The MCR lyrics of all time

The amount of pills I'm taking
Counteracts the booze I'm drinking
And this vanity I'm breaking
Lets me live my life like this

And there's no room in this Hell, there's no room in the next
But does anyone notice there's a corpse in this bed?

I'll never let them hurt you, I promise

As ice cold hands rip into your heart

That's if you've still got one that's left
Inside that cave you call a chest
And after seeing what we saw
Can we still reclaim our innocence?

The doctors and the nurses they adore me so
But it's really quite alarming 'cause I'm such an awful fuck

I am not afraid to keep on living
I am not afraid to walk this world alone

I spent my high school career spit on and shoved to agree
So I could watch all my heroes sell a car on TV

You should've raised a baby girl, I should've been a better son

But counting down the days to go, it just ain't living

and though you're Dead and gone, believe me, your memory
Will carry on

If life ain't just a joke, then why are we laughing?

You'll never get me alive, you'll never take me alive
Do what it takes to survive, and I'm still here

It's been ten fucking years since I've been seeing your Face 'round here
And you're walking away and I will drown in the fear

They never had the time They're going to medicate your lives
You were always born a crime

Well, my gun fires seven different shades of shit
So what's your favorite color, punk?

Shut up and let me see your jazz hands

I'm who I've got to be, these pigs are after me, after you

Sterile and collectible, safe, and I can't stand it

And if we can't find where we belong We'll have to make it on our own
Face all the pain and take it on

How would you be
Many years after the disasters that we've seen?
What have we learned
Other than people burn in purifying flame?

Where, where will you stand
When all the lights go out, across these city streets?
Where were you when all of the embers fell?
I still remember them
Covered in ash, covered in glass
Covered in all my friends
I still think of the bombs they built

Get off the ledge and drop the knife
Not a victim of a victim's life

This ain't about all the friends you made
But the graffiti they write on your grave

So, just save yourself and I'll hold them back
Tonight!

If what you are
Is just what you own
What have you become
When they take from you almost everything?

All the cameras watch the accidents and stars you hate
They only care if you can bleed

Does the television make you feel

Cause you only live forever in the lights you make

Well, if I'm old enough to die for your mistakes
Then let's go

They're teaching me to kill, who's teaching me to love?

If I could be with you tonight I would sing you to sleep
Never let them take the light behind your eyes

One day, I'll lose this fight As we fade in the dark
Just remember you will always burn as bright

Not ashamed of what I am I took the pills for these empty nights
'Cause it makes me who I am

And did you come to stare or wash away the blood?

I can see you awake anytime, in my head

But even good guys
Still get paid

'Cause even heroes
Get the blues

I choose defeat
I walk away
And leave this place
The same today

And would you stay, right here? When I tell you
That someone out there loves you

And we would all build towers of our own
Only to watch the rooms corrode

You must fix your heart
And you must build an altar where it rests

Will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays?