by Emily Haines on album Cut In Half And Also Double

Don't say this: "Leave me with your brown boots behind the door and come to bed. Everybody lies, I never said I'd be happy" Don't say it, don't injure your mouth trying to show me Where you've been. I

by Emily Haines on album Knives Don't Have Your Back

Cursed with a love that you can't express It's not for a fuck, or a kiss Rather give the world away than wake up lonely Everywhere and every way I see you with me Crowd surf off a cliff Land out on t

by Emily Haines on album Cut In Half And Also Double

Traded your bucket and bruises for a bag of bones And a wardrobe of excuses You live too hard, you look too good And you're in my backyard, just like everybody said you would be. Greased by ??? ??? at

by Emily Haines on album Cut In Half And Also Double

I know your ways, so when I tell you "don't get crazy" but the last wall standing's fell, daddy kicked it down. Your little sister's gonna have a baby I heard you're planning to drive into the desert

by Emily Haines on album Knives Don't Have Your Back

Sketching your faces, I still don't know your why you're permanent You want all of the moments stolen Blind alleys and hallways to basements How're you gonna hide till you dssapear because Nothing and

by Emily Haines on album What Is Free To A Good Home? EP

Whatever it is, spit it into a bottle and sell it to me I'm looking to buy freedom from my sobriety Just like Huey Lewis I need a new drug, I need a new drink I need a new drug that does what it shoul

by Emily Haines on album What Is Free To A Good Home? EP

Is it true you used to be my friend? What did i do? Why didn't I get in to your cool crew? Got a modern loft and a new tattoo with your own name I've got a single room overlooking the highway under th

by Emily Haines on album Cut In Half And Also Double

Too late today, for the sky to open No living place lay here for the sky to fall no one remembers when the wheel was broken Made a rut so deep, made a massive hole Made a man so small I don't want to

by Emily Haines on album Cut In Half And Also Double

You can burn your paper fingers in the ashtray Drown your swollen lips in my ruby wine You can shave your heavy head in my carpeted hallway Lie on the floor like so many before being sure for the firs

by Emily Haines on album Cut In Half And Also Double

Welcome to the garden of Eden Can you see even me, when I've pushed? Call it a fall and lay all the blame on me. From where I'm standing, it's a long way down Up here, at the top of a building Top o

by Emily Haines on album Cut In Half And Also Double

I do get lonely so many nights, spent soaking beans And listening to my ears; you are what you hear Dog Sit up and run White laced panties and calm it Your body is warm so is my vomit Your body is wa

by Emily Haines on album Cut In Half And Also Double

If you leave early, no one's coming out to get you Once you're gone, we'll forget you were here and there I get up early, make a list and go on back to bed to dream You're slicing up my face. You li

by Emily Haines on album What Is Free To A Good Home? EP

Fresh when sleeping meant every other night Falling asleep for the fifth time Early in the morning Awake in terror, words staring back at him, never to be used Their hands on hold So quiet, they coul

by Emily Haines on album Cut In Half And Also Double

Who deserves a pretty tangle dream Green hillside, hands inside hands I lay before you like unclaimed land You drove your bulldozer over Wrote your name in the sand I am new, watch the smoke move thro

by Emily Haines on album Choir of the Mind

Haven't we made Enough for a living wage We accept the fatal gift A soup stone for our stove And a blindfold for our tears Paying for a living wage Know it's a deceptive deal We accept the fatal gift

by Emily Haines on album Choir of the Mind

If I could go back If I could reach that feeling again If I could go back If I could reach that feeling again I would not have let shit-talkers stop me Failures whisper sad how hard she tries Advance

by Emily Haines on album Choir of the Mind

Over my body, some cloak of fire Hope that I don't find out this is all This is over, I'm so not dead I withhold my consent to be praised Not about to fade out in the open Dial down the overdrive Oth

by Emily Haines on album Choir of the Mind

It ends an assassination It ends an assassination Or it doesn't end in a way That anyone remembers You're the guy that always brings the drugs When nobody wants drugs That twinkle in your eye, I know

by Emily Haines on album Choir of the Mind

From the grandstand to the island To the mainland white sand beach I only want what I can't reach From the songbird to the siren To the famous melody I only want what I can't see A songbird someday w

by Emily Haines on album Choir of the Mind

This is (this is) This is The purpose of my life This is (this is) This is The purpose of my life This is (this is) This is The purpose of my life Harvest all my love, harness all my power To be per