Top 10 The Menzingers Songs

Yeah!
Last Friday night I wasn't me
I was a still life trapped in eternity
I was the focal point; out of focus, out of ink

And I've been wandering nightly
Through the garden of your heartache
Always making a mess, always stumbling out the door

But I don't wanna be an asshole anymore

Baby, baby I'll be good to you
I don't wanna be an asshole anymore
Baby, baby I'll be good to you
Baby, baby I'll be good to you

Another night, I devoured the sun
And plunged myself into the depths of oblivion
Yeah somewhere along the way I found why
It feels damn good just to bleed sometimes
All I ever wanted was to make things right
The years of idleness and spite
Have pushed my emotions off a bridge
After taking them hostage with a shotgun

Now they're somewhere treading water
Somewhere lost inside the man that I'm not
But I don't wanna be an asshole anymore

Baby, baby I'll be good to you
I don't wanna be an asshole anymore
Baby, baby I'll be good to you
I'll be good to you
I'll be good, I'll be good, I'll be good

I won't lie no more
About where I've been
And I won't pry no more
Over the people that you're hanging with
You're the only lover that I ever missed
Ever been hopelessly in love with
Look at this tangle of thorns
I don't wanna be an asshole anymore

Yeah, I don't wanna be an asshole anymore
Oh no, no, no

My girl she's a good one,
she's always on my mind,
she is a rose and I am a stone,
she's always poking her head out
and striking a pose,
I'm always plucking her petals,
and some nights we fall out of love,
some nights I sleep in her arms,
some nights I sleep on the couch.

Well I spent that night in our past life,
wringing out the years from our shoes,
in the distance yo lived with my signature
penned on a treaty that kept our armies at rest,
but I was a pushy little one,
when you tried to find someone new,
I just kind of waited around for you,
because what else was I suppose to do?

I know where your heartache exists,
it's when you are alone and when you're around me.

I saw it in your face the day we parked your car
on the shoulder by the reservoir,
and in my mouth my words did hide
for fear of being recognized.

I know where your heartache exists
Its when you are alone and when you're around me
I know where your heartache exists
Its when you are alone and when you're around me

I know where your heartache exists

Lost in a picture frame
The way our bodies used to behave
The way they smiled in the moment
Before they permanently froze
But that was the old me and you
When we were both lookers

Lost in a picture frame
The way my body used to behave
The way it smiled in the moment
Before it permanently froze
But that was the old me
I was such a looker in the old days

You little Kerouac
Always running like Dean and Sal
Always waiting on a freight train
Always looking for a story to tell
But that was the old you
You were such a looker in the old days

Yeah we were both lookers

Sha la la la Jersey girls
Are always total heartbreakers
Julie from the Wonder Bar
I still wonder where you are
Cause I know the old you
And you know the old me

I was certain that I'd find her
In the back of the diner
In a cloud full of nicotine
In a teenage memory
That I hold till eternity
Cause the future ain't coming for it

Yeah we were both lookers

Sha la la la Jersey girls
Are always total heartbreakers
Julie from the Wonder Bar
I still wonder where you are
Oh, sha la la la Jersey girls
Are always total heartbreakers
Julie from the Wonder Bar
I still wonder where you are
Cause I know the old you
And you know the old me
When we were both lookers

In a 5" by 8" black and white
On the nightstand of my mind
From a time I hardly recognize

Sha la la la Jersey girls
Are always total heartbreakers
Julie from the Wonder Bar
I still wonder where you are
Oh, sha la la la Jersey girls
Are always total heartbreakers
Julie from the Wonder Bar
I still wonder where you are
Cause I know the old you
And you know the old me
When we were both lookers

We should have never thought that we could get stoned
And drive around with just a half a pack of smokes
A bottle of clear eyes, an appetite, we were
Pillaging the Turkey Hill on Main Ave in West Side

Wouldn't you guess the only thing we had to fear would be
Flashing their lights in our rear view mirror
This time they got us it's all over now,
You were praying Hail Mary's for an escape route.

