Brace Yourself

Sirens and lights
Going off, but it's still dark
Streetlight too bright
It burns our eyes and leaves a mark
What happened tonight
With eighteen matches and a spark
This story writes itself
It's called "One-Thousand Reasons We Should Be Apart

Retrace our steps here
Your face was framed inside your smoke
Never show fear
So sip your gin and make a joke
One last swig of beer
And that must be when I awoke
To the cold, metallic steel
Of these six full chambers pointed at my throat

Like a splinter slice divides us
Like it's black and white and gray
Two seconds could be all we last
So lie in our decay
Like a fire engine siren
Screams the songs of our demise
You look right down the barrel
Of your gun into my eyes

Shattered silence
Barrel one twists and we blink
Reactive violence
The silk smoke begins to sink
So still defiance
And all that's left is time to think
And that's when I awake again to say
It's time to get another fucking drink

Like a splinter slice divides us
Like it's black and white and gray
Two seconds could be all we last
So lie in our decay
Like a fire engine siren
Screams the songs of our demise
The perils of our passioned thoughts
Fill cold and ashen skies
Seconds pass but nothing lasts
Each day a hero dies
You look right down the barrel
Of your gun into my eyes