tennis court

"i'll be the beauty queen in tears, it's a new art form showing people how little we care."

400 lux

"we're never done with killing time, can i kill it with you? 'til the veins run red and blue."

royals

"and we'll never be royals, it don't run in our blood, that kind of lux just ain't for us, we crave a different kind of buzz."

ribs

"this dream isn't feeling sweet, we're reeling through the midnight streets and i've never felt more alone, it feels so scary getting old."

"i want 'em back, the minds we had, how all the thoughts moved 'round our heads."

buzzcut season

"and nothing's wrong when nothing's true, i live in a hologram with you, we're all the things that we do for fun."

team

"we live in cities you'll never see onscreen, not very pretty but we sure know how to run things."

glory and gore

"we gladiate but i guess we're really fighting ourselves, roughing up our minds so we're ready when the killtime comes."

still sane

"i'm not in the swing of things but what i really mean is: not in the swing of things yet."

white teeth teens

"i'll let you in on something big: i am not a white teeth teen, i tried to join but never did."

a world alone

"i know we're not everlasting, we're a train wreck waiting to happen, one day the blood won't flow so gladly, one day we'll all get still."

bravado

"all my life, i've been fighting a war, i can't talk to you or your friends, it's not only you, my heart jumps around when i'm alluded to, this will not do."

"i was frightened of every little thing that i thought was out to get me down, to trip me up and laugh at me but i learned not to want the quiet of a room with no-one around to find me out, i want the applause, the approval, the things that make me go oh."

million dollar bills

"it's not about just bein' out with all our people 'cause we can get in trouble just by going free-flow."

the love club

"my mother's love is choking me, i'm sick of words that hang above my head, what about the kid? it's time the kid got free."

biting down

"it feels better biting down, breathed so deep i thought i'd drown."

swingin party

"quitting school and going to work and never going fishing, water all around, i never learned how to swim now."