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DEATH AND
MOURNING IN LAS VEGAS (2007)
(ALL LYRICS BY
ISAAC IRVINE EXCEPT "VEGAS SON" BY JAY LOSEY)
LAST BREATH
Gasping for my last breath as my world fades to black.
Last thing I see is the agony on the face of my love who realizes I'm
not coming back. No life story flashed before my eyes. No light at the
end of the tunnel for me. I kinda hoped there'd be something more but I
guess there are some things I will
never, I will never see. I used to stand so tall. Now how will I stand
at all. Is this the first step in my fall or just a wake up call. Well I
don't want to die just yet. So many things I've not done yet. Hold a
baby in my arms, conquer all my goals and dreams, travel far across the
sea, ask my love to marry me.
DROWNING IN THE
SEA OF ME
Feels like I'm gonna topple over. Feels like I'm gonna
fall apart. Weight of the world is on my shoulders and I don't know
where to start. I'm trying hard to look past the money, but its so hard
when it's not there. So many people depending on me. I cant pretend that
I don't care. I don't want to let them down. I don't want to let down
myself. Sometimes I wish that I was someone else. Try to stick to my
guns. Do what it is I feel that's right. But it's not just me anymore
and I'm being squeezed so tight. I'd like to go back, back to the day,
back before all of this in the way. I'm trapped inside myself.
BARK OR BITE
I'm starting over today 'cause things ain't been going my way. Lately
I've been feeling stuck 'cause I ain't been having any luck. I may be
broke but I'm still alive. I may be old but I ain't sixty-five. I may be
fat but I still got some fight. So watch out cause this dogs still got
some bite. bow wow wow
BURIED ALIVE
I'm being buried alive. Don't know if I'll survive. Can't keep my
head above water. Feels like I'm drowning in my own skin, and it keeps
boiling hotter. I never thought, I never guessed that my life would turn
out like this. I worked so hard to walk the line. Well I guess bad lucks
all mine. My walls are closing in around me. This life of mine is
starting to drown me. I'm feeling like a pugilist with every new punch
that I take. I can no longer hide the enthusiasm that I fake. Just once
I'd like to catch a break. I don't know how much more I can take.
VEGAS SON
I don't like to drive when the
temp hits 105. This heat it makes me crazy. I think I might just maybe
start to burst into flames, dearranged, go insane. This fucking sun.
I've come undone. I've got a gun. I've lost control. I've got no hope.
Now you're down to your last breathe. Did you finally realize that these
evil eyes would be the last that you saw before you melt and die!
SHE WAS A GIRL...
She was a girl who had big dreams. Nothings gonna stop her, at least
that's the way it seemed. But the dream is gone and the chance is too.
The fight never started now the dream is through. I don't know what's
wrong. Guess she just gave in. Saw the goal, not the road, thought she
couldn't win. But she never left the ground. She never got a taste.
Forever on her head as the dream she didn't chase. She was a girl with
fire in her eyes. Sights set on reaching for the sky. But the fire is
gone and the chance is too. The fight never started now the dream is
through. Now she drinks every single night. Spends her money. I guess
she lost sight of the hopes that she had held so high. Another hangover,
another rung to climb.
YOU ARE NOT
ALONE
All those days you sit in your room and cry. It hurt's so bad you wanna
die. Feels like it's you against the world. You think you're the only
one who doesn't fit in. Oh look it happened to me again. Well you are
not alone. You're not the first one to get dumped. You're not the first
one in a slump. You're not the first one to feel so small. You're not
the first one to miss her so much and you won't be the last. You
are not alone.
LITTLE MAN
Please be strong little man. The doctors are doing all they can. But
it's gonna be a while for you come home to me. So please be strong
little man 'cause daddy is doing all he can. But it's gonna be a while
for you come home to me. So get big and get strong. Make sure nothing's
wrong 'cause you mean everything to me. Get big and get strong. Prove
all those doctors wrong 'cause you mean the whole world to me. You're
doing so good little man. I know that you're doing all you can, So ill
be strong. It wont be long now before you come home to me.
SLIPPIN' AWAY
Another year comes to an end and with it a new trend. Who will you be
this time. Ska, emo, or punk, straight edge or drunk. When will you make
up your mind? Trade in your checkerboard pants and your new skankin'
dance, now draw x's on your hands. Your'e defined by your clothes and
attendance at shows. Your identity's slippin' away. There used to be
something but now there is nothing left of that person inside.
Everything that you've heard becomes your own word as others keep
changing your mind. You try to deny you don't have your own mind. But be
careful, watch what you say 'cause it wont be long for the next you is
gone and another you is slippin' away.
STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES
Stop and smell the roses. Life's passing you by too fast. Stop and
smell the roses who knows how long these days will last. Caught in the
whirlwind of daily life forgetting what it looks like outside. Working
so hard at where your'e going forgetting to enjoy the ride. Stop and
smell the roses life's passing you by too fast. Stop and smell the roses
who knows how long these days will last. All the good stuff is in the
middle, but you won't know if you don't take a bite. The whole world is
out there waiting, but you won't know if you don't open your eyes.
YOU WE'RE A LION
When other people see you on the
street do they know the man you used to be? Do they know the pain that
you have felt? Do they know the cards that you've been dealt? To
them it seems so strange. Why's this grown man begging for change? They
didn't know you when you were so strong. You haven't been this way all
along. You were so strong. You were so proud. You were a lion. Your roar
was so loud. The strokes came and knocked you off of your game. And
after that, well you were never the same. You lost your car, your house,
and you lost your wife. You lost your roar and then well you lost your
life. To them it seems so strange. Why's this grown man begging for
change? They didn't know you when you were so strong. You haven't been
this way all along. You were so strong. You were so proud. You were a
lion your roar was so loud.
WASTE OF SPACE
Drink, smoke, fuck, fight, pop a
couple pills. Nothing to do tonight but kill all of your brain cells
you. You don't seem to mind that there's nothing more to your
life. Doesn't surprise me. you're as sharp as a butter knife. you are a
waste of space. no work, no school, you never get nothing done. Being
drunk or stoned is the only way that you have fun. Is the day gonna come
when you wake up from your daze and realize that you are a waste of
space. You'll never understand, 'cause your friends all act the same.
Well I am moving on 'cause I don't want to play this game.
NO CALL NO SHOW
Five years gone I got used to seeing your face every
single day. I knew that something was wrong when you didn't show up today.
As sure as the sun creeps through my window to awaken me each day. You were
consistency to me, but now you've gone away. All those silly games we played
are what I'll miss the most. You never know when your times up. That's just
the way it goes. You were always there when someone needed you. Why couldn't
we see this time the person needing help was you.
TURNIN' GREY
time goes by so fast and now we've lost another year. Fading memories
of the past the good times we hold so dear. I don't want to get old
anymore. I don't want to get old. Tomorrow clouds my mind losing sight
of the now. Frustration's left me blind. Have fun I don't remember how.
No worries about tomorrow let alone the next day. When exactly did these
feelings go away. I remember a time when all that's on mind was having
fun not turnin' grey.
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