Ultimate Fakebook – Electric Kissing Parties

 

FAR, FAR AWAY

 

Isn’t it funny, to live for someone else’s script

You spend a lot money to catch that life

And isn’t it good too, to not always get all that you want

But we’ll be singin’ ‘boo hoo hoo’ if great it’s not

 

Cuz everybody wants it so much better

Than anyone could ever let it be

I guess I should get off it or whatever

But please comfort me…

 

CHORUS

George Lucas is the Force with us?

Will it save us from heartbreak in 1998?

 

Demons with the cat claws threaten us with their fake grace

But angels without wings can’t take their place

And if it’s just a smart bomb in a theater far, far away

Well, we’ll be singin’ ‘woo hoo hoo, oh man that’s great!’

 

Cuz I never thought that this could happen,

That I could ever feel this way again

I know it’s kinda dumb but it doesn’t matter,

I can’t hold it in

 

CHORUS

George Lucas, is the Force with us?

Will it save us from heartbreak in 1998?

George Lucas, don’t lose your focus

Cuz the theaters will be full come what may

Come what may…(repeats)

 

DIAMOND RING

 

Diamond ring, I wonder what you bring

Cuz it feels like it is a lot to this hand, if I don’t see

How every time I’m seeing clearly

The sky fills up with clouds

But I think I’m just afraid of leaving

A world without…

 

PRE CHORUS

Surrender – will you marry me?

Ever after – what does it mean?

 

I don’t feel like being alone, but I still don’t know

But I’m just asking myself,

Cuz how’s a diamond ring supposed to know

 

Don’t insist isn’t all an awful bliss

You can’t pretend like it isn’t all that bad

Or did you miss…

How every time I get to see her

She’s just about to leave

And it looks like Halloween is sill here

On Christmas Eve

 

PRE CHORUS

 

I don’t feel like being alone, but I still don’t know

Is a diamond ring just a shiny stone?

And I’ve felt like this for a long time, and I know it shows

But I’m just asking myself,

Cuz how’s a diamond ring supposed to know

 

And by the time I figure it out I’ll probably be

About the age of fifty-three

So now you’ve noticed how tight to my youth I cling,

Yeah, well no one said we have to let go easily

 

CHORUS

 

ALL THE NEW POISONS

 

I saw you laughin’ at pictures in magazines,

starlings from way back when

you were a kid and like everyone did,

you worshipped them till the end

then two albums later came short-haired invaders

and Flannel kicked Leather’s ass

you cursed what you knew was once to be true

and tried to light Metal with gas

And the Poseurs are now laughing

As the Circle of Fads spns again

And no you dress like my old math teacher

Starling – I remember Metal Kings

Starling – Don’t forget the Metal Kings

Hey, were you guessin’ that this history lesson

Would not have a chapter for me?

Yes it’s true, I’m not terrible cool

But I don’t have a plan to be

All the new Poisons just have different toys

And they all play their part perfectly

Albeit cooler, my Rockathon Ruler

Measure a small victory

Nothings’s ever wrong that’s real

And fakebooks can’t show you how to feel

But it’s over for me on the day my stomach’s full

JADED!

And they’ll say that we’re not cool enough

When fashion has left us behind

And we’ll just laugh and forget what year it is

 

ROLL (ELECTRIC KISSING PARTIES PT. 1)

 

Well, you know, I didn’t mean to look your way,

But you knew why I was there – to know who’s in your hair

Unless you want to, don’t answer

Don’t tell me what I want, hold – hold on

 

Under the disco ball the scene is on

And you like the way I roll – your best friend told me so

Unless you want to, don’t kill her

Before you go too far, hold on…

 

It wasn’t like she meant you harm, but I wouldn’t give in

I had to twist her arm for a synonym – oo yeah

 

Well, I asked the DJ for a Footloose song

He played “Almost Paradise,” I felt you melt like ice…

 

Onto my armor, onto my armor

Until my skin was cold and prickly from your fire

And if we make this song last until ALL SKATE,

Forever rolls along at any rate – oo yeah

 

My mom and dad say since it’s a Friday

I can stay out until 1:00

Cuz I’m a good kid! And you know, I wanted

To know if you would come…

 

Unless you want to, don’t answer

Before you get alarmed, hold on…

At least before your skates come off,

Tell me one more thing –

Do you want to roll around with me

Around this rink?

