Ballad of Delacroix

Pick up all the beer cans off the floor
Don't think I can take it anymore
Every day's a wait at Heaven's door
But the devil's sending deals I can't ignore

Look at all the bruises one more time
Drownin' in the tears that I've been cryin
All your sins are getting hard to hide
Can't go on afraid to close my eyes

And only one of us gets out alive

You won't go down without a fight
So I'll wait 'til you're out cold tonight
Slip my poison in your veins
And feel your heartbeat fade away
The river mouth, no it won't speak
A word of what it hides beneath
I'll live to see another day
But take this secret to my grave

Your crooked smile has all the others fooled
But underneath it's evil and it's cruel
How I wish your love and lies were true
You speak so sweet, then leave me cold and bruised
Nothin' but an object, broke and used

And all the suffering dies with you tonight

You won't go down without a fight
So I'll wait 'til you're out cold tonight
Slip my poison in your veins
And feel your heartbeat fade away
The river mouth, no it won't speak
A word of what it hides beneath
I'll live to see another day
But take this secret to my grave

This time, the tables have turned
Permanent lesson for you to learn
This time, the joke is on you
Had your fun playin' me, now you're through
This time, the sin is on me
Knowin' you taught me to show no mercy
This time, it didn't end well
Baptized, I'll see you in the fires of Hell

Did not go down without a fight
When I took you out, out cold last night
Slipped my poison in your veins
And felt your heartbeat fade away
The river mouth, no it won't speak
A word of what it hides beneath
I'll live to see another day
But take this secret to my grave