The Academy Is... Album

Like a cold day in august
I was not prepared for this
You'd think that nobody noticed
The way that you still care about it

By all the people we need to love and hate,
Everybody makes the same mistakes
Divided by these walls,
Together we are one

But we are the same blood
Oh, to wash me off, me off
While half has been sworn off
The other half forgot

We are the same blood
We are the same blood
We are the same

You remind me of august
The way that I still care about
All the things that you promised
When I was still around
Pick you up and track you down

We are the same blood
oh, to wash me off, me off
While half has been sworn off
The other half forgot

We are the same blood
We are the same blood
We are the same blood
We are the same

Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh...

We are the same blood
oh, to wash me off, me off
We are the same blood
oh, to wash me off, me off
We are the same blood

Half has been sworn off (Yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah)
The other half forgot

We are the same blood
We are the same blood
We are the same blood
We are the same blood

Hey hey hey

It was a plane ride from LAX to O'Hare,
and what happened next was a series of unfortunate events.
(Please stay tuned for what happened next...)
The life I breathe for you gives to me new wounds
Well to patch and dress as I reflect on what else I could give you.

Maybe I should blindly throw my faith
into the next thing that comes my way
Standing at the back door with the life that she left behind.
Are we all the same behind the frame
Beneath the glass and fake last names?
I've been waiting far too long to feel the sun on my back.

It was a big bang
and a bright white light from no where.
It turned my coach class window to
A first class seat on the evening news, on NBC.
The life I gave for you is yours
So keep it, you oughtta keep it.
If I had one last chance to take it all back
You know I'd take take take you.

Maybe I should blindly throw my faith
Into the next thing that comes my way.
Standing at the back door with the life that she left behind.
Are we all the same behind the frame
between the glass and fake last names?
I've been waiting far too long to feel the sun on my back.

"Apologies are all we'll ever be," she said.
Standing on the stairs
Looking back, looking hard at me.
"Well, life is long for those who have to wait," I said.
It's the choice I had to make.
The choice I had to make.
It's the choice I had to...
(Make)

It was a plane ride. (plane ride)
It was a plain ride. (plain ride)
It was a plain ride.
Just a plane...

Maybe I should blindly throw my faith
Into the next thing that comes my way.
Standing at the back door with the life that I'd left behind.
If we know the way we're gonna die
Through everything else we will survive.
I've been waiting far too long to feel the sun on my back-
Yeah

But one day,
I will stay.

I've got that lefty curse
Where everything I do is flipped
And awkwardly reversed
You're seldom known and barely missed
I always put myself
In destructive situations
I need oxygen
To be exposed where no one goes, where no one's been
When it all comes crashing…

(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.
Sing it (yeah)
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.

Somebody get my phone
So I can throw it in a public
Pool and watch it float
And as it slowly sinking down,
Become a social ghost
Inside a box, cut at the top
To let some light shine in
To remind me what I've done and where I've been
When it all comes crashing…

(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.
Sing it (yeah)
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big, big, big
Mess on our hands, on our hands.

Don't give in, don't give up,
I'll be gone.
You don't look innocent enough.
We're too young to be critics
We won't miss anything at all
Don't give in, don't give up
I don't look innocent with this big, big mess on,
I'll say something else.

(woah)
(woah)
(woah oh)

We've got a big, big mess
Oh, we've got a big, big mess
Oh, we've got a big, big mess
A big, big mess
Now we've got a big, big mess
A big, big mess
Now come on

(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.
Sing it (yeah)
(ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah)
Now we've got a big, big, big, big
Mess on our hands, on our hands,

Don't give in, don't give up (we've got a big, big mess)
I'll be gone. (a big, big mess)
I don't look innocent enough
We're too young to be cynics (we've got a big, big mess on our hands)
We won't wish any harm at all
Don't give in, don't give up (we've got a big, big mess)
No one looks innocent with this big big mess on our hands tonight.
(a big, big mess. we've got a big, big mess on our hands)

When it all comes crashing.

I've noticed, people, they all have moments.
Different, yet all the same.
I fumble through every word that is spoken,
and I barely knew your name.
I'm tongue-tied, it runs through my blood and my insides;
Some things we can't escape.
But if we try, if we try, we can leave this behind.

It's been a lifetime, a lifetime we waited for.
A simple question, kid, "are you with me or not at all?"

Your eyes wide, always ahead of the curve tide,
quite, and confident.
Oh, we stood there, awkward and youthful, we tangled;
A piece of my soul escaped.
Oh, we are restless and tired, sleeping with jives,
A model make out with the egos of fire and it seems like it's been a lifetime,
a lifetime we've waited for.
A simple question, kid, "are you with me or not at all?"

