when riding in the car with m.steele...

so Victoria rode home from school with me on Wednesday, aka worst day ever... since they dangled the candy of getting out early in front of our adolescent faces and ripped it away with a maniacal laugh punishing our happiness with the awful torment of learning. anywho. so she rode home with me, and i was playing some AFI melodies, but she could not understand the poetic genius without a copy of the lyrics. so here they are in order from first to last of what i played on the way to her house.

"Celluloid Dream"

Oh,
calling tears from deep inside,
oh you're so exquisite, and in the mirror all midnight eyes
oh, if i could remain, but its just a visit.
all midnight eyes read "vacancy"

twisted, twisted

to the lovely dancing lights, i begged "may i cut in?"
but they never stopped playing their song
of a joyous song they sing, i've heard whispers
on a freezing note, i resonate....

just like romantic verses, just like a joyous end,
just like a memory it twists me

just like romantic verses just like a joyous end,
twists...twisting me

you land as lightly as the new snow, cinematic
onto the melting boy, and melt away.
you land as gently you're so cinematic,
bathed in your radiance i melt...

oh

in the glitter in the dark, sunk into velvet
praying this will never end
in the shadow of a star
in static pallor, i realized i never began

just like romantic verses just like a joyous end,
twists... twisting me

you land as lightly as the new snow, cinematic
onto the melting boy, and melt away.
you land as gently you're so cinematic,
bathed in your radiance i melt...

all the colors upon leaving, all will turn to gray
all the colors upon leaving all will turn to gray
all the colors upon leaving all will turn to gray

gray...

twisting me

you land as lightly as the new snow, cinematic
you land as lightly as the new snow, and melt away
you land as gently you're so, cinematic
bathed in your radiance i melt...


"On the Arrow"

he said "who truly belongs here?"
"not i," she said, "i'll lie here with you"
he knows no one shines forever
they change with the weather

he said, "i've now stayed to long here..."
"goodbye, " she said, "i'll wait here for you."
he knows the winds carry sorrow
as they leave she'll follow
they leave tomorrow...

fragments of joy torn apart,
a freshly drained heart that beats
disguise themselves through him
he'll say that its nothing new
and swear this is true
for you, i'll swallow the ocean

i'll swallow the ocean

he said, "who truly belongs here?"
"not i, " she stared, "i'll lie here to you."
i know this sorrow is sacred
and i'll never break you
i'll softly save you...

fragments of joy torn apart
a freshly drained heart,
that beats
disguise themselves through him
he'll say that its nothing new
and swear this is true
for you, i'll swallow the ocean

i'll swallow the ocean...


"This Time Imperfect"

i cannot leave here i cannot stay
forever haunted more than afraid
asphyxiate on words i would say
drawn to a blackened sky as i turn blue...

there are no flowers, no, not this time
there'll be no angels gracing the lines
just these stark words, i find.

i'd show a smile,
but i'm too weak
i'd share with you could i only speak
just how much this hurts me.

i cannot stay here, i cannot leave
just like all i loved, i'm make-believe
imagined heart, i disappear seems
no one will appear here and make me real...

there are no flowers, no, not this time
there'll be no angels gracing the lines
just these stark words, i find

i'd show a smile, but im too weak
i'd share with you could i only speak
just how much this hurts me

i'd tell you how it hurts me
i'd tell you how it hurts me
(cuts through my day, and seeps into my dreams)
i'd tell you that it haunts me
(cuts through my day, and seeps into my dreams)
you don't care that it haunts me....

oh

there are no flowers, no, not this time
there'll be no angels gracing the lines
just these stark words, i find

i'd show a smile but i'm too weak
i'd share with you could i only speak
just how much this hurts me...
just how much this hurts me...

oh
just how much you...


"37mm"

bring your secrets to me
just give me your hands,
and i'll let you feel the wounds
they put in me...

if you believe in me,
how can i be dissolving?
if you'd believe me,
i'd tell you everything

do you fall too? (every time that i...)
yes, i fall. (every time that i...)
do you want to... (try to pacify)
fall into me? (fall into me)(fall into me)
into me.

silence, can you hear me?
press me to your lips
and i'll suck the poison out.
who will heal me? me...

if you keep killing me
how can i be absolving?
your sins into me,
begin the poisoning...

do you fall too? (every time that i...)
yes, i fall. (every time that i...)
do you want to, (try to pacify)
fall into me? (fall into me)(fall into me)
into me

time, time, time
we're not waiting
time, time, time
we're no one.

very distant: (unknown, unknown)

do you fall too? (every time that i...)
yes, i fall. (every time that i...)
do you want to, (try to pacify)
fall into me?

(fall into me)(fall into me)

do you fall too? (every time that i...)
yes, i fall. (every time that i...)
do you want to, (try to pacify)
fall into me? (fall into me)(fall into me)
into me

we are no one.
we are no one.
we are one.
we are no one.
we are,
we are no one.
we are no one.
we are one.
we are no one.
we are,
we are no one.
we are no one.
we are one.
we are no one.
we are,
we are no one.
we are no one.
we are one.
we are.


"Love Like Winter"

warn your warmth to turn away
here its december, everyday
press you lips to the sculptures and surely you'll stay
for of sugar and ice
i am made
i am made

its in the blood, its in the blood
i met my love before i was born
he wanted love, i taste of blood
he bit my lip and drank my war
from years before
from years before


she exhales vanilla lace
i barely dreamt her, yesterday
read the lines in the mirror through the lipstick trace (por siempre)
she said it seems you're somewhere faraway, to his face.

its in the blood, its in the blood
i met my love before i was born
she wanted love, i taste of blood
she bit my lip, and drank my war
from years before, from years before

love like winter, oh... oh...
love like winter,
winter, three four....

its in the blood, its in the blood
i met my love before i was born,
he wanted love, i taste of blood,
he bit my lip, and drank my war,
from years before, from years before


"Endlessly, She Said"


walked into our world and made,
horrible sounds.
i can still hear them today, (strangely they seem)
beautiful now, though they outlast my love.

still, each time i always meant,
every word, every one...
though in time they finally bent
every word, every one, every word

"i will wait for you," she said, endlessly
"i will wait for you."
so spoke misery...

i returned to you but found
our empty home
the radio told me to stay, (as it burned down)
i sang alone.
you will outlast my love.

still each time i always meant
every word, every one
though in time they finally bent
every word, every one, every word

"i will wait for you," she said, endlessly
"i will wait for you."
so spoke misery

oh

i have been waiting for you,
biting as you taught me to
i have come to relieve you
of life and love

i will wait for you
i will wait for you
i will wait for you

i will wait
i will wait

"i will wait for you," she said, endlessly
"i will wait for you."
so spoke misery.

"i will wait for you, wait for you."
endlessly

"i will wait for you..." so spoke, so spoke...

misery.

i will wait straight through.
as i wait for you, dear,
...endlessly.


Victoria, now you have no excuse. learn the words so you can sing along.