Welcome To The Occupation lyrics - Cold War Kids

Whistle blowers gotta get outta school
They don't want poets, they want pigeons on a stool
You're examining fossils, defending criminals
I'm clock watching, getting dumb
Photographing models a house painter's solace
I'm like sisyphus in the sun

And I give up
Raising your kids America
You treat 'em like an obligation
Welcome to the occupation

The devil's in the details, devil's in the details
He's got your gold watch and chain
The devil's in the details, devil's in the details
He's got your gold watch and chain

Whistle blowers, we know how you feel
Public servants surrender their free will
But you can't be in politics and work in the circus
You have to choose just one
You hold the nail, I'll swing the hammer
That's how things get done

But goodbye valedictorians, goodbye punks
Goodbye valedictorians, goodbye punks

And I give up
Raising your kids America
You treat 'em like an obligation
Welcome to the occupation

The devil's in the details, devil's in the details
He's got your gold watch and chain
The devil's in the details, devil's in the details
Got your gold watch and chain

Golden Gate Jumpers lyrics - Cold War Kids

Thick fog rolls in waves
On the Golden Gate
I was checking my watch
With seven minutes on my shift

When I spot a black skirt on the rail
Straddling the bar like it's a quarter a ride
She's scared to jump, but terrified to stay
Walk to her slow, extend my hand with a smile and say

"Ma'am how was your day?
Keep your eyes on my face!
I want to help you if you'll let me."

She's startled, I look forward
Wrap my arms around her legs
Pull her down to the sidewalk
We're both heaving for air and I say

"Ma'am how was your day?
Keep your eyes on my face!
I want to help you if you'll let me."

Most folks think they'll hit the surface
And never feel no pain
Water pulls you under
Back to the womb once again

Bodies float to the shore
Bloated purple and blue
If sharks don't get to you first
Crabs will have their way with you

Avalanche In B lyrics - Cold War Kids

Oh, avalanche in apartment B
Everywhere white's what I see
I've never lived alone
So near the ocean breeze
I can finally afford high anxiety

Reach up, cold air hits your hands
Snow packs like cement you can't stand
Remain calm while rescue makes plans

Oh, avalanche in aparment B
All at once the weight dropped on me
Sweating at the bar
Fifteen minutes ago
We we're yelling our heads off
Now I'm surrounded by snow

Reaching up, cold air hits your hands
Snow packs like cement you can't stand
Remain calm while rescue makes plans
The earth must contract and expand

I've Seen Enough lyrics - Cold War Kids

How's it going to feel when summer ends?
Out of money, out of friends

I've seen enough of nothing new
The blacker stain on history or last laugh blues
Not gonna fight, not gonna cry
Not gonna shop around for one flag to fly

I've seen enough, inventor's age
I've cover up my face, brownbeaten shame
I've got the itch, I feel the sting
Like fallen in to the deepest sleep, telephone rings

How's it going to feel when summer ends?
Out of money, out of friends
How's it going to feel when summer ends?
Out of money, out of friends

I've seen enough, the angry mob
Yeah they were unison da-da-da
They can't be stopped
Sitting at home, making plans
Don't wanna be another silly set of accident hands

How's it going to feel when summer ends?
Out of money, out of friends
How's it going to feel when summer ends?
Out of money, out of friends

Every Man I Fall For lyrics - Cold War Kids

Every man I fall for
Drinks his coffee black
"Love" and "Hate" are tattoed on his knuckles and
My name is on his back

Every man I fall for
Works the graveyard shift
He kisses me softly to wake me up
Then takes my place in bed

And I fall
I leave with one concern
It's the law of diminishing returns
It's the law of diminishing returns

Every man I fall for keeps his anger on
A string and holds it tight
When other man walk by blinking their eyes at me
He always pick a fight

I go walk alone down Ocean Boulevard
Peaking your windows
Tired housewives nagging at their husbands, but
Is this the life you chose?

