sad songs with catchy tunes

desolation

2007-06-19T06:26:54Z

winding empty streets
happy homes all look the same
strangers under lock and key
there's nothing here

and the emptiness echoes
you're all alone here, kid
just like anywhere else
everything is desolation

the nights are getting warm
my heart is freezing cold
i stumbled into a cell
and the key's gone MIA

and the emptiness echoes
you're all alone here, kid
just like anywhere else
everything is desolation

hey, dreams are dying
all around you and i
hey, ain't nothin left now
not even you and i

there is no you and i
there is no you and i
there is no you and i
there is no you and i

all these useless dreams

2007-05-27T06:14:35Z

we held hands in the park
in the sun and breeze we're never apart
looked in each other's eyes
and we could never tell lies

nothing ever happens here
nothing ever changes here
nothing i say is true
no matter what i do
just all these useless dreams

the rent check never bounces
the sacks always come in ounces
we can drive forever
and never get lost

nothing ever happens here
nothing ever changes here
nothing i say is true
no matter what i do
just all these useless dreams

you were always there for me
you always could make me see
that everything would be okay
that you believe in what i say

nothing ever happens here
nothing ever changes here
nothing i say is true
no matter what i do
just all these useless dreams

a boy and a girl

2007-04-14T03:53:34Z

she had hips like jackhammers
he had hands of mercury
she just wanted to get out
he just wanted to get in
she had everything but inside
he had nothing but ideas

but we all should know by now
that love is worth less than ink and paper
true or false, fleeting or forever
none of it ever means a thing

so i sing for the brokenhearted
for the boys who've been torn apart
so i sing for the brokenhearted
for the girls who cry for the departed

cos we all should know by now
that love is worth less than ink and paper
true or false, fleeting or forever
none of it ever means a thing

she tasted so fucking good
he only wanted everything
she wanted to leave a beautiful corpse
he wanted to piss on her grave
cos it all came tumbling down
and left their lives in ruins and rubble

so we all should know by now
that love is worth less than ink and paper
true or false, fleeting or forever
none of it ever means a thing

leave it behind (krissy + me = gangsta)

2007-03-01T00:26:40Z

we saw the liquor stores
and the rundown churches
the rows of hotsheet motels
along macarthur boulevard
we didn't mind the filth
and the despair rolled right off
like the rain on the window

but the rain always starts
when you go away
i'm so alone in here
without you everything flips to black
and i cannot quite see the light

we could just drive away
leave the grime and dope in the rearview
you'll never shiver cold in the night again
if you'd just let me be near you
we could see things we've never seen before
and forget the shitty things we left behind

baby we don't need any of this
let's just go
yeah just go
it doesn't matter where

but the rain always starts
when you go away
i'm so alone in here
without you everything flips to black
and i cannot quite see the light

i need a fucking job

2007-02-26T05:41:17Z

someone take my hand
i need to get out of here
this house, this show
this town, this world
just give me another hit
another cheap escape
from a world that doesn't want
to see me keep on keepin on

don't it make you fucking sick
the way no one cares if you live or die
i'm just fucking sick of who i am
don't you ever get bored with your own identity?

once again i'm staring down the barrel
why do i have to force myself to survive?
i was born into privilege
but my privileges have been revoked
and i never learned how to live

so hold me tight
and never ever let go
so i can think maybe
i'm not quite dead inside
i always thank god you're not as sick of me
as i am sick of myself
cos we're all alone in this shitty world

and i never learned how to live
and i never learned how to live
and i never learned how to live
and i never learned how to live

unanswered prayers

2007-02-06T07:50:58Z

so we drink to the broken hearted
pour some out on their dreams
lying crushed in the dusty road
the winding road to growing up

cos no matter how much you believe
however much you want it to be so
it never really comes to pass for you
however much you hope and plead
no one hears your prayers

it's like a watered down trenchtown
we sing along to our empty heart beat
just to stop thinking about it for a moment
the tune lightens the pain just a little bit

cos no matter how much you believe
however much you want it to be so
it never really comes to pass for you
however much you hope and plead
no one hears your prayers

we've got it good up here
but food and shelter don't fill us up
the pain we know is just like anyone's
and i dunno if we'll make it through the night

fly away

2006-12-08T08:29:26Z

i approach you slowly
arms long to open wide
to offer you embrace
your slender form
of perfect grace
you crack a smile
and i fall apart

so fly away
fly away
so far away
so far away
to another's arms
cos it's what you want
is this what you want?

but before my fingertips
could meet with yours
you sprouted wings
and took to the sky
away from the setting sun
into the desert heat
the only words to make it through my lips
are too soft to be heard
cos they are only goodbyes
they are only goodbyes
they are only goodbyes
i fall down and cry
i fall down and cry
i fall down and cry

the city's lost hope

2006-12-04T07:21:33Z

the sound of sirens
to break the silence
denoting violence
this house an island

the city's heart
pounding out of time
torn apart
by drugs and crime

we're all alone here
we're all so lost here
in the city of dope
the city's lost hope

so hold me tight
just hold me tight
don't snuff out the light
just please hold me tight

it's so cold out there
like it's not elsewhere
lock the door shut it tight
caulk the cracks against the light

we're all alone here
we're all so lost here
in the city of dope
the city's lost hope

the freeway's screaming
america's dreaming
north and south and east and west
it's been so long i wish i'd left

the tracks of the train
match the tracks on our arms
we're rotting away in here
cos we have nothing left to fear

we're all alone here
we're all so lost here
in the city of dope
the city's lost hope

watch the rain piss down
behind my warped window
if i ever have to go out there
it'll be too soon

the rain and freeze
might melt me in my steps
i'd rather be locked in this room
with no one else but you

we're all alone here
we're all so lost here
in the city of dope
the city's lost hope

