You stumbled down the stairs and waited for me there I picked you up as we laughed it off and put on airs of debonaire Heads held high despite the nights we felt empty Giving in to seven sins What's ours is what we see Every memory is dealt in bruises Temporary ink that loses shade with age but never fully fades Now there's just wasted space in place of yesterday Waiting with baited breath to fill the vacancy Still licking wounds I was put through when we were young Still as sad as I used to be but now it's not as fun Every memory is dealt in bruises Temporary ink that loses shade with age But never really fades Nothing seems to cure It bleeds into my skin And who'd I do this for? Every memory is dealt in bruises Temporary ink that loses shade with age but never fades Every memory is dealt in bruises

Satan is pacing your footsteps from below He glides a glass along the ceiling everywhere you go And ya know hes poisoned all the trees up from the lowest root But if I didn't bother to shake the branches, I'd never eat a fruit Caught between the fire and the sea It's salt in the wound or living caustically Floor boards creek, splintering veneer Make sure you stop your feet cause the devil is near He listens in and licks his lips with each click of your heels It sends a shiver down his spine when he feels a hearse's wheels He bites his fist when shaking knees are praying in the pews He always longs for company and it doesn't matter whose Caught between the fire and the sea Salt in the wound or living caustically He'll slowly bat his lashes and whisper in your ear Just never trust a dress The devil is near Caught between the fire and the sea It's salt in the wound or living caustically Inside the details, advocating fear Just keep the name off of your lips cause the devil is here

It isn't cold now, but I know come sundown I'll feel ivory bones, right through my clothes The crease of your tongue gets rung on the pavement It's base entertainment we're succumbing to It's hard not to talk to me like a child When you've lost any point that you're trying to make I know that I know that you call yourself clever I suppose that it's true if you say so yourself But please don't go to sleep It'd mean the world to me If you stayed up to see me leave I'll sleep when I'm tired I'll sleep when I'm tired I'll sleep when I'm ready to leave You used to arch your back and now your arms are in a knot Limber thoughts and now you're locked and can't connect the dots If you breathed for me And I stood in your shoes Well I'm sure we'd be fine And what good would that do? I've taken your side, too many a time It's wearing me down, holding your frown You don't treat me the same in the crowds Only circumstance while you packed your bags Made a grand entrance, then jumped over the fence Dateless at the dance A vacuum to romance With the patience that you had I'm astounded that we ever stood a chance Please don't go to sleep It'd mean the world to me If you stayed up To see me leave I'll sleep when I'm tired I'll sleep when I'm tired I'll sleep when I'm (x3) Letting the consciousness slip, intelligence dips I feel the loosening grip Lying alone on your side with your eyes open wide Every night, every time

Stitch on a patch to jean jackets Cover your tracks And if the past bubbles back Start papering over the cracks Another bottom of a bottle Place it on your mantle Inside your gated den Where the whole pack is gathering Obsolete gear turns the machine Idle organs in anatomy Strike a match Fan the flame and walk away Watch it spread and live to see another day Feed the scene and give it all it needs to breathe Fasten the scars with who you think they think you are Lay your roots to rest in confidence Dredging up the dead is harder than it seems When fire steeps the scenery They danced to the glow as it warmed their skin But they stomped out the flare that drew everyone in And now they're blowing on the embers That smolder on the ground But if a phoenix should sing Make sure you clip its wings A lack of heart in spades But they'll still wear jackets till the denim fades

If it proves too hard harboring the fraud Then grab your god cause we're lying A misogynist who left a kiss on another killers lips Seems that's what all a hypocrite should get What a piercing, sharper wit But it couldn't stab the witch She had a suit of armor too many inches thick BURN THE WITCH BURN THE WITCH I gathered sticks and stones to break those evil bones Pleading breathing would postpone To trust isn't enough, this century is rough Believe in love and all that stuff Melted down my money for a bluff It's not a craft that I would like to be a part When her calling card contains a pentagram inside a heart BURN THE WITCH BURN THE WITCH She spelled it out and cast it down upon my head Never questioning who I had let inside my bed To trust isn't enough, this century is rough Believe in love and all that stuff Melted down my money for a bluff The hourglass eroded right before her eyes Watched the sand melt away the time I kept a vial round my neck to catch her tears And it stayed dry through all the sordid passing years The doctor said to raise our torches to the town To throw her in the deep and wish her luck Let's hope she drowns Let's hope she drowns (x5) BURN THE WITCH BURN THE WITCH (x2)

Opened up a paper cut turning to my page Now every word to read is red A rose tinted overlay that's Spoiling me flipping ahead a few to see what happens to you It shouldn't take me having to bend your ear to learn my place Just to find my place Writing an epilogue ending for yourself Wrapped in a bow and put back on the shelf You wanted infinites, I wanna take it day by day But there's no way Because I'm always thinking what you're bound to say is HEY Something is different, I thought you would never CHANGE I didn't change anything, I'm still the SAME But you're really not and still have nothing left to SAY AY AY AY Kept out of the sunlight, used as a bookend Now you wilt into every hand anyone lends Voice turns sweeter when you needed me but leaves so soon as someone new Writing an epilogue ending for yourself Wrapped in a bow and put back on the shelf You wanted infinites, I wanna take it day by day But there's no way Because I'm always thinking what you're bound to say is HEY Something is different, I thought you would never CHANGE I didn't change anything, I'm still the SAME But you're really not and still have nothing left to SAY AY AY AY (x2)