The Reckless and The Brave
"Long live the reckless and the brave
I don't think I want to be saved
My song has not been sung
So long live us"
"Looking out at a town called Suburbia
Everybody's just fighting to fit in
Little rats running mazes, having babies
It's a vicious little world that we live in."
"Breaking out of a town called Suburbia
I remember everybody always saying
"Little brat, must be crazy, never make it
In our vicious little world"
Still I'm leaving."
"Got a van, got a chance, got my dignity
Got a dream, got a spark, got somewhere to be
Take a breath, say goodbye
To their precious little world
(And say goodbye to me)."
A Love Like War (Don't Panic: It's Longer Now exclusive track)
"Make a wish on our sorry little hearts
Have a smoke, pour a drink, steal a kiss in the dark
Fingernails on my skin like the teeth of a shark
I'm intoxicated by the lie."
"In the chill of your stare I am painfully lost
Like a deer in the lights of an oncoming bus
For the thrill of your touch I will shamefully lust
As you tell me we're nothing but trouble."
"We go together or we don't go down at all."
"Fail-safe trigger, lock-down call
Wipe the dry clean-slate, quick, sound the alarm
No escape from the truth and the weight of it all
I am caught in the web of a lie."
"And the bitch of it all is that I'm running from
The desire of the people to whom I belong
At the end of the day you can tell me I'm wrong
'Cause you went to all of this trouble."
"Heart's on fire tonight
Feel my bones ignite
It feels like war (it feels like war)
Love feels like war."
"Is this the end of us or just the means to start again?"
Backseat Serenade
"Whiskey Princess
Drink me under, pull me in
You had me at come over boy
I need a friend
I understand,"
"Backseat serenade
Dizzy hurricane
Oh god, I'm sick of sleeping alone
You're salty like a summer day
Kiss the sweat away
To your radio."
"Backseat serenade
Little hand grenade
Oh god, I'm sick of sleeping alone
You're salty like a summer day
Kiss the pain away
To your radio."
"You take me over
I throw you up against the wall
We've seen it all before
But this one's different
It's deliberate."
"Oh, aren't you sick of sleeping alone?"
Me Without You (All I Ever Wanted) (Don't Panic: It's Longer Now exclusive track)
"Do you feel like something's missing,
when your skin is pressed to mine?
I would whisper you a riot if you'd listen,
to the sound that you've ignored a thousand times..."
"All I ever wanted was a part of you that I couldn't break,
a piece of you that I couldn't take apart, but we're in pieces now,
and all you ever wanted was a part of me that I couldn't fake,
I never made it easy to shape my heart, but it's not beating now,
I have to let you down..."
"There is ice in place of answers,
and a cold that chills the bones,
When September came and went without an answer,
we were left to Fall for Winter on our own..."
If These Sheets Were States
"I'm lost in empty pillow talk again."
"This bed's an island made of feather down, and I'm stuck here alone
With little else but memories of you, on memory foam
Visions of a brighter love, I'd kill for one more day
To pool my thoughts, and find the words to say."
"If these sheets were the states, and you were miles away,
I'd fold them end over end to bring you closer to me.
Because I don't sleep at all without you pressed up against me."
"This room's become a mausoleum, filled with relics of regret
Paying dues to every moment wasted, on words left unsaid
Collisions of a finer love, I'd kill for one more way
To tell you how you make me better every day."
Somewhere In Neverland
"Tell me how you feel over and done with
Like your life is a map with no compass to guide,
At the bar drinkin’ way too much
We sing along to "Forever Young"."
"Wendy run away with me
I know I sound crazy
Don’t you see what you do to me?
I wanna be your lost boy
Your last chance, a better reality.
"Wendy we can get away
I promise if you’re with me, say the word and we’ll find a way
I can be your lost boy, your last chance
Your "everything better" plan
Oh, somewhere in Neverland."
"We’ll start a life of the plain and the simple
Of great times with far better people
And weekends with our friends
Laughing about the wine that stains their teeth
We’ll talk about how your parents separated and
How you don’t wanna make the same mistakes as them
I’ll say it’s all about stickin’ it out
And trying to feel forever young."
So Long Soldier
"Back in '95
A little boy from just outside of London
Took a fated trip across the ocean
And little did he know
That he would find his voice in verse and chorus
Making wishes on his broken stereo."
"Give 'em six more years, and see what time will do for hopeless dreamers
Singing wishes to their broken stereo."
"You can't shake the noise from their bones
Hear it all play out in distant echoes."
Canals (Don't Panic: It's Longer Now exclusive track)
"I am a critic
Of my only critical need to define myself
With wine, and words, and lovers
And friends who don't understand."
