The Kills - Blank

I'm blank
Just being frank
I'm not even blue
A blank
Stranger on tape
Talking over you

A daffodil
Hangs its head
It don't care
For love
If love is gone

You walk away
No harm, no foul
Ow, ow, ow
Whoever you are
Who was I to love you?
Turn the place upside down
No sign of you
Now, now, now
Nothing on the wall
It's like I dreamt it all

I'm blank
Numb as a fool
What's it to you?
A blank
City awake
Always jumping through

Smoke rings
Making jokes with
The late-night crew
About love
When love is gone

You're walking away
No harm, no foul
Ow, ow, ow
Took the horns, left the bull
Who was I to love you?
Burn the place to the ground
No sign of you
Now, now, now
Nothing but the ground
I'm laying down on

The Kills - My Girls My Girls

My girls my girls
Oh, I'm the worst
Homesick for two worlds
I love so hard
My gang is ghosts
My girls my girls
Oh, I'm the worst

How far I've come
Still miles behind you
We're all headed down that road
At some point, I'll try to find you
And grow a soul for when my time comes close
But for now

I'm on those middle of the night vibes
Those singing 'til I die vibes
Reminiscing while I cry vibes
Twitching, I'm so high
Like put me in a ride
Like those vibes
Clinging on for dear life
Like I know I should
I picked a bad time
To feel this good

My girls my girls
Oh, I'm the worst
My girls my girls
Oh, I'm the worst
My girls my girls
Oh, I'm the worst
My girls my girls
Oh, I'm the worst

But for now
I'm on those middle of the night vibes
Those singing 'til I die vibes
Reminiscing while I cry vibes
Twitching, I'm so high
Like put me in a ride
Like those vibes
Clinging on for dear life
Like I know I should
I picked a bad time
To feel this good

My girls my girls
Oh, I'm the worst
My girls my girls
Oh, I'm the worst
My girls my girls
Oh, I'm the worst
My girls my girls
Oh, I'm the worst

The Kills - Going To Heaven

Slow dancing with a bottle of lightning
Breaking down your thunder striking
Moving like my body double
You flash your bread and butter
I'll stay and meet them after

Be right back
I'm going to Heaven
Be right back
I'm going to Heaven

Kiss me, and I hear the band marching loud
About to rip my big bad heart out
Moving like a river of trouble crossing
Moving like I can't help it

Be right back
I'm going to Heaven
Be right back
I'm going to Heaven
Be right back
I'm going to Heaven
Be right back
I'm gonna raise Hell

I've been gone for a minute
I've been lost for a minute
I've been ghost for a minute
I've been on it for a minute

Don't panic
Don't panic
I've been off it for a minute
Let me finish
Let me finish
Not gonna talk
Just gonna feel it

Be right back
Be right back
Going to Heaven
Be right back
Be right back

I've been gone for a minute
I've been lost for a minute
I've been ghost for a minute
I've been on it for a minute

Don't panic
Don't panic
I've been off it for a minute
But in spirit
But in spirit
If you let me finish

I'll be right back
I'm going to Heaven
Be right back
I'm going to Heaven
Be right back
I'm going to Heaven
Be right back
I'm gonna raise Hell

Be right back
Be right back
Be right back
Be right back
I'm going to Heaven
Going to Heaven
Going to Hell
I'm going to Heaven

The Kills - 103

Last days in LA you saved me baby from
Strange times
You catch me cooking in the kitchen, looking in
To the fire
Love will probably bake the burning at the stake, a step with me
Under the last palm tree and
Sip a little water from the dirty fountain, this'll be
The sum of it all

Oh, oh, oh
Keep me on the tip of your tongue
Oh (oh) oh
It's 103 in the sun

You don't know what you got
Or what you want but LA's hotter
Since you made me so damn low
You don't know what you want
Or how to stop when LA's not
What you've seen in me before

But I, I
Blame it on the summer
Yeah I, I
Blame it on the summer

These nights we've been tearing are temporary, but
Spit shines
Surfing the current on an eighty-proof serpent, your
Red eyes
Love above the radar heart, riding soaked up to the nines
Sitting on blocks and
Every elevator in the city says it's going up
When it's on the rocks and

