Wake up, can you hear me?
You're so clever, did you find me?
In the backroom, in your closet
In your suitcase, there's no running
I will find you, like the glacier
Cuts the seabed, leaving canyons
In your cheekbones, passing through you
In the shadows, scenes undo you

Cut your ribbon
As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?

Face it, can you hear it?
Violation, you'll remember
It's all harmless, incidental
Disengaging, these thoughts break you
Conscious, vicious
It has found you, monovision
Synapse fails you
Frequent syndrome
Stings and burns through
Monovision then dilutes you

Cut your ribbon
As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?

As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?

(Can you escape these motives?)
(Can you escape these motives?)
(Can you escape these motives?)

Cut your ribbon
As it follows you
Everything, everything
How can you sleep at night?
As it falls apart
Anything, anything
How can you sleep at night?


Lyrics submitted by anger7388, edited by jaysizzle, md92h

Cut Your Ribbon Lyrics as written by Matthaeus Guenther Miller Jim Ward

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    this is my favorite song, sparta is an amazing band

    anger7388on July 21, 2002   Link
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    thanks a lot to whoever posted these lyrics. Now i'm only looking for lyrics to of the room. Anyone know where to find them? anyway, this song rules. what's it mean? well to me it means that he's trying to get