Monomania

1. Romantic TheoryLyrics

   Romantic Theory

   I didn’t like you anyways
   You always spoke so quiet
   I had to ask you to repeat yourself

   I'd like to explain to all of my friends
   To everyone involved
   How it all happened
   How things fell apart

   let's reconstruct the scene
   as best we can and try to figure out
   what crimes were committed

   I saw you again last night you were
   hiding in a poor man's body
   but I saw your soul slip out of his fingers

2. Misheard Lyrics (Feat. Nora Knight)Lyrics

   Misheard Lyrics (Feat. Nora Knight)

   Everything you say is a bridge
   Everything you do is water under it
   These are not the original lyrics
   Such a worthless waste of time to write about

   every bit of you that I don't love
   is filled up with my hate
   I was a situation
   that you were glad went away

   Move move forward like a human being
   (sometimes you have to kill things to impress your friends)
   you probably looked like an idiot in that hat
   (used to feel bad about crushing ants)

   (why why why why why to die)
   I can't go back to not understanding what you mean to me
   I’m turning into the person that you were afraid I’d turn out to be

   there is something in me that can only give
   there is something in you that can only give out
   when you hear my songs do you get that feeling
   and if not, what the hell were you hearing?

   I am not crazy, I am right
   what do you mean? what are saying to me?
   I was just another bird you touched
   whose mother won't take him back

   I’m sorry I misheard your lyrics
   (tried to smile but it didn’t show up in the photograph)
   I was searching for a soul to sell my devils to
   (all I wanted was sleep and you took it away)

   [yes yes yes yes yes I dislike I hate]
   did you do something wrong was there something you did that I could blame
   I thought I was open I thought I was intimate and then you asked me my name

   By the time they send the lifeboats
   I won’t want to leave the island
   Calling out to distant shorelines
   Calling out for different basslines

   I can’t go back to not understanding what you mean to me
   I’m turning into the person that you were afraid that I’d turn out to be

   Ooh, it was nothing special
   ooh, it was nothing sacred
   just hands held
   and shoulders rubbed
   and voices touched
   in holy harmony

3. Times To DieLyrics

   Times To Die

   All of my friends are getting married
   All of my friends are right with god
   All of my friends are making money
   But art gets what it wants and art gets what it deserves

   (I lost a fight with Trypho
   Blamed it on my alogia)

   We’ve all had better times to die

   Get a job! Job
   Lying in bed while all his friends chant youmustadonesomethingwrong
   But he just keeps singing this song:

   [Job’s song]

   Worming my way into your heart
   Worming my way onto the charts
   I want a deal
   Let’s make a deal
   Let’s cut a covenant

   And when they took him to the temple
   Oh then they fed him to the devils
   And when they took him to their temple
   Oh then they fed him to their devils
   And when they took him to the temple
   Oh when they took him to the devils
   And when they took him to the temple
   Oh then they listened to his demos

   most of the time I'm just getting older
   but I'll get to heaven standing on your shoulders
   so many people you know that could make you
   they say kid you're good but do you have what it takes to be
   invited into the divine council

4. Overexposed (Enjoy)Lyrics

   Overexposed (Enjoy)

   You used to have a future, now you don’t even have a past
   You won’t have half an answer if anyone cares to ask
   You promised to speak to no one, you were lucky that I heard
   Because without a witness no oath can be assured

   Somewhere down the line you’ll look back and
   Say you did the best that you could and you’ll be wrong
   You’re always wrong

   I hope you enjoy it underneath the light
   I hope you can get some sleep tonight
   Because where you live the sun doesn’t set
   This is your bed. Hope you enjoy

   You held me in the sunlight, your interlocking hands
   Left a photograph on my shoulders, spots where I didn’t tan
   But my skin was an imperfect film and the negatives were burned
   Without the evidence there was no need for you to ever return

   And someone down the line will look back
   And wonder what you felt for me and he’ll be wrong
   You’re always wrong

   I hope you enjoy it underneath the light
   I hope you can get some sleep tonight
   Because where you live the sun doesn’t set
   This is your bed. Hope you enjoy

   I can’t turn this thing off
   It keeps following me
   Used to be so human now it’s just a machine
   I can’t turn this thing off
   It keeps following me
   When’d you say you were leaving?
   When’d you really leave?

