Cities
Anberlin
2007 Released
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1
(Début)
01 : 26
2
Godspeed
03 : 02
3
Adelaide
03 : 14
4
A Whisper & A Clamor
03 : 25
5
The Unwinding Cable Car
04 : 17
6
There Is No Mathematics to Love and Loss
03 : 11
7
Hello Alone
04 : 00
8
Alexithymia
03 : 23
9
Reclusion
03 : 31
10
Inevitable
03 : 47
11
Dismantle. Repair.
04 : 18
12
(*Fin)
08 : 53
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Track Lyrics
Godspeed Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Burning down Neverland (scatter the ashes)
White lines, black tar, the matches
Is this another death by misadventure?
Tell me what you got, what you really got (Hey! Hey!)
We'll rest in our graves
Lexington, course your veins
Sleepers can't just wake the dead
When needles and lovers collapse on guilty beds
[Pre-Chorus 1]
Fall asleep (Don't fall asleep)
Don't fall asleep
(They lied when they said that the good die young)
[Chorus]
They lied when they said the good die young
Whoa-oh-hoa-oh
They lied when they said the good die young
Stay with me, stay with me tonight
[Verse 2]
Burning down bridges now (Scatter the ashes)
Godspeed to all you're after
Is this a life left just to remember?
Tell them who you were, who you really were (Hey! Hey!)
Kill yourself slowly over time (Over time)
Fashion statement suicide (Suicide)
She's asleep in the Chelsea hotel
Bad turns to worse and the worst turns into Hell
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Fall asleep (Don't fall asleep)
Don't fall asleep
(God save the eyes that dim tonight)
[Chorus]
They lied when they said the good die young
Whoa-oh-hoa-oh
They lied when they said the good die young
Stay with me, stay with me tonight
[Guitar Solo]
Whoa-oh-hoa-oh
[Chorus]
They lied when they said the good die young
Whoa-oh-hoa-oh
They lied when they said the good die young
Stay with me, stay with me tonight
They lied when they said the good die young
Whoa-oh-hoa-oh
They lied when they said the good die young
Stay with me, stay with me tonight
Adelaide Lyrics
[Verse 1]
You're repeating me lines that you think I wanna hear
But I don't wanna hear anymore
As if sorry is any consolation
For what it's worth, you're stringing me along
Sh-sh-shouldn't need anyone
Shouldn't need anyone
Just scared of being alone
But by the time you figure this out
And I'm already gone
[Chorus]
Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene
Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene
[Verse 2]
You keep giving me signs that you think I wanna see
But you're nothing like you seem
Hide behind your half smile
But the truth is so undeniable
Sh-sh-shouldn't need anyone
Shouldn't need anyone
Just scared of being alone
But by the time you figure this out
And I'm already gone
[Chorus]
Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene
Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene
[Bridge]
Like lipstick traces on pillow cases
Some things in life are unforgettable
Like love, loss, lies and us and woh ohh
Some things in life are undeniable
Like lipstick traces on pillow cases
Some things in life are unforgettable
Like love, loss, lies and us and woh ohh
Some things in life are undeniable
[Chorus]
Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene
Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene
Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene
Adelaide, Adelaide, you really had me going this time
Adelaide, Adelaide, you need to quit, quit making a scene
A Whisper & A Clamor Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Growing tired of bedside resolve
Public display of depression
Something's got to give now
Something's going to break down
I grow tired of writing songs
While people listen but never hear what's really going on now
Tell me what's so wrong now
[Chorus]
Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering
Clap your hands tonight
Hear what the silence screams
Clap your hands
Clap your hands now all ye children
Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering tonight
[Verse 2]
For most who live and breathe
Hell is never knowing who they are now
Tell me who you are now
Finally safe from the outside trapped in what you know
Are you safe from yourself?
Can you escape all by yourself?
