Building 44

Why Would Anybody Lie?

The sailors sail tomorrow
They don't know where they're going
And if theres some kind of hope for them
Well, you know, it isn't showing
The townspeople are all nervous
They hope the sailors get by
Sailor Joe says they'll be alright
And why would Sailor Joe lie?

Yes, why would Joe lie?
Why would anybody lie?

The masters feet are dancing
With his brand new high heeled shoes
But underneath his Fred Astaire
Hes got a case of blues
His wife, she doesn't love him
Even though she says she does
And when she asked him how he felt
He said he was fine because

Why would he lie?
Yes, why would anybody lie?

Greedy Girl

Theres nothing that she won't do
Theres nothing that she wont say
Theres no one that she won't love
Just to get her way
Theres no dress she won't wear
As long as it looks good, she doesn't care
Theres nothing she won't take
But theres nothing she will share

Because she's a greedy girl
Needy in an empty world
She'll push you down
To push herself up

Shes got that look in her eyes
When you see it, you can't help but sigh
And you give into her every wish
But she doesn't put anything on your dish
First thing, she'll break your heart
Every story has its start
Second thing, she'll take all you've got
And leave you after tearing you apart

Shes a greedy girl
Needy in an empty world
She'll push you down
Just to watch you drown

Nothing

Ten thousand words couldn't explain the pain I'm in
But you can in one stare
Everything I love I lose, I guess I choose to, but I don't
It's not fair
I don't want to learn that you're
everything you're not
And I don't want to lose
everything I've got
I want your life to soar again,
I want you to tell me more again
I don't want you to close the door,
I don't want you to tell me its the end
The pain to learn, without you what would I be?
Nothing, I'd be how you see me,
as Nothing

I Walk

As the fire burned all around me
In the corner here you found me
But you didn't want to astound me
So you left me burning
In the dark here, I recall you
And the moment that I saw you
You turned away because I appalled you
Now you must be learning

As I Walk

And if I ever happen to find you
I'll stay around and remind you
That you can't forget whats behind you
What you would not do
And as my soul ages on
The fire still rages on
But God has put cages on
You

As I Walk

I Don't Have A Clue

I don't have a clue
Just one of those times
I don't know what to do
I usually do
When I was young
I ran so fast
Into the future
Now its past
It didn't last
And now is then
It was too
But when?

The Room

This is the room where I grew up
This is the room where I threw up
This is the room where I slept
the room where I wept
The room where I kept all my tears

This is the room where I went mad
This is the room where I felt sad
This is the room where I lost myself
the room where I cost myself
so much pain over the years

This is the room where I wanted to die
This is the room where I wondered why
Why was nothing ever right?
Why was dark quieter than light?
Why is life my greatest fear?

Blind

Love, it blinds us
Love unwinds us
Love, it finds us
And kills us slowly
Love closes our eyes
Until we realize
That we're being fed lies
She didn't even know me

What's the point of changing?
You can't change the past
You should've known then
The love wouldn't last
Your eyes wet from crying
Your tears melt the sun
A love left you dying
You're becoming no one

She said to me
You're dead to me
And read to me
My will
Clinging to memory
Someone elses memory
No one remembers me
I'm dead still

Building 44

In Building 44
We don't exist anymore
Our heads give into dreams
Nothing is what it seems
The door closes again
The wall here is my friend
The ceiling here is blue
It has feelings too
The air it breezes in
Through the open window
From all the places
We used to go
It smells so bad
I'm not too sure
We don't exist anymore
In Building 44

Nothing Compares to Her

Sometimes I feel
Things will never be that real
again

And I look around
At the people that I've found
who I call my friends

And they all
seem so small
compared to what I had

What I'd give
To go back to then and live
It makes me sad

Nothing compares to her
Nothing compares to her
I miss her

Stranger Than Fiction

I used to know what happiness was
Before people took it away from me
And even though we might be friends
The truth is plain to see

That we've changed
and its strange
Stranger than Fiction

Depression doesn't seem to
Matter to your friends
They don't seem to get
"the message that it sends"

Which they'll rearrange
and its strange
Stranger than Fiction

People take what they want from you
Whether they realize it or not
They're not really looking after you
Only after what you've got

Which they'll take
and its strange
Stranger than Fiction

The cause is unknown
The effect all too clear
I am now alone
My best friend is fear
All my other friends
They all ran away
I changed
and they all turned away

I've written half the book
The one that they won't read
I filled it up with truth
The truth that they don't need

They don't want pain
and its strange
Stranger than Fiction

Dreams are Never supposed to be this Real

I never think to do what's right
And I'm sick of all this shit
And I still don't understand
How to end it
Sometimes I believe in myself
The way that I used to
Then I open my eyes
And I'm back to what I'm used to

I don't know what to do now
I think I'm gonna burn out
Each promise not to hurt me
Then every one deserts me
I think of you and start to cry
Knowing you're under the same sky
I look in the mirror
and I see nothing