Required Reading Lyrics

[Verse 1] These lines are two months overdue I’m sorry to keep you waiting But I had a dream I said these words to you So I’d figured it was time To sit down and start wri...Read Full Lyrics

Got home, got back in my van and drove Grabbed my last three dollars and forgot my phone Proving not a single soul we know is losing their old habits So Kevin, if you’re lis...Read Full Lyrics

Talk about something new I'm goddamn desperate I'm fucking begging you In a test of recorded afternoons, you've changed To an "A" for effort beside the city train Just spinn...Read Full Lyrics

I don't need to hear your life story I just want to talk about Southern California in the Eighties In the years before you and I were born Silk-Screened onto t-shirts and sold ...Read Full Lyrics

So this is where you've been? A colonial apartment? A white picket fence? You know I pictured you determining Success behind a diamond ring But wedlock made you settle, kept y...Read Full Lyrics

Kara's never one to let us shoot her down Quickly dared and gathered around The best face of bravery Yours is masked in disgust Making at least one of us Staring at a spoonf...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1] A sleeping bag full of too much shit And you burst right in You almost took the door down Four hundred pounds And a racist drunken rage and you’re taking [Choru...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1] My finest suit My one and only, starched and hung Will finally get put to use It’s the blackest hue, as I’ll meet your family And include all of their families t...Read Full Lyrics

Please allow me to bring you up to speed Oh man, it's amazing how you don't see You'd still complain if the rope on your noose was frayed Please forgive me for coming off as rud...Read Full Lyrics

[Verse 1] Well, everyone knows you’re an asshole And your new occupation lets everyone know for sure Directing traffic in the Big Apple And toting a gun Wearing a badge that...Read Full Lyrics