"And I don't wish to taste of your insides Or to call out your name through my phone For the glory boys at your bedside Will love you as long as you're something to own"

"All I could want is silver and spinning out from your arms And into the pretty pit of your heart So simply and softly we'd flow, but I let you down And swollen and small is where you'll find me now With that silver stripping off from my tongue you're tearing out And you'll never hear me talk"

"Someone is waiting To swallow all the halos out of you As your face blows through my windows Sending pieces flying all around the room"

"And you thought you could change the world by opening your legs Well, it isn't very hard Try kicking them instead. And you thought you could change his mind by changing your perfume to the kind his mother wore Oh God, Delilah, why? I never met a more impossible girl."

"Fuck, I'll pay you anything if you could end this hell"

"Behold the world's worst accident I am the girl anachronism!"

"I guess it's just my stupid luck That all of Boston drives the same black fucking truck"

"If you did it, say you did it. If you didn't, suck it up and say you did."

"All of my blind ambition left me deaf with perfect vision."

"So don't tell me what to write And don't tell me that I'm wrong And don't tell me not to reference my songs within my songs"

"We all know There's no Hitler and no Holocaust No winter and no Santa Claus And yes, Virginia, all because The truth won't save you now"

"Is he a dot, or he is a speck / when he's underwater, does he get wet / or does the water get him instead?"

"Triangle Man, Triangle Man / Triangle Man hates Particle Man"

"Can't shake the devil's hand / And say you're only kidding."

"You said you were the king of liars / And I believed you and called you 'sire' / But I realize now that I have been deceived."

"We were once so close to heaven / Peter came out and gave us medals / Declaring us the nicest of the damned"

"Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads / on their real heads."

"We can't be silent / 'Cause they might be giants / And what are we gonna do unless they are?"

"There's only one thing that I know how to do well / and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well / and that's be you / be what you're like / be like yourself."

"A woman came up to me and said / I'd like to poison your mind / With wrong ideas that appeal to you / Though I am not unkind"

"I don't want the world, I just want your half"

"I've built a little Empire / Off some crazy garbage / Called the blood of the exploited working class / But they've overcome their shyness / Now they're calling me 'Your Highness'/ And the world screams 'Kiss me, son of God'"

"Where your eyes don't go / A filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms / And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do / When you turn around to look it's gone beyond you / On its face it's wearing your confused expression / Where your eyes don't go"

"No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful. Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful."

"Life's just a mood ring we're not allowed to see."

"Time is flying like an arrow / And the clock hands move so fast they make the wind blow / And it makes the pages of the calendar go / Flying out the window, one by one"

"They revamped the airport completely / Now it looks just like a night club / Everyone's excited and confused"

"/ applied by Magic Marker to drywall / I should be allowed to shoot my mouth off / I should have a call-in show."

"Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank."

"Standing in my yard / Where they tore down the garage / To make room for the torn-down garage"

"He's got a watch with a minute hand / millennium hand, and an eon hand"

"You're like a missile kind Little kingdoms in your chest"

"Some boys I know They speak with broken mouths I have to sit inside their stomachs To find out what they're really about"

"All your kind they're coming clean They shut their eyes, their mess, their scenes All your kind, their spool and lance Their crash, their kiss, they harmonize"

"Then when you let it You asked for nothing Why don't you share it"

"Heart is pounding in his chest Reaches suddenly for his gun Ship is sailing in the west Flower that could be his fun"

"Used to be one of the rotten ones and I liked you for that Now you're all gone got your make-up on and you're not coming back Can't you come back?"

"You come in, check my time You got fornication crimes I've seen your hope on television Where you've been, wore my word They've got tricycles in skirts This is a mouth that needs religion"

"I'm sitting cold There was love You loved him Take him Trust in you"

"Heard about your wife and kids where we slept Felt their mouths with stitches at that were slowly lit Capture uniform this time because I couldn't quit Haven't felt the ground so cold without getting sick"

"All these people drinking lover's spit They sit around and clean their face with it And they listen to teeth to learn how to quit Tied to a night they never met"

"Market fresh Stand by me Where will it ever land Scar and stains, Emily Turn our little crab I could've meant it if you let me"

"Broken boys look good sitting on their shelves Silent waves responds expose to fear Library cards, rented faces, line up and make a train Hard parades with nothing skin Things that breathe way too thin"

"I got shot right in the back And you were there I said I was never coming back And you were there you were there I know the eyelids are under attack 'Cause you were there you were there"

"And you want to get away Oh where to go to When you want to get it out Oh how to get through If you want to get it all You can own what you choose And you want to live a lie And love what you lose"

"I'm just comin' here to come down I could be here I could move town Put my suits right on the guest list Saw my pa's boy Became weightless"

"Jim stops and gets out the car goes to a house in Emperor's Gate goes through the door and to his room and then he puts the TV on turns it off and makes some tea says "Modern life well it's rubbish I'm holding on for tomorrow""

"I'll forget to breathe someday, I never stopped to think why"

"You need a holiday, somewhere in the sun with all the people who are waiting, there never seems to be one say something, say something else"

"Advertisements are here for rapid persuasion If you stare too long you lose your appetite"