[spoken style]

wake up, face the future
cause I feel I have to salute you
on the things that's goin on, in this world today
you can run, but you can't hide
you have to find your sense of pride
to let you know, that this world, will never decay

It's later than it's ever been, time's up (time's up)
It's later than it's ever been, time's up (time's up)
It's later than it's ever been, time's up, in this world, today

brothers and sisters, grab a hold
there's a story solid as gold
we must try to stay alive
we must strive, and never slip away
where there's sunshine, there is rain
where there is joy there will be pain
we must move, m?--? move
we must move, and never decay

It's later than it's ever been, time's up (time's up)
It's later than it's ever been, time's up (time's up)
It's later than it's ever been, time's up, in this world, today

yo yo my brother my brother
let me lay it on the downstroke
I want you to know that I will provoke
anything that life will bring
because within these words I have a antidote
the time is comin' for the song that I'm hummin'
to let you know it's later than it's ever been
your time is up, you sad faced clown
now here's da breakdown (da breakdown, da breakdown, da breakdown)

[sung vocals]
It is later, than it's ever been
the life you livin', try not to sin
it is later, it is later, it is later, than it's ever been

keep on movin', and grab a hold
the life you livin', must have control
we can do it, we can do it, we can do it, if we try

It is later, than it's ever been
the life you livin', try not to sin
it is later, it is later, it is later, ... Read more »

Mmmmhmmmmhmmhmmmmm

C'mon give me them hands

Oh wave your hands tonight
Oh wave your hands tonight
C'mon give me them hands

One day I know
Gonna leave this all
Lift off to heaven

Lighs flying 'cross my eyes
Oh it seems like
This could be mine

Come on
It's time I do the right thing
Oh baby, baby, gonna do the right thing

One day I know
Gonna leave this all, love
Gonna leave this
Leave this all for heaven

One day I know
Gonna leave this all, love
Gonna leave this
Leave this all for heaven
Oh no

No life to live
Gonna leave this
Leave this all for heaven

One day I know
Gonna leave it all, I know
Gonna leave this
Gonna leave this all for heaven

Oh Lord, save me,
I wanna do the right thing
Oh it's time
Oh Lord, save me
I wanna do the right thing
Oh it's time
Oh Lord, save me,
I wanna do the right thing
Oh it's time
Oh Lord, save me,
I wanna do the right thing
I wanna do the right thing
Oh-oh, it's time
I wanna do the right thing

Mmmmmmmm...
Mmmmmmmm...
Mmmmmmmm...

Here I am alone in this empty room
No sign of living here
I hear the muffled conversation of the neighbors through the wall
A strand of lights hangs on the window
But I can’t help myself, I’m in love with this isolation

The city shimmers, our life the low hum
And all that glitters may be gold
In the sidewalks
In the sky light
In the spaces,
When it starts
Breathe it in and slowly the low hum
The low hum

Like a tourist in some strange hotel,
No time for worrying, my little safety cell I 'm within.
Here I am alone in this empty room
No sign of living here
I’ll be making conversation in the spaces through the wall
A strand of lights hangs on the window
But I can’t help myself, I’m in love with this isolation.

Oh 
We close our eyes
The perfect life
Is all we need

You open up when you had me in your hands
Slipping far away with the world at your command 
You sing me to sleep and then you hit me awake
It's a perfect life, a perfect life

I only want to be here when you're by my side
Oh I believe now, I'll love you 'til I die
You will sing me to sleep, you will hit me awake
In the perfect life, the perfect life 

Oh 
We close our eyes
The perfect life, life
Is all we need

Little Mike he, steps everywhere
Knives in his pockets and bullets in his hair
He has nothing to live for, nothing left to say
He's locking all the doors to keep the older wolves at bay

Spoons and foil are all he needs. 
A bed and some china
A lighter and some speed
It will sing you to sleep, it will hit you awake
In the perfect life, a perfect life. 

(Guitar solo)

Oh 
We close our eyes
The perfect life, life
Is all we need

Oh 
It goes all night
The perfect life, life
Is all we need

Oh 
We close our eyes
The perfect life, life
Is all we need

Oh 
We close our mind
The perfect life, life
Is all we need

The perfect life, the perfect life, the perfect life
All we need

He was searching
Blindly behind the days
This life and my, no more
Breaking in the, just to stay awake
His heart was like a stone
Uuuh, his heart looked like a stone

And on the last
You walked out in the sun
You only just discovered the sun
On the last day
And on the last day
When this work is done
You only just discovered the sun
On the last day

All the structure
In scraps, the dark away
All this grey world
My final breath
It's on the dark and gray
Uuuh, it's on the dark and day

And on the last
You walked out in the sun
You only just discovered the sun
On the last day
And on the last day
When this work is done
You only just discovered the sun
On the last day

(with Mark Lanegan)

here come the lonely night
i can’t escape my mind

from a broken bough
fall into finite space
with the roof torn down
this house is an empty place
so tired of wandering around and starting over
no garden grows here now just the one leaf clover
and when the windows shuttered
it’s always dark inside
sometimes the pain is absurd
still it’s what fate decides
thought i saw jesus come down
dressed like a soldier
i used to cry like a clown
and now i’m older

here come the lonely night
can’t escape my mind

and the grinding wheel turns
and the heavens burn
as the pilot ignites is a lesson learned
a sullen look of concern
it might make you sad
like the fluttering bird in a dream you had

here come the lonely night
i can’t escape my mind

i saw jesus come down
dressed like a soldier
once i cried like a clown
now i’m older
here come the lonely night
can’t escape my mind

We started like children
Lost in the building by the wall
Hope lost to fear
And nothing was clear when lost it all

This is how, how we tried
This is where, where it died
This is how, how we cried
Like the dogs left outside

We were so cautious
Guarding the locksets viciously
I’m never breathing
Tender like ribbons obviously

This is how, how we tried
This is where, where it died
This is how, how we cried
Like the dogs left outside

I am too shy to cry
You gave her one kind to provoke
Even with balance
Losing the hope with you again

This is how, how we tried
This is where, where it died
This is how, how we cried
Like the dogs left outside

His words are like sharp knives
Reading on my rights every time
Crying to our son
I was just so wrong every time

This is how, how we tried
This is where, where it died
This is how, how we cried
Like the dogs left outside

I'll use a lock that has no key
Bind you with chains
That no one else can see

Let the water creep over your face
I'll send it in waves
Just to watch you perform the great escape

How long can you hold your breath
While you hold mine again and wait
Just to watch you perform the great escape

I'll pull your arms tight behind you back
Use myself as weight
And wonder while you fade

How long can you hold your breath
While you hold mine again and wait
Just to watch you perform the great escape

Once I had my heroes
Once I had my dreams
But all of that is changed now
The truth begins again
The truth is not that comfortable, no
Mother taught us patience
The virtues of restraint
Father taught us boundaries
The knowledge we must go
I'm trying to protect my unity

That's when I reach for my revolver
That's when it all gets blown away
That's when I reach for my revolver
The spirit passes by this way

A friend of mine once told me
His one and only aim
To build a giant castle
And in it sign his name
Sign it with complete community

That's when I reach for my revolver
That's when it all gets blown away
That's when I reach for my revolver
The spirit passes by this way

Now that the sky is empty
And that is nothing new
Instead they look upon us
When they tell me
That we're nothing
I say!

That's when I reach for my revolver
That's when it all gets blown away
That's when I reach for my revolver
The spirit passes by this way

That's when I reach for my revolver
That's when it all gets blown away
That's when I reach for my revolver
The spirit passes by this way