And I fall
I leave with one concern
It's the law of diminishing returns
And I fall
I leave with one concern
It's the law of diminishing returns

Every man I fall for
Nearly every man
Every man I fall for
Nearly every man

Dreams Old Men Dream lyrics - Cold War Kids

Thought I was laying in the gutter in
Milk cartons and bones
But I was standing on a mountain top
Looking over your homes

Thought I was laying my garden with
My hands deep in soil
But I was there on an island
Shooting flares at your boat

Thought I was soothing like a violin
Confessing new rain
But I was piping like a trumpet
Frantic for fame

Thought I was built like a building's built
Iron, concrete and stone
I realize I'm just a hack actor
Finished playing my role

Your reading my thoughts
Dreams old men dream
It's just like when we were kids
We'd lay around wondering
We try to listen to what they say

Thought I was writing for a hundred hours
Looking straight into me
But I was reading on the news paper
Obituaries

Thought I was nervous like a mailman
Reading your letters, dear
But I was at our anniversary
Toasting 30 years

Your reading my thoughts
Dreams old men dream
It's just like when we were kids
We'd lay around wondering

We try to listen to what they say
We try to listen to what they say

Push my piano outside
I don't care, I don't care
Beneath the meteor black sky
I don't care, I don't care

The neighbours will complain
Let them stare, let them stare
Who knows where the time goes?
I don't care, I don't care

What would you think of me if I told you
I haven't slept in weeks?
I've been up chasing my childhood with a pin
These are dreams old men dream

On The Night My Love Broke Through lyrics - Cold War Kids

On the night that my love broke through
On the night that my love broke through
Revelations that came unglued
On the night that my love broke through

Cell doors were opened
Guards stepped out the way
Prisoners got one acre of land and one year's pay

Flowers long since dead
Stiffened at the neck
Colors came back in green and yellow and in red

Unemployed cowboy
Staggered on Fairfax
Trucks pulled up and fifteen men hollered and hopped in back

A copy of Bukowski
At the bottom of the stack
Got pickup by some dropout who read it front to back
Shoving off the death hand of his past

Ants were crawling out of
Grimy bathtub drains
Janitor was laughing, he had finally gone insane

City buses swerving
Arriving right on time
Vending machines were selling glasses of white wine by the dime

Streetlights got a burst of
Electricity
Sparks danced across windshields like a grand finale

Metal detector's beeping
Sound was deafening
Everywhere bearded men dug up wedding rings
We all stopped to listen to him sing

On the night when my love broke through
On the night when my love broke through
Revelations that came unglued
On the night when my love broke through

On the night
On the night
On the night
On the night

Relief lyrics - Cold War Kids

Flash flood, you got too comfortable
So I showed you who's really in control
You gave all of your savings to the poor

Lightning on the river and you're shivering
With your fishing pole
Same night you bought a ring and you proposed

You never really know what you can't really see
I'll be there, I'll be there
You made it out alive, oh what a relief
I'll be there, I'll be there

Earthquake in your pajamas huddled in doorways
While your house is swaying
Blue blood pumping like a hunter's fist

I love the shape your faces make
"Oh my, thank you for keeping me safe"
Even though you know it don't always go that way

You never really know what you can't really see
I'll be there, I'll be there
You made it out alive, oh what a relief
I'll be there, I'll be there

Everything will be explained
Your wild guess, everything will be explained
Go ahead, everything will be explained
Your wild guess, everything will be explained

Cryptomnesia lyrics - Cold War Kids

I sold you for parts
You get what you want
Then I'll want it too

I know who you are
Don't know who your not
I don't dare ask

Come back, we'll use the stove
We'll make plans in the back
Of your pickup truck

Oh, why no one told
She crowns my lips
And waits up

Helicopter sails
Watching bird's eye
That's when I dropped

And all my hands
Where behaving
Like maps expired

These rocks have been kicked
My body is spent
Can't stop and rest, oh no

Your comfort plus ease
I see it in 3-D
You can't dream so slow

Don't check the index for reference
Curse the sky "Lord, give me hints"
I search the place for your prints

I feel your cryptomnesia
Cryptomnesia

"Robbers And Cowards" (2006)

