John Mann

Same old words on your tongue
You fell in with the rain
I built a bridge over your head
So you'd have a place to stay
We made love to all the ghosts
Under the sheets where we lay

We take our drugs to drown our sorrow
All our happiness is borrowed
We're in debt that much is sure
To nights that bring the morning pure

It always echos under there
It all comes back your way
With every word you are reminded
That war supplied your veins

So lay the track we need it fast
I become the rapist from your past
Our blood is blue and our bones are hollow
We'll be even sicker by tomorrow

You're lookin' for a saviour
That I can't seem to be
But I promised to get drunk with you
So we could fuck our mystery

We take our drugs to drown our sorrow
All our happiness is borrowed
Our blood is blue and our bones are hollow
We'll be even sicker by tomorrow

Played a game in my younger life, a lot like twister but with a knife
Threw the point into the ground to bend my brother's body round
No one bled and if they did, didn't cry

Don't recall a watchful eye
But I think we led safer lives when we played around with knives

Left the house for hours on end, home to eat then out again
Raced around the monkey trails with my back step breaks that never
failed

I road through the woods alone, out of sight and far from home
But I think I got the richer life on my rusted no speed bike

Patience broke and I was pulled from my room
I took it on the ass with the same wooden spoon
That beat the cookie dough

No kid ever disappeared and if they did we'd never hear
The sordid details of their deaths never landed on my doorstep
I was taught to be polite, how to eat and sit upright
But I was left alone to fight and figure out if that felt right
I think we got the richer lives when we played around with knives
I think we led safer lives when we played around with knives