Saves The Day Album

And I'm gonna get to the bottom of this
gonna peel back my skin
and look at myself shaking and shivering
And I'll get the rope
from in the house
survey the scene
Find two of the tallest trees
And I'd tie myself up
Above the cool earth
to dangle in the twilight

And I'm gonna get to the bottom of this
gonna peel back my skin
and look at myself shaking and shivering
As my skin collects in a pile on the ground
I'll radiate heat and turn off my head
And just pretend that I don't exist
Then I'll see clearly to the end
Of the ropes that I've been hanging from
As they loosen from the trees
and plummet to the ground
Be impailed and turned around
I'm finally free from the ups and downs

And I'm gonna get to the bottom of this

There's a beautiful sky tonight and
If you were by my side then we could share it but your gone.
So come at me with your moon and burn me in the stars
Cause nothing matters anymore.
If I could only see you now for about an hour
Maybe just a minute
Just to ask
What has he got that I don't have?
Is it his brown eyes?
I know blue eyes get boring but I'll wear dark glasses all the time and
Hey if you want me to, I'll take a knife to my own bright eyes.
If I could only see you now for about an hour
Maybe just a minute
Just to ask
What has he got that I don't have?
Is it his brown eyes?
Well, I'll give you a thousand reasons that tonight
You should grant me this one wish.
Like the one year of my life that I gave to you and
Now you put me through hell.
You break me up.
Waoh, I should hate you, but I can't replace you in my heart.
Why am I so pathetic?
I don't get it why you won't return my calls.
Can't you look at me once?
And please if you got a minute,
Enjoy this lonely sky with me.
It'll swallow us whole if we only let it.
If I could only see you now for about an hour
Maybe just a minute
Just to ask
What has he got that I don't have?
Is it his brown eyes?
Well, I'll give a thousand reasons that tonight
You should grant me this one wish.
Like the one year of my life that I gave to you and
Now you put me through hell.
You break me up. yeah
If this sky's going to eat us
Then I'd like to be digested into
A million pieces with you.
I'd love to be scattered to hell with you.

If every limb were broken,
Tires had all worn thin
And my toes are all in pieces.
Do you know
What I would do?
I would play can you drag yourself
200 miles with just your fingernails?
A little game that I made up.
Do you know that I never ever lose?
There is nothing to
Keep me from coming back to you
Cause I can picture all the pictures of you
And me on your walls.
What would it take to make you mine forever?
Just your fingernails,
A little game that I made up.
Do you know, that I never ever lose?
Could I cut out my liver,
Make a special potion
To close my flat?
Three parts my heart.
Yeah, you know that I would do it in a second.
With just my fingernails,
A little game that I made up.
Do you know that I never ever lose?
With just my fingernails,
A little game that I made up.
Do you know that I never ever lose?
Never lose.
(background vocals at the end)
I am not afraid of what it takes to glue you to my side
Even if it takes a little bleeding, so be it
I would go without breathing and
I don't have to justify it
You just watch me

Your middle finger was clutching my thumb through the park and over macdougal.
The torches were blazing about our street, just down from the sky.
Casey stepped with anna off the curb.
His shoes are clogs, did you see? did you see? yeah
They dipped in that puddle, the one catching green.
They were tripping up, slipping around, singing 'rolalita (come out tonight')
And oh, oh, oh
Wanted to pull you down.
Roll on top of me, baby.
Yeah, just roll, roll, roll oh.
We'll wreck our clothes.
We'll scrape our knees.
We'll taste the scabs.
You, sweet, are worth these next four months until I bail out
Yeah and kiss behind your ears,
Drive off in the van.
Oh my god, I think I'm dying in this car seat,
Where I'll spend through winter.
What can you do?
I don't know if I can go.
What can you do?
I don't know, not through with you.
What can you do?
I don't know if I can go
What can you do?

Oh well, you've got me under your spell
And I don't think that I'm kidding around.
I don't think I can forget you now.
I once sat up on my roof, examined the planning of my town.
I saw the structured grid and pavement cutting through grass
Remembered the cold of winter running up the legs of my pants.
I picked the nicest lawn and imagined the two of us rolling around
Down along the ground.
I saw myself touch your face and I noticed jets begin to race above our heads.
And I pinched my arm, remembered how much you hate me.
Remembered the fact that I can't see what you need
Too stupid to be aware of the beauty that you give this place and
How shitty this town would seem without you in it.
When you aren't around I let the shades fall down
To shut out all the sun's light
Make myself feel all right.
What am I doing with my life?
Oh well, you've got me under your spell
And I don't think that I'm kidding around.
I don't think I can forget you now.
Remember the only things we need sometimes
Are chilly nights and warmer thighs,

