Misadventures Lyrics

Two Year Plan

In between the times when things seem real and things are real

You wake up so late

And I’ve been up all morning doing my best to keep still

The time it doesn’t take

All too familiar

Don’t you remember the indifference?

I always thought

We were escaping from it

From a culture that’s come to hate us

But all that running gets exhausting

So come back and see me

So easy, it’s like breathing

Gotta get a job

Gotta earn some money

Gotta feed your apathy for money

It’s always been the best way

Around impenetrable gates

And everything has

And everything will change

You had to save face

And I was in a different place

And the sun is priced so high these days

Where did we stray?

Where did we stray?

Where did we stray?

I always thought we would escape

Where did we stray?

Committee Circus

I’ve got a funny feeling

That the difference you so enjoy seeing

Between yourself and the world outside

Is about as complex as the garment it’s marked by

So let’s skip the introductions

I’ve seen them all and I’m quite tired

Nice to see you’ve found a team

Now pay attention, the game’s always changing

But no, no one wants to feel alone

And the world’s a whole lot bigger

Than your shitty school tax zone

And so you’ll find what you thought that you’d despise

A group that holds you in by shutting others out

And comes conveniently disguised

The judges they are judging

Their platforms never meet

So come and share a laugh with me

At their mortality

Everything we truly love will remain

Regardless of some matching game

And I’m so tired of feeling insincere in all I do

To be sincere in all the ways I’d like to is still impossible

Why do we activate these rooms?

Are split second connections still the closest things?

Five years from now, did the song still save you?

But no, no one wants to feel alone

And the world’s a whole lot bigger than where you’re deemed viable

So stop pretending, pretending that you’re not

Just another group of kids who feel slighted and confused about god

The judges they are judging

Their platforms never meet

So come and share a laugh with me

At their mortality

Everything we truly love will remain

Everything we love will remain

I’ve always done this because it’s my escape

From a world run like a contest

A world with which I can’t relate

I’ve always done this because this is my home

Storyteller

The midnight drunks go walking

Happy, looking sad, and talking destiny

This is what the city pays for, I can see

The neon lights resist the fight against separation anxiety

This is what the city pays for, I can see

The dream they sell

I’m hooked; I’m overwhelmed again

And I wish that I could say the days alleviate

This artificial pain I never thought that I’d be feeling at this age

But the drunks don’t go to sleep

They linger just like you and me

This is what the city pays for; what I need

What’s happened to me?

And then I have those dreams, too

The ones where I’m running around like a fool

To make things better for you

Like the good storyteller

You once knew me as

Try to hold it in my head

That no time has passed

Since I stood in circles with automatic friends

Not worried that the means justified the end

‘Cause life without love

Keeps my eyes wide

And my house stays clean

When I don’t let people inside

Keyhole M.O.

You wait for another opportunity to speak

He looks for another way to bank

Same affirmation that you get

Same way you treat everyone you used to know like shit

High achieving like they all say that you are

But you and I both know who sets that bar

Don’t we

We can’t see through the shrouds we don’t notice

So replay the sequence

We’re playing buzzword make-believe again

Just to get ahead

And we say pathological liar

Like it’s something rare

We tiptoe through the restaurants waiting on each other

The only way to show we care

And everything’s going according to an age-old master plan

Tagalongs righting wrongs, we join indifferent hands

And we say pathological liar like it’s something rare

And you can paint over guilty but it’s starting to show

And I want you to know

That measuring stick broke a long time ago

Another Day

You’re just another billboard screaming at me as I pass by

And what was the message you intended to leave behind?

I don’t know and I don’t care

You want to talk about being fair?

Then please just have a seat over there

And when I come back you can tell me who did what when and where

Another day in attention seeking ways

But I never thought that a secret was safe

My feet on the floor and the door is home plate

Your mouth is like a running faucet

You’ve got the choice but you’ve got no will to stop it

Everyone you know, they’ll all drown soon

What were your intentions?

What haven’t you mentioned?

Where’s the line when it doesn’t take?

You want to talk about being fake?

Then come on and show me where this gave way

Come on and show me where this gave way

Come on, and still the line doesn’t take

Come on, and still the line doesn’t take

So come on and show me where this gave way

And tell me how fake and real describe every decision we make

Another day in attention seeking ways

But I never thought that a secret was safe

My feet on the floor and the door is home plate

But I never thought that a secret was safe

Cause there’s no lock and key to those teeth these days

Survival Of The Fondest

Add it up and that’s everything you are

Subtract the laughs and the meaningless parts

So scared when I think of that afternoon air

‘Cause reminiscing like this is so rare

I wonder just how many times I lied

I’d like to know when I die

Add it all up and tell me what you’ve found

And above the place where the corpses dwell

You’ll write your answer into the ground

But no one gives a fuck about that smell

That fills the air when you’re in hell

No one even cares here if you couldn’t tell

How do I make them stay?

