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GARAGE HYMNS

by Empires

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1.
You can have your party In your momma’s garage Laughing and drinking In a nice mirage With bowie in the background Crying over girls Somehow I’m playing In your made up world Hey can’t take your heart away from me Hey hey hey I’ve got control of everything Hey Can’t steal your heart away from me Hey hey hey You lost control of everything If you don’t love me You better learn Quit being so dramatic And invite the burn With bowie in the background Crying over girls Except that I ain’t lonely In your pretty world Nothing that you can do Watch my eyes rewind you Everything you have I take
2.
I saw you dancing like you need to forget Did you forget did you forget The way you got me with the side of your hip It made me forget, made me forget I’ve got an endless itch in the pit of my chest I’m being my best, I’m weak in my chest I’ve got the spine of a snake when it comes to my head You’re into my head Are you ready Are you ready or not Keep it steady While your heart is hot We’re going to freedom In this parking lot Are you ready Are you ready or not All the cars eyes are peaking out from the side You see the headlights I hear the engines cry I fear the bullet coming close From the one you know Already jealous thug Lets see who’s having fun I hear high groan As you melt away You lost the pain In your pretty face Mind’s coming out as you hold me down You suck the pain that I’m sending All this is ending for now While we wait in a cloud of unconsciousness Maybe we are falling It’s all gonna happen again
3.
My first love, he went away He wrote a letter And he hit the grave He said "I don’t believe that anything lasts forever" Was curious to burn up He wondered if he was man enough Said "I don’t believe that anything lasts forever" I cry and I still cry Hells got my hero Maybe I’ll fall in I find it hard to stay awake The world’s bed is a tempting place But I don’t believe that anything lasts forever I don’t think I'll burn up I don’t think I’m man enough I don’t believe that anything lasts forever I cry and I still cry Hells got my hero Maybe I’ll fall in Down to hell with all my heroes Is that what love is Is that what love is Is that what love is Sometimes I get lost in the morning Sometimes I get lost at night Sometimes I throw up in the evening Sometimes I throw up in the night
4.
Someone’s got their hands on you Not the way you want them to But you ain’t got a real fight Living in your eyes Somewhere in your newest fears Sunday morning won’t appear I say oh the night Oh the night is young Maybe its your young age Holding like a prison cage You think you’ll grow old In the same damn place You’re always thinking of somewhere Cause anything is better than here Your screwing for love Cause it gets you there Somewhere in your newest fears Sunday morning won't appear Oh the night, oh the night is young You know your daddy lived hard And it took his heart Go out and knock on his grave See if he’ll wake up He'll slap you right in the face Say oh honey hey I don’t think Your day has come Honey oh the night is young   Someone’s got their hands on you What the hell you gonna do But you know oh the night Oh the night is young I say oh the night is young
5.
Runaway 03:34
Freedom gave You too much time to go and misbehave You are no longer anybody’s slave You’re free young runaway You got them holey feet Two pin cushions, you think you're. so discreet You’re sick of sticking with the alley creeps Now you’re sticking with me You say you're broken down Beg me to help you out Heart like a megaphone I ain’t your telephone Why don’t you go on home Why don’t you go on home Why don’t you go on home The truth is I'm a runaway I'm running from the modern day The truth is that your paradise Ain’t my paradise Your eyes I love But I don’t think they shine enough I really wish that they would lighten up Instead of looking all fussed Beg me to break it down You got a nervous sound Heart like a megaphone You’re scared to be alone Why don't you go on home   Run back to your mother She will save you She will be your lover No more misbehavior And I’ll be your savior Run back to your mother She will save you She will be your lover No more misbehavior I will be your savior Heart like a megaphone
6.
Shame 04:10
Emotionless to the love of your life Is it all you have left Have you gone with rebels of heart? Such a terrible place to go We were close We were cold We were sure to grow old Where did you go Where did you go This is all such a low down dirty Shame On you tonight, little girl For expiring in our world Emotionless in the dead of night Where we normally laugh or fight What’s it like when your heart carries vice Toward the meaning of your life Just turn your head and go all night I’ll be here I’ll be alright Just turn your head into the night Turn Away I’ll be alright Just turn away
7.
Surrenderer (free) 03:42
