Ashbury Heights - Take Cair Paramour (2010)

Everybody wants you to be ordinary, ordinary
Life is so much simpler when you're ordinary, ordinary
We won't be normalized,
We have dreams to realize!
We won't be traumatized
We have dreams to realize!

Stay, stay deranged

People like you better when you're ordinary, ordinary
So why don't you surrender and be ordinary, ordinary?
We won't be normalized,
We have dreams to realize!
We won't be traumatized
We have dreams to realize!

Stay, stay deranged

Don't let them convince you to be ordinary, ordinary
You can be the star of anti-ordinary, ordinary!

Stay, stay deranged
Stay, stay, stay
Stay, stay deranged

We won't be normalized,
We have dreams to realize!
We won't be traumatized
We have dreams to realize!

Everybody wants you to be ordinary, ordinary
Life is so much simpler when you're ordinary, ordinary
People like you better when you're ordinary, ordinary
So why don't you surrender and be ordinary, ordinary?
Don't let them convince you to be ordinary, ordinary
You can be the star of anti-ordinary, ordinary!

Always on the run
Your one and only son
Too smart just to tag along
Too dumb to be of use
Always chasing cars
And a better life on Mars
Reaching for the stars
While counting every bruise

So you send money every day
A clichéd dream just doesn't pay
And no matter how hard I play,
Neverland never seemed so far away
You send money every day
Because I never got it made
And no matter how hard I play,
Neverland never seemed so far away

A self-made Peter Pan
Burdened by the shadow of a man
More a hook each passing day
As I claw my way with a pencil blade
You got to grow up (Oh no!)
You got to grow up (Oh oh no!)
You got to grow up (Oh no! no!)
You got to grow up (no! no! no!)

You send money every day
A clichéd dream just doesn't pay
And no matter how hard I play,
Neverland never seemed so far away
You send money every day
Because I never got it made
And no matter how hard I play,
Neverland never seemed so far away

You got to grow up (Oh no!)
You got to grow up (Oh oh no!)
You got to grow up (Oh no! no!)
You got to grow up (no! no! no!)

So you send money every day
A clichéd dream just doesn't pay
And no matter how hard I play,
Neverland never seemed so far away
You send money every day
Because I never got it made
And no matter how hard I play,
Neverland never seemed so far away

You send money every day
A clichéd dream just doesn't pay
And no matter how hard I play,
Neverland never seemed so far away
You send money every day
Because I never got it made
And no matter how hard I play,
Neverland never seemed so far away

You…
You celebrate me
You separate me from the crowd
You liberate me
You always calm me when I'm loud

You're a lighthouse shining in the dark, go girl
When I'm lost you always guide me home
I'm a whitehouse, can't trust anyone in this world
If it wasn't for you I'd be alone
If you part, I fall apart
If you part, I fall apart

On stormy waters
I drink the rain and curse the skies
And when I'm sober
You're standing were the sun would rise

You're a lighthouse shining in the dark, go girl
When I'm lost you always guide me home
I'm a whitehouse, can't trust anyone in this world
If it wasn't for you I'd be alone
If you part, I fall apart
If you part, I fall apart

You're a lighthouse shining in the dark, go girl
When I'm lost you always guide me home
I'm a whitehouse, can't trust anyone in this world
If it wasn't for you I'd be alone
If you part, I fall apart
If you part, I fall apart
You're a lighthouse (alone, alone, alone)
You're a lighthouse (alone, alone, alone)
You're a lighthouse (alone, alone, alone)
If you part, I fall apart
If you part, I fall apart
If you part, I fall apart
If you part, I fall apart

She's waiting, deciding
She's rating the wildlife
The lions, and asses
The pisces, and faux pas

And while she's sipping on her wine
Somebody drops a pickup line
Then with a face that sees right through
She offers him her point of view

I can kill you
I can kill you so easily
And if a bullet won't do
I can make you love me

I can kill you
I can kill you so easily
And if a bullet won't do
I can make you love me

He's watching the fair sights
His blue eyes like search lights
Its so hard to shut up
Go nothing, she's too hot

Clutching an empty glass of wine
He drops a tired pickup line
Then with a face that sees right through
She offers him her point of view

I can kill you
I can kill you so easily
And if a bullet won't do
I can make you love me

I can kill you
I can kill you so easily
And if a bullet won't do
I can make you love me