We Used To Vacation lyrics - Cold War Kids

I kissed the kids at noon
Then stumbled out the room
I caught a cab, ran up a tab on 7th & flower

Beth's recital I had to run
Missed my son's graduation
Punched the Nichols boy for taking his seat
He gets all that anger from me

Still, things could be much worse
Natural disasters, on the evening news
Still, things could be much worse
We've still got our health
My paycheck in the mail

I promised to my wife and children,
I'd never touch another drink as long as I live
But even then it sounds so soothing
This will blow over in time
This will all blow over in time

I'm just an honest man
Provide for me and mine
I give a check to tax deductible charity organizations
Two weeks paid vacation, won't heal the damage done
I need another one

Still, things could be much worse
Natural disasters on the evening news
Still things could be much worse
We've still got our health
My paycheck in the mail

I promised to my wife and children I'd never touch another drink as long as I live
But even then it sounds so soothing to mix a gin and sink into oblivion

I promised to my wife and children
That accident left everyone a little shook up
But at the meetings I felt so empty
This will blow over in time
This will all blow over in time

Hang Me Up To Dry lyrics - Cold War Kids

Careless in our summer clothes, splashing around in the muck and the mire
Careless in our summer clothes, splashing around in the muck and the mire

Fell asleep with stains, caked deep in the knees (what a pain)

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out too, too, too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the whites wh-whites of your eyes

All mixed up in the wash
Hot water bleeding our colors
All mixed up in the wash
Hot water bleeding our colors

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out too, too, too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the whites wh-whites of your eyes

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out too, too, too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the whites wh-whites of your eyes

Tell Me In The Morning lyrics - Cold War Kids

Stick around greenleaf, now that she's gone
Take my time when I got to bed, and I sleep long
I'm getting over, mulling over
I said, "Could you just wait to tell me in the morning?"

Slow it down, slow it down
And lay it low, save it for the morning

I know that you would like, like to change me
Make me softer to your voice like a baby
I'm using caution, but you're warning
I wish that you could wait to tell me in the morning

Slow it down, slow it down
And lay it low, save it for the morning

I'm shouting questions, like a fist fight
You try to take me by the arms lead me to the light
I'm almost over, warring over
I wish that you could wait to tell me in the morning

Slow it down, slow it down
And lay it low, save it for the morning
And I'll tell you one more thing

I confess to self deception
And I broke the lock and I pried it open
Then pretended to be stolen
I am my own thief in the night

Struggled for many years just to get here
To learn humility and be my own teacher
I guess it backfired 'cause my motive
Was just to take and never care 'bout what I give

Slow it down, slow it down
And lay it low, save it for the morning

I'm shouting questions like a fist fight
You try to take me by the arms lead me to the light
I'm almost over, warring over
I wish that you could wait to tell me in the morning

Slow it down, slow it down
Laying low, save it for the morning
But I'll tell you one more thing

I confess to self deception
And I broke the lock and I pried it open
Then pretended to be stolen
I am my own thief in the night

Hair Down lyrics - Cold War Kids

Conversations that went on terrible paths
Don't talk about that, no no don't talk about that
We're coming back loud, ending this conversation

Said you let your hair down
You've got enough to go 'round, oh my
Said you'd let your hair down
But you've been telling me that since the day we met

She's laughing like a choir girl
She's laughing like a choir girl
She's laughing like a choir girl
When she doubles over sounds like Hallelujah

She's talking to my mother
She's on the phone with my mother
She's talking to my mother
She's looking up at me like I'm a criminal

She bargains like a lawyer
Sacrifice like a martyr
She's just her mother's daughter
Cutting cloth and washing up and

We were still just babies
Dreaming of the 60's
We were still just babies
Dressing up in rags with our wallets full

Now our pockets are shallow coin runnin' low
I saw their empty but I'm just a fool
Roman in the kitchen told me that true love it waits
But of all the rules he lives by that's the one that he hates

Passing The Hat lyrics - Cold War Kids

Look up from the hymnal, around at the faces of families closing their eyes
We're taking Communion and passing the offering hat around at the same time