Oh (oh) oh
Keep me on the tip of your tongue
Oh (oh) oh
It's 103 in the sun

You don't know what you got
Or what you want but LA's hotter
Since you made me so damn low
You don't know what you want
Or how to stop when LA's not
What you've seen in me before

But I, I
Blame it on the summer
Yeah I, I
Blame it on the summer
Yeah I, I
Blame it on the summer
Yeah I, I
Blame it on the summer

The Kills - Magazine

I took a little from the middle of a magazine
Wrote it out on a blank sheet
Signed my name and made the crease
It may be my greatest piece
I think I think it's gonna sell
Promise me you'll never tell
Trust me it will be a breeze
It's so easy to please

Okay stop okay stop okay okay stop okay stop okay stop

Now everything's goin' really good
Since I left the neighbourhood
Broken window, no big deal
Most people think that I'm for real
I'm cooler now I've got the look
I think it's time to do a book
I read one that I really like
But it'll take some time to retype

Okay stop okay stop okay okay stop okay stop okay stop
Okay stop okay stop okay okay stop okay stop okay stop

So many parties to attend
I look but I can see no end
I think I think I got it sealed
Everybody thinks that I'm for real

Okay stop okay stop okay okay stop okay stop okay stop
Okay stop okay stop okay okay stop okay stop okay stop

The Kills - Run Home Slow

You play with dogs
You lay with the dogs
You like it or not man
You lay with the dogs
Chewing your fingers
And rattling your mouth
Four and twenty hours
Just to wait for the sound

It's easily done my friend
It's easily done my friend
And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow

You lay with the dogs man
You lay with the dogs
A little too long man
You lay with the dogs
Chasing their taillights
And jumping their bones
Four and twenty hours
Till they take you on home

It's easily done my friend
Just take it and run, my friend
It's easily done
It's easily done
I'd easily do it again

And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you holler and cry
And you run home slow
And you're hit and you're down
And you run home slow, little pony

Took a cherry, took a twenty
Took my skin and took my bone
Took a car and took a hit
And took myself far away from home
Took your card and took your messages
And took a look and then
Took a walk and turned around
And took a look again
You took my boots, you took my keys
And took a twenty, took a ten
Took your calls and your warnings about calling again

And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you holler and cry
And you run home slow
And you're hit and you're down
And you run home slow, little pony

It's easily done my friend
Just take it and run my friend
It's easily done
It's easily done
I've easily done it again

And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you holler and cry
And you run home slow
And you bitch and you whine
And you run home slow, little pony

Took your card and took your messages
And took a look and then
Took a walk and turned around
And took a look again
You took my boots, you took my keys
You took a twenty and took a ten
Took your calls and your warnings about calling again

And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow
And you're wild for the night
And you run home slow, little pony
Little pony
Little pony
Little pony

The Kills - Rodeo Town

If I'm so evil

Then why are you satisfied

If I'm so evil

Why are you satisfied?

I had a dream about your ghost

You're breathing down my neck

Baby it starts in the shower

By letting your ashes down the drain

You were telling me how

This ain't no Rodeo Town

I caught the gun

But you made me set it down

You were telling me how

This ain't no Rodeo Town

I caught the gun

But you made me set it down

If I'm so evil

Then why are you all satisfied?

If I'm so evil

Why are you satisfied?

When you left you said

I'm gonna keep an eye on you

Well I don't mind if you do

But you can't keep quiet

You were telling me how

This ain't no Rodeo Town

I caught the gun

But you made me set it down

You were telling me how

This ain't no Rodeo Town

I caught the gun

But you made me set it down

You were telling me how

This ain't no Rodeo Town

I caught the gun

But you made me set it down

You were telling me how

This ain't no Rodeo Town

I caught the gun

But you made me set it down

The Kills - Kiss the Wrong Side

These gifts that you give me are so pretty
These gifts that you give me are not mine
You give me mirrors, all eyes no mouth
You give me mirrors of yourself

These gifts that you give me, a' comin' to cure me
These gifts that you give me are not nice
You give me mirrors to keep me from feeling
You give me mirrors to keep me sweet an'

Kiss the wrong side
Kiss the wrong side

These gifts that you give me are so pretty
These gifts that you give aren't really mine
You give me mirrors to keep me from feeling
You give me mirrors to keep me sweet an'

Kiss the wrong side
Kiss the wrong side

Kiss the wrong side

The Kills - Sugar Baby

Got no sugar baby now

It's all I can do, to seek peace with you

And I can't get along this a way

No, I can't get along this a way

All I can do, all I can say

Gonna send it to your mama next pay day

I'll send it to your mama next pay day

Who'll rock the cradle, who'll sing the song

Who'll rock the cradle when I'm gone?

