If it don’t bleed
Then it ain’t alive
Another shiny thing
For the crows to find
If it don’t bleed
Ain’t worth listening to
I smell dead things
Funkier than you
Devil got my woman
Woman got myself
Kept drinking til I lost my mind
Then I lost my health
I don’t care if it rains
No grave’s too shallow for me
You can take everything I have
Ain’t afraid to bleed
First it was survival
Then it was god
Then the ivory tower turned to babel
And look at what we got
I got family that can go to hell
And enemies that get me through
Seems like everyone I love
Has an open wound
Chorus
Every canary ever saw this place
Lay down and died
Don’t matter if you’re in the groove
If you ain’t got the time
Sometimes a beautiful lie
Can be true
If it draws blood
When it’s gone away from you
Chorus
Some day I’m gonna end it all
Drown in shadow
Time has such a bitter taste
So little to call your own
But with each and every tear I shed
I see more stars above
You never gonna see the light
Until you see the blood
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