Jimmy Eat World is an American alternative rock band from Mesa Mesa, Arizona , Arizona, formed in 1993. The band is composed of lead vocalist and guitarist Jim Adkins, guitarist and backing vocalist Tom Linton, bassist Rick Burch and drummer Zach Lind.
Jimmy Eat World has released six studio albums in over 17 years as a band, the last five featuring the current lineup. The band originally formed with a punk rock sound, first releasing a... [read more] - Electable (Give It Up)
I came up like everyone, they taught us all the sameI said what they told me to say, and then from that they grade.Give up repeating the facts, but that could be arrangedHere I am, I'll take my chanceNow play the...
- Chase This Light
I'm a suspect, I'm a traitor,I'm only here in body visiting.Yellow faces in the distance screams,"The beauty is in what isn't said,"I'm rising to my feet,Because tonight, the world turned in me.Because right now, I...
- Feeling Lucky
There's a chance, one of us will give in soonI could ask, but what's an answer gonna prove?I tried to get mad, but the fever dropsMy heart can't break 'cause the beating stopsYeah, suck that lucky feeling right outta...
- Dizzy
You close your eyes and kiss your hand then you blow it.Why isn't it for me, and I noticedIf the choice was ours alone,Then why'd we both choose letting go?Does it end like this?Time never had a chance to heal your...
- Let It Happen
I have a ringing in my headAnd no one to help me answer itEven with you close enough to kiss.Every minute is arrangedEvery moment lasts a dayBut thinking about it can't help me let go, I know.Talk, talking a lot, but...
- Always Be
Could've been a night like any otherOne of us has to driveOne of us gets to thinkI'll force a laugh to break the silenceIt's gonna get harder stillBefore it gets easyYou can't keep safe what whats to breakI'm alone in...
- Gotta Be Somebody's Blues
Let the water comeShe's the only one I loveLet the fat man drawShe's the sweetest honey potWill they see the sky again?Who will sing they're blues for them?Let the factory's rustShe's the only thing I trustLet the...
- Big Casino
Before this world starts up againIt's me and nightWe wait for the sunThe kids and drunks head back insideWell there's lots of smart ideasIn books I've never readWhen the girls come talk to meI wish to hell I hadGet...
- Carry You
When I know I'm all aloneI say your name slowlyAnd I know that I'm aloneBut I'll carry youDoes it feel good like the memoryWhen you try some historyIt's a dream to come aroundBut who doesn't then,Because the taste...
- Electable
(Give It Up)
I came up like everyone, they taught us all the sameI said what they told me to say, and then from that they grade.Give up repeating the facts, but that could be arrangedHere I am, I'll take my chanceNow play the...
- Here It Goes
On, it's on.I declare my room a sceneGone, then goneIt's too much that they say you needIt's not perfection, yeahHow boring if it isNothing new for meLight on upWith everybody watching youLights go downEverything is...
- Firefight
This is where our diligence has leadThe waves roll in to claim our patient stepsCan we become more than just ourselves?And leave the sand, our want, our will, our doubtIt's firefight, I won't run.There's spit and...
- Amphibious
I got lonely and 32 times whose been in jail.I love stealing, I love feeling watched by you.And I will never go down downtown.And I will always have my head held down.Can see it in your eyes, everything's on fire.I...
- Praise Chorus
Are you gonna live your life wonderin'Standing in the back lookin' around?Are you gonna waste your time thinkin' How you've grown up or how you missed out?Things are never gonna be the way you want.Where's it gonna...
- Crooked
Why do you think I just want you for some more?If it the endings over why do you come back for more?Can be such a drag.Stir you round and round.You're a fake.Is it a crime?It's over, no more can lose.Fork over, just...
- Usery
I don't want to be up on a Friday night,but I don't want to be there up on a Saturday night.I don't want to be up on a Friday night,but I don't want to be there up on a Saturday night.I don't want to be up on a Friday...
- Wednesday
Meet a part of me that feels like every other day.It has been seen in pictures and in alleyways.Can see it through your walls.Can see it through your fall.Can see it on your floor, wrongway.Lift your head up,...
- House Arrest
I can't bend my arms and legs please signmy cast or be without me.And I'll see the day when you can come tomy house and play with me.See you in the morning.Can't you see I'm grounded.Underground, go crazy afterall...