Who'll rock the cradle when I'm gone?

I'll rock the cradle, I'll sing the song

I'll rock the cradle when you're gone

I'll rock the cradle when you're gone

Got no honey baby now

I got no honey baby now

I got no sugar baby now

So, all I can say, all I can do

And I can't make a living with you

No, I can't make a living with you

The Kills - Heart Of A Dog

From sea to mountain valley

From flesh to palms a’ swaying

Dreamers dreaming on

No matter what they’re saying

I need you

Don’t ask me why it is

I want strings - attached

Unnatural as it feels

I’m loyal, oh oh, I’m loyal

From starry eyes colliding

From Mars to someone crying

I’m never far away

No matter what I’m hiding

I get lost

But I always come around

It’s a strange fear

Allows me to be found

I’m loyal, oh oh, I’m loyal

I’m loyal, oh oh

I got the heart of a dog

It’s life or death why I chew through the chain

It don’t matter my love’s the same

Go so far but never long

Can’t break the spell in my heart

I’m loyal, oh oh, I’m loyal

I’m loyal, oh oh

I got the heart of a dog

From bars to beds of laying

From boots of lead to changing

I’m hooked from deep inside

Call when you’re ready cos I’m ready to ride

I’m loyal, oh oh

I’m loyal, oh oh

I got the heart of a dog

The Kills - Superpowerless

Take a drink of my red wine
I've got enough to go around,
Take a drink of mine
I've got enough to go around.

'Til you're drunk, 'til you're high, 'til you're fake, 'til you're crushed.
'Til you're drunk, 'til you're high, 'til you're fake, 'til you're crushed.

Come into my shipwreck
Half the time we just sit around,
Talkin' shit over sour milk
Waitin' for the rain to come down.

'Til you're drunk, 'til you're high, 'til you're fed, 'til you're crushed, 'til you're red, 'til you're superpowerless.
'Til you're drunk, 'til you're high, 'til you're fed, 'til you're crushed, 'til you're red, 'til you're superpowerless.

Take the weight off my mind
I got enough to slow you down,
Take a cut of mine-oh-mine
I've got enough to go around.
Leave me when you're giving in
when you're last little lie is out,
I'll show you just how dark it gets
When the sun really does go down.

'Til you're drunk, 'til you're high, 'til you're fed, 'til you're crushed, 'til you're red, 'til you're superpowerless.
'Til you're drunk, 'til you're high, 'til you're fed, 'til you're crushed, 'til you're red, 'til you're superpowerless.
'Til you're drunk, 'til you're high, 'til you're fed, 'til you're crushed, 'til you're dead, 'til you're superpowerless.
'Til you're drunk, 'til you're high, 'til you're fed, 'til you're crushed, 'til you're dead, 'til you're superpowerless.

Everything is okay
If everything stays the same.

'Til you're drunk, 'til you're high, 'til you're fed, 'til you're crushed, 'til you're red, 'til you're superpowerless.
'Til you're drunk, 'til you're high, 'til you're fed, 'til you're crushed, 'til you're red, 'til you're superpowerless.

The Kills - DNA

When it came to pass,

Loaded, pass me by

Fate, with a single blow,

Has clustered by me now

True, I had my chance,

True, true, true I had those wild charms for you

Oh, oh...

My fire burned them out

But we will not be moved by it

But we will not be moved by it

Your mind would never ache,

When you were young and sound

The way your heart aches now,

You feel you sent them onto ground

Love, love, love til you got enough,

Dance, dance, dance, if you got no love around you Love, love, love, til' you got enough,

Dance, dance, dance, til' there's noone left to hound you

We will not be moved by it

But we will not be moved by it

Oh, oh...

