Lyrics de "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out" (2005)

The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage · London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines · Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks · Camisado · Time to Dance · Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off · Intermission · But It's Better If You Do ·I Write Sins Not Tragedies · I Constantly Thank God for Esteban · There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet · Build God, Then We'll Talk

The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage

Sit tight, I'm gonna need you to keep time,
Come on, just snap, snap, snap your fingers for me
Good, good, now we're making some progress,
Come on, just tap, tap, tap your toes to the beat

And I believe this may call for a proper introduction
And well, don't you see? that I'm the narrator and this is just the prologue?

Swear to shake it up if you swear to listen
And we're still so young, desperate for attention,
And I aim to be your eyes
Trophy boys
Trophy wives

Swear to shake it up if you swear to listen
And we're still so young, desperate for attention,
And I aim to be your eyes
Trophy boys
Trophy wives

Applause! Applause! No wait, wait:
Dear studio audience, I've an announcement to make.
It seems the artists these days are not who you think,
So we'll pick back up on that on another page

And I believe this may call for a proper introduction
And well, don't you see? I'm the narrator and this is just the prologue?

Swear to shake it up if you swear to listen
And we're still so young, desperate for attention,
And I aim to be your eyes
Trophy boys
Trophy wives

Swear to shake it up if you swear to listen
And we're still so young, desperate for attention,
And I aim to be your eyes
Trophy boys
Trophy wives

Swear to shake it up, you swear to listen!
Swear to shake it up, you swear to listen!
Swear to shake it up, you swear to listen!
Swear to shake it up, swear to shake it up.

Swear to shake it up if you swear to listen
And we're still so young, desperate for attention,
And I aim to be your eyes
Trophy boys
Trophy wives

Swear to shake it up if you swear to listen
And we're still so young, desperate for attention,
And I aim to be your eyes

La da da, dut dut dut, da-da-da, da-da-da
La da da, dut dut dut, da-da-da, ah ah ah ah...
La da da, dut dut dut, da-da-da, da-da-da
La da da, dut dut, da-da-da...

 

London Beckoned Songs About Money Written by Machines

Stop stalling make a name for yourself
Boy you better put that pen to paper, charm your way out
If you talk you better walk you better back your shit up
With more than good hooks while you're all under the gun
Start talking "a sensationalist"
Only slightly clever to just a certain extent
If you talk you better walk you better keep your mouth shut
With more than good hooks while you're all under the gun

(Panic! meet the press)
It's time for us to take a chance
It's time for us to take a chance
(Panic! meet the press)
It's time for us to take a chance
It's time for us...

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or, shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or, shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

I'm burning and I'm blacking my lungs
Boy you know it feels good with fire back on your tongue
If you talk you better walk you better back your shit up
with more than good hooks while you're all under the gun
Start talking "a sensationalist"
Only slightly clever, to just a certain extent
Well keep quiet! Let us sing like the doves
Then decide if it's done with purpose or lack thereof

Just for the record,
The weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of...
A. Indifference or
B. Disinterest in what the critics say

It's time for us to take a chance
It's time for us...

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or, shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or, shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

la dadadadadadada la dadadadada oo whoa oo whoa
la dadadadadadada la dadadadada oo whoa oo whoa

Just for the record,
The weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of...
A. Indifference or
B. Disinterest in what the critics say

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or, shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

Well we're just a wet dream for the webzine
Make us it, make us hip, make us scene
Or, shrug us off your shoulders
Don't approve a single word that we wrote

Just for the record,
The weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of...
A. Indifference or
B. Disinterest in what the critics say

 

Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks

Watch your mouth (oh oh oh)
Because your speech is slurred enough
That you just might swallow your tongue
I'm sure you would want to give up the ghost
With just a little more poise than that

Or was it God who chokes in these situations?
Running late?
Oh no, he called in

Or was it God who chokes in these situations?
Running late?
Oh no, he called in...

The hospice is
A relaxing weekend getaway
Where you're a cut above all the rest
Sick and sad patients
On first name basis with all the top physicians

Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should
Take it a day at a time

That's when you st-st-stuttered something profound
To the support on the line
And with the way you've been talking
Every word gets you a step closer to hell

That's when you st-st-stuttered something profound
To the support on the line
And with the way you've been talking
Every word gets you a step closer to hell

Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should
Take it a day at a time

Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should
Take it a day at a time

I am
Alone in this bed, house, and head
And she never fixes this
But at least she

I am
Alone, in this bedroom
She never fixes this
But at least she... (makes me forget)

Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should
Take it a day at a time

Prescribed pills
To offset the shakes
To offset the pills
You know you should
Take it a day at a time

The hospice is
A relaxing weekend getaway
Where you're a cut above all the rest
Sick and sad patients
On first name basis with all the top physicians

 

Camisado

The I.V. and your hospital bed
This was no accident,
This was a therapeutic chain of events...