- Patches
I'm not worried about my life, it's too big.Carpet stains on the ground and I thinkI've found a way out downstairs turn around.Wake me, take me up upside down.Head down, lay down.No one is ever around when I need them...
- Your House
When you're on,I swear you're onYou rip my heart right outYou rip my heart right outI think the whole roomCan hear me, Clear my throatYou rip my heart right outYou rip my heart right outIf you still care at allDon't...
- Splat Out Of Luck
My intentions are growing but going nowhere,going nowhere near here.Seen it all oncebut lost it inside of something been pulled over my heart.And you think you've seen it allbut you wonder where I go.I've been growing...
- Scientific
20 million miles away like something coming in.A tidal wave from outer space and it's so near.Step out of moving up you better stay on guard.One defender disappeared and we want him back.What are the kids going to be...
- Reason 346
They're disregarding us telling me I'm blind.Trying to rid my mind,and if worst comes to worst I think I'll be first to never be the same.We're not to blame.I wasn't there.Hair in her eyes and it didn't cost a...
- Sweetness
If you're listeningWoh oh oh oh oh ohSing it backWoh oh oh oh ohString from your tether unwinds(String from your tether unwinds)Woh ohWoh ohUp and outward to bind(Up and outward to bind)Woh ohWoh ohI was spinning...
- Chachi
Take me clear up.Toss me off the tower that is 40 stories tall.So I'm plastered to the floor.I must confess, I'm not impressed with your everlasting line.Take draw, take a look now.Watch me melt, from man to a boyand...
- A Praise Chorus
are you going to live your life wonderingstanding in the back looking around?are you going to waste your time thinkinghow you've grown uphow you missed out?things are never going be the way you wantwhere's it going to...
- Carbon Scoring
Here we go.(My only cold I fought.)Here I am, frozen in time I find a way from you, pave the way.And cause I can't stand still they'll leave you down and out.And when your face gets here I'll stab you in the back.Tell...
- H Model
"Straight outta Phoenix boys."Stay up late and listen in.Trading insult for your time.It breaks my heart in half to see her jumping up and down screaming:"Cash in honey, cash in now."Lift your hands up slow.If only...
- The Most Beautiful Things
You say the most beautiful things,an endless list of treasures of trimmings.It takes all my faith just to startI don't care now how much I'm wrongmy song it shames your earsevery sentence a failure.Slant rhyme is all...
- What Would I Say To You Now
Still sitting there with your legs crossed,not paying attention to me.If we talk, just curious, would this end up like it always does?All the wrong I've done.All the wrong I'll do.Keeps me from trying.It keeps me...
- Speed Read
Save the wrapping for another.Dressing doesn't mean a thing to me.Submission for a ladder rung. You decide what you're used for,you decide.I know what you are, what you are.I see clearly what you are, what you are.
- Spangle
I'm glad you found the time to ring.I just spent all day waiting.I need to know what's happening.Well at least we both agree.Really don't know where to start.Did you say you met some neighbor.I guess I'm headed for a...
- Softer
She's perfect in her own way.Smoke rings rising to the winter grey.Shining, stepping off a silver train.She's amazing in her own way.Always moving to a better placeLaughing, you won't get to her better traits.I'm...
- Firestarter
i'm the trouble starterpumpkin instigatorim the fear addicteddanger illustratedim a twistedyou're a twistedim a twistedfirestarterim the bitch you hatedfilth infatuatedim the pain you tastedwell intoxicatedim a...
- Opener
You told me don't you look at the sun,it burns your eyes out.I disobeyed and see a man who's going nowhere.He fed me this: you don't got to worry, you're on your feet.Please help me down.Should have made room for...
- Christmas Card
Hey still staring little girl,are you looking at or past me?Worry.Simple symptoms won't leave you this underweight or red in the eyes.No more rules, the ones we make don't last the night.So pick up the pieces.Start...
- For Me This Is Heaven
The first star I see may not be a starWe can't do a thing but wait so let's wait For one moreAnd the time's such clumsy timeDeciding if it's timeI'm careful but not sure how it goesYou can lose yourself in your...
- No Sensitivity
Well I've got my car we could go and sit a while I know it won't turn over but we'll get somewhere just the same Now honey,I'm through talking it's the strangest thing, but I feel safe when I'm lonelydon't take too...