How do I make it okay?

Write it down ‘cause when your heart bursts

They’ll all float away

Add it up and that’s everything you are

Subtract the laughs and my favorite parts

Is that all that’s left when life is gone?

Tell Yourself

Am I the only one awake?

Am I the only one?

You’re only what you tell yourself you are

And lying to yourself can only get you so far

You’re only what you tell yourself you are

Well hey there kid, try not to be so hard on yourself

Did you know you can make your own hell?

And you’re only what you tell yourself you are

And lying to yourself can only get you so far

You’re only what you tell yourself you are

The chatting from outside fades

I guess that means that I’m the only one awake at this hour of the night

Thinking about my own hostility, am I the only one with all of this

Running through my head

And the littlest things affect our lives

In ways I can’t understand

I wish that I did

But I’m still eating every word I spoke when I was just a kid

You’re only what you tell yourself you are

And lying to yourself can only get you so far

You’re only what you tell yourself you are

Higher Places

Make ends meet and we’ll see the bottom of your feet again

Isn’t it nice to be able to tune right out?

Just close the screen

The tiny things that separate us

The locks on our doors

The dissonance instilled in refrains you’ve never heard correct before

Inspiration comes in many forms

Including fraud

Including yours

Make ends meet and we’ll see the bottom of your feet again

And no, it’s nothing personal, but it never is

Not how I thought I’d learn to live

The tiny things that separate us

The locks on doors

The dissonance instilled in refrains you’ve never heard correct before

Inspiration comes in many forms

Including fraud

Including yours

And all the smarter kids

Went off to be emotional extortionists

And what am I left with?

Where am I now?

The tiny things that separate us

The locks on our doors

The tiny things that separate us

I’m tuning out

Understand and Forget

I am the issues that you cling to

Those very clouds floating by

I am the way you misunderstand

I am the fall guy

No lens can see my face the way I see it now

And I have lived to tell the story about how I

Refused to survive

Seeing the sights

I understand what needs to happen

I understand

When all the days go by like a boring song

Forgettable, forgettable

When all the days go by like a boring song

Forgettable, forgettable

I understand what needs to happen

I understand

So rename your god and say that he’s dead

(I understand what needs to happen)

And you’ll be paid in recycled cadences

No lens can see my face the way I see it now

And I have lived to tell the story you have heard so many times

I am the way that you misunderstand

At least I can say I tried

When all the days go by like a boring song

Forgettable, forgettable

When all the days go by like a boring song

Forgettable, forgettable

Locked Out of the Magic Theatre

Oncoming traffic drowned the sound out

From my apologetic tone and left you staring at me

From across the road I thought we both had crossed

Another case of absent-mindedness on someone’s part

Another failed connection

I’ve never felt the burn of so many eyes, so non-existent, non-existent

You leave me, a perfect evening, things just change like altitude

I go from savage disregard to worrying if I’ve been rude

So can you meet me in the middle?

Can you meet me in the fucking middle?

I sway so often side to side

Back and forth past the middle

I can’t find

I always try

To be the wolf who doesn’t bite

To stop hating what I love in all your sides

Oncoming traffic-severed evenings

And I’ve never felt the burn of so many non-existent eyes

I’ve never felt the burn of so many non-existent eyes

No one’s on first and as the lights they go down

But can you meet me in the in-between?

No one’s on first and the lights are going down

Can you meet me in the in-between?

No one’s on first and the lights are going down

Can you meet me in the in-between?

No one’s on first and the lights are going down

Can you meet me, can you?

So can you meet me in the middle?

Can you meet me in the in-between?

Pick one of the countless sides I’ve seen

Just promise me you’ll stop changing

And I’ll condition all my sides

And I’ll go right on swaying

Lights go down

You Are Your Greatest Threat (The Doctor Will Serve You Now)

Familiar childhood dreams

They ended when I found out about new advancements

We can take advantage of to stay productive

While we keep the horror of what we are away

Call it fate or whatever word makes you feel best about yourself

But when it comes down to it we’ve turned against ourselves

So tell me that I don’t understand free will to prove determinism

Well you’re right, because I fucking don’t

You can rave about the science of our kind

Its enemy lives inside your mind

Don’t have a comfort zone, get one sent right to your home

Tell yourself its okay

But I hear you talking in your sleep

Keep talking in your sleep

Keep talking in your sleep

Familiar childhood dreams, they ended for me

I hear you talking in your sleep, I hear you talking in your sleep

Familiar childhood dreams, they ended for me

I hear you talking in your sleep, I hear you

I hear you talking in your sleep, I hear you, I hear you