I reach for the hat and take all the cash and slide it into my ragged coat sleeve
And leave in its place a note to explain all of the reasons the spirit has lead me to leave
If there was a worthy cause for to give to may I be so bold as to say ”The givers not knowing where their money's going is as sinful as throwing away”

Stained glass it shines on my red wine and the sweat on my brow drips to my shaking knees
A small sacrifice to benefit one man's journey away from America's seas

Sweet sweet sigh of relief
Sweet sweet O Baltic Sea
Sweet sweet sigh of relief
Sweet sweet O Baltic Sea
Sweet sweet sigh of relief
Sweet sweet O Baltic Sea

Nobody here knows my name
Call it right or wrong
I bought my ticket just the same

Saint John lyrics - Cold War Kids

Suppertime in the hole
Suppertime in the hole
I shame my family
Shame my home
Suppertime...

Old Saint John on death row, he's just waiting for a pardon
Old Saint John on death row, he's just waiting for a pardon
Old Saint John on death row, he's just waiting for a pardon
Old Saint John on death row, boy he's just a-waiting...

All the white boys in their stay-pressed slacks, they're home for the summer from college
Stayin' out late, getting rowdy at the bar, they're looking for trouble uptown
They come up my block, about 5 or 6 of them, smashin' their bottles in the gutter
Yelling all kinds of obscenities, about women and God and law

Another suppertime in the hole
Suppertime
I shame my family
Shame my home
Suppertime...

Young girl turn the corner with her clerk dress on, that girl was my sister
Just got off the night shift at Penningtons Place, just wanna go home and get some sleep
Boys grab her by the waist with their caffeine eyes, their hands all figdet and 'lectric
I picked up a brick from my papa's front yard and threw it at the tallest boy's face
Well blood was streaming like a well that sprung, I couldn't believe what I had just done
Well the other boys ran and this one stayed on the ground and he would never move again

Old Saint John on death row, he's just waiting for a pardon
Old Saint John on death row, he's just waiting for a pardon
All us boys on death row, we just waiting for a pardon
All us boys on death row

Yours truly on trial, I testify
I got to keep on running till the well run dry
Yours truly on trial, I testify
I got to keep on running till the well run dry
Yours truly on trial, I testify
I got to keep on running till the well run dry
Yours truly on trial, I testify
I got to keep on running till the well run dry

Robbers lyrics - Cold War Kids

Sulking, walking round' the city after dark
Need protection, from street toughs who clip the locks and rip the doors off rough, like cowards

Oh this life of glorified
Robbing from the blind is not easy, you see
Don't think I don't know sympathy
My victims in my shadow staring back at me

Not me, I'm knockin
Tiptoe outside a stranger's door casually let myself in
Fill pockets with trinkets, purses, china, antique armoire

Oh this life of glorified
Robbing from the blind is not easy, you see
Don't think I don't know sympathy
My victims in my shadow staring back at me

There's robbers in my thoughts!
They tell me what to think, they're hiding in my clothes, crawling in the kitchen sink

Hospital Beds lyrics - Cold War Kids

There's nothing to do here, some just whine and complain, in bed at the hospital
Coming and going, asleep and awake, in bed at the hospital

Tell me the story of how you ended up here, I've heard it all in the hospital
Nurses are fussin' , doctors on tour somewhere in India

I got one friend laying across from me
I did not choose him, he did not choose me
We've got no chance of recovery
Sharing hospital joy and misery, joy and misery, joy and misery

Put out the fire boys, don't stop don't stop
Put out the fire on us
Put out the fire boys, don't stop don't stop
Put out the fire on us
Bring your buckets by the dozens, bring your nieces and your cousins, come put out the fire on us

Vietnam, fishing trips, Italian opera
Vietnam, fishing trips, Italian opera

I got one friend laying across from me
I did not choose him, he did not choose me
We've got no chance of recovery
Sharing hospital joy and misery, joy and misery, joy and misery
The joy, the joy, the joy misery

