"This is a lesson in procrastination. I kill myself because I'm so frustrated. Every single second that I put it off Means another lonely night I got to race the clock."

"This is the first song for your mixtape. It's short just like your temper, but somewhat golden like the afternoons we used to spend before you got too cool."

"But when I say let's keep in touch, I really mean I wish that you'd grow up."

"When I'm talking to myself I'd always rather be talking to you."

"And if you ever said you miss me then don't say you never lied."

"Whatever poison's in this bottle will leave me broken sore and stiff. But it's the genie at the bottom who I'm sucking at. He owes me one last wish. So here's a present to let you know I still exist. I hope the next boy that you kiss has something terribly contagious on his lips."

"They say that the captain stays fast with the ship Through still and storm"

"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 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"

"Space cadet, pull out Space cadet Pull Out"

"Why doesn't anyone I know sleep? Are they all just scared of their dreams? When they lay their heads down at night What are they haunted by?"

"Holding out for rest but on the seventh day I've created nothing and I'm wide awake"

"Well if we take all these things And we bury them fast And we pray that they turn into seeds To roots and then grass It'd be all right, it's all right It'd be easier that way Or if the sky opened up and started pouring rain Like He knew it was time to start things over again It'd be all right, it's all right It'd be easier that way"

"Cars are little blood cells We are oxygen City is the airways Suburbs appendages"

"How darkly the dark hand met his end He was withered and bony; exposed for a phony But we heed the last words that he penned Haste to disgrace the traitor, do not wait till later"

"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"

"When the army had to hold the line Well you were nowhere near the front Before the kids could tell the dog "goodbye" Well, you were loading up your gun I wanna know I've left the great divide I wanna know what I've become You think that no one else is lonesome You think that you're the only one?"

"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"

"I want to tell you we're alright Want to erase all your doubt I've got this thorn dug in deeply Sometimes I can't get it out"

"Something's stirring in a deep Atlantic trench Doesn't forget the thousand years before it slept It's the beast, it's my heart, it's open Dive down into it till you hear a tick"

"Let's all go play Nagasaki What a lovely way to die A final show and we all go So no one has to say goodbye"