1. SECOND BEST

Two keys down and we're ready to wake up
Dressing gown, wiping off her makeup
Stains like they're regrets (How was your night?)
Only one, yeah, no more second best

No more second best, oh

Two keys down, ready to wake up
Two keys down, ready to wake up
Two keys down, ready to wake up
Two keys down, ready to wake up
Two keys down, ready to wake up
Two keys down, ready to wake up

I'm way too proud, hoping to offend
You're nothing now, motherfucker
Your friends just held you off the ground
(Second best)

Heart too loud, head ready to end it
Upside down, hanging on the edge
Just reaching for the gun
I never meant it, I never meant it

Screaming at the sun
"I never wanted it, I never wanted it"
I'm the chosen one
Heaven-sent just like a prison sentence

Screaming at the sun
Heaven-sent just like a prison sentence

Ready to wake up
Ready to wake up
Ready to wake up
Ready to wake up
Ready to wake up
Ready to wake up
Ready to wake up
Ready to wake up


2. JADED GHOST

I’m the son to a jaded ghost
So I’ve heard a lot and I still don’t know much
I said, “I love you,” just enough
But love’s a strong word that don’t mean much
I said it several times or more
And I kind of like the tears when you’re standing at the front door
Yeah, I’m dead but I’ve never felt better
Hands around your throat and you keep begging for more

When I’m done you’ll be screaming my name
Just like they all were
You’re one and the same

She said, “I fucking get it, I did you wrong
It’s done and I’ll regret it by the end of this song”
(I’m so gone)
I’m stuck trying to hold you close (So gone)
It’s like trying to hold on to smoke
I won’t forget it, I won’t stay strong
In love because I couldn’t deal with America
I’m stuck trying to hold you close (So gone)
It’s like trying to hold on to smoke

I’m the son to a jaded ghost, yeah
I’ve learned a lot and you still don’t know much
The way I love you fucks me up
So love’s the wrong word for broken trust
What the hell was I fighting for?
Holding all the tears back screaming at a brick wall
Yeah, I’m dead, never felt better
Hands around my throat and I keep begging for more

“I fucking get it, I did you wrong
It’s done and I’ll regret it by the end of this song”
(I’m so gone)
I’m stuck trying to hold you close (So gone)
It’s like trying to hold on to smoke
I won’t forget it, I won’t stay strong
In love because I couldn’t deal with America
I’m stuck trying to hold you close (So gone)
It’s like trying to hold on to smoke

I know you think I’m the type to chase you
But you think that of everyone
And just in case you taste me, baby
You better chase me
Never drink me straight, come on
Yeah, yeah

She said “I fucking get it, I did you wrong
It’s done and I’ll regret it by the end of this song”
(I’m so gone)
I’m stuck trying to hold you close (So gone)
It’s like trying to hold on to smoke
I won’t forget it, I won’t stay strong
In love because I couldn’t deal with America
Fuck trying to hold you close (So gone)
Fuck trying to hold on to smoke


3. CARCINOVA

She said she hates my smile
Well, I faked it all
I could be beautiful
But I don't think I wanna be beautiful

I think I wanna be unusual
I think I wanna breathe in pure gold
I don't think I want to breathe at
Don't think I want to breathe at
Don't think I want to breathe at all

After every single lie I told
You'd think you'd know that I don't have a soul
I'm painting like a Warhol with my words
You're certain I am all alone

All I know is cold, she fucks like ice
She aches and she tastes like Ritalin, so beautiful
I think I wanna breathe in pure gold
I don't think I wanna breathe at all

Distance me, you're so consistently all I need
I'm gone now, I'm gone now, she did it again
She's strung out and begging but
I'm not listening, I've been resisting the air I breathe
I'm gone now, I'm gone now, she did it again
I'm strung out, strung out and buried again

I'm finally alive, I feed my nose, I'm coping
Fuck what you've been told
And I've been on the road to no one
She's at home far from sober and alone

She stares so cold with bloodstained eyes
She aches as she main lines the Ritalin, so beautiful
I think I wanna be unusual
I don't think I wanna breathe at all

Distance me, you're so consistently all I need
I'm gone now, I'm gone now, she did it again
She's strung out and begging but
I'm not listening, I've been resisting the air I breathe
I'm gone now, I'm gone now, she did it again
I'm strung out and buried

How do I tell them I'm the shit?

