Tigers Jaw - Charmer Album Lyrics

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Cool

it's the shadowy whisper that brushes my leg
or sends you shooting it through my brain
it's the way you back up into my veins

it's a cruel world
but it's cool

it's how you keep wearing me all on your clothes
or pull me back on my own bed
or let me see you getting changed

it's a cruel world
but it's cool

well i'm out in california now
ari gave me his new car
and all the girls are so champagne
i'm a high liver
i'm a slow burner

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Frame You

If I could frame you
It would be the only way to keep you in once place,
But I couldn't blame you for running away
You say, "We'll be alone someday",
This is directly from every conversation
That we should've had, but don't tell me, don't tell me

I am your childhood home,
Empty like the words you said
But you couldn't leave me alone,
Because I was a wreck and you were the savior type

You are polished and proud
You took the words from my mouth
So I started writing them down
In hopes to somehow figure you out

This is a false content, this is a last attempt
Fire walk with me until I'm dead

And I started this fire and I watched it burn to the ground
And I started this fire and I watched it burn to the ground
And I started this fire and I watched it burn to the ground
And I started this fire and I watched it burn to the ground

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Hum

From the basement where we first talked,
to the ride home
'with the kids we barely knew, '
you left a permanent scar.''

Memories are taped on our walls,'
hung as a reminder.'
How easy it could be,
when we weren't growing apart.

''I'm always talking in circles,
'I always think until I can't sleep.''

We always want what is kept from us. '
Well maybe I am the liar,'
and there is nothing that is left for us.'
You are a permanent scar.''

I'm always talking in circles, '
I always think until I can't sleep.''

You are the leaves at my feet.
'You are the hum of electric heat.
'I kept myself away,'
but I'm starting to like the pain.

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Charmer

I was getting bored of the compliments
You were sleeping over the best part of it
Telling me something I don't care about

See my silhouette on your shoulder blade
I'm the only person that does what I want
Telling me something I don't care about
Definitely feeling unnecessary pain
Say that there's no consequence
Then you walk away

Hey I need you my new charmer
I've been thinking don't you wanna
Be my perfect babe instead
I can't sleep in other beds
Can I have ya my madonna
Muscle grinder, my new charmer
Bicep grabber, black madonna
Can I have ya, my new charmer
My new charmer, black madonna

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Nervous Kids

Thought I was lying
I wasn't worth the time
But I learned more about you
just from the look in your eyes
And I was blind to
How you destroyed me
You have a talent
But you know that

Traitors are out now
Everything's darker
Your problems look so big from the ground
Raise them up for all to see
Shout them out from top of twin peaks

We're just nervous kids
We're just

Thought I was lying
I wasn't worth the time
We're just nervous kids
We're just over it
We're just nervous kids
We're just over it

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I Envy Your Apathy

Rosemary when I rise
Willing full bathed in noise
Light pouring down like rain
Last time I saw you, you were love
Last time I saw you, you were love

Come down to me, confess
Like a straight up conduit
My fortune-suspended
Last time I saw you, you were love
Gratification
True life blood

Beauty, you're killing me
Mocking sensitivity

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Divide

I'll take a shot in the dark
I saw you standing in the doorway
There are a lot of things we try to hide
But you are drowning
It's in your eyes

I don't wanna be known
For a lack of control
I don't wanna be the last to know
I've come to find
We are consumed by what we try to hide

But it's too cold to walk home
And I know I shouldn't call you
It's too cold to walk home
And you know that I will call you

React or divide
The room is silent
I am anxious
I'm too young I'm too young
To let this get in the way

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Slow Come On

They're the people that turn me on,
that's why I never bother.
I don't even care how mean they are.
So I don't ever take your calls,
'cause I don't ever want them.

Slow come on
Tell me you're scared
What you've done
Tell me you're scared
Dusk to dawn

It's a body that won't turn on,
So I don't ever bother.
Baby's got the blankest stare.
So I don't ever take your calls,
'cause I don't ever want them.

Does it turn you on?
Does it turn you on?
To feel the knife roll over slowly?
Does it turn you on?
Does it turn you on?
To feel the nails roll over slow?

Slow come on,
Yeah come on, come on, come on, come on
Let me in, let me in, let me in, let me in.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Let me in, let me in, let me in.

Why am I so cruel?
Why am I so mean?

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Teen Rocket

My mind is full of reasons
I can't help who we've become
A time capsule
Buried in the way you make me numb

You're always looking at the floor
When I'm looking in your eyes
Distance is measured by the mind
And it's hard for me
It's hard for me to let you in

I am the voice that you hear
The castaway in your head
I am the point that you miss
I'm much too quiet to change any mind
Can't fix your life
Can't even handle mine

I talk with my thoughts in my head again

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Soft Spoken

It takes one to love you
I was catching up with friends
I stole my name in jewelry
Feel the marrow hit my hands
It's emotional garbage I've heard before

It takes one to love you
Someone dumb enough to buy
Tie my hands in plastic bags
Choke me on the ride
Even though I'm working out
I still like to get by
I've heard it before and I hate the sound

It's how I wanted to be softspoken
It's how I wanted to be
Softspoken
It's how I wanted to be

It takes one to love you
It takes one to love you
softspoken

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Distress Signal

Look back to the first time
You caused harm to the ones you love
We're all lying in wait
To redeem ourselves, to redeem our name

My old man
Always said
You ought to be more tactful
Face your attacker

Theres something about the place that we grew up
That makes me feel nothing for where we are now
We grow up, we move out
A brick wall view that reminds me of nothing but you

I dont wanna be lost like this anymore
Distress signal

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What Would You Do

Everyone waits by the corner of my bed until I'm out of my body to talk
I'm going to wait until you get out of work to see if you're thirsty or not
Brushed up on my arm
Couldn't sit closer
Play with your hair and then stop
Like you were the world's ugliest person that nobody wants to pick up

I know that you were sleeping in the car
I know that's when you put your legs against mine
I saw you in your high school picture

I know that I'm the tamest of boys
Why else would my voice be so soft
I feel you're something
I feel your sympathy
I don't feel anything at all

I'll touch you and you'll know I'm really bored
I'll call you when I'm cool enough to want you
You'll see me and you'll know you're sleeping

What would you do?

I was the caller so you answered the call
I was just restless
Like anxious and all
I want to feel you
I mean the real you
I'm under your skin
Like I want to be you

I was the caller so you answered the call
I was just restless
Like anxious and all
I want to feel you
I mean the real you
I'm under your skin
Like I want to be you

I was the caller so you answered the call
I was just restless
Like anxious and all
I want to feel you
I mean the real you
I'm under your skin
Like I want to be you

What would you do?