This is the scent of dead skin on a linoleum floor,
This is the scent of quarantine wings in a hospital
It's not so pleasant,
And it's not so conventional
It sure as hell ain't normal,
But we deal, we deal

The anesthetic never set in and I'm wondering where
The apathy and urgency is that I thought I phoned in
It's not so pleasant,
And it's not so conventional
It sure as hell ain't normal,
But we deal, we deal

Just sit back, just sit back
Just sit back and relax
Just sit back, just sit back
Just sit back and relapse again...

Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid
Sit back, relax
Sit back, relapse again
Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid
Just sit back, just sit back

You're a regular decorated emergency,
You're a regular decorated emergency

This is the scent of dead skin on a linoleum floor
This is the scent of quarantine wings in a hospital
It's not so pleasant,
And it's not so conventional
It sure as hell ain't normal,
But we deal, we deal

The anesthetic never set in and I'm wondering where
The apathy and urgency is that I thought I phoned in
It's not so pleasant,
And it's not so conventional
It sure as hell ain't normal,
But we deal, we deal

Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid
Sit back, relax
Sit back, relapse again

Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid
Just sit back, just sit back

Sit back, sit back,
Relax, relax,
Sit back, sit back,
UP UP, and OFF,
You can't take the kid out of the fight...

You're a regular decorated emergency
The bruises and contusions will remind me what you did when you wake,
You've earned a place atop the ICU's hall of fame,
The camera caught you causing a commotion on the gurney again

You're a regular decorated emergency
The bruises and contusions will remind me what you did when you wake,
You've earned a place atop the ICU's hall of fame,
The camera caught you causing a commotion on the gurney again...

Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid
Sit back, relax
Sit back, relapse again

Can't take the kid from the fight,
Take the fight from the kid
Just sit back, just sit back

Sit back, sit back,
Relax, relax,
Sit back, sit back,
UP UP, and OFF,
You can't take the kid out of the fight...

The I.V. and your hospital bed
This was no accident,
This was a therapeutic chain of events

 

Time to Dance

Well, she's not bleeding on the ballroom floor
Just for the attention.
Cause that's just ridiculous-ly odd
Well, she sure is gonna get it
Here's the setting:
Fashion magazines line the walls now
The walls lined with bullet holes...

(You sure, you sure you let her have it? You sure, you sure?)

Have some composure
And where is your posture?
Oh, no, no
You're pulling the trigger
Pulling the trigger
All wrong

Have some composure
And where is your posture?
Oh, no, no
You're pulling the trigger
Pulling the trigger
All wrong

Give me envy
Give me malice
Give me your attention
Give me envy
Give me malice
Baby, give me a break
When I say "Shotgun", you say "Wedding"
"Shotgun", "Wedding",
"Shotgun", "Wedding"

She didn't choose this role
But she'll play it and make it sincere
So you cry, you cry
(Give me a break)
But they believe it from the tears
And the teeth right down to the blood
At her feet
Boys will be boys
Hiding in estrogen and wearing Aubergine dreams
(Give me a break...break...break...break)

Have some composure
And where is your posture?
Oh, no, no
You're pulling the trigger
Pulling the trigger
All wrong

Have some composure
And where is your posture?
Oh, no, no
You're pulling the trigger
Pulling the trigger
All wrong

Come on this is screaming photo op...op...
(time to dance)
Come on, come on
This is screaming
This is screaming
This is screaming photo op
(time to dance)

Boys will be boys baby.
Boys will be boys.
Boys will be boys baby.
Boys will be boys.

Give me envy
Give me malice
Give me attention
Give me envy
Give me malice
Baby, give me a break
When I say "Shotgun", you say "Wedding"
"Shotgun", "Wedding",
"Shotgun", "Wedding"

Boys will be boys
Hiding in estrogen and boys will be boys

Boys will be boys
Hiding in estrogen and
Wearing Aubergine dreams

Lying Is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off

Is it still me that makes you sweat?
am i who you think about in bed?
When the lights are dim, your hands are shaking as you're sliding off your dress
Now think of what you did, and how I hope to God he was worth it
When the lights are dim, and your heart is racing as your fingers touch your skin

I've got more wit, a better kiss, a hotter touch, a better fuck
Than any boy you'll ever meet, sweetie, you had me
Girl I was it, look past the sweat, a better love deserving of
Exchanging body heat in the passengers seat
No no no, you know it will always just be me!

