Anberlin "Never Take Friendship Personal"
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Anberlin broke into the music industry with their first album Blueprints For The Black Market in 2003, their unique rock style got me hooked when I heard them on Christianrock.net internet radio and checked them out on pure volume. This album, despite the strange looking cover, is awesomely put together, few slow songs keep this album energetic all the way through, coming in at about 40 minutes long, it may not fill a CD to its capacity, but that's OK, you can just replay the CD again and still enjoy it. Every song has a message and great lyrics. Good music to play while driving in the car, while working or playing, and while just chillin. When I get the money, I will probably end up buying their first album.

I cant really describe the type of music that Anberlin has, but why should I bother when you can just hear it from their album site, or even on this page using the flash banner at the top. The tracks on the album have great lyrics and message, read further if you are wondering what a song means, keep in mind, that this is an interpretation of the lyrics from me, so it may not be what the song says really, but that's what I feel the songs say to me.

Track 1, the title track "Never Take Friendship Personal" starts out rocking, the message is that having no purpose in life is worse than losing your life, "the greatest tragedy is not your death, But a life without reason, that your life had no purpose" Live your life for God, and it will be better.

Track 2, titled "Paperthin Hymn" also a rock song is good too. The message is to praise God, even when life is hard, even when you feel alone. "When life is in dischord, Praise ye the lord"

Track 3, titled "Stationary Stationery" is a song about keeping in contact with your loved ones. Don't forget to talk to your old friends and don't forget to remember them.

Track 4, titled "(The Symphony Of) Blasé" is a slower song, but you will still wanna play it loud. It's about the tragedy of drifting away from someone. Don't let yourself drift away from others, or away from God. It's also trying to convey that you shouldnt make yourself someone to avoid, it hurts others to have to drift away from someone because that someone brings them down.

Track 5, titled "A Day Late" is a faster song than track 4, still with a good tune and good lyrics. It's a song about the artist thinking about a loved one, and how they are still close even after a long time.

Track 6, titled "The Runaways," is also a rocking song. It's about how if what you like to do is break hearts and make others want you, you're not going to get any real friends or even a "significant other"

Track 7, titled "Time & Confusion," rocks too...(are we seeing a trend yet?) It's about how we never have to be alone, when friends desert you, God is still good, and it's a good idea to not do anything without him.

Track 8, titled "The Feel Good Drag," is about how you need not do things just because they feel good, you'll regret your sins, and you will get pleasure from them for only a short time, and the small amount of pleasure is not at all worth the amount of pain that they will cause you.

Track 9, is titled "Audrey, Start The Revolution!" And, as the exclamation point in the title may indicate, this too, is a rock song. The message, is that you can start living for God, not at certain times, but you can do it RIGHT NOW.

Track 10, is titled "A Heavy Hearted Work Of Staggering Genius" is basically just a cool, short, instrumental song.

Track 11, is titled "Dance, Dance Christa Päffgen" It's about how when an individual is in love, the only thing that satisfies him is being with his girlfriend or wife.

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Lyrics:

1. Never Take Friendship Personal
2. Paperthin Hymn
3. Stationary Stationery
4. (The Symphony Of) Blasé
5. A Day Late
6. The Runaways
7. Time And Confusion
8. The Feel Good Drag
9. Audrey, Start The Revolution!
10. A Heavy Hearted Work Of Staggering Genius (no lyrics, instrumental)
11. Dance, Dance Christa Päffgen

1. Never Take Friendship Personal: (back to lyrics menu)
There's a hatchet got a knife
When I awoke there was nothing real in this life
But dreams are so intoxicating, (intoxicating)
When you're doing this alone
Gun, rope, brick on the way
But words have no meaning when its you that says
I really do care, no baby I, I really do care!

Innocence gone, never take friendship personal
If you can't hold yourself together
Why should I hold you now?
Innocence gone, never take friendship personal
If you can't hold yourself together
Why should I hold you now?

Once a skeptic, now the critic
And you think that you finally found a place of your own.
Amongst the cold and timid souls
Where only failure knows your name

Look around for the closest to blame
But look no further than the hands beneath your arms
and now your 6 feet down, buried with, with your passing fame
And fame fame fame fame.

Innocence gone, never take friendship personal
If you can't hold yourself together
Why should I hold you now?
Innocence gone, never take friendship personal
If you can't hold yourself together
Why should I hold you now?

