by Dashboard Confessional on album Miscellaneous

Jamie, what you doing now? What you doing now, girl? Please, please tell me 'Cause I need to know, I need to know now When I was down, came to me And promised, you'd always be By my side, now you're

by Dashboard Confessional on album Miscellaneous

And we're drowning you out in boasts of defection If everything was up to me, I would be gone by the first sign The first sign of hope, I'd be packed up and out of my way And time has been spread so

by Dashboard Confessional on album Miscellaneous

It's just like you took contest Wear it like a label on your breast Don't you see what this takes of me? A certain callousness complies With your charm and in your pride A hopeful look draped in desp

by Dashboard Confessional on album Shade of Poison Trees

I believe in clean breaks I keep the old troubles away But you're making sure I was lying when I said I can't leave this behind I need you to ruin me For this finally 'Cause it's bearing me Now I'm

by Dashboard Confessional on album A Mark, a Mission, a Brand, a Scar

Carve your heart out yourself Hopelessness is your cell Since you've drawn out these lines Are you protected from trying times? Man, it takes a silly girl to lie About the dreams she has Lord it take

by Dashboard Confessional on album Miscellaneous

Carve your heart out yourself Hopelessness is your cell Since you've drawn out these lines Are you protected from trying times? Man it takes a silly girl to lie About the dreams she has Lord, it take

by Dashboard Confessional on album Alter The Ending

Even now I can smell the clothes Freshly from the wash Still hot from the dryer Even now I can smell your skin To wrap you in a towel Lay you on the bed And try to love you Even now I can feel your

by Dashboard Confessional on album Shade of Poison Trees

Don't act like you've been silent I know how you spread that web of contradictions Wide like so much cover fines Keep watch for the mines Keep watch for the mines Be careful who you wave that tongue

by Dashboard Confessional on album The Swiss Army Romance

She had a history of killing herself I had a habit of dying I think she gave me something to live for I guess I helped her pass the time And I had a vision of seeing things straight She had the

by Dashboard Confessional on album Miscellaneous

If you knew what I know, would you try Before your time has run anew and worn you down? Would you know what you deserve in your heart? And if you knew what I knew would you try? Is there time, is the

by Dashboard Confessional on album Shade of Poison Trees

How can you ask for forgiveness? So now you think that your crimes are victimless I know you and your sins, your retributions So how will you lay your penance down? We all pay in time So how will you

by Dashboard Confessional on album Shade of Poison Trees

Lay my bones at the feet of the ministry I need the guilt and the company I need the chance to be judged And then long forgotten Lately I just can't shake it I count the days in seconds and minutes H

by Dashboard Confessional on album Shade of Poison Trees

Slip out the back before those Handlers get too tight on you I light my own fires now I light my own fires now Slip in this town like it was Measured to fit right on you We light our own fires now We

by Dashboard Confessional on album Shade of Poison Trees

Taste, I love the taste I need its warm rush Rush, I need the rush To pulse through my veins And I'll love you tonight Oh, I'll love you tonight And tomorrow you may just feel the same Please don't

by Dashboard Confessional on album Shade of Poison Trees

Why do you speak with that accent now? Everyone knows you're not from the streets You went to prep school in Cambridge With daughters and sons of the privileged elite The fortunes from shipping and i

by Dashboard Confessional on album Shade of Poison Trees

Step on the stage, the lights, the praise The curtain calls and the big parade You know that life all too well The promise, the pain, the valor, the rage Hold up your hands for the bow and the wave Y

by Dashboard Confessional on album The Swiss Army Romance

Save up until you've had it The offers come but you won't go on Brought down with the force of nature Breathing off my lungs It's not easy to like it (It's not easy to like it) It's not easy a

by Dashboard Confessional on album Miscellaneous

So this is odd Painful realization that all has gone wrong And nobody cares at all And nobody cares at all So you buried all your lovers clothes And burned the letters lover wrote But it doesn't make

by Dashboard Confessional on album Miscellaneous

This is where I say I've had enough And no one should ever feel the way that I feel now A walking open wound, a trophy display of bruises And I don't believe that I'm getting any better, any better W

by Dashboard Confessional on album Miscellaneous

You will wait in the widows peak And while you watch the ships come in I will take the early train And I will take the back streets Down to New Orleans Before the avenues are swallowed By the morning