A track from Dog Problems. It has a demo version on B-Sides and rarities, and a live version recorded for The Format, Live at the Mayan.
[Verse 1]
Hold on, there's a hole in my heart
Everyone can see right through me
It goes all the way to the waves
Where my love she tried to wash it away
See she breaks for the summers
So she can find lovers
She thinks that they are bottles of wine
They make you dinner
And they sing you to sleep
But by the morning find the bottle is empty
Cause she never gives it the time
Every bottle she finds
They don't compare
To the ones she left behind
There is never a note
So she waits for me to come back home
[Chorus]
I'm looking for a dead end song
You wish that smoke
Could change its colour
I love it when you talk so much
And act like nothing went wrong
I'm looking for a dead end song
While we sit in find flaws in everyone
I want to keep you by my side
Holding off tidal waves
[Verse 2]
"Mint Car" is keeping us warm
She lays crossed upon the bed
We are puzzles making shapes
With our hands
I take my finger, turn it into a pen
Then I run my hand down your spine
You guess I wrote something profound
Something like:
"Our love will last 'til we die"
I say "you're good at this game"
But what I really wrote is
"How I've yet to be saved"
[Chorus x2]
Dead End was written by Linda Perry & Nate Ruess & Sam Means.
Dead End was produced by Steve McDonald.
The Format released Dead End on Fri May 19 2006.