Love, love, love til you got enough,

Dance, dance, dance, if you got no love around you Love, love, love, til you got enough,

Dance, dance, dance, til' there's noone left to hound you

We, we will not be moved by it

But we will not be moved by it

But we will not be moved by it

But we will not be moved by it

The Kills - U.R.A Fever

Walk you to the counter, (What you got to offer?)

Pick you out a solder, (Look at you forever.)

Walk you to the water, (Your eyes like a casino.)

We ain't born typical.

Find a piece of silver, (Pretty as a diagram.)

And go down to the Rio. (Put it in my left hand.)

Put it in a fruit machine, (Everyone's a winner.)

Laughin' like a seagull.

You are a fever, you are a fever -- you ain't born typical.

You are a fever, you are a fever -- you ain't born typical.

Livin' in a suitcase, (Meet a clown, fall in love.)

Went down to have you over, (Going 'round a breakup.)

Take you to a jukebox, (That's the situation.)

Pick you out a number. (And that's our arrangement.)

Dancing on the legs of a newborn pony,

Left-right, left-right -- keep it up, son.

Go ahead and have her, go ahead and leave her,

You only ever had her when you were a fever.

I am a fever, I am a fever -- I ain't born typical.

I am a fever, I am a fever -- I ain't born typical.

We are a fever, we are a fever -- we ain't born typical.

We are a fever, we are a fever -- we ain't born typical.

We are a fever, we are a fever -- we ain't born typical.

We are a fever, we are a fever -- we ain't born typical.

The Kills - That Love

One two three four

Will you or won't you
Cross that road in time?
Will you or won't you outrun,
what you know you must?

It's over now
It's over now
That love you're in
Is fucked up

Will you or won't you
Land softly down?
Will you or won't you
Be around?

It's over now
It's over now
That love you're in
Is all fucked up
That love is done

If you get a minute
You can find a whole day and think
Let somebody in that ain't
Cuttin' like a snake

The thump of the red blooded heart
Is trumped by the art of war
Try the truth and test it before
You lose sight of the shore

It's over now
It's over now
That love you're in
Is a fucking joke
That love

The Kills - Hitched

Don't you leave me here
Don't you leave me here
Get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get hitched

Get back, get by
Get a room, give me 105
Don't lie, don't care
Don't answer if you call me there

Don't you leave me here
Don't you leave me here
Get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get hitched.

Lay down by the road
Black rocks and a can of holes
Gone four, gone five
Sweating, cussing on the mean side

Don't you leave me here
Don't you leave me here
Get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get
Get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get
Hitched

Keep, keep on your mean side
Keep, keep on your mean side
Keep, keep on your mean side
Keep, keep on your mean side
Get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get
Hitched

Sit tight, getting by
Got a room, got my 10-5
Say it son, get gone
Smiling, all like a dead-eyed dog

Don't you leave me here
Don't you leave me here
Get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get
Get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get
Hitched

Get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get
Get my name stitched on your lips so you won't get
Hitched

Keep, keep on your mean side
Keep, keep on your mean side
Keep, keep on your mean side
Keep, keep on your mean side

Keep, keep on your mean side
Keep, keep on your mean side
Keep, keep on your mean side
Keep, keep on your mean side

The Kills - Satellite

Lost her behind the station
Lost her behind the moon
Operator, operator, dial her back
Operator put me through
Ahuuuh, Satellite gave up the ghost too soon
Rising on the thermals
She's calling in and out the blue
Ahuuuh, carried her off on a silver spoon
I loved her too long, don't take her too
Oooohhh ohhhhhhh

Oh how he crossed us on that fate your path in my own satellite
What a mess a little time makes to us when time and place collide
Operator, operator, dial her back
Operator, operator, don't take her too.
I loved her too her long, don't love her too
Operator, operator, dial her back
Operator, operator, don't take her too
I love her too her long, don't love her too, don't love her too
Oooohhh ohhhhhhh...

