Every Time I Die
Album • 2003
Tonight I'm coming home In a coma If it fucking kills me Listless but relieved Beaming like a newborn hostage Orphaned by an ambulance I got this new black eye just for you Your hopeless romantic Now helplessly rheumatic Poets grinding teeth to powder All my vowels Are getting lost in the gauze Misinterpret courting For the cursings of a drooling fool Here's to cheap sex and codeine In a hospital bed And maybe I'd object If I felt at all alive Everybody's dying to lay down with you I got the order all wrong Maybe I bumped my head Maybe I should quiet down Don't bet on another blackout I'll be all right There's an army at my window Waiting to lose this fight I'm the king of this all night clinic The fucking champion Tonight we'll feast like royalty in traction Happy and meticulous There's a delicate love song in this Kicked out and dripping in verse Go get your gun 'Cause God won't show He sent a poet instead The Don Quixote of the ICU Quite impressive For a cripple Munchhausen by Proxy of a muse Tempt not a desperate man Tempt not a desperate man This split lip is for you I traded it for an outdated tooth
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Feb 25, 2026
This isn't at all unpleasant I'm enchanted by the lavish ballet And I'll whistle the tune All the way to the gallows That I heard at the cabaret At the sheriff's signal The orchestra moves the floor Don't it make you feel wonderful? Body twisting strictly ballroom Criminally elegant Ideal pastured Viennese waltzer I'm dressed to kill I'm weightless and well rehearsed In my godless opera my character is canonized Unhand me This is a musical and nothing goes wrong Can't keep the classics Out of the head of the masochists Strike up the band Strike up the band It's 245 beats for a measure Or five beats per six steps on alternating feet The show must go on Never mind the teeth and the fingernails The show must go on I don't feel at all like I thought I would But I could probably go on like this forever Tonight, we dance For tomorrow they release the dogs Tonight, we dance For tomorrow they release the dogs Tonight, we dance For tomorrow they release the dogs One, two, three, one, two, three Keep it up One, two, three Savor it, savor it, savor it, savor it Savor it, savor it, savor it, savor it (Where is my head?) Savor it, savor it, savor it, savor it (Where is my heart?) Savor it, savor it Everything vanishes
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Feb 25, 2026
What we're doing is so wrong And what you're wearing is so right, it's so tight But I've never felt better So I'm going out to get her And I don't care, I don't care What set of wheels I steal to get there Balance is a minor setback What she thinks is all right And the way that she looks is just fine She sure as hell ain't you But Lord knows she'll have to do She don't know I'm alive but neither do I So there's nothing left to lose If I could only make you, make you want to want me One more drink, I think, should do I wish that I could say I love to watch you walk away But you probably won't be back in time To hear it, so it's just as well No one out there Gets back in alive So I'll love the way you stand so close to a guy Who we both know can't get near it Strike when ready Burn the highway Strike when ready Burn the highway Strike when ready Burn the highway Strike when ready Burn the highway down Let me hear her high heels moan I'm ready I'm ready, set, go There's cocaine in the key That took us from the bar to her car to the bedroom Only the lonesome love us Only the careless can handle us Only the lonesome love us What's wrong with us that we're so unamused? Only the lonesome love us Only the careless can handle us Only the lonesome love us What's wrong with us that we're so unamused? Only the lonesome love us Only the careless can handle us Only the lonesome love us What's wrong with us that we're so unamused? Only the lonesome love us Only the careless can handle us Only the lonesome love us What's wrong with us that we're so unamused? Only the lonesome love us Only the careless...
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Feb 25, 2026
Turns out I never had a thought at all I've been talking in my sleep Reciting teleprompted anthems A marionette strung tight To the executives upstairs I almost had myself convinced That I meant everything I said (What a shame) Oh captain, my captain You've been drinking What happened? I've been slurring my cadences And blacking out when I stand I know all about your son Who never did return from the war But there was poison in that bottle, I tell you (One, two, three, four) Tell the tower I've been hijacked Tell the gunman this vehicle's been stolen I'm coming out with my hands in the air I'm coming out with my hands in the air The voice on this tape that you're hearing isn't me The voice on this tape isn't mine There's been some horrible mistake I'm a proud God-fearing registered democrat This is all an elaborate scheme And it will be cleared up when the Governor beckons for me He'll clear my name It appears that the inmates have overrun the asylum There's a madman at the wheel There's a madman at the wheel We are not even remotely capable of keeping our heads about us We've abandoned all semblance of presence Dead bolted, buckled in Keeping our word to a sinking ship Let the rats orchestrate the new mutiny I'll meet you overboard I'll meet you overboard
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Feb 25, 2026
Cut your brake lines Break your headlights Waited for you at the stop sign Disconnected iron lungs Insurance fires Our smothered young Always the first one on the scene A pyromantic midsummer night's dream Thank you lord For this oil slick For her car wreck For I'm lovesick Heaven sent us a hero But Hell tried his resolve And when you thought we were done for I pulled through While you rested your eyes in the driver seat I sat and watched you Always the first one on the scene A pyromantic midsummer night's dream Trust me Trust me (We'll wait for it, pray for it Step on the brakes 'til we're over it Under it Screaming like bombs for it Oh dear me, I've done it again) Thank you lord For the loaded gun For the bad aim For I'm lonesome God is smiling down on us He shines His grace on everyone He shines His grace on everyone The greatest lovers were murderers first The greatest lovers were murderers first The greatest lovers were murderers first
