Cold-Blooded Angels

Cold-blooded angels in blankets of ash
 Alone in the southern pass
 There's a place in the garden
 Where nothing will grow
 But I could stay forever
 Where I lay every night on a forest floor
 Asleep with both eyes open
 'Cause I need that bitter hand
 It struck me blind
 To keep my eyes from closing
 Pale as a rose, all the shadow it throws
 Over earth and sky
 If the rocks in my pocket
 Were cinder in stone
 I'd owe it all to nothing
 Wasted years on an empty road
 Where flies buzz around my head
 Now I miss the bitter hand
 That cut me down
 All the way to nothing
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 Wasted years on an empty road
 Where flies buzz around my head
 If the dust in my pocket
 Were silver or gold
 I'd spend it all on nothing
 There's something waiting at the door
 I hear it breathing
 Follow even though I'm sure
 I should be leaving
 There's something waiting at the door
 I see it bleeding
 Every time I ask for more
 I can't believe it
 All I knew was hanging 'round the door
 
 I'm not sleeping anymore
 'Cause I remember every single word
 Every little thing I can't forget
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 Cold-blooded angels
 Stop staring at the sky
 We all pay a terrible price
 When we learn to fly
 And if I could forget you
 Oh, how hard I tried
 Please, somebody tell me
 How the hell did I survive?