Ambulance

I don't know if i can find a way to keep All the secrets that you told me in your sleep And I'm amazed that you still find the space to dream In the shadows of a town made out of thieves Who would drown the sound of history repeating With the ambulances screaming up the street So sing to me Don't let me fall asleep to the sound of cold machines Or the smell of gasoline Or the weight of destiny Don't make me wait I've been waiting here all night I've been waiting my whole life Somewhere the ghosts of factory workers dance With the ghosts of kids who never had a chance And we still hear it out our window every night Like a fistfight in an ambulance Sing me a song Don't let me think too long About what I'm trying to say Or the broken fire escape

One Hundred People One hundred people are screaming about something With all those voices making one noise, It's hard to even start listening I know I seemed sweeter than peach pie or ice cream But I could find the nightmare in a sweet dream But don't go start to reconsider the decisions you've already made It won't take the past away You know that nothing's gonna change You said "I could throw you a party every single day You'd still find a way to complain And you'd still walk away" Now children, Children all got the same problems And we're all riding on the same buses, helicopters and airplanes One thousand people all thinking the same thing I wonder what it would be like without them

Diary I don't know what you've heard But I'm sure that you've heard it all your life And it's not nice to mix secrets up with lies In your car, double-parked Full of rusting vaulves that fell out of your heart Try again but the goddamned thing won't start And now I don't think you even care at all Somehow I know you won't be there if I fall But write it all down in your diary And get back to me someday I'm amazed at all the stupid, broken things that people say To each other when they think no one can hear But baby, it's a fact That when you laugh I feel like the sky is opening in half To take me back to some place I understand And now I don't think you even care at all Somehow I know you won't catch me if I fall But write it all down in your diary And get back to me someday

When You Go Out Tonight When you go out tonight Wear your coat, and baby, take your knife 'Cause if it's only in my mind It's with your Coca-Cola eyes and your valentines But you don't know where the whole thing ends, so don't waste time I'm not concerned with your new boyfriend or your thrift store finds When you go, overthrow, You don't want to be the one left crying out loud With the windows down Walking home alone There's some crows up in the trees I think they're mad at you, but they mad at me! And when you go walking down the street Don't turn around, no matter what you see When you go wherever you're gonna go tonight I don't care about your new boyfriend He ain't a friend of mine When you go, don't be slow I'm not gonna be the one left crying out loud Shoot the windows out And walk back home alone

Girl Of Mine I'm standing in a line I been trying to find that girl of mine I'm crying all the time I been trying to find that girl of mine But you're still at the bar Handing out those photocopied pictures of your heart And as cute as they are They can't conceal your automatic eyes With the mercury inside I'm stranded here all night I been trying to find that girl of mine I'm picking dandelions I been trying to find that girl of mine I'm crying every night Because of that girl of mine I threw away all of my valentines But you're still at the bar Handing out those photocopied x-rays of your heart But as fine as they are They never hide your carbon copy eyes With the wrecking ball inside