I can kill you
I can kill you, yeah
I can kill you
I can kill you, yeah
I can kill you
I can kill you, yeah
I can kill you
I can kill you, yeah

And while she's sipping on her wine
Somebody drops a pickup line
Then with a face that sees right through
She offers him her point of view

I can kill you
I can kill you so easily
And if a bullet won't do
I can make you love me

I can kill you
I can kill you so easily
And if a bullet won't do
I can make you love me

I can kill you
I can kill you so easily
And if a bullet won't do
I can make you love me

I can kill you
I can kill you so easily
And if a bullet won't do
I can make you love me

I can kill you
I can kill you, yeah
I can kill you
I can kill you, yeah
I can kill you
I can kill you, yeah
I can kill you
I can kill you, yeah
I can kill you
I can kill you, yeah

The viciousness of youth
The meanest streak I ever saw
The harmony of truth
And self-deception in our hearts

We're almost perfect
You're like a deathray
Little kid blow felt princess Saturday

We're nearly manic
Unlike a mute scream
But I'd never panic if you'd only take me

I could be your love
And you could be my hope
I could be the hangman
And you could be my rope

We could be divine
A perfect piece of fiction
I could be your drug
And you be my addiction

Words are left unspoken
As our opposites attract
Both of us are broken
And we both ignore the fact

We're almost perfect
You're like a deathray
Little kid blow felt princess Saturday

We're nearly manic
Unlike a mute scream
But I'd never panic if you'd only take me

I could be your love
And you could be my hope
I could be the hangman
And you could be my rope

We could be divine
A perfect piece of fiction
I could be your drug
And you be my addiction

We're almost perfect
You're like a deathray
Little kid blow felt princess Saturday

We're nearly manic
Unlike a mute scream
But I'd never panic if you'd only take me

I could be your love
And you could be my hope
I could be the hangman
And you could be my rope

We could be divine
A perfect piece of fiction
I could be your drug
And you be my addiction

I look upon my life and then I realize
It's but an endless strife and I may not ever rise
Transcend above the petty things instead of compromise
I'm but a prisoner, so set me free

I live my life loud off-ground high-wound
Like a storm cloud, mad dog, wolf hound
Is it rabies or just foam around my mouth?
And do I claw against your throat or do I shout?

Crescendo!
Its the sound you make when everything is out of shape
Crescendo!
When your life is disproportionate and you're afraid
That your overblown existence might explode
That your identity might dissipate, corrode

I look upon my life and I'm dissatisfied
Though somewhat dignified, I'm still being rectified
Why can't you let me be? To my own decree
I'm still a prisoner, so set me free

I live my life loud off-ground high-wound
Like a storm cloud, mad dog, wolf hound
Is it rabies or just foam around my mouth?
And do I claw against your throat or do I shout?

Crescendo!
Its the sound you make when everything is out of shape
Crescendo!
When your life is disproportionate and you're afraid
That your overblown existence might explode
That your identity might dissipate, corrode

Crescendo!
Its the sound you make when everything is out of shape
Crescendo!
When your life is disproportionate and you're afraid
That your overblown existence might explode
That your identity might dissipate, corrode

I live my life loud off-ground high-wound
Like a storm cloud, mad dog, wolf hound
Is it rabies or just foam around my mouth?
And do I claw against your throat or do I shout?

Crescendo!
Its the sound you make when everything is out of shape
Crescendo!
When your life is disproportionate and you're afraid
That your overblown existence might explode
That your identity might dissipate, corrode

Crescendo!
Its the sound you make when everything is out of shape
Crescendo!
When your life is disproportionate and you're afraid
That your overblown existence might explode
That your identity might dissipate, corrode

Crescendo!

Shades of black
Are hard to spot
Spit on me
Forget me not
Broken stars
Look good in print
Scandals taste
like springs of mint

You can't say no to a cellophane heart
You can't say no to a work of art
We all need that centerfold part of life
So come on roll the dice

Sometimes we lie
And I think we'd rather cry like crocodiles
Than look ourselves straight in the eye

Everybody's talking
Damned malicious make believe
Everybody's talking
Shades of black in magazines
Everybody's talking
'Bout the things you left behind
Everybody's talking
There's no way to ease your mind

Shades of black
Will take their toll
Misery
Like solid gold
Resting upon
Paper shoulders
Are camera
Obscura soldiers

You can't say no to a cellophane heart
You can't say no to a work of art
We all need that centerfold part of life
So come on roll the dice