Let's get these teen hearts beating faster, faster!

So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
Will you dance to this beat and hold a lover close?
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
Will you dance to this beat and hold a lover close?

So I guess we're back to us, so cameraman swing the focus!
In case I lost my train of thought where was it that we last left off?
speak up, speak up

Oh now I do recall, we just were getting to the part
Where the shock sets in and the stomach acid finds a new way to make you get sick
I hope you didn't expect to get all of the attention, lets not get selfish
did you really think I'd let you kill this chorus?

Let's get these teen hearts beating faster, faster!

So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
Will you dance to this beat and hold a lover close?
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
Will you dance to this beat and hold a lover close?

dance to this beat
dance to this beat
dance to this beeeaaat!

Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster!
Let's get these teen hearts beating faster

I've got more wit, a better kiss, a hotter touch, a better fuck
Than any boy you'll ever meet, sweetie, you had me
Girl I was it, look past the sweat, a better love deserving of
Exchanging body heat in the passengers seat
No no no, you know it will always just be me

Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster faster!

So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
Will you dance to this beat and hold a lover close?
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
Will you dance to this beat and hold a lover close?

So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
dance to this beat
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
dance to this beat

(and hold a lover close)

Let's get these teen hearts beating. Faster, faster.
Let's get these teen hearts beating faster.

Intermission

(dance music)

"Ladies and gentlemen, due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to continue our broadcast of dance music. We shall continue now with our piano instrumental."

(instrumental)

 

But It's Better If You Do

Now I'm of consenting age
To be forgetting you in a cabaret
Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen
May even ask my name

As she sheds her skin on stage
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's PA.
And the strip joint veteran sits two away
Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and lime daiquiri

And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
praying for love in a lap dance
And paying in naivety

Oh isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
praying for love in a lap dance
And paying in naivety

Oh, but I'm afraid that I,
Well I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead-d-dead-d-dead-d-dead in this place

Well, I'm afraid that I,
That's right, well I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place

And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
praying for love in a lap dance
And paying in naivety

Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
praying for love in a lap dance
And paying in naivety

Well, I'm afraid that I,
Well I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead-d-dead-d-dead-d-dead in this place

Well, I'm afraid that I,
Well that's right, well I may have faked it
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place

And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
praying for love in a lap dance
And paying in naivety

Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
praying for love in a lap dance
And paying in naivety

praying for love and paying in naivety
praying for love and paying in naivety, oh

 

I Write Sins Not Tragedies

Oh, well imagine: as I'm pacing the pews in a church corridor,
And I can't help but to hear,
No, I can't help but to hear an exchanging of words:
"What a beautiful wedding!"
What a beautiful wedding, says the bridesmaid to a waiter.
"Yes, but what a shame...
What a shame, the poor groom's bride is a whore."

I'd come in with a
"Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things
With a sense of poise and rationality.

I'd come in
"Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things
With a sense of..

Oh!

Well, in fact... Well, I'll look at it this way,
I mean, technically our marriage is saved!
Well this calls for a toast, so pour the champagne!
Oh! Well, in fact... well, I'll look at it this way,
I mean, technically our marriage is saved!
Well this calls for a toast,
So pour the champagne, pour the champagne!

I'd come in with a
"Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things
With a sense of poise and rationality.

I'd come in
"Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things
With a sense of poise and rationality...

I can't...

I'd come in
"Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!"
No. It's much better to face these kinds of things
With a sense of poise and rationality.

I'd come in
"Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?!"
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things
With a sense of poise and rationality...

I guess...

 

I Constantly Thank God for Esteban

Give us this day our daily dose of faux affliction,
Forgive our sins
Forged at the pulpit with forked tongues selling faux sermons
Because I am a new wave gospel sharp, and you'll be thy witness
So gentlemen, if you are going to preach,
For God sakes preach with conviction!

Strike up the band!
Woah-ho! the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation,let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it don't you get it? Now don't you Move.

Strike up the band!
Whoa-ho! the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation,let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it don't you get it? Now don't you move.

Just stay where I can see you.
Douse the lights!
We sure are in for a show tonight.

In this little number we are graced by two displays of character,
We've got: the gunslinger extraordinaire, a walking contradiction;
And I for one can see no blood
From the hearts and the wrists you allegedly slit
And I for one wont stand for this
If the scene were a parish you'd all be condemned.