Put out the fire boys, don't stop don't stop
Put out the fire on us
Put out the fire boys, don't stop don't stop
Put out the fire on us
Bring your buckets by the dozens, bring your nieces and your cousins, come put out the fire on us

Pregnant lyrics - Cold War Kids

Sliver deceit, speaking in tongues
Deft as a surgeon's knife carving through bone
Pregnant with doubt
You figured out
Tricks of the trade to make whisper a shout
Mouth full of sweets
Rotting your teeth
Lift up the rug and sweep it underneath

You were dreaming when you don't believe

Pregnant with doubt
You figured out
Tricks of the trade to make whisper a shout
Mouth full of sweets
Rotting your teeth
Lift up the rug and sweep it underneath

You were dreaming when you don't believe

Sliver deceit, speaking in tongues
Deft as a surgeon's knife carving through bone

Red Wine, Success! lyrics - Cold War Kids

He pours the wine into his coffee cup
This jazz has dropped, it's time to pick it up
2:30 he rolls out of this brass at last
Terence love is barking something crass

Each night a thousand stairs go up both ways
Soul and colour peeking through his sleeves
M's down at the coast it's too late for busses run
Slides into his headphones, sleeps to solo monk

Success success his smile is saccharine
Glamorous he's pouring Pancho's gin
Lives his live a painful and lovely day
In the history of a great pregnancy

Squat public library checking out "The Trial"
Strolls to the pier to gather his thoughts
Squat public library checking out "The Trial"
He's talking to himself about it

He don't get upset, get upset
He can't sleep
He'll have another cigarette and don't get upset
He don't get upset, get upset

God, Make Up Your Mind lyrics - Cold War Kids

Backseat of your family station wagon, listening Nina Simone
One Hundred years of solitude and only 12 years old

God make up your mind
God make up your mind
Do you wanna play fair
Or should I take what's mine

Your mom is calling out, ”Look at the Grand Canyon”
Camilla couldn't care less
Gaze into the hole
Your stomach feels the emptiness of death

God make up your mind
God make up your mind
Do you wanna play fair
Or should I take what's mine, like everyone else

From New York to New Orleans, played alphabet
Kansas to Boise, won the battleship
Memorized the capitals, crossword puzzles
Drew a picture of a cat laying dead in the street
Daydream about my real dad back in California

Elephant in your brain, reminding you you've got to make a choice
Wraps his arms around you slow
Cause you tense up like an armadillo

God make up your mind
God make up your mind
Do you wanna play fair
Or should I take what's mine, like everyone else

Why ain't my teacher on a street sign?
He's done so much more than politicians, dead musicians
You wanna help someone you gotta be a no one
That's what I figured out the cat in the street meant

You gotta make up your mind
Make up your mind
Make up your mind

Rubidoux lyrics - Cold War Kids

So let's go deadbolt your shed door
Cram your paper money snug closer than before
Chandeliers are falling in graveyard rows
And your eyes are shifting dials like AM radios

Snowed over river melted more last night
Still the same to shovel windshields of spidered ice
Yes, yes mother I mean to be baptized
Seeds that make the high ground grow and multiply

Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Bourbon and a pistol in the dash out of sight
What did you expect? Romantic Isle of Wight?
Just empty desert light

Few feet float above these Persian throw rugs
And tuck themselves in percussion as succession was
Tonight as single simple folk played themselves slow
Just like talking city blues down in the hallway low

Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Bourbon and a pistol in the dash out of sight
What did you expect? Romantic Isle of Wight?
Just empty desert light

I suggest that you respect the deal
And keep your nose out of business of
Priests and holy men, the life you have chosen
Is filled with dirty fingernails
And lost and founds and cancelled appointments

10 more avenues time to choose
And there's rain that'll fall down in five
There's 50 doors to choose from and there's many more
Many more inside inside inside
And the nighttime's going to come
The nighttime's going to come

Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Bourbon and a pistol in the dash out of sight
What did you expect? Romantic Isle of Wight?
Just empty desert light

Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Drive to Rubidoux in the the middle of the night
Just empty desert light
Just empty desert light
Just empty desert light

EP: "Mulberry Street" (2005)

