• Jonathan Meiburg
• Will Sheff
• Kim Burke
• Thor Harris
• Howard Draper

The Dissolving Room (2001)

• Hurts so bad that you know it's not sinning.
  The funny thing is it's just beginning to feel good.
  • Not Tonight
• If you stay sober, I'll put the kettle on.
  And you can come over, drink tea, and watch the lawn.
  • If You Stay Sober
• It's like a dream I had: this girl I went to see
  (and I can't sing her name, she might be listening to me),
  in a room of missing tiles we felt ourselves entwine,
  and she bit my tongue and shouted as I crawled into her mind.
  • The Left Side

Everybody Makes Mistakes (2002)

• People got no respect for the dead; they roll new plans out neatly.
  • An Accident
• Everybody makes mistakes - some do most of all.
  "I just don’t have what it takes," they’re singing as they fall.
  • Mistakes

Winged Life (2004)

• If I told you once, then I told you twice
  That I would have paid just about any price
  Just to see him jump, just to see him laugh
  I would have washed in the blood of an innocent man.
  • Whipping Boy

• You're like a convert who goes back to work
  When he can't retrieve how the clarity actually felt
  When his co-workers ask him, the words won't come out
  And after three weeks, his new leaf has blown away
  And it feels just like an average day
  Facing walls, talking into the phone
  Sitting dumbly in church all alone
  Picking back up the magazines he'd thrown away.
  • A Makeover

• Claire lives up on Saint Mary's walk, with her mother.
  And I live down on Philomel, by the harbor
  And I hate the ocean.
  • St. Mary's Walk

• And I'll clasp my hands
  And I'll make demands
  At the clouds, they're asking "What's wrong with him now?"
  • The Convert

• God, take that sound away
  If you've got something to say
  Say it now.
  It's fake, and I need you not to be fake
  And don't care how you make me feel
  Just so you're real.
  • The Convert

Sham Wedding/Hoax Funeral (Split w/ Okkervil River) (2004)

• We will stand in the waves while the colors all run, and our minds fill with light until we start to go numb.
  • Mountain Laurel