[Chorus]
Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering
Clap your hands tonight
Hear what the silence screams
Clap your hands
Clap your hands now all ye children
Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering tonight
Clap your hands
Clap your hands now all ye children
Clap your hands
There's a clamor in your whispering tonight
[Bridge]
It's not the lies that you sing
But what the silence will scream
It's not the lies that you sing
But what the silence will scream
It's not the lies that you sing
But what the silence will scream
[Chorus]
Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering
Clap your hands tonight
Hear what the silence screams
Clap your hands
Clap your hands now all ye children
Clap your hands all ye children
There's a clamor in your whispering tonight
The Unwinding Cable Car Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Your motive, unstable
You're like an unwinding cable car
Listening for voices, but it's the choices that make us who we are
Go your own way, even seasons have changed
Just burn those new leaves over
So self-absorbed, you've seemed to ignore
The prayers that have already come about
[Chorus]
This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Don't drop your arms)
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you in
Lalalala, la la la, la lala, la
Lalalala, la la la, la lala, la
[Verse 2]
Backing away from the problem of pain
You never had a home
You've been misguided, you're hiding in shadows for so very long
Don't you believe that you've been deceived
That you're no better than
The hair in your eyes, it never disguised
What you're really thinking of
[Chorus]
This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Don't drop your arms)
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you in
This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Don't drop your arms)
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
With quiet words I'll lead you in
[Bridge]
You're so brilliant, don't soon forget
You're so brilliant, grace marks your heart
You're so brilliant, don't soon forget
You're so brilliant, grace marked your heart
You're so brilliant (This is the correlation)
Don't soon forget (Between salvation and love, don't drop your arms)
You're so brilliant (I'll guard your heart)
Grace marked your heart (With quiet words I'll lead you in and out of the dark)
Lalalala, la la la, la lala, la
(Don't drop your arms)
Lalalala, la la la, la lala, la
[Chorus]
This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Lalalala, la la la, la lala, la)
(Don't drop your arms)
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
(Lalalala, la la la, la lala, la)
With quiet words I'll lead you in
This is the correlation of salvation and love
(Lalalala, la la la, la lala, la)
(Don't drop your arms)
Don't drop your arms, I'll guard your heart
(Lalalala, la la la, la lala, la)
With quiet words I'll lead you in
There Is No Mathematics to Love and Loss Lyrics
[Verse 1]
If you're leaving, leave the cigarettes
You've already got the lighter and the keys
She packs her boxes
He knows that she's serious
Not by the look on her face but by the lack of rings
Words lost their meaning long ago
Right around the time when she let him know
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ohoh, oh, oh
[Chorus]
Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love than alive with you and dead
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time (Hear me out this time)
Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love than alive with you and dead
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time (Hear me out this time)
[Verse 2]
There is algebra in gasoline
Burning pictures, pages, and photographs
Fire can make a conscience clean
(Strike the match, we'll see, Strike the match we'll see)
Rolls the window down, calls his name and pulls away
Rethinks every word he's said in disarray
Watched their house burn and in turn
(What made it home, drive away, What made it home, drive away)
[Chorus]
Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love than alive with you and dead
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time (Hear me out this time)
Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love than alive with you and dead
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time (Hear me out this time)
[Bridge]
Where does one start
To pick up pieces
Of a gasoline heart?
When all he has is driving away
[Chorus]
Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love than alive with you and dead
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time (Hear me out this time)
Have you ever heard a word?
Rather be lonely in love than alive with you and dead
Have you ever heard a word?
Hear me out this time (Hear me out this time)
Hello Alone Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Is this where the interstate ends?
In coastal towns like this
Waiting for my world to cave under
We seem to invent ourselves
In places left unknown
If hope could only find me out
[Pre-Chorus]
Is this the end of everything we know?
This is the end of everything I am
[Chorus]
Is anybody out there?
Hello? Hello?
Broken hearts like promises are left for lesser knowns
Is anybody out there?
Alone, alone
Because the coldest winters thrive
[Verse 2]
Depression is the unholy ghost
In the coastal towns ahead
Though I know a thousand names
I seem my only friend
[Pre-Chorus]
I've got the gun, all I need is ten cents for the bullet
I feel helpless, sleeping at best
Waiting for your return
Are you ever coming home?