The Soloist In The Living Room lyrics - Cold War Kids

Center stage, mixed reviews
Haven't slept in forever
Practicing flawless moves
Talking back to the mirror

Back and to the left
Bounce back
Memorizing lines
Stutters in his speech

Maybe
Lose that nervous twitch
Waiting for this chance
To prove the talk is wrong

Center stage, mixed reviews
Haven't slept in forever
Practicing flawless moves
Talking back to the mirror

Back and to the left
Bounce back
Memorizing lines
Stutter in your speech

Maybe
Lose that nervous twitch
Waiting for this chance
To prove the talk is wrong

Heavy Boots lyrics - Cold War Kids

Heavy boots for crying out loud
Heavy boots are caught up in the crowd
You hear the news we haven't got a chance
Heavy boots we're crawling on our hands

Smokestacks burning up my bills
New York cuts and Hamptons on stilts
Turnstile the radio boys
Seasick yards are popping floorboards

Crooked nights dreams I can't speak
Overpass raining underneath
Great sales the pretty fine lines
On the road to where the trees touch from both sides

Smokestacks burning up my bills
New York cuts and Hamptons on stilts
Turnstile the radio boys
Seasick yards are popping floorboards

Choked nights dreams I can't speak
Overpasses raining underneath
Great sales the pretty fine lines
On the road to where the trees touch from both sides

Heavy boots for crying out loud
Heavy boots are caught up in the crowd
You hear the news we haven't got a chance
Heavy boots crawling on our hands

Feel the weight feel the weight
Find the clues recreate
Feel the weiight feel the weight
Find the clues recreate

Feel the weight feel the weight
Find the clues and recreate
Feel the weiight feel the weight
Find the clues

La la la la la la
La la la la la la
La la la la la la

Heavy boots are caught up in the crowd

Quiet, Please! lyrics - Cold War Kids

Quiet, please!
we'll soon begin
whisper if you need
to tell a friend a joke

quiet, please!
and listen up
feel free to grab the hand
of the person on your right

quiet, please!
save your applause
ushers shut your doors
as the curtain drops

did you read my mind?
did you miss your cue?
her knees are fallin' down
her fingers point to you
and flashin' words
like crashin' cars
you can't go home tonight
you can't go home tonight

the park is big
the reverend said
you'll find yourself when you lose
the stones you've been fed
quiet, please!

did you read my mind?
did you miss your cue?
her knees are fallin' down
her finger points to you
the park is big
the reverend said
you'll find yourself when you lose
the stones you've been fed
quiet, please!

The Wedding lyrics - Cold War Kids

I got dragged
Into this wedding with my friend Maurice
Hoping to dance and drink some fine champagne
Still get out early enough to drive your car
Out to the ocean
But the clouds were lost
And all the songs were sweet

Starry eyed
I'm sentimental and I get sucked in
To any union
Promising away
Like it's so easy to know how you'll be
Come anniversary

Oh, I can keep a promise
No, I can't keep a secret

She's in bloom
Her lips and shoulders dressing up this room
Dancing like the wedding's ended and.. ?

I've got time
I've been around and I've got time
But it's a crime to sit and wonder
And oh, it's a crime, oh

If you knew, oh
If you knew, oh

I am in love with everyone here
I am in love with everyone here
No, I'm not in love with anyone dear
I'm not in love

She's in bloom
Her lips and shoulders dressing up this room
Dancing like the wedding's ended and.. ?

But I've got time
I've been around and I've got time
And it's a crime to sit and wonder
And God, it's a crime

I can keep a promise
No, I can't keep a secret
Oh, I can keep a promise
No, I can't keep a...

