Phantom Limb - American Standards

Dire, dire stakes around you

I can’t hear you with your head under the sand

But I can feel you breathing

Breath in, breath in fill your chest

The air is free but they’ll take the rest

Pay to prey at church on Sunday

Zombie, zombie living the life

I’ve stabbed my heart but I can’t feel the knife

And oh god damn I’m twisting

Father, son and the Holy Ghost

One gun, two bullets who wants it the most

And I’ll always put my money on the bastard

If the stains my blood

Then I’m not regretting it

If the signals from hell

Then you know I’m sending it

Oh can see the teeth marks

From their bite

The well was dry before I spit into it

Soak up all my courage and grit

Determination I’ll never quit

I’ll never quit, I’ll never quit

I’ll never quench

Clench the sun like pearls on a neckless

That’s my light to protect and shine on this

But in this age I’m getting more unfit

To judge any new shadow

And that scares me a bit

We’re dusting off our old beliefs

With venom between tongue and teeth

We sing along

To a sirens song

A rehashed verse

The words all wrong

The well was dry before I spit into it

Soak up all my courage and grit

Determination I’ll never quit

I’ll never quit, I’ll never quench

I’ll never quit

I’ll never quench

I’ll never quit

And with this thirst I’ll never quench