If you refused my arm, it wouldn’t do me harm

Just say ‘hi’ to me on Monday

 

DOWNSTAIRS/ARENA ROCK

 

Crank the amps and light the mixer

Let’s fix the drummer’s chair

The cooks are here to wreck the kitchen

While they sit and stare, let’s take the dare

Concern about this girl I’m turnin’ – this girl

This girl could eat my time of lovely

Or this girl could swallow me

Do I dare? Do you care? Do I dare to write this song?

Do I dare? Do you care? When it’s all there

The world stops turnin’, engine’s burnin’

 

Class dismissed! Don’t pay attention.

Throw your notebooks in the air!

Yeah, school is in, but did we mention

Today’s the science fair – be sure you’re there!

Concern about this girl’s allegiance – this girl

This girl could be your best friend one day

And this girl could up and leave

 

HAVING TOO MUCH FUN

 

I know you didn’t call, but maybe you wanted to

You probably figure so what, it’s late and we can fight another night

I miss you a ton and I doubt you know I still don’t like to be away too long

 

But still, when I call you it just feels all wrong, cuz if I try to talk…

 

CHORUS

Well, I’m still the one who’s gone, sill the one who’s gone

Feels like I’m having too much fun

And I’m still the one who’s gone, still the one who’s gone

Feels like I’m having too much fun

 

I know you didn’t call, but maybe the thought scared you

You figured I’m with someone else now and you don’t wanna die tonight

But I wish you would call me – I’d tell you how I want so much to see you come along

 

And I will when I call you – I just feel so lost, cuz if I tell it all…

 

CHORUS

 

I thought I’d find out while I dove but now I know I don’t wanna have it all

If I’m gonna feel so alone

 

CHORUS

 

I know you didn’t call, but maybe I wanted to

 

CIRCUS HORRORS

 

Do ya think we need it

Do ya thing we feed it

Does its stomach growl when we ring those bells?

Do you thing we’ll like it

Should we be exited

To see us both peel down

Down to brand new skin?

 

CHORUS

The circus tent is in town

I always thought I would end

Feelin’ like it’s the worst it’s been

But you know, that’s okay

Cuz I believe she said

“I want you to know that

Time turns into laughter

And we’ll be fallin’ faster.”

So that’s all it cost to play,

But I’m not sure I’ll ever see the day

I’m not confused

 

Did ya see his darin

Did ya feel like screamin’

Did it make you see the

Horror in a dream?

Can ya feel the fiction

The myth and my mission

To steal this bag of clowns

And join the Freak Parade?

 

CHORUS

 

LIFERAFT HALO

 

I’m down to no more patience

Lack of sentiment liferaft

Sit down, the large heart slave will see you now

Don’t try to play it all down around me

You know I see right through enough

Not to take it all the time

All said, I really don’t care

All said, I really don’t see at all

How that’s the way I feel about you, too

I’ll stand down again

And maybe if I see it fall

I’ll find I really don’t care at all

I see the more I save the less you wanna pay

Offered on a silver plate what I gave

It doesn’t matter – I’m sick of seein’ it through

Don’t even know how much I paid to forget your face

 

YOU WON’T SEE US

 

Invisible sound – that’s the color of our younger years

We’re comin’ to town – tell me are ya nervous?

You won’t see us

Familiar sight – she’s drunk and drivin’ round in circles

Help up to the light while we were out there

Out in the nowhere

You won’t see us

The color of our younger years – invisible suits us fine

You won’t see us

The color of those seventeen years, leavin’ gave me quite a smile

There’s nothing to do – ‘cept stay out late and cause some trouble

Might’ve seen a movie, but they were always PG, or PG-13

Beware the invisible ones

You sweep them into your own backyards

Beware – we’re invisible – in own town

 

SILVER DATE

 

“No, I don’t,” I tell her tongue

I tell her, still I drink it all

And now my head’s so silver numb

I guess she’s crystal clear

 

Cuz she’s all a blur, playing quarter songs

And she keeps her eyes at the jukebox

On the needle til it falls

 

CHORUS

Summer doll, my will’s so low

See her laughing on her own

See her dancing all alone, again

 

Tell my thoughts I will go home

Singing like a drunken dove

Dreaming like a bum in love again

 

Somewhere down her silver song

I saw her turn and gently gaze around

My dumb eyes caught hers on me

Then she turned her heels

 

We’ll never go, cuz we couldn’t talk

This silver date slips into the somber

Waitress’ last call

 

CHORUS