Melodrama

GREEN LIGHT / SOBER / HOMEMADE DYNAMITE / THE LOUVRE /
LIABILITY / HARD FEELINGS / LOVELESS / SOBER II (MELODRAMA) /
WRITER IN THE DARK / SUPERCUT / LIABILITY (REPRISE) / PERFECT PLACES

Website by Eric Bai

I do my makeup in somebody else’s car

We order different drinks at the same bars

I know about what you did and I wanna scream the truth

She thinks you love the beach, you’re such a damn liar

Well those great whites, they have big teeth

Hope they bite you

Thought you said that would always be in love

but you’re not in love

no more

Did it frighten you,

how we kissed when danced on the light-up floor?

On the light-up floor

But I hear sounds in my mind

Brand new sounds in my mind

But honey I’ll be seeing you wherever I go

But honey I’ll be seeing you down every road

Cause honey I’ll come get my things but I can’t let go

(I’m waiting for it, that green light, I want it)

I wish I could get my things and just let go

(I’m waiting for it, that green light, I want it)

Sometimes I wake up in a different bedroom

I whisper things, the city sings them back to you

Well those rumours, they have big teeth

Oh god, I’m clean out of air in my lungs, it’s all gone

Played it so nonchalant, it’s time we danced with the truth

Move alone with the truth

We’re sleeping through all the days, I’m acting like I don’t see

Every ribbon you use to tie yourself to me

But my hips have missed your hips

so let’s get to know the kicks

Will you sway with me,

go astray with me?

We’re king and queen of the weekend

Ain’t a pill that could touch our rush

(but what will we do when we’re sober?)

Uh, when you dream with a fever

Bet you wish you could touch our rush

(but what will we do when we’re sober?)

These are the games of the weekend

We pretend that we just don’t care

But we care

Uh, when you dream with a fever

bet you wish you could touch our rush

(but what will we do when we’re sober?)

Oh god, I’m closing my teeth around this liquor-wet lime

Midnight, lose my mind, I know you’re feeling it too

Can we keep up with the ruse?

Bodies all through the house, I know this story by heart—

Jack and Jill get fucked up and possessive when it get dark

But my hips have missed your hips

so let’s get to know the kicks

Will you sway with me,

go astray with me?

Midnight, we’re faded

Daylight, we’re jaded

We know that it’s over, in the morning

You’ll be dancing with all the heartache

And the treason

Fantasies of leaving

But we know that when

it’s over in the morning

you’ll be dancing with

us

A couple rebel Top Gun pilots flying with nowhere to be

Don’t know you super well, but I think that you might be the same as me

Behave abnormally

Let’s let things come out of the woodwork

I’ll give you my best side,

tell you all my best lies

Yeah awesome, right?

So let’s let things come of the woodwork

I’ll give you my best side,

tell you all my best lies

See me rolling, showing someone else love,

dancing with our shoes off, know i think you’re awesome, right?

Our rules, our dreams, we’re blind

Blowing shit up with homemade d-d-d-dynamite

Our friends, our drinks, we get inspired

Blowing shit up with homemade d-d-d-dynamite

Might get your friend to drive, but he can hardly see

We’ll end up painted on the road, red and chrome, all the broken glass

sparkling

I guess we’re partying

So let’s let things come of the woodwork

I’ll give you my best side,

tell you all my best lies

See me rolling, showing someone else love

hands under your T-shirt, know i think you’re awesome, right?

Now you know it’s really gonna blow

Well summer slipped us underneath her tongue

Our days and nights are perfumed with obsession

Half of my wardrobe is on your bedroom floor

Use our eyes, throw our hands overboard

I am your sweetheart psychopathic crush

Drink up your movements, still I can’t get enough

I overthink your punctuation use

Not my fault, just a thing that my mind do

A rush at the beginning

I get caught up, just for a minute

But lover, you’re the one to blame,

all that you’re doing

Can you hear the violence?

Megaphone to my chest

Broadcast the boom boom boom boom

and make ‘em all dance to it

Our thing progresses

I call and you come through

Blow all my friendships

to sit in hell with you

But we’re the greatest

They’ll hang us in the Louvre

Down the back, but who cares—still the Louvre

Okay i know that you are not my type

(still i fall)

I’m just a sucker who let you fill her mind

(but what about love?)

Nothing wrong with it

Supernatural

Just move in close to me, closer, you’ll feel it coasting

Baby really hurt me

Crying in the taxi

He don’t wanna know me, says he made the big mistake of

dancing in my storm

Says it was poison

So I guess I’ll go home into the arms of the girl that I love,

the only love I haven’t screwed up

She’s so hard to please but she’s a forest fire

I do my best to meet her demands, play at romance, we

slow dance in the living room

but all that a stranger would see is one girl, swaying alone,

stroking a cheek

They say “you’re a little much for me

you’re a liability

you’re a little much for me”

So they pull back, make other plans

I understand - I’m a liability

Get you wild, make you leave

I’m a little much for everyone

The truth is, I am a toy that people enjoy 'til all of the

tricks don’t work anymore

and then they are bored of me

I know that it’s exciting, running through the night

but every perfect summer’s eating me alive until you’re

gone

Better on my own

—

They’re gonna watch me disappear into the sun

You’re all gonna watch me disappear into the sun

(go back and tell it)

