HOSPITAL'S ON FIRE So notions bark and bite and scream Driving a bullet on black ice, yeah But hopes aren’t always what they seem I hit the spin and never saw it come, my eyes, night blind But surgery awaits my silent Sleep away while lights are shining Deep in veins, choking smoke machine Hospital’s on fire Thought I could be safe But God’s become a liar Why would my mouth make words that flew Like birds to bells that once rang true yeah Rusted and cracked, I crushed my back Shining it, poundin’ for you, but it’s sound is mute, a bird to shoot This bird has lost it’s trusted song To a bullet shot, from your rusted gun But surgery awaits my silent Sleep away while lights are shining Deep in veins choking smoke machine Hospital’s on fire Thought I could be safe But God’s become a liar This hospital’s on fire Thought I could be safe It’s a temporary stay I guess I’m leaving Got trouble breathing I watch the ceiling crumble overhead Luminary hallway begs for flight But legs drank chemicals for nights, they’re sound asleep But I hit the ground, chest burning now, impact awake, but I watch it slow my fate I find it safe, Tiles cold against the smolder of my nest My chest gets tighter now, the light gets round But surgery awaits my silent Sleep away while lights are shining Deep in veins choking Smoke machine Hospital’s on fire Thought I could be safe But God’s become a liar Hospital’s on fire Thought I could be saved Temporary stay All we own Blackened snow Ash angels Hospital


FUNERAL FOR THE MAJOR KEY I remember how I remember somehow Like smothered cannons, the noise, like gunshots firing at me I went outside the house I knew what waited for me My knees hit snow and crippled balance I guess I never wanted life To arrest the innocence inside Unless this finishes tonight, I’m set on fire I suggest you put away your knife You cant impress the angels that can fly They’re here to murder all the lies, and silent rectify My needle jumps, the record skips, I murder melody I find I’m a witness to the funeral for the major key My needle jumps, the record skips, I murder melody I find I’m a witness to the funeral for the major key I get by somehow Burned into my forearm Suck the air like lighter fluid, I’d like to do it I wear it on my brow A chip upon the shoulder I fold into the crowd and watch my face get older Vehicle is speeding fast With a broken jaw and breathing glass I shatter as I finish crashing, twisted steel stampede I’m drinking all the splattered gas Shrinking into a flat airbag Car is severed straight in half, impact with family tree My needle jumps, the record skips, I murder melody I find I’m a witness to the funeral for the major key My needle jumps, the record skips, I murder melody I find I’m a witness to the funeral for the major key


HABIT Oh when the habit forms I guess its how you view it Is it a tragic storm? Or do you only do it When a craving swarms, In an instant I’ll be finished and My life goes on I know its wrong, I find a way to do it When theyre all gone, so noone can refute it It’s a simple song, one that keeps eluding to a life gone wrong So I drink like a fish, and I smoke just like chimney Oh I wish I could quit, but I just don’t got it in me But the issue is you, it aint a drug, but it hits you Like I shoot it up, I gotta kick you give me sweet rehab, I need it all so bad Youre the habit I gotta kick, Youre no good for me, im sick Oh the season change, the same old reasons never do It’s a pleasing pain One that speaks inside of you There’s no need to change The same old flames are drivin you to To the place that’s hiding you With a face of a smiling fool that’s cruel So I drink like a fish, and I smoke just like chimney Oh I wish I could quit, but I just don’t got it in me But the issue is you, it aint a drug, but it hits you Like I shoot it up, I gotta kick you give me sweet rehab, I need it all so bad Youre the habit I gotta kick, Youre no good for me, im sick


PRICE TO PAY She told me, no secrets, then led me to her room That night was so sleepless, her skin tasted like fumes Woman, house fire, hidden inside the walls Lifted her skirt higher, smoke filled mouth with salt Its just a waiting game To try - erase my name It’s just the price to pay The price to pay Clock’s stealing, sly thief, a criminal drips sand I’ll kill him, believe, and cut off both his hands Drunk angel, dead eyes, she shot herself in bed Faith strangled, realized, she was always dead It’s just a waiting game To try - erase my name It’s just the price to pay The price to pay She broke the telephone with words that cut to bone I slipped on the cords I couldn’t leave alone O ay, o ay, slip tongue to taste O ay, o ay, I dipped it deep inside that place I found, motel, red lights, won’t tell I hit the switch, I flipped it quick and then my bloodstream fell I had a one night stand with murder, farewell I fucked murder so hard she left the room and killed herself The price to pay


DEVIL WAS A DJ The devil was a DJ Spun a soundtrack that attacked like a mind numbin’ freebase Volume made me pray He burned my veins with the ash that he made me cremate I try to hide but the sound of the volume’s too high Hits my head like a hammer, as it shatters the bone inside The devil was a freeway Full of traffic jams and constant delays Every mile was a replay Same spot, same cough from the exhaust that we made My patience gets betrayed By the traffic with the back paralyzed but she may Put the spine back together someday Let it walk the block again I took a cab to the stereo sound Bailed without payin’ when my feet hit the ground I couldn’t shake the permanent weight Of when a wing gets broken from a spoken mistake Novocain The devil was a hustler Grindin’ on the street, always cheatin’ like a mean mutha fucka Dealing cards and never trusts ya So I stay away and play alone Solitaire is getting old Its hard to win ever again when you’re missing cards Flushed, because I used to hold A queen and a king with a pair of hearts I took a cab to the stereo sound Bailed without payin’ when my feet hit the ground I couldn’t shake the permanent weight Of when a wing gets broken from a spoken mistake Novocain


JAUNDICE Rest the coins on an old man's eyes Show the debt he owes, after he’s died With balance left unpaid to the war in the sons disguise He spoke with the blink of an eye, when the last breath flies An orange glow An orange glow I imagine astronauts And fighting wars and winning by myself But when the angel hit the ground And dragged me from my heaven to my hell I keep drivin the distance If you keep drinking gas But these brakes just never listen Rotors smoke the pads White sheets make a focal point So I can focus on the point Of failure to say the words that you never said An orange glow An orange glow I imagine astronauts And fighting wars and winning by myself But when the angel hit the ground And dragged me from my heaven to my hell My hell