"You know that admitting the problem is the first step
Towards repair, "We all recover,"
Say the friends turned to wine-drunk lovers."
"Smile, tell me I'm alright
With a goodbye
You are so misleading
A kiss or a gun fight
High-noon or midnight
Darling, I don't want to know
If I'm just a short sight on a cold night
The canals are freezing
So tell me I'm alright with a goodbye."
"Am I a villain?
Cast among heroes with all of their
Underwhelming overbearing struggles
To become what they'll never be?"
"Friends to the wicked
Caution is calling, but nobody's home,
The lights are off, the party's over,
Now you're stuck plucking three-leaf clovers."
The Irony Of Choking On A Lifesaver
"Stop fucking around with my emotions."
"You're the snake hidden in my daffodils when I'm picking flowers
That's just my luck these days
Why can't you just be happy for me?
You're the break lights failing as my car swerves off the freeway
It kind of feels like sabotage
Why can't you just be happy for
Why can't you just be happy for me?"
"Your running mouth falls on deaf ears."
To Live And Let Go
"Rush of the past
I quietly crash and the tables turn
You're beautiful strange, defiantly brash
Be careful now."
"If there's something left to be learned
Then my time is running
Why should I waste it all wasted on you?"
"When the last of my cities have burned
Then what's left in nothing?"
"Fill in the blanks, pencil on paper
Disposable
Throw away lines
Intentional but unbelievable."
"Let's slip away the renegade life you've been dreaming of."
Outlines
"The shadow of a ghost in an old haunt
With a lease on life, 'cause I can't afford to own."
"Be the new kid, on an old block
A chalk outline on a playground blacktop.
"I’m just a moment, so don’t let me pass you by
We could be a story in the morning, but we’ll be a legend tonight
I’m just a moment, so don’t let me pass you by
And they can speak our names in a dead language
Cause you and I, we’re alive
But just for a moment."
"I’m twice the man that I thought I was yesterday
Half the time, I’m a world away
A flicker of a soul casting silhouettes
On the face of a town that could not get me to stay
And when the spark’s gone, former lovers just looking for a bus to throw me under."
Thanks To You
"Thanks to you, I'm moving on
Chasing out my skeletons and the troubles they have caused
And all thanks to you
I'm turning over the pages in this book of revelations about self-medication
But there's this ringing in my head (who said it was gonna be easy?)
As the ghost of you hangs over my bed."
"Thanks to you, I've lost my touch
I struggle to find the sense in making sense
And giving a semblance of a fuck."
"And thanks to you, for all the nightmares
There's not a night that I sleep quiet and complacent without my medication."
For Baltimore
"I'm restless, obsessed with your future
And all my worries they don't bother you
Collected, you render me useless."
"I don't wanna say goodnight
The city comes alive, when we're together
Why can't Thursday last forever?"
"Hot damn, look at me now
I'm all, caught up riding the high of my
Good luck, casually dropping a line, designed,
To keep you next to me
I bet you never thought you would fall again
So much for keeping this, just friends
Shut up and kiss me now
And we carry on."
Paint You Wings
"When will the princess figure it out she ain't worth saving?"
"I painted a picture of the things I wanted most
To color in the darker side of all my brightest hopes
But there's a monster standing where you should be
So I'll paint you wings
Now I'll set you free."
"I was a pawn in all of your plans, you kept me busy
Locked behind your chamber doors when you felt frisky
Until you got sick of me
I was never good enough to be anything but remedy
To all of your constant pressing needs
And I never learned, so."
So Long, And Thanks For All The Booze
"You're sure as hell too good to let them hold you down."
"You gotta tear me down to set me free."
"I gave a lot to let you in
I shook your hand, you pulled the pin
Now I'm all ears to find you're lying through your teeth
You wear the smile to hide the coward underneath
Bittersweet, bittersweet"
Oh Calamity (Don't Panic: It's Longer Now exclusive track)
"When I was younger I was certain
That I'd be fine without a queen
Just a king inside his castle
With an ocean in between
Now all I do is sit
And count the miles from you to me
Oh, calamity."
"It's such a shame that we play strangers
No act to change what we've become
Damn, it's such a shame that we've built a wreck out of me"
"I'll remember nights alone
And waking up to dial tones
Always found my greatest moments
In the sound of your hello's
Now I struggle to recall
The reasons you would come to leave
Oh, calamity."
"If I catch you on the corner
Will you even know it's me?
Will I look familiar to you?
Do you offer me a seat?
Can we find a new beginning?
Do you turn the other cheek?
