- "I'll Take What's In The Box, Monty"
the sky burns black blue bruised over these lights from the station, these shitty cars, these liquor store signs. let's walk and pretend that we're at the of th...
- 100 Resolutions
Where hav I been all your life? Sitting on fences, a novocaine for all the senses. Another year will pass us by. Making sense of nothing, in defense of somethi...
- 106 South
our trip had ended i didn't know what I had to do who really cares at all we had to get away somehow we settled on a place where the open road had closed and we...
- 3am Qvc Shopping Spree Hangover
limp lines resign themselves to margins. like a drunken vampire, i miss the sun. i killed this summer, now it's done. let's split and reconvene in a warmer spac...
- A Boring Story
no more smile and no more outrage apathy pervasive emotions narcoleptic no more smiles since fucking sunday sinking feelings drinking early stinking septic stin...
- A Guided Tour Of Chicago
he shuffled up a pair of surfer slippers and an old tweed blazer. asked you for a quarter and you looked the other way. he leaned up against the tow zone sign a...
- A Toast
you tell me that ya wanna go to heaven but you run around acting like you're gonna live forever. you tell me that you're going through hell but you're puttin' o...
- A Wishful Puppeteer
I haven't seen you since that brooklyn night i guess it's been about a year by now cold and rainy, in a poets words Dark and crimson in a drunken way i was fro...
- Abracadaver
bright and burning blue, stretch your arms out above me. i know that you still love me like you did. copper brown and orange red burn the words that i never sai...
- Alert The Audience!
Passive, Aggressive, Confessing, Repressive Structurally uncertain, transparent, transgressive i've stumbled into something and i don't know what it is. All I-...
- All The Week
misleading utterings shadow boxer right hook mood swings my endurance test i coughed and bled and caught my breath tender in a burning sense the way we spoke wh...
- An Evening Of Extraordinary Circumstance
tonight 'll sit around pushing my shit down the drain, using a plunger and a clothespin while i wrangle wiht the chain. tonight i'll have potato chips and watch...
- Another Boring Story
displacement, the basement, isolation commented relented six stairs down naked bulb, tired lungs, tired eyes, crooked thumbs not up but sideways for now. the ri...
- Are You There, Margaret_ It's Me, God
you told me where to go and i always followed you told me what to do i swallowed every drop down you told me bedtime stories of how i'd rise above and told me t...
- Asa Phelps Is Dead
hey brother can you spare the time? skin and bones that's melting in a backwards way to grow. out of heart and out of mind, and kiss me in the rearview when you...
- Beyond The Embarrassing Style
is it hard for you to sleep at night? the battle glowing in your smile and is it hard to tie perfection in a tie? is it just too hard to say goodbye? your life...
- Boatless Booze Cruise (Part 1)
jackknifed, my strife, take it easy, sit outside. i just died one thousand times yesterday. lay down. drown out, drowning in these cries and shouts. changing so...
- Brickwall Views
don't break too many hearts. don't take too many arrows in the chest. cry comfortably, let us all know what you're thinking. is there a gesture i could use to c...
- Brickwall Views
The Lawrence Arms 'Brickwall Views' I've finally decided to start tabbing a load of Lawrence arms songs, as i can't find any, anywhere. I did porno and snuff...
- Chapter 13_ The Hero Appears
the well went dry my blood thinned out i scrapped through a thousand layers of paint-like years the secret's in conjested grins sigh i'm trying to find places t...
- Chicago Is Burning
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- Chicago Is Burning ...
we throw out our bodies on the fire and we die, settle into ashes as the flames keep piling high we tossed and spread the kerosene and alcohol, the ethylene ign...
- Criminal
My anger is a sign of disgust with myself A stewing serenade I hear the sirens on their way The chemicals inside of me just kept on swimming through my veins Ma...
- Cut It Up
so you're sinking kinda fast, that a great big light was your past. this is more than waking up when you're still at the bar hanging around with the queens afte...
- Detention
baseball bats and salivating mouths in a square room, doors pocked. once again i'm alone insie a crowd, a misplaced throw, a misplaced swing and everything unfo...
- Drunk Mouth Kitchen Smile
consider confrontations this is a shy and quiet morning the sleeping dogs awoke last night the thunder scares them, stiff eyed exercise (your exorcisms) anger d...
- Eighteen Inches
face down on the ground. stormclouds lie in white snowpiles all around. i don't know if i can make it throughone more winter in this town. voted worst in show t...
- Faintly Falling Ashes
another senseless week of crowded thoughts and crooked teeth morning frost and frozen sidewalks all those days that burn inside us swell up in the silence of sn...
