Playlist Cold War Kids

cold war kids - first

Cheated and lied, broken so bad
You made a vow, never get mad
You play the game, though it's unfair
They're all the same, who can compare?
First you lose trust, then you get worried

Night after night, bar after club
Dropping like flies, who woke you up
On the front lawn, sprinklers turned on
It's not your house, where'd you go wrong?
First you get hurt, then you feel sorry

Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when, you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?, I do not deserve
To wait around forever when, you were there first
First you get hurt, then you feel sorry

There comes a time, in a short life
Turn it around, get a rewrite
Call it a dark, night of the soul
Ticking of clocks, gravity?s pull
First you get close, then you get worried

Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when, you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?, I do not deserve
To wait around forever when, you were there first
First you get hurt, then you feel sorry

You're going silent, the silent treatment
It's not inviting now, don't deny what you meant
You get excited, you get excited
You got a feel it, oh, at least you can pretend
You wanna light it, you wanna light it
You wanna light it now, the candle from both ends
You get excited, you get excited

Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when, you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?, I do not deserve
To wait around forever when, you were there first
Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth
Heavy as a feather when, you hit the dirt
How am I the lucky one?, I do not deserve
To wait around forever when, you were there first

First you get close, then you get worried
First you get close, then you get worried
First you get close, then you get worried
First you get close, then you get worried

You wanna light it, you wanna light it
You wanna light it now, the candle from both ends
You wanna light it, you wanna light it
You wanna light it now, the candle from both ends

cold war kids - hospital beds

There's nothing to do here
Some just whine and complain
In bed in the hospital
Coming and going
Asleep and awake
In bed at the hospital

Tell me the story
Of how you ended up here
I've heard it all in the hospital
Nothing's sufficing
Doctors on tour
Somewhere in india

I've got one friend
Laying across form me
I did not choose him
He did not choose me
We've got no chance of recovery
Joy and hospital
Joy and misery
Joy and misery
Joy and misery

Put out the fire boys
Don't stop don't stop
Put out the fire on us
Put out the fire boys
Don't stop don't stop
Put out the fire on us

Bring the buckets by the dozens
Bring your nieces and your cousins
Come put out the fire on us

We are now fish and chips
Italian opera
We are now fish and chips
Italian opera

I've got one friend
Laying across from me
I did not choose him
He did not choose me
We've got no chance of recovery
Joy and hospital
Joy and misery
The joy and misery
The joy and misery
The joy
The joy
The joy misery

Put out the fire boys
Don't stop don't stop
Put out the fire on us
Put out the fire boys
Don't stop don't stop
Put out the fire on us

Bring the buckets by the dozens
Bring your nieces and your cousins
Put out the fire on us

cold war kids - dreams old men dream

Thought I was laying in the gutter in
Milk cartons and bones
But I was standing on a mountain top
Looking over your homes
Thought I was laying in my garden with
My hands deep in soil
But I was there on an island
Shooting flares at you both
Thought I was soothing like a violin
Confessing new rain
But I was piping like a trumpet
Frantic but faint
Thought I was built like a building's built
On concrete and stone
I realized I'm just a hack actor
Finished playing my role

You're reading my thoughts
Dreams old men dreams
It's just like when we were kids
We'd lay around wondering
We try to listen to what they said

Thought I was writing for a hundred hours
Looking straight into me
But I was reading on the newspaper obituary
Thought I was nervous like mail man
Reading your letters dear
But I was at our anniversary
Toasting thirty years

You're reading my thoughts
Dreams old men dream
It's just like when we were kids
We'd lay around wondering
We try to listen to what they say x2

Push my piano outside
I don't care x2
Meet the media black sky
I don't care x2
The neighbors will complain
Let them stare x2
Who knows where the time goes
I don't care x2

What would you think of me if I told you
I haven't slept in weeks
I've been up chasing my childhood with a pen
These are dreams old men dream

cold war kids - skip the charades

You wait on letters
Fishing for any sign of life
Drinks after dinner
Your friends will get you to unwind

Let's skip the charades
Can we just speak plain?

I'm two left feet when
I'm home we tapdanced on broken glass
Somehow you manage
To keep your sense of humor in tact

Let's skip the charades
You're seeing right through me anyway
Can we just speak plain?
We're playing for the same team
But I'm the one that's acting like
Acting like
Acting like
I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like
Acting like
Acting like
Nothing's wrong

You dodged the bullet
You do your best when you're busiest
You're disconnected
You can't find your name in the script

It was you who were wildest
It was you who floated above us all
I held on with wires
Will you come back down if I let you go?