Are we wasting time or is it wasting us?
It's been a lifetime waiting for now, now.
Well, you've got to find a way,
you've got to find a way,
you've got to find a way,
you've got to find a way,
you've got to find a way before you fold in.

It's been a lifetime,
a lifetime I've been waiting for.
A simple question, kid, "are you with me or not at all?"

It's been a lifetime, a lifetime we waited for.
I need an answer, kid, you're either with me or not at all, no, no.
Are we wasting time or is it wasting us?
It's been a lifetime, a lifetime, a lifetime, a lifetime, yeah.
Well, you've got to find a way,
you've got to find a way,
you've got to find a way,
you've got to find a way.
Said you've got to find a way,
you've got to find a way,
you've got to find a way before you fold in

You were the only face I'd ever known.
I was the light from the lamp on the floor,
and only as bright as you wanted me to be.
But, I am no gentleman, I can be a prick,
and I do regret more than I admit.
You have been followed back to the same place I sat with you drink for drink.
Take the pain out of love and then loath what exists.

Everything we had, everything we had,
everything we had, everything we had is no longer there.

It was the only place Ii'd never known.
Turned off the light on my way out the door.
I will be watching wherever you go,
through the eyes of a fly on the wall.
You have been followed back to the same place I sat with you drink for drink.
Take the pain out of love and then loath what exists.

Everything we had, everything we had,
everything we had, everything we had is no longer there, longer there.

You saw for yourself, the way it played out.
For you, I am blinded.
For you, I am blinded, for you.

I am no gentleman, I can be a prick.
And I do regret more than I admit.
You have been followed back to the same place I sat with you drink for drink.
Take the pain out of love and then loath what exists.

Everything we had, everything we had,
everything we had, everything we had.
Everything we had, everything we had,
everything we had...

I'll be with you wherever you go,
through the eyes of a fly on the wall

(Laughs)
some people have it and other people don't
you've been making some threats got my name and address
I'm breaking habits you don't want to know
i love wearing my clothes feeling cold and exposed

yeah
whoa whoa whoa whoaho

don't say you miss me you probably don't
well I've been crossing some lines that most folks wont

yeah
whoa whoa whoa

don't say you're loving this or above all this
with your blah blah blah
and all your friends
don't say you think you know when you know you don't
because tonight the bulls are in Brooklyn and you're still at home

some people have it and other people don't
oh the road that we pave it goes both ways
i've breaking habits you don't want to know
well i've been crossing some lines that most folks wont

OH don't say you're loving this or above all this
with your blah blah blah
and all your friends
don't say you think you know, when you know you don't
because tonight the bulls are in Brooklyn say

don't say you're loving this or above all this
with your blah blah blah
and all your friends
don't say you think you know, when you know you don't
because tonight the bulls are in Brooklyn and you're still at home

whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa

(hey hey hey hey)
(ahhhhhh)

some people have it and other people don't

I took a step back as the room was filling up
I was packed up against some people who were tossing up a storm
Now the door's locked
And the shower's on.
And I realize I don't recognize anyone,
But I don't mind
Well the neighbors have complained damn near every night.

[Chorus]
You shoulda shown up
Shoulda shown up by now
You shoulda shown up by now
Give it a rest. Give it a rest
With a knock at the door,
The knock at the door as it goes...
Whoa...

Well now everybody's losing control!
Intoxicated circulation...
Just try and sit back, get my palette wet,
Getting mentally prepared for the consequences
And you know why...
Because that knock at the door
Calls the crowd to quiet.
The neighbors have complained damn near every night.

[Chorus]
You shoulda shown up
Shoulda shown up by now
You shoulda shown up by now
Give it a rest. Give it a rest
With a knock at the door,
The knock at the door as it goes...
Whoa...

There's no one left lying on the second story floorboards
And I'm sure they heard next door
The bottles are hollow now
And there's room at the bottom
And I would take it back
If I could, but I won't!

[Chorus]
You shoulda shown up
Shoulda shown up by now
You shoulda shown up by now
Give it a rest. Give it a rest
With a knock at the door,
The knock at the door as it goes...
Whoa...

