THE ICARUS LINE LYRICS

1. Up Against The Wall Motherfuckers

Swimming in addiction. Broadcast children live in fiction.
Awake in lying shame, tweaked twilight sighs as she counts her money.
Devils got my brain. All narrow escapes. Don’t want to feel his hands again.
When fever blisters remember this advice: Believe in your own lies.
I couldn’t quite describe all the tricks in your look.
If comfort in skin come from within, then why can’t I get some for free?
Come on. Lord, everybody’s tryin to die these days.
Sinking in oblivion. Keep constant love affairs.
Angel got my heart, holds hard the pieces so it don’t fall apart.
We can hear you talk, got secret spies to tape you in the dark.
Doll, don’t live off the edge. Sleep in bed alone.
Blood dripping down her nose. Getting it all over her clothes.
Guess comfort in skin, don’t come from within.
She looks like she could use some help. I might have to help myself.
I can’t stop thinking about what I’m gonna do to you.

2. Spit On It

This is a list in no particular order of the things that can keep a man stuck inside the fear of outside.
The cannibal clerks that make mistakes only to blame themselves on you.
Grease in the palms of giant companies that should be building bombs.
Fastback frills that curdle over weeks give me the chills.
Prevent awareness!
Lost advice generously spilling from the mouths of decrepit casualties who save their souls from forces
that breed control. It wasn’t always this way. Industry slaves catch the wave that kills art for pay.
I’m gonna feed you your children and eat from your bowl. Sorely sought sounds more like poorly taught.
Prevent awareness!
Weather and feather. Ignored and vilified.
This ain’t no list. There ain’t no order. Keep your head stuck inside.
Fear of outside. You’re stuck on inside. You suck on inside. Let’s go out.

3. On The Lash

Feel like something’s always been wrong.
Love of life is hitting way too strong.
May be we were born too late. May be not born at all.
Lets try and cure your latest pains.
Prescribe the life that’s driving me insane.
Tragic turn of fatal flaws. My heart’s burnt to black.
Feel like the storms come to cut me down.
On the lash, it’s time to get the hell out of this town.
Attention spans a moment’s escape.
These escapes they come so small.
Tragic turns and curses the walls.
Mine ain’t coming back, but I can fake it.
All the best learn to live life like a vampire.
And tell their stories to the campfire.
Doesn’t everybody know they gotta lose themselves once in a while?
Sleep all day just to kill time. Let the sun slide out of the sky.
Doesn’t everybody know?
I can feel it. Can’t you feel it now? Feels like stealing.
Come on lets start the healing. Gimme feeling.

4. Caviar

Looking like she needs a miracle, out here so late just looking for a drug.
Give her something so she can fall in love. True love hits like death from above.
Let’s dance to the beat of a different drug. She wants to feel real.
Let’s get protection out of thin air. We sell injection. Give me perfection.
I’ll sleep on the floor. Tell them you were alone. They’ll call you a whore.
Domesticated. Devastated. There’s no bright side.
You’ll make more. Bitch pay for my ride.

5. Spike Island

Fell down this old road and I don’t care if you roll on your sides.
I seen a ghost in the future; sometimes it gets hard to hide.
If you need something don’t let me know.
Subtle substance control turns to overflow.
I gotta get my connect.
I saw her in the bathroom drinking vodka.
She must have been a sweet nothing.
Dope lets her slide looks she can’t hide.
Heroin hands can’t keep her clean.
She needs another way out.
Let’s drink until we cum. Later on we’re sailing on.
It gets to you when I say this stuff but I know what I’m doin.
Just ask me what I’m doin.
We are alone. We are together. Fashionably numb.
Drive this town into the ground.
Lose the places that we found. Together.
There’s never nothing right. There’s never nothing.
Lets stay connected. We are alone. We live together.
Fashionably numb. Perpetually spun.
Seen you breathing out your eyes. Surprise.
We are alone. We live for never. Forever.

6. Kiss Like Lizards

Kissing on the face of girls that never trusted you.
Confession from the kid who claimed he killed the queen.
I want to feel sorry for you but both of us know
these days pass so slow. So I’m burning everything I own
as if I owe you anything. Ripping down all the flesh from bone
until there ain’t anything left at all.
Kissing on the neck of girls that want to advertise you.
Conversations in the dark concerning collapsed attempts to lie.
I want to feel sorry for you but you and I both know
it hurts to be alone. So I’m unlearning everything I know
until I don’t know anything.
This ain’t no fucking ride running thin.
Still burning everyone I know cos they don’t know me.
Ripping down all the flesh from bone.
Who knows anything about life or passing on?
Who’s gonna miss this flesh when I’m gone?
Hit me where it hurts. Hit me where it lasts.
This will never make you happy, Lord knows I’ve tried.

