See him get in the morning See him get in the evening All around town Little have a pity As the day was freezing pretty Black ice all about Pause, pause Pause, pause Pause, pause Pause, pause Go I can’t I’m stuck I can’t I’m stuck I can’t I’m stuck I’ve done a bad thing I’m incapacitated I feel the walls are crumbling I feel the walls are crumbling I feel the walls are crumbling I feel Oh, it’s just The broken pieces It’s just The debris The debris enclosing me I came in the morning I came in the morning And that’s where I stayed That’s where I stayed As the walls came Crumbling down on me All around me See him come in the morning See him come in the evening I’m still waiting For him to save me

Did you whisper Did you whisper nothings in my ear Only to find that I was deaf Did you hurry Did you hurry To give me something before I leave Only to find that I had left Changes Changes Changes pick you before you pick yourself Nothing you could score against me would make me angry For how I played I deserve that penalty I only have as good a hand as you dealt me I’m a tough lock to pick when you’ve thrown away the key Did you hunger (Did you hunger) Did you hunger for a thrill that this alone Cannot begin to satiate Did you wonder (Did you wonder) If the vacancy bleeding between Was enough cause to evacuate Changes Changes Change, changes pick you before you pick yourself Nothing you could score against me Would make me angry (would make me angry) For how I played I deserve that penalty (that penalty) I only have as good a hand as you dealt me (as you dealt me) I’m a tough lock to pick when you’ve thrown away the key (thrown away the key) Changes Changes Changes pick you before you pick yourself Nothing you could score against me would make me angry For how I played I deserve that penalty I only have as good a hand as you dealt me I’m a tough lock to pick when you’ve thrown away the key I’m not equipped to be on your team now But I’ll play the fucking game

Look at me Look at me Do I look okay to you When you say What you say Do I look okay to you I caught you one time I caught you more than one time I caught you looking my way It’s true Not sure how I felt I was not sure how you felt But I knew what I felt Without telling you So if you see me hanging If you see me hanging on Just let me go I’m not trying to To make a case that I belong I wish I could You know I would So as you see, my love, I can’t You had a way With the things you’d say So I gave you one more chance I caught you one time I caught you more than one time I caught you asking about me It’s true Hope it freaks you out and shakes you The same way the shame will quake you You’re looking for a feeling Will this do So if you see me hanging If you see me hanging on Just let me go I’m not trying to To make a case that I belong I don't belong

I don’t care I am fickle I am frail I am fragile I might fail I am an open book A mystery I am a prism Clear-cut, I’m plain to see I was a soldier I was a savior I told you the straight truth Through the lies I gave you I had a kindness Through the iffy things I said You can love me Or leave me for dead Who do you think you are Telling me who I am Take what you want from me Take it while you can I don’t care I am brilliant I am power I have minutes I’ll give you an hour I have a vision Of what I want you to see I am a looking glass Look at me I was a gold star I was a hater I stepped on the ‘right-now’ On my way to the ‘later’ I had an arrogance But I’m hoping that you know You can love me Or let me go Who do you think you are Telling me who I am Take what you want from me Take it while you can You don’t know me No, you don’t You could love me But you won’t

You always had a face that looks so pretty And everyone around you thought the same Until your tired tongue turned to taffy The thought of using it turned you insane I went outside There’s a River Outside There’s a River Outside for you Courage is contagious If you’d only be courageous There’s a river outside for you Just for you Break me in Thirty diamonds Take more than you can give Thirty diamonds Hear not only what is said straight to you Hear also what is lingering left unsaid By hearing in your heart you'll learn to listen By listening you'll heed the difference She said I went outside There’s a River Outside There’s a River Outside for you Courage is contagious If you’d only be courageous There’s a river outside for you Just for you Break me in Thirty diamonds Take more than you can give Thirty diamonds Thirty diamonds Thirty diamonds Thirty diamonds Thirty diamonds Mama here's what I've found I'm drowning I can't sink on solid ground Where words like that don't make a sound For you Break me in Thirty diamonds Take more than you can give Thirty diamonds Thirty diamonds Thirty diamonds Thirty diamonds Thirty diamonds Oh (x12)

