Finch - 2002 - What It Is To Burn

hand me down some photographs
spread across the floor
a broken record spins in circles
she can't listen anymore
she's turned around a thousand times
she set that bridge a fire

but did you wanna listen
you took the world with you
so what is left
so what is left for me

i called you on the phone again
just the other day
it sounds to me you found your place
and everything is great

but did you wanna listen
you took the world with you
so what is left
so what is left for me

i try
so hard to figure out
why
no explanation keeps me waiting
lets try
because i know you won't forget
i know
even if the story is over

but did you wanna listen
you took the world with you
so what is left for me
so what is left for me

but did you wanna listen
you took the world with you
so what is left
so what is left for me

what's left for me

Letters To You

Can't you see that i wanna be there with open arms
It's empty tonight and i'm all alone
Get me through this one
Do you notice i'm gone?
Where do you run to so far away?

I want you to know that I miss you I miss you so
I want you to know that I miss you I miss you so

I'm writing again these letters to you on much I know
But i'm not sleeping and you're not here
The thought stops my heart

No more looking i've found her
I'm gone away...

Post Script

I wish it didn't hurt, hurt her like this,
to say these things to you
I'll sacrifice one moment, for one truth
If we get through tomorrow, then we'll be fine
We'll wait for forever, and see how close we get
It's just another day,
One more chance to get this right
I'll sacrifice forever, please just for tonight
If we get through tomorrow, then we'll be fine
We'll wait for forever and see how close we get
The worst is over for now
Take a breath, now let it out

Grey Matter

Bite the tongue to live with what you've done
It's so good
It's so good
Lie to myself while I lie with myself
It's Monday and it's raining
It's Sunday in the sun
It's so good, but...

Would it be so bad if you were to pretend that you were so happy?
Keep it to yourself
Don't let the secret go
If you were so willing, but...

Let's pray for the suicide
And all these pictures falling down around me
I've surrounded myself with all I have inside

Would I bite my tongue and live with what you've done?
Just continue sleeping?
Selfishly consumed with everything you've wrought
There's nothing I can do, but...

Let's pray for the suicide
And all these pictures falling down
One wish full, step to the side
And please just let me know

"Are you happy? I'll decide."
"These stories are so old, how they match your eyes."
But...

Let's pray for the suicide
And all these pictures falling down
One wish full, step to the side
And pick these pictures from the ground that surround me

Perfection Through Silence

Alone at last together in a photograph
Our eyes are always open devoted to perfection through silence
What am I supposed to do? Should I sit wait for you?
Listen to me screaming more
This story is old only to thse that have no mold
The truth can be bought or sold
But what are we buying?
Nothing but silence
Fold the Corners, Break the silence...

Awake

One devotion with empty moments
Can you stay tonight?
Silence broken with words unspoken
Now she's on her knees
'Til i'm feeling so useless
Can I beg for one more she says
The air is clearing again
We're breathing, water turns to wine
The day is tired, the night's inside her
Now she is alive no more feeling so useless
Can I beg for one more she says
Taking with arms wide open, longing for sleep again
But now i'm awake
Keep breathing to feel something
Take my breath all away

Without You Here

the storm is back tonight
so how could i
awake without you here
your pictures on the wall you haven't called
but i'll wait for you
to her own reflection, she says
i will hold on
to her own reflection, she says
i will be strong
the storm is letting up
but it wont die
if you weren't wrong was i
you picture still remians
but i wonder
are you still the same
to her own reflection, she says
i will hold on
to her own reflection, she says
i will be strong
am i loosing you
am i loosing you
i'm waiting
i've waited till it's over
it's over now
i'm waiting
i've waited till it's over
it's over now (i will hold on)
i'm waiting
i've waited till it's over
it's over now (i will remain)
to her own reflection, she says
i will hold on
to her own reflection, she says
i will be strong
to her own reflection, she says (i'm waiting i've waited till it's over now)