Subjects are thrown around the room
Looking for the ones that got away
A feeling of soft anticipation
Another confrontation I won't make
But how do we do it
We turned into something else entirely
We fake it
But I wanted it so desperately to be real

Run, run, holding on to some pieces that you left behind
Hold now, as I walk away, you're the one that finds me out
Run from the only thing left that I hold close

I'll be letting you in
You've got the feeling you've been followed under your skin
It will be weighing on your shoulder, believe it.
If I could express it in a different dialect or in a delicate way
I'd capture the phrases inside the cage beneath my chest
And keep it locked for days
I wanted you so desperately to believe me

Run, run, why are you running from another conversation?
Someone that I've been planning on, you're the one that finds me out.
There's nowhere, now I found you, that I won't go.

I'm always letting you in.
You've got the feeling you've been followed under your skin.
It will be weighing on your shoulder.
You've got that seed in you.
You've got that seed in you.

Run, run, what are you running from?
Let all your small steps expose your secrets.
You don't have to speak for me to believe it.
Why do you need it?

Shaking your faith, you've got the feeling
you've been followed under your skin.
It will be weighing on your shoulder.
You've got that seed in you.
You've got that seed in... I'm letting you in.
You've got the feeling you've been followed.
Are you listening to anything I've said?
You've got that seed in you.

Shaking your faith, it was the hardest thing to swallow.
Pretending you don't miss me.
You've got that seed in you.
You've got that seed in...
While letting you in, I'll be thinking about tomorrow.
And every time we cross those lines.
You've got that seed in you.
You've got that seed in...
Oh no, as I walk away, everyone had found me out.

(Chop chop)

I've got myself to blame for this
I try to compensate for everything I?m not
and every face forgotten
but you felt the sun warming your bed
you looked so quintessential
pressed against that crotch
in the face of what was lost

still i'm not asking much of me
youre ignoring the matter
youll shut me up and bleed me dry
with cheap champagne and a complicated lifestyle
well nothing else matters and i will die try thinking about you and i

oh three years on Friday since we met
you felt that existential
kiss upon your neck
how could we forget that
still i'm through acting like this feels right

nothing else matters
youll shut me up and bleed me dry
with cheap champagne and a complicated lifestyle
well nothing else matters and i will die trying, trying not to think about us

(trying not to think about us)

yeah

so yourself
and no one else
it'as all yourself and no else

but with our hearts dry it serves me right

you'll shut me up and bleed me dry
with cheap champagne and a disappearing lifeline
nothing else matters

shut me up and bleed me dry
with cheap champagne and a complicated lifestyle
when nothing else matters and i will die try thinking about you and I

If you're under the impression I'm alright.
I guess you never noticed.
I guess you might have known
I've been holding this together for so long.
But I guess you might have noticed.
Well I guess you...

The beast within the burden is all mine
A product of his father. A slave to his bride.
I feel I need to reveal my true stripes,
But the bitch behind all this trouble it,
Waits behind the wind to find out.

[Chorus]
You set me up to leave me,
You wanted to feel,
Shallow love, shallow lives.
With every word, you speak of what you wanted from me.
Wanted from me... Yeah

I'm sinking more and more into my lies.
Now home is just a pinprick in the vastness of my life.
Feel the pressure, feel the pleasure,
Feel the pain, you're not alone.
Feel the pleasure, feel the pain,
Feel the pain.

[Chorus]
You set me up to leave me,
You wanted to feel,
Shallow love, shallow lives.
With every word, you speak of what you wanted from me.
Wanted from me... Yeah

Realizations, I am not what you thought I was.
You change directions everytime someone judges us.
In moderation, what was once us now never was.
You change directions everytime someone judges us.

[Chorus]
You set me up to leave me,
You wanted to feel,
Shallow love, shallow lives.
With every word, you speak of what you wanted from me.
Wanted from me... Yeah

Realizations, I am not what you thought I was.
In moderation, what was once us now never was.

Don't try and tell me you've been looking at me.
Cuz I've been looking at you.
And I can read what you think. Yea.
Don't cut no corners when you're talking to me.
Like I don't know how it is,
But I can see all of it.

[Chorus]
We always have to wait (wait)
By the choice we had to make. (make)
You sold yourself so short,
Is this the way to carry on?
In the most unexpected places...

Don't try and tell me you've been thinking of us,
Cuz I will never believe you now you're shit out of luck, yeah.
Don't cut no corners when you're looking at me.
Like you don't know how it is
But I can see all of it...

[Chorus]
We always have to wait (wait)
By the choice we had to make. (make)
You sold yourself so short,
Is this the way to carry on?
In the most unexpected places...

We always have been caged
By the choices we make.
You sold yourself so short.
Is that the way to carry on?
In the most unexpected places. I see changes.
In the most unexpected places, I see changes.
We sold ourselves so short.
Is this the way to carry on?
Is this the way to carry on?