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Feb 25, 2026
To my mistress the bridge, I don't feel well I'll be leaving, you can't stop me We've been carrying on too long We've been carrying on too long I'm sorry, but I'm gone I've got a bad reputation to think about I've been dirty, I've been wrong Maybe someday they'll find that I've washed up I'm stepping out to clear my head I'm breathing in to fill my lungs We're all dead We're all dead Farewell scenic highway overpass It's better this way anyway My lover the river makes a better soldier than a bride My lover the river makes a better soldier than a bride But I left my heart at the side of her bed And she's got the warmest body that I've ever had Drag the lake, you'll find it full of love Drag the lake, you'll find it full of love Drag the lake, you'll find it full of love Bring the children to the water And let them see what heartache did This matrimony needs a witness And you can teach them to swim And you can teach them to swim And you can teach them all to swim Don't let your dreamers Grow up to be dead men Drown us at birth Save her some time Drifting on romantic holiday Breathless as her cold arms cover me Drag the lake, you'll find it full of love Drag the lake, you'll find it full of love
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Feb 25, 2026
You're okay, I will be
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Feb 25, 2026
Boys, shoot to thrill, from the hip This time we put the "act" in action We've tricked the pigs into thinking That this auction is a pageant In no time, there will be Makeup on our new set of cutlery The livestock is starstruck They're all salivating like ravenous cartoons Goddamn, animal You'd better watch where you spit Squeal like soft music If it helps, we'll dim the lights on the floor Neon bulbs are the cosmetics of swine Everybody looks quite dazzling Trussed up in their formal attire You'd make a great secret if I could keep you But we all spill our guts We're locked and loaded Drip fed and bloated Our trigger fingers snagged In the mouse trap of the moment Turn the lights off on us Like a moth left in the cold In the dark, begging for more When the urgency strikes you You'd better not lose your nerve It's the rush that the cockroaches get At the end of the world, it's alright, it's alright There's a pail by the bed if you need one But you're doing just fine When in Rome, we shall do as the Romans When in Hell we do shots at the bar Last call, k-k-kill it Last call, k-k-kill it Last call, k-k-kill it Kill it, kill it We don't think in terms of the morning afters And we don't honor a single word of the night before In the meantime, we're just thoughtless Incessant buzzing apparatus Disillusioned and lonelier than the last man standing It doesn't get any better than this So run like Hell So run like Hell So run like Hell This is a rock and roll takeover Living each day one night at a time There were mercy fucks, there was blood Oh, you should have been there by my side This is passion This is red-handed denial I have no lover And she hasn't the prettiest eyes Last call, k-k-kill it
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Feb 25, 2026
No man abandon his post A gatecrasher has called us to arms Take up your torch I want this ship cleaner than a hospital ward A radical has polluted our ranks Slouch into position men, this is a war Set the traps We'll have that criminal's head Marched through the streets on a stake Someone will pay for this We'll squeeze his goddamn brains out Sleep with one knife open You can't out-think us We've been out of thoughts for a while You can't out-think us We've been out of thoughts for a while And the warrior with the deadliest weapon Is the one without an instruction manual for his gun This is a union of dunces We are the new global menace Stalking the land Gnashing dull teeth Tapping our feet Sighing and humming and watching the clock That's what you get (That's what you get) That's what you get That's what you get for fucking with us That's what you get for fucking with us When we find you We'll skin you alive We'll pluck out your eyes And the cannons will roar as we march to the capitol Dragging your hide Drooling polished jackboot monsters Tracking the scent of a sleeping child Your composure gave you away Next time it's best to cry havoc Keep marching, the bridge is ours They're coming to get me They're coming to take me away I'll never make love in this town again Everyone on the dance floor is doomed Hit the ground Shut your mouth The prisoners have laid waste to the pulpit You're in for it now Are these helicopters for me? Have I been appointed to speak? Then I'm going to Hell And I'm taking the Renaissance with me
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Feb 25, 2026
Tonight the cinema's the treatment clinic Where the perverts seek the cure Show me the rape scene one more time for the cause And I promise we'll behave like perfect Christians We'll sing the glory of the gospel For some whiskey and a skin flick Hallelujah (Rise, all rise) Hallow be my name (In this kingdom we come without calling) Hallelujah (The violence and the choir The virgin and the fire Up to her neck in tongues Up to her neck in tongues) Lovely, so lovely is Ludwig Van Electronic sonata Pumped through the mud of the one night stand The saints in regalia whistling while they rape Lid clamps in vitamins Lift up her skirt I'll be cured Like a junkie with a methadone addiction thinks he's clean I'll be cured I'll be cured Sit down and watch closely All these whores have conceded the war She said, "You might be sick, but you feel all right to me" She said, "You might be sick, but you feel all right to me" She said She said She said, "You might be sick, but you, aw, you feel all right to me" That's enough Turn if off Well, I promise I'm better now It's too much Turn it off Healed at the horror show
Submitted by Infernal Flame — Feb 25, 2026
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