"Descensus" (2014)

Schema lyrics - Circa Survive

I never want to see clear at all
There's nothing that could be there now

X marks the page you see
Trapped in a cold white room
I wanna know who'd be there when you snuff the wick
I won't reflect the same as you
I want the proof you'll promise to let 'em down quick.

I never want to see clear at all
There's nothing that could be there now.

Pull out your teeth (until)
There's nothing left (at all)
Immediately I feel relief from dragging this vessel around

Exit the stage you keep
Sleep in a cold white room
I wanna know who'd be there when you snuff the wick

Just shut your mouth,

And if it takes forever to be sure,

I wanna know
I'll wait it out
And see your hand without fingerprints
I wanna know, I wanna know

Pull out your teeth (until)
There's nothing left (at all)
Immediately, I feel relief from dragging this vessel around.

I'm playing dead (until)
There's nothing left (at all)
Immediately I feel relief from dragging this vessel around.

Child Of The Desert lyrics - Circa Survive

Was it all burdened with sin
Searching like a child in the night
Trust in me, no one here could see
I would never lead you astray

Oh, all is lost,
All will be returned in the end
Oh, all we have
All we have is somewhere to begin

Nesting in the thorn bush,
Blowing in the breeze
Calculate the pattern
That is causing my disease
Child of the desert,
Never had a name
Climax on the concept of eliminating pain

Take it in underneath the sun
Washed into the surface of your skin
Don't believe,
Time will help you see
I would never lead you astray

Oh, all is lost,
All will be returned in the end
Oh, all you save
Dare I say, just give it away

Give it away,
Give it away

Lurking in the shadows,
Nurtured in the dark
Rise above the surface to
Eliminate the spark

Wild like a daydream,
Soon to be erased
Searching for the moment
To evacuate the race

Nesting in the thorn bush,
Blowing in the breeze
Calculate the pattern
That is causing my disease
Child of the desert,
Never had a name

No one here will ever be the same

Not sure how to make it real
How to take my time, how to come alive
I don't want to feel a thing
I don't want to know, I don't wanna
I don't want
I don't want to take my time
Make it come alive, make it come on

Always Begin lyrics - Circa Survive

never wanted to beg for you
I never wanted to ask anyone for their help
I know the one I got
Don't know exactly what I want
I'm just making a fatal mistake... from my show

There is always a face you'll make
Whenever you don't believe (I need you there)
And I don't know what I want from you
I can't tell if I lost anything that I need

Always begin before you'd ever prepare
Never think twice about
Nothing will come until you're already there
Never think twice about it all

I never wanted to take from you
Love everything that you wanted me to have safe
I know it wasn't true (you know exactly what I want)
And I'm just making it way too fucked up for myself

There is a face you'll always make (that tell me)
Whenever you don't believe (I need you there)
And I don't know what I want from you (...could choose)
I can't tell if I lost anything that I need

Always begin before you'd ever prepare
Never think twice about
Nothing will come until you're already there
Never think twice about

I know a thousand ways to go (never know)
That is no way of living though (let you know)
Always begin before you ever prepare
Never think twice about it all

I made my bed
Now I live in my doubt
I'll change my mind
And all the ways I breathe

There are a thousand ways to go (never know)
Let go of everything you know (please tell me )
Give up on everything you think you need (let me know)
let me show (please tell me)

Always begin before you'd ever prepare
Never think twice about
Nothing will come until you're already there
Never think twice about it all

Only The Sun lyrics - Circa Survive

Break it in half, all the entrances are false
Are false and boarded up into itself
Making a noose out of everything you use
You use everyone directly out of sight

Will you evaluate my art?
(I'm afraid if I don't we will never know)
I don't know if I can
(Ohhh)

Turn this away, censor every word I say
I say nothing but this lie that I believe
And I wasn't there, but I felt the weight you bear
Buried all, on top, the energy we create

There's a strain, on the eye
When you stand way too close to what we want

Will you evaluate my art?
(I'm afraid if I don't, we will never know)
I don't know if I can
(I'm afraid if I don't, we will never go)
By the time it's finished tearing us apart
(I can't see anything out your window)
Will you get what you want?

I feel it in the air
(I know a way out)
I know it's in there
(I won't leave you there)

Know it's just a part of me you can not see
It's just an antiquated position
Know it's just a side of me you can not treat
Take it as a compliment you were left out

Let's just keep calling me absent
It's just an antiquated position
(You know) It's just a silent need for action
Take it as a compliment you were left out

Nesting Dolls lyrics - Circa Survive

You shouldn't stay, we'll never change
And I can't recognize you at all
Nothing's the same
It's all been arranged in a way
Keeping me out of it

I don't want to feel like this
Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever again
I don't want to feel like this
Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever again

When we were young and everything's magical
Then it all disappeared, I wasn't sure
But you were persistent and I was so drawn to it

I don't want to feel like this
Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever again
I don't want to feel like this
Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever again

You shouldn't stay, we'll never change
And I can't recognize you at all

Quiet Down lyrics - Circa Survive

Come between us, in our language, we stand up
Underneath it, buried deep inside your ancient walls
Replicate, many ways, destination melt away
Separate, and never say, transformation incomplete

How could I change? I'll never stay with you
And never stop regretting it
Search for my name, I'll never say sorry
An accident within itself
Stay within reach, the answers you seek, are everywhere
(Show me where)
You just have to quiet down
Lay back and know, the less that you show, beyond regret
The further you'll go

Just as the first words you spoke
Just as the fire, you burn out, oh
Circle the hearts that knew lies
The vision that haunts you in the night
Keep it inside

In our story you, have everything you want
Taste regret in all the faces we have seen before

Cut away, separate, destination self-destruct
Replicate, never say, all of it was just dumb luck

How could I change? I'll never stay with you
And never stop regretting it
Search for my name, I'll never say sorry
An accident within itself
Stay within reach, the answers you seek, are everywhere
(Show me where)
You just have to quiet down
Lay back and know, the less that you show, beyond regret
The further you'll go

Phantom lyrics - Circa Survive

On the edge
I don't know how it began
I feel the ghost
Of a dozen other men

I know the way you want it
I know which way you run home

I'm on the fence
I don't know which way to bend
With you

And I can't understand
How you wait for something you love
And I won't take a chance
I would rather be on my own
Than with you

Know the way that you speak to me
Like nothing could ever be understood
Know the way that you move around
Slithering on the ground
You shake over and over

And in my head
You're like a song that I could never identify
And all along you play
In continuous repeat
You're like a problem I could never rectify

And I can't understand
How you wait for something you love
And I won't take a chance
I would rather be on my own
Than with you

Sovereign Circles lyrics - Circa Survive

Take me away, I have no use for a bed
While you change everything
Falling to your knees, I can't feel sorry for you
Cause it's true, you're never there
Everything we are, starting to change before us
As you turn away, posture and grace, I love to watch you crawl

Keep me conjuring, cause you should be alive
You'll be out of it cause you live a lie
Alone

Sovereign circle around the end delay
We live in servitude and can't forgive ourselves
We took the Antabuse, I feel nothing, who's to know?

Take what you want, I have no use for a mirror
Cause it's clear, you never see
Reflections of light deep in the night
Are you sure? Cause you swore you never would
As you turn away, posture and grace, I love to watch you crawl

Sovereign circle around the end delay
We live in servitude and can't forgive ourselves
We took the Antabuse, I feel nothing, who's to know?

