Brace Yourself Lyrics

Sirens and lights

Going off, but it's still dark

Streetlight too bright

It burns our eyes and leaves a mark

What happened tonight

With eighteen matches and a spark

This story writes itself

It's called "One-Thousand Reasons We Should Be Apart

Retrace our steps here

Your face was framed inside your smoke

Never show fear

So sip your gin and make a joke

One last swig of beer

And that must be when I awoke

To the cold, metallic steel

Of these six full chambers pointed at my throat

Like a splinter slice divides us

Like it's black and white and gray

Two seconds could be all we last

So lie in our decay

Like a fire engine siren

Screams the songs of our demise

You look right down the barrel

Of your gun into my eyes

Shattered silence

Barrel one twists and we blink

Reactive violence

The silk smoke begins to sink

So still defiance

And all that's left is time to think

And that's when I awake again to say

It's time to get another fucking drink

Like a splinter slice divides us

Like it's black and white and gray

Two seconds could be all we last

So lie in our decay

Like a fire engine siren

Screams the songs of our demise

The perils of our passioned thoughts

Fill cold and ashen skies

Seconds pass but nothing lasts

Each day a hero dies

You look right down the barrel

Of your gun into my eyes