To me, the only thing left after a while
Was that night we watched
Documentaries up through morning and then you kicked me out. huh
You opened up your screen door and threw me off the porch.
It was summer then and I drove home whistling (muddy waters) down the pike yeah.
And that was that: our one sweet night together.
And under highway signs
I watched our love start fluttering and dissipating.
I counted all the headlights to make sure I was alright.
Now I'm wondering is it me or is it me that can't see silver linings?
So I fucked it up. I watched you go.
I saw my hand not dialing the phone.
All I'm left to do is remember the dull room
We sat in blue stream light
Watching the strike of '59.
I dreamed of wrecking my underwear.
Oh can't I touch your cheeks somewhere
Under dirt filled rainy nights with my socks stuck in the mud? yeah
Please come dive in puddles with me.
Our one sweet night together.
Our one sweet night together.
Our one sweet night together.
And under highway signs
I watched our love start fluttering and dissipating.

Don't you remember
The last time I was speeding down this highway? and
Anna slept in the back seat, dreaming in the autumn heat.
We turned up the country radio.
I said, "if you want me just say so."
And I slicked back my hair in the wind.
And I told you I didn't want my picture taken but you snapped it anyway.
Now I guess,
Now I guess you won't have trouble remembering me someday, someday yeah.
So I floored it and swerved around the lanes.
And I kept wishing it was you instead of me behind the wheel so
Maybe with my camera I could steal a shot of you and
Go home to put it in my room.
And I told you I didn't want my picture taken but you snapped it anyway.
Now I guess,
Now I guess you won't have trouble remembering me someday, someday yeah.
Maybe you'll never remember me.
Maybe my face will lose these scars,
'cause sometimes they keep me home at night
Where I duck under the covers and wince when I see the light.
And I told you I didn't want my picture taken but you snapped it anyway.
Now I guess,

I guess the only reality is the one you seem to believe in.
So I'm walking out, this is the last time, I feel like shit.
This isn't the way to treat old friends oh yeah
Let's go again
Set me up and
Watch me stand on top of my old house
Watch me spinning and watch me seeing the melon sky
Oh, look it's so beautiful tonight
But I was feeling so sweet
I could barely breathe so deep
But you had to come along
You had to shatter everything
Why'd you even fuck her in the first place?
Friends don't mean a thing when you can actually feel the knife sticking in your
spine
For a second there I thought I was fine
But oh, whatever
I've tasted my own blood,
Now every time you walk on by, I feel like spitting in your eye

Leif and I are on the train to new york in car 1399.
There's a guy with a quarter in his ear and
I've seen leif only once in the past two months. oh
His hair is sticking up a little in the front.
Yeah he's losing it just a bit.
When I get home tonight I'll miss him in hampshire.
His glasses, the way he writes in purple pen,
The way his collar falls to the left.
Have you seen his ankles lately?
I know he's next to me.
I feel his sweater here,
But when I'm sleeping it's only green sheets and the hair down my legs.
I think I'll write leif, when I'm near tuesday, sometime before you go
And I'm back on the train.
Leif and I are on the train to new york in car 1399.
There's a guy with a quarter in his ear and
I've seen leif only once in the past two months. oh
His hair is sticking up a little in the front.
Yeah he's losing it just a bit.
When I get home tonight I'll miss him in hampshire.
His hair is sticking up a little in the front.
Yeah he's losing it just a bit.

[Originally by The Descendents]

Its been so long since I had a smile
I've stayed sad for such a long while
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

You kiss me now and I turn away
I think I'm still kissing yesterday
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy
So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy

Cheer me up
Come on and Cheer me up
I don't want to spend the rest of my days dreaming yesterday's daydreams, no.

Out with the bad and in with the good
You feel my heart girl, you're knocking on wood
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

So generous, I'm being kind
With selfishness in the back of my mind
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy
So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy

Cheer me up
Come on and Cheer me up
I don't want to spend the rest of my days dreaming yesterday's daydreams.
Don't want to spend the rest of my days giving yesterday's promises.

Its been so long since I had a smile
I've stayed sad for such a long while
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

No more giving my mind away
Tomorrow's love will be yesterday
If you can cheer me up I could learn to love you

So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy
So love me, and cheer me up
Show me you're the one who can make me happy

Cheer me up
Come on and Cheer me up
I don't want to spend the rest of my days dreaming yesterday's daydreams.
Don't want to spend the rest of my days giving yesterday's promises.
Don't want to spend the rest of my days living yesterday.
Don't want to spend the rest of my days singing yesterday's love songs.