Oh oh oh you lie
Tell me something more than what you've tried to hide
If you can't find your self, then how can I expect to find you.
Oh oh oh you cry
Tell me something more than what you tried
The greatest tragedy is not your death
But a life without reason, that your life had no purpose
(Life has no purpose!)

Innocence gone, never take friendship personal
If you can't hold yourself together
Why should I hold you now?
Innocence gone, never take friendship personal
If you can't hold yourself together
Why should I hold you now?

Innocence gone, never take friendship personal
If you can't hold yourself together
Why should I hold you now?

2. Paperthin Hymn (back to lyrics menu)
When your only friends are hotel rooms
Hands are distant lullabies
If I could turn around I would tonight

These roads never seemed so long
Since your paperheart start beating leaving me suddenly alone
Will daybreak ever come?

Who's gonna call on sunday morning?
Who's gonna drive you home?
I just want one more chance
To put my arms in fragile hands

I thought you said forever
Over and over
A sleepless night becomes bitter oblivion

These thoughts run through my head
Over and over
Complaints of violins become my only friends

August evenings
Bring solemn warnings
To remember to kiss the ones you love goodnight

You never know what temporal days may bring
So laugh, love, live free and sing
When life is in dischord
Praise ye the lord

Who's gonna call on sunday morning?
Who's gonna drive you home?
I just want one more chance
To put my arms in fragile hands

I thought you said forever
Over and over
The sleepless night becomes bitter oblivion

These thoughts run through my head
Over and over
Complaints of violins become my only friends

I thought you said forever
over and over
The sleepless night becomes bitter oblivion

These thoughts run through my head
over and over
Complaints of violins become my only friends

I thought you said forever
over and over
These thoughts run through my head

3. Stationary Stationery (back to lyrics menu)
Do they not have pen or paper where you are?
'Cause I haven't heard from you in ages
I relive each memory
From time to time
With notes exchanged
With all the scented pages
It's comin back
It's all comin back to me now

Tell me everything turned out alright
'Cause I'm well and we said
That we'd meet tonight
Does he treat you like you want
Does he ask to take your hand
Does he believe in dreams we talked about
Though with no music we dance

I thought you said that you'd come find me
I thought you said you'd be home by now
I heard you say that you'd come back here
So I wrote to remind you somehow...

Dance by yourself and
Think of me when you do
I'm not sure you understand
What this means to me
What you do to me
I'm willing to prove
That you're the one
I regret to slip away
Now I know it was only you
That I've been searchin for
And missin all this time

I thought you said that you'd come find me
I thought you said you'd be home by now
I heard you say that you'd come back here
So I wrote to remind you somehow...

I thought you said that you'd come find me
I thought you said you'd be home by now
I heard you say that you'd come back here
So I wrote to remind you somehow...

Let the past be past
Let's start today
And let us both do
I need to see your face
Tell me where to be
I'll tell you why we shouldn't be
(I'll tell you why we shouldn't be)

I thought you said that you'd come find me
I thought you said you'd be home by now
I heard you say that you'd come back here
So I wrote to remind you somehow...

I thought you said that you'd come find me
I thought you said you'd be home by now
I heard you say that you'd come back here
So I wrote to remind you somehow...

4. (The Symphony Of) Blasé (back to lyrics menu)
Are there no shadows where you are?
I can see everything as day
Problems that you try to hide away
Pushing me aside (You're pushing me aside)

Could the winter calm come twice?
Because your heart seems so cold tonight
Thirst for substance somehow isn't right
It's killing me inside (It's killing you inside)
Killing me inside

I don't wanna be where you are
I don't wanna be here even now
I don't wanna be by your side
If something isn't right
If something isn't right

This is our last goodnight
Say what you will
Say all that you can
Words have no meaning
When I've seen where you've been

This is our last goodnight
Say what you will
Say all that you can
This is our last goodbye
This is where love ends

Are you so naive to right and wrong
How could you watch innocence forgone
Does what we've done ever really belong?
It wasted me away (I feel so wasted away)

God if you can hear me out alright
Please take these feelings for her inside
My chest hurts when I breathe tonight
It's wasting me away (You're wasting me away)
You're wasting me away

I don't wanna be where you are
I don't wanna be here even now
I don't wanna be by your side
If something isn't right
If something isn't right

