DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN LYRICS

1. Panasonic Youth

We wrote these plans
Took the order
The architecture and followed them to the end
Until the gears ground cold and relentless
There was no remorse
We had none
We kept on with no trace of a regret
There was no remorse

I never saw any blood
No soul for the body
Watch them turn her scab covered skin into stone
Like a coal in the sky
Searching for the dawn
For the last time
Bloated with white eyes wide

We've come to an understanding
You lose—I profit
High noon and there ain't no secrets
No more excuses

Now our number's up
Let them lead us by the throat
Now just smile while the rope pulls tighter... tighter
What we've come to is an understatement

The hourglass is never right-side up
And all the time we try to tear the script up
Forgetting all the sour for the sweet
The paragraph has never been so empty

The lifeless test tube
The mother dies with infant in arms
The lifeless test tube
Look what she's done
Evolution gave us a clock that's always... winding down
Evolution gave us a clock that's always... winding... down

2. Sunshine The Werewolf

Cry your eyes bloodshot
While there's still time
'Cause soon it's gone
And you'll be so shocked

One queen-sized coffin
That was built for two
Is your death... bed
It belongs to you

Tease me, baby
Please me... with the fresh disease
Hope riding on a bullet
Alive tonight
You know we couldn't get it right
Come save... your life tonight
You know we'll never get it... right

Don't try to swim... to shore
Because you can't... go back

Say three words
Like they're the last you'll speak
Curtains drop
Concealing appearances of heaven

Destroyer!
There'll be another
Just... like... you...
You're not the only one
I'm not the only one
Destroyer!
Watching the fallout... fly... back... up...
Walking where time stands still
See how this love... kills

Love kills...
Love kills...

Dropping
Curtains down
Concealing
Appearances of heaven

Without my existence
You are... nothing
Without my affection
You wilt...
You wilt...

We fucked like a nuclear war
Release...
Fuck off...

See how I let you down
Watching
Fallout
Fly back up

3. Highway Robbery

You'd never imagine
Us bringing a loaded gun
To the ballroom
This party's about to kick-off

Tonight is the wrong night
The devil's own are only starting up
The first round of the fight
So hang on tight

Dear mother
The needle is jabbing the womb
Draw back... and release
This child of disease
Woah... oh yeah

This mob is a riot
The outlaw youth are only emptying
The first round of the night
'Cause everything's not alright

I suppose you thought you had our hands behind our backs
Wool over our eyes
Now your pulse is in my palm and you stand hands-to-mouth
Wearing your disguise

It's pretty apparent
This boy is a curse
The Christ... of the moment
So blow him away
Hey... come on
And take the new number
If you're next in line
Then kid I got a really big fucking surprise
There won't be a next time

I suppose you thought you had our hands behind our backs
Wool over our eyes
Now your pulse is in my palm
And you stand hands-to-mouth
Wearing your disguise

Oooooooooo-ooo-oooooooo
Ooooooo-ooo-ooooooo
Oooooooooo-ooo-oooooooo-ooo
Ooooooo-ooo-ooooooo

I suppose you thought you had our hands behind our backs
Wool over our eyes
Now your pulse is in my palm
And you stand hands-to-mouth
Wearing your disguise

I suppose you thought you
I suppose you thought you
I suppose you thought you pulled the wool over our eyes

I suppose you thought you
I suppose you thought you
I suppose you thought you pulled the wool over our eyes

4. Van Damsel

Surprise!
It's not what you thought
As it runs...
It runs a dead stop light
As it runs...
It runs a dead light
You're the fool
And we won't look back

Let's tie those ankles... to the... railroad
Don't stop to catch your breath

I bet your foresight... never... saw this...
Train wreck is right on time

A fucking punk
A fucking punk rock
You fucking punk
You fucking punk
You prostitute
You fucking punk
You fucking punk rock
You fucking punk... prostitute

Pick the open vein to shreds
You should know that you're my... death... wish...
Bible-thumping, steeple fuck
You are the worst of all scum
Train wreck... right-on-time
You're my death wish

Yeah...