Oh, calamity."
"Long live the reckless and the brave
I don't think I want to be saved
My song has not been sung
So long live us"
"Looking out at a town called Suburbia
Everybody's just fighting to fit in
Little rats running mazes, having babies
It's a vicious little world that we live in."
"Breaking out of a town called Suburbia
I remember everybody always saying
"Little brat, must be crazy, never make it
In our vicious little world"
Still I'm leaving."
"Got a van, got a chance, got my dignity
Got a dream, got a spark, got somewhere to be
Take a breath, say goodbye
To their precious little world
(And say goodbye to me)."
A Love Like War (Don't Panic: It's Longer Now exclusive track)
"Make a wish on our sorry little hearts
Have a smoke, pour a drink, steal a kiss in the dark
Fingernails on my skin like the teeth of a shark
I'm intoxicated by the lie."
"In the chill of your stare I am painfully lost
Like a deer in the lights of an oncoming bus
For the thrill of your touch I will shamefully lust
As you tell me we're nothing but trouble."
"We go together or we don't go down at all."
"Fail-safe trigger, lock-down call
Wipe the dry clean-slate, quick, sound the alarm
No escape from the truth and the weight of it all
I am caught in the web of a lie."
"And the bitch of it all is that I'm running from
The desire of the people to whom I belong
At the end of the day you can tell me I'm wrong
'Cause you went to all of this trouble."
"Heart's on fire tonight
Feel my bones ignite
It feels like war (it feels like war)
Love feels like war."
"Is this the end of us or just the means to start again?"
Backseat Serenade
"Whiskey Princess
Drink me under, pull me in
You had me at come over boy
I need a friend
I understand,"
"Backseat serenade
Dizzy hurricane
Oh god, I'm sick of sleeping alone
You're salty like a summer day
Kiss the sweat away
To your radio."
"Backseat serenade
Little hand grenade
Oh god, I'm sick of sleeping alone
You're salty like a summer day
Kiss the pain away
To your radio."
"You take me over
I throw you up against the wall
We've seen it all before
But this one's different
It's deliberate."
"Oh, aren't you sick of sleeping alone?"
Me Without You (All I Ever Wanted) (Don't Panic: It's Longer Now exclusive track)
"Do you feel like something's missing,
when your skin is pressed to mine?
I would whisper you a riot if you'd listen,
to the sound that you've ignored a thousand times..."
"All I ever wanted was a part of you that I couldn't break,
a piece of you that I couldn't take apart, but we're in pieces now,
and all you ever wanted was a part of me that I couldn't fake,
I never made it easy to shape my heart, but it's not beating now,
I have to let you down..."
"There is ice in place of answers,
and a cold that chills the bones,
When September came and went without an answer,
we were left to Fall for Winter on our own..."
If These Sheets Were States
"I'm lost in empty pillow talk again."
"This bed's an island made of feather down, and I'm stuck here alone
With little else but memories of you, on memory foam
Visions of a brighter love, I'd kill for one more day
To pool my thoughts, and find the words to say."
"If these sheets were the states, and you were miles away,
I'd fold them end over end to bring you closer to me.
Because I don't sleep at all without you pressed up against me."
"This room's become a mausoleum, filled with relics of regret
Paying dues to every moment wasted, on words left unsaid
Collisions of a finer love, I'd kill for one more way
To tell you how you make me better every day."
Somewhere In Neverland
"Tell me how you feel over and done with
Like your life is a map with no compass to guide,
At the bar drinkin’ way too much
We sing along to "Forever Young"."
"Wendy run away with me
I know I sound crazy
Don’t you see what you do to me?
I wanna be your lost boy
Your last chance, a better reality.
"Wendy we can get away
I promise if you’re with me, say the word and we’ll find a way
I can be your lost boy, your last chance
Your "everything better" plan
Oh, somewhere in Neverland."
"We’ll start a life of the plain and the simple
Of great times with far better people
And weekends with our friends
Laughing about the wine that stains their teeth
We’ll talk about how your parents separated and
How you don’t wanna make the same mistakes as them
I’ll say it’s all about stickin’ it out
And trying to feel forever young."
So Long Soldier
"Back in '95
A little boy from just outside of London
Took a fated trip across the ocean
And little did he know
That he would find his voice in verse and chorus
Making wishes on his broken stereo."
"Give 'em six more years, and see what time will do for hopeless dreamers
Singing wishes to their broken stereo."
"You can't shake the noise from their bones
Hear it all play out in distant echoes."
Canals (Don't Panic: It's Longer Now exclusive track)
"I am a critic
Of my only critical need to define myself
With wine, and words, and lovers
And friends who don't understand."
