Cold War Kids Lyrics

1 x 1 lyrics - Cold War Kids (feat. Wesley Schultz)

In a flash of sleep

The dream that broke my heart

There were no border lines

Keeping us apart

But then I wake up

To the sound of crying kids

No mothers here to hold

We can only wish

So I'll sing you a song

To show you my mind

Its all that I can do

To help us pass the time

One by one

We will come

You make me wait

Counting my mistakes

One by one

We will come

You make me wait

At the gate

To see your face again

Walked a thousand miles

To this promised land

Little did we know

We were already damned

How can I find sleep

When they wont turn off the light

My stomachs rumbling

No more dreams tonight

I'll sing you a song

Cuz I'm so far down

The hardest thing to do

Make a joyful sound

One by one

We will come

You make me wait

Counting my mistakes

One by one

We will come

You make me wait

At the gate

To see your face again

One by one

We will come

One by one

You make me wait

Counting my mistakes

One by one

We will come

You make me wait

Counting my mistakes

Freedom lyrics - Cold War Kids

(originally by George Michael)

All white as snow and black as night

You know you can't give up the fight

There with the stars up in the sky

The angel band sings by and by

I want to walk, I can't sit down

I want the road, I want the crown

Fear not the day when all is lost

This earthly wealth ain't worth the cost

Shadows and lights in pair that cling

Allow your soul the right to sing

All through the night, the moon will shine

The whispers heard defeat the time

Allowed to be with feasting eyes

And life alone, it is the prize

And all the things you thought you knew

Accuse the sky of being blue

Freedom from these trials in this troubled world below

Heaven In Your Hands lyrics - Cold War Kids

In the land of the plenty, your cup is empty

So tired but waiting your turn

You tried being clever, down for whatever

How many times you've been burned

Now with random statistics, detached and cryptic

You only see the bad signs

The system is failing, can't stop despairing

Nothing is changing your mind

There's a moment when you got to ask

What if heaven was to fall right in your hands

When your walls come down and the lights go up

What if heaven was to fall right in your hands

Cast out and hopeless, we were the closest

When did everything change

Is it lack of religion that makes you willing

You spin like a whirlpool there

So shout what you're feeling, truth is revealing

There's so much beauty that remains

There's a moment when you got to ask

What if heaven was to fall right in your hands

When your walls come down and the lights go up

What if heaven was to fall right in your hands

There's a moment when you got to ask

What if heaven was to, what if heaven was to

There's a moment when you got to ask

There's a moment when you got to say what you want

Whoever it hurts, whatever the cost

When the love that you need is so hard to find

Get up off your knees and reach for the sky

There's a moment when you got to ask

What if heaven was to fall right in your hands

When your walls come down and the lights go up

What if heaven was to fall right in your hands

When your walls come down and the lights go up

What if heaven was to fall right in your hands

Locker Room Talk lyrics - Cold War Kids (feat. Reggie Watts)

Locker room talk

I can't believe

You think you're gonna get around it

Dirt in your mouth

Mic on the sleeve

We all heard how it sounded

So many lies

Ya think that its true

Try walking on water

With a brick

In your shoes

You're gonna end up

Drowning

Ya conquer the small

To live like a king

From way up in your tower

Show us your hand

We know you're just bluffing

You got no real power

Keeping your word

Don't mean a thing

All your friends

Turn in to enemies

How could you be grounded

The hate in your heart

Everybody can see

Your head is hollow, man

You ain't fit to lead

Lets stand up and be counted

Minimum Mistake lyrics - Cold War Kids

Remember when I saw a movie 'bout the rapture

Strange '70s zombie movie eschatology

One day the non-believers woke to alarm clocks

Empty houses, barking dogs

Half the human race was gone

Oh, the minimum day

The minimum day

Took them away

I left feeling terrified

Ripped me a new behind

What happened to the people on a plane if the pilot might

Spontaneously disappear

When it goes down for real

The motherless babies and the quixotic teenagers cry

Oh, the minimum day

The minimum day

Take me away

The minimum day

Take me away

Once upon a time even Tom needed proof (Peter)

And Peter would sell you out

Deep down Judas was a sweet kid

James had the nerve to ask you for a VIP

I look around and say

On my hands, no I can't hide 'em

On my knees, no I can't stand 'em

On my hands, no I can't hide 'em

On my knees

On my time, on that day

I'm sorry sugar but speaking's a mistake

On my time, on that day

I'm sorry sugar but speaking's a mistake

On my time, on that day

I'm sorry sugar but speaking's a mistake

I might as well just lay down and die

(I might as well just lay down and die)

Opium Tea lyrics - Cold War Kids

(originally by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)

Here I sleep the morning through

'Til the wail of the call to prayer awakes me

And there is nothing at all to do

But rise and follow the day wherever it takes me

I stand at the window and I look at the sea

And I am what I am and what will be will be

I stand at the window and I look at the sea

And I make me a pot of opium tea

Down at the port I watch the boats come in

Watching the boats come in can do somethin' to ya

And the kids gather 'round with an outstretched hand

And I toss them a dirham or two

Well, I wonder if my children are thinking of me

'Cause I am what I am and what will be will be

I wonder if my kids are thinking of me

And I smile and I sip my opium tea

At night the sea lashes the red rust ramparts

In the shapes of hooded men who pass me

And the moan and the wind laughs and laughs and laughs

The strange lot that fate has cast me

The cats on the rampart sing merrily

That he is what he is and what will be will be

The cats on the rampart sing merrily

And I sit and I drink my opium tea

I'm a prisoner here, I can never go home

There is nothing here to win or lose

There are no choices need to be made at all

Not even the choice of havin' to choose

But I'm a prisoner yes, but I'm also free

'Cause I am what I am and what will be will be

I'm a prisoner here but I'm also free

And I smile and I sip my opium tea

Past Life lyrics - Arkells & Cold War Kids

Feeling like I'm falling

I've been getting uptight

Staring at the ceiling

Trying to get it just right

You know what's on my mind

I can't look you in the eye

I'm getting on the freeway

Underneath the night sky

I'm a little wallflower

Singing 'One Headlight'

Looking for a sign

Superstitions make me blind

I'm sick of running from a past life

I don't care about the next one

Am I running from the moment?

Or the city where I come from?

