[This is originally posted from mcrdeviantclub.tumblr.com http://mcrdeviantclub.tumblr.com/post/104381308331/piano-jam-lyrics-two-versions] PIANO JAM LYRICS: TWO VERSIONS (After listening and re-listening to the clearest versions of Gerard’s unreleased song “Piano Jam” on Youtube, I’ve transcribed most of the lyrics. This is just what I heard, so nothing’s official or set in stone. Feel free to use them for analysis, edits, general curiosity, etc.) Gerard Way - Piano Jam 10/23/14 In the pouring rain Where did you go? And why did you stay? And after it all I’ll be waiting here After you stay In the accident (?) I wouldn’t lie I wouldn’t say Ask(ed) me too much Ask me to stay In the ambulance In the ambulance Through it all In the pouring rain I followed you there How long did we stay? Through the last time I saw your face And through the glass (?) And I couldn’t I wouldn’t lie I couldn’t say Why did you go? How could I stay? In the ambulance In the ambulance In the ambulance In the ambulance In the ambulance Gerard Way- Piano Jam (LIVE- 10/19/14) Who am I? To walk in I could’ve been And I could’ve stayed Where am I? After all these years How could you die? And why did I stay? After it all Where would I’ve been Holding your hand Holding your hand In the ambulance In the ambulance In the ambulance Through dark times In the pouring rain Where could I find Find you, my friend If we run All through the night Maybe we’ll meet But maybe we won’t I let you wake (?) I wouldn’t know Where have I been? I’ve been here In the ambulance Holding your hand Holding your hand Where have I In the ambulance Holding your hand And holding your hand
at the 02 Brixton Academy, London January 2015 [Hi guys and co-fans, this is not the original lyrics, this is just a posibility I assumed to the song Cheap Lights of Gerard Way, but you can help me improve this, it's just my work on few weeks with a lot of hearing the this song from Brixton. I'll work on the other version of Cheap Lights later. But now I'll dedicate another week for hearing this lovely song to be improved I'll update this... P.S. Love you Gerard Way!!! :) <3 ]
Cheap lights
From across the broken glass
From across the room I left
In a rundown place
Where the chairs are spent
I can see he turn your hand
Or a smile in my crap
Or may be we went it wrong
Cheap lights
From the little kind of old class
Where the other kind will trash
And we're on two hands
But we sure can dance
And we may not be too smart
And we may not got the cash
Well life's not cheap if you live it right
You will in a body
And I was never part of friend
And there's some kind that I forgot
We're league and uprighten
But we could be something
But we'll never be a getaway
I will be hearing what I hear to loveWith all these expensive hours
If we don’t stop leaving If we don’t stop leaving accidents We’ll never get that far Who you are If we all stop needing If we all stop needing oxygen We’ll never get to fall, so far These are the days like crazy rain Like a flood will try to catch you and just fade away There are the days that we wait to say You could go away Today If we all stop bleeding If we all stop bleeding over them We’ll never get too far Oh you are If we all stop needing If we all stop needing love to care about ourselves and who you are These are the days like crazy rain Like a flood will try to catch you and just fade away There are the days that we wait to say You could go away Today Say she always puts a gameshow on and Now she says she wants to be in movies Cuz it feels just like the apartment where you stayed And her favorite show means nothing to me Cuz I think I’m sick of it now These are the days like crazy rain Like a flood will try to catch you and just fade away These are the days that we wait to say You could go away
We’re not just dreamers, we’re the kind that comprehend We gather up our forces She’s busy hearing voices again- Pneumonic-screamers came to gather up our friends If giving in is pointless then get out of bed or this might be the end Voices hearing you loud We’re taking the sound back with us Now I’m hearing you loud We’re coming around Just give us more You teenage believers, rallied up against the fence Use weapons of clairvoyance You adolescent strike-force against Metallic deceivers From a planet far away But when you read my fortune are we running home or running free today? Voices hearing you loud We’re taking the sound back with us Now I’m hearing you loud We’re coming around Just give us more Are you hearing voices again? Are they with you, and are they giving you commands? I know you’ve had choices to make But I’m with you- You’re never facing them alone again Voices hearing you loud We’re taking the sound back with us Now I’m hearing you loud We’re coming around Just give us more Are you hearing voices? Are you waiting for this?
Across the city steam and light Off a runway to the manufactured night- In storybooks you'll never find In paper armor that you'd mind They'll hold the match to you this time- And watch the smoke rings fit the crime In moments you cannot reprise Like a soldier or a watch that you can't wind We fought the world with hands twice-tied The people cheered, the captain cried I'll keep the souvenir inside It's just better in my mind And I wouldn't lie I never really wanted more Than what I ever really needed after all Someone that hates to see me go You made a promise then you hide And you said we'd all be dead by twenty-five It's not your disappointed sigh It's not you traded this for pride Not that we really even mind We're just bored you're still alive And I wouldn't lie If I tried, take me down And if I die here now Wishing wells and magic spells and everything between Can you tell me what it's like? Or how it's going to be?
