy head grew tir...Read Full Lyrics

You're waking, you're walking - it's good to know something can move you the way I did some years ago, though all I feel haunting this room is a shell I once knew (could it really ...Read Full Lyrics

Well I claimed just a day, but I stayed the entire week in your bed, in repose, while your lips pressed my eyelids closed every night, ever close, never mind sleeping in our clothe...Read Full Lyrics

Dust all day, her bruises were untouched. No suspect fled the scene. No fingerprints to tell them how much you knew of me. How could you be unclean? You kept your dress so perfect,...Read Full Lyrics

Is the diagnosis bad? I slept all day beside the TV on the floor beneath my bed. Could you come and check my mail? It seems you have forgotten how I should be noticed even when I'm...Read Full Lyrics

It's painful every time I call upon your arms to suffocate the song I'll sing until the past catches up to me. I beg you, remember me last night. I've paid for every hour spent dan...Read Full Lyrics