Maybe I could swim into your thoughts like your drugs do 
Paralyze your body
Sick and tired of waking up too
Burning eyes and cigarettes
I’m falling through the couch like a suicide mission tonight 
My God, here comes the downside 

Wild eyes of terror pray for sex on the beach while 
Oceans of kerosene will soak into me 
I’m not meant for this world, I just don’t see the point 
Don’t think about it, don’t over think about it 

And life is a joke 
But everything’s riding on me tonight 
Been counting the stars and scars 
How I’m becoming a work of art

In desperate times and desperate measures 
I come so close, my hopes are severed by the downside 
A million waves in the ocean crash at once to make you smile

The whispered words “You’d better hide the bullets” 
You stayed on the phone and talked to me day and night 
Trigger my nightmare once again
And it’s fucking loaded in hand

And we’ll let the fire rage
The smoke and the drowning flames 
My bedroom computer light is the only menace to my new faux wooden blinds

In desperate times and desperate measures 
I come so close, my hopes are severed by the downside 
A million waves in the ocean crash at once to make you smile

Now, I only pray when it all goes down 
I’ll be surrounded by all of the ones I’ve loved and cared about 
And then burn it down

And life is a joke 
But at least I can love you, naked and tattooed
Counting the stars and scars 
And if the pain is a sound, let’s slow it down

Desperate times and desperate measures 
I come so close, my hopes are severed by the downside 
A million waves in the ocean crash at once to make you smile

Now, I only pray when it all goes down 
I’ll be surrounded by all of the ones I’ve loved and cared about 
And then burn it down

Your serotonin’s gone
The kerosene is gone
The sunset is gone
So hold on