- Bleed American
"Bleed American"I'm not alone cause the TV's on yeah.I'm not crazy cause I take the right pills everyday.And rest, clean your conscious, clear your thoughts with speyside with your grain.Clean your conscious, clear...
- Roller Queen
I blame it on my entrance.It may have seen to much like confidence.Let me start it over.Help me get to what I can from when I did.Had to leave my reasons.It may have seemed to much, the consequence.In your busy, dizzy...
- 77 Satellites
It's allright to be held back by retro-man.it's far fetched fun when you're the one.The prize.I knew you would come through.I thought I could be right, number one,but it's a lie.It's televised in forest green.it's...
- Claire
one chance to show your face. this one shot all you get. pass by your one good thing. lift your head back shoot and chase. never hear you laugh like that, so full. not since you were nine. chorus:unsettled,...
- Anderson Mesa
Don't leave without intentions of ever coming back.vacation. you take them if you wanted you'd ask them.alone i'm outside.red sky, i wait there.snowfall above me.so new yet fading.graveyard.run around or jump the...
- Caveman
A monster lives in your backyard.the 2x4's are making their way around.the big get bigger when the fight's done.i found that secret door.a man with a shovel's gonna dig deep down to find out where it feeds.a house.a...
- Call It In The Air
Leave home today.escape your region.it's in your head, keep moving on.become your dad.live unquestioned.it's in your head, nostalgia is death.choose starlight.no way to retrace.it is gone.choose star bright.no way to...
- Seventeen
Hung up here on a web of comfort.Taking off with nowhere to go.Standing tall with but your new cloak armor.Making out like it's all been done.It's harder than it seems.You slip but never fall.They'll take you, when...
- Robot Factory
Falling off this cycleand it really ticks me off when you calculate this time and place.looking over shoulders,can always be like what it seems when you were left to my old man.i am why you bring me here,tear these...
- Rockstar
JIMMY EAT WORLD - Rockstar Lyrics Where you're hiding, the shine off the wall.Stop giving it up now cause you're gonna find yourself amastermind in time.Rockstar, what's mine is yours.Rockstar, you're looking...
- Thinking, That's All
Play your hand.don't play it off.don't play that game.out of touch.there is no pride in seconds lost.first cello suite.I know I'm late.what do you care.stop dragging feet.we can't go back for seconds lost.smooth the...
- Episode IV
Episode IV leads us away from here.don't expect to find what you're (looking to).i can see the light leading away from you.let's disappear, we'll take a trip of no return to outer space.and swim in pools which keep us...
- Digits
Pay attention.Stop playing for regret.Fossil resources all used up.Make the best use of your time.You could be on to something.Too skeptic, too tired to care.When they all seem to know at once.Sweet muse left me all...
- In The Same Room
Fingers in, listen what voices say.you always wrote for me, ego.risk worth taking risk worth leaving.seems i'm still afraid to promise.too big to stop too big to hold on to.trade up for the fast ride.trade your...
- Rock Star
Where you're hiding, the shine off the wall.Stop giving it up now cause you're gonna findyourself a mastermind in time.Rockstar, what's mine is yours.Rockstar, you're looking good.You're looking to find a fight.I'm...
- World Is Static
The longest time away.think last time the friends we made.the longest time away.best friend is too cheap to stay.of course i'll go with you, not every day i get to.of course i'll stay with you, how often.pictures tell...
- If You Don't, Don't
What's wrong baby?Don't they treat you like they should?Did you take them for it?Or every penny that you could?We once walked out on the beachAnd once I almost touched your handOh, how I dreamed to finally say such...
- My Sundown
I see it around meI see it in everythingI could be so much more than thisI said my goodbyesThis is my sundownI'm going to be so much more than thisWith one hand highYou'll show them your progressYou'll take your...
- Cautioners
The time I would spendWith pictures I would not sendI watched you go from left to rightI followed you all...nightAcross my blindsYou'll change your mindCome MondayAnd turn your back on meTake your steps awayWith...
- The Middle
Hey, don't write yourself off yet. It's only in your head you feel left out or looked down on. Just try your best, try everything you...
- The Authority Song
It's how the hustles goesSee what the jukebox knowsPut my last quarter onI play "Authority Song"Honesty or mystery?Tell me I'm not scared anymoreI got no secret purposeI don't seem obviousDo I-I-I-I-I?Do I-I-I-I-I?I...