Who got stuck with the check? Who got left at the aisle Did they say they burned Capitol Station down? And then I heard Jennifer died in Rome They’ll come looking for answers They might start asking you why Anyway, I don’t need you to do me favors but I sure need you- I sure need you to lie Let’s get it together right now Let’s get it together somehow Can we get it together right now? Can we get it together somehow? Whatever happened to Rico? You heard what happened to Sly? Anyway, they all call him Michelle now and he had a new baby- A little girl Gemini You got blood on your money You got some mud in your eye Anyway, so tell Mara I miss that thing we had And tell Tara I’m sorry I never tried- To keep it together right now Just keep it together somehow Help me keep it together right now Can we keep it together somehow? You know if I come around this way again It’s gonna be a surprise She’s putting lipstick on homeless boys in Korea Town- Driving Angel down right now Right now Let’s get it together right now Let’s get it together somehow Can we get it together right now? Can we get it together somehow?
I can't swim, don't rub it in I'm gonna run a little faster I can't swim, so plug it in Me and my heavy metal master Down and around when the comes come down and Down and around when the cops come down on you Jump around to the cop-show sound Sing death to the crown, man I can't swim, don't rub it in I'm gonna run a little faster I'm greg ginn I'm running skin I'm selling glitter for the plaster Down and around when the comes come down and Down and around when the cops come down on you Jump around to the cop-show sound Sing death to the crown, man We got it. You got it. I want it. I want it now I can't swim, don't rub it in I'm gonna run a little faster I can't swim, so plug it in Me and my heavy, my heavy girl Down and around when the comes come down and Down and around when the cops come down on you Jump around to the cop-show sound Get straight cuz I'm down, man I can't swim
I got an offhand way Of getting in formation I got to walk away Jet-lag is suffocation Call me zero, zero, zero Call me zero you are zero Call me zero, zero, zero Call me zero you are zero-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh Another cloudy day Another observation They keep my DNA Down by the record station Call me zero, zero, zero Call me zero you are zero Call me zero, zero, zero Call me zero you are zero-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh You'll be coming around, and you'll be off your station Oh, oh, oh, and you'll be hanging around until you go in make-up Man, give me social-disease and give me teenage razors Man, give me social-disease and give me high-end phasers I got an offhand way Give me some information She gotta walk away Jet-lag is suffocation Call me zero, zero, zero Call me zero you are zero Call me zero, zero, zero Call me zero, you are zero Call me zero, zero, zero Call me zero, I am zero Call me zero, zero, zero Call me zero, I am, zero
Does anyone have the time to bring me down? And can I sleep all night long to the drums of the city rain? Just make it up 'Cause I'm awake all night long to the drums of the city rain And brother if you have the chance to pick me up? And can I sleep on your couch to the pound of the ache and pain? Oh, in my head 'cause I'm awake all night long to the drums of the city rain The lights we chase The nights we steal The things that we take To make us feel this I can't go back Don't think I will I won't sleep tonight as long as I still Hear the drums of the city rain Does anyone have the guts to shut me up? 'Cause I believe that every night There's a chance we can walk away So hold on tight Because I won't wait too long in the drums of the beating rain 'Cause the nights don't last And we leave alone Will you drive me back? Can you take me home? The lights we chase The nights we steal The things that we take To make us feel this I can't go back I don't think I will I won't sleep tonight as long as I still Hear the drums of the city rain Faces I don't know I am tired in the glow Of the freezing club Keep me breathing don't make the lights come back Can you take me home? We all need this when we leave alone Remember when you and I would make things up? So many nights, just take me down to the place we could hear them play I miss that sound 'Cause now we don't sing so loud To the drums of the city rain The lights we chase The nights we steal The things that we take To make us feel this I can't go back I don't think I will I won't sleep tonight as long as I still Hear the drums of the city rain Like strangers laugh and like subways feel Things I'm trying to break Oh, just wait until this is all we have to keep us ill I won't breathe tonight as long as I still hear the drums of the city rain
Been weeks I been living and your smiles are giving me all types of treble Weak knees I been given and those nights are making me star-struck and metal Stay free Don't go Cause we don't need no Try to be living as your vice and can you be my type? Cause we need to be given a good life and can I be your type of metal? Stay free Don't go Cause we don't need no shows We don't need no shows We don't need no shows Pay for the devil a plug to a pedal I'm your type Weak knees from the level, I'm sick from the treble, I'm your type of metal Weak knees don't go Cause we don't need no shows She's sweet as battery, man I got nothing You kiss an enemy's hands, I got nothing We got an animal band and that's something It's not love if it's just fucking We don't need no shows We don't need no shows We don't need no shows We don't need no shows We don't need no shows
We want television bodies that we can’t keep We have battles in the dark when she falls asleep We can make it up again We can make it up again And we don’t care we just pretend With our faces on the mend And don’t ask a lot And you won’t lose a lot Don’t ask for much Every accidental damage I wouldn’t take Every heart I left behind that you couldn’t break We can make it up again We can make it up again And we don’t care we just pretend With our faces on the mend And don’t ask a lot And you won’t lose a lot Don’t ask for much And I still miss you Say I missed you too Still I miss you Say I missed me too Still I missed you Say I missed me too We want action and decision that we can't fake We got fire cracker wishes that we can make We can make it up again We can make it up again And we don’t care we just pretend With our faces on the mend And don’t ask a lot And you won’t lose a lot Don’t ask for much Oh Do you miss me? 'Cause I miss you Do you miss me? 'Cause I miss you Do you miss me? 'Cause I miss you Do you miss me? 'Cause I miss you so
