Every Burden Has a Version

Violet Murkowski rather repair her face with the lights turned off, the door wide open in an empty house. The frozen minutes are melting slow as she watches from the window. The street light's flickering like a tongue that can't stop licking, like the cat that got the cream. She's never going to be, she's never going to be quite satisfied.

Frank Iero smokes his smokes outside to avoid the fight. He’d rather be enjoying the silent stillness of the suburbs after midnight. What's the point? Don't try to hide, don't justify a thing. He's so naive to think he'd be capable, like the cat that got the cream. He’s never going to be quite satisfied.

After three years of guilt and not seeing her best friend Frank Iero, Violet Murkowski continues on with her promise she made to see him again in New Jersey for his twenty-first birthday. Old feelings are not only coming back to the exterior pore, but so is the culpability that she left behind. The question is brought back to life: can men and women be just friends without anything getting in the way?

1. Busy Signals

   We're a dangerous progression, a volatile succession, a saturation ready to blow.

2. Did You Get My Message?

   Did you get my message? You didn't, I guess. 'Cause if you did you would have called me with your sweet intent and we could give it a rest.

3. Understading the Fear That Lies Within

   Looking back I can see I don't know anything. I just feel numb.

4. Point of View

   You cannot see things that are different to me.

5. My Best Friend

   I hope you believe me because I speak sincerely and I mean it when I tell you I need you.

6. Time Turned Fragile

   I was nervous from the start that our muscles might tear us apart.

7. We March to the Beat of Indifferent Drum

   We don't question what we've become.

8. Yesterday's Feelings

   Close my eyes and move to the back of my mind.

9. Bastard in Love

   Punish your future, to spite your past.

10. Marvelous

    I can’t stop my thoughts from thinking.

11. Marked for Life

    I look around; how did it get so bad? Won't let them down; I'm marked for life.

12. Tranquilize

    See, I was thinking that I lost my mind, but it’s been getting to me all this time.

13. The One I Want

    'Cause you are the one that started to make me feel this way.

14. One More Weekend

    You've got all the friends you need, bad tattoos, and worse IDs. You feel alive.

15. Coming to Terms

    I’m starting to learn this ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.

16. Mistakes We Haven't Made

    I'm cleaning up mistakes I've made and replacing them with ones I've not made yet.

17. 20 Dollar Nose Bleed

    It's not me, it's you. Actually, it's the taxidermy of you and me.