Long ago
Just like the hearse you died to get in again
We are so far from you.

Burning on just like a match you strike to incinerate.
The lives of everyone you know
And what’s the worst you take, from every heart you break (heart you break)
And like a blade you stain.
Well I've been holding on tonight

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What’s the worst that I could say?

Oh baby here comes the sound
I took a train outta New Orleans
And they shot me full of ephedrine
This is how we like to do it in the murder scene
Can we settle up the score?

If you were here
I'd never have a fear
So go on live your life
But I miss you more than I did yesterday
You're so far away

So c'mon show me how
Cause I mean this more than words can ever say
You're beautiful

He calls the mansion not a house but a tomb.
He's always choking from the stench and the fume.
The wedding party all collapsed in the room.
So send my resignation to the bride and the groom.

Let’s go down!
This elevator only goes up to ten.
He's not around.
He's always looking at men
Down by the pool,
He doesn't have many friends.
As they are face down and bloated,

In the middle of a gun fight...
In the center of a restaurant...
They say, "Come with your arms raised high!"
Well, they're never gonna get me,
And like a bullet through a flock of doves...
To wage this war against your faith in me,
Your life...will never be the same.
On your mother's eyes, say a prayer...say a prayer!

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Now, but I can't
And I don't know

Well if you wanted honesty, That's all you had to say.
I never want to let you down or have you go, it's better off this way.
For all the dirty looks,
For photographs your boyfriend took,
Remember when you broke your foot from jumping out the second floor?
I'm not okay.
I'm not okay.
I'm not okay.
You wear me out.

What will it take to show you that it's not the life it seems?

I never said I’d lie in wait forever.
If I died we'd be together.
I can’t always just forget her,
But she could try.

At the end of the world,
Or the last thing I see,
You are never coming home.
Never coming home.
Could I? Should I?
And all the things that you never ever told me.
And all the smiles that are ever, ever...ever...

Get the feeling that you’re never.

Gaze into her killing jar,
I'd sometimes stare for hours.
She even poked the holes so I can breathe.
She bought the last line.
I'm just the worst kind,
Of guy to argue,
With what you might find.
And for the last night I lie.
Could I lie with you?

Alright, give up. Get down.
It’s just the hardest part of living.
Alright, she wants. It all to come down this time.

Since we talked alone...
come angels of unknown...
come angels of unknown...

Sister, I'm not much a poet, but a criminal
And you never had a chance
Love it, or leave it, you can't understand
A pretty face, but you do so carry on,
and on, and on

I wouldn't front the scene if you paid me
I'm just the way that the doctor made me, on,
and on, and on, and on
Love is the red of the rose on your coffin door

Wait until it fades to black
Ride into the sunset
Would I lie to you?
Well I've got something to say
Grab your six-gun from your back
Throttle the ignition
Would I die for you?
Well here's your answer in spades

Shotgun sinner, wild-eyed jokers
Got you in my sights
Gun it while I'm holding on

After all is said and done
Climb out from the pine box
Well I'm asking you

Do you remember that day when we met?
you told me it gets harder
well it did
been holding on forever
promise me that when i'm gone you'll kill my enemies,
the damage you inflicted
temporary wound

I'm coming back from the dead and I'll take you home with me
I'm taking back the life you stole

we never got that far,
this helps me to think all through the night

This night
Walk the dead
In a solitary style
And crash the cemetery gates
In the dress your husband hates

Way down
Mark the grave
Where the searchlights find us
Drinking by the mausoleum door
And they found you on the bathroom floor

I miss you.
I miss you so far
And the collision of your kiss that made it so hard

Back home
Off the run
Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

Stay out of the light
All the photographs that I gave you
You could say a prayer if you need to.
But just get in line and I’ll grieve you.
Can I meet you, alone?
Another night and I’ll see you.
Another night and I’ll be you.
Some other way to continue,
To hide my face.

Another knife in my hands,
A stain that never comes off the sheets.
Clean me off.
I'm so dirty babe.

For what you did to me
And what I'll do to you
You get, what everyone else gets
You get a lifetime
Let's go

Do you remember that day when we met
You told me this gets harder
Well, it did
Been holding on forever
Promise me that when I'm gone, you'll kill my enemies
The damage, you've inflicted temporary wounds
I'm coming back from the dead and I'll take you home with me