Just for the record there she lays

shedding fur in patches and pulling at her face

I've been taking these things all night long

Hoping it will make me tired

Hoping it will keep me strong

keep me strong



Bloodshot and blue

I can smell the guns

through the bedroom walls

I can hear them run

Angels scurrying like rats

until the daylight comes



And if it's me locked inside this box

Then I pray that my love can pick these locks

Oh no, here we go again



You try and you try

to untie the knots

With the grace of a sailor

and the will of a box



Both shaking like a leaf

Both staring at the lights

Both trying not to sleep

Both trying not to fight

And it's nights like this

When I'm scared to death

Will the morning come quickly

Will there be anything left?

Here we go again



The house finds the hush

And the battlefield is soft

And the footprints where a man and a woman have walked

Where a man and a woman have walked