I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know
I'll give you a taste of fame cause I know you'll give it all to me
Don't use names, it will hit me like reality
Something we don't need

I know I'm more like carcinoma than a modern day Casanova
Won't you come over here? Baby, come over here

She wants to play a little misfit mindgame
Her top is off, she's whispering my name
No, never stop, don't look at me
Make love to my bed frame

Distance me, you're so consistently all I need
I'm gone now, I'm gone now, she did it again
She's strung out and begging but
I'm not listening, I've been resisting the air I breathe


4. MEDICINE

Where do I begin?
You had so many demons eating at your skin
And I made the most of it
With my patience wearing thin
I thought that I’d get even
So I committed every sin just for the fun of it

And I’d be so good with anyone else
But you look so good, fuck everyone else

I’m taking my old mistakes, putting your name all over them
So you know how it tastes to sip a little bit of your own medicine
Your own medicine
Your own medicine

Lately I’ve noticed that all I am to you is a risk
Always making reality sink in when you’re in the deep end
And you just want to live in the clouds, I’m up there now
Baby, chase me

And I’d be so good with anyone else
But you look so good, fuck everyone else

I’m taking my old mistakes, putting your name all over them
So you know how it tastes to sip a little bit of your own medicine
Your own medicine
Your own medicine
Your own medicine

She’s empty without MD and I’m tempting without entry
Like the clubs that we end up dreaming in
The clubs that we’re never leaving
Till the bugs in our brains start breeding
And we’re fucked and we can’t stop screaming
Yeah, I’m fucked and I can’t stop, I can't stop, I can't stop needing you
Needing you
Needing you
Needing you
(And I’d be so good with anyone else
But you look so good, fuck everyone else)

I’m taking my old mistakes, putting your name all over them
So you know how it tastes to sip a little bit of your own medicine
Your own medicine
Your own medicine
Your own medicine


5. WAKE UP SLEEPING

Does it worry you? Cause it worries me
Every time we try we end up sinking
Further away from where we wished to be
Does it hold you back the way it breaks me
That my baby is better than everything?

Do you ever wanna wake up?
Do you ever wanna wake up sleeping?
Do you ever wanna wake up?
Do you ever wanna wake up sleeping?

Do you ever wanna wake up?
Do you ever wanna wake up sleeping?
Do you ever wanna wake up?
Do you ever wanna wake up sleeping?

There's nothing left but future mistakes you haven't made
You try to forget that the future's on its way, it's always too late
So regress into what makes you hate your own face
Second guessing lessens the pain for a split second, heaven can wait

Do you ever wanna wake up sleeping?
Have you ever hoped for nothing at all?
Have you finally realised
We're meant to live a lie?

Do you ever wanna wake up sleeping?
Have you ever hoped for nothing at all?
Are you feeling dead inside?
Put your hands up, nod your head and give up

Stop waiting to die

Do you ever wanna wake up sleeping?
Have you ever hoped for nothing at all?
Put your hands up, nod your head and give up
Put your hands up, nod your head and give up

Do you ever wanna wake up sleeping?
Have you ever hoped for nothing at all?
Put your hands up, nod your head and give up
Put your hands up, nod your head and give up

Put your hands up, nod your head and give up
Put your hands up, nod your head and give up

Put your hands up, nod your head and give up
Put your hands up, nod your head and give up


6. IN VEIN

I think you cry too much
I can take the stains out of my shirt
But can't do shit about the hurt
I'm sorry that I try so hard
I can't take that, I can't take the pain away

So I'll stay awake for days
And scrape the chamber dry
Where am I, where am I, where am I?
Where am I?

You're beautiful
So take my freezing heart and say it's all in vain
Pull apart my ribs and make sure I stay awake
Make sure I feel the pain
Make sure I feel the pain, oh

I don't know why I'm telling you this
Cause trust is such an irrelevant myth
But life is so much better to live with you
Yeah, with you

I think you're right, my love
We can take the spite out of our words
But can't do shit about the worst three years
I'm sorry that I fucked it up
I can't take that, I can't take the pain away

So I'll stay awake for days
And face the mirror like
"Who am I, who am I, who am I?
Who am I?"

You're beautiful
So take my freezing heart and say it's all in vain
Pull apart my ribs and make sure I stay awake
Make sure I feel the pain
Make sure I feel the pain, oh

I'm throwing rocks at your window, begging you to open up
I'm making love to your bedpost
Cause you don't give a fuck about us

Baby, don't wake me up cause awake I am so alone
Baby, don't wake me up, come and live in my dreams
Where it's all as it seems
And I don't self destruct, baby, don't wake me up

Baby, don't wake me up cause awake I am so alone
Baby, don't wake me up, come and live in my dreams
Where it's all as it seems
And I don't self destruct, don't leave
Baby, don't wake me up, don't leave

Baby, don't wake me up cause awake I am so alone
Baby, don't wake me up, live in my dreams
Where I don't self destruct, don't leave
Baby, don't wake me up, don't leave me here


7. LILAC

It’s like 5:30 or something
I’ve got Lilac and Jeff

You’ve been promising that I’ll make it
I’ve been trying and I’m naked
But if I make it…

I’ll be trying all the time but I won’t come home
You’ll be crying every night through the hotel phone

Baby, I don’t really want this
All these shitty songs just leave me more alone, it’s killing me, you know

It’s killing me and…
I don’t know

Scrape me off the ground after you walk over me
All I ever wanted was the world at my feet
Lead me through the crowd
Bring me to safety

It’s like 9:30, we’re stumbling down Chapel from ‘Revs’
I’ve been promising that I’ll stay here, you’ve been vomiting and I’m faded

But if I stay here

You’ll be crying all the time all alone in bed
I’ll be screaming at a page through a broken pen singing
“I don’t really want this life, this shitty song’s not right, you’re moving on and I’m still here.”