Right now I'm feeling like a stranger

Don't recognize the voice inside my head

Cuz I've been running from a past life

I wanna live, I wanna live, I wanna live

I wanna live this life instead

Today I saw my reflection

In a broken window

Gave me a flashback

Crying in my pillow

It's not my first time

On this rodeo ride

Because I never got to be young

I was born an old soul

I feel like Bob Dylan's son

Always in the shadows

I've gotta find my own

Way to write a song

I'm sick of running from a past life

I don't care about the next one

Am I running from the moment?

Or the city where I come from?

Right now I'm feeling like a stranger

Don't recognize the voice inside my head

Cuz I'm running from a past life

I wanna live, I wanna live, I wanna live

I wanna live this life instead

Can we take back

All these lies that

Added up to wasted

Years and wasted time

Let's make it right

Here in this life

After all we've been through

There's nothing left to lose

I'm sick of running from a past life (Running from a past life)

I don't care about the next one (I don't care about the next one)

Am I running from the moment? (Am I running from the moment?)

Or the city where I come from? (Or the city where I come from?)

Right now I'm feeling like a stranger (Feeling like a stranger)

Don't recognize the voice inside my head

Cuz I've been running from a past life (Running from a past life)

I wanna live, I wanna live, I wanna live

I wanna live this life instead

I wanna live, I wanna live this life instead

I wanna live, I wanna live this life, live this life

Sick of running from a past life

I'm sick of running, sick of running from a past life

Romance Languages #1 lyrics - Cold War Kids

(from "Dallas Buyers Club" soundtrack)

I have never had a devastating loss

Watch over me, when my bell rings

I would rather be lucky than smart

Blow me a rode so I can blow rings

I'm exhausted by romance

I was lost in the languages

Guardian angel what do you see?

I have tripped on all your signs

I would rather give blood than make art

Your so mysterious when your light shines

I'm exhausted by romance

I was lost in the languages

I'm exhausted by romance

I was lost I was lost in the languages

I'm exhausted by romance

Teachers, teachers for twenty odd years

My head balloned you tried to pierce my ears

Preachers, preachers send them in so well

They can't compare, to the women I sells

I'm exhausted by romance

I was lost in the languages

I'm exhasted by romance

I was lost, I was lost in the languages

I'm exhausted by romance

Story Of Our Lives lyrics - Cold War Kids

(from "Bill & Ted Face The Music" soundtrack)

I'm getting older but I don't feel like

I've got all the answer like I know I'm right

If anything I think I know less now

We can't even agree on if the world is round

Took me for granted, I could understand

This ain't a situation you got yourself in

I kept watching you from the sidelines

I didn't do nothing while you sat there crying

I'm here to listen, how could I help out

I'm the one who needs to get my heart broke now

I'm moving slow but I can't be fixed

Tell me what did I miss?

The story of our lives

In the end it's just you and me

I used to live and I had too much

Thought I couldn't really make a difference

Now it feels like the eleventh hour

Feels like it's time to give up my power

I'm here to listen, how could I help out

I'm the one who needs to get my heart broke now

I'm moving slow but I can't be fixed

Tell me what did I miss?

That's why I need you tonight

I feel like I'm gonna lose my way

The story of our lives

In the end it's just you and me

Can you hear me now?

So now you opened by eyes

I feel like I'm gonna lose my way

The story of our lives

In the end it's just you and me

I wanna tell you the story of our lives

Story of our lives

Even after the music fades

The story of our lives

But can you tell me the story of our lives

Ooh, can you hear me now?

Can you hear me, can you hear me now?

Can you hear me now?

Vacation In Chicago lyrics - Cold War Kids

I kiss the kids at noon

Then stumble out the room

I caught a cab

Ran up a tab on 7th and Flower

Best 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 thing could be much worse

Natural disaters on the evening news

Still things could be much worse

We still got our health

My paycheck in the mail

I promised to my wife and children

I'd never touch another drink aslong as I lived

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 cheque to tax deductable charity organisations

Two weeks paid vaction won't heal the damage done

I need another one

Still things could be much worse

Natural disaters on the evening news

Still things could be much worse

We 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 lived

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 sup

But at the meetings I felt so empty

This will blow over in time

This will all blow over in time

What You Say (Remix) lyrics - Cold War Kids (feat. Zella Day)

Another, what this song, like

Another

Do you have something specific?

Oh yeah

I've been working my whole life to cover

Afraid to speak my mind from judgement

So let's shake it up this time, be honest

I'm not ashamed of what I love in the darkness

When the stars realign, we are gonna let it shine

I'm waiting for the night to come

I'm waiting for the tide to pull me in

I'm waiting 'til I find the one

Someone who will take me as I am

If I show you that I'm soft, I worry

So I let the gloves come off in a hurry

The taste of my own blood is salty

But I'll fight for what I love 'cause I'm worthy

It's all the silly little fears that break

If you got time to think

I'm feeling all the ways

Are you feeling all the ways?

When the stars realign, we are gonna let it shine

I'm waiting for the night to come

I'm waiting for the tide to pull me in (What you say)

I'm waiting 'til I find the one

Someone who will take me as I am (What you say)

I'm waiting for the night to come

I've waited all my life

I'll shout it from the rooftops

When I'm looking in your eyes

I'm waiting for the night to come

I'm waiting for the night to begin

Saving, saving (Saving, ooh)

Saving my love for ya (Saving my love for you)

Saving, saving (Saving, ooh)

Saving my love for ya

I'm waiting for the night to come

I'm waiting for the tide to pull me in

I'm waiting for the night to come

I'm waiting for the night to begin (What you say)

I'm waiting for the night to come

I've waited all my life

I'll shout it from the rooftops

When I'm looking in your eyes

I'm waiting for the night to come

I'm waiting for the night to begin (What you say)

(What you say)

Waiting for the night to come

I'm waiting for the night to begin

Stop / Rewind lyrics - Cold War Kids

Oh, when I met you
Was it a dream?
Or a simulation
Reality, well I was just wondering

Cause I need to stop and rewind
Are you ahead of your time?

In Ancient Egypt
In native tribes
Life was so messy
So well organized
I'd be naked
You felt alive
Didn't you tell me
So satisfied
And I was just wonderin'

Cause I need to stop and rewind
Oh I need to stop and rewind
What I know is go ahead of its time
And all I want is to stop and rewind

All I want is to stop and rewind
All I want is to stop and rewind
All I want is to stop and rewind

One Song At A Time lyrics - Cold War Kids

I am over too exposed
Easy target to dispose
Are you saying something?
Find an inch to pay a soul
Pressure for the catapult
Do not miss your moment!

