Nerves
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Lyrics
Burn away
Everything you thought you owned
And wake up feeling like a
Newborn man
With things to do and try
With hills to try and climb
With many things to prove but now you're
Getting tired
And everything you thought you knew
About getting by in the long run goes
Out the door
And it collapses down on you
And now you can't see through
All the rubble piling up on your chest, since you are
All the man you used to be
The flesh and bones you walk around with
Flexing tendons to what you see
The animal in your brain's back seat
Telling you to fuck and fight
And do things inappropriately
Makes decisions left and right
And crushes your creativity
All the things you try
To get things back to right
Leave you with no more energy
These nerves...
These dying nerves
Quiver and shake
And won't give you back their control
And all the man you used to be
All the chivalrous bloodletting
All the random acts of sex and
Energy you waste orgasming
Everything you are today
Everything you might someday be
All the matter in the world
And all of that in our galaxy
Every breath you pour back out
Every ounce of body fluid
All the alibis you tell
And all the things that you're not telling
Play upon your heart
And off to a bad start
It sets a record racing off the charts