This is our last (This is our last)

This is our last goodnight
Say what you will
Say all that you can
Words have no meaning
When I've seen where you've been

This our last goodnight
Say what you will
Say all that you can
This is our goodbye
This is where love ends

This is our last goodnight
Say what you will
Say all that you can
Words have no meaning
When I've seen where you've been

This is our last goodnight
Say what you will
Say all that you can
This is our last goodbye
This is where love ends

5. A Day Late (back to lyrics menu)
So let me get this straight
Say now you love me all along
What made you hesitate
To tell me in words what you really feel
I can see it in your eyes
You mean all of what you say
I remember so long ago
See, I felt the same way

Now we both have spearate lives and lovers (and lovers)
Insignificantly enough we both have significant others
Only time will tell
Time will turn and tell

We are who we were then
Could of been lovers
But at least your still my day late friend
We are who,
We are who we were then
Who knew what we knew now
Could of been more
But at least your still my day late friend
We are who,
We are who we were then

But thoughts may change
And times they rearange
I don't know who you are anymore
But thoughts come and go
And this I know
I'm not who you recall anymore
But I must confess
You're so much more than I remember
Can't help but entertain this thought
Thoughts of us together

We are who we were then
Could of been lovers
But at least your still my day late friend
We are who,
We are who we were then
Who knew what we knew now
Could of been more
But atleast your still my day late friend
We are who,
We are who we were then
My day late friend

So let me get this straight
All these years and you were nowhere to be found
And now you want me for your own
But you're a day late and my love's just still renown

We are who we were then
Could of been lovers
But at least your still my day late friend
We are who,
We are who we were then
Who knew what we knew now
Could of been more
But at least your still my day late friend
We are who,
We are who we were then

6. The Runaways (back to lyrics menu)
Come closer now
I know your desire is to be desired
Steal a kiss and call us friends
Distance is a theif in which you conspire

Time and time and time will tell
Time will tell or tear us apart
You're miles and miles and miles away
Silence reveals where we really are

You only stayed to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
You only stayed to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
Runaway, runaway girl

It's clearer now
You're no where into giving
giving into, giving into me
It's your fault
You're like a rare disease
I know you're in love with love
I believe

Time and time and time will tell
Time will tell or tear us apart
You're miles and miles and miles away
Silence reveals where we really are

You only stayed to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
You only stayed to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
Runaway, runaway girl

Do you expect me to wait here?
All alone in my thoughts and fears
My whole life could flash before your eyes
Hope one day that you realize
This isn't the way it's supposed to be
This is who I crown now without me
Your regrets from us built up inside
Great space for you; love buried alive
Buried alive

You only stayed to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
You only stayed to break my heart
I can tell it by the way you runaway,
Runaway girl
Runaway, runaway girl

I only stayed to break your heart
You can tell it by the way I walk away,
Runaway girl
I only stayed to break your heart
You can tell it by the way I run away,
Runaway girl

7. Time And Confusion (back to lyrics menu)
Live for today
We'll dream tomorrow
We've got big plans in sight
We'll take this city and by nightfall...
The bright lights are calling

Everything is going our way
Everything is just as we've planned
This is our future (from what we've heard)
And i've still got your hand

And it feels like we could last forever
And im not doing to do this alone

When memories fade
We've got each other
When time and confusion collide
Singin' I hold it all when I hold you
When friends walk other ways
We've got each other
I hold it all when I hold
I hold it all when I hold you

We fell on hard times
This isn't the ideal
Miles from home
Doing the best we can (Best that we can)

I won't do this without you
I won't do this without you so take heart
'Cause you know that you have mine

And it feels like we could last forever
And im not doing to do this alone

When memories fade
We've got each other
When time and confusion collide
Singin' I hold it all when I hold you
When friends walk other ways
We've got each other
I hold it all when I hold
I hold it all when I hold

It's not about the money we make
It's about the passions that we ache for
What makes your heart beat faster
Tell me now what does your body long after

I don't care now where we live
It's not where, or what, or who we were with
I just need you in my life
So promise me again...

When memories fade
We've got each other
When time and confusion collide
Singin' I hold it all when I hold you
When friends walk other ways
We've got each other
I hold it all when I hold
I hold it all when I hold You

8. The Feel Good Drag (back to lyrics menu)
"I'm here for you" she said
"And we can stay for awhile,
My boyfriends gone,
We can just pretend."
Last I need no introduction,
Now whos the greater sin,
Your drived by sin to revive,
(tell me darling) Where do we begin.