But thank God for your father's last name
And all the connections that he's made
To everyone you're such a sweet church girl,
But I know your secret.

Bad Catholics weren't we darling?
Always dipping out before communion started.
Bad Catholics weren't we darling?
Always dipping out before communion started.

Another summer and another church picnic,
I watch a mother run around in a panic
Chasing her kid with his orange soda mustache,
While his fathers by the gambling wheel

There I saw you in the beer tent hanging
With your new husband and your baby on the way
Oh it's kinda strange how it made me miss something,
Long lost in the both of us now.

You thanked God that I found my way
And introduced me to oh what's his name
To everyone you're such a sweet church girl,
But I know your secret, yeah I know your secret.

Bad Catholics weren't we darling?
Always dipping out before communion started.
Bad Catholics weren't we darling?
Always dipping out before communion started.
Bad Catholics weren't we darling?
Always dipping out before communion started.
Bad Catholics weren't we darling?
Always dipping out before communion started

It's the little things my mind commits
To etch behind my eyelids
Like getting stoned when we wake up
Coffee grounds in coffee cups
Your silhouette in high top sneakers
And hardcore from laptop speakers
The classics to the more obscure
From Minor Threat to your old roommate's band

Like a kaleidoscope in vibrant hues
I navigate 'round your tattoos
Said you got that one on a whim
When you were breaking up with him
And that Matryoshka Russian doll
That lines your shelf from big to small
What a way to start anew
To shed your skin and find the old you

Everybody wants to get famous
But you just want to dance in a basement
You don't care if anyone is watching
Just as long as you stay in motion
We put miles on these old jean jackets
Got caught up in the drunk conversations
But after the party, it's me and you
After the party, it's me and you

With a new outlook on everything we see
From high up on this rooftop over South Philly
To the nights we lose all self control
From the sex, from the drugs, from the rock and roll

Everybody wants to get famous
But you just want to dance in a basement
You don't care if anyone is watching
Just as long as you stay in motion
We put miles on these old jean jackets
Got caught up in the drunk conversations
But after the party, it's me and you
After the party, it's me and you
After the party, it's me and you
After the party, it's me and you

On the lonely end of history
Swingin' and swayin' to the murder mystery
Rhyme and reason fled the crime scene
Of new penthouses next to tents in the streets

Oh, how do I steer my early 30's
Before I shipwreck, before im 40
Oh, ain't it a shame what we choose to ignore
What kind of monsters did our parents vote for?

Lately I feel like I'm in puppet vichy, france tryin' to teach the devil how to dance

To these sing-alongs of siren songs
To ooh's to ahh's
To big applause
With all of my anger I scream and shout
America, I love you but you're freaking me out
Ooh-oh-oh-oh
Ooh-oh-oh-oh
Ooh-oh-oh-oh
Ooh-oh-oh-oh

Driving through the Bible Belt
Billboards claiming how Jesus felt
Oh, how'd his words confuse themselves?
With cranks for christians in powerful positions

I've always felt like all their pomp and circumstance is just cover for the devil to dance

To these sing-alongs of siren songs
To ooh's to ahh's
To big applause
With all of my anger I scream and shout
America, I love you but you're freaking me out

America, you're freaking me out
With all my anger I shout
Can't you recognize truth from clever lies?

To these sing-alongs of siren songs
To ooh's to ahh's
To big applause
With all of my anger I scream and shout
America, I love you but you're freaking me out

To these sing-alongs of siren songs
To ooh's to ahh's
To big applause
With all of my anger I scream and shout
America, I love you but you're freaking me out
Ooh-oh-oh-oh
Ooh-oh-oh-oh
Ooh-oh-oh-oh
Ooh-oh-oh-oh

My inner monologue is writing
S.O.S on deserted islands
And there's no one out there to read the signs
Just distant oceans and great blue skies

But my miserable memory is making me more miserable
My mundane mind is waiting on some kind of miracle