[Chorus]
Is anybody out there?
Hello? Hello?
Broken hearts like promises are left for lesser knowns
Is anybody out there?
Alone, alone
Because the coldest winters thrive on broken homes (broken homes)
[Bridge]
Does anybody, (does anybody)
Do they ever listen, (Do they ever listen)
Does anybody, (does anybody)
Care at all?
Do they care at all? Do they care at all?
Do they care at all? Do you care at all?
Do you care at all!?
[Pre-Chorus]
Is this the end of everything we know?
This is the end of everything I am
[Chorus]
Is anybody out there?
Hello? Hello?
Broken hearts like promises are left for lesser knowns
Is anybody out there?
Alone, alone
Because the coldest winters thrive on broken homes
Is anybody out there?
Hello? Hello?
Broken hearts like promises are left for lesser knowns
Is anybody out there?
Alone, alone
For lesser known, I'm here
And there's hope, there's hope
Alexithymia Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow
Don't believe anything you say anymore
In the morn, in the morning
Bricks to this old house are breaking
Steel would have weathered but now forlorning
It's alarming how loud the silence screams
No warn, no warn, no warning
Addictions fill the table where the family used to sit
And conversate, conversate to the sounds
To the sounds of the record player
With its jumping needle and the lights that grow dim over time
[Chorus]
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
[Verse 2]
Are you where you thought you'd be?
So beautiful and only twenty-three
Opposition rests in the hearts
With no, with no, with no opportunity
It's not that we don't talk
It's just no one really listens and honesty fades
Like a politician lost in the course
All smiles, but no one remembers our names
[Chorus]
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
[Bridge]
Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does comes out tomorrow
Don't believe anything I say anymore, in the morn, in the morning
[Chorus]
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
Reclusion Lyrics
[Verse 1]
There's someone inside me
That softly kills everyone around
They don't know they're dead to me cause
Intent never makes a sound
All along they've found I've strangled
Lovers who've learned from slower hands
In these eleven minutes I could teach you what I am
[Chorus]
You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide
You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide
[Verse 2]
There's an art in seclusion
Production in repression
If a stranger turns up missing
This song is my confession
Tell the tales of the trail of dead
Lovers learned from slower hands
Losing self in myself
And my demons make demands
[Chorus]
You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide
You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide
[Bridge]
You're suffocating me
So very hard to breathe
My mask is growing heavy
But I've forgotten who's beneath
[Chorus]
You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide
You're sick
Sick as all the
Secrets that you deny
Sins like skeletons are
So very hard to hide
Inevitable Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Do you remember when we were just kids?
And cardboard boxes took us miles from what we would miss
Schoolyard conversations taken to heart
And laughter took the place of everything we knew
We were not
[Pre-Chorus]
I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now, hey? Is it over now?
[Chorus]
I wanna be your last first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last first kiss
[Verse 2]
Amazing how life turns out
The way that it does
We end up hurting the worst
The only ones we really love
[Pre-Chorus]
I wanna break every clock
The hands of time could never move again
We could stay in this moment
For the rest of our lives
Is it over now, hey? Is it over now?
[Chorus]
I wanna be your last first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last first kiss
[Bridge]
(Is it over now, hey? Is it over now?)
Is it over now? Hey, it's not over now!
