Red Is the New Black - Funeral For A Friend

Tinker tinker tinker Pling pling ding My body breaks the void screams Weary of hollow metals that ring of hollow life By hand and by hammer I give birth tonight

Walk with me my monster but close those crusty eyes The sounds I make may be abrasive but you'll be all right Turn off all your senses and pretend you're home W

I feel like I'm becoming A butterfly Or a golden bee My smile is like razorblades When I smile It cuts bloody deep My body is on the magazines My face on the TV

I've forgotten my name I'm sick and weak and fresh from sleep I crawl from a crooked bed with dirty feet and shaky hands The numbers on the clock read one one O

Altzing daydream serenade Preaching god and country like lines on a telegraph Seems like we all want to be So very different but nothing changes Young and defen

Question, nothing will come of it Replace, Destroy the parts that never seem to fit Cancer spreads through the nerve, through the tissue and we burn Infecting v

Our lives are lived By loving disaster ending disastrous love Forever obsessed by the essence of death We celebrate it So sing it loud I'm not giving up on you

There's a point to make That sometimes goes unheard Like the blood in your veins You often forget What we are is a species on the brink Who'll be left to pick o