Don't even take a breath
The air is cut with cyanide
In honor of the New Year

The press gives us cause to celebrate
The air raid sirens
Flood barbed wire skylines
With artificial night,
As we sleep to burn the red
From our bloodless eyes.
Tonight we're all time bombs
On fault lines.

Have we lost everything now?
Walking like each other's ghosts
Around these silent streets
(the sedatives tell you everything
Is alright)

Like calendars dying
At New Year's Eve parties
As we kiss hard on the lips
And swear this year
Will be better then the last
Jet Black, the ink that spells your name
Jet Black, The blood that's in your veins
We say, "How long can we take this chance not to celebrate?"

There's music playing
But we dance to the beat
Of our own black hearts
And draw diagrams
Of suicide on each other's wrists
Then trace them with razorblades

Fire to flames
"Strike Match."

Burn these words from our lips
As 'The Daggar' screams
"Love is dead"
And it's a "newspaper tragedy,"

Have we lost what we love?
Have we said everything?
Does it change anything?
Stare at the clock
Avoid at all costs,
This emptiness.

Ten seconds left
Until midnight
Nine chances to drown ourselves
In black hair dye
Eight faces turned away
From the shock
Seven windows and six of them
Were locked
Five stories falling
Forever and ever
Three cheers to the mirror
Now there are two of us
Can we have one last dance?

Jet Black, the ink that spells your name
Jet Black, The blood that's in your veins
We say, "How long can we take this chance not to celebrate?"



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Track duration: 04:49

"Jet Black New Year [#]" as written by Geoffrey/rule Rickly

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    General Comment:Does anyone know where I can find the story written in the booklet besides buying the CD? Wikipedia says Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance added some of the screaming vocals. This song is perfect lyrically and musically.
    Flag sofa king coolon January 05, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:This band changed my life, geoffs words are truly life changing. This song is just one of the many that has deep meaning behind it.. how does this man think of these things. he is a lyrical genius
    Flag T- Cuppycakeson May 15, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:anyone who thinks it's about anything other than the story of the boy who fell out of the window, just read the lyrics of the bridge.

    Ten seconds left until midnight
    Nine chances to drown ourselves in black hair dye
    Eight faces turned away from the shock
    Seven windows and six of them were locked
    Five stories falling
    forever and ever
    Three cheers to the mirror
    Now there are two of us
    Can we have one last dance?

    most of it is obvious, but the end of it took a while to make sense to me. he's saying three cheers to the mirror because he's locked in the bathroom. now there are two of us means himself and the person in the mirror, whom it sounds like he was seeing as the little boy. can we have one last dance? he's saying one last dance before the boy dies.this song is tragically beautiful. i'm not gonna lie. i cried a little bit when i read the story and i cry a lot of the times i listen to the song.
    Flag ralissaon April 16, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:Geoff is my hero. He writes the most amazing songs of anyone I've ever heard. Well him and Dustin Kensrue of Thrice. They are amazing songwriters. This is one of my favorite Thursday tunes. They are just the best band and I agree, most of their stuff isn't special the first listen, but after you get to three or more, you really learn to appreciate it's beauty. I was never a huge fan of them, I always liked Thursday, but the past few weeks have found me obsessed with them. I can't stop listening.
    Flag HolyxDiver6018on April 16, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:"as the dagger screams,
    'love is dead,'
    and it's a newspaper tragedy"


    THANK YOU, INK & DAGGER.
    Flag jxnarcoticzon December 27, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Quite possibly the greatest song written by mankind.
    Flag Pocketmoonlighton May 24, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:Fucking intense
    Flag PinkFloydrulezon March 31, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:i mean just.. words.. cannot.. fojaerafijeiogaweg
    Flag PinkFloydrulezon March 08, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:holy... jesus christ monkey balls... this song is amazing
    Flag PinkFloydrulezon March 08, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:OH GOD SOMEONE MAKE THE NAKED PEOPLE LEAVE SONGMEANINGS. Eww. (seriously, do those adds not piss you off...)

    Best fucking song ever =)

    rather emo, but hey, aren't we all ;)
    Flag Sea_Of_Faces90on February 28, 2007   Link

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