I wanna move the town to the clash city rockers
You need a little jump of electrical shockers
You better leave town if you only wanna knock us
Nothing stands the pressure of the clash city rockers
You see the rate they come down the escalator
Now listen to the tube train accelerator
Then you realize that you got to have a purpose
Or this place is gonna knock you out sooner or later
So don't complain about your useless employment
Jack it in forever tonight
So shut your mouth
And pretend you enjoy it
Think of all the money you've got
An' I wanna liquefy everybody gone dry
Or plug into the aerials that poke up in the sky
Or burn down the suburbs with the half-closed eyes
You wont succeed unless you try
So don't complain about your useless employment
Jack it in forever tonight
So shut your mouth
And pretend you enjoy it
Think of all the money you've got
You owe me a move say the bells of St. groove
Come on and show me say the bells of old Bowie
When I am fitter say the bells of Gary Glitter
No one but you and I say the bells of prince far-I
No one but you and I say the bells of prince far-I
Rock rock clash city rockers.
Rock rock clash city rockers.
Rock rock clash city rockers.
Rock rock clash city rockers.

I remember the time
When everything was all different
We didn't really know each other then
I didn't know how much you made me so
I guess it was all pretend when
You decided you're those all are different things.
I don't think that it was all that bad.
Especially that time in princeton was nice.
Then we pretend to be so close
Now we wait
Try not to be not so different
Than we have in the past
You made me so but i don't know
To everything i'll hope again.
I never wanna be not so here
I never wanna be not so here
I never wanna be not so here
I never wanna be not so here
I never wanna be not so here

Have you ever
Had one of the days
When all the ???
So you just move on
And the days gets long
You wish you had just

You aren't the kind of person that i couldn't fall in love with,
Rather you are the kind of person that i could.
And i'd like to spend an afternoon of laughing at ourselves,
And hear all the wonderful things you might tell me.
I'd watch your eyes gleam
During that time of day
When you can't really tell if it's day or night.
I'd like to think of us in twelve years having a place and a daughter.
I think she would look a lot like you.
We'd be all the time smiling.
Someone once asked me who i'd most like to be with.
Someone once asked me who i'd most like to be with.
I said, "there's this really great gal

Playing shows and writing songs
Could've been much more than you can get out
Of sitting around and being unproductive.
There's a lot more than being like the other kids.
At least i have something to do with myself.
Did you ever notice how sometimes you
Take for granted what you need,
Like having friends and good times and never losing touch?
But i guess you found something else to hold on to,
Like a girl or money or being bitter to the end.
I'd like to think of the days when we didn't have to,
And everything that ever meant some to you?
You only thought you had to circle so far,
And then come back down to

Why is it everything's all loneliness with me?
Sometimes i try too hard, and sometimes you cause it,
But it always carries on and on.
"what did you ever become?" you asked.
I said, "i was told to be smiles and bright eyed happiness,
But sometimes i can't find anything to laugh at."
"i don't want to be here." you said.
It seems like i almost always have that effect on everyone.
"you aren't the first one to think like me."
And i just want to be like everyone else.
Why can't i be everything to everyone else,
Or maybe just to you?
Just once i would like to be something.
And i wouldn't mind if you'd like to be,

It was almost night time so we stayed inside,
And closed our eyes.
I whispered a thought that i had.
We slept while holding hands couldn't sleep the cold.
You said, "just being near you for awhile is enough."
You have the most wonderful sense of feeling right,

I think you're a really neat person
and I think I want to spend some more times with you
cause you aren't boring and your phone skills are really rad
you call me up again
I think I really like you
you're in my thoughts all the time
I remember what you look like
I can picture us walking hand in hand and side by side
then I look into your grey-blue eyes

To me, the only thing left after a while
Was that night we watched
Documentaries up through morning and then you kicked me out. huh
You opened up your screen door and threw me off the porch.
It was summer then and I drove home whistling (muddy waters) down the pike yeah.
And that was that: our one sweet night together.
And under highway signs
I watched our love start fluttering and dissipating.
I counted all the headlights to make sure I was alright.
Now I'm wondering is it me or is it me that can't see silver linings?
So I fucked it up. I watched you go.
I saw my hand not dialing the phone.
All I'm left to do is remember the dull room
We sat in blue stream light
Watching the strike of '59.
I dreamed of wrecking my underwear.
Oh can't I touch your cheeks somewhere
Under dirt filled rainy nights with my socks stuck in the mud? yeah
Please come dive in puddles with me.
Our one sweet night together.
Our one sweet night together.
Our one sweet night together.
And under highway signs
I watched our love start fluttering and dissipating.