Please could you be tender

and I will sit close to you

Let’s give it a minute before we admit that we’re through

Guess this is the winter

Our bodies are young and blue

I’m at Jungle City, it’s late and this song is for you

Cause I remember the rush, when forever was us,

Before all of the winds of regret and mistrust

Now we sit in your car and our love is a ghost

Well I guess I should go

Yeah I guess I should go

Hard feelings—

These are what they call hard feelings of love

When the sweet words and fevers all leave us right here in the cold

Alone with the hard feelings of love

God I wish I believed ya when you told me this was my home

I light all the candles

Cut flowers for all my rooms

I care for myself the way I used to care about you

These days, we kiss and we keep busy

The waves come after midnight

I call from underwater

Why even try to get right?

When you’ve outgrown a lover

The whole world knows but you

It’s time to let go of this endless summer afternoon

Three years, loved you every single day, made me weak, it was real for me, yup, real for me

Now I’ll fake it every single day 'til I don’t need fantasy, 'til I feel you leave

But I still remember everything, how we’d drift buying groceries, how you’d dance for me

I’ll start letting go of little things 'til I’m so far away from you, far away from you, yeah

Bet you wanna rip my heart out

Bet you wanna skip my calls now,

Well guess what,

I’d like that

Cause I’m gonna mess your life up,

gonna wanna tape my mouth shut

Look out, lovers

L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S

(generation)

L-O-V-E-L-E-S-S

Generation of fucking with our lovers’ heads

(generation)

You asked if I was feeling it, I’m psycho high

Know you won’t remember in the morning when

I speak my mind

Lights are on and they’ve gone home, but who am I?

Oh, how fast the evening passes, cleaning up

the champagne glasses

We told you this was melodrama

(Oh, how fast the evening passes,

cleaning up the champagne glasses)

Our only wish is melodrama

(Oh, how fast the evening passes,

cleaning up the champagne glasses)

And the terror

And the horror

When we wonder why we bother

And the terror and the horror

God, I wonder why we bother

All the glamour and the trauma and fuckin’

melodrama

All the gun fights

And the lime lights

And the holy sick divine nights

They’ll talk about us, all the lovers

How we kiss and kill each other

They’ll talk about us, and discover

How we kissed and killed each other

We told you this was melodrama

You wanted something that we offer

Break the news—you’re walking out

To be a good man for someone else

Sorry I was never good like you

Stood on my chest and kept me down

Hated hearing my name on the lips of a crowd

Did my best to exist just for you

Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark

Now she’s gonna play and sing and lock you in her heart

Bet you rue the day you kissed a writer in the dark

I am my mother’s child, I’ll love you 'til my breathing stops

I’ll love you 'til you call the cops on me

But in our darkest hours, I stumbled on a secret power

I’ll find a way to be without you, babe

I still feel you, now and then

Slow like pseudo-ephedrine

When you see me, will you say I’ve changed?

I ride the subway, read the signs

I let the seasons change my mind

I love it here since i’ve stopped needing you

In my head, I play a supercut of us

All the magic we gave off

All the love we had and lost

And in my head

The visions never stop

These ribbons wrap me up

But when I reach for you,

there’s just a supercut

In your car, the radio up

We keep trying to talk about us

I’m someone you maybe might love

I’ll be your quiet afternoon crush

be your violent overnight rush,

make you crazy over my touch

But it’s just a supercut of us

So I fall

Into continents and cars

All the stages and the stars,

I turn all of it

to just a supercut

Cause in my head (in my head, I do everything right)

When you call (when you call, I’ll forgive and not fight)

Because ours are the moments I play in the dark

We were wild and fluorescent, come home to my heart, uh

I’m a liability

Much for me

You’re a little much for me, no no no no...

Whatcha gonna do?

All of the dreams that get harder

All of the things that I offer you

And all of the shit that we harbour

Make all of the kids in the choirs sing woo-hoo

Maybe all this is the party

Maybe the tears and the highs we breathe

Maybe all this is the party

Maybe we just do it violently

But you’re not what you thought you were

Every night,

I live and die

Feel the party to my bones

Watch the wasters blow the speakers,

Spill my guts beneath the outdoor light

It’s just another graceless night

I hate the headlines and the weather,

I’m nineteen and I’m on fire

But when we’re dancing I’m alright

It’s just another graceless night

Are you lost enough?

Have another drink, get lost in us

This is how we get notorious

Cause I don’t know,

If they keep telling me where to go

I’ll blow my brains out to the radio

All of the things we’re taking

'cause we are young and we’re ashamed

Send us to perfect places

All of our heroes fading

Now i can’t stand to be alone

Let’s go to perfect places

Every night, I live and die

Meet somebody, take 'em home

Let’s kiss and then take off our clothes

It’s just another graceless night

All the nights spent off our faces

Tryna find these perfect places

What the fuck are perfect places anyway?

This website was made with love by Eric Bai

Based on the Melodrama album booklet