something i need

2006-11-17T03:20:08Z

i could kiss you like it meant something
i would miss you like you were everything
you're blissful because you dunno something
we're wistful cos we dunno everything

whether it's in your hips
or in your heart
or in your head
it's something i need
more than another hole in the head

we're waking up all alone
getting by on money loaned
we're wasting away at home
my favorite parts disappearing
we're dying the slowest death
at least we're dying together

whether it's in your hips
or in your heart
or in your head
it's something i need
more than another hole in the head

spinning stories

2006-11-02T04:56:13Z

spinning stories, spinning lies
spinning around around
on the dance floor, on the dance floor
i'm staggering home outta my mind
i wish i could find you
but i'd only see two of you

do the curtains match the drapes
does your heart match your hips
cos you might be the one i want
to meet to see to hold to fuck
to come home to every night

yeah i'm all grown up
and i'm sick of coming home alone
over the scene, over the kids
over this dirty old town i came from
i just want you all to myself
so i don't have to think about anyone else

friends and enemies

2006-10-06T08:14:44Z

i stand alone on an endless plain
ghosts of love and hate are all i see
everywhere i go, they're all i see
it seems like they're my only friends

friends and enemies
they're all the same
they change back and forth
and they never last for long
either way all they do
is waste your time

the ghosts talk to me in flirty tones
telling me secrets, telling me lies
they borrow money, they lend an ear
but they've never got the time
if there's something else they've gotta do

friends and enemies
they're all the same
they change back and forth
and they never last for long
either way all they do
is waste your time

after all these years on this plain
you would think you'd know the lay
of the land beneath your feet
but living amongst these ghosts
of friends and enemies
never fails to let me down
and let me down to lie
on the ground all alone forever

fall has fallen

2006-10-02T02:15:49Z

turn my head and the sun has set
summer's crawling out the door
and it looks like fall has fallen
and the chill creeps into my bones
the seasons pass over me slowly
like a cadillac cruising down the block
paying no mind to the bumps in the road
without a care in this whole world

this is the part where i start to miss
a warm body to hold on to tight
this is my cue to ramp up the whiskey
and wonder when the sun is coming back
to burn my skin and warm up the streets
this is when the loneliness hits even harder
but i can't see a friendly face through the fog

the trees drop their leaves
blue skies turn grey
sadness sets in and the skies open up
rain labors to wash the streets clean
maybe this time around
i'll get it right instead of fucking up
my heart will have a home
instead of a vacation spot
we may even escape this city of dope
so we'll always be high and never come down

and just like the windows on my room
i seal myself up airtight
to keep my heart warm and sincere
against the blistering cold outside
the apathy and hostility that lies outside
these thick painted walls
it's me against the world and i won't win
but i'll do as much damage as i can
before i go down

running from myself

2006-09-28T06:37:42Z

i've been running all my life
chasing one thing, fleeing another
but it seems i've gotten nowhere
cos all i see is the same old shit
while everything i was running from
just passed right by me
while everything in my world
just passed right by me

hey
hey
help me please
hey
hey
i'm dying tonight
whoa
can't someone please
(whoa oh oh)
save me from ennui

pain washes over me
from the inside out
and nothing ever quite
seems to shut it up

hey
hey
help me please
hey
hey
i'm dying tonight
whoa
can't someone please
(whoa oh oh)
save me from ennui

i've been running miles and miles
looking for a place to fall down
but there's no place for me
to be alright within my own skin
i ran myself to exhaustion for nothing
running from my self
i ran until i couldn't put a foot ahead of the other
running from myself

the northern star

2006-09-28T06:36:36Z

i've seen you before, only not
i know you when i see you
but i must avert my eyes at times
my wornout heart can't take the strain

beauty is a foreign thing to me
it just doesn't happen in my world
just the brutal beauty of the ghetto
the rain and fog and dirty streets
crack rock despair and loss of hope

maybe someday i'll get outta here
get to a place where i feel alright
where i hear no shots fired
and i don't wake up to sirens and squabbling
but you still won't be there

you're just like the northern star
shining brighter than all the rest
so i know which way i'm going
i can never reach you for my life
but i can always look up and see you

and maybe it will keep me going
for another lonely day
fool me into forgetting for a minute
about the emptiness
that keeps me so alone

shrink wrapped heart

2006-09-20T08:13:23Z

what do you know
about this kind of sadness
this space is reserved only
for the soul that's never been kissed
the last wallflower to be picked
from the petals outward
she loves me not
she loves me not

cos there are no losses
when there's nothing gained
my heart's still shrink wrapped
cos it's never been opened

so try and try and try again
if you don't bet you can't win
but this looks like a sucker's bet
so just look to yourself for everything
cos no one would ever think to give you
everything you might want and need
she loves me not
she loves me not

cos there are no losses
when there's nothing gained
my heart's still shrink wrapped
cos it's never been opened

i stand alone in an empty field
they all file by one by one
tell me stories, make excuses
tell me lies, make apologies
each picks off a single petal
till there's nothing left
she loves me not
she loves me not

in my skin

2006-09-10T05:43:05Z

this is under my skin
a stifling prison
i'm clawing it off
in long soft shreds
cos i cannot bear
to be in my skin

life's a waste
only a fool's errand
we're born into captivity
bound and gagged by scars and lessons learned
slashed across our hearts and minds
would love set us free?
or only add to the burden we bear
the crushing weight of heartache
piled atop the stones and leaden weights
of an empty life that can't take the strain

i would wish upon a star
but where i live i can't see stars
(look at how goddamn ugly the stars are)
so what else could i wish on?
a muzzle flash?
a streetlight?
a new moon, perhaps?

and i hope you know
things other than loneliness
i hope you can say
i love you
and say it because you mean it
and i hope that feeling never ends