Tommy talked to god on the corner she told me life was a mess time just theft and it can’t be kept so I got blood on my hands and knocked on tommy’s door we were so fucking poor how could i not want more told tommy grab the money steal the car lets find our home saw his dad choke his mom on a bathroom floor life was brutal, life was a chore, it goes on and on how could he not want something more a mile past the county line five thousand steps inside the devils time our girls in the backseat the pedal on the floor the life we knew was over only here and now no before how could we not want so much more no more friday nights no more black and blue midnights rachel takes out the candy we put the pills on our tongues beth leans back and laughs, says, “we aint even that young, but this life has just begun.”

Kiss Another Day Goodbye saw the rain on your face then the tears comin down melissa said she was goin out meeting danny downtown i didn’t know then that you wouldn’t come back i didn’t know then then that was the end that was that held your hand the day your daddy passed read to you from the books he read before he was dead you told me you dreamt he was in heaven but our dreams never come true we just grow up and get tired as old as the blues and i don’t know how much longer i can feel the way i feel and never cry and i don't know how much longer i can kiss another day goodbye i remember that day on suicide bridge watching the ghosts of yesterday climb those muddy cliffs we listened to the records that made us forget you took my breath away and made me cry when you said you were scared to die and i forgive you god if you’re still there i forgive this town and this rain that never goes away i forgive you melissa wherever you are and i forgive you danny for stealing her heart i guess it was you and me and bad blood from the start guess it was heaven and hell guess its time that always tells

For Rachel (The Bad Sleep Well) we lived well but life was rotten they murdered everyone and everyone was innocent i was taken to heaven and ran straight back to hell you were right the bad sleep well one bullet to the brain killed your old man you found him lying there his blood in the sand so you fucked the pain away when you ran out of tears found every dirtbag in sight and said it was love at first sight i found you sleeping on the street put your blood on my sheets carved my neck with your teeth it was meant to be your favorite star always shines your heart skips a beat i’ll love you forever this was meant to be spent days in the rain to wash it off faster could get high if i want but i won't fly higher

Black Spring they elected the president last night and you ask me if i went to vote i remind you that i was with you we lit up that dust and stayed in to smoke you ask me if the world will change i tell you for us it won’t we were born this way and we’ll die this way there’s only one way “remember you used to hold me when I cried,” you'd said i inhale, let out that heart-shaped smoke as your eyes go red so you slam the door and put on that same song you played last night you ain’t a beauty but i think you’re alright that’s when i see the light tommy and beth come through the back door one month in hiding but they know the score wheres the money, tommy barks i smoked it to the core rachel comes out eyes bleeding tommy panics, fires off a round now rachel’s on the floor kneeling beth screams out tommy runs out the door rachel on her knees how’d we let it get this far now i’m chasing down tommy rachel in the backseat bleeding beth holds her hand they both start screaming i pull onto dover street beth starts to plead he didn’t mean it, she cries we gotta get help or rachel dies but i’m long gone. she’s too high to die i’m too high to cry so i’m outta the car and i don’t even know why yelling at tommy to unlock the fucking door i’ll tell him its not like before then i’ll put a bullet in his skull drag him in the dirt tell him this what livings for we had a million years to get this right so now its gonna end tonight i’m screaming till my lungs bleed think of beth and rachel and my heart starts to speed feel the blood on rachels hip remember the taste of her lips imagine the bullet in tommy’s heart this all went wrong from the start now its juggernaut black good kid gone bad everyone dreams under one sky but god never says hello only good bye rachel takes a breath every one could be her last this is what tommy did how can i forgive days on parker street we were just kids, 11 or 12 no rain for miles no thoughts of hell good kids turn bad but maybe those good kids can come back so i put the gun away pray the sun comes out to stay we know these streets by all the mistakes we made of them and now i see the end is comin soon all the blood runnin lightning blue and i loved you all this time but now it’s done and this is goodbye i take rachels hand leave beth and tommy to be damned rachels got nine lives so we’re gonna get outta this alive peel out onto the highway listening for angels in her cries digging for diamonds in her eyes think of melissa think of danny think of tommy and beth think of mom and grandma and dad gripping his chest where’s jamie and davie and the gang from the party store the old men in suits who survived a thousand winters or more where’s tim and will and pratt and the carver street kids the ones with swollen lips and butterfly eyelids wheres my brother and sister how come they ain’t here we could’ve been so much more give us back all those years and where’s god and the devil to save me or damn me i gotta feel something before this life kills me where’s ms. kim and the girls from the lake the ones with the weed and the candy colored snakes and where are you now and where are we the forgotten children gods bastard sons stay with me rachel keep your eyes on the sun mornings coming quick and this’ll all be done