Every Time I Die

"Death by division don't call it jealousy it's an exercise in infection control insanity's masterpiece split at the seams shakespearean virgin your world is a stage but your charms in the basket they gave the ax to an amateur I haven't stopped laughing how am I supposed to line this up kneel down vanity everyone's waiting we all want."

"Sign my farewell with the chimes of clock radios 7a.m."

"Do you hear me? Am I coming through at all? Is any of this making sense? You've got a ghost on your hands. A televisual image only partially clear. Scrambled phantom (I wish we'd all just stop talking at once)."

"All rise. Hallow be my name. In this kingdom we came without calling. Hallelujah."

"If you got it all then you got it right I’m gonna do what you say and get way out of line Nobody’s gonna stop me now It’s not how it looks unless you say nothing We all agree this proposal’s been sentenced to death Are we baiting the right hook to get your attention The media needs another blackout We’ve been calling Flooding hotlines We’ve applied mascara to the radio but that’s just a quick fix and we need a little more Does it matter to you at all Are you listening? or have you tuned out?"

"We're not equipped to stay, unloved But its all we've got and we're not at all alright Theres no difference between being holy and alone."

"Hey there girls, I'm a cunt There was venom in the heart of the dagger."

"We underestimated Doctor Doctor! Give me the news."

"Love is here I am the snarling and starry-eyed We both want the same thing Better aim at the stranger in our yard Just try to stop me I am the blinding light of your life Prepare the body I’ve been better but thanks for asking Wait with the scarecrow for the spotlight in the rye I’ll eat you alive The calm will come again."

"Everything I do is wrong But by God I do it right."

"There’s a shark in the stream where the newborns are baptized."

"The faulty mechanism of hope has disintegrated."

"We all cater to the fire, once the walls come rushing down for shame I can say it better than you felt it And I can be it bigger than you needed it."

"Your distress is confounding the tightrope walker Just so we’re clear, you’re saying we’re all lost? Maybe I’m wrong but weren’t we just dancing? Oh, the way that we moved had every marauder curious Sniffing at the trash in our shoes Sharpening knives on the grindstone watch gears I don’t miss that much about anything you said After all we’ve never met I’ll get it right and stick my tongue down the throat of the moon."

"We are the gone Cast aside clothes like funeral roses, and dance straight through the psalm I’m dead in the water Don’t come here for me I was once alive in the deserts eyes on the day it wed the sea I drew a chalk outline around your city Hushed the sobs in your halls But we both know it’s a killer, baby he will outrun them all There is so much shame in how little we’ve gained for so long Now the sky is falling And you’re just repeating every word I say."

"Don't try to resist, you're coming with us Provisions are made, accommodations are met Your words are recoded in the bleak genetics of the mob Praise apocrypha-omitted offense to relieve us of guilt but not of our sin We've sacrificed discourse at the feet of your clever turn-of-phrase Now you owe it to us, we demand to be taken aback To be showed the revival of hope, for which your words are responsible"

"There's nothing to see here. And nothing gazes back at me. There's nothing to see here. And that nothing looks back at us."

"Thanks lord, but I don't need anymore poor advice, poor advice I caught in the cannon with a one way ticket Four riders in a town with one horse."

"If There Is Room To Move, Things Move"

"When faith abandons me I hope it does it honestly I still howl like an animal in the darkness And I'm reminded by the blood on my clothes I can't stand what I've become; I'm shivering to spite the sun We come together and we're overwhelmed by the loneliness I want oblivion all the time I want oblivion all the time I want oblivion all the time I want oblivion Burn slow There's no rush You're right Always right"

"In the long dark night of eternal life You've always been a light I think you're done here They've been mistaken They pored over the papers Trying to solve your equation But the truth was not in math it was in faith The divine does not divide she permeates"

"Every Time I Die always had a sense of swagger that other bands in their scene didn’t really have. The band’s energy was intense, making them a live act who could, and often did, tour with just about anyone."