I heard a shot outside my door I think it's hardly something I should explore My ears are ringing and my eyes are wide I start begging for mercy I ain't ready to go When nobody knows you, nobody cares and nobody see's you, cause youre not really there You got me where you want me come and get me come on You got me where you want me I surrender come on You got me where you want me come and get me come on, come on Surrender I'm outside I think I'm alone I got no pockets got no cellular phone I hear a whisper, is it my ghost? I start begging for mercy, I aint ready to go I aint ready to go When nobody knows you, nobody cares and nobody see's you, cause youre not really there You got me where you want me come and get me come on You got me where you want me I surrender come on You got me where you want me come and get me come on, come on Surrender You got me where you want me come and get me come on (repeat a few times) You're not really there Nobody see's ya, nobody see's ya, nobody see's ya You got me where you want me come and get me come on You got me where you want me I surrender come on You got me where you want me come and get me come on, come on Surrender
8.
Hard Times 04:21
Stranded in the dead of night Wishing for another time Something tugging at my soul I’m learning what the junkies know Does anybody else know Does anybody else know Does anybody else know you like I do Does anybody else know Does anybody else know you like I do I found heaven in hard times I found the crazy place where it all hides  I lost sight of Gloria She never lost sight of me I'm gonna reach Gloria She’s holding her hand to me You gotta little of the hard times baby I took a road off main street Then something got a hold of me I've challenged all the ones I love It gave my heart a heavy rub? I want to see you I want to see you She says I’ll never leave you alone I’ll never leave you alone
9.
Lady I got a thing for you And I hope you like me too There’s no reason we should admit things Talks for lovers dancing under moon beams We’re two strangers drunk in a taxi cab seat It ain’t my heart it ain’t my heart That’s in your hands Do what you want with it It ain’t my fault, ain’t your fault If this goes bad We lost magic We lost magic Lady, I’ll never read to you And you’ll never ask me to You’re so happy I’m so relieved We can hide this memory under our sleeves One man’s watching but its just you and me Oh its just you and me Oh we’ll disappear And we’ll never come back And oh we’ll disappear We'll be unwelcome here Oh we’ll disappear And we’ll never be welcomed here
10.
Hitchhiker 03:26
I keep forgetting every night and day Every last minute every way Looking out looking out From a car window I forget everything I know On a howling road On a howling road I keep on looking for familiar eyes I wish for someone I can recognize There’s a hole in my heart like a wishing well I’ve think it's dry as far as I can tell On a howling road On a howling road I found a pretty soul? Hitchhiking on the howling round She says I don’t know the way Won’t you lead me on I don’t know your name But won’t you turn me on I don’t know the way Won’t you lead me on I don’t know your name But won’t you turn me on Now you got me and you know you do You got me real fascinating move Where you’re coming from Don't think I’ve ever seen And now you’re showing your whole world to me On a howling road On a howling road I found a pretty soul Hitchhikin on the howlin road I don’t know the way Won’t you lead me on I don’t know your name But won’t you turn me on I don’t know the way Won’t you lead me on I don’t know your name But won’t you turn me on
11.
I think I see things some other way I think I've marched as an angel into the devil’s cage I wanna fuck up society and piss in its grave I wanna love somebody in a selfless way Its time for the end and the beginning to meet Time for what I lost to come back to me I wanna challenge my death by coming back to life I'm gonna do it all over, gonna make things right Lord have mercy On me I wanna suck out the venom Coursing your veins I wanna do something nice So I ain’t ashamed When I stand like a prisoner Outside of heaven’s gate I wanna get some pity for my actions made Time doesn’t make me scared at all It only makes me think I better jump not fall? Its time for me to sacrifice I wanna smile for the problem child in god Lord have mercy On me

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GARAGE HYMNS digital booklet included

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released June 12, 2012

Words by Sean Van Vleet
Music by Empires
Produced, engineered & mixed by Max Steger
Recorded at Thunderdome Studios, Chicago, IL
Additional Assisting by Will Masisak
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering,
Boston, MA. Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice
Artwork & photography by Tom Conrad
All songs published by Spit The Music (BMI)
Except 'Hitchhiker' by I Want Blood Publishing (ASCAP)

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