Let's skip the charades
You're seeing right through me anyway
Can we just speak plain?
We're playing for the same team
But I'm the one that's acting like I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like nothing's wrong
I'm the one that's acting like I'm so strong
You're the one that's acting like nothing's wrong

Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain
Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain
Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain
Can we skip the charades?
Just speak plain

cold war kids - robbers

Sulkin'
Walkin' 'round the city after dark
Need protection from street thugs
Who clip the tires
And rip the doors off rugs
And cowards

And all this life we've glorified
Robbin' from the blind
It's not easy, you see
Don't think i don't know sympathy
My victims in my shadow
Starin' back at me

Not me, i'm knockin
Tip toe outside a stranger's door
Casually let myself in
Fill pockets with
Trinkets, purses, china antique armoirs

And all this life we've glorified
Robbin' from the blind
It's not easy you see
Don't think i don't know sympathy
My victims in my shadow
Starin back at me

As robbers in my thoughts
They tell me what to think
They're hiding in my clothes
Crawling in the kitchen sink

cold war kids - minimum day

Remember when I saw a
movie bout the rapture
strange seventies, zombie movie eschatology
one day the nonbelievers
woke to alarm clocks
empty houses barking dogs
half the human race was gone

oh! the minimum day
the minimum day took them away

I left feeling terrified
ripped me a new behind
what happens to the people
on a plane if the pilot might
spontaneously disappear
when it goes down for real
the motherless babies
and the quixotic teenagers cry

once upon a time
even tom needed proof
and peter would sell you out
deep down judas was a sweet kid
james had the nerve to ask you for a vip
i look around and say
on my hands no i can't hide em
on my knees
might as well just lay down and die

oh! the minimum day
the minimum day
take me away

now i'm all grown up
i see the scare tactic
to get the kids to obey
the grand inquisitor say
a gun to the back make a
happy man march
but neil young hit the mark with
only love can break your heart

cold war kids - god make up your mind

Backseat of your family station wagon
Listenin' to mom
100 years of solitude
and only 12 years old

God make up your mind
God make up your mind
Do you wanna play fair
Should I take what's mine?

Mama's callin' out
look at the grand canyon
Camilla couldn't care less
Gazin' to the home
your stomach feels the emptiness

God make up your mind
God make up your mind
Do you wanna play fair
Or should I take what's mine?
Like everyone else

From New York to New Orleans
played alphabet
Kansas to Boise
won a battleship
memorize the capitals
crossword puzzles
drew a picture of a cat
layin' dead in the street
Daydream about Maria back in California

Elephant in your brain
remindin' you you've got to make a choice
Wraps his arms around ya slow
Cause you tense up like a [?]

God make up your mind
God make up your mind
Do you wanna play fair
Or should I take what's mine?
Like everyone else

Why am a teacher on the street sign
has done so much more than politicians
than musicans
You wanna help someone
you gotta be a no one
that's what I figured out
the cat in the street meant

You gotta make up your mind
make up your mind
make up your mind

cold war kids - bottled affection

I let the bats out, we walked through
The cathedral out in to the moon
Your flashback is airtight
Like an elephant never hurt a fly
Mother instinct, never gonna die

Alright, stay, you got my attention
All my pain is bottled affection

Now it's my turn to play cool
Nothing you can say can even break through
I see the weapons, I pulled out
I met my match, so why am I proud?

I'm not the same kid, I grew up
Didn't I? Or did I get stuck?
You get older, it gets worse
You be the good one that gives it up first
Or the bad one that never gets hurt

Alright, stay, you got my attention
All my pain is bottled affection
Alright, stay, you got my attention
All my pain is bottled affection

My affection, my affection
Pouring out, pouring out
My affection, my affection
Pouring out, pouring out
My affection, my affection

cold war kids - tuxedos

I think about eyes that watch you.
I think about changes I've made.
I think about all this fancy food going down the drain.
I spend a lot of time by myself,
Imagining great speeches I'd make
To crowds of people; how can I help?
But what would I say?

When will I find, when will I find someone to take?
Or did I find and not realize, I was the fake.

I love to be a stranger at a wedding.
Cause tuxedos don't discriminate
A perfect disguise, so be cool and fill up your plate.

When will I find, when will I find someone to take?
Or did I find and not realize, I was the fake.
When will I find, when will I find someone to take?
For the millionth time, for the millionth time I was the fake.
I was the fake, I was to blame.

I think about eyes that watch you.
I think about changes I've made.
I think about all this fancy food
Going down the drain, down the drain, down the drain
Going down the drain, down the drain, down the drain
Going down the drain, the drain, the drain, the drain, the drain
Going down the drain

cold war kids - hang me up to dry

Careless in our summer clothes splashing around
In the muck and the mile
Careless in our summer clothes splashing around
In the muck and the mile

Fell asleep with stains
Cake deep in the knees
What a pain

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out
Too too too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the whites
The whites of your eyes

All mixed up in the wash
Hot water bleeding our colors
All mixed up in the wash
Hot water bleeding our colors

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out
Too too too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the white
The whites of your eyes

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out
Too too too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the white
The whites of your eyes

Now hang me up to dry
You wrung me out
Too too too many times
Now hang me up to dry
I'm pearly like the white
The whites of your eyes

cold war kids - miracle mile

I was supposed to do great things
I know the road was long
But I wasn't raised to shoot for fame
I had the safety on