Let it shake, let it shake
Let it change, let it change

Descensus lyrics - Circa Survive

You have everything you could want
And you waste it
In a marriage where you can't decide
How to break it right

Ever changing the places you hide
(We will find)
An excuse in whatever you choose
(Let this die)

Trickle down your face, tears of pleasure
Mixed with tears of pain
They taste the same as everyone insisted
I won't let you go until the end

You have everything you could need
And you waste it
On a partnership that you hate
So you break it

Ever changing the places you hide
(We will fight)
An excuse in whatever you choose
(Let this die)

Trickle down your face, tears of pleasure
Mixed with tears of pain
They taste the same as everyone insisted
I won't let you go until the end

If you could try and get your timing right
I'll let you stay if you can eat the pain
Taking it's place, just let me disappear
If we forget, I'll do it all again
There is no home there when your heart is gone
The secret is clear if you could eat the fear
Where it can grow, no one will ever know
If you could try and get your timing right
Leave it alone
Look at how much it's grown
I'll be okay if I can sell the pain
Look and you'll see

If I didn't make all these mistakes then I wouldn't be losing
Wondering, openly, devilish, we've let it go too far
I know I let you down
Somehow we mustn't let this die

There isn't anything I ever wanted more

"Violent Waves" (2012)

Birth Of The Economic Hit Man lyrics - Circa Survive

Uprising within us,
A sense of total disillusion,
About what we're made of,
And where we want to be.
It's not so important to collect
As many things as we can, before our time is up

Our life is more than a side effect,
We must learn to be lost graciously.

We become everything we criticize
Light gives way shadows peel open our eyes,
Blinding us within.
Nothing is sacred, nothing is sacred,
(Oh) Nothing is sacred.

Maybe we have to
Forget everything we learned,
About where we came from,
To find out where we need to go
It's not so important to collect as many coins,
From the fountain before our time is up.

Our life is more than a side effect,
We must learn to be lost graciously

We become everything we criticize
Light gives way shadows peel open our eyes,
Blinding us within.
Nothing is sacred, Nothing is sacred,
(Oh) Nothing is sacred, (Oh) Nothing is sacred.

Nothing is sacred, not that it ever was,
Nothing is sacred, not that it ever was,
Nothing is sacred, not that it ever was,
Nothing is sacred, not that it ever was.

Our life is more than a side effect,
We must learn to be lost, lost.

Sharp Practice lyrics - Circa Survive

Tripping over things unsaid in a constant motion
I cannot recognize the truth ‘cause it’s unfamiliar
If you didn’t have so much left to prove, would there be resistance?

Kicking up this cloud of dust till it covers us
I had been there and done it a thousand times but never with my eyes open

You get what you paid for
We can’t sell our Goddamn souls anymore, anymore
Don’t let them give you the runaround again, again
It’s up to you to make sense of it. Yeah. Talk

No one hesitates to taste when they come and throw the feet down
If you wanna make haste, keep your feet on the ground
I see you coming from a million miles away like a stampede of footsteps

Kicking up this cloud of dust till it covers us
You can’t control what's happen to your heart
till you give it away - till you give it away

You get what you paid for
We can’t sell our Goddamn souls anymore, anymore
Don’t let them give you the runaround again, again
It’s up to you to make sense of it

So many words flooded in my vacant lie
So little space, too little sleep, too little time

Tripping over things unsaid in a constant motion
I cannot recognize the truth ‘cause I’ve never known it
I’ve never known it - I’ve never known it - known

You get what you paid for
We can’t sell our Goddamn souls anymore, anymore
Don’t let them give you the runaround again, again
It’s up to you to make sense of it

I see you coming from a million miles away
I see you coming from a million miles away

Suitcase lyrics - Circa Survive (feat. Rachel Minton of Zolof The Rock And Roll Destroyer)

I'm buried in your glow
Will you take me with you when you go?
I've been following your eyes
Going back and around and then subside

When you realize, when you realize my name
And suddenly your mood begins to change
Then you realize, then you realize I'm gone
I never said I want you to stay, to stay

I hear it in your cries, you dismantle my disguise

When you realize, when you realize my name
And suddenly your language starts to change
Then you realize, then you realize I'm gone
I never said I want you to stay, to stay
To stay, to stay

I'm buried in your glow
Will you take me with you when you go?
I've been following your eyes
Dismantle my disguise

When you realize, when you realize my name
And suddenly your mood begins to change
Then you realize, then you realize I'm gone
I never said I'd wait here for long

The Lottery lyrics - Circa Survive (feat. Geoff Rickly of Thursday)

It happened all in the passing of light
We won’t see it coming
I know that we’ll all lose in time
But my mind won’t stop running

Blame it on the air that you breathe
Well I can’t see how anything’s nursed on disease
Nothing is clean in this place
Our only hope is cutting off the nose to spite the face

Who’ll take the lottery?
Don’t look away
We’re the unlucky ones
I won’t let it tear us apart!
Who’ll take the lottery?
Don’t look away
We’re the unlucky ones
I won’t let it take you

This intrusion’s a functioning curse
Break the thumb and the whole hand will hurt
It’s not like moving backwards in time
It happened all in the passing of light

Blame it on the air that you breathe
Well I can’t see how anything’s nursed on disease
Nothing is clean in this place
Our only hope is cutting off the nose to spite the face

Who’ll take the lottery?
We’re the unlucky ones
I won’t let it tear us apart

Who’ll take the lottery?
Don’t look away
We’re the unlucky ones
I won’t let it take you
Who’ll take the lottery?
Don’t look away
We’re the unlucky ones
I won’t let it take you

My Only Friend lyrics - Circa Survive

Let fall upon his back
The consequence of giving
Up all that he has had
To anyone who listens
In hopes that you'll let him in
Pull back the curtains
And tied up the end
Cover the harmless in all the sheep's skin
I know who you are

He wont see your hand
Reaching out for him
Never understand
Have you been waiting so long?
I know, no one, ever, gets to control your love
So why fallow anyone?

Every word he says is a lie
No one ever knows the difference
Now he needs to prove it to himself
To anyone,
To anyone who listens

In hopes that you will relieve
Pull out your wallet and show sympathy
Tell him he's everything you wish you'd be
You know who you are
(You know who you are)

He won't see your hand
Reaching out for him
Never understand
Have you been waiting so long?
I know, no one, ever, gets to control your love
So why fallow anyone?
Why fallow anyone?

He won't see your hand
Reaching out for him
Never understand
Have you been waiting so long?
I know, no one, ever, gets to control your love
He won't understand
Have you been waiting for him?
Why fallow anyone?

Phantasmagoria lyrics - Circa Survive

When I found out about the Lord I wanted more
but I never could believe
That there was something that had so much love for us
That could sit and let us bleed to death

Then she showed me all her love
And I couldn't trust
My guard was already up.
Is the foundation of beliefs that have shaped my youth?
I found out that they weren't true
At all

God, money, and women will turn you mad
Always reaching for something that you can't have
God, money, and women will bring you down
Always searching for something that's not been found

Doesn't have to be something I can see
I don't know what to believe
Doesn't have to be something I can feel
I don't know what is real

You got no say in our lives
You got no say no
You got no say in our lives
You got no say no

God, money, and women will turn you mad
Always reaching out for something that you can't have
God, money, and women will break your heart
Crush your soul, and leave you empty, and torn apart

Think Of Me When They Sound lyrics - Circa Sirvive

How long will it take,
How long will you wait for me,
I don't want to bring you down,
Any more than I have,
I just want to think you've left,
And it means everything,
How long will you wait (we won't make it out)
I can't stand to feel this brave awake (we won't make it out)

Church bells,
Church bells,

How long will you wait (we won't make it out)
How long will you wait for me (we won't make it out)
How much can you take (we won't make it out)
How long will you wait for me, dear.

