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Save Rock and Roll streaming in full above.  Out April 15th & 16th worldwide, preorder on iTunes.

Save Rock and Roll Arena Tour on sale now.  last chance to dance in 2013!

here are the lyrics, learn the words and sing along at our upcoming shows:

THE PHOENIX

Put on your war paint

You are a brick tied to me that’s dragging me down Strike a match and I’ll burn you to the ground We are the jack-o-lanterns in July Setting fire to the sky Here comes this rising tide

Put on your war paint Cross walks and crossed hearts and hope-to-dies Silver clouds with grey linings

So we can take the world back from the heart-attacked One maniac at a time we will take it back Time crawls on when you’re waiting for the song to start So dance alone to the beat of your heart

Hey young blood Doesn’t it feel Like our time is running out I’m gonna change you like a remix Then I’ll raise you like a phoenix You’re wearing our vintage misery No; I think it looked a little better on me I’m gonna change you like a remix Then I’ll raise you like a phoenix

Bring home the boys and scrap metal the tanks Get hitched and make a career out of robbing banks Because the world is just a teller and We are wearing black masks “You broke our spirit,” says the note we pass

The war is won Before it’s begun Release the doves Surrender love Wave the white flag

MY SONGS KNOW WHAT YOU DID IN THE DARK (LIGHT EM UP)

Be careful making wishes in the dark Can’t be sure when they’ve hit their mark Besides in the meantime I’m just dreaming of tearing you apart I’m in the details with the devil So now the world can never get me on my level I just got to get you out of the cage I’m a young lovers rage Gonna need a spark to ignite My songs know what you did in the dark Light em up I’m on fire All the writers keep writing what they write Somewhere another pretty vein just dies I’ve got the scars from tomorrow and I wish you could see That you’re the antidote to everything except me A constellation of tears on your lashes Burn everything you love Then burn the ashes In the end everything collides My childhood spat back the monster that you see My songs know what you did in the dark Light em up I’m on fire

ALONE TOGETHER

I don’t know where you’re going But do you got room for one more troubled soul I don’t know where I’m going but I don’t think I’m coming home I said I’ll check in tomorrow if I don’t wake up dead This is the road to ruin And we’re starting at the end

Let’s be alone together We could stay young forever Scream it from the top of your lungs

Cut me off I lost my track It’s not my fault I’m a maniac it’s not funny anymore No it’s not My heart is like a stallion They love it more when it’s broke in Do you wanna feel beautiful Do you wanna

I’m outside the door Invite me in So we can go back And play pretend I’m on deck I’m up next Tonight I’m high as a private jet

WHERE DID THE PARTY GO

I’m here to collect your hearts It’s the only reason that I sing I don’t believe a word you say but I can’t stop listening This is the story of how they met Her picture was on the back of a pack of cigarettes When she touched him he turned ruby red A story that they’ll never forget Never forget

And all the boys are smoking menthols Girls are getting back rubs I will appear to you if you if you make yourself shake fast enough My old aches become new again My old friends become exes again

Where did the party go? We’re ending it on the phone I’m not gonna go home alone Where did the party go?

I know I expect too much And not enough all at once You know I only wanted fun then you got me all f***ed up on love Oh I looked for your name on the Ouija Board And your naked magic oh dear lord You and me are the difference between real love and the love on TV

We were the kids who screamed “We weren’t the same,” In sweaty rooms Now we’re doomed to organizing walk-in closets like tombs Silent film stars stuck in talking cinema life So let’s fade away together one dream at a time

JUST ONE YESTERDAY feat. Foxes

I thought of angels Choking on their halos Get them drunk on rose water See how dirty I can get them Pulling out their fragile teeth And clip their tiny wings

Anything you say can and will be held against you So only say my name It will be held against you

If heaven’s grief brings hell’s rain Then I’d trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday (I know I’m bad news, I saved it all for you) For just one yesterday I want to teach you a lesson in the worst kind of way Still I’d trade all my tomorrows for just one yesterday (I know I’m bad news, I saved it all for you) For just one yesterday

Letting people down is my thing baby Find yourself a new gig This town ain’t big enough for two of us I don’t have the right name Or the right looks But I have twice the heart

If I spilled my guts The world would never look at you the same way I’m here to give you all of my love So I can watch your face as I take it all away

THE MIGHTY FALL feat. Big Sean

Did you trip down 12 steps into Malibu (Malibu) So why the hell is there a light that’s keeping us forever Bel Air baby did you get dressed up? Pretty pout pout (While you bottomed out out) I can’t stop it when there’s chemicals keeping us together

Oh how the mighty fall The mighty fall Oh how the mighty fall in love

Your crooked love is just a pyramid scheme And I’m dizzy on dreams (Yeah you’re dizzy on dreams) But if you ask me two’s a whole lot lonelier than one B-baby we should’ve left our love In the gutter where we found it (Gutter where we found it) Cause you think you think your only crime is that you got caught

It’s getting clear You’re never coming clean So I’ll lock you up inside And swallow Swallow the key

MISS MISSING YOU

Don’t panic No not yet I know I’m the one you want to forget Cue all the love to leave my heart It’s time for me to fall apart

Now you’re gone But I’ll be okay Your hot whiskey eyes Have fanned the flames Maybe I’ll burn a little brighter tonight Let the fire breathe me back to life

Baby you were my picket fence I miss missing you now and then Chlorine kissed summer skin I miss missing you now and then Sometimes before it gets better The darkness gets bigger The person that you’d take a bullet for is behind the trigger Oh We’re fading fast I miss missing you now and then

