Pride Alone Won't Put This Fire Out

from Every Sick, Disgusting Thought We've Got In Our Brain by The Venetia Fair

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I should've screamed at her
She might've woken up
It'd make a much better story than the one I've got
Because the world heard all it cares to hear about dying

She's a saint and I'm a predator
We never pra(e)y alone
The lord built me from dirt to build her out of my bones
That's how the world learned all it ever could about lying

And every song's about the young while we're decaying

I'll let you in if you've got the stomach to
watch me swallow the sea.
Because my pride alone won't put this fire out.
And it's all that ever kept me warm

I should've screamed at her
She might've smartened up
What kind of twisted conversation ends in giving up?
But then the world's heard just about enough of your whining

I'm a prick because I'm built for it
My teeth are water stones
Keeping my bayonet sharp in case these gunpowder lungs
Allow the world in just a bit too close to ignite them

And every song's about the young while we're decaying
like some uninspired cadence but baby

The scenes define our home
The crooked frames we claim
we're leaving behind
from slamming our way through these doors
The scenes define our home

Because the world's heard just about enough of your whining

I'm find as long as when they sing about the young while we're decaying
like some final fading cadence
you can hold my hand and watch me mouth the words

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from Every Sick, Disgusting Thought We've Got In Our Brain, released March 1, 2013

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