   I hope you enjoy it underneath the light
   I hope you can get some sleep tonight
   Because where you live the sun doesn’t set
   If this is your bed, how do you do it?
   I was within my rights, I was behind the line
   You were dancing in your sleep
   I promised to hide it under the covers
   This is my bed, how do you do?
   Hope I enjoy my no one

5. Los Borrachos (I Don’t Have Any Hope Left, But The Weather Is Nice)Lyrics

   Los Borrachos (I Don’t Have Any Hope Left, But The Weather Is Nice)

   Being sad’s so boring
   I’m taking a vacation
   I’m driving down to see my old friends tonight

   Let’s spend the week with rosy cheeks
   And crush the grapes beneath our feet
   And stop burrowing through old chocolate boxes
   Like a heartbroken Bacchus

   I miss the good old boys
   They could still find joy in life to talk about

   So leave that girl behind you
   Or whatever it is that’s got you
   We’ve still got time for one more drink tonight

   Think what the others would say
   If they saw you in the bathroom, kicking the stall door
   They’d say “get out of your head for a while
   Jump into mine, leave it on repeat and it says:

   If I’d been a parrot I’d have been a very good parrot
   and if I’d be a parent I’d be my own parents
   and if that’s not apparent than it will be soon

   I don’t have any hope left but the weather is nice

   If you’re trying to live you have to own what you do
   Jesus Christ, I wish I could talk like that
   But such is my place in life

6. SoulsLyrics

   Souls

   That wasn’t any better at all
   That didn’t make me feel any better at all
   I thought it would, but it didn’t

   My consciousness is bigger
   It gives me no pleasure to say
   My consciousness is bigger than yours
   It gives me no pleasure

   And we descend the basement
   Poorly done murals, the faces
   If there wasn’t a house, we would build one with our bodies

   Hang on to my ego
   Everything is coming loose tonight
   I’m too nervous for boys now
   I’m too nervous for girls now

   every bottle you drink must be recycled and
   every plastic cup that can't be recycled in this town
   At the party kids come in and out
   Talking about T.S. Eliot

   It starts out fun
   Because the night is young
   But then the night gets old
   And it just gets cold
   And we go outside
   And we go back inside
   And we say what’s the plan
   And there is no plan so we go
   La la la la la la la la

   I just need to wake up burst into motion
   Raise my finger say aha, say moving is easy
   I just need to take off, burst into motion

   I just need to get up burst into motion
   Raise my finger say aha, say moving is easy
   I just need to get off

   It wasn’t fun
   wasn’t educational
   It lingered on
   I put my fingers on you were gone

   Let’s get away from these despicable people
   They can’t keep their mouths to themselves
   I know there’s lots of other guys with my name here
   But tell me I’m the only one that you will
   Does anybody use this bathroom in the daytime?
   Is this a house or the set of a film?
   Let’s get away from these awful people
   They can’t keep their minds to themselves

   I refuse to let go until you're impressed
   I refuse to let go until I'm depressed

   I see you reaching out to t-t-t-touch
   My skin shrinks, I think I’ll be shocked
   By that static
   It’s too dynamic

   Because I never wanted you to change
   I only wanted you to be different
   Like, not so distant

   Cause we are alone in our orgasms
   But your flesh seems so solid
   Why does it melt away
   In the morning dew?

   I’m sorry, I thought someone was there
   Like two mirrors gazing into each other’s eyes
   Like two microphones kissing

   But oh, that night, that music!
   The longer it goes, the more important I feel
   But oh, those lights, those colors!
   The less I can see, the more I can feel

   B----- said never to write about what’s in my pockets
   But that’s where my hands are, and that’s where they’ll stay

   Because you’re used to a softer touch
   She’s just used to a gentler touch
   She is used to a gentleman’s touch
   But hey man it’s cool when you do it

   We are alone in our dreams
   Do we have to sleep tonight?
   Murmur, murmur! Coward!
   Building towards a meaning that’ll never come

   Leave someone beautiful
   Find someone horrible
   Dig me

   I just want to have sex with you

   When I say stop, stop stop stop stop STOP!