[Chorus]
I wanna be your last first kiss
That you'll ever have
I wanna be your last, first love (that you'll ever have)
Till you're lying here beside me with arms and eyes open wide
I wanna be your last first kiss
For all time
Dismantle. Repair. Lyrics
3 ContributorsDismantle.Repair. (Acoustic) LyricsOne last glance from a taxi cab
Images scar my mind
Four weeks felt like years
Since your full attention was all mine
The night was young and so are we
Talked about life, God, death, and your family
Didn't want any promises
Just my undivided honesty
And you said
"Oh, oh, things are gonna change now for the better (and)"
"Oh, oh, things are gonna change. Oh, they're gonna change"
I am the patron saint of lost causes
A fraction of who I once believed
(Change)
Only a matter of time
Opinions I will try and rewrite
If life has background music
Playing your song
I've got to be honest - I tried to escape you
But the orchestra plays on
And they sing
"Oh, oh, things are gonna change now for the better (and)
Oh, oh, things are gonna change"
Hands like secrets are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases like knives your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down, (Repair) you dismantle me, you dismantle me
Hands like secrets are the hardest thing to keep from you
Lines and phrases like knives your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down, (Repair) you dismantle me, you dismantle me
Give me time to prove
To prove I want the rest of yours (Prelude)
Call this a prelude to a lifetime of you
It's not that I hang on every word
I hang myself on what you mean
Its not that I keep hanging on
I'm never letting go
Hands like secrets are the hardest things to keep from you
Lines and phrases like knives your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down, (Repair) you dismantle me, you dismantle me
Hands like secrets are the hardest things to keep from you
Lines and phrases like knives your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down, (Repair) you dismantle me, you dismantle me
Save me from myself
Save me from myself
Help me
Save me from myself
Save me from myself
Oh, oh, things are gonna change now for the better
Oh, oh, things are gonna change
Hands like secrets are the hardest things to keep from you
Lines and phrases like knives your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down, (Repair) you dismantle me, you dismantle me
Hands like secrets are the hardest things to keep from you
Lines and phrases like knives your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down, (Repair) you dismantle me, you dismantle me
Hands like secrets are the hardest things to keep from you
Lines and phrases like knives your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down, (Repair) you dismantle me, you dismantle me
Hands like secrets are the hardest things to keep from you
Lines and phrases like knives your words can cut me through
Dismantle me down, (Repair) you dismantle me, you dismantle me
(*Fin) Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Feels like you’re miles from here
In other towns with lesser names
Where the unholy ghost doesn’t tell
Mary or William exactly what they want to hear
You remember the house on Ridge Road
Told you and the Devil to both just leave me alone
If this is salvation, I can show you the trembling
You’ll just have to trust me. I’m scared
[Chorus]
I am the patron saint of lost causes
Are we all to you just mere lost causes?
Aren’t we all to you just lost
[Verse 2]
Tommy, you left behind
Something that will mean everything right before you die
What if you gained the whole world?
You’ve already lost four little souls from your life
Widows and orphans aren’t hard to find
They’re home missing daddy who’s saving the abandoned tonight
Wish your drinking would hurry and kill you
Sympathy’s better than having to tell you the truth
[Chorus]
That you are the patron saint of lost causes
All you are to them is now a lost cause
All you are to them is now, causes
[Verse 3]
Billy, don’t you understand?
Timothy stood as long as he could and now
You made his faith disappear
More like a magician and less like a man of the cloth
We’re not questioning God
Just those he chose to carry on His cross
We’re no better, you’ll see
Just all of us, the lost causes
[Chorus]
Are we all to you just lost causes?
Are we all to you lost?
Lost causes
So all we are to you
Is all we are, is all we are
All we are is all we are
[Bridge (Choir)]
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
(Lost causes, all we are is all we are)
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you? (To you, lost...)
[Bridge 2]
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
Patron Saint, are we all lost like you?
All is lost...
All is lost...
[Verse 4]
Take what you will, what you will and leave
Could you kill, could you kill me?
If the world was on fire and nothing was left of hope or desire
And take all that I could bring forth
Is this Hell? Or am I on the floor
Over-desperate hold hands
Streaming of blood again?
And then take full weight of me
Guard my dreams, figure this out
It's me on my own. Helpless, hurting, hell
Will you stay strong as you promised?
Cause I'm stranded and bare
Meanness has washed up in all that I am
Please God take this and all
Then grace takes me to a place
Of the father you never had
Bending and breaking and tearing apart
This is not heaven, this is my Hell