- Fireflies
Invisible, Inviting Vision Linger. This Swirl Of Smoke Looks LIke Her Slender Body. I See Everything In Frames Now. Golden Gilded. Rippled Edges Wave Goodnight....
- Ghost Stories
raindrops fell without rage eyes half-closed skin like dark gray metal inanimate and cold. another flame to my face the smell of sulfur lingering away. you're h...
- Heaven Help Me
My friend Jimmy works on the Union Pacific line. Passed me a line about 9 AM and since then I been feeling fine. Passed a fifth of Old Kentucky in his garage al...
- Here Comes The Neighbourhood
i work on belmont, but i live in wicker park all my friends are bartenders in all the coolest bars my girlfriend's in the coolest band that you've ever seen the...
- Hesitation Station
Hesitation was the station I used to get on at. Now it's asshole. Can you picture that? "Fuck Yous" and "Thems" have fucked up. An idiot wh...
- Hey, What Time Is "Pensacola_ Wings Of Gold&Q
It's killing time. The TV''s on with a bottle of shit. Buried Needle. The record player has forgotten not to spin, so, you're feeling useless? Well, the bidding...
- Hey, What Time Is 'pensacola_ Wings Of Gold' On An
It's killing time. The TV''s on with a bottle of shit. Buried Needle. The record player has forgotten not to spin, so, you're feeling useless? Well, the bidding...
- Intransit
I can't connect to this sacred object the bar was open but to me the bar was closing I like to suffer in a silent way I can't get through the days without a gla...
- Introduction (The Ramblin' Boys Of Pleasure Sing T
I'm a clown only here to entertain All the clowns only here to entertain All the clowns only here to entertain
- Jumping The Shark
Losing sight of a past time The years fly right by with the drinks It’s morning in this small apartment And I just threw up in the sink. The coke is not ...
- Kevin Costner's Casino
hey kevin, exploitation's nothing new, it's perfect disguise is your head dress and authentic moccasins, you seemed just like a righteous man, exposing our grea...
- Key To The City
I sat with the drunks and the speed freaks and I watched all the drones strolling by. We sat on the street with our beers and our weed and we blew our smoke up ...
- Light Breathing (Me And Martha Plimpton In A Fancy
me and martha plimpton in an elevator her golden labrador kissed my index finger two in the morning summer saturated i'd been drinking and it'd been raining and...
- Like A Record Player
I'm like a record player I keep goin' round with a needle in my arm making someone else's sound and lately I've been dreaming of blue and empty skies but nothin...
- Lose Your Illusion 1
i'm sober like a sunday morning mass liars are lying to themselves i'm lost, oh i'm losing everything i'm wasted, i can't keep the night from falling down to r...
- Minute
another day chock full of choices of things to hate another forehead, cobwebby, dull, throbbing, almost pain ... another obstrusive reminder of things i hoped w...
- Navigating The Windward Passage
drinking deathwish nights can't save this. glasseyed slackjaws scream from safe homes. i've got it wrong. time and again, song after song. you've got answers: k...
- Nebraska
hey mike i wish i could help you figure something out but it's been too long since we spoke your sarcasm radiates unhappiness so withdrawn and rooted deep insid...
- Necrotism_ Decanting The Insalubrious (Cyborg Midn
I’m wasted as my time Spent sitting idly by Drinking in this shithole While you all went out outside It’s a great day to fall asleep It’s a...
- Northside, The L&L, And My Number Of Crappy Ap
snow piled on tables, up on scales, into bags. latenight beer and smoke, too sleepy and awake. crazy eyes over eggs, crazy eyes like mine, cloths from a streetc...
- Ol' Mexico Way
[whistle] [assorted cowboy calls] ALRIGHT! Well I shot a man in Louisville about one year ago He was looking at me cock-eyed and I guess it goes to show, Jac...
- Old Dogs Never Die
The surging blood rushes through me in tune to the pulsing in my head The message echoes over and over; what are you doing with your time? I'm a piece of shit a...
- On With The Show
What did you scream into your telephone? I’m a shit stain slave with a grind of my own. I work day and night, less respect than a Juggalo. I’m fr...
- One Day, We're All Gonna Weigh 400 Lbs
the girls, they don't love us anymore now, because we wear black shirts and tookk a new vow. you can have the whole world right in your home, to redefine and el...
- Outro (Hobo Reprise)
Tear us up and stuff us down the drain Tear us up and stuff us down the drain
- Overheated
Three days, no happy endings Highways, I’m hallucinating I wish I wasn’t so mathematic I wish I hadn’t overheated Heartbeats across a crow...
- Porno And Snuff Films
Porno And Snuff Films This song isn't there best, buts its one the of the easiest You'll have to work out the rhythem yourself Sorry I don't know the quiet bit...