"You know that admitting the problem is the first step
Towards repair, "We all recover,"
Say the friends turned to wine-drunk lovers."
"Smile, tell me I'm alright
With a goodbye
You are so misleading
A kiss or a gun fight
High-noon or midnight
Darling, I don't want to know
If I'm just a short sight on a cold night
The canals are freezing
So tell me I'm alright with a goodbye."
"Am I a villain?
Cast among heroes with all of their
Underwhelming overbearing struggles
To become what they'll never be?"
"Friends to the wicked
Caution is calling, but nobody's home,
The lights are off, the party's over,
Now you're stuck plucking three-leaf clovers."
The Irony Of Choking On A Lifesaver
"Stop fucking around with my emotions."
"You're the snake hidden in my daffodils when I'm picking flowers
That's just my luck these days
Why can't you just be happy for me?
You're the break lights failing as my car swerves off the freeway
It kind of feels like sabotage
Why can't you just be happy for
Why can't you just be happy for me?"
"Your running mouth falls on deaf ears."
To Live And Let Go
"Rush of the past
I quietly crash and the tables turn
You're beautiful strange, defiantly brash
Be careful now."
"If there's something left to be learned
Then my time is running
Why should I waste it all wasted on you?"
"When the last of my cities have burned
Then what's left in nothing?"
"Fill in the blanks, pencil on paper
Disposable
Throw away lines
Intentional but unbelievable."
"Let's slip away the renegade life you've been dreaming of."
Outlines
"The shadow of a ghost in an old haunt
With a lease on life, 'cause I can't afford to own."
"Be the new kid, on an old block
A chalk outline on a playground blacktop.
"I’m just a moment, so don’t let me pass you by
We could be a story in the morning, but we’ll be a legend tonight
I’m just a moment, so don’t let me pass you by
And they can speak our names in a dead language
Cause you and I, we’re alive
But just for a moment."
"I’m twice the man that I thought I was yesterday
Half the time, I’m a world away
A flicker of a soul casting silhouettes
On the face of a town that could not get me to stay
And when the spark’s gone, former lovers just looking for a bus to throw me under."
Thanks To You
"Thanks to you, I'm moving on
Chasing out my skeletons and the troubles they have caused
And all thanks to you
I'm turning over the pages in this book of revelations about self-medication
But there's this ringing in my head (who said it was gonna be easy?)
As the ghost of you hangs over my bed."
"Thanks to you, I've lost my touch
I struggle to find the sense in making sense
And giving a semblance of a fuck."
"And thanks to you, for all the nightmares
There's not a night that I sleep quiet and complacent without my medication."
For Baltimore
"I'm restless, obsessed with your future
And all my worries they don't bother you
Collected, you render me useless."
"I don't wanna say goodnight
The city comes alive, when we're together
Why can't Thursday last forever?"
"Hot damn, look at me now
I'm all, caught up riding the high of my
Good luck, casually dropping a line, designed,
To keep you next to me
I bet you never thought you would fall again
So much for keeping this, just friends
Shut up and kiss me now
And we carry on."
Paint You Wings
"When will the princess figure it out she ain't worth saving?"
"I painted a picture of the things I wanted most
To color in the darker side of all my brightest hopes
But there's a monster standing where you should be
So I'll paint you wings
Now I'll set you free."
"I was a pawn in all of your plans, you kept me busy
Locked behind your chamber doors when you felt frisky
Until you got sick of me
I was never good enough to be anything but remedy
To all of your constant pressing needs
And I never learned, so."
So Long, And Thanks For All The Booze
"You're sure as hell too good to let them hold you down."
"You gotta tear me down to set me free."
"I gave a lot to let you in
I shook your hand, you pulled the pin
Now I'm all ears to find you're lying through your teeth
You wear the smile to hide the coward underneath
Bittersweet, bittersweet"
Oh Calamity (Don't Panic: It's Longer Now exclusive track)
"When I was younger I was certain
That I'd be fine without a queen
Just a king inside his castle
With an ocean in between
Now all I do is sit
And count the miles from you to me
Oh, calamity."
"It's such a shame that we play strangers
No act to change what we've become
Damn, it's such a shame that we've built a wreck out of me"
"I'll remember nights alone
And waking up to dial tones
Always found my greatest moments
In the sound of your hello's
Now I struggle to recall
The reasons you would come to leave
Oh, calamity."
"If I catch you on the corner
Will you even know it's me?
Will I look familiar to you?
Do you offer me a seat?
Can we find a new beginning?
Do you turn the other cheek?
Oh, calamity."