I cut my ties, I sold my rings
I wanted none of this
If you start from scratch, you'll have to sing
Just for the fun of it

I'd be alright if I could just see you come up for air, come up for air
A miracle mile, where does it lead to?
Come up for air, come up for air

I feel the air upon my face
Forget the mess I'm in
Hold me again, don't count mistakes
I lost track of them

I'd be alright if I could just see you
Come up for air, come up for air
A miracle mile, where does it lead to?
Come up for air, come up for air

I was in the mud, I was in the dirt
Went underground and found what I was worth
All alone and I know I can't stay
So I'm walking up and down the streets to stay awake

Come up for air, come up for air, come up
Come up for air, come up for air, come up
Come up for air, come up for air, come up

Get outside, get all around the world
You learned to love what you get in return
It may be problem and it may be peace of mind
Put your head (?) down and breath one breath at a time

Come up for air, come up for air, come up
Come up for air, come up for air, come up
Come up for air, come up for air, come up
Come up for air, come up for air, come up

I'd be alright if I could just see you
Come up for air, come up for air
A miracle mile, where does it lead to?
Come up for air, come up for air

I'd be alright if I could just see you
A miracle mile, where does it lead to?

cold war kids - something is not right wiht me

Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
How was I supposed to know?

Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Tryin' not to let it show

I tried to call you collect
You said you would not accept
Your friends are laughin' 'cause
Nobody uses pay phones

Gave me quarters to select
So I'm on the jukebox again
People dancin'
Should've never chosen 'Girlfriend'

Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
How was I supposed to know?

Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
Something is not right with me
I'm trying not to let it show

Crash into the people
Who're sleepin' late into the evening
Reach behind they can hardly find their spines

Crash into the people
Who're sleepin' late into the evening
Reach behind they can hardly find their spines

Crash into the people
Who're sleepin' late into the evening
Reach behind they can hardly find their spines

You said did you lack a cause
I try to feel like I can
It was smokey but it died in your front yard

You find out who's datin' who
But when it comes to you
Hope is pullin' punches
With different ways in my mind

cold war kids - expensive tastes

Strings attached
fake eye lashes
brok upon the piggie
bank for petty cash
sensitive sister
blushin don't stare
watch the children squabblin
in the square
tip my hat
low windows
once i saw you naked
there was nothing to show
piano place and out of tempo
of all the girls of in our class
shes the most refined

i like to be there in the morning
when you wake up
maybe bad dreams become easter
we could pack up x2

[im not sure whats being said in this stanza]
i like to show up at your door steps
[?????????????????]
and meet your family couple of them cookin
[????????????????]

i refuse to take that job
just because i'm poor
don't mean i can't be a snob
strawberry hair
fair freckled skin
waiting like a creep outside till the end
shy expression shown on her shoulders
bought this house with money
that your grandfather stole
much too young save the imagination
through an elegant girls reputation

i like to be there in the morning
when you wake up
maybe bad dreams become easter
we can pack up

whoaoooo...whaooooo!...

and when they ask me my occupation
i'm a prayin and working on my patience
i got no good friends
politic party
[??????????????....car keys]

now lets all roll in smoke for trades
drink my waiting coffee
at the penny arcade
rows of shoes
shelves of jewerly
mommas dying her hair in the vanity
daddys watch too tight
try silver spoon for size
harder than a needle
through a camels eye
folks gather around the table find a place
boys that girl don't have expensive tastes

cold war kids - against privacy

We don't gamble
We don't do the stock exchange
We paint paintings
We write scenes for the stage

We will talk about welfare
We will talk about sex
Talk about the Pope in Prada shoes
Nobody gets upset

We're waiting
We're waiting for your call
We're against privacy

Forget ex-girlfriends
We want little governments
We tell stories
We want to get you to join in

Call us optimistic
We get the meanest looks
We are bar stool romantics
History books will show

We're sure that you'll agree

cold war kids - audience

Sunday nights that you wanna
Black velvet cake
Sweet heart can bargain
Half price mistakes

She will go down with her ship
Like a good captain
You're sitting on the dock
Playing for an audience of one

Pacing your apartment
Linoleum floors
Get a call from an old friend
She never like them before

He will drive all over three lanes
You sit tight, shotgun
When she rifles
Waving for an audience of one

You came out from the country
Wearing momma's clothes
You were born in the city
Daddy's dominos

You need a record you can move to
Well we got one
Drop the needle
We are playing for an audience of one

Drop the needle
We are playing for an audience of one

One gets all of you twos jealous
Three get even less
Four divides you up then you're left
Pleasing all your guests

Reach out you point a finger
And touch the globe
Spin around and where it stops
You've got to pack your bags and go

Land in the Mohave Desert
Sing for the sun

Three's too many when you're playing for an audience of one
Two's too busy when you're playing for an audience of one
One is the only way
Playing for an audience of one

<Mond>

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