Pretend You’re Alive

01. In Red
02. Blackout
03. Spiders
04. Rocknroll
05. Pretend You’re Alive
06. Pandamoranda
07. Down Towards the Healing
08. The Monster
09. Angels with Enemies
10. Radiology
11. Candy
12. It Won’t Last
13. Paper Scars
14. The Narcoleptic (Japan only)

1. In Red

Out of love for the hunt
Out of love for the catch
For the thrill I will sail across this ocean
Out of love, for a pirate seeking fortune

All the blood that we spilled
Cannot fill my empty heart
On a beach we’re dressed in red
On a beach we’re dressed in red

Out of love for the sea
Out love for your majesty
For the thrill I could change
Out of love for my captain I can’t change, no I can’t

All the blood that we spilled
Cannot fill my empty heart
On a beach we’re dressed in red
On a beach we’re dressed in red

In a memory I fall
In the arms of a dancing girl
On a beach we’re dressed in red
On a beach we’re dressed in red

Fall inside of her now
Fall inside of her now
On a beach we’re dressed in red

2. Blackout

Lights out
Punching your lights out
Punching your
Hello, they call me, I am on the prowl (he’s on the prowl)
Hello, they call me, I am hailing a cab (he puts his hand to the air)
What kind of vermin are creeping on the streets tonight
It’s 4:00 AM and I am is creeping on the streets tonight

I’ll save my life for something good, oh yeah, for something good,
oh yeah, for something good
And when you’re punching skulls on your bathroom floor, oh yeah
does it get you, oh yeah
Does it get you off to know that sometimes we all blackout

Lights out, poor thing that I am, all alone (he’s standing cold in the rain)
Hello, they call me, I am raging lighting (he puts his hand to the air)
What kind of vermin are swimming on the street tonight
It’s 4 AM and I am is coming after you tonight

She’ll save her life for something good, oh yeah for something good
oh yeah for something good
And when he’s punching her skull on the bathroom floor does it get him off, oh yeah
does it get him off, oh yeah
Does it get him off to know that sometimes we all blackout

Suck it up, dry your tears, I’ll lift you up Says the angel here
Little girl, feel the rage, turn your head
Walk down that hall and put yourself to bed.

3. Spiders

Searching on the wire for a wire for a peace of mind
Like the spiders in the corners that are never there
To the one, to the magic sun
You’re not that bright now but you will be someday soon
And you will fall in love with the moonlight

So come on, come and say so
Come on come on and say so

If God was on the radio I know he’d say to thee
Love is spiders on the edge and we’re hanging by a thread
Connected to the other end of the this twisted frequency I’ve spun
But I don’t care, I’d be happy, if you’d share your web with me.

So come on, come and say so
Come on come on and say so
Why don’t you, why don’t you
Come on come on and say so

4. Rocknroll

It’s Tuesday and I already hit the bottle?I can’t even fall in love at happy hour?I think I’ll go home now and dream about?the nightmares that could be?like all my friends turning into my enemies?You’re good at pushing me out
Late that night I am awakened by the banshee’s cry?and I am much too scared to get a drink?I see the rusty swing set blow ?from generations long ago?under moonlight the plow is stained?by the power of your name?You’re good at pushing me out
The farmer’s daughter raises hell?when I try to kiss her?screaming “daddies” now I run?here’s to sickle swinging fun?You’re good at pushing me out

5. Pretend You’re Alive

Oh summer life, oh summer life
Crawling with these worms you’re afraid of all their germs
Oh bask in life, oh bask in life
The weather gonna swallow you into the great divide
Oh enjoy life, oh enjoy life
Climbing up those trees and breaking all your knees

Watch angels in the morning become a devil’s afternoon
I will panic in the evening underneath the crashing moon
So fall in love while you can still hold your head up high
And pretend that you’re alive again
It’s friends that leave you here in the end so hold your head up high
And pretend that you’re alive again

Now autumn brings the beautiful things
Where all you give comes back to you like the crown upon my king
Your life’s a song so sing along
Before the silence swallows you and leaves you like a pawn

Your friends now ghosts are screaming
Bury us, they said, while panicking my mind was broken.

