Metal Eye - The Golden Palominos

You know what you’re doing

You know what this is about

You look in her metal eye

You kiss her platinum mouth

Like frozen chrome and mercury thigh

You kiss her mouth

As cold as a prize

She’s a dying machine

So bless her skin

And bless the nightmare she’s living in

Open your mouth

All that comes is desire

She wants to die with her eyelashes on fire

She hides her star and turns her ring around

She hides her wires when she goes underground

She knows what she’s doing

She’s almost done

You think this is tragedy

She thinks this is fun

I’m dead inside

She’s the girl you don’t understand

She’s the girl with the see-through hands

When she was born there must have been a spark

But there’s nothing there now in her cold chrome heart

She watches you flourish

She listens to you fall

She sees you scrawl your love in blood on the wall

She bites the bullet

So watch it go off

And watch it explode

In her platinum mouth

You know what you’re doing

You know what this is about

You look in her metal eye

You kiss her platinum mouth

Like frozen chrome and mercury thigh

You kiss her mouth

As cold as a prize

I’m dead inside

Don’t bother peeking at what’s under her dress

You should know by now she gets by with less

Your last night together desire arrives like a terrorist

When flesh meets metal all that breaks is the fist

When she was born there must have been a spark

But there’s nothing there now in her cold chrome heart

She bites the bullet

So watch it go off

And watch it explode

In her platinum mouth

At 3,200 degrees platinum liquefies

Secretly, I’m dead inside

Let me kiss you, let me bless you

At 3,200 degrees, secretly, platinum liquefies

I’m dead inside

Let me kiss you, let me bless you

Secretly

I’m dead inside (Let me kiss you, let me bless you)

With her metal eye

(Let me kiss you, let me bless you)

I’m dead inside

She can’t cry

With her metal eye

(Let me kiss you, let me bless you)

I’m dead inside

(Let me kiss you, let me bless you)

I’m dead inside

Secretly

I’m dead inside (Let me kiss you, let me bless you)

Secretly

I’m dead inside (Let me kiss you, let me bless you)