Scrape me off the ground after you walk over me
All I ever wanted was the world at my feet
Lead me through the crowd
Bring me to safety

Fading softly out, need you to remember me
Leave me to the sound, no, you’ll never save me.
All I ever wanted was the world at my feet.
All I ever wanted was everything

Scrape me off the ground

Lead me through the crowd

All I ever wanted was everything


8. S.W.F.Y.

Baby, where you been? (Out)
She acts like she cares to act like it hurts
I’m broken. (How?)

Everything I said didn’t matter, happened again
And I never said it then but I get this sense of weightlessness when you’re not around, you're not around
Everyone I touch is just as fucked up
Give it another month because I still love us
You and the rest of them, you’re the best of them
Just what I said to the rest of them

I have sinned (Sin will find you)
You have been forgiving all of it

Everyone I touch is just as fucked up
Give it another month because I still love us
You and the rest of them, you’re the best of them
Just what I said to the rest of them

Baby, where you been?
I never said anything, I never said anything
I’m broken
Honey, you don’t know what broke is
Baby, where you been?
I won’t ever care to admit because that’s what happiness is. I’m broken, I am broken, I am

You have sinned
(I'll remind you, I will)
That you and him started all of it

Everyone I touch is just as fucked up
Give it another month because I still love us
You and the rest of them, you’re the best of them
Just what I said to the rest of them

Baby, where you been?
I never said anything, I never said anything
I’m broken
Honey, you don’t know what broke is
Baby, where you been?
I won’t ever care to admit because that’s what happiness is. I’m broken, I am broken, I am

I know I said I’m fine but I’m dying
I’m going to blame you because it makes you cry
And it’s kind of therapeutic, don’t ask me why
But I like that you don’t think you’re meant for me
Everyone I fucked was picture perfect
I’m living for the bliss, because the bliss is worth it
You and the rest of them, you’re the best of them
Just what I said to the rest of them

Baby, where you been?
I never said anything, I never said anything
I’m broken (I'm broken)
Honey, you don’t know what broke is
Baby, where you been?
I won’t ever care to admit because that’s what happiness is. I’m broken, I am broken, I am

Sin will find you, sin will...
Sin will find you, sin will...


9. DISAPPOINTED

Disappointed
Everything I've ever done is worthless
Disappointed
Everything I've ever done is worthless

Who calls the shots lately?
I'm six down because it's dark out
(Six down because it's dark out)
(Six down because it's dark out)

I hate what I'm not, baby
But it's what you have always wanted and I don't belong in your arms

Hate me, I'm on fire
Melbourne's best, never dousing the flames
Hate me, I'm a star
Living in the sky like life's not fair
When the air's so scarce
Thinking I better hope that I fucking make it, yeah

Disappointed
Everything I've ever done is worthless
Disappointed
Everything I've ever done is worthless

So I take this for the fire
But the cocaine sweats never dousing the flames
Baby, me, I'm a star dying for the limelight
Life's not fair, bring your problems here
I know how to make you feel better
We'll fuck till you forget them, yeah

Disappointed
Everything I've ever done is worthless

Disappointed
Everything I've ever done is worthless
Disappointed
Everything I've ever done is worthless


10. BURNING

Hold tight, darling
I've got to break your heart again
Something about the way it tore me up too
Felt like bliss knowing that it was you
You that I couldn't lose

Oh I feel like losing my way
Don't take these for the pain
You're such a beautiful waste
You taste amazing
I think I'm proving it was desperation
That drove us there and broke your heart in two

I'll just keep on burning, yeah

Oh, I feel like doing away with my yesterdays
I know I'm useless and fake, somehow you stay
I'm searching through the fragments of your smile
Still searching for a reason as to how

When you breathe in
I hold my breath until you breathe out

Burning
Light up the dark
Cause it's so hard to breathe
Without you holding me
And while I'm hurting
I'll tear out my soul
So I can control you
Let me control you

I'm feeling reckless today
Don't tell my father I'm ashamed
I'm going to make some mistakes
The worst gift he gave me was my birthday
What a waste, what a waste

I'm feeling reckless today
Don't tell my father I'm ashamed
I'm gonna make some mistakes

I'll just keep on burning
Light up the dark
Cause it's so hard to breathe
Without you holding me
And while I'm hurting
I'll tear out my soul
So I can control you
Let me control you

Burning, I'm burning
Light up the dark