(Myles Goodwyn)
Published by Northern Goody Two Tunes, Ltd./CAPAC - ASCAP

They call it the burnout factor, and only the good die young
Somebody's gonna take their life, just tryin' to have some fun
The paper's gonna say we're crazy, no matter what they say, yeah
You know I'm gonna rock all night, gonna rock all night and day

Whenever they quote you man, you'll be misunderstood
They're never gonna get it right, or tell it the way they should
Maybe we move too fast to put it all in a song
And if we keep pushin' ourselves we won't be around too long
If you wanna try it

Crash and burn, crash and burn
Crash and burn, crash and burn all night long

Some people like to take it easy and flow without a sound
Others like to play for keeps and spread themselves around
I don't wanna say it's right, but if that's where you wanna be
Life's too short to miss out on what you wanna see
If you wanna try it

Crash and burn, crash and burn
Crash and burn, crash and burn all night long

Come on now, honey, don't tell me the way I ought to be
You know I don't need nobody talkin' back to me
Hey, I'm gonna live my life the way I think I should
You know I wouldn't change a thing, even if I could
I tell it like it is

Crash and burn, crash and burn
Crash and burn, crash and burn
Baby, crash and burn
I said crash and burn
I said crash and burn

When you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please to tame your wild wild heart
I know you feel like the walls are closing in on you
It's hard to find relief and people can be so cold
When darkness is upon your door and you feel like you can't take anymore

Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone

When you feel all alone
And a loyal friend is hard to find
You're caught in a one way street
With the monsters in your head
When hopes and dreams are far away and
You feel like you can't face the day

Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone

'Cause there has always been heartache and pain
And when it's over you'll breathe again
You'll breath again

When you feel all alone
And the world has turned its back on you
Give me a moment please
To tame your wild wild heart

Let me be the one you call
If you jump I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night
If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash then crash and burn
You're not alone

All these nights are catching up to me
I just can't put insomnia to sleep
I close my eyes but all that I can see
Is someone who I'm never gonna be

I hope that you can bring me back
I gotta make it right

And if I fall and crash and burn
at least we both know that I tried
And as I crawl, those lessons learned
Yeah they remind me I survived

Silence just keeps screaming back at me
The ones I love are lost in memories
And I wish that I could take back what was done
You can only change the person you've become

I have to try and find a way to leave it all behind

And if I fall and crash and burn
at least we both know that I tried
And as I crawl, those lessons learned
Yeah they remind me I survived
And I've been hurt and I've been scarred
at least I know that I'm alive
and if I fall and crash and burn
at least we both know that I tried

All of the things I tried to say
All of the words just got in the way
I'm waiting here, I need your help
Don't leave me down here all by myself

And if I fall and crash and burn
at least we both know that I tried
And as I crawl, those lessons learned
Yeah they remind me I survived
And I've been hurt and I've been scarred
at least I know that I'm alive
and if I fall and crash and burn
at least we both know that I tried

I watched the sun come up on Portland
I waved goodbye to all my friends
I packed my car and headed to LA
I gave away all my loose ends

Somebody said you gotta get away
To wanna go back home again
I left my universe standing there
Holding the hand of my best friend

And it's laughter that I feel when I think of you
It's one more dusty rose about to turn
I'll see you when I reach New Mexico
If I'm in the mood to crash and burn

I wrote a letter that I never mailed
I rehearsed a dialogue in my head
In case you ever wanted to track me down
I'll take my cell phone to bed

And it's laughter that I hear when I close my eyes
And it's one more punchline I forgot to learn
I call you up when my bottle's dry
I'm on my way to crash and burn

Antigone laid across the road
And let a mack truck leave her there for dead
Just because her lover split the scene
Well love might be great but why lose your head

Well, it's laughter that comes up when I cry for you
And my heart may break again before it learns
And I might be stupid enough to want to fall again
Cause I've gotten use to the crash and burn
I say I've gotten use to the crash and burn

Crash and burn
Crash Crash
Crash and burn

I watched the sun come up on Portland
I waved goodbye to all my friends
I packed my car and headed to LA
I gave away all my loose ends

Somebody said you gotta get away
To wanna go back home again
I left my universe standing there
Holding the hand of my best friend

And it's laughter that I feel when I think of you
It's one more dusty rose about to turn
I'll see you when I reach New Mexico
If I'm in the mood to crash and burn

I wrote a letter that I never mailed
I rehearsed a dialogue in my head
In case you ever wanted to track me down
I'll take my cell phone to bed

And it's laughter that I hear when I close my eyes
And it's one more punchline I forgot to learn
I call you up when my bottle's dry
I'm on my way to crash and burn

Antigone laid across the road
And let a mack truck leave her there for dead
Just because her lover split the scene
Well love might be great but why lose your head

Well, it's laughter that comes up when I cry for you
And my heart may break again before it learns
And I might be stupid enough to want to fall again
Cause I've gotten use to the crash and burn
I say I've gotten use to the crash and burn

Crash and burn
Crash Crash
Crash and burn

One more thing before you go
We?ll stay up late for one more show
Grab the keys we?re going out
We?re leaving home and we won?t come back again
We?re friends till the end
We?ll take on the world
We just don?t care at all

I never wanted to believe that you could lie
That friends deceive
And here I stand I?m still the same
I watched you change
You wont come back

[Chorus]
I wonder what it?s like to be like you
(I wonder what it?s like to be like you)
To never really care how bad it hurts
(To never really care how bad it hurts)
So go ahead and lie and keep moving on
It?s all about yourself and you?re never wrong
I?ll watch you crash and burn

The day is gone
It?s cold out
I walk alone as you fade out
I don?t know why I?m reaching out
And now I know you wont come back