Strike up the band!
Woah-ho! the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it don't you get it? Now don't you...move.

Strike up the band!
Woah-ho the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation, let's sing it like you mean it
No. Don't you get it don't you get it? Now don't you, don't you...move.

Just stay where I can see you,
Douse the lights!
We sure are in for a show tonight!

Just stay where I can see you,
Douse the lights!
We sure are in for a show tonight!

Stay where I can see you,
Douse the lights!

La da ta ta la da ta ta la da ta ta....

Strike up the band!
Woah-ho! the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation,let's sing it like you mean it.
No. Don't you get it don't you get it? Now don't you move...

Strike up the band!
Woah-ho! the conductor is beckoning
Come congregation,let's sing it like you mean it.
No. Don't you get it don't you get it? Now don't you move...

Don't you move...

Don't you move!
Strike up the Band!

There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of It Yet

Please leave all overcoats, canes and top hats with the doorman,
From that moment, you'll be out of place and under dressed.
I'm wrecking this evening already, and loving every minute of it,
Ruining this banquet for the mildly inspiring and...

Please leave all overcoats, canes and top hats with the doorman,
From that moment, you'll be out of place and under dressed.
I'm wrecking this evening already and loving every minute of it,
Ruining this banquet for the mildly inspiring and...

When you're in black slacks with accentuating off-white pinstripes, whoa-oh,
Everything goes according to plan.

I'm the new 'cancer',
Never looked better, you can't stand it,
Because you say so under your breath.
You're reading lips, "When did he get all confident?"
Haven't you heard that I'm the new 'cancer',
Never looked better and you can't stand it.

Next is a trip to the, the ladies room in vain and,
I bet you just can't keep up (keep up!) with these fashionistas and,
Tonight, tonight, you are, you are a whispering campaign.
I bet to them, your name is "Cheap."
I bet to them you look like shh...
Talk to the mirror, oh, choke back tears,
And keep telling yourself that, "I'm a diva."
Oh, and the smokes in that cigarette box,
On the table, they just so happen to be laced with nitroglycerin.

I'm the new 'cancer',
Never looked better, you can't stand it,
Because you say so under your breath.
You're reading lips, "When did he get all confident?"
Haven't you heard that I'm the new 'cancer',
Never looked better and you can't stand it.

Haven't you heard that I'm the new 'cancer'?
I've never looked better and you can't stand it.
Haven't you heard that I'm the new 'cancer'?
I've never looked better and you can't stand it.

And I know, and I know,
It just doesn't feel like a night out with no one sizing you up.
I've never been so surreptitious,
So, of course, you'll be distracted when I spike the punch.

And I know, and I know,
It just doesn't feel like a night out with no one sizing you up.
I've never been so surreptitious,
So, of course, you'll be distracted when I spike the punch.

And I know, and I know,
It just doesn't feel like a night out with no one sizing you up.
I've never been so surreptitious,
So, of course, you'll be distracted when I spike the PUNCH!

Build God, Then We'll Talk

It's these substandard motels on the (lalalalala) corner of 4th and Fremont Street.
Appealing only because they are just that un-appealing
Any practiced catholic would cross themselves upon entering.
The rooms have a hint of asbestos and maybe just a dash of formaldehyde,
And the habit of decomposing right before your very (lalalala) eyes.

Along with the people inside
What a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy

Tonight tenants range from: a lawyer and a virgin
Accessorizing with a rosary tucked inside her laungerie

She's getting a job at the firm come Monday.
The Mrs. will stay with the cheating attorney
moonlighting aside, she really needs his money.
Oh, wonderful caricature of intimacy.

Yeah (Yeah)

And not to mention, the constable, and his proposition, for that "virgin"
Yes, the one the lawyer met with on "strictly business"
as he said to the Mrs. Well, only hours before,
after he had left, she was fixing her face in a compact.
There was a terrible crash (There was a terrible crash)
Between her and the badge
She spilled her purse and her bag,
and held a "purse" of a different kind.

Along with the people inside
What a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy

(There are no) Raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses
its sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses
shade of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things.

Raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses
its sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses
shade of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things.

Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy

Raindrops on roses and girls in white dresses
its sleeping with roaches and taking best guesses
shade of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things.

Raindrops on roses and the girls in white dresses
And sleeping with the roaches and the taking best guesses
shade of the sheets and before all the stains
And a few more of your least favorite things.