I don't need a brain to do half of the work I do But being a millennial it's been forecast I'm screwed My skills and qualifications put traditionalists to shame But employers like to wipe their asses with my resume It's just a dandy Wednesday Til you're burned in effigy These days are nothing short of strange But that's just the territory And you have to buy it There's a trainwreck running for president Thinks he'll make the country great His campaign is as out of control as the fake tan on his face He swings his racist shit with hateful uninspired spite It will be much too late by the time these idiots realize It's just a dandy Wednesday Til you're burned in effigy These days are nothing short of strange But that's just the territory And you have to buy it It’s the territory And you have to buy it My sister wears too much makeup Can she even drive there to get it I told her not to pluck her brows so thin Or else she might regret it Her high school is laden with criminals, clowns in class, and it's dead-ended It's amazing how resilient these kids are In a time that's so pathetic It's just a dandy Wednesday Til you're burned in effigy These days are nothing short of strange But that's just the territory And you have to like it It’s the territory And you have to like it I only have A hundred years A hundred songs A hundred fears A thousand cares A million tears but I don't want One billion regrets It's just a dandy Wednesday Til you're burned in effigy These days are nothing short of strange But that's just the territory And you have to buy it

So I bid you a silent goodbye And accepted with a boastful swallow of pride It was important to steal this lesson and lock it away But one day I emerged from my sane state of shunning trouble And at the foot of my doorway was a letter Addressed to a past Me And I opened it Before knowing it was coming I had pledged to ignore any reconsiderations requested within This was a promise I made to myself From behind my bubble in the Hills of Harmony The thing about wishful thinking, though, Is that you are more likely to let your walls dissolve As you leave yourself susceptible to the contents of that letter Exposed to the acid disguised as sweetness To seep in through the tears You have tearfully spent the days repairing If you keep doing these things Then they will think you have successfully survived So I crumpled up your communication And as the wicked ball of paper bit my gentle finger I felt once more the personification of confusion and duplicity Which had once led me to know better than to have opened your letter But which did me no such favor to spare me this time As my curiosity crept And I embraced it Despite my confidence in my error I wore my integrity like a bandage Like the royal cloak Of a queen about to be knocked off her high horse And galloped away into the Depths of Disillusionment The thing about wishful thinking, though, Is that you are more likely to let your walls dissolve As you leave yourself susceptible to the contents of that letter Exposed to the acid disguised as sweetness To seep in through the tears You have tearfully spent the days repairing If you keep doing these things Then they will think you have successfully survived So I told you through a grimace that I was happy for you And the grimace wasn’t that I wasn’t happy for you As much as that I was sad for myself So I told you through a grimace that I was happy for you And the grimace wasn’t that I wasn’t happy for you As much as that I was sad for myself And sad that the promise you dangled in front of me Shiny and appealing Was actually a dagger coming right at my chest And I let it And as I was stunned and silent Desperate to comprehend what was even happening You mistook me for defeated And threw my body into the Sea of Sadness The thing about staying afloat, though, Is that if you stop acting like you can be saved If you stop screaming Flailing your arms Gasping for air Hoping that someone has noticed and is willing to help If you stop doing these things Then they will assume you have successfully drowned So I bid you a silent goodbye

Where they cast their afflictions in a starring role Where they cater to their affections By being ice cold Where they tailor to virtues By simply cutting them out Where in a decent argument The right man has no clout That’s the trouble The trouble in Shangri-La Though you try so hard You don’t get very far If you cooperate they might let you out Before they feast on all your petulant doubt I’m gonna show what all the fuss is about I’m gonna rise up from this hole in the ground Where the feeling of entitlement Wraps its hands around neck Where they make a barrage to embarrass you Out of a microscopic speck Where they address redemption By simply sending it on its way Where if you’re looking for the truth, boy You’ve got a whole slew of mind game to play That’s the trouble The trouble in Shangri-La Though you try so hard You don’t get very far If you cooperate they might let you out Before they feast on all your petulant doubt I’m gonna show what all the fuss is about I’m gonna rise up from this hole in the ground That is the trouble, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble, the trouble The trouble in Shangri-La Though you try so, so, so hard You don’t get very far That’s the trouble The trouble in Shangri-La Though you try so, so, so hard You don’t get very far

