"Can you feel her heart beat racing? Can you taste the fear in her sweat? You've done this wrong, it's too far gone these sheets tell of regret I admit that I am just a fool for you. I am just a fool for you..."

"Define me a parasite Define my host trapped beneath the floor, I slowly waste away."

"Your tongue is a rudder. It steers the whole ship. Sends your words past your lips or keeps them safe behind your teeth. But the wrong words will strand you. Come off course while you sleep. Sweep your boat out to sea or dashed to bits on the reef."

"Am I correct to defend the fist that holds this pen? It's ink that lies The pen, the prose, the paper I live, I learn You will always take what I have earned And so aid my end while I believe I'm winning"

"Does anybody remember back when you were very young? Did you ever think that you would be this blessed?"

"I will lie awake Lie for fun and fake the way I hold you Let you fall for every empty word I say."

"And I've seen what happens to the wicked and proud When they decide to try to take on the throne for the crown"

"You are calm and reposed Let your beauty unfold Pale white, like the skin stretched over your bones Spring keeps you ever close You are second hand smoke. You are so fragile and thin. Standing trial for your sins. Holding onto yourself the best you can. You are the smell before rain. You are the blood in my veins."

"I lie for only you And I lie well Halleluh"

"I hope this song starts a craze. The kind of song that ignites the airwaves. The kind of song that makes people glad to be where they are, with whoever they're there with This is war Every line is about who I don't want to write about anymore Hope you come down with something they can't diagnose, don't have the cure for."

"Every minute is a mile I've never felt so hollow I'm an old abandoned church with broken pews and empty aisles"

"Die young and save yourself."

"I'm sinking like a stone in the sea I'm burning like a bridge for your body"

"So the say They say in heaven there's no husbands and wives On the day That I show up they'll be completely out of their forgiveness supplies And I can't use the telephone To tell you that I'm dead and gone So you won't know"

"Hey you beauty supreme; yeah, you were right about me But can I get myself out from underneath This guilt that will crush me? And in the choir, I saw our sad messiah, He was bored and tired of my laments, 'said I died for you one time but never again."

"Take me, take me, back to your bed I love you so much that it hurts my head Say "I don't mind you under my skin," Oh, let the bad parts in, the bad parts in When we were made, we were set apart Life is a test and I get bad marks Now some Saint got the job of writing down my sins The storm is coming The storm is coming in"

"Well, Jesus Christ, I'm alone again So what did you do those three days you were dead? Because this problem's gonna last more than the weekend Well, Jesus Christ, I'm not scared to die But I'm a little bit scared of what comes after Do I get the gold chariot? Do I float through the ceiling?"

"I used to be such a burning example I used to be so original I used to care, I was being cared for Made sure I showed it to those that I love I used to sleep without a single stir Cause I was about my father's work"

"Do you miss the blend Of colors she left in your black and white fields? And do you feel condemned Just for being there?"

"It's hard to be the better man When you forget you're trying."

"Who do you carry the torch for, my young man? Do you believe in anything? Do you carry it around just to burn things down?"

"When I disappear, do you fear for the sister I took? When I disappear, it is clear I am up to no good I am drearily bloodletting this bedwetting cosmonaut "Son, the last thing you'll realize you need is what you've already got.""

"Be my serene Tell me you know what I mean You've set on me But you are not the sun"

"Well I wish that I was as good as you Caring and trusting And I wish that my condition was new But I'm old and rusting"

"I stole bricks from the dam almost every day Now I'm drowning in the flood I made Explain myself to me on the other side I'm gonna want some answers when I die"

"The champ goes down like a clown in the second round I wish we'd had a better goodbye"

"Where's all my hope and my marriage license?"

"In the valley of your slowly-fading memory Are there pastures bathed in some uncertain light where you won’t graze? Paths you won't take?"

"A million suns won't fill you up If you can't see the wine flowing over your cup"

"For the good Of all men Hold me down Underwater and don't let me up again"

"If I believe only half what I read I got a reason to be dug in deep"

"In the water, they saw the face Of the man who once owned it, ashamed and disgraced In the water, they asked them both "How did you get the gold without digging any holes?""

"Hell is digital You'll pray to pieces"

"Hold on to who you love We are dry and blown like dust since we were young"

"We've been hurting a long time. Trying hard for this. We all have sizeable scars. We got it."

"Make a list of your favorites. Write it down. Make it legible."

"Yes we are a bullet in the heart and the message sent."

"If there's any justice in heaven, then God won't let me in."

"Something dies when you grow older, but you do the best you can."

"When we were kids you were the sun to which my eyes would not adjust."

"I wrote your name and burned it to see the color of the flame, and it burned out the whole spectrum, as if you were everything."

"Could I watch the next time you're applying your eyeliner?"

"Hey angel, I think your halo has a screw loose."