One song at a time
One song at a time
One song at a time
One song at a time

Find a way to do what takes
Dynasty humiliates
Do your best impression
Claim to start up counterfeit
Not becoming your own name
Powers of persuasion

One song at a time
One song at a time
One song at a time
One song at a time

Shizzle spark, has he known?
Isn't that a dose of you?
Tell me what's the difference!
We need another narcissist
I could hold business here
Whatever makes you discern

One song at a time
One song at a time
One song at a time
One song at a time

Only I became
All the dream to entertain
How do I feel straight?
While my heart is under space?

One song at a time
One song at a time
One song at a time
One song at a time

Thunderhearts lyrics - Cold War Kids

I was wired, I was not myself
Between police and the Lotus bed
Echo Park sunset caught my eye
Figured it's worth a try

Love will find a way
Love will find a way
Love will find a way
I won't let these thunderhearts ever break
I won't be the same
I won't be the same
We don't get
We don't get forever to change

Glove compartment, hacksaw blade
I walked down to the water's edge
With a t-shirt, through the cloud
My back-pocket concealed

Love will find a way
Love will find a way
Love will find a way
I won't let these thunderhearts ever break
I won't be the same
I won't be the same
We don't get
We don't get forever to change

Five quick cuts from a single strand
Of tiny tubers from the tangle
Shoved them into my plastic bag
Security didn't see a thing
It's a crime but you know sometimes
You intervene or nature dies
You cut it off so it will live on
After you're gone

Love will find a way
Love will find a way
Love will find a way
I won't let these thunderhearts ever break
I won't be the same
I won't be the same
We don't get
We don't get forever to change

I will find a way
I will find a way
I won't let these thunderhearts ever break
Love will find a way
Love will find a way
I won't let these thunderhearts ever break

Love will find a way
Love will find a way
I won't let these thunderhearts ever break
I won't be the same
I won't be the same
We don't get
We don't get forever to change

"Hold My Home" (2014)

All This Could Be Yours lyrics - Cold War Kids

I've been silent partner, I've been your shrink
I have heard your sad look misfortune speech"
But I'll have sympathy when you get off your seat
Before this bitter mess becomes a disease

I have cracked the code on this old machine
Ten thousands hours to be released
But I've been wondering: why can't you see?
That the door opens up and go where it leads

I have been waiting
For you to find
That all of this could be yours
Be yours tonight

Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!

You were packing up but I gave you a bed
You would rather crash then go straight ahead
I wrote this years ago but it's finished today
With the help of a friend who has feelings to say

And I have been waiting
But you need a sign
That all of this could be yours
Be yours tonight

I have been patient
But you've got to try
Then all of this could be yours
Be yours tonight

Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!
Could be yours!

All this could be yours
And all this could be yours
And all this could be yours
And all this could be yours, could be yours
All this could be yours

First lyrics - Cold War Kids

Cheated and lied, broken so bad
You made a vow, never get mad
You play the game, though it's unfair
They're all the same, who can compare?
First you lose trust, then you get worried

Night after night, bar after club
Dropping like flies, who woke you up
On the front lawn, sprinklers turned on
It's not your house, where'd you go wrong?
First you get hurt, then you feel sorry

Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when, you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?, I do not deserve
To wait around forever when, you were there first
First you get hurt, then you feel sorry

There comes a time, in a short life
Turn it around, get a rewrite
Call it a dark, night of the soul
Ticking of clocks, gravity’s pull
First you get close, then you get worried

Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when, you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?, I do not deserve
To wait around forever when, you were there first
First you get hurt, then you feel sorry

You're going silent, the silent treatment
It's not inviting now, don't deny what you meant
You get excited, you get excited
You got a feel it, oh, at least you can pretend
You wanna light it, you wanna light it
You wanna light it now, the candle from both ends
You get excited, you get excited

Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when, you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?, I do not deserve
To wait around forever when, you were there first
Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when, you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?, I do not deserve
To wait around forever when, you were there first

First you get close, then you get worried
First you get close, then you get worried
First you get close, then you get worried
First you get close, then you get worried

You wanna light it, you wanna light it
You wanna light it now, the candle from both ends
You wanna light it, you wanna light it
You wanna light it now, the candle from both ends

Hot Coals lyrics - Cold War Kids

I don't feel a thing
Walking on hot coals
No sensitivity in a fog of war
Try to unwind
To enjoy the good life
But the pressure that I hold
On my shoulders goes

I suspect the reason I am loved
Is because of how tight I'm holding on
Nowadays you're supposed to talk
Problems on and on
Whatever happened to the old -fashioned
Strong and silent type

What they didn't know is once you get us in
Touch with our feelings
You would never hear the end
Once you pull the pin
I suspect the reason I am loved
Is because of how tight I'm holding on
If I set you free, If I let go
Tell me would I still be the one you want

Even a broken clock
Is right twice a day
Even a busted lock
Can keep a thief away

He's not the type and soldiers
Don't go to hell
It's a place reserved for the
Twisted and evil
Now you ask how I'm feeling
I told you then
You're gonna torture me slowly with it

I am falling behind

Drive Desperate lyrics - Cold War Kids

The road, a yellow line unfolds
Jagged then corrodes, Pomona first of all
Machines they rush in a trance
Engines of despair
The taste of desert air
The wheels while we turn
Slowly will burn

Follow me, will you?
Follow me, will you?
Follow me down until
I will admire
Oh, I need someone who will

In parking lots you learned
Boredom made you small
Asphalt and the oil
Conversations dull
Memories pull you down
Engine presses toward
The dark the future holds
Will bring some bright morning

Follow me, will you?
Follow me, will you?
Follow me down until
I will admire
Oh, I need someone who will
[x2]

To find the words that lift me high
I'd tear a hole up in the sky
I'd beg for your approval just to know
I'm on the right course
A trance, the engines of despair
The taste of desert air
The wheels while we turn
They will slowly burn

We're not alone
We are not alone
We are not alone
On this road

Not alone
We are not alone
We are not alone
On this road
[x2]

(Not alone
We are not alone
We are not alone
On this road)
Follow me, will you?
Follow me, will you?
Follow me down until
I will admire
Oh, I need someone who will

Not alone
We are not alone
We are not alone
On this road

Hotel Anywhere lyrics - Cold War Kids

I have withdrawn
Out of the game
Erase my image
Rewrite my name
I can be invisible
The room service cleans
Sulley will bang on my door
With the cream

I am awake, I am awake
I'm here to stay
Hotel Anywhere, USA

It's 3 AM
The bed moans and quakes
I'm dying to know who's in ecstasy
I put my ear up to the wall
Somehow I feel connected to it all

