William J. Hall, Lyrics 1980, Bleed

Bleed William J. Hall - September 1, 1980
	1	Running trough frozen shadows
	2	Knife edged shrieking street-lights
	3	Broken glass in empty windows
	4	Hollow dreams in empty nights
	5	Tangles railroad entrails of Hoboken
	6	Pavement steaming central heat
	7	Vision smashed
	8	All hope broken
	9	And trashed
	10	Like refuse in the street
	11	It's the same old story
	12	Who can see it as she sees
	13	Risking the fangs of the predatory
	14	Trying to find a little squeeze
	15	You know, her sister's a junky
	16	And her boyfriend's a thief
	17	Stay ahead of the twisted monkey
	18	Trying to get some relief
	19	Sidewalk shimmers like quick sand
	20	Furnace opens ready to receive
	21	She takes it all in
	22	But on the other hand
	23	Doesn't begin
	24	To know what to believe
	25	It's the same old story
	26	Who knows it as only she can know
	27	Racing the silence of purgatory
	28	Going all out to cop some good blow
	29	Someday I'll make a wish upon a star
	30	And wake up where the flashing neon light bazaar
	31	Is far
	32	Behind me
	33	Far behind
	34	Where trouble melts away the pressure drops
	35	So high above the smoking chimney tops
	36	Just stop
	37	And find me
	38	Just try and find
	39	Me
	40	Speeds along and turns the corner
	41	Out over barren fields of steel rail
	42	Hissing jets piss stinking summer
	43	Out into dark clouds of misty veil
	44	She runs ahead through misty shadows
	45	She stumbles blindly in the heat
	46	Sweat streaming
	47	Down her face and fingers
	48	Earth tearing
	49	At her leaden feet
	50	Far away the moment trembles
	51	Opening like the cracks of doom
	52	The world disintegrates
	53	And reassembles
	54	Into the sterile silence
	55	Of her room
	56	Four walls reflected in the mirror
	57	Four walls that intersect four other walls
	58	And now her hand
	59	With ever dropping pressure
	60	She tries to stand
	61	But falls
	62	To her knees she falls
	63	She knows what it means
	64	And with her head thrown back
	65	She starts to laugh
	66	And she screams
	67	And she screams
	68	And she screams, "Bleed
	69	"Bleed, mother fucker, bleed
	70	"Bleed cock-sucker
	71	"Bleed
	72	"Bleed
	73	"Bleed
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