Stay With Me

once again your eyes make it hard to say goodbye
so i'll just keep driving
where do you wanna go?
it doesn't really matter as long as you are here with me
with me
with me

whoa, there's something in the air tonight
something that makes me feel alive and i say
whoa, what were the words that you said to me
that made me feel so special now

once again your eyes make it hard to ask you why
so i sit here knuckles tight
hands against the wheel
your head against the glass and you mean so much to me
to me
to me

whoa, there's something in the air tonight
something that makes me feel alive and i say
whoa, what were the words that you said to me
that made me feel so special now

whoa (stay with me)
whoa (stay with me)
whoa (stay with me)
whoa (stay)
stay with me
cigarettes and open air, hand in hand
i said stay with me
cuz every star that i see is brighter than the last
so stay with me

[repeat]

Project Mayhem

She Shouts "the most incessant, the most deplete"
She said "show me conscience with nothing to be"
She said "null the worm"
Lets sober up
Caught in time with the fizz or the burn
And so we burn
Can you begin at the ending, so that I may begin again?
I took this from you, I thought I was you
Now dont misunderstand me
I never meant to create you
Only mayhem

Untitled

Everything is silent
I feel disconnected
Words turn to phrases, phrases turn to words

So now you know
This is my call
Do you hear me?
And if I fall
Will you be there to catch me?

When you close your eyes now
Are you satisfied?
When this is all over, there will be nothing left

So now you know
This is my call
Do you hear me?
And if I fall
Will you be there to catch me?
This is my call
Do you hear me?
And if I fall
Will you be there to catch me?

It's sharpening beneath me
Beneath my feet
The mouth opens up
To swallow me
Take my hand and lead me home
Take my hand and lead me home
It's sharpening beneath me
Beneath my feet
It's sharpening beneath me
Beneath my feet

It's sharpening

Three Simple Words

Open up my eyes,
Flood it with delight.
Another sleepless night turns color black and white.

With all the things I've said,
There is just regret.
A beating in my head.

Hands into a fist,
Static in my head.
Now I'm sitting face to face with lonlyness.

What did I expect?
Did I see forever
in you?

I never wanted it to hurt
more than it should.
I hope your satisfied,
I never could.

Time to close my eyes
Forget about this mess.
Tried to fix this trajic loss of innocence.

But how can I forget,
The things I haven't done.
When everything is dead?

With my hands around your neck
who will stop me now?
With my hands around your neck
who will stop me now?
with my hands around your neck
who will stop me now?
with my hands around your neck
who will stop me now?

WHO WILL STOP ME!? (WHO WILL STOP ME NOW!?)

Can't you see that you left me
here on my own.
Give me on good reason why I should let go now....

Ender

Here i am beside myself again,
I'm torn apart by words that you have said.
And all in all,
I know were falling apart.
Where did you run to so far away.

Here we are to sing you a song.
And there you are asleep against the window pane,
just like always.

You said you like to hear the rain sometimes.
And all I can do is tell you the truth.
And oh, my eyes will tell you the same.

Here we are to sing you a song.
There you are asleep again.
Grasp our hands together,
we feel we are one result.
And here we are to sing you a song.
and there you are asleep again.

grasp our hands together, we feel we are one result.
grasp our hands together, we feel we are one result.
grasp our hands together, we feel we are one result.
grasp our hands together, we feel we are one result.
grasp our hands toghether we feel we are one result.

grasp our hands together, we feel we are one result.
grasp our hands together, we feel we are one result.

What It Is To Burn

Today's on fire
The sky is beating above me, and I am blister
I walk these signs of blasphemy, every day
And still:

Like a bad star, I'm falling faster down to her
She's the only one who knows, what it is to burn

I feel diseased
Is there no sympathy, for the sun
The sky's still fire
But I am safe in here, from the world outside

So tell me
What's the price to pay for glory

Like a bad star, I'm falling faster down to her
She's the only one who knows, what it is to burn

Today is fine, and she burns
Today is fine, and she burns
She burns
She burns
She burns
She burns
She burns
She burns

Like a bad star, I'm falling faster down to her
She's the only one who knows, what it is to burn