I am awake, I am awake
I'm here to stay
Hotel Anywhere, USA

I am awake, I am awake
On the run
Hotel Anywhere, USA

Hold me down, I won't float away

I write and I paint
I live and I breathe
It's incredible how little I need
I've been enlightened, away from my scene
I find the beauty in everything

I am awake, I am awake
I'm here to stay
Hotel Anywhere, USA

I am awake, I am awake
A full stop
Hotel Anywhere, USA

Hold me down, I'm floating in space
Hold me down, I won't float away
Hold me down, I won't float away

Go Quietly lyrics - Cold War Kids

Talk to me well
All I could say
Is I need a few days
Of quiet and space

Now that I'm here
Restless in chains
It could have been fun
If it wasn't so strange

And now you wanted to share your life
And now you wanna be free to fly
But no, you can't have 'em both
Tonight decides what tomorrow knows

I could become some other man
You easily crush in the palm of your hand
Or one who puts you in the ring
Who runs away, runs away, runs when you swing

And now you wanted to share your life
And now you wanna be free to fly
But it's all or nothing you know
Tonight decides what tomorrow knows

Keep up with me, baby
I would never wanna force your hand
It's a mystery to me
In a language that you understand

And now you wanted to share your life
And now you wanna be free to fly
But no, you can't have 'em both
Tonight decides what tomorrow knows
Tonight decides what tomorrow knows
Tonight, tonight, tonight
Tonight decides what tomorrow knows
Tonight decides what tomorrow knows

Keep up with me, baby
I would never wanna force your hand
It's a mystery to me
In a language that you understand
[x2]

Nights & Weekends lyrics - Cold War Kids

While they lined up to wait on Black Friday
In a panic with shopping bags
There were magazine racks of cruel attacks
Seven new ways to please your man

She's everywhere you look
She's everywhere you look
She's everywhere you look
Where you look

Well she wanted to dance but lost her chance
Now she feels like a waste of space
On an island you might be in your mind
But your soul won't be cast away

She's everywhere you look
She's everywhere you look
Everywhere you look
Where you look

Here she comes
Oh, here she comes
Here she comes
Oh, here she comes

You're above it
You're above it
You wanted it all
You're above it
You're above it
You wanted it all

Here she comes

Hold My Home lyrics - Cold War Kids

London fog and an empty suitcase
Choreography in Piccadilly
It's time to carve out a place in the sun
I'd like to hold my home where
The seasons never ever ever change

Charlie the painter in Japan
We have grown apart
The cigarette the gardener throws in the grass
I'd like to hold my home where
The mountains run right into the sea

Holiday in the waves
Holiday in the waves

Feet in the sand in St. Tropez
She is a woman of the world
Letting the past go to get what you want
I'd like to hold my home where
The seasons never ever change

Holiday in the waves
Holiday in the waves
Holiday, holiday in the waves
Holiday, holiday in the waves
Holiday in the waves

Flower Drum Song lyrics - Cold War Kids

Clear out the spiderwebs
In your mind
When a hint of violence
Makes you cry
Get on my speedboat
The water's fine
The ocean calms you down
Leaves you kind

You're no psychologist
But you know why
You get so upset
When time slips by
Face your enemy
He's laughing while
You run circles round
But you can't hide

I'll be the one who reaches out when you're gone
I need the salt in the wound for another song
I'll be the one who gets us both out of this
I tell it like it is
You call it arrogance

You're drawn to confidence
It gets you high
But it leaves you powerless
In a trophy life
You're no apologist
And you'd go blind
Before you ever let
Let 'em see you cry

But I'll be the one who reaches out when you're gone
I need the salt in the wound for another song
I'll be the one who gets us both out of this
I tell it like it is
You call it arrogance
[x2]

Oh oh oh
Sing the Flower Drum Song
[x6]

Harold Bloom lyrics - Cold War Kids

When you wake, levitate
Ideas pouring out
Then you set out to make
Something great
But nothing comes out

Are you quick on your feet?
It's time to dig deep

So don't lift your heroes up so high
That you can't touch
Don't let your innocence go dry
Before the flood

Guardians at the gate let you in
Into their mansions
I'm the acid head homeless man
Who demands an explanation

Can you be wise if you never leave the room?
There will always be another Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom
To criticize your every move

So don't lift your heroes up so high
That you can't touch
Don't let your innocence go dry
Before the flood

And don't lift your heroes up so high
That you can't touch
Don't let your innocence go dry
Before the flood

Hear My Baby Call lyrics - Cold War Kids

There's a power in your voice or resistance
Send a telepathic thought like a lightning rod
In the distant blue smiling like you do
I will not disappear

When I hear my baby call
When I hear my baby call
When I hear my baby call
No matter what
No matter what

There's an easy way to test you suspicion
Do you only hang around if there's a dollar in it?
Mr. Generous laid out with mistrust
They will not sleep away

When I hear my baby call
When I hear my baby call
When I hear my baby call
No matter what
No matter what
No matter what
No matter what

More than evil, more than shame the emotion
that we long to understand in your fine happiness
Can you hold on to it if it meant you'd lose
Control of everything else

When I hear my baby call
When I hear my baby call
When I hear my baby call
No matter what
No matter what
No matter what
No matter what

When I hear my baby call
Reach out to me
Reach out to me

When I hear my baby call
Reach out to me
Reach out to me

When I hear my baby call
No matter what
No matter what
No matter what
No matter what
Reach out to me [x9]

"Dear Miss Lonelyhearts" (2013)

Miracle Mile lyrics - Cold War Kids

I was supposed to do great things
I know the road was long
But I wasn't raised to shoot for fame
I had the safety on

I cut my ties, I sold my rings
I wanted none of this
If you start from scratch you have to sing
Just for the fun of it

I’d be alright, if I could just see you
Come up for air, come up for air
A miracle mile, where does it lead to
Come up for air, come up for air

I feel the air upon my face
Forget the mess I'm in
Hold me again, don't count mistakes
I lost track of them

I’d be alright, if I could just see you
Come up for air, come up for air
A miracle mile, where does it lead to
Come up for air, come up for air

I was in the mud, I was in the dirt
Went underground and I found what I was worth
All alone and I know I cant stay
But we're walking up and down the streets to stay awake

Come up for air, come up for air, come up
Come up for air, come up for air, come up
Come up for air, come up for air, come up
Come up for air, come up for air, come up