We were young and
We were god
Far away... from us now
We don't want it
What you've got
We don't want it
We don't want it
We don't want it
We don't want it
And you've got it
She took my hand
She took my hand
But I never took hers

5. Phone Home

Take fire out of heaven's clenched fist
Cracks slip between my desire to keep your broken heart bleeding
Just hold tight and tell another fucking joke to pacify the urge for suicide
You know it won't keep waiting
So say, "Goodbye." 'cause I never want to hear another word about, "You and I..."
You know you never stop...

Now

We started out just running out spreading like wings and we are one
I pulled you right out of the gutter when I could have b-lined
We started out just running out spreading like wings and what were we supposed to do?
You belong to me and what were we supposed to do?

Suck it in -- spit it out -- you know that two's a crowd?
Expectant mother's stillborn baby beauty cries aloud and tries you what I'm about
Now don't you worry about a little thing like this
It only hurts just a bit I promise
I'm going take you a mile high
So don't you cry 'cause it'll be just "baby, baby, baby..." non-stop until the end of the night
So keep your mouth shut

We started out just running out spreading like wings and we are one
I pulled you right out of the gutter when I could have b-lined
We started out just running out spreading like wings and what were we supposed to do?
You belong to me and what were we supposed to do?

I can tell you're a good fuck just by the way you wear that innocent look
Don't you know that enough is never enough
I made you -- now you are property I can't discard

We started out just running out spreading like wings and what were we supposed to do?

6. We Are The Storm

Well they said we'd tear ourselves apart
And it... turns out they were right
'Cause I've never seen you so weak
Weak... and... so far
Out of breath
And I never saw the tide rise
So high
So fast

Watch... This pawn capture the queen
White... picket drive-by
Gar...gle the stench the storm brings

You'll never get enough
Watch... this pawn capture the queen
Yeah...
Now... I can't shake you
But I... I can't take you
Empty skin bag
You're my cum rag
And now the flood gates overflow
Now I see that too much is not enough
No...

This game...
Has been playing...
For... too... long...

Yeah...
Yeah you did it
Yeah you did it
Woah...
Yeah you did it
Did you get enough?
My sweet child of... fire
This love affair is so... lost
This love affair is so... lost

Cut through the sea
This pendulum swings near to me
We are the storm
So take your ship to port

Oh, it's time to let it go (Time to let it go)
Right now it's time to let it go
Time to let it go-oh-woah-oh-woah-oh-woah-oh

'Cause this feels like half a million years
And I know you feel the same way... I do
Don't you?
Do you?

Well they said we'd tear ourselves apart
Turns out... they were right
Tear ourselves apart
Turns out... they were right

7. Crutch Field Tongs

[Instrumental]

8. Setting Fire To Sleeping Giants

First off
Let me say you look so tired...
Rest your head and shut your eyes
Empty... ambition
Blankets the sky
I'm Thinking 'bout another world... toni-i-i-ight

Yeah right
Yeah right
Yeah right

So drop the gown
The game's over
Just push your face into the fight
And it breaks my heart
Like dancing up all night
Ride so high we both start thinking 'bout another world tonight
And it feels so wrong
Like nothing we've ever... felt before-ore-ore-ore

Yeah right
Yeah right
Yeah right

The stranger's candy takes you where you ought to be
In broken alleys in the back of every street
Close your eyes...
Tonight!

Baby you can have it
Baby... you can... have it

Oh, baby gnaw me
Down to the bone
Soon you'll find I'm never gonna take you back home
Well, there's so much you never told me
And there's not much I want to know
'Cause your pretty face will do just fine
You'll be the star...
Of my very last show

Let's go for a long ride
I'll show you places you won't ever want to leave

The stranger's candy takes you where you ought to be
In broken alleys in the back of every street
Stranger's candy...
Broken alleys...
Yeah...
Tonight!