Was this over before
Before it ever began
Your Kiss
Your Clothes
Your Clutch
Like the devils got your hand
This was over before
Before it ever began
Your Lips
Your Lies
Your Lust
Like the devils in your hands

Everyone in this town
is seeing somebody else
Everybody tired of someone
Our eyes wander for help
Prayers that need no answer now
I'm tired of who I am
You were my greatest mistake
I fell in love with your sin
You littlest sin

Was this over before
Before it ever began
Your Kiss
Your Clothes
Your Clutch
Like the devils got your hand
This was over before
Before it ever began
Your Lips
Your Lies
Your Lust
Like the devils in your hands

Failure is our disease
You broke my heart, my joy
You brought my greatest failure
Discourse wont save myself

Was this over before
Before it ever began
Your Kiss
Your Clothes
Your Clutch
Like the devils got your hand
This was over before
Before it ever began
Your Lips
Your Lies
Your Lust
Like the devils in your hands

Was this over before
Before it ever began
Your Kiss
Your Clothes
Your Clutch
Like the devils got your hand
This was over before
Before it ever began
Your Lips
Your Lies
Your Lust
Like the devils in your hands

9. Audrey, Start The Revolution! (back to lyrics menu)
Maybe tonight we’ll get back together.
Sound the alarms and break all the levers.
These streets are ours, our anthem rings.
You’d know the truth if these walls could sing.

Amateur youth, sling down those signs
Gather the masses, friends of mine
I’ve got your back if you’ve got my hand.
This isn’t over, it just began.

If this isn’t love, (If this isn’t love)
This is the closest I’ve ever been.
Do you think we have a chance?
Tonight at streetlights, sing on Audrey’s song.

If this isn’t love, (If this isn’t love)
This is the closest I’ve ever been.
Do you think we have a chance?
Tonight at streetlights, sing on Audrey’s song.

Remind your parents, “We’re tomorrow.
Lead with morals and we’ll follow.”
When they wake up they’ll see
That youth fades and glory days deceive.

What are you waiting for? Let’s move on this.
Time is of essence like your kiss.
So say you’re in
With cards down and guns drawn; this is it!

If this isn’t love, (If this isn’t love)
This is the closest I’ve ever been.
Do you think we have a chance?
Tonight at streetlights, sing on Audrey’s song.

If this isn’t love, (If this isn’t love)
This is the closest I’ve ever been.
Do you think we have a chance?
Tonight at streetlights, sing on Audrey’s song.

But now it stops at this.
We could take it all if only we were rich.
You can be what you can conceive
Red letters, kill your disbelief.

We all make mistakes sometimes
We all fail, but we stand tonight
Look past them and move on.
We’re all here; you’re not the only one.

If this isn’t love, (If this isn’t love)
This is the closest I’ve ever been.
Do you think we have a chance?
Tonight at streetlights, sing on Audrey’s song.

10. A Heavy Hearted Work Of Staggering Genius
No lyrics, instrumental song.

11. Dance, Dance Christa Päffgen (back to lyrics menu)

She's got the time
says she got time on her side
Commanding the late boys eyes
She runs around, knows all the streets by name
So mysterious, shadows meet James Dean
She's intoxicating, soon your favorite drink
Your black dress in disarray
Only dance floor prayers can save you
Temperatures rise and I start to move
But it's you that's coursing through my veins
Say she's got hope
Took shelter to the Hollywood list, taking control
Wanted my heart but I gave her my soul
She's like a Paige Davis with a Monroe kiss
Disappeared today, left no trace
But someday I'll know your name
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, swear I'm clinical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
Don't need no drugs, you're my chemical
Now I'm dependent, no not cynical
Addicted to those glances, taking chances tonight
I need a fix in those heroin eyes
She's no saint but she'll take you to your knees
Try her boy, but she'll still do what she please
Do you beleive in science? She prefers chemistry
She wanted my love but I gave her the rest of me
Dear Stephen Patrick:
You'll adore me before the night is over
If London's calling don't you dare pick up the phone
Only you entwined
could make this orphan feel at home
Lips that need no introduction, but now waiting for your call
if picture's worth a thousand words
Then your touch is worth them all

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