Get outside, get all over the world
You learn to love what you get in return
It may be a problem and it may be peace of mind
Put your head down down and breathe one breath at a time

Come up for air, come up for air, come up
Come up for air, come up for air, come up
Come up for air, come up for air, come up
Come up for air, come up for air, come up

I’d be alright, if I could just see you
Come up for air, come up for air
A miracle mile, where does it lead to
Come up for air, come up for air

I'd be alright, if I could just see you
A miracle mile, where does it lead to

Lost That Easy lyrics - Cold War Kids

A swollen tongue, a plastic gun
Red burn from an orange sun
These oil rigs will crack and run
These palm trees will be chopped to a stump

I've wandered, seen visions, I never could fit in
I'm out there, you'll find me, I never lost that easy

You imitate, all night stay awake
You study ancient intelligence
It's a lonely life by candlelight
To make believe, you talk to the dead

I've wandered, seen visions, I've gone off the deep end
I'm out there, you'll find me, I never lost that easy

My drunken confession, sick in the bathtub
While you take your make-up off
You take yourself so serious
If we didn't laugh, we're crying all the time

No matter where I've been, I never could fit in
Don't worry where I'll be, I never lost that easy

Loner Phase lyrics - Cold War Kids

They're calling you a genius
Is that why you're acting so competitive
And even if they mean it
Don't let the feeling get to your head

I really wanna call you
Better clean up the mess from the last time we met
The roof is gonna fall through
I'll stay out in the cold all alone instead

[Chorus:]
If you think you can, reach out your hand
Like all is well and nothing changed
But I went through hell to watch you in outer-space

The wine is in the basement
So why can't I hide away to hibernate
I'm sleeping through the moment
And we're so afraid of getting worse with age

[Chorus:]
If you think you can, reach out your hand
Like all is well and nothing changed
But I went through hell to watch you in outer-space

I'm so careful, I got out of the way
I'm so grateful, just to be, just to be able to say

Won't you give me distance
Just swallow the words you put on my plate
And maybe then you'd listen
And I could get out of this one act play
You see me waving my white flag
You see me waving my white flag
Won't you ever wanna take me back
Won't you ever wanna take me back

Fear & Trembling lyrics - Cold War Kids

I want to tell you my thoughts
But my thoughts are scattered like crows

I've done whatever you want
I've gone from a mountain to a mole

I can see all my friends in the mirror
They're holding hands
But they don't recognize past and present
In harmony
Every breath
Fear and trembling
The dark.
Fear and trembling
The dark.

Know my face when I'm gone know my name, lover unknown
Know my face when I'm gone know my name, lover unknown
Know my face when I'm gone know my name, lover unknown
Know my face when I'm gone know my name, lover unknown

Tuxedos lyrics - Cold War Kids

I think about eyes that watch you.
I think about changes I've made.
I think about all this fancy food going down the drain.
I spend a lot of time by myself,
Imagining great speeches I'd make
To crowds of people; how can I help?
But what would I say?

When will I find, when will I find someone to take?
Or did I find and not realize, I was the fake.

I love to be a stranger at a wedding.
Cause tuxedos don't discriminate
A perfect disguise, so be cool and fill up your plate.

When will I find, when will I find someone to take?
Or did I find and not realize, I was the fake.
When will I find, when will I find someone to take?
For the millionth time, for the millionth time I was the fake.
I was the fake, I was to blame.

I think about eyes that watch you.
I think about changes I've made.
I think about all this fancy food
Going down the drain, down the drain, down the drain
Going down the drain, down the drain, down the drain
Going down the drain, the drain, the drain, the drain, the drain
Going down the drain

Bottled Affection lyrics - Cold War Kids

I let the bats out, we walked through
The cathedral out in to the moon
Your flashback is airtight
Like an elephant never hurt a fly
Mother instinct, never gonna die

Alright, stay, you got my attention
All my pain is bottled affection

Now it's my turn to play cool
Nothing you can say can even break through
I see the weapons, I pulled out
I met my match, so why am I proud?

I'm not the same kid, I grew up
Didn't I? Or did I get stuck?
You get older, it gets worse
You be the good one that gives it up first
Or the bad one that never gets hurt

Alright, stay, you got my attention
All my pain is bottled affection
Alright, stay, you got my attention
All my pain is bottled affection

My affection, my affection
Pouring out, pouring out
My affection, my affection
Pouring out, pouring out
My affection, my affection

Jailbirds lyrics - Cold War Kids

The sun is rising so late it's early
I have spread myself too thin again
The guest of honor at my guilty party
Me and this silence have become old friends

Father make believe for your daughters
Mother take it easy on your sons
Sister balance like a tightrope walker
But for now, you got to keep them young

My solitude, it makes me softer
My suffering is not in vain.
My depression sings, how much longer
Will I have to wait to see a world free from pain?

Father make believe for your daughters
Mother take it easy on your sons
Sister balance like a tightrope walker
But for now, you got to keep them young
[x3]

Water & Power lyrics - Cold War Kids

Minus the car, look past the dress
Beyond the pearls, who will protect
Drunk on the stars, shadows evolve
No resume, no diamond lane

Are you willing? Are you brave?
Who could make you feel afraid?

Mean what you say, make your mistakes
Head of silver and gold, your feet crumbling clay
Forever be yours, counting the hours
The salt in the mines and the water is ours
The water is ours, the water is ours, the reservoir

Are you willing, are you brave?
Who could make you feel afraid?
Will you give more than you... give more than you take?
Will you show us what you're... show us what you're made?

Cry and move on
Cry and move on
Cry and move on
Cry and move on

What you're hiding from? You could be fighting, come on.
What you're hiding from? You could be fighting, come on.
What you're hiding from? You could be fighting, come on.
What you're hiding from? You could be fighting, come on.
What you're hiding from? You could be fighting, come on.

Dear Miss Lonelyhearts lyrics - Cold War Kids

Wonder why you don't like April?
Wonder why you hate the spring?
Wonder why you don't like April?
Oh why won't you sing?

"My boyfriend he gets around, he does favors for Leo downtown
They didn't know it would be a set up, cops surround
That was when we started fighting, that was when I moved out
That was just the beginning, look at me now"

Oh my poor woman!
Water is for for fish like air is for men
You can't fight against the law
Of good times never call
On you because the good times never call
When you're waiting by the phone
The good times never call
On you unless you do it too.
Unless you do it too.
Unless you do it too...