Making eyes at this husk around my heart I see through you when we’re sitting in the dark So give me your filth Make it rough Let me let me trash your love

I will sing to you every day If it will take away the pain Oh and I’ve heard you got it got it bad Cause I am the best you’ll never have

DEATH VALLEY

I wanna see your animal side Let it all out I wanna see the dirt Under your skin I need your broken promises

I want the guts and glory baby This town is wasted and alone

Cause we are alive Here in death valley But don’t take love off the table yet Cause tonight Tonight it’s just fire alarms and losing you We love a lot So we only lose a little We are alive

I wanna see your animal side Let it all out Oh there you go; undress to impress You can wear the crown but you’re no princess

Let’s put the “D” in dirt now baby Let’s get you wasted and alone

We’re gonna die It’s just a matter of time Hard times come Good times go I’m either gone in an instant Or here til the bitter end I never know What I’ve got will make you feel more alive I’ll be your favorite drug I will get you high I will get you high

YOUNG VOLCANOES

When Rome’s in ruins We are the lions Free of the Coliseum In poisoned places We are anti-venom We’re the beginning of the end

Tonight The foxes hunt the hounds It’s all over now Before it has begun And we’ve already won

We are wild We are like young volcanoes We are wild Americana exotica Do you wanna feel a little beautiful baby yeah

Come on make it easy Say I never mattered Run it up the flagpole We will teach you How to make Boys next door Out of a**holes

RAT A TAT feat. Courtney Love

No thesis existed for burning cities down at such a rampant rate No graphics and no f**king powerpoint presentation So they just DIY’d that sh*t and built their own bombs She’s his suicide blond, she’s number than gold

Are you ready for another bad poem? One more off key anthem Let your teeth sink in Remember me as I was not as I am And I said “I’ll check in tomorrow if I don’t wake up dead,” I kept wishing she had blonde ambition and she’d let it go to my head

Rat a tat tat Rat a tat tat tat hey If my love is a weapon There’s no second guessing when I say Rat a tat tat Rat a tat tat tat hey If my heart is a grenade You pull the pin and say:

We’re all fighting growing old We’re all fighting growing old In the hopes Of a few minutes more To get on St. Peter’s list But you need to lower your standards Cause it’s never Getting any better than this

We are professional ashes of roses This kerosene’s live You settled your score This is where you come to beg, unborn and unshaven Killing fields of fire to a congress of ravens This is what we do, we nightmare you

I’m about to make the sweat roll backwards And your heart beat in reverse Our guts can’t be reworked As alone as a little white church in the middle of the desert Getting burned But I’ll take your heart served up two ways I sing a bitter song I’m the lonelier version of you I just don’t know where it went wrong

She’s sick and she’s wrong She’s young dirty blonde And you sink inside her like a suicide bomb He says “I’ve seen bigger” She says “I’ve lit better” And they throw the matches down into the glitter Not a dry eye left in the house Go boy, run for your life

Talk less Mean more Let’s be electric Like we were before

SAVE ROCK AND ROLL feat. Elton John

I need more dreams And less life And I need that dark In a little more light I cried tears you’ll never see So f**k you, you can go cry me an ocean And leave me be

You are what you love Not who loves you In a world full of the word yes I’m here to scream

No Wherever I go Trouble seems to follow Only plugged in to save rock and roll

Blood brothers in desperation An oath of silence For the voice of our generation How’d it get to be only me? Like I’m the last damn kid still kicking That still believes

I will defend the faith Going down swinging I will save the songs The songs we’re singing

Oh no we won’t go Cause we don’t know when to quit

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holy smokes. to quote patrick. who could’ve dreamed up this story? if you had told us the incantations that we sang would’ve summoned what we’ve become none of us would have ever believed it. art isn’t a competition- but this does feel like vindication- just because this is one that we made just for us- and now you have made it yours. so this one felt real good and hit us right in the gut when we saw the album was number one (with a bullet!). from a cruddy broken futon in chicago you dragged us here, or we dragged you. probably a bit of both. thank you. thanks to: crush management, our record label island defjam, and most importantly to our friends, family, and fans that made this possible. this song was designed to celebrate moments like this. play it loud and surround yourself with friends, real or fictional: Blood brothers in desperation An oath of silence For the voice of our generation How’d it get to be only me? Like I’m the last damn kid still kicking That still believes I will defend the faith Going down swinging I will save the songs That we can’t stop singing

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xx

okay. in my studies.

amazing new mexico sunset is not from the roleplay blog. theres no entry on june 28 2005

the earliest reference to it i could find is from a primer posted to lj on september 3rd 2005 (referenced as being in “pete’s journal”, expanded next)

the big primer posted on february 28 2008 references it as being from pete’s blogspot.

later references (and formatting of the alleged screenshot + pete’s ridiculous amount of blogspots) lead me to lean towards blogspot. however due to the aforementioned ridiculous amount of blogspots i dont know which because it was not specified

most of pete’s old blogspots were deleted and are only partially archived and only a few are on the wayback machine (most i can find go to fall 2005)

i do lean towards it being real just because a lot of the things in the primers are verifiable. i think this is just a case of a mid-2000s internet page being lost to the ages.

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this pete as pepsi zero sugar

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this joe as monster energy

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patrick loved omaha 💙

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Pete playing with Andy’s drums last night

8.4.15

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Inktober day 10: “Flowing”

yarn boy <3

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4.25.09

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hang in there

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Favourite looks from M&G photos of FOB: Pete Wentz