- Authority Song
It's how the hustle goes, see what the jukebox knows.Put my last quarter on, I play "Authority Song".Honesty or mystery?Tell me I'm not scared anymore.I got no secret purpose, I don't seem obvious do I?I don't seem...
- Salt Sweat Sugar
IÂ’m not alone'Cause the TVÂ’s on yeahIÂ’m not crazy'Cause I takeThe right pills everydayAnd restClean your consciousClear your thoughtsWith speysideWith your grainClean your consciousClear your thoughtsWith...
- Night Drive
Lay back baby and weÂ’ll do this rightThere's blankets in back we can useIÂ’ll start the car, but weÂ’ll stay in parkthe cold can kill us before fumesNowÂ’s the right time for a good songGet something to say what I...
- 23
I felt for sure last nightAt once we said goodbyeNo one else will know these lonely drea***o one else will know that part of meIm still driving awayAnd Im sorry every dayI wont always love these selfish thingsI wont...
- Yer Feet
I was drunk when I met you,I was drunk when you walked out the door.An I rolled around the night to find you,but i guess you never knew.Ya always needed something solid you could hold.Like a dog that came when you...
- Kill
Well you're just across the streetLooks a mile to my feetI wanna go to you Funny how I'm nervous stillI've always been the easy killI guess I always willCould it be that everything goes round by chanceOr only one way...
- Futures
I always believed in futuresI hope for betterin NovemberI try the same losing lucky numbersIt could be a cold night ...for a lifetimeHey now,You can't keep saying endlessly:My darling,How long until this affects...
- Nothing Wrong
Hold them down, all bleeding suspects(Just because, just 'cause, just who are you?)Like candle light, burn burn burn, baby(Burn, burn, whose turn, Who gets a taste today?)[Chorus]We've done nothing wrong,But we've...
- Polaris
I'll say it straight and plainI know I've made mistakesI've always been afraidI've always been afraidA thousand nights or moreI travelled east and northOh please answer the doorCan you tell meYou say that love goes...
- Drugs Or Me
Stay with meYou're the one that I needYou make the hardest thingsSeem easyKeep my heartSomewhere drugs don't goWere the sun shines layAlways keep me closeIf only you could seeThe stranger next to meYou promised you...
- Just Tonight...
I was scared but once I thought about, I let it goEverything she said to me I guess I ought to knowWe're all tired when it comes to shovePut up put out or stay at homeWe'll never be the sameNever feel this way...
- NothingWrong
Hold them down, our bleeding suspectsjust becausejust cause?just who are youby candlelight burn, burn, burn babyburn, burn whose turnwho gets a taste today?We've done nothing wrongbut we've done nothing we can't look...
- Pain
I don't feel the way I've ever felt.I know.I'm gonna smile and not get worried.I try but it shows.Anyone can make what I have built.And better nowAnyone can find the same white pills.It takes my pain away.It's a lie....
- The World You Love
i got a story it's almost finishedall i need is someone to tell it toomaybe, that's you.our time is borrowed and spent to freelyevery minute i have needs to be made upbut how?i'm looking for a nice way to say"i'm...
- Shame
Is it dark yet outside?I'm through hiding tonightTake from the rest, your debt erasedSleep with my curse and feel no shameNo shameIt might take you all nightBut you'll love me with timeTake from the rest, your debt...
- Drug Or Me
Stay with meYou're the one that I needYou make the hardest thingsSeem easyKeep my heartSomewhere drugs don't goWere the sun shines layAlways keep me closeIf only you could seeThe stranger next to meYou promised you...
- Work
If you only once would let meOnly just one timeThen be happy with the consequenceWith whatever's gonna happen tonightDon't think we're not seriousWhen's it ever notThe love we make is give and it's takei'm game to...
- Jen
Jen,Don't be scared, Don't be shyWe use to do this all the timeyou know it JenJen,We could be happy nowSo jet across the coast and country, JenSometimes Jennifer,Live for too long and then your chance is goneThe...
- 12.23.95
Didn't mean to leave you hanging on, all alone.Merry Christmas baby.
- Table For Glasses
Sweep the dirty stairs,the ones I waited on.This is just for me,I felt it watching her.It happens too fast, to make sense of it,to make it last.It happens too fast, to make sense of it, to make it last.Where do you...
