Broken Nails - DEFSET

In broken speech You tricked me on shaky ground Don't tell me It feels like Walking on rusty nails But the pain's not mine Where we collide Down is the only way out 'Cause hell's above But I've tried to To focus on anything But the strain inside Some words rush Oh like jets in the sky Don't stay long Just passing by But you talked it away You talked it away

This is the first day Of my last days Built it up, now I take it apart Climbed up real high, now fall down real far No need for me to stay The last thing left, I just threw it away I put my faith in God and my trust in you Now there's nothing more fucked up I could do Wish there was something real Wish there was something true Wish there was something real In this world full of you I'm the one without a soul I'm the one with this big fucking hole No new tale to tell Twenty-six years on my way to Hell Gotta listen to your big time Hard line, bad luck, fist fuck Don't think you're having all the fun You know me, I hate everyone Wish there was something real Wish there was something true Wish there was something real In this world full of you I want to But I can't turn back Wish there was something real Wish there was something true Wish there was something real In this world full of you Wish there was something real Wish there was something true Wish there was something real In this world full of you This world full of you This world full of you This world full of

Something from the dark came down The night John Rufus died It landed on the window sill And there it cried all night We could not see the shape of it Wailing filled the air We knew not what it looked like But we knew why it was there I weigh my deeds on my father's scales And I balance them with coffin nails I'd moved off of the family farm in 1954 I was in and out of Fort Roots since I came back from the war He died on the Ides of March Just before the dawn Mama stayed up with him 'til that howling thing was gone I weigh my deeds on my father's scales And I balance them with coffin nails The things we carried in war The things we carry now Every ounce added up Can't seem to set them down I can't seem to set 'em down Something from the dark came down I still hear its song Did it follow from the old world Had it been here all along The banshee didn't seem to bother When it was wartime Too much death and sorrow Too many people crying I weigh my deeds on my father's scales And I balance them with coffin nails I weigh my deeds on my father's scales And I balance them with coffin nails

So impressed with all you do Tried so hard to be like you Flew too high and burnt the wing Lost my faith in everything Lick around divine debris Taste the wealth of hate in me Shedding skin succumb defeat This machine is obsolete Made the choice to go away Drink the fountain of decay Tear a hole exquisite red Fuck the rest and stab it dead Broken, bruised, forgotten, sore Too fucked up to care anymore Poison to my rotten core Too fucked up to care anymore Broken, bruised, forgotten, sore Too fucked up to care anymore Poison to my rotten core Too fucked up to care anymore In the back, off the side and far away Is a place, where I hide, where I stay Tried to say, tried to ask, I needed to All alone, by myself, where were you? How could I ever think it's funny how Everything you swore, it wouldn't change, is different now Just like you would always say, we'll make it through Then my head fell apart and where were you? How could I ever think it's funny how Everything you swore would never change is different now Like you said, you and me will make it through Didn't quite, fell apart, where the fuck were you?