 Genius Lyrics
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Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
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“The Middle” was written after Jimmy Eat World had been dropped from Capitol Records after their previous album Clarity had been released. Jimmy Eat World’s first album Static
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Jimmy Eat World – 23
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[Verse 1] / I felt for sure last night that once we said goodbye / No one else will know these lonely dreams / No one else will know that part of me / I'm still driving away and I'
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Jimmy Eat World – You
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Get it while you know it's good, the risk was made to take / There's a million desperate wants; I only expect pain / Pages and pages blank, a fashion of disease / Clean up and make
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Jimmy Eat World – Diamond
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[Verse 1] / When I find myself awake / I'll put my thoughts down on the page / Half-asleep, I'll make a list / Then read back all my greatest hits / Should meditate, should work
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Jimmy Eat World – Anderson Mesa
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Don't leave without intentions / Don't leave without intentions / Mind's made up, my own decision / Don't leave without intentions of ever coming back / Don't leave without
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Jimmy Eat World – Digits
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Pay attention / Stop paying 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
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Jimmy Eat World – Surviving
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[Verse 1] / Don't hide your face / What you were before / Doesn't have to be / You anymore / Maybe you've been scared / And that's what you know / And all the shame / Gonna call
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Jimmy Eat World – Sweetness
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[Verse 1] / If you're listening, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh / Sing it back, whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh / String from your tether unwinds (String from your tether unwinds) / Whoa-oh, whoa-oh / Up
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Jimmy Eat World – Softer
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[Verse 1] / She's perfect in her own way / Smoke rings rising to the winter grey / She's perfect in her own way / Shining, stepping off a silver train / [Chorus] / Now, I'm getting
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Jimmy Eat World – Last Christmas
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[Chorus] / Last Christmas, I gave you my heart / The very next day you gave it away / This year to save me the tears / I'll give it to someone special / Last Christmas, I gave you
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Jimmy Eat World – Anais
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There was so much we felt we discovered / Breathing heavy with your face against my shirt / You were the one who said I love you first / Isn't it funny how the feeling starts to
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Jimmy Eat World – Stop
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[Verse 1] / Don't have to be the prettiest / If you have the mind and willingness / No one stops a girl who knows what she’s got / No reason why / I can't help following with my
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Jimmy Eat World – Mixtape (acoustic)
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Maybe we could put your tape back on / Rewind until the moment we went wrong / I was always just a little bit lost / Knowing what I do, I should have fought / You don't get to walk
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Jimmy Eat World – Firefight
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[Verse 1] / This is where our diligence has lead / The waves roll in to claim our patient steps / Can we become more than just ourselves? / And leave the sand, our want, our will
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Jimmy Eat World – Distraction
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There's a simple escape, it covers any mistake / Always have a good distraction / If you can keep the debate, he said she said rage / They'll forget whatever happened / We devide
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Jimmy Eat World – Evidence
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[Verse 1] / Follow you around until it's time, time to leave / Swimming into the idea of your scene / There all the while, proving patiently / I earned to lie by you when you fall
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Jimmy Eat World – Damage
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[Verse 1] / I want someone who lives up to this grandeur in my head / And you don’t do much to sell me I’d be best with you instead / I hate the way I feel, but I don’t think I can
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Jimmy Eat World – You and I
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You and I / We might be strangers / How ever close we get sometimes / Its like we never met / But you and I / I think we can take it / All the good with the bad / Make something
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Jimmy Eat World – Rockstar
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Where you're hiding, the shine off the wall / Stop giving it up now because you're going to find yourself a mastermind in time / Rock star, what's mine is yours / Rock star, you're
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Jimmy Eat World – Crush
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[Verse 1] / Faintest snow keep falling / Hands around your waist / Nameless, standing cold / Standing cold / [Chorus] / Like a breath / Like a breath / Take in restraint like a
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Jimmy Eat World – Opener
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You told me "don't you look at the sun" / "It burns your eyes out" / I disobeyed and seen the man / Who's going nowhere / Convince me this / You don't got to worry / You're on your
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Jimmy Eat World (Ft. Davey von Bohlen) – A Praise Chorus
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This is basically a love ode to the bands and artists who’ve inspired Jimmy Eat World (most notably The Promise Ring, with the reference to and guest singing by Davey von Bohlen).
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Jimmy Eat World – The Most Beautiful Things
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[Verse 1] / You say the most beautiful things / An endless list of treasures of trimmings / It takes all my faith just to start / I don't care now how much I'm wrong / [Chorus] / (
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Jimmy Eat World – Episode IV
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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
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Jimmy Eat World – Digits
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Pay attention / Stop paying 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
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Jimmy Eat World – New Religion
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I've been out sauntering down an unlit path / It takes me nowhere I knew / (Need a reason) Can't think without one now / (Call it treason) Maybe catch her, I don't know / Too much
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Jimmy Eat World – Here It Goes
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[Verse 1] / On, it's on / I declare my room a scene / Gone, then gone / It's too much that they say you need / It's not perfection, yeah / How boring if it is / Nothing new for me
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Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
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The opening title track to Bleed American and one of Jimmy Eat World’s most raucous and volatile songs. A song from the perspective of a lonely, drug-fueled adolescent, the title
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Jimmy Eat World – Electable (Give It Up)
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[Verse 1] / I came up like everyone, they taught us all the same / I said what they told me to say, and then from that they grade / Give up repeating the facts, fact can be
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Jimmy Eat World – Sparkle
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She's got a worry I don't know / Only 19 in this picture / Don't take the mystery away from me; I'm so sorry / Now promises were made and broken as they're told / What makes you
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Jimmy Eat World – Book Of Love
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[Verse 1] / I wasn't worried about the small things / Tried to bury what they might or could have meant / And as far away as you could get, as distant as you'd ever been / You'd
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Jimmy Eat World – Kill
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this song is about that person who will always make you melt, but will never be the person you spend your life with.
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Jimmy Eat World – Get Right
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[Verse 1] / Hands will take their place / Far from intentions made / Disguised as patience, time gets wasted / Now is for the now, so get loud / [Chorus] / I'm, I'm destination
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Jimmy Eat World – Higher Devotion
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[Verse 1] / The quiet should be nice but isn't / I guess we're going to spend the day like this / In psychic screaming / And don't you feel my eye-lasers hit? / I stare you down
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Jimmy Eat World – Cut
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[Verse 1] / I made it / And now, there's no turning back / I know there's no depth you wouldn't sink for the chance / I'm sorry, boy / I'm not cut for this no more / [Verse 2
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Jimmy Eat World – Sure and Certain
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Jim Adkins explains [Sure and Certain is] “about how limiting your own ideas for perfection can be. That, in constantly gunning with blinders on for achieving your ideal
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Jimmy Eat World – Carry You
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[Verse 1] / When I know I'm all alone / I say your name slowly / And I know that I'm alone / But I carry you / [Verse 2] / Does it feel good like the memory / When you try some
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Jimmy Eat World – For Me This Is Heaven
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[Intro] / The first star I see may not be a star / We can't do a thing but wait / So let's wait for one more / [Verse 1] / And the time, such clumsy time / In deciding if it's time
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Jimmy Eat World – One Mil
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[Verse 1] / Camera girl, you still there? / If I look, you'll disappear / Worse, you might wanna talk / I'm so underprepared / I don't know, is it real? / I can't ignore the way it
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Jimmy Eat World – Movielike
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[Verse 1] / A face coming down in streaks / All alone with your things / The apartment still ringing / Clean up and make my start / Not the way I hoped for / Welcome to New York
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