Brother Song lyrics - Circa Survive

Every body wants to see the worst in you,
Shadowed by the actions of the path you can't undo,
Who'll get, who'll get left behind,
Who'll get, who'll get left behind,

Oh there must be a way to understand the things you do,
Without getting too close to you,
Oh I can't find a reason why you wasted all our time,
Who'll get, who'll get left behind oh,

And I won't share your anger,
It doesn't do me any good to feel,
And we can't shape our feelings the right way,
Until we learn things won't ever change no,

Oh there must be a way to understand the things you say,
Without letting it get to me,
Oh I may never get used to getting locked out of your life,
Who'll get, who'll get out alive,

And I won't share your anger,
It doesn't do me any good to feel,
And we can't shape our feelings the right way,
Until we learn things won't ever change no oh oh oh oh

Bird Sounds lyrics - Circa Survive

It's so selfish to say "We won't be found out a lie."
I hope you have a good place to hide.
Someone will find you.
No one should have to live with this much stress,
killing yourself, trying to live. (And it remains)

And it remains the only meaningful mistake
but you won't let go, you don't know how to.
And every morning I begin my dreams when i'm awake
empty bird sounds are reminders
You're not awake at all.

In the most unusual of ways
It comes without summoning
You have no choice in it.
I don't think it's selfish to say
"This doesn't matter."
I can see it running through his veins
We're in the kingdom
(And it remains)

And it remains the only thing you can't explain
but you never know, it's better not to
And every morning there's a meaningful mistake
empty bird sounds, are reminders
You're not awake at all.

We must allow, we must allow to settle and stray
Now that I see, now that I see it run through your head

And it remains the only thing you can't explain
but you won't let go, you don't know how to.
And every morning there's a meaningful mistake
You're not awake at all
You're not awake at all.

Blood From A Stone lyrics - Circa Survive

Every moment I stand there and wait I recall
How you told me you don't care
It was there that you ruptured the seal in the wall
That time cannot repair

Letting it be what it is
It's impossible to know what you need
When you seem so emotionless

What'll bring you back to life?
Machine beware turn it back again

Just wanted to know every word that was said
So many were unclear
And I didn't notice if anything changed
Until you left me here

Setting it free with the wind
Seems impossible that we'd let it be what it is
So emotionless

What'll bring you back to life?
Machine beware turn it back again
What'll bring you back to life?
Machine beware turn it back again

Your stories never end
Our time is now suspended
I never feared man
So why won't you let me in this time?

What'll bring you back to life?
What'll bring you back?
I wanna bring you back

Your stories never end
Our time is now suspended
I never feared man
So why won't you let me in this time?

I'll Find A Way lyrics - Circa Survive

If you choose to see
Everyone is there for you to lose yourself
But nothing feels as good when you're alone
So never let it happen

Don't give into wild currents
Don't believe in callous rituals
I'll always want to carry it all, love
Find a way to carry it all for you

If you choose to make
Something so particular and force its shape
Then nothing feels as good as the mistake
When you let it happen

Don't give into wild currents
Oh, I never will
Don't believe in callous rituals
I'll always want to carry it all, love
Find a way to carry it all for you
I'll Want to carry it all, love
Find a way to carry it all for you

If you try and hide it
You will always feel alone
You will always feel alone

If you try to deny it
You will always feel alone
You will always feel alone

Oh Love
You'll take me to the end
I know you will
Oh Love
You'll tear out all your hair
I know you will

I'll always want to carry it all, love
Find a way to carry it all for you
I want to carry it all, love
Find a way to carry it all for you

EP: "Appendage" (2010)

Sleep Underground (Demo) lyrics - Circa Survive

You play that role for years
there's nothing else
But you don't need your ears
to listen to yourself
Don't talk back,
Keep your lips closed tight
Sleep underground tonight
Sleep underground tonight

If you were meant to save me
(Sleep underground tonight)
If you were meant to save me then I didn't realize til now

This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
Sleep underground tonight
Sleep underground tonight
This is just for you and I

Stare Like You'll Stay lyrics - Circa Survive

We believe to fully understand you
you must step inside
For all the reasons we can think to hate you
we want to make it right

Can't you see that everybody goes through the same thing
at different times
And all the ways that you can say we're different
you're wrong, we're alike

Just say you'll keep your eye on everyone

Take a last long look at where you are
Allowance received and I can't believe
there's anything like this
'Cause if you're half as good as you say you are
then you can prove it

Stare like you'll stay alive
if you stare like you're there

We believe to fully understand you
you must step inside
For all the reasons we can think to hate you
we want to make it right

Just say you'll keep your mind on everyone

Take a last long look at where you are
Allowance received and I can't believe
there's anything like this
'Cause if you're half as good as you say you are

Then you can prove anything to us
then you can show us how it's done
so we can show it to everyone
if you stay alive

Stare like you'll stay alive
if you stare like you're there

Stare like you'll stay alive
(we believe to fully understand you, you must step inside)
if you stare like you're there
(we believe to fully understand you, you must make it right)

Every Way lyrics - Circa Survive

I would find a different way to say
You're gonna have to change everything you've made
You're gonna have to reword every metaphor you'd use
So that people who are hearing aren't confused

If that's the most important thing you do
Detail every ounce of pain that you went through
Make sure you leave something down to show the way back
Make sure you leave something down to show the way back

Every way you wonder if you're wrong
Every way you wonder if you're wrong
Inaccurate and inprecise
There is no gift without a price

I'm so mistaken, lost my direction
My souls been shaken

I would find a different way to go
There's no signs in life to guide you on that road
And if it's the most important thing you'll say
Make sure they understand

Every way you wonder if you're wrong
Every way you wonder if you're wrong
Inaccurate and inprecise
There is no gift without a price

Every way you wonder if you're wrong
(I'm so mistaken)
Every way you wonder if you're wrong
(lost my direction)
Every way you wonder
Every way you wonder
(my soul's been shaken)
Every way you wonder if you're wrong
you are

Backmask lyrics - Circa Survive

Don't know why so much confusion
needs to be obsessed about
Under the mountain, the seeds depression
watch it disappear

Don't remind me again
It's already written

Distance always seems familiar
Nothing here can change without
listening carefully for your queue
to exchange the other lines

Late at night and call to us
building nesting in our skulls
so it can rest conveniently
conserving all the energy it takes
lower your head and take some
time to feel the sound
Surrender expectations
It's not just an explanation that we've found

Don't remind me again
It's already written
and nothing's only alive
it's already been given

Don't know why so much confusion
needs to be obsessed about
Under the mountain, the seeds depression
watch it disappear

Late at night and call to us
building nesting in our skulls
so it can rest conveniently
conserving all the energy it takes
lower your head and take some
time to feel the sound
Surrender expectations
It's not just an explanation that we've found

There's no need
There's no need to force it down
There's no need to force it down
I just need
I just need to make a sound
There's no need
There's no need to force it down
There's no need
I just want
I just want
I just wanna make a sound

There's no need
no need to force it down

Lazarus lyrics - Circa Survive

Anything that happened when I was young
it came so measly
now all of those things are haunting me
and nothing will calm

I won't be offended if no one sees
I just wanna know what that'll mean

When I'm alone I make believe that
I'm in a different time and place where
nobody wants to know my name
and no one will recognize my face

Anything that I did way back when
it seems so long ago
Might as well have all been by accident
I've nothing left to show

I wont be offended if no one stays
I'll just blame it all on my old age

When I'm alone I make believe that
I'm in a different time and place where
nobody wants to know my name and
no one will recognize my face

2am, I'm thinking about how lucky I've been
I need to take a moment to myself
6am, I'm thinking about how lonely I've been
I need to take a moment to myself

We are alone [repeat]

"Blue Sky Noise" (2010)

Strange Terrain lyrics - Circa Survive

We read the signs completely backwards
No one could see if we ended up where we needed to be
To find out how it all works with so many partners
And nobody wants nobody wants to sit behind the wheel, behind the wheel.