I have given up explaining sorrow,
Oh I have given up on my hotel
I'm up here dancing like a martyr
But I have given up on casting spells
Oh I have given
Miss Lonelyhearts
Miss Lonelyhearts
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts

"Miss Lonelyhearts you've got to help me,
I have tried most everything
Short of my head in the oven,
Short of drinking kerosene"

Oh I have given
I have given
I have given

Bitter Poem lyrics - Cold War Kids

And even if it's who you really are, you really are,
You wanna feel wanted
And even if it's true you really are, who you really are,
Then I'll look above you.

I'm out of advice, umbrellas wash away in the rain
I can't wait to see what you become when you became.

And even when you lose, you pushed us all, you pushed us all,
A little bit further.
Reminded me of you as I'm nodding off, as I'm nodding off
In a massage parlor.

I don't even know whose side I'm on, are both sides the same?
I can't wait to see what you become when you became.

And even if it's you who ratted on, who ratted on, your only brother
You're purple and you're blue
Is it chemical imbalance or some other struggle?
Nobody's to blame, can't use force
Take me to court, cause I couldn't love you
Nobody could use you if you want, use if you want, ain't it fun?

But I'm out of advice, umbrellas wash away in the rain
I can't wait to see what you become when you became.

And even though it's late the promise stands; it doesn't fade.
And even if it's true you often find the best laid plans,
Will fall down broken all around you now.

Oh I can't hear you!
Are you talking to me?
Now I can't hear you!
Did you say that you're happy for me?
Did you say, did you say,
Did you say that you're happy for me?
Did you say, did you say,
Did you say that you're happy for me?

"Mine Is Yours" (2011)

Mine Is Yours lyrics - Cold War Kids

You were changin' colours like the leaves in fall
I was savin' up for the long winter
Summers wind, hideout in my car
When it broke down we didn't care
We'd figure out another way to get me there

Mine is yours
What is mine is yours
What is mine is yours
What is mine is yours

A realistic love runs out of room
I try to talk big but my mouth don't move
Cuz I don't own the sun I don't own the moon
They only come out when they want to
They don't care whether I promised you
They only come out when they want to
They don't care whether I promised

What is mine is yours
What is mine is yours
What is mine is yours
What is mine is yours

You wanna fight about it
You wanna fight about it
You wanna fight about it
Come on, Come on
I made you cry about it
I made you cry about it
I made you cry about it
Come on, Come on
There was no other way
To let you in here to stay
We had to give it away
Come on, Come on
And when we come up for air
And when we come up now we know

All my stones become your pearls
All of my trials are your treasures

All my dead you inherit
All of my?crimson? lines will shine

Cuz Mine is yours
What is mine is yours
What is mine is yours
What is mine is yours
What is mine is yours is yours is yours is yours

Louder Than Ever lyrics - Cold War Kids

All my windows were barred,
The sun made stripes of shades
I was sitting round like a zombie feedin my own face

I was carrying my cheek, I was digging my strange
I was taken you for granted
You were holding the rains

[Chorus]
But I can hear you louder than ever
Whisper to me, help me remember
I can't see you but we're still together
I can hear you louder than ever

It’s a slippery slope, like that mouse trap game
Inside my television you slept on my train

[Chorus]
But I can hear you louder than ever
Whisper to me, help me remember
I can't see you but we're still together
I can hear you louder than ever

I don’t wanna ignore
You were the past of my feelings
But probably gonna get out of this just
Hear me out anyway
The darkness knockin' and now I’m down in on all my promises
Don’t try to pull me out of this
Just lay down by me and wait

[Chorus]
I can hear you louder than ever
Whisper to me, help me remember
I can't see you but we're still together
I can hear you louder than ever

I can hear you louder than ever
[repeat]

Royal Blue lyrics - Cold War Kids

Why I make that face? Oh why would I?
Why would I test my faith? Oh why would I?
Oh why? I see that raincloud coming right for me

Why would I say my name? Oh why would I?
When I'm so far away? Oh why would I?
Oh why? I guess I've always been a bit of a fighter

From now on wear my love for you loose
From now on I am just passing through
From now on trust my feeling is true
From now on call me Royal Blue

Why would I stick around? Oh why would I?
Why would I get burned down? Oh why would I?
Oh Why, For me I'm always waiting in shadows
Oh why, For me I'm always looking for a way out

From now on with the sky as my roof
From now on let the risk lead me to
From now on somewhere I never knew
From now on call me royal blue

From now on fly as high as I want
From now on I'll show my weak spot
From now on you know that I do
From now on call me Royal Blue

From now on wear my love for you loose
From now on I am just passing through
From now on trust my feeling is true
From now on call me royal blue

Finally Begin lyrics - Cold War Kids

Holding out, she knows what I'm about
I start to play the silent card
You make this easy or you play me like a shark

Arms folded, nose to the floor
If it's got to be a leap of faith
I wish somebody'd push me
That way I'd know who to blame

When we go out tonight
I'll be looking so far past the flashing lights

Finally open my arms wide
Finally I let you inside
Finally made it past the end
To finally begin

Weigh the pros but the cons come first
I've got a black belt in doubt
I get claustrophobic
All these open doors around
Still the pros are the hardest to ignore
I've never felt this light before
I took off my sunglasses
And waited for the words

When we go out tonight
I'll be looking so far past the flashing lights

Where and when

The hours we keep, the days we save
They add up to years, now face to face
With you by my side, now I can stand, to finally begin

Out Of The Wilderness lyrics - Cold War Kids

The crown on my head is heavy on me
They wouldn't know it
Cos they don't wanna see

The skin on my face is turning bright pink
As I walk by the girl's choir whispering

The street that I walk welcomes my feet
With cryptic graffiti greetings to read
The smile on my mouth, it came dirt cheap
I bought it second hand

I will always walk tall
Taller than the clouds
When the rain starts to fall
I come out of the wilderness
To lay by the waterfall

The wires to my head
When I press play
Who's this new prophet
Has she got something to say?
The thoughts in my brain are backfiring
I'm a picture perfect passenger

I will always walk tall
I hold my loneliness up like a medicine ball
I come out of the wilderness to lay by the waterfall
Lighten my load

You expect the worst
You always get your way
These big buildings these little girls
Are giving me a little shade

Skip The Charades lyrics - Cold War Kids

You wait on letters
Fishing for any sign of life
Drinks after dinner
Your friends will get you to unwind

Let's skip the charades
Can we just speak plain?

