Blood Ain't Bleeding

It takes a man to take another man down
And write the shame of his name into the thick of the hardening ground
Keep on climbing, keep on climbing till they call you chief
And death'll blow your mind in some kind of sweet relief

So they say, so they say
I'm bleeding away, bleeding away

She says "Darling, darling tell me what's on your mind?"
But he breathes his secrets in and closes the blinds
Ain't no promise, no promise a man cannot break
In a town that never gives, never gives, never gives more than it takes

So they say, so they say
I'm bleeding away, bleeding away

Blood won't bleed my love
I have had enough
Judgement just for two
Spell you cast to spell my doom
To spell my doom

You ain't ever done nothing to straighten the path
Or put the right signs in my wicked math
The games you play, games you gotta play
Ain't no promise a man cannot break
In a town that never gives more than it takes
And the kids they stay, the kids they always stay

But blood ain't bleeding my love away anymore
Something in your eye sends my knees to the floor

Traumatize, scene of the skull had you hypnotized
All history in a two way slaying
It all finished, done
You find you done begun
Blister out the gate, race the red maze man
Stumpfoot in the forest then it's two-step face of sand
Left turn into vast auricular tunnels
Postbloom the channels cut deep under the esplanade
Up there it's all fashion and faux repair
Ah, the last pentacled starlets reigning in a daze
But we don't stop, no
We keep the underground groove going
For the vagrants