7. Getting Bright At Night

Stealing never felt so good.
Spoiled teens wish us well, as they should.
Feeling lower than low babe every day.
Getting higher than high starting to fade away.
I won’t fall in love anymore. I won’t fall.
Loose lips sink ships so lets just be friends.
Stay up all the time now never crash again.
Glass on the carpet cuts our faces.
Girls green eyes destroy everyday (now that feels great).
I don’t want to fall in love anymore,
but I can’t stop falling in love,
and stimulation fits like a glove.
Got no soul? Girl I’ll die laughing.
Die alone all by my accident while I’m awake for days,
surreal sways on the way. No hearts hurt?
Missed every morning.
I’m getting tired of missing every morning,
but never give up on me babe.
Oh god I been dancing in the darkness again and I don’t love anyone.
Oh god I been messing with the forces again and I don’t know what I’ve done.

8. Big Sleep

Exploding like a laughing child.
Situations reaching out too far.
Gonna make good on all my bets.
Have to do what hasn’t killed us yet.
Stomach sore for attention soon.
I’m alone so I search the room.
Put your hand out, let’s see what you get.
Zero out of every fucked up thing I’ve done.
Saw no sun today but there’s still some warm in my skin.
Forgot all their numbers but I wrote them down somewhere.
When I get like this, lizards kiss and I don’t need anything.
They say nightmares go away while you’re awake walking
around in the day. But I can’t shake these dreams,
show me life. Show me something.
Shaman’s curse got me breathing air again and
I’m not in this body. I’m not in this skin.
Soaking up large pools of memory.
Casual landslides and secret smiles as we’re crashing all the while.
Found a new way of life and now I never have to try.
No more fake goodbyes.
Don’t ever kiss and lie.
Closing in on perfection.
Like a girl on a pole touches the tortured soul;
I try to break what’s mine, just try to waste my time.
Waste my time.

9. White Devil

Don’t wanna hear about New York.
Don’t care who got the big money.
I don’t walk towards the light.
I don’t count my blessings.
Can’t accept my plot in life.
Can’t get tired of the fight.
I never count my blessings.
Sheepskin mamma bury your head in the sand.
Shames got you by the earlobes (souls she said).
I don’t lie to you. I don’t lie to you.
I don’t lie it’s true.
I don’t have any real friends.
I don’t live for attention, so fuck you.
I want to see my killing face.
I want to destroy the restless race.
Come on Jackie, tell me your real name.
Don’t ever count my blessing.
I don’t lie to you. I don’t lie to you.

10. Meatmaker

Trying to get clean just kept him out
You know you lose your head when you fuck with that stuff
Time time time time he got the most
Time time time time he got the most
Got Loaded, got locked up agian
He said he dosnt have any real friends
Get Loaded got locked up agian
He dont have any real friends
He'll talk about choking you in our sleep
His momma dont want him around her kids
Time time time time he got the most

11. Virgin Velcro

Little broken girl looking for something.
Lips the bottle like she’s ready for the night.
Your hands so small in mine fits perfectly.
I want what you got. Give a little more.
She’s gonna lose her teeth. It feels like she’s on top.
She is the wounded sex, advances dancing over her.
We ain’t the lucky ones wrecking into golden penetration.
Dirty little whore finally found her feet on the street.
Ambulance chaser crash into anything.
She sees more than hands this time.
Fits of XTC. She don’t want to stop.
Kiss hard to make it last, we don’t need no priest.
She ain’t the lucky one when it never comes.
I only love myself. Wear the cross that carries you.
Around this town that’s how we know you.

12. Sea Sick

It’s the hardest thing to say.
I think about it night and day.
How I fucked up and I need you to stay.
That’s the last thing I want to do.
Kill myself instead of you,
and it’s so sad that one of us should lose.
All our messed up friends can’t say
why we’ve thrown our love away.
Feeling so far it pulls my head to the floor.
Not thinking anymore.
Gotta lose myself. God forget about it.
It’s getting harder every night
to do the things I know are right,
cos I’m fucked up, and I’m out of my mind.
Hold me close and then you tie me down.
Tonight’s fine girl is the finest around.
Feeling so fucked, I put my hands to the floor and pray.
She gotta lose herself. God forgot about her.
It’s all wine and roses. Whine all the time. Bye.

13. Party The Baby Off

If everybody's trying to die, get it on,
take your pills to the bathroom and cry.
Told her not to sleep on her side.
She sleeps and winks and I think I know what stinks.
Alone, I'm getting confused.

Mom, I live in hell.
Speak slow so I can say.

Told her I was trying not to lie
but motherfuckers do what they have to
beats your face black and blue.

Mom, I live in hell.
Speak slow so I can tell
just to see it through,
let's see some dedication
it's the kind of thing I love
tonight
take off all your clothes
take off all your clothes
you take too much pills
but still pay the bills
I can excuse that
where did the cat go?
Legends come then they go
here we come, here we go
take off all your clothes
take off all your clothes...





THE ICARUS LINE LYRICS