Flesh & Blood & Rust Lyrics

When you're gone

They'll lay me on a table

Smooth and white

That smells like formaldehyde

And cut me open with the bluntest of knives

And then the nurse comes in and says

Sorry sir, we're out of anaesthetics

Here, have this

It will keep you from screaming

She puts between my teeth

A rose with thorns of glass

And rips my heart out from underneath my ribs

All flesh and blood and rust

Flesh and Blood and Rust

Flesh and Blood and Rust

Flesh and Blood and Rust

Is all that's left of me

The nurse is chewing gum

Looking at her nails

Passing time

Blowing giant bubbles

Fake tired smile

As she collects all the mess

I feel something missing in my chest

A ball of barbed wire to stitch up the cut

Seven stitches, one for each year

And that should be enough

For you to see

Life is so beautiful

But it takes a bit of trying

You really got the best of me

And now I feel like dying

And now I feel like dying

Flesh and Blood and Rust

Flesh and Blood and Rust

Flesh and Blood and Rust

Is all that's left of me