Crooked Fingers - Dignity & Shame lyrics

rate me

Cover me in mud and leaves

I won't be the one to fail you

I'm a thousand gargoyles standing by your window

To be sure there ain't no cure

There could be no one to save you

When the bad boys come to do you in again

So when they tell you things that you don't want to know

Or take you back to places you don't want to go

You've got to bury that knife

Keep your face in the light

Because there's one thing that they cannot do

Is take from you what you keep in mud and leaves

And if you walk, walk away, save yourself, you've got something to lose

And if you give what they take, you can bet they will take it from you

You're not the same as the day that you came

You can choose dignity or shame

You've got to bury your bones where you want in the ground

Where they will not be found by the leeches you're keeping alive

There's a man in your hand

And he's got nothing good to sell you

And he's smashing a violin against your bed

To be sure there ain't no cure

He comes creeping back to beg you

As thousand gargoyles crash into his head

And then that feeling comes you've been here once before

That wicked feeling you don't want to feel no more

You've got to bury that knife

That you keep stuck in your side

Before they dig that knife into you

And break into what you keep out of their reach

And if you walk, walk away, save yourself, you've got nothing to prove

And if you give what they take, you can bet they will take it from you

You're not the same as the day that you came

You can choose dignity or shame

You've got to carry your heart like a torch in the night

Little keeper of light burning deep, burning bright in the dark<br />

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Thanks to razvan