Lyrics

Under the knife

The sun it sets, hold tight this breath
For soon the night descends
Anticipation, cold and damp
This hunger never ends
A heartbeat pounds in knotted throat
High tension wired to fate
Keen edge approaching breathless speed
The future moves too late

Your living under the knife
Oh how I try and I try to break free
Your sighing under the knife
Forever it seems I must flee
Your crying under the knife
This fever so high I can't see
Your dying under the knife

A silver vein screams through the night
Precision guided steel
It glides towards a fatal flaw
Dark purpose so revealed
Cold pressure mounts on every side
Pulse reaches overload
Discharge the breach of birth to death
So strikes the fatal blow

Your living under the knife
Oh how I try and I try to break free
Your sighing under the knife
Forever it seems I must flee
Your crying under the knife
This fever so high I can't see
Your dying under the knife

Through shattered recoil ringing bone
You stagger on the blast
The shockwave sweeps away all fear
So burns away the past

Your living under the knife
Oh how I try and I try to break free
Your sighing under the knife
Forever it seems I must flee
Your crying under the knife
This fever so high I can't see
Your dying under the knife


© Craig McConnell 2008