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Dan Bern
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SUICIDE BOMB
This is the last song I will ever write I'll plug my ears and cover up my eyes to mask my sight I'm killing off my instincts after 2,000 songs I'm getting with the program, now I'm gonna play along
This is my songwriting suicide bomb This is my songwriting suicide bomb
I can't compete with blowing up yourself on a bus Killing one of you and 19 of us Flying hi-jacked airplanes so thousands will die But I can kill too and blacken out the sky
This is my songwriting suicide bomb This is my songwriting suicide bomb
This is the last song I will ever write The last blank page my pen will ever blight Abandoning the fight, I'm pulling off the gloves No longer be a soldier for God or truth or love
This is my songwriting suicide bomb This is my songwriting suicide bomb
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Lyricist:Dan Bern
Bludgeoned and bloody Walking around from memory Scared and lost and broken Only the whiskey still talking to me
I inquired at the big apartment Building there in town Man there said, yeah, we got one room And as he said it he frowned
He said that room is bad luck Couldn't rent it out, I wouldn't try We've lost two tenants in that room Both to suicide
And I asked for and did receive The suicide room Figured if I can't beat this world Maybe I can beat this room Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com
One fellow tied a rope around his neck Fixed the other end up there And before his final struggle Kicked away that chair
The other one stuck a shotgun In his mouth just over there Hoping for something better, something else Or else just addicted to despair
And every day I'm in here I think about those two And what hopelessness can lead to And what some folks finally do
I asked for and did receive The suicide room Figured if I can't beat this world Maybe I can beat this room
And all the doors in my life Slammed and locked away And my string of keys now useless And needing a place to stay
And nearly two years in here now Two years of Sunday chimes And it's like those bumper stickers say One day at a time
And I see the crazy patterns When the sun comes in Through my window that I try to keep clean And I breathe the night air deeply As I'm pulling off my jeans
Some men fall, some men fight Some just carry on I'm still here in my apartment Trying to beat the odds
I asked for and did receive The suicide room Figured if I can't beat this world I can beat this room
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