Whose the one pounding the gears avoiding the crowds keeping their ear to the ground ?
Oh Ive made a mistake I never learned how to get back to the place
Oh...

Where have all the signs gone ?
I don't know where I am without them.
Where have all the signs gone ?
I don't know where I am.

We made designs completely backwards
Nobody knows if were even close to where we need to go
To find out how it all works with so many artists
And nobody wants nobody wants to sit behind the wheel, behind the wheel.

Whose the one pounding the gears avoiding the crowds keeping their ear to the ground ?
Oh Ive made a mistake I never learned how to get back to the place
Where all our confidence kept is behind a shield only light can get through.
Where all our confidence kept is behind a shield only light can get through.

Where have all the signs gone ?
I don't know where I am without them.
Where have all the signs gone ?
I don't know where I am.

Get Out lyrics - Circa Survive

I can't get started from the part where I left off yesterday
Should've spent my time a little wiser
I sat alone guilty as sin waiting for words to come
From out of my head still making sense to anyone

I can't wait to understand the reason
I have yet to translate
Any meaning besides
It's not worth it to try

Get out [2x]

Lock myself up in a room without a window just to see
If it was any easier to breathe I was wrong
Never underestimate the daylight
There it's so much easier to breathe

Yeah!

I can't wait to understand the reason
I have yet to translate
Any meaning beside
It's not worth it to try

Get out [4x]

There's no meaning besides
It's not worth it to try

Get out [6x]

Glass Arrows lyrics - Circa Survive

Stay as still as
You think you should be
Your stolen memories
Will find you
In the last place
You would think to look
All the time that it took to locate
Maybe it'll just pass by you
Or rip right through your heart
Underneath the surface
We break apart

Disappeared from public places never seen again
How long has it been?
How long has it been?

Underneath the surface
None of us deserve this
Underneath the surface we break apart

Disappeared from public places never seen again
How long has it been?
How long has it been?

I don't want excuses
I don't want apologies

Disappeared from public places never seen again
How long has it been?
How long has it been?

I Felt Free lyrics - Circa Survive

Nothing new to say
Nothing to report 'cause the future happened yesterday

If I could tell the truth
I could make you stay
But forever seems so far away

I fell apart in your arms
For the last time
And I felt free to do what I want
Because of the things you told me,
Because of the things you told me, you told me
I felt free

You could be the end of me
Too many shades of gray
It's just another pointless game that we play

I couldn't tell the truth
I'll never make you stay
Because tomorrow always happens yesterday

I fell apart in your arms
For the last time
And I felt free to do what I want
Because of the things you told me
Because of the things you told me, you told me
I felt free

I felt free

I will learn to live again for now I'm breaking
All the things I couldn't mend without escaping
I will learn to love again
I will learn to love
I will learn

Imaginary Enemy lyrics - Circa Survive

You're so careless, careless
How did you get so ungrateful?
You treat me like I'm a disease,
Oh, and it's been killing me
Chances are, you never even cared at all
I'm sure that you had your reasons
But I'll never get to hear the truth
Disguised in all your alibis
It's a tradition, practiced,
every time you say goodbye

I've tried so hard
to be what you needed
Your imaginary enemy
I've tried for so long
to make you believe it
That I am not the enemy

Slipshod cavalier,
I can't stand to see those things that
You have taken for granted
Thrown away everything you've been handed
Too much all at once that's how you got so ungrateful
All you saw was the burden
Standing beside all your blessed truths
Disguised in all your alibis
It's a tradition, practiced,
every time you say goodbye

I've tried so hard
to be what you needed
Your imaginary enemy
I've tried for so long
to make you believe it
That I am not the enemy
Imaginary enemy

Oh, oh, oh, oh
Alright, yeah

I've tried so hard
to be what you needed
Your imaginary enemy
I've tried for so long
to make you believe it
That I am not the enemy
Imaginary enemy

Through The Desert Alone lyrics - Circa Survive

Sadly, I walk around this place on the shells of eggs
My shoulders are cold
I put it off for so long, I put it off
And know I've got to live with what I made
Forever

What was stolen from us
Now is forever lost
Just because we'll never pay the ransom
What was taken from me
I will never regain just because
We'll never pay the ransom

I'll become like the desert wind
And I'll drink all the gin
Shriveled up under desert lights
Eaten up in the night
I can't keep this up much longer without
Needing more from you
I need more

Wasted with the rhythm
Angry at the melody
How did you stay so sweet?
Cause you were my ally once
You were my confidante
I need somebody close
To be close to
Forever

What was stolen from us
Now is forever lost
Just because we'll never pay the ransom
What was taken from me
I will never regain
Just because we'll never pay the ransom
Just because we'll never pay the ransom

Frozen Creek lyrics - Circa Survive

Upon a pebble driveway
There sits a house
And it's the loneliest place
I haven't spent much time there,
It wasn't allowed,
It just didn't feel right

'Cause it's all built upon a burial ground,
It just doesn't feel right,
It just doesn't feel right

On top the frozen creek,
I would love to take you there
I swear it flows through me
On top the frozen creek

If I open both of my eyes,
I still see an empty space, so empty
But if I keep them closed
Then there's still a chance that something is out there

'Cause it's all built upon a burial ground,
It just doesn't feel right
It just doesn't feel right

On top the frozen creek,
I would love to take you there
I swear it flows through me
On top the frozen creek

I made a promise to you long ago
I'd do the best that I can
I'd try and keep it
I made a promise to you long ago
That I'd do anything to keep this home

On top the frozen creek,
I would love to take you there
I swear it flows through me
On top of the frozen creek

I would love to take you there

Fever Dreams lyrics - Circa Sirvive

Sinking into my awareness
Realizing what's been done
I've taken a life and mine for granted
Neither planned or in passion
Riddled with guilt and crazy panic
My body tells my mind to run
Into the forest towards the mother
Though I've destroyed her favorite son

All the things I should have done,
All the things I should have done

Execution style in the courtyard
Where everyone awake can witness
The cowardly shot into the temple
All because I lost my temper
Burn the evidence, flee the scene
Always keep those fingers clean
Devil eyes stare into mine
They say there is no place I can hide

Now I must compare the consequence
End my life or just confess
I won't last a minute in confinement
Either way I'm going to hell

All the things I should've done
Oh, oh, oh
All the things I should have done
Oh, oh, oh
Either way I'm going to hell
Either way I'm going to hell

All my life
Passing
Before my eyes
All the time
I was awake

You were alive and just arriving
I couldn't see your eyes
All that is love is ever lasting
I didn't realize

I was awake

Spirit Of The Stairwell lyrics - Circa Survive

Scratched out a note I wrote for you
To wake and read
To know that I was there once
I knew that there was nothing that I could write to assure you
Of my return
But all the paper said when I was done is
'do you still want me?'
Because I'd be terrified if I had to leave this place today
We haven't saved the baby

As I said
My darling
Spring is constantly calling me
And there's no place that I'd rather be