The Kills - Echo Home

I'm flowing with the waters
I'm spinning into orbit
So won't you come on home
And make it alright

I'm drifting in the same old boat
With a different crew
So won't you come on home
And make it alright
Won't you echo back
And make it fine

Maybe you'll go out of your mind
You can lose it all if you wanna
Maybe you'll go out of mine
It's been so long

You can keep your own dear life
You can lose it all if you wanna
But I can't keep you out of mine, oh no

We were dancing to a beat of our own
Flying with our speakers blown
Oh won't you come on back
And make it alright

And if I take a turn for the worst
And I call you on the phone
Will you echo home when I call
Won't you echo back and make it alright
Won't you echo home and make me fine

Maybe you went out of your mind
You can lose it all if you wanna
Maybe you went out of mine
It's been so long

You can live your own dear life
You can lose it all if you wanna
But I can't let you out of mine, oh no

And it's a long long long long drop
From the rocks to the pearls, we got so lost
We got so lost, we got so lost
For so long

And it's a long long long long drop
From the rocks to the pearls, we got so lost
We got so lost, we got so lost
For so long, for so long, so long
For so long, oh

Maybe you went out of your mind
You can lose it all if you wanna
Maybe you went out of mine
It's been so long

You can live your own dear life
And you can lose it all if you wanna
But I can't let you out of mine, oh no

I'm flowing with the waters
I'm spinning into orbit
So won't you come on home
And make it alright
So won't you come on home
And make it fine

The Kills - At The Back Of The Shell

Kiss all your fingers
What's that for
You'll never get to heaven
With your shirt all tore
Cut through your finger
And cut you loose
Lost a lot a blood
Lost a lot a cool cool cool

Now it ain't such a thrill
It ain't such a thrill
Now it ain't such a thrill
It get's a little dirty
Like the guts of a hack
And you'll never get it back
You'll never get the damn thing back

Looked a picture
It took up half a roll
The way you went and took off
Half your clothes, and now

It ain't such a thrill
It ain't such a thrill
It started at the back of the shell
And it ain't such a thrill

Running to catch up
The last city bus
Wearing out your yellow
Hula dress
Lipstick a mess
Your ch-cherry best
Kissing on the window
Just to check on the red

You know, it ain't such a thrill
Now it ain't such a thrill
It started at the back of the shell
Now it ain't such a thrill
It ain't such a thrill
It ain't such a thrill
It ain't such a thrill...

The Kills - Black Tar

One hit, one invention
You must pay your ransom
Love, lust, you're too handsome
Fairytales are fair game

The world is looking for you
Sharpening its blade
London's bloodthirsty
Paris is a vein, open
A vein on the pulse of mean

Big brushing out-winged sparrow
I'm gonna catch you by the hair of the night
Fortune's arrow
Prick quick to pick a fight

The world is tripping for you
Bidding on your blood
L.A. Catatonia
New York black tar runs, over
Runs over you for fun

Big brushing out-winged sparrow
Hot cooking all De Niro Light
Tucked, prim and primed
If chance were so divine, why

Cool thing go mad and crazy
Some dick is looking for a way
White screen field of daisies
Pull em up, but they all stay
Standing in your way
Stay, standing in your way

The Kills - Tape Song

You've got to
You've got to
You've got to
You've got to

Tape ain't gonna fix it
Honey, it ain't gonna stick
Tape ain't gonna fix it
Honey, it ain't gonna stick to you

Six kinds of glue
Won't hold you
Won't hold you
Oh my oh, oh my
You've got to

You've got to go straight ahead
You've got to, you've got to go straight ahead

Time ain't gonna cure you
Honey, time don't give a shit.
Time ain't gonna cure you
Honey, time's just gonna hit on you
I said time ain't gonna cure you
Honey, time don't give a shit
Time ain't gonna cure you
Honey, time's just gonna hit on you

You've got to go straight ahead
You've got to, you've got to, to go straight ahead

Time ain't gonna cure you
Honey, time don't give a shit.
Time ain't gonna cure you
Honey, time's just gonna hit on you
I said, six kinds of glue
Won't hold you, won't hold you
Oh my oh, oh my you've got to
You've got to, you've got to

You've got to go straight ahead
You've got to, you've got to go straight ahead