I'm two left feet when
I'm home we tapdanced on broken glass
Somehow you manage
To keep your sense of humor in tact

Let's skip the charades
You're seeing right through me anyway
Can we just speak plain?
We're playing for the same team
But I'm the one that's acting like
Acting like
Acting like
I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like
Acting like
Acting like
Nothing's wrong

You dodged the bullet
You do your best when you're busiest
You're disconnected
You can't find your name in the script

It was you who were wildest
It was you who floated above us all
I held on with wires
Will you come back down if I let you go?

Let's skip the charades
You're seeing right through me anyway
Can we just speak plain?
We're playing for the same team
But I'm the one that's acting like I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like nothing's wrong
I'm the one that's acting like I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like nothing's wrong

Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain
Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain
Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain
Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain

Sensitive Kid lyrics - Cold War Kids

I try being sweet
It's very deep in me
Now I can only see red on red
My mom's going out with my best friends' dad
She talking loud I can't believe what she said

A sensitive kid [x2]

They sold the house, left photo albums there
No silver ware while paper walls were bare
I called all my friends, 'Come over! Come one, come all!'
'Let's get a crowd here for one last hoorah!'

A sensitive kid [x2]
Who made me
A sensitive kid [x2]

The message was bleak, my brother pounded it in me
You climb it up or you cut it down
This is your family tree
I know you were born with a heart of gold
But, I want a purple heart that cannot dissolve

A sensitive kid [x2]
Don't call me
A sensitive kid [x2]

I can't tell you why you should a known it
Sensitive kids start acting like a grown up [x4]

Bulldozer lyrics - Cold War Kids

We can beat this, you and me
Just a matter of degrees
I can't calculate this late at night
Honeymooners moving wet cement
They don't know about the walls that rise and rest

Bulldozer
Run right over us
Feel the snap and crush of furniture
Bulldozer
Clear a space for us
Let's rebuild this love on what we were

Come outside this view is free
Only clear moonlight can reach
You and I will stay low to the ground
Honeymooners we are bouncing checks
Cross your fingers that they don't get returned

Bulldozer
Run right over us
Feel the snap and crush of furniture
Bulldozer
Clear a space for us
Let's rebuild this love on what we were

Bulldozer
What we need you for
You're the last resort to start over

I can feel your arms around me
Pull me closer, Hold me tightly
Precious metals now colliding
Look to you my carbon copy [x2]

Bulldozer
I think you're only one
That can work, that can work, that can work
Bulldozer
Step up this is gonna hurt
Gnash your teeth take a bite of the dirt

Broken Open lyrics - Cold War Kids

I locked my keys in the car
I'm pleading for some change
The meter treats me like a stranger now
Flashing zeros

I'm juggling a drink too full
While tugging on a leash that you pull
And jogging my memory for
The way to your door

I have been broken open
By my most trusted friend
I was the wild card, you were the safe bet
I've been broken open

I'm up and down that way
It's easier to say that I'm doing okay
Than bother to explain
The water rising

Threw out your crystal ball and your weather vain
Picasso don't pre-meditate he just paint
Tonight it's so easy
To overflow

I have broken open
Was a perfect gentleman
Now I'm smashing champagne, tying cans
Feel like celebrating

I have been broken open
Dug to china with bare hands
When you asked me if I'd like to dance
I've been broken open

Flow over me, flow over, flow
Over flow

It feels so strange to feel good
And when I was the fire you were wood
So when I was petrified
You understood

I have been broken open
This was not my master plan
I was comfortable watching from the stands
I have been broken open

All my edges are exposed
I was once content alone
Now you brought the one that I call home
I've been broken open

Flow over me, flow over, flow [x7]

Cold Toes On The Cold Floor lyrics - Cold War Kids

Hunger and the lights are off, honey
Trying to find my head
Don't recall lying down
In this black bed

Cold toes on the cold floor [x2]

Feeling up the wall to find a light switch
Like a mime, surprised
What glows in the dark
A zippers broken spine

Cold toes on the cold floor [x4]

I am not alone
All my doves have flown

It's a classic mix-up, baby
An honest mistake
A girl I used know, maybe
Another face on the street
She said to say hello to you soon, and
I awake from my dream state

Cold toes on the cold floor [x2]

I will take out the garbage
I will squeeze your juice
So glad to be making
Scrambled eggs with you

Cold toes on the cold floor [x4]

I am not alone
All my doves have flown

Flying Upside Down lyrics - Cold War Kids

All that happens now
Is not some glorious accident
All that matters now
As you ignore and I pretend

This planes flying upside down
The steering wheel is stuck
But I'm turning us around
We will see that sky above

Ambition and she looks good on you tonight
She holds your hand and runs
Your lungs are burning bright
Morning comes like it almost always does
You want to hold her but you know you can't keep up

This planes flying upside down
And this how I ask for help
By pulling the fire alarm
And blocking your exit

We argue like two kids that can't share toys
I swing at you with words sharper than any swords
You come back with a trap so good it hurts
You say, 'I will never leave, you know, no matter what'

All that happens now
Is not some glorious accident
All that matters now
As you ignore and I pretend

I'm shocked when you light the candle (?)
And then I go outside
I can't make you see my hand so
I need you to come in cause
Tell me it's alright

Flying Upside Down
The steering wheel is stuck
But I'm turning us around
We'll see that sky above

And let go of all that I know
A guest on this crazy game show
They won't make or break the whole world

Flying upside down [x4]

EP: "Behave Yourself" (2009)

Audience lyrics - Cold War Kids

Sunday nights that you want her like velvet cake
Sweet heart can bargain half price mistakes
She will go down with her ship like a good captain
You're sitting on the dock playing for an audience of one

Pacing your apartment, linoleum floors
Get a call from an old friend, she never liked him before
He will drive all over three lanes, you sit tight, shotgun
Windshield wipers waving for an audience of one

You came out from the country wearing mama's clothes
You were born in the city with daddy's domino's
You need a record you can move to, well, we got one
Drop the needle, we are playing for an audience of one
Drop the needle, we are playing for an audience of one

One gets all of you, two's jealous, three gets even less
Four divides you up then you're left pleasing all your guests

Reach out, you point a finger and touch the globe
Spin it round and where it stops you got to pack your bags and go
Land in the Mojave desert, you sing for the sun
Three's too many when you're playing for an audience of one
Two's too busy when you're playing for an audience of one
One is the only way you're playing for an audience of one

Coffee Spoon lyrics - Cold War Kids

I can argue with the mime
I can argue with the mime
He is reading me the riot act
Every line

