Elbow Grease Lyrics

I've bled myself into a trance

I oil my skin, I'm my own man

my hand is red, sometimes it stains

I work myself up into another state

sweet pills, inject me

I will function correctly

I've filled my memory

with bats that found no belfry

I break like tinfoil

protecting all that's been spoiled

if I crush - collect me

your love won't resurrect me

but they will

I've let myself one line too far

my hand is red, I feel so loved

sweet pills, inject me

I will function correctly

I've filled my memory

with bats that found no belfry

I break like tinfoil

protecting all that's been spoiled

if I crush - collect me

your love won't resurrect me

but they will

shrink into your chair again and watch

just watch, don't engage

no use to engage the two shirtless drunks

beating each other into a pulp

toppling over the balcony railing

(repeat until it starts to rhyme)

(repeat and pray to stop in time)

a bloody, screaming tangle of veiny fists and cigarette smoke

we move and we unfurl

the world beneath the world

we move and we unfurl

the world beneath the world