I won't be angry
If you have to leave,
But I won't be waiting
For that day
So don't say you're sorry because
I won't believe you

Didn't see a sticker on the door when we walked in
But I know it's going to cost us
The same amount of love it takes to get you through
But it never moves you
I'd be terrified if I had to leave this place today
It's where I threw my love away
Then we saw a different side of "Annie" nobody saw
She tried to kill the baby

And the earth and its skin will open up
And birth out a perfect mirror
That makes all our reflections clear

I won't be angry
If you have to leave,
But I won't be waiting
For that day
So don't say you're sorry because
I won't believe you

The Longest Mile lyrics - Circa Survive

You'll retire with some
Well deserved space that you needed years ago
It's not the same as if you pushed it away
Unescorted through the longest mile
Now that it's over

I have some regrets
But I can just forget them

I must admit now going down within this ship
I couldn't have a better crew to travel with
If I make it in one piece back to land
I will never sail again
Never

Peace and quiet
Start to interrupt,
Your life is not the same as you had hoped
Living up to all the things that you played down
If you don't get a hold of it, I wont be around
Now that it's over

I've made mistakes
It's all I have to learn from

I must admit now going down within this ship
I couldn't have a better crew to travel with
If I make it in one piece back to land
I will never sail again,
Never

Now that it's over

I can't help
But think that
We're coming to the end
If that is
The case then
I know we can't pretend
To never make a sound again
Never make a sound

Dyed In The Wool lyrics - Circa Survive

It's so sad for us
When we find ourselves
Giving away
And it's a shame for us
When we find ourselves
Going to waste
So throw away the love that we made.

(I know I know)
And nothing's going to change that hopeless feeling
I get when you say you'll understand and I know you can't

There's no reason to be here
We should pack up and leave
I have never felt that way before totally alone
There's no reason to leave
I have never seen you act that way before
Totally exposed.
As you throw away the love that we made

(I know I know)
And nothing's going to change that hopeless feeling
I get when you say you'll understand and I know you can't

The longer it takes the more it goes to waste
I want to believe you but I can't feel a thing
The more that you get the less you are

And nothing's going to change that helpless feeling
I get when you say you'll understand and I know you can't

"On Letting Go" (2007)

Living Together lyrics - Circa Survive

It starts out like a season in reverse
A way to set your mind above and over words
Attached means identity
Erases things so how can we record?

Distress call code-word is I wanna live
He makes it up as it goes, it goes away
To places he can only hide in other peoples minds
He makes it up as it goes
It goes away

Your rational mind's insane
Taste the sound you make
When the light from the sun
It's the story that never gets sold
When the light from the sun, it is your mother

Attached means identity
Erases things so why should we...

Distress call code-word is I wanna live
He makes it up as it goes, it goes away
To places he can only hide in other peoples minds
Uh, he makes it up as it goes

With an effortless smile you pervade to be
And in-between aisles
They would say you stare to see
With an effortless smile you pervade to be
Always in-between aisles
Optimistic daring me
would you trade your soul for gold?
Would you trade your soul?
Would you trade...

In The Morning And Amazing... lyrics - Circa Survive

Infinite silence
flowing right in with the dawn
This is wrong, this is wrong
And I cannot sleep without the radio on

And how could anyone
You are in my dreams
Half human, half machine
You with someone else that I have felt and seen
I cannot rest, or my consciousness contest
Looking right through the lens
From winter brings the spring again

Infinite silence
flowing right in with the dawn
This is wrong, this is wrong
And I cannot sleep without the radio on

And we fall asleep again with ties to mend
So please let the cleaning begin with evolution

Hold my breath 'til communication is
Only just a test
Hold my breath 'til communication is
Only just a test
Hold my breath 'til communication is
Only just a test

You are in my dreams
Half human, half machine
Looking right through the lens
From winter brings the spring again

Infinite silence
flowing right in with the dawn
This is wrong, this is wrong
And I cannot sleep without the radio on

Infinite silence
flowing right in with the dawn
This is wrong, this is wrong
And I cannot sleep without the radio

The Greatest Lie lyrics - Circa Survive

This building smelled so familiar
Well I had thought the sense was lost
And in a day dream I imagined my house
Where all my father's sense of strength was lost

It's all we have
It's all we have
So find me a place to begin

If I could get this feeling to end
Trembling idle hands holding me there
We laugh in the face of love
Cause nobody's really there
Nobody's real

Desire, I would try it either way
We believe in something invisible
The sense of smell that you use all your life
Well now you know your father lied

It's all we have
So find me a place to begin

If I could get this feeling to end
With trembling idle hands holding me there
We laugh in the face of love
Cause nobody's really there
Nobody's real

And I could never find my way without
But you're already there
And we, we've come a long long way without
Without maps in our hands

It's all we have
So find me a place to begin

If I could get this feeling to end
Trembling idle hands holding me there
We laugh in the face of love
Cause nobody's really there
Nobody's real

The Difference Between Medicine And Poison Is In The Dose lyrics - Circa Survive

Move one inch at a time.
Don't make shit rhyme.
Would it be easy to repeat the first line?
My mind's not a well;
It won't run dry.
Just keep drinking water and you'll be alright.
This is paralysis with no time at all to let go.

Well don't call me by my full name,
And all this is temporary.
It feels much better to know that you won't feel a thing.
Well don't talk about it;
Write it down but don't ask for help.
I can't be honest with even myself.
Did you ever wish you were somebody else?

Accomplishments are transient.
They pulled me in unremittingly.
Just lasting this long,
I feel relieved to let repetition save me.

Well don't call me by my full name,
And all this is temporary.
It feels much better to know that you won't feel a thing.
Well don't talk about it;
Write it down but don't ask for help.
I can't be honest with even myself.
Did you ever wish you were somebody else?

Move one inch at a time.
You'll be just fine.
Move one inch at a time.
You'll find...
They pulled me in but accomplishments are transient.
They pulled me in but accomplishments are transient.

Well don't call me by my full name,
And all this is temporary.
It feels much better to know that you won't feel a thing.
Well don't talk about it;
Write it down but don't ask for help.
I can't be honest with even myself.
Did you ever wish you were...
Did you ever wish you were...
Did you ever wish you were somebody else?

Mandala lyrics - Circa Survive

Dance with me for I'll be leaving soon.
Afterbirth on the keypads overwhelm
"Did he who make the lamb make thee?"
Help me find its origin.

In a cartoon house, in a cartoon car.
There are cities buried underneath our cities
"Let the people be free...let the people be free"
It's all around us.

Dance with me for I'll be leaving soon
Afterbirth on the keypads overwhelm
"Did he who make the lamb make thee?"
Help me find its origin.

In a cartoon house, in a cartoon car.
There are cities buried underneath our cities
"Let the people be free...let the people be free"
It's all around us, it's all around...
"Let the people be free...let the people see"

We so obviously had another hand and oh so separated
How do I act like I've made this when I... when I...
When I so obviously had another hand.

Dance with me for I'll be leaving soon
Afterbirth on the keypads overwhelm
"Did he who make the lamb make thee?"
What happens when we reach for each other?

Travel Hymn lyrics - Circa Survive

It came across like you were mad
Holding in your breath with everything you had
Until your face began to turn red
"This is why I turn and walk away from everything"
I need to feel it closer now.
"This is why I turn and walk away from everything"
I never thought it'd be like this

Between the seal a church is revealed.
And I would rather be...

Lonely along the way
Something set us off into the wrong direction
but within this particular space,
Time goes to waste.
Time goes to waste...
Time goes to waste...
Time goes...