6. Pandamoranda

I think you’re swelling, ready to sink and swallow
Is this your true love?
It’s a pleasure to meet you America
Wait for signs of youth
Wait for signs that never arrive

Ringing your bell and anger the pandamoranda
Wait for signs of youth
Wait for signs that never arrive

Like this is a white coliseum and you are the fighter
Why not pretend that you have the strength of victorious men
And let’s say the bull is nearly approaching with speed and agility
Take off your shirt and wave in the air because you are the sign

7. Down Towards The Healing

I want to make you happy?But I’ve fallen, I’m sorry?I thought my wings could hold me up ?with angels not demons?you don’t know how cool you are?to find the ways to love me without shame??I want my life to be red?with trees and like Autumn?I’d float away from evil and?Down towards the healing?so sad now we have become?the children trapped in the mazes?I’d give my soul to the one who has the courage?to find me and free me now
if I run I’ll just become like all the faking lights?so let the thunders take me under ?and break my legs tonight

8. The Monster

The sky is growing dark
You should pack your bags and leave your children behind
I hear Egypt is nice this time of year
The shadows from outside are creeping in here
In dreams it seems you’re lacking of
The dreams you need to wake up just to run out of luck

Careful, the monster is round that corner
And he’s waiting for blood tonight
He knows that you might fight back

Your eyes are growing dark
The windows to your soul are showing off
It’s hard for me to say “that’s how I like it”, baby
The screaming from the cellar never helps

You’re dreams they seem to leave you so alone
In dreams it seems you can’t fight but some weapons would be nice

Careful, the monster is down that hallway
Drooling over your tasty arm
He knows that you can’t harm him ever

But he doesn’t know, you’ve got an exorcism show
But now he knows
Rot in hell, rot in hell

9. Angles With Enemies

And I don’t think we’ll get out of this hell
But the time here with you has been nice
A cold love bloody knuckle trigger finger riding on the edge of mind
A salute to the end of the world
And a beautiful end for you girl

Because all night I’ve been picking fights with the fur men
And the bar stool kings
And when it sounds right I’ll bring them down to their knees son
And with the glorious red, we’ll be off with their heads

Phantoms in the courtyard waiting on the breeze to float after me
To a chamber of wailing ferns
The calm yellow air and the dark woolen skies say our villains will arise
Oh haunted by two’s they wake by you

But it’s alright
In a scissor hell
And it’s alright to fall deep in love
Because all night
I’ll be following matches into the dawn light
where I melt you

You gotta pull stars down to be someone
And when you’ve chemi-claimed the sun you gotta
When oceans fill your life somehow
You gotta break the damn and wave to yourself
You got pull stars down to be someone
And when you chemi-claimed the sun you got it
And when oceans fill your life somehow
You gotta break the damn and wave to yourself

And sometimes in a silver hell
You gotta search for gold
And in the right light
We’re just angels with enemies

10. Radiology

I believe in my garden home
and the chemicals I need to make it grow
later on, the glowing teeth
lessons learned in radiology

choking on the tales of joy and bliss
broken sails, we should bale, but let’s kiss
I’ll embrace the brewing thunder and let it take me under

I believe in the search of the fawn
the forest creatures wild, but so am I
the bloody noses, the broken arms
lessons learned well in mythology

Amaurosis, I belong in an asylum
abused yet confused what you like
tar angels await as I learn to hate
this perfect world of my life

11. Candy

Five to three, walls of candy
Sign my name on the dotted line next to yours
You found the ways to move faster and stay healthy no contra
All these words are just a matter of time

You’re like a snake in the water
with shiny skin, a clear conscious
Venoms fade in just a matter of time
In just a matter of time
A matter of time

And too cold for kisses cause I’ve fallen form heaven
Your halo is just a punch in my face
You’re all the rage, you’re all the fun but ever
If you cross me I’ll get you
Sweet revenge is just a matter of time
It’s just a matter of time
A matter of time

And so you’re striking but
You’re savage when you cut into my beautiful infection
But I can’t help like it when we touch
Oh haven’t we reaped enough to fill this room with sweet love

12. It Won’t Last

Now that I can’t feel my heart in my chest
Angels will swoop down and pick up the rest
I close my eyes as the chariot came
Now is the moment to remain free
Across the country

Time is a man with a blade in his hand
Waiting for storms from the heavens to land and pass
I know it won’t last
This is the plan take your life back in your hands
I know it won’t last

13. Paper Scars

Fall into pairs like two ugly fish
Too rare for extinction I know
The veins in your hand felt sort of like summer
Calm to the touch oh no
And my god how did we survive the paper scars
Oh, bless my stars
You said you’re sorry

14. The Narcoleptic (Japanese version only)

Driving late at night
and I’m falling asleep
your pills barely keep me awake
dreaming of dragons carrying away
princesses in my mind
drinking from fountains, pipe dreams wade
making ripples in my pool
-
this is something you can’t deny
you’re freaking me out
every fairy tale needs a hero like me
to work things out
I gotta work it out
-
the queen says she needs me
to rescue her tall towers
but I say “some other time”
-
This is something I can’t deny
it’s seeking me out
every woman and child
needs a hero like me to save them all
I better work my stuff
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No thanks really….

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