Keep your eyes on me even though I'm a lonely doubter dying to believe someday I could be your martyr and lie in the fire of your foreign laugh be reborn in the morning in meadow grass in the summer at night at the party out back Vanessa by the pool made a real big splash And all of the waveforms were keeping her shape warm I die when I watch you dance Vanessa by the pool made a big splash And that's just the way you come back craving the taste of your contact lying for no reason on my own oh woman You take it back but you know you can't I wanna grab but you held my hand I don't learn fast but I understand Vanessa by the pool made a real big splash Keep your eyes on me even though I'm a lonely doubter dying to believe someday I could be your martyr and lie in the fire of your holy grasp be reborn in the morning a folded half in the summer at night at the party out back Vanessa by the pool made a real big splash And all of the waveforms were keeping her shape warm I die when I watch you dance Vanessa by the pool made a big splash And that's just the way you come back fearing the weight of your contact lying for no reason on my own oh woman You take it back but you know you can't God's only bad if he's just a man I don't learn fast but I understand Vanessa by the pool made a real big splash

I'm sleeping on your floors resting on my laurels I was in my head round here if you know the graveyard busts of spiritists and Max Ophuls and all of us go from dust to dust everybody's made up I'm noticing cute boys Chicago, Illinois I was in my head round here if you know the saddle's waiting home invasion Sid and Tatum serial dating if you must you must everybody mistrusts You credit cards with meaning tarot hang round fake noun Faux pas typo tobacco I don't know my own pin code locked out of the cult of the cargo right on, right on You broke in my headphones planted pretty signals I don't know where you get it from but I like it And I'm sleeping on your floors resting on my laurels I was in my head round here if you know the graveyard busts of spiritists and Max Ophuls and all of us go from dust to dust everybody's made up I'm noticing cute boys Chicago, Illinois I was in my head round here if you know the saddle's waiting home invasion Sid and Tatum serial dating if you must you must everybody mistrusts I'm noticing cute boys

Keeper of the light it's the season of the vine and I'm far behind am I following a sign or a sparkle in the sky am I edelweiss? Cause before you knew it I was leaning back I was far away from good and bad and you'd catch me losing if you checked the stats but it's all a wave, or something like that I hide my wolf howl I'm a wallflower tame my true power I'm a wallflower I needed someone to run away from you needed love you could hold I heard a voice come over the mountain I said, "God you can take my soul at least you know my name now you know my name at least you know my name now you know my name" I hide my wolf howl I'm a wallflower in the 12th hour I'm a wallflower Cause before you knew it I was leaning back I was far away from good and bad and you'd catch me losing if you checked the stats cause I'm a wallflower I'm a wallflower I'm a wallflower I needed someone to run away from you needed love you could hold I heard a voice come over the mountain I said "God you can take my soul" Cause I needed someone to run away from you needed love you could hold I heard a voice come over the mountain I said, "God you can take my soul at least you know my name now you know my name at least you know my name now you know my name" Keeper of the light am I following a sign?

So you fell to earth and you learned that the truth hurts and it does well now you know that the guy is a dirtbag But you're turning the tape back it's in your contract to send a smile my way I was thinking a close up with most of your clothes off does that seem ok? And don't cry until I say action I need a genuine reaction So you lost the job and broke your heart but you did it for love so that's fine it's not your fault your skin's not the colour of white wine But you could have him if you could take it be true to yourself or you know, fake it cause it shows when you're hesitant you'd be amazed what we can do with editing So let's try that one again You know if he told you an answer we told him to answer then it's not an answer

All my life I've known I'm a genius thanks to the songs that I write but I had a small disagreement with my neighbours last night they said "you play too loud you sing off-key and your lyrics never make sense" I responded, "you must've misheard them let me turn up and play it again And you can come and thank me ya you can come and thank me you can come and thank me you can come and thank me" But they never do no they never do ya, it's pretty rude Cause what's the point in being a genius if your neighbours complain? every time I sing from beneath them they should really say thanks They should really thank me ya they should really thank me They should really thank me ya they should really thank me Oh you can come and thank me you can come and thank me ya you can come and thank me you can come and thank me But they never do

Kristen why don't you cry? your twin brother has died instead of waiting around for a sign try going out on the back roads tonight Kristen why don't you cry? that dress isn't your size instead of simply rehearsing your lines try going out on the back roads tonight Time is paper all roads are curved now and grief's a mountainside in love with fading light I want the whole Truth I wanna be seen to believe that there's a ghost or there's hope so Kristen why don't you cry? Kristen why don't you cry? Kristen why don't you cry? try going out on the back roads

Veronica Lodge what a petty homage to the Kierkegaard dark of your politician's haircut We're in the same class not of the same cloth Ecclesiastes asked what the meaning was I couldn't answer that but I am pretty sure I've written this song before I'm in a weird headspace tonight Veronica Lodge I wanna pin your corsage just a couple more bucks and I can take you outright I used to write songs about God more but here's another line about the clothes you wore and how they made me feel insert another veiled reference to Riverdale or Cherry Blossom's bust we raise the quality cup I don't need to get drunk I'm in a weird headspace tonight I got confirmation of my station I can hear em lodge complaints against the way I love cause I creep them off I wish I was special issues cost twice the cover I know my mother's always scared that a french girl will tear me up and out in her towns down south I know she's right but bait me and I'll bite we'll get beat up together Veronica Lake for your new name's sake we gotta scare your hair black and keep the cameras rolling Our silver starlets drown down in nitrate I carry you around on photographic plates leaving you to tell me how the salt tastes I'm in a weird headspace And in the moment I almost meant it I followed your striped dress out of the market yellow and white outside of the church steps the leaves hadn't quite fallen yet It was still summer and I was a french kid I shook the pastor's hand, I was born again I put your name down on my speed-dial but memorized it like a verse from the Bible Such a springtime I had to run more I had ugly skin and morning chores I lost my nickname at the break up but a couple L's is always more than enough Outside the church steps yellow and white blur another market place, another winter you barely meant it and that's how I learned how fast we and the seasons turn oh yes how fast we and the seasons turn oh no how fast we and the seasons turn Buster Keaton's father beat him but he was on stage so we all applaud I swear to God that's how you break a leg that's how the show goes on I need a little more time Cause Ryan I'm sorry for the things that I've done with your mind and your body the people I've made you spend time with it's mindless you deserve more than I give you were a good kid and now you're unhealthy, oh help me it's helpless I don't wanna write this did I steal your first kiss? am I reaching back and attacking your goodness? stop wanting to be me cause I feel guilty I miss you I'm trying I'm trying I'm Ryan