It came across like you were mad,
Holding in your breath with everything you had...
Until your face began to turn red.

Between the seal a church is revealed
And I would rather be...

Lonely along the way
Something set us off into the wrong direction
but within this particular space...

Time starts to slow down
and all of these patterns never change.
So slow down,
'cause nobody looks at life the same.
And no one was like this 'til you came along
and reset our dials all wrong.

Lonely along the way
Something set us off into the wrong direction
but within this particular space,
Time goes to waste.

Lonely along the way
Something set us off into the wrong direction
but within this particular space,
Time goes to waste.

Semi-Constructive Criticism lyrics - Circa Survive

Leave out the meaning this time
Let tensions evolve
Intimate groove confused
In childish tantrums
Your feelings were sacrificed
For a greater cause,
and if you forget what you saw, you'll be forgiven.
But there isn't a chance...

That I could do this on my own.
Now our perceptions have grown.
Branches and petals of paper and metal.
Amber tinfoil forest confines us...
And we disconnect like this is the end
we disconnect like this is the end

For everybody else's sake
For everybody else's sake
Set your mental alarm
You think it's safe to rely on
(Let them sleep!)
But there isn't a chance...

That I could do this on my...
We do a childish dance.
Your feelings were sacrificed
For a greater cause,
and if you forget what you saw, you'll be forgiven.
But there isn't a chance...
But there isn't a chance...

For everybody else's sake
For everybody else's sake
Let tensions evolve
Intimate groove confused
In childish tantrums of youth
Let tensions evolve
Intimate groove confused
In childish like you always do

Set your mental alarm
If you think it's safe to rely on
If you think it's safe, for everybody else's sake

Kicking Your Crosses Down lyrics - Circa Survive

In case it gets away from us
Don't pull it close
The damage revealed the cost
And it wasn't worth it
But they'll never know
To keep in mind the line that separates idols
If the world is a dream and nothing is worth it
Unless you have a god

But we won't be saved
We'll live as slaves to love
What God takes away
Let's refill all your holes with mud
"Purchase your tickets; I'm kicking your crosses down"

In case it gets away from us
Don't pull it close
The damage revealed the cost
And it wasn't worth it
We're all going to hell

But we won't be saved
We'll live as slaves to love
What God takes away
Let's refill all your holes with mud
"Purchase your tickets; I'm kicking your crosses down"

And all the voices sound just like you
I'll be there, I'll be there
Breathe in, breathe in
It's been so long, I've felt so wrong again

I fixed myself up nice but you never came
The words rolled off our backs and sound the same
I'll be waiting, I'll be waiting
I hope that it's worth it but I'll never know

On Letting Go lyrics - Circa Survive

For your futures sake
I've got advice I'd advise you to take
Don't keep betting
"Well, it's gotta light me up sometime"
You lost your turn
You lost your turn

"All I wanted to be was one of your children
And all I wanted to be was one of yours"

See how clean the water is where you are
Wash off your handcuffs
And know the hidden messages you hear
They aren't real.
You tricked your mind to feel
You tricked your mind to feel
You tricked your mind...

"All I wanted to be was one of your children
And all I wanted to be was one of yours"

Are we even now, are we even now?
We are unrelated, we are unrelated
[x2]

If blood is thicker than water
Then you'll drown quicker than we intended
If blood is thicker than water
And you'll know where you can find us in the end

So we can begin again
So we can begin
[x2]

"All I wanted to be was one of your children
And all I wanted to be was one of yours"

Carry Us Away lyrics - Circa Survive

This is not a riddle
But it's meant to entertain.
I'll be your loyal Apostle
Just send me in to take the blame.

Well what would you expect to say?
It never mattered anyway

There'll be a site and an invisible light
Shown down on them and took them in
There'll be a time when maybe tonight
Temptations win and I give in

This is not a puzzle or mainframe
But it's meant to strengthen your faith
And each time the night falls upon us
We always end up the same

Well what would you expect to say?
It never mattered anyway

There'll be a site and an invisible light
Shown down on them and took them in
There'll be a time when maybe tonight
Temptations win and I give in

Were we not born into original sin?
What you ask for is what you get
And what you were given
So fold your hands and get down on your knees

There'll be a site and an invisible light
Shown down on them and took them in
There'll be a time when maybe tonight
Temptations win and I give in

Close Your Eyes To See lyrics - Circa Survive

If you pass away in the wing fortress
There's a time divider and a technical team will be
At your services for what that matters
When the mirror shatters it's harder for me to see

If there are any answers here we haven't searched for
Just type in your code and say a prayer
How could it be, we were so secure?
Cause nothing you've ever planned on
Ever turned out the way you planned

What I tried to say this couldn't feel more wrong
I can't believe its happening or lasting this long
If we know each other then why should it be so hard?
Why should it be so hard to make it stop?

If there are any answers here we haven't searched for
Just type in your code and say a prayer
How could it be, we were so secure?
Cause nothing you've ever planned on
Ever turned out the way you planned

What I tried to say this isn't real
And I feel ashamed that I don't think that I can heal

It's a shame that I would pretend
Before making amends
It's a shame that I can't
But nothing you've ever planned on
Ever turned out
But nothing you've ever planned on
Ever turned out the way you planned
You're still disappointing them
You're still disappointing
You're still disappointing them

If there are any answers here we haven't searched for
Just type in your code and say a prayer
How could it be, we were so secure?
Nothing you've ever planned on
Ever turned out the way you planned

Your Friends Are Gone lyrics - Circa Survive

(All your friends are gone)

It climbs in slowly behind
If you trust your neighbors
They'd never suspect what you're like
Welcome them into your life
No one has to know
Playback, delete, and rewind

It's getting closer than you thought it'd get
Just get inside
It's moving faster than you'd ever planned
You'll be relieved when

When you open up
You let yourself seem vulnerable
And the morning sun
Will make our bodies comfortable
In taking off your clothes
Everything hidden is suddenly exposed

Nobody wants to hear another
Story about how you couldn't write right
It climbs in slowly behind
No one has to know
Playback, delete, and rewind

Each one is louder than the one before
And the people you care for
At ten times the expense
of all that you spent
You'll be relieved when

When you open up
You let yourself seem vulnerable
And the morning sun
Will make our bodies comfortable
In taking off your clothes
Everything hidden is suddenly exposed

You'll keep it on the inside
'Cause that's the safest place
'Cause that's the safest place to hide

All of your friends are gone
And you were barely holding on
We were wrong and they fooled us once again
We are the loneliest of men, we're the loneliest

And all your friends are gone
Nobody hears you
And all your friends were wrong
Nobody cares
And all your friends are gone
Nobody is here with you
And all your friends were wrong
Nobody cares

"Juturna" (2005)




Holding Someone's Hair Back lyrics - Circa Survive

Don't say a word, don't be grateful if I ever made you laugh.
Let's make believe what's at stake here's more than just your reputation.
She's got the photos but no recollection.
He's got the motive but no transportation.
Purely courteous across my chest.
Are you cutting me out now, after crawling inside?

Turn away your head.
What do I deserve, what do I deserve instead?
It's a surprise you haven't caught on yet.
It's nothing personal, you're an embarrassment.
Don't cut me out.

We're offering nothing but the best accommodations.
Just tell us who you are, just tell us who you are.
We're offering nothing but the best accommodations.
Just tell us who you are, just tell us who you are.

Turn away your head.
What do I deserve, what do I deserve instead?
It's a surprise you haven't caught on yet.
It's nothing personal, you're an embarrassment.
Don't cut me out.