[Chorus]

Do you remember the days?
Way back when we used to say
Nothing can change us
No one will stop us
I?ll never be like you

I?ll watch you crash and burn
You?re never wrong and you keep moving on
[4x]

L.A. to Reno
Checking out the scene-o
Feeling so mean-o
Sometimes I wish I could crash and burn

Winding through the hot night
Without my headlights
20/20 hindsight
Sometimes I wish I could crash and burn

Crash and burn
And I never ever felt so lonely
Crash and burn
Can't look them in the eye
Just want to drive and drive and drive

Going nowhere
And I don't care
Can't wait 'til I get there
Sometimes I wish I could crash and burn

Fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety
Gotta be a place where they can't find me
Watching all those bridges burn behind me

And if I can't see
What's passing me
Nothing's gonna touch me and I'll fly
I wish I could crash and burn

On my Philco
I hear an echo
There was a wreck-o yesterday
And by tomorrow
They'll clear the char-o
And wash the tar and trouble away

I wish I would
I wish I could
I wish I would

[Chorus x2:]
Crash and burn crash and burn crash and burn tonight
We're gonna keep on partying till the wake of daylight

[Tim]
Rosy is a Puerto Rican porn star; that girl knows how to get down
Making money, making movies, lying horizontal dropping all her clothes on the ground
Then one said: Wake up Tim, it's midnight, it's a city out there to go for a ride
Like two vampires, we ride through the cities, we sleep as dogs backside
I don't give a fuck, never did never would, never could back down, not one time
So I'm gonna keep, making music, making records, keep telling people what's on my mind
I'm the same kid that I ever was even though I got platinum plaques on my walls
And I dress in black and it's a fact I don't give a goddamn at all

[Chorus]

[Rob]
I think back to better days, took a license to ill
Before I ever held something I fell in love with them pills
Back before I had to ride and go in for a kill
Way before I tried to rhyme and go in for a deal
It's real survives with guns playing only from the shoulders
Wrong way down a one way still avoid the rollers
Still I beat a motherfucker like it's going outta style
Tried to cheat me outta my cash so I beat it out his child
I'm wild, my pupils dilated same as my people
I'm the only mother present to build you a church steeple
Speak evil to the world teach all the boys and girls
That they can't trust no one, show 'em fuck what you heard
Cause I mind my own business and I do my own dirt
And I make my own money cause I got my own work
I sware somebody better send a ceast and desist
Before I squeeze it with my fist and they cease to exist

[Chorus]

[Guest]
A party was bash for how long it was lasted
Some turn cash like hash to ashes
some dash hot slugs run the fastest
Who we fought to eat, unless we fasting
But thugs are not like most actors casted
Thugs might blast and smash your casket
America's worst fear, white, brown and black kids, together
fed up, strapped up to tatted
bald heads, jerry curls, classic perms, .......
various sets that'll flash off sherm
toast to a new day having its turn
tequila, the bottle is like a bath for worms
the paranoid, that's way past concerned
i hope the country and the world get past this term
this is show and tell, so the class will learn
party go until the cops come and crash and burn

[Chorus]

I always thought we were in control
But our lives could never be what they were before
There's a rhythm in our love
Only you and I can feel it
Outsiders in a world where passion is a crime
So we conceal it

Now this hard road leaves a bitter taste at the bottom of my cup
But if I got you, No way, I'll never give up
Tonight, tomorrow, don't know how far we'll get
With the blue moonlight beyond another deep sunset
I'll be ready when there's nowhere to run
Yeah I been waiting for the heartache to come

Crash and burn
Deep inside your heart
Crash and burn
Oh yeah
Crash and burn
Love moves too fast
I lose control
I'll never learn
Crash and burn

Now I believe there's a way for us
There'll come a time, there'll come a day for us
Unleash this heart and let the spirit free
It's the emotional part
It's a deep and dangerous thing
But I'll be ready when there's nowhere to run
See I been waiting for the heartache to come

Crash and Burn
Deep inside your heart
Crash and burn
Do you feel it?
Crash and burn
Love moves too fast
I lose control
I'll never learn
Crash and burn

Now I'm ready and there's nowhere to run
I'm waiting, waiting for the heartache to come

Crash and burn
Deep inside your heart
Crash and burn
Oh yeah
Crash and burn
Love moves too fast
I lose control
Crash and burn

Oh yeah
Crash and burn
Can you feel it?
Crash and burn
Love's straight ahead
I won't slow down
And I won't turn
Crash and burn

Crash and burn
Can you feel it?
Crash and burn
Crash and burn
Crash and burn

Your'e, so fit, and you know it
And i only dream of you
Cuz my life's, such a bitch
But you can change it

Maybe you need, somebody just like me,
Don't turn me down cuz, I've got no car and I've got
no money

I asked you to dance at the disco
But you said no!
The whole world was watching and laughing
On the day that i crashed and burned...
At your feet!

Since the day you dissed me
I'm feeling so pathetic
Cuz the guys... well they've ditched me
And its all because of...

You and your friends, laughing at me now
You think that i'm nothing
Ask your sister what you're missing!

I asked you to dance at the disco
But you said no!
The whole world was watching and laughing
On the day that i crashed and burned...
At your feet!

Maybe that you think you're too good for me
Tonight when you get home you're gonna see that
I know, i've got, something better than you baby

Na na nana
Na na nana
Na na nana
Na na nana

(Woo woo!) Na na nana
(Woo woo!) Na na nana
(Woo woo!) Na na nana
Na na nana

I asked you to dance at the disco
But you said no!
The whole world was watching and laughing
On the day that
I asked you to dance at the disco
But you said no!
The whole world was watching and laughing
On the day that i crashed and burned...
At your feet.