   Bounce and stretch
   I stretch into a smile
   Not just my face, my body, my soul

   Because I view life as something that I
   Don’t think I’ll get away with
   And you think that we’ve already gotten away

   Yeah we all have dreams, I know
   I should have forgotten them in the morning
   (a dead dog painted on the sea)

   If none of us know the words then only the melody matters

   I wrote this verse drunk
   I thought it would solve everything
   I thought it would
   BUT IT DIDN’T

   When everyone was going homewards
   Did you cry because it was over?
   Or did you cry because you knew it would never end?

   As long as we don’t go to sleep yet
   I promise I can’t go to sleep yet
   cause the night’s not dead, no the night’s not dead
   I will not go alone to my single-size bed

   We could go anywhere but we will always be where we are

   I waited for you on the eastern shore
   Watching people trying to act sober on the other side of the sea
   Until I laughed and headed home
   I learned my lesson never to roam

7. Maud GoneLyrics

   Maud Gone

   When did our heart
   Stop beating?
   Used up all the heat
   When did it start?
   Our meeting
   It’s been on repeat
   I know there's a full moon every night
   it’s just not always bright
   but it’s been so long since I saw the light
   maybe I haven’t been looking at the sky

   Maud
   Now you’re gone

   Sweetheart please love me too long
   My heart’s too strong
   Love me too long
   Sweetheart please let me hold on
   To these old songs
   I’ve loved too long

   When I’m in bed
   I’m dead
   No one to check my pulse
   And so instead
   My head
   Begs not to be so full
   and when I fall
   asleep
   which part of me writes the dream
   and which part falls
   asleep
   who's running the machine?

   I know theres a full moon every night
   When I dress black it snows white

   Maud
   Now you’re gone

8. Sleeping With StrangersLyrics

   Sleeping With Strangers

   will anyone be surprised
   will anyone not say they're surprised
   where will it be? will I have found a home by then?
   or is it always in your hometown?

   will my hanging leave me indecent?
   will they have to cross my legs?
   no more throwing the bottle cap into the trash and throwing the bottle into the recycling
   let nature take its course

   how long will the casket hold?
   how long will the old home hold?
   how many hands will have touched me?
   how may eyes shut? only two

   will it be like in the movies?
   will they play music I like?
   or will everyone be hovering around the iPod trying to put on their playlist

   all that oxygen, no more
   all that senseless rubbing, no more
   only gravity
   and it's such a drag

   and when the night comes
   who will be lying by my side
   I never liked sleeping with strangers

   and when the night comes
   whose side will I be lying by
   I never liked sleeping with strangers

9. Anchorite (Love You Very Much)Lyrics

   Anchorite (Love You Very Much)

   You never stopped smoking, but I forgive you
   My words and my heart were not enough to give you
   And my words always sounded wrong, it was easy not to listen
   Still it pained me to see when I left, you never noticed what was missing

   After all that’s unsaid and undone I know this can’t mean much
   But I hope that you find someone who loves you very much

   No, I’ve never slept next to someone who wanted to sleep next to me
   It was hard to debate, you couldn’t wait to lose your memory
   And it didn’t take long, you were strong in your resolve to lose your mind
   It was only a mistake that on the way you happened to lose mine

   Yes, I know in your eyes we were never really lovers as such
   So I hope that you find someone who loves you very much
   And I hope that you find someone you can love just as much

   Sometimes I wish I hadn’t taken all my notes on your rolling papers
   But when you burned them the scent was such a bittersweet vapor
   I watched the flames silence the words I was given in life
   But if your heart was in it I was glad to be your sacrifice

   And though I’ll miss or at least sometimes wish for your touch
   I hope that you find someone who loves you very much

   (death of the lady man:)