My sock is falling down inside my shoe I have forty thousand wings unbroken And I wouldn't sing to you Even if you left my heart aplenty I've got better things to do So I gave you my excuses Using talll tales to get through Well, guess what, I'm lying I'm lying Fuck you You can use your tears To wipe away The void I left As you cry today Well, just remember I'm fine I am not singing to you And that's Not a crime

Small and portable I can fit it in my lap I could put it away But why would I do that I never had a friend I loved as much as this Does it make any sense To love the inanimate It started very tame Thought I could practice control But the habit grew and Until it swallowed me whole Commit me for my crime When I am in so deep My addiction won’t back off The consequence is steep I didn’t mean for this To do away with me But I have lost myself In loving my Ukulele Oh my God, I’m in so deep Where can I get my fix for cheap I’ve got tricks and whiskey by the heap But I want a ukulele I’ll impress my friends with its majesty I’ll play for them out of irony All other instruments not for me Because I want a ukulele

Oooh ooh-ooh Oooh ooh-ooh And the worst part is If I realized I deserve better I’d still come crawling back to you On my hands and knees Disjointed melodies Dawning across memories I’d still come crawling back to you Oooh ooh-ooh Oooh ooh-ooh The first part of this Story ends like a letter I sincerely hope you write me back With your eyes and lips Should I forgive you or kill For you to kiss me, make it quick Dying in this heart attack Oooh ooh-ooh Oooh ooh-ooh I’m running in circles like It’s a goddamn ball game This is not a round of duck-duck-goose Counting my cards in vain Running the field in the rain I lose, it strikes me and it’s all plain I’d still come crawling back to you I'd still come crawling back to you I'd still come crawling back to you I'd still come crawling back to you I'd still come crawling back to you And the worst part is If I realized I deserve better I hope they cut off my arms and legs

Your touch is shallow Your reach is shallow And the most naïve thing As you painted my picture I saw myself Until I noticed the brushstrokes So shallow And the pain that it brings When the picture you’re seeing Is not a view (of you) at all Until I noticed the brushstrokes So shallow Come Painter, come Come paint her, come Come Painter, come Come paint her, come Come Painter, come Come paint her, come Come Painter, come Come paint her, come And the most naïve thing As you painted my picture I saw myself Until I noticed the brushstrokes and saw That they were shallow Your love is shallow Your reach is shallow Come paint her shallow Come paint me shallow Come paint me shallow Come paint me shallow Come paint me shallow Shallow Shallow Shallow And the most naïve thing As you painted a picture I saw myself Until I noticed the brushstrokes I noticed enough

So I split away So I split away real fast Running against the wind before the dawn comes back So I split away So I split away real fast The mothers and the maggots won’t turn me around I’m a cold asylum I’ve got a frigid stare Whipping past the concrete You can’t contain me here So I split away So I split away real fast As the gatekeeper reaches into my soul So I split away So I split away real fast Before the un-truths color what I know I’m a harsh November Seeping into your Spring An unwanted promise Clouding your epiphany So I split away So I split away real fast Racing past the boneyard of what this used to be So I split away So I split away real fast And hope I don’t sprain my ankle on memories unwelcome I’m the pit in your stomach You’ve heard so much about Reinforcing the reality you’d love nothing more than to doubt So I split away So I split away real fast Leaving an empty shell and not sweeping up the cracks So I split away So I split away real fast The symphonic resolve strengthens me at last I’m a reckless virtue You’ve got a price to pay You should have let me go Before the split split me away So I split away So I split away real fast So I split away real fast