- Blister
Take...advantage of these times, you saidYou let me downIt hasn't been the first timeAs...I'm falling in the pit of fireMy mind's made upI'm never coming back hereCHORUS:And how long would it take meTo walk across the...
- Clarity
I'll take your words as if you were talking to me.Say what I know you'll say and say it through your teeth.With pride keep every failure in.And with pride hold on to the sinking.Now in the deep and down your heart...
- If You Don't
What's wrong baby?Don't they treat you like they should?Did you take 'em for it?For every penny that you could?We once walked out on the beachAnd once I almost touched your handOh, how I dreamed to finally say such...
- Lucky Denver Mint
This time it's on my ownMinutes from somewhere elseSomewhere I made a wishWith lucky denver mintyou're not bigger than this, not betterwhy can't you learn?hurry go on aheadgood things won't let you waitI'll catch up...
- Just Watch The Fireworks
HereYou can be anythingAnything that scares youI think that scares youI'veBeen here beforeBut only by myselfMyselfCHORUS:I promised I'd see it againI promised I'd see this with you nowI promised I'd see it againI...
- Crush
Faintest snow keep fallingHands around your waistNamelessStanding coldTake in restaint like a breathMy lungs are so numb from holding backWalk close to the fenceFeel it hit your clothesTurn and smile niceSmile, say...
- Last Christmas
Last Christmas, I gave you my heartThe very next day you gave it awayThis year to save me the tearsIÂ’ll give it to someone special.Last Christmas, I gave you my heartThe very next day you gave it awayThis year to...
- Believe In What You Want
Don't bother going through your motions.Nothing that makes sense ever works out.Don't kid yourself, you know they want money.Nothing can be good on its own merit.spinning and spinning down you believe in what you...
- Goodbye Sky Harbor
"Is tomorrow just a day like all the rest." How could you know just what you did?So full of faith yet so full of doubt I ask.Time and time again you said don't be afraid."If you believe you can do it."The only voice I...
- Ten
We left behind the busy crowd.So it seems we slow down.Meet me with a way out through the lies.Nowhere, going nowhere in the fake yellow light.The feelings change so fast.Safety scares them away.I can't bring myself...
- A Sunday
On a Sunday I'll think it through.On the drive back I'll think it through.What you wish for won't come true.Live with that.On a Sunday she thought it through.Now as I drive back, there's thiry-six less hours I have to...
- Your New Aesthetic
We're lowering the standardsIn a process selectiveThe formula's too thinBut it takes more than one personSo everyone jump onI'll miss you when you're just like themImitate and water down(Selection breathes on it's...
- Disintegration
I've spent my last nightsstrung up and pulled tight.Holding out, sleep and grow.An answer comes without a please:'Do what you want.'[Chorus:]Wonder why I'm so caught of guard when we kiss.Rather live my life in regret...
- Over
"Over"I'm not exactly sure what I should sayEverything I do is a mistakeYour attention is attention (It doesn't matter if it's fake or real)I'll take it if I get it, ohI've made up my mindI'll do it over any...
- Half Right
Well you shouldn't doctor yourself Well I pictured somebody else Someone who looks like what I look like Would you say that the one of your dreams Got in you and ripped out the seams That's what I'd say That's what...
- Hear You Me
There's no one in town I know.You gave us some place to go.I never said thank you for that.I thought I might get one more chance.What would you think of me now...So lucky, So strong, So proud?I never said thank you...
- Look At You
My oh my, can you save my life?It doesn't have to mean looking out for me.Hey now look at you, way cool, on time.There's no room for Mamacita,no room for mamacita.Sit tight she said.A Ok and that's what she'll...
- Angst For Joel
Is this promenade a musician?And all that man can do is always compare original?Doesn't matter what I say all I know is I got it in me.And why do all the other records sound the same?And I can stay right here.And I...
- Indecent Exposure
"Ha, caught you in the act you disciples of dirtiness. Officers arrest these nekkid people now."You've seen mine,I've seen yours.I've got no toilet but I cannot go outside.Turn your fingers right off.Cross your heart...
- When I Want
Please, lets not get into this tonightSee, its easy and its what you likeDon’t call me foolish ‘cos I’m notJust be the lover when I wantIf I’m hated, well it’s not my faultI swearNow, don’t you go and think its...
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