Sometimes we lie
And I think we'd rather cry like crocodiles
Than look ourselves straight in the eye

Everybody's talking
Damned malicious make believe
Everybody's talking
Shades of black in magazines
Everybody's talking
'Bout the things you left behind
Everybody's talking
There's no way to ease your mind

You're living in a fog
Of burning leaves
Countess countless venom
Miss disease

Your busy fingers
Have yellow tips
They're always serving
Your busy lips

The ashes in your breath
Taste like cancer
The somber scent of death
You're a poison tip dancer

But still I love you
I love you so much
I could choke on your fumes
But I live for your touch

The state of your lungs
Is the state I'm in
And the air around you
Is getting thin

I don't sleep anymore
Just living the past
'Cause every moment with you
Is gonna be my last

The ashes in your breath
Taste like cancer
The somber scent of death
You're a poison tip dancer

But still I love you
I love you so much
I could choke on your fumes
But I live for your touch

Night creature
December must have been your cradle
My fair
Night Creature
November's never cold enough for such
Blonde hair

When I was underage
Then I was way too strange for you
Now I am underpaid
And there is nothing else to do

Night creature
This city never was as dark as your soul
Night creature
Ten four a concrete heart
Beneath the manhole

When I was underage
Then I was way too strange for you
Now I am underpaid
And there is nothing else to do

We've always been divided into
Two halves of the whole
We cannot stand each other
Yet we're playing the same role

Is there no medicine to get rid of you?
Isn't there a single cure
For the things we do?

We've always been a lot like
An apartheid regime of two
Everything is black or white
And one is always blue

Is there no medicine to get rid of you?
Isn't there a single cure
For the things we do?

Nocturnal babies
All big smiles
With rows of teeth
For miles and miles
I'm falling in with a bad crowd
And it's a deuce of a row

Moonshine love
I'm dazed and confused
I've got a superman ego
That can't be bruised
Every emotion's amplified
And I'm going for a ride
And it feels like I could have
Another and another…

Cordial couples
Lonely sods
All crying out
For heathen gods
The kind of romance foreign
To the sober kind

Moonshine love
I'm dazed and confused
I've got a superman ego
That can't be bruised
Every emotion's amplified
And I'm going for a ride
And it feels like I could have
Another and another…

I used to be a demon
I used to be a clown
And all the little devils
Used to get me down

But we are self aware for sure
That doesn't mean there's nothing more
We both have dreams we need to find
To expand our pretty minds

Our lives doesn't have to make sense
Right away
It's too great a distance
For one day
There's too much resistance
On our way

I used to be a lover
I used to be a cheat
Sometimes I'd go to bed
With one I wouldn't care to meet

But we are self aware for sure
That doesn't mean there's nothing more
We both have dreams we need to find
To expand our pretty minds

Our lives doesn't have to make sense
Right away
It's too great a distance
For one day
There's too much resistance
On our way

Narcotic smiles
Eyes like mirror glass
Miles and miles
Of closet skeletons

You instill
Heartfelt melodies
Up this hill
There's no mercy

If only you could see yourself
Through my own eyes
Then maybe you could see the you
That I desire

Your unbearable beauty
Your unbearable charm
Your unbearable smile
That lingers for a while

How you feel
Is a mystery
Spin the wheel
It's all good

An endless dance
Round and round again
And every chance
A drop of rain

If only you could see yourself
Through my own eyes
Then maybe you could see the you
That I desire

Your unbearable beauty
Your unbearable charm
Your unbearable smile
That lingers for a while

Ohh!
I'm leaving these streets behind
I'm not gonna say goodbye
No one cares

Ohh!
I was never invisible
I was just always here
No one cares

And the rays of the moon
Shines right through
I'm the invisible man tonight
I'm the invisible man tonight

And the rays of the moon
Shines right through
I'm the invisible man tonight
I'm the invisible man tonight

Ohh!
I'm gonna make my own policy
I'm sick and tired of being told
No one cares

Ohh!
I never had a destiny
Whoever said you needed one?
No one cares

And the rays of the moon
Shines right through
I'm the invisible man tonight
I'm the invisible man tonight

And the rays of the moon
Shines right through
I'm the invisible man tonight
I'm the invisible man tonight

And the rays of the moon
Shines right through
I'm the invisible man tonight
I'm the invisible man tonight

And the rays of the moon
Shines right through
I'm the invisible man tonight
I'm the invisible man tonight