It's a surprise you haven't caught on yet.
It's nothing personal, you're an embarrassment.
Don't cut me out.

Wish Resign lyrics - Circa Survive

Alter and teach the ages.
Nothing you love lasts too long.
A marvelous calm, abandoned in the stages of
birth mother vs. the mid wife.
Who'll tell the children about her life?

That's why you never mentioned my name to them,
denying us all of the moment.
That's why you never mentioned my name to them,
denying us all of the moment.

What brought you back to this place?
I knew you'd never learn,
I knew you'd never...
Anything expected of you now,
I knew you'd never learn,
I knew you'd never...

I'd place my bet down now, you'll be the first one to sell me out

That's why you never mentioned my name to them,
denying us all of the moment.
That's why you never mentioned my name to them,
denying us all of the moment.

What brought you back to this place?
I knew you'd never learn,
I knew you'd never...
What brought you back to this place?
I knew you'd never learn, it's obvious.
What brought you back to this place?
What brought you back to this place?

The Glorious Nosebleed lyrics - Circa Survive

Forced, we forced feeding you lines, feeding you.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.

I know what it feels like
giving into something you don't understand

Forced, we forced feeding you lines, feeding you.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.

Walk into the light,
giving into something you don't understand.
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before...
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before impact.

Calcium waste, litter and falling like icicles.
Calcium waste, litter and falling like icicles.
Guess who's next?
You're just as guilty as them.

Forced, we forced feeding you lines, feeding you.
Look how high I'm jumping from, you'll never make it.
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before...
This sort of thing gets you out of mind right before impact.

In Fear And Faith lyrics - Circa Survive

Can we last through the winter?
The water's starting to freeze.
The only one who remembers
Taking the wrong step, falling in front of me.
This body's already aging.
These nights are all ready long.
And if I last through the winter,
I swear to you now, I won't call.

Congratulations, go home now.

Will we last through the winter?
Will we make it to see?
I never wanted a partner and I never loved you,
Now you are free to leave.
This heart is already frozen,
I can't remember the fall.
And if I last through the winter,
I swear to you now, I won't call.

Congratulations, go home now.

It's too late, it's too late, they won't let go.
Follow five footsteps through that open door, open door.
It's too late, it's too late, they won't let go.
Follow five footsteps through that open door, open door.

It must be buried under the heart
That makes this pace consistent.
You'll find it torn, that gate's been opened?
I've been wondering if you've been real with us.

It's too late
It's too late, it's too late, they won't let go.
Follow five footsteps through that open door, open door.
It's too late, it's too late, they won't let go.
Follow five footsteps through that open door, open door.

It's start, stop and go you've been dying for, you've been dying for.

Stop The Fucking Car lyrics - Circa Survive

Don't be alarmed, I feel we're falling back to ground.
Don't be afraid, I hear in every word they say,
That even if you don't look back, be sure and find out who was there,
And what they wore, and ten more reasons.
Don't be alarmed, I feel we're falling back to ground

Your face is light and cocaine white.
Your face is light and cocaine white.

Misleading at most, I'm supposed to imposter a new you (imposter a new you).
And even if you're woken up, make contact both at once.
We've made mistakes like this.
And I'm just learning.
And I'm just learning.
Your face is white in spinning lights.

Spinning lights, don't be scared.
You have given so much more
Spinning lights, take me there.
He has risen, pull me under.

Don't stop talking to me, I haven't been listening.
Don't stop talking to me, I haven't been listening.
This operation's been abandoned once again.
This operation's been abandoned once again.

Cut me gently, cut me out of mind.
Cut me gently, cut me out...
Cut me gently, cut me out of mind.
Cut me gently, cut me out of mind.

Spinning lights, don't be scared.
You have given so much more
Spinning lights, take me there.
He has risen, pull me under.

Don't stop talking to me, I haven't been listening.
Don't stop talking to me, I haven't been listening.
This operation's been abandoned once again.
This operation's been abandoned once again.

Cut me gently, cut me out...
Cut me gently, cut me out of mind.

We're All Thieves lyrics - Circa Survive

Lost in a haunting thought, spinning me around once more.
I wake just to feel the way as the daylights comes around,
I turn with my eyes are on the backdoor.

Your face is light and cocaine white.
One message beating through.

Smoke's filled the air and I'm struggling to breathe.
Let them be calm, so I finally can sleep.
Everything you intended to say,
Don't go back on your words.
You always said you'd tell me first.

Verse after endless verse, I can't escape the echoed words.
I long to find a cure for the feeling I find in these chords.
I smile as it burns.

Your face is light and cocaine white.
One message beating through.

I've been erased.
I've been erased from the picture.
Excuse, oh no, anything goes.
Excuses, you know it doesn't work.
Excuse, oh no, anything goes.
Excuses don't work.
Excuse me, this will calls out desperate end.
Excuse me, this will calls out desperate:

Smoke's filled the air and I'm struggling to breathe.
Let them be calm, so I finally can sleep.
Everything you intended to say,
Don't go back on your words.
You always said you'd tell me first.
Smoke's filled the air and m struggling to breathe.
Let them be calm, so I finally can sleep.

Oh, Hello lyrics - Circa Survive

Didn't I know you, mystery man?
Strange as all new thoughts on impotence.

All I want are windows
It wouldn't be the first time.

Didn't I, didn't I know you?
Didn't I, didn't I know you, didn't I know you?
All along, all we've been given is the ugliest tidings.
All along, we've been a mess.
Now quick dilation is the only chance we have left.

A stranger's just someone that you've forgotten.
How will we know if we've met before or done this dance,
Mystery man?

Didn't I, didn't I know you?
Didn't I, didn't I know you, didn't I know you?
All along, all we've been given is the ugliest tidings.
All along, we've been a mess.
Now quick dilation is the only chance we have left.

Always Getting What You Want lyrics - Circa Survive

Borders that we say are policing you back to their arms.
Tension to take, pills that'll make you feel higher inside.

Do you often look back on us, feeling confidently?
Would it make any difference if I wasn't late,
Or I'd been too angry to show?

The sovereign statement's wrong.
It's a bylaw and a valiant one
To honor hopeful thoughts.
It's the talent, not the promo shots

Story has shown you all felt alone.
Story has shown you all felt alone.
Even if... if the sound it makes when it's tightening,
Sweet winding up of a mandolin hurts your fingers

And you try to hold on but it's not quite working.
This reminds me of the sound you make when we disagree.

Story has shown you all felt alone.
Story has shown you all felt alone.
Even if you've been so close you're not alone anymore,
Still we grow.
Still we grow.
Even if it reminds the sounds you always used to make.

Meet Me In Montauk lyrics - Circa Survive

Leave just as you came (without a sound),
Nothing to ruffle your ends.

I've been wandering around,
Making up movies in my head
So we say don't let it go,
let me try and pull out pride.
I already forget how I used to feel about you

Leave as fast you came, no invitation
Nowhere to go from here.

I've been wandering around,
Wondering how I got so, got so, so fucking boring
All the sudden, so fucking scared... I'm not scared.
You'd mean so much more to me if I remembered.

House Of Leaves lyrics - Circa Survive

Hey now, overcome your concern about the weather
And whether or not I'm still alive
Check the vital signs
So soft spoken and shy
Never gets high anymore
Did you poison my food, forgive me I've paranoid flu

I've been lying wide awake paralyzed by the buzzing of the television
These modern things we know, getting you off
These modern things we know, getting you off

Haunting us, these different meanings and spectral beings.
We're fighting sleep with broken, rusted weaponry.
Sing so softly and low, like you want me to hear.
Stolen what you can't afford,
What's that muffle beating for?