We could... bring it all down
We could... bring it... all down

They think this body's a dead... note
Dancing... to the beat
But they'll never see this corpse
Coming... 'til it... kills them

9. Baby's First Coffin

Dear god
Protect us
Come on
Blackest heart

She stares
Forever and then
Some never again

Polished barbed-wire
Smile
Tricks and treats

She's done
So cut her again
Gut her again

Dear God
Protect us
Come on
Blackest...

Silence tells us we're damned
Silence tells us we're damned

Jesus, we've gone and done it again
Jimmy's got a new gun in his hand
Jesus, we've gone and done it again
Jimmy's got a new gun in his hand

You're being a liar
You're being a liar
You're being a liar
You're being a liar

How could you doubt
We would never find out
You're being a liar
I'm stealing the show
You're being a liar
I'm ready to go...

You're being a liar
You're being a liar
You're being a liar
You're being a liar

How could you doubt
We would never find out
You're being a liar
I'm stealing the show
You're being a liar
I'm ready to go... home

The emperor is dead
The emperor is dead
Goodbye... to god

Dead...
So long...
Embrace...
Defeat...
You know we both agreed to it

Stick the diamond to it
Gust of wind to the face
Never returning favors
Take the prison to the man
I could promise the world if we could travel through time
Don't back out on me now
Relax and remember the promise of the sign
I wish you could see yourself now
You look at me like a child
The way you glide across the room
Instrument of seduction
Let go of it
Rapunzel, let it down
Wait for the signal then bring it down with a smile
Now...
Become the conductor
The way you slide across the room
How wonderful the connection
Did the last kiss still taste as good as the first?
Or is this just the opening scene of a new play
I look at you like a child
But not at all like you looked at me

But grace is already dead
Now is the time to come and face the master
You should never say yes
The grace is already dead
Now is the time to come and face the master
Grace is already dead
The grace is already dead
Now is the time to come and face the master
You should never say yes when you really mean no

10. Unretrofied

Is the can half-diseased or is the disease half-canned?
And is the man half-machine or is the machine half-man?
I'm unretrofied for you

Is the can half-diseased or is the disease half-canned?
And is the man half-machine or is the machine half-man?
I'm unretrofied for you

So come on...
So come on...

I'll just fake it in the end
Just save it for a new song and leave dead in the end
Time is wasted in the end
Wood-paneled wagon carpool dragons killing me again

Now they're looting our holes until there is nothing left
Calloused intentions it seems—coward's invention—at best
I'm unretrofied for you

Now they're looting our holes until there is nothing left
Calloused intentions it seems—coward's invention—at best
I'm unretrofied for you

So come on...
So come on...

I'll just fake it in the end
Just save it for a new song and leave dead in the end
Time is wasted in the end
Wood-paneled wagon carpool dragons killing me again

We're all dead

Jesus can't play the music 'caused he's nailed to the cross
And over gnawed-off feet I find that I can't walk
I can't walk
I can't... even walk

I'll just fake it in the end
Just save it for a new song and leave dead in the end
Time is wasted in the end
Wood-paneled wagon carpool dragons killing me again

I'll just fake it in the end
Just save it for a new song and leave dead in the end
Time is wasted in the end
Wood-paneled wagon carpool dragons killing me again

We're all dead

I'll...

11. Perfect Design

Mo...tions... that make gods cringe
Running in... cir...cles
As fast as we can
Take what you can 'cause now it's all over
Run hot and cold to break the skin
Break the skin

Oooorah!

And we won't take no for... an answer
For just when the door slams
The pill drops
Oh, my sweet unknowing partner
The perfect design

The... pill... drops...
So start the silent dance... slumping silhouette
Unforgiving hands... harboring regret
Play it just once more, for old times

Yeah....
You know...
You know...
You know you're all I ever wanted
Yeah....
You know...
You know...
You know...
You know you're all I'll ever want

How... we... laughed when we first saw each other
How... you... screamed when I saw your eyes melt
This... is... the end of every rainbow
And now... your face... shatters
Every... waking... second...
And now... your face... shatters
Every... waking... second...
And now... your face... shatters







DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN LYRICS