- Porno And Snuff Films
leveling, graveling, gravelly groans exude my exhaustion, canonize all my tomes. this home is afloat on a yellow black moat of bile, hate and quile and vile pai...
- Presenting_ The Dancing Machine
Day One has just begun, I'm burnt, broken, dazed and numb. Beginnings feel more like ends. Friends feel less and less like friends. Shake, shake, shake, shake o...
- Quincentuple Your Money
There's a letter at my momma's house, came with a floded flag. It says Right now, I'm coming home in a body bag. It's a pride and a pain that are one and the...
- Recovering The Opposable Thumb
Is there any hope for us, or are the rumors true? Are we just the mulch and kindling that accrues? Can we recover from this? I've seen expressions in departmen...
- Requiem Revisited
[Whispers] His dreams gone, and all the smiles have faded they call him mask to kill the child who came in (oh) These hands beat red with those mercy killings...
- Right As Rain (Part 2)
i'm mortified. i'm morally antagonized. my door is locked. the shades are down. the lights are off. my movements are minimal. my sounds are inaudible. i'm dull ...
- Sixteen Hours
so, i think i know what I'll be doing today. passing thoughts of exercise while i laugh in the face of good health. stakes get raised, harder to wake every day....
- Smokestacks
i listened to the megaphone man. he said we were facing the end. that's so much better than my mom and dad who said this is just the beginning ..... cuz they're...
- Take One Down And Pass It Around
one hundred bottles of beer on the floor. one hundred bottles of beer. less than twenty days from drowning in the last five years. a ring sucked from a finger. ...
- The Corpses Of Our Motivations
catching up in the basement that i call home. dismantling discussions on a piss soaked telephone. i'm all grown up. i've thrown up these feelings lots before. y...
- The Devil's Takin' Names
Shall we dance? Or maybe just limp around? These feet are cold and beat, and strangers to the ground. the sound of the kick is arousing. the couples are swee...
- The Disaster March
There was a time and a place that was all full of mistakes. And a face that was all full of shit. I was frustrated and angry. I was more than alive. A catcher i...
- The First Eviction Notice
a temple corroded, eviction pending. embrace me, cold nights, gray sky, streetlight, lyrical descension, attention fading, breathless i'm a mess, kissless i'm i...
- The Last One
tired of these drunken evenings listening to my staggered breathing nowhere to fall back in but to sleep you're beautiful in dreams where words pour from my mou...
- The March Of The Elephants
The cistern burns with the sisters who learn that certainty burns with a fist the cyst of this growth is a hope (against hope) that I loathe, and steel my self ...
- The Old-Timer's 2x4
walking dead on two burned feet do you have anything left to say to me? from barber chairs and baseball gloves to calling names and slaps and drugs from son, yo...
- The Ramblin' Boys Of Pleasure
a million times a day i try to fail or fail to try it's an easy way to live it's a lifeless way to die i used to hear "son, you've got a lot to learn"...
- The Raw And Searing Flesh
i never want to see you in the raw and searing flesh i don't ever want to hear you singing softly to the dead i never want to feel your skin running warm along ...
- The Revisionist
the sway and swell flee with her motion red-gold across my arms the vicious strokes i painted a river fills your heart i'm sorry if i let you down i know just h...
- There's No Place Like A Stranger's Floor
Teeth ripped out of gums hit sparkling gray squares of concrete. Screams in technicolor pain. Doubled over spitting blood. The freezing rain. Never felt so good...
- Traditional
Take me out to the ballgame. Throw me down on the ground. Buy me some panties and camoflauge. Run me down with a rusty old dodge and let's root for good old Ame...
- Turnstiles
with a light of this match i could burn this place to the ground then fire engines'd scream down crowded streets onto the scene and then i'd make it rain numb m...
- Uptown Free Radio
it's been twenty thousand days since the best ones hotels, plastic sheets, tasteless food, dialysis machines, the telephone hasn't rung since april. staring win...
- Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been
A broken record has a thousand answers to countless contradictions. Your condition is running through the streets again now you’ve drained your though...
- Your Gravest Word
Tabbed by dave This song is one of my favorite Lawrence arms' songs and the other tab wasn't right so I made my own. I'm almost 100% positive this is right but ...
- Your Gravest Words
all these words trip over cracks in the sidewalks. uptown, one year. i'm distantly distressed. i'm finally coming close to ghost. i'm dancing on your gravest wo...
- Your Gravest Words
Hello, i like this song and id like people to play it cos its a damn beautiful tune. here goes, correct me if im wrong......chris has quite a unique style. palm...
- [Untitled]
it's burning and it's burning, it's burning, a fire inside that i just don't believe some call it anger, some say frustration but i think i call this big greed ...