I've been lying wide awake paralyzed by the buzzing of the television
These modern things we know, getting you off
These modern things we know, getting you off

Something I could never say, speak so softly and low.
Something I could never say.
(Yltfos os kaeps) ["speak so softly" backwards]
Something I could never say.
(Yltfos os kaeps)
Something I could never say.
(Yltfos os kaeps.)
(Speak so softly and low.)
Something I could never say, speak so softly and low.
(Speak so softly.)
(Yltfos os kaeps.)
If you love me let me go.
(Stolen what you can't...)
Speak so softly.
(Speak so softly.)
(Stolen what you can't afford, what's that muffle beat...)
(Yltfos os kaeps.)
(Speak so softly.)
(Something I can never say. Speak so softly and low.)
(Speak so... softly.)
(Yltfos os kaeps. Yltfos os kaeps. Yltfos.)

EP: "The Inuit Sessions" (2005)

Act Appalled lyrics - Circa Survive

You walk straight, not like them.
To fool them in, make it seem like you're in trouble.
Make a sound, fake it enough.

"What made you so scared?"
Maybe you're mistaken for someone who cares.

If you remember, remember,
I've been trying to get back to the center.
I'm sure it's not like it was before.

To make them drink, tell them that it's only water
No one leaves 'till we figure this out

"What made you so scared?"
Maybe you're mistaken for someone who cares.

If you remember, remember,
I've been trying to get back to the center.
I'm sure it's not like it was before.

Patience,
Both we and our words are over produced by influence.
By influence.
Patience (patience),
Both we and our words are over produced by influence (by influence),
By influence (by influence).

I'm only asking:
If you remember, remember,
I've been trying to get back to the center.
I'm sure it's not like it was...

The Great Golden Baby lyrics - Circa Survive

Make your move, obvious humor,
desperate and respiratory plight.
Always on, dressed to impress,
I'll be the last one to find out why.

Time takes its toll on us (this changes everything).
I'd be a liar if I denied you at all.
Oh, now that I know,
This changes everything.

I've been trading ideas with intriguing men, and I...
I perceive an honest solution to all of your pride

Time takes its toll on us (this changes everything).
I'd be a liar if I denied you at all.
Oh, now that I know,
This changes everything.
Oh, now that I know...
Oh, now that I know...

And the amplifier screams out loud for the last time.
Wave your hands at the audience as you sink on in.
First chance to hide, you need desperately so, find me, so.

Motion gives up on you in the end.
I'll try my best to be home by then.
You'll see the grace we had,
She'll never have,
You'll never have.

I'm going home but my own way.
I'm going home by my own...
I'm going home but my own way.
I'm going home by my own..

I would really love if you'd sit him down.
I would really love if you'd sit him down.
I would really love if you'd pull this thread.
I would really love if you'd pull this thread.
I would really love if you'd sit him down.
I would really love if you'd sit him down.
I would really love if you'd pull this thread
I would really love if you'd pull this thread

Suspending Disbelief lyrics - Circa Survive

Twilight army,
Coming home.
Armor made of stone.
He who recollects, forgive us.
He who recollects, forgive us.
On the way down, we understand what it means to break down.
On the way out you decide you believe that on the way out its too late.
It's the same.
All lines you all used to know,
It's the same.
All lines you all used to know.
Trembling with no limbs, crow skin; a perpetual startled breed.
The ache, no one to fight
The writing was still traced and shy and never really aimed to show you.
We understand what it means to break down.
On the way out you decide you believe that on the way out its too late.
All lines you all used to know,
It's the same.
All lines you all used to know.
Still watching you rolling on what's good for
Mistaken but you were always once before you know.
We understand what it means to break down.
And on the way out you decide you believe that on the way out its too late.
It's the same.
All lines you all used to know,
It's the same.
All lines you all used to know.

Handshakes At Sunrise lyrics - Circa Survive

Arrive
Open your eyes
I'm freeing you
Take the time for passers by
To meet with you
We want it all
My friend I'm afraid that I've lost forever

The scream within the misteaching of a metaphor
Breathing out the lie (I've been fooled)

We wont stop until the dawn has
Given its all to you
A warm appraisal hides
Behind an audience member(remembering)
The last thing I want (freeing us all)

Who are replacing us...
[x4]

We wont stop until the dawn has
Given its all to you

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1,000 Witnesses lyrics - Circa Survive

Don't aim without a target.
Where will we end up?

Don't tamper with the compass dial.
Where will it take us?

We're running back to the start.
Feels like its over.

Don't aim with out a target.
Where will we end up?

Where a fountain to fall from the sky.
There'd be a thousand witnesses.

But the crowd hears screams.
We don't see a thing.
Our eyes are open.

Are we looking the right way?
Cause we don't see a thing.
Our minds are open.
There'd be a thousand witnesses
There'd be a thousand witnesses

Stay in place.
Use it right.
It was an anchor.
Pour concrete on the roots.
Just to make sure.
Just to make sure you'd never move.

If a fountain did fall from the sky there would be a thousand witnesses.
Our eyes are open.
Were running back to the start it feels like its over.
Were running back to the start.
It feels like.

It was an anchor
Pour concrete on the roots.
Just to make sure.
Just to make sure you'd never move.

Battle, My Love lyrics - Circa Survive

I know what you said
And I've been torn apart since the day you left,
And I don't think I can
Do it again,

Too much in my own head,
I'm totally obsessed with the shit you said,
And I don't think I can
Do it again,

Battle, my Love
I will see you in the end,
Carry my heart with you always,

How much should I take
When everything you made you will someday break,
And I don't think I can
Build it again,

Too much in my own head,
And I've been torn apart since the day you left,
And I don't think I can
Do it again,

Battle, my Love
I will see you in the end,
Carry my heart with you always,

I know what you meant
And I've been torn apart since the day you left,
And I don't think I can
Do it again,

Too much in my own head
I'm totally obsessed with the shit you said
And I don't think I can
Do it again

Julian lyrics - Circa Survive

who left the lights on julian?
make promises, broke them enough for being said.
who left the lights on julian?
they come, waking the whole house up.
you've been longing for....wake them up.
you've been longing for being too honest,
aiming without a cause.
who left the lights on julian?
make promises, broke them enough.
who left the lights on julian?
i'll be wrong waking the whole house up.

Miracle Sun lyrics - Circa Survive

Where do you go,when it gets dark?
And is there room for me there?
How long will it take you to wake up?
Before you go will you wake me?

Or I'll sleep all day

Miracle sun
Stay with me tonight
We don't wanna be without you
We'll come along so
Save a place for us
We don't wanna be left alone

Where do you go,when it gets dark?
And is there room for me there?
How long will it take you to wake up?
Before you go will you wake me?

Or I'll sleep all day
Miss everything

Miracle sun
Stay with me tonight
We don't wanna be without you
We'll come along so
Save a place for us
We don't wanna be left alone

Miracle sun
Stay with me tonight
We don't wanna be without you
We'll come along so
Save a place for us
We don't wanna be left alone

Sleep On The Ground lyrics - Circa Survive

You played that role for years
There's nothing else
But you don't need your ears
To listen to yourself
Don't talk then
Keep your lips closed tight
Sleep underground tonight
Sleep underground tonight
If you were meant to save me
If you were meant to save me
Then I didn't realize til now
This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
This is just for you and I alone
Sleep underground tonight
Sleep underground tonight
Sleep underground tonight
This is just for you and I...

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