Every lawyer in his prime
Every lawyer in his prime
Gets nostalgic for the bar's
Naivete to crime

Ascetics wring their hands
This decadent misuse
Inside my china room
You are my coffee spoon

My indulgence is a joke
And while everybody laughs
I'm clipping coupons
And saving my breath

I was celebrating Lent
With a candle in a tent
When you came and snatched me up
Out of retirement

Now I'm buying finer clothes
In department store windows
Throwing credit cards down
Never raise my voice

Santa Ana Winds lyrics - Cold War Kids

I got the roof tied tight
Shiny buildings peak
The LA river swims
Snorkels and knees

Seatbelt sticks in the poison heat
My pores are opening

Making headlines again
Santa Anna Winds
Making headlines again
Santa headlines

Take the elevator to the Getty's highest place
See the cliffs fall to the sea
Do an about face

Easter on Olvera Street
Girls nursing new babies in alleyways
In between is a basin like the great divide
Where the 110 swallow the 105
Chutes and ladders leaving no where I begun
Like Joan Didion

Making headlines again
Santa Anna Winds
Making headlines again
Santa Anna Winds
Making headlines again
Santa Anna Winds
Making headlines again
Santa Anna Winds

You tore me up by the roots and fell silent again
My seeds have blown around but never land
You tore me up by the roots and fell silent again
My seeds have blown around but never land

Sermon Vs The Gospel lyrics - Cold War Kids

Getting closer everyday, getting closer everyday
Lord have mercy on me, we're talking about two different things
Television and Life magazine
Lord have mercy on my
Lord have mercy on me

Got this idea in my head and I can't get it out
'Cause all your money and all your culture
I can surely live without
A pile of treasures up on earth
But what you keep and what you take
Are property, vanity, and even knowledge for knowledge sake

And I said, Lord have mercy on me
We're talking about two different things
Television and Life Magazine
Lord have mercy on me
Lord have mercy on me

Don't want to see no psychoanalyst
Experienced in assisting to adjust
European travel, the H Bomb, Presidential elections
Front page of the new york times
The front page of the New York Times

Lord have mercy on me
We're talking about two different things
Television and Life magazine
Lord have mercy on me
Lord have mercy on me

Quit your griping, shine your shoes
Tell you a little secret for your blues
Don't make no difference, just watching from the stands
Fat lady always claps her hands

Lord have mercy on me
Sayin', even if you're robbing from the poor
Lord have mercy on me
I believe the words can change the heart
The words can change the heart
The words can change the heart

Have mercy on me, oh Lord
Lord have mercy on me
Talkin' bout two different things
Television, yeah, Life magazine, yeah
Lord have mercy on me, God
Lord have mercy on me
Gettin closer everyday
Getting closer everyday
Closer everyday

"Loyalty To Loyalty" (2008)

Against Privacy lyrics - Cold War Kids

We don’t gamble
We don’t do the stock exchange
We paint paintings
We write scenes for the stage

We will talk about welfare
We will talk about sex
Talk about the pope in Prada shoes
Nobody gets upset, nobody gets upset

And we’re waiting
We’re waiting for your call
We’re against privacy
We’re against privacy

Forget ex-girlfriends
We want little governments
We tell stories
We want to get you to join in

Call us optimistic
We get the meanest looks
We are bar stool romantics
History books will show, history books will show

And we’re waiting
We’re waiting for your call
We’re against privacy
We’re against privacy

And we’re waiting and we’re waiting
We’re waiting for your call
We’re against privacy
We’re against privacy

And we’re waiting
And we’re waiting for your call
We’re sure that you’ll agree

Mexican Dogs lyrics - Cold War Kids

Ooh

Lock all exit doors
Now I wanna be your dog
Tape winding up

Hot tide, rattling off
Say goodbye to the friends you brought
Run with us

Oh, where I walk now, where I walk now
When I talk now, when I talk now
Oh, where I walk now, where I walk now
When I talk, when I talk

Flashlights go out
Stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names

Tires burn in the dark
Mary's beads and the burning heart
Falling apart

High tide kicking sand
High tide we don't race to wind
To taste the salt

Coca-cola cost a quarter
On my block, on my block
Coca-cola cost a quarter
On my block, on my block

Flashlights go out
The stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names

Flash lights go out
The stars will light the way
Like mexican dogs
Nobody gave us names

We will chase the bright lights till we're done
We'll chase the bright lights
We will chase the bright lights till we're done
We'll chase the bright lights

When I taste the salt
When I taste the salt
And I taste the salt
And I taste the salt
Mexican dogs

Every Valley Is Not A Lake lyrics - Cold War Kids

Don't bother grandma 'cause she's right
Or you'll be in some mess
I see how you see her, creaky bones
Bitchin' 'bout IRS

Well take a look child
Through these photo albums
She sang to sailors in the war, baseball stadiums
In 1948

Now you'll graduate and you think
You're going to move out now
I will congratulate you as soon
As you pay your own way

Not tryin' to stick a pin
In your shiny new balloon
Your alimony check won't buy a bigger room
Or a new car

Don't ever think about comin' by here
With that junior from up the street
Sneakers squeakin' on the kitchen tile, hat pulled below his eyes
That boy is trouble in his sleep

You got your father's reckless charm, babe
Long as you givin', somebody take
Well, every sermon is not the gospel, babe
Let me put it in another way
Every valley is not a lake

Before I let you go with your friends
Got one more thing to say
You think my love is tough, should've seen
Your grandma in her day

So use your wits child
'Cause nothing stays the same
In forty years my song will be public domain
Oh, oh, oh

Sharp tongue, quick switch
Sharp tongue, quick switch
Will make my own apology felt

Something Is Not Right With Me lyrics - Cold War kids

Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
How was I supposed to know?

Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Trying not to let it show

I tried to call you collect
You said you would not accept
Your friends are laughing
'Cause nobody uses pay phones

Gave me quarters to select
Song on the the jukebox that gets
People dancing
Should have never chose "Girlfriend"

Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
How was I supposed to know?

Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
I'm trying not to let it show

Passions of the people were sleeping late into the evening
Reach behind, they could hardly find their spines
Passions of the people were sleeping late into the evening
Reach behind, they could hardly find their spines
Passions of the people were sleeping late into the evening
Reach behind, they could hardly find their spines

You said you like old cars
I bought a beat up brown Dodge
it was smoking black
And died in your frontyard

You follow whose dating who
But, but when it comes to you
One is pulled a dozen
Different ways in the mind

Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
How was I supposed to know?

Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
I'm trying not to let it show

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

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