Maybe it's for the better we both stay strangers forever
Maybe it's for the best we pretend like we never met
Forget everything that we've ever known
Maybe it's for the better we both stay strangers forever

Strangers forever
Strangers forever
Strangers forever

Well I built a raft out of total desperation
And I got kidnapped by a pirate nation
Now somewhere out there I ramble and roar
You wouldn't recognize me anymore

But if I come into your periphery
Please just act like you don't see me
Out here looking for a glimpse of shore
A mirage of the life that we had before

Maybe it's for the better we both stay strangers forever
Maybe it's for the best we pretend like we never met
Forget everything that we've ever known
Maybe it's for the better we both stay strangers forever

Strangers forever
Strangers forever
Strangers forever
Strangers forever
Strangers forever
Strangers forever
Strangers forever

What's it gonna take to fix me up?
I don't want your London drugs
Every time I'm with you I take too much
I don't want your London drugs
Every once in a while when I'm in denial
I wind up doing something I don't want to do
What's it gonna take to fix me up?
I don't want your London drugs

On a rainy night in SoHo
The wind was whistling all its charms
I think we overstayed our welcome
They're giving us the look at the argyle arms
You happened to notice my anxious commotion
As my heart bled through my shirt
I've been a little heavy handed keeping it at work

What's it gonna take to fix me up?
I don't want your London drugs
Every time I'm with you I take too much
I don't want your London drugs
Every once in a while when I'm in denial
I wind up doing something I don't want to do
What's it gonna take to fix me up?
I don't want your London drugs

My anxiety can sleep easy
The show was everything I hoped it would be
And now we're sitting in the back of the theater
Binging everything that's left to drink
'Cause in a moment it's over
The high and the thrill
Then I'm leaving here so unfulfilled
Well if I don't change now I never will

What's it gonna take to fix me up?
I don't want your London drugs
Every time I'm with you I take too much
I don't want your London drugs
Every once in a while when I'm in denial
I wind up doing something I don't want to do
What's it gonna take to fix me up?
I don't want your London drugs

What's it gonna take to fix me up?
I don't want your London drugs
'Cause every time I'm with you I take too much
I don't want your London drugs
What's it gonna take to fix me up?
I don't want your London drugs

PA turnpike, northbound on a dark night
Driving into Scranton for a difficult occasion
When you first got your license we were nowhere to be found
I was just a little kid back then but you let me hang around
But we're older now

Farewell youth, I'm afraid I hardly got to know you
I was always hanging out with the older kids
Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what
I was always hanging out with the older kids

The grief starts when bumping into friends turned acquaintances
We stumble around the small talk
We break the silence with Jameson
But once we were inseparable
We were the only punks in town
We spent every weekend raisin' hell in the basement of your parents house
But we're older now

Farewell youth, I'm afraid I hardly got to know you
I was always hanging out with the older kids
Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what
I was always hanging out with the older kids

In someone's apartment, getting fucked up
To all our favorite records, drinking the cheap stuff
We couldn't get enough of growing up
I saw my childhood flash before me in the death of your closed eyes
At your Irish wake we celebrate by trying not to cry

Farewell youth, I'm afraid I hardly got to know you
I was always hanging out with the older kids
Always in a rush, but I was never sure from what
I was always hanging out with the older kids

Farewell youth
Farewell youth
Farewell youth, I'm afraid I hardly got to know you
Farewell youth
Farewell youth
Farewell youth, I'm afraid I hardly got to know you
Because I was always hanging out with the older kids

When I get home, I'm not talking to anyone
When I get home, I'm unplugging my telephone
When I get home, I'll get high alone

When I get home, I'm not talking to anyone
When I get home, I'm unplugging my telephone
When I get home, I'll get high alone

And I'm going down to Brookfield and Holiday
Oh and I'm going to find where they threw my body
It was lost like all the others from when I was just a kid

When I get home, I'm not talking to anyone
When I get home, I'm unplugging my telephone
When I get home, I'll get high alone

When I get home,
When I get home,
When I get home,
When I get home, I'll get high alone