Bloodhound! (Live at Lowercase Books, Knoxville, Tennessee) Lyrics

'm allowed to have an ego about certain things

Especially when people can't handle the truth

I try to make it somewhere other than the place I'm hidden

But they push the knife in deeper and it breaks on through

Don't let it bother me, I am impervious to pain

But they still attack me, why is this happening

Strangers can be so cruel to you

If they don't know what's at stake, they make the mistake of their mouths opening

I can't let 'em win because I'm better than that

I come in and stop through the other side and walk in like a cat

My wounds are scarred and charred but they never let me call you

All this over a misunderstanding of values

The frying pans are popping like a gunshot in the parking lot

Pigs are called they smelled the bacon burning in the pot

I've had my tongue ripped out too many times to be sure

If I even have one left, my silence speaks volumes

I want John C. Woods to hang me when I'm close to death

I'm sure I deserve the strangulation and the sympathy I'd get from

The critics and the masochists that beat down my door

As long as they don't go in my basement and

Tear up my floorboards

I can't let 'em win because I'm better than that

I come in and stop through the other side and walk in like a cat

My wounds are scarred and charred over but they never let me call you

All this over a misunderstanding of values

My black shiny nails claw for freedom from the people who strike me down

And tell me I should walk away

Take my microphone and run, my song isn't over

I'm overwhelmed, overworked, over easy, and under assured

Tears are running out of my hands and my eyes

My blood turns yellow and black and blue

I'm a chameleon of singing and blood type

The Phoenix Lights swinging from the banisters of nightlife, that's right

I can't let 'em win because I'm better than that

I come in and stop through the other side and walk in like a cat

My wounds are scarred and charred but they never let me call you

All this over a misunderstanding of values