Na, na, na, na, no
No, no, no
No

In Harmony In Silver lyrics - Cold War Kids

Jeff knocks at 1128
waits at the stairs
me and Marcus scurry down
got his ass on the rail
bright shocks our eyss
we stumble adaze
we'll save all our stories
for the tea and the shade

I know I didn't write you
but then there was no desire to
I see a sea of faces
I wish I had

Thomas's wrists on his chins
kelly green shirt
smirkin' 'cause he don't
got a nickle to pitch
steamin' plates
they for reach
we politely withhold
can't put out a fork
til Marcus has thanked the Lord

we laugh about our friends
from gradeschool
working for their fathers and
Marcus tells me Rose is doing great

and we know we sleep so long on borrowed grants and dimes from Miles
and you know that package of yours makes me proud and bittersweet with time

and we know we sleep so long on borrowed grants and dimes from Miles
and you know that package of yours makes me proud and bittersweet with time

Don't Let Your Love Grow Away (From Me) lyrics - Cold War Kids

So to speak
breathing deep
face and hands
chilly sweat
phone to ear
eyes to mirror
wall to wall
connection's clear

saw you Sunday
torn in two
my demons took up
the whole church pew
sleep walked up receieved
the bread and wine
begging Jesus to cleanse my mind
begging Jesus to cleanse my heart
begging Jesus to cleanse my soul

don't let your love grow away from me
don't let your love grow away from me
shocked to find
all my words
won't save me this time
no I won't quiet down
and you'd think by now
I bow out gracefully
goodbye to the show

don't let your love grow away from me
don't let your love grow away from me
I could rip
I could tear
our memories' seams
I could fold
show my hands
as naked as thieves
but I stare at this bridge
the cracks underneath

don't let your love grow away from me
don't let your love grow away from me
shocked to find
all my words
won't save me this time
no I won't quiet down
and you'd think by now
I bow out gracefully
and goodbye to the show

Cold War Kids other songs:

Electioneering lyrics - Cold War Kids

I will stop, I will stop at nothing
Say the right things when electioneering
I trust I can rely on your vote

When I go forwards, you go backwards
Somewhere we will meet
When I go forwards, you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet

Riot shields, voodoo economics
It's just business, cattle prods, and the IMF
I trust I can rely on your vote

When I go forwards, you go backwards
Somewhere we will meet
When I go forwards, you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet

Expensive Tastes lyrics - Cold War Kids

Strings attached, fake eye lashes
Broke apart the piggie bank for petty cash
Sensitive sister blush, and don't stare
Watch the children squabblin' in the square

Tip my hat, low windows
Once I saw you naked, there was nothing to show
Piano plays, sonata tempo
Of all the girls of in our class she's the most refined

I'd like to be there in the morning when you wake up
Maybe pipe dream, but come easter we could pack up
I'd like to be there in the morning when you wake up
Maybe pipe dream, but come easter we could pack up

I like to show up at your door step
Wearing the winter tie my neighbour tied,
And meet your family, compliment cookin'
Drink the beer your uncles are brewin'

Flat-out refused to take that job
Just because i'm poor don't mean I can't be a snob
Strawberry hair, fair freckled skin
Waiting like a creep outside catillian

Shy expression, shawl on her shoulders
Bought this house with money that your grandfather stole
Much too young, save the imagination
Ruined an elegant girl's reputation

I'd like to be there in the morning when you wake up
Maybe pipe dream, but come easter we could pack up

Woah, woah
Woah, oh
Woah, oh
Woah, oh

And when they ask me my occupation
I'm a prayin man working on my patience
I got no preference, politic party
Parents take away my car keys

Mass lets out, rollin' smokes for trades
drink my weight coffee at the penny arcade
rows of shoes, shelves of jewerly
Mama's dying her hair in the vanity

Daddy's watch too tight, try silver spoon for size
Harder than a needle through a camel's eye
Folks gather around the table, find a place
Boys that girl don't have expensive tastes

Well Well Well lyrics - Cold War Kids

(originally by John Lennon)

Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
I took my loved one out to dinner
So we could get a bite to eat
And even though we both had been much thinner
She looked so beautiful I could eat her
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well

I took my loved one to a big field
So we could watch the English sky
We both were nervous feeling guilty
And neither one of us knew just why
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well

Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
We sat and talked of revolution
And how the hell we could get things done
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well

I took my loved one to a big field
So we could catch the English sky
We both were nervous feeling guilty
And neither one of us knew just why
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well
Well, well, well, oh well