{"id":61,"date":"2016-09-11T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/?p=61"},"modified":"2016-08-28T09:28:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T13:28:50","slug":"lyric-of-the-week-skylines-and-turnstiles-my-chemical-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/11\/lyric-of-the-week-skylines-and-turnstiles-my-chemical-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyric of the Week: Skylines and Turnstiles (My Chemical Romance)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lyric<\/a>I was at home this morning, fifteen years ago, having recently been laid off from work, watching NBC’s Today. Katie Couric broke away to show that a commercial jet had flown into the World Trade Center. Shortly after that, America watched as a second plane flew into the opposite tower.<\/p>\n

Gerard Way (of My Chemical Romance<\/a>) was on his way to work when he saw this happen and it inspired him to write “Skylines and Turnstiles,” the first song written by the band.<\/p>\n

Enjoy Skylines and Turnstiles<\/em><\/a> by My Chemical Romance<\/a> (from 2002’s I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love<\/em>).<\/p>\n

You’re not in this alone<\/em>
\nLet me break this awkward silence<\/em>
\nLet me go!<\/em>
\nGo on record,<\/em>
\nBe the first to say I’m sorry<\/em>
\nHear me out<\/em>
\nAnd if you take me down,<\/em>
\nWould you lay me out?<\/em>
\nAnd if the world needs something better,<\/em>
\nLet’s give them one more reason now<\/em><\/p>\n

We walk in single file<\/em>
\nWe light our rails and punch our time<\/em>
\nRide escalators colder than a cell<\/em><\/p>\n

This broken city sky<\/em>
\nLike butane on my skin<\/em>
\nStolen from my eyes<\/em>
\nHello angel, tell me<\/em>
\nWhere are you?<\/em>
\nTell me, where we go from here<\/em>
\nThis broken city sky<\/em>
\nLike butane on my skin<\/em>
\nStolen from my eyes<\/em>
\nHello angel, tell me<\/em>
\nWhere are you?<\/em>
\nTell me where we go from here<\/em>
\nTell me we go from…<\/em><\/p>\n

And in this moment we can’t close the lids<\/em>
\nOn burning eyes<\/em>
\nOur memories blanket us with friends we know<\/em>
\nLike fallout vapor<\/em>
\nSteel corpses stretch out towards an ending sun<\/em>
\nScorched and black<\/em>
\nIt reaches in and tears your flesh apart<\/em>
\nAs ice cold hands rip into your heart<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s if you’ve still got one that’s left<\/em>
\nInside that cave you call a chest<\/em>
\nAnd after seeing what we saw<\/em>
\nCan we still reclaim our innocence?<\/em>
\nAnd if the world needs something better<\/em>
\nLet’s give them one more reason now<\/em><\/p>\n

This broken city sky<\/em>
\nLike butane on my skin<\/em>
\nAnd stolen from my eyes<\/em>
\nHello angel, tell me<\/em>
\nWhere are you? <\/em>
\nTell me, where we go from here<\/em>
\nThis broken city sky<\/em>
\nLike butane on my skin<\/em>
\nStolen from my eyes<\/em>
\nHello angel, tell me<\/em>
\nWhere are you?<\/em>
\nTell me where we go from here<\/em>
\nTell me where we go from here<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

If you have a favorite song that features entertaining lyrics which you’d like to see featured as a Lyric of the Week<\/strong>, drop me a line in the comments (or email me at ed@suitcasefullofdimes.com<\/a>) and tell me what you find special about the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was at home this morning, fifteen years ago, having recently been laid off from work, watching NBC’s Today. Katie Couric broke away to show that a commercial jet had flown into the World Trade Center. Shortly after that, America watched as a second plane flew into the opposite tower. Gerard Way (of My Chemical … Continue reading Lyric of the Week: Skylines and Turnstiles (My Chemical Romance)<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lyric-of-the-week"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F88I-Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suitcasefullofdimes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}