Of the answers in my cigarette box / Yeah, the answer's in the second / before the other shoe drops / And if you're blind to that / I am fine with that

They will consume your sweet resistance / And they'll carry your heart in their teeth / But I am always feeding them / The ugliest parts of me / All of the words I've swallowed / All of the sharp things I've kept in my mouth / I am always bleeding out

Time has changed the metaphor / Now, dust is not the origin of bone / Little girl, don't let them sell you any armor / All your ribs are still your own

Oh, the misery / Everybody wants to be my enemy / Spare the sympathy / Everybody wants to be / My enemy

You can leave it all behind / Skip a beat in the bloodline / And you've been hiding all your life, it's time / To skip a beat in the bloodline

No one's brave enough to take the fall right / But it's all your fault / Why you actin like it's alright

I'm writing a chapter on what to do after they dig you up / On what to do after you grew to hate what you used to love / That was the first time I knew / They were out for blood / And they would have your guts

You are the hammer, I am the nail / Building a house in the fire on the hill / There is a string that leads me to hope / I tied the noose, but you are the rope

So keep on doing what you damn well please / Play it off like it's all a tease / Wouldn't put it past someone like you / To strike a match then you light my fuse

My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust / Trying to find a part of me you didn't take up / Gave you too much but it wasn't enough / But I'll be all right / It's just a thousand cuts

Keep playing my heartstrings faster and faster / You can be just what I want, my true disaster

I got that bravado / Watch me scare you dead / Yeah you should've known / I'd never do what I'm told

Baby you're no good / 'Cause they warned me 'bout your type girl / I've been ducking left and right Baby you're no good / Think I fell for you, I fell for you / I fell for you

I need my golden crown of sorrow / My bloody sword to swing / My empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology / I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King

I would always fuck around and find out / You were always saying I would crash down someday / I would have to pass out on my friend's couch / We were up all night, so we slept all day

So smoke 'em if you got 'em / 'Cause it's going down / All I ever wanted was you / I'll never get to heaven / 'Cause I don't know how / Let's raise a glass or two / To all the things I've lost on you

The doctor asks me where it hurts / Born to fish, forced to work / Don't let 'em tell ya what your broken heart's worth / Fire ant on the sugar trail, tailfeathers on a nightengale / Arrowheads and bones is all you'll find

Can we erase our history / Is it as easy as this / Maybe in other realities / The road never took this twist

As the sun comes up shining down on the ten / I did too much living and I'm dying again / I guess I lost my head at the Holiday Inn / But my blood run red, my blood run red

And all went silent / Purples, violets / The kind of cursive quiet / One with the starry eyelids / A sweet unsweetened / An eve uneven

Your light never burns out / I don't wanna come down / Can't lose what we just found for nothing

Draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man / You did some bad things, but I'm the worst of them / Sometimes I wonder which one will be your last lie / They say looks can kill and I might try

We can plant a memory garden / Say a solemn prayer / Place a poppy in my hair / There's no morning glory / It was war it wasn't fair

If you would've blinked then I would've / Looked away at the first glance / If you tasted poison you could've / Spit me out at the first chance

I've had more of those bad dreams / You were ten feet in front of me / I went running but I couldn't catch / Just the shadow of your silhouette

What am I supposed to do, but sink my teeth in you? / I starve without you on my lips, I die without the taste of it

I've been under scrutiny (yeah, oh, yeah) / You handle it beautifully (yeah, oh, yeah) / All this shit is new to me (yeah, oh, yeah) / I feel the lavender haze creepin' up on me / Surreal, I'm damned if I do give a damn what people say

Make me evil, then I'm an angel instead / At least you'll sanctify me when I'm dead / Dream girl evil, dream girl evil

There's a shadow at the back door / Something's moving in the shed / She lights cigarettes like lanterns / For the darkness in my head

Why are you hanging on / So tight / To the rope that I'm hanging from / Off this island / This was an escape plan / Carefully timed it

Well I've got a growing, got a growing list / All the names that kill are the same to kiss / And if you look deadly... you'll make it

Start carving, Darling / I want to smell the dinner cooking / I want to feel the edges start to burn

Even when the cold comes crashing through / I'm putting all my bets on you / I hope they never understand us

We placed a gamble with our hands on our hearts / Made a blood-pact deal 'til death do us part / I knew his heart was mine / But his soul was sour inside

Bet I could still melt your world / Argumentative, antithetical dream girl

I have found no mercy in these old bourbon hills. / The wind has always been a part of my life / and I can feel it still.

Cold-blooded, as cruel as can be / Abuse her and you'll always need / Oh, to feel Mary's loving, to feel Mary's loving, little lamb

You do not dance everyday with the fear / Of living in headlights, the hunted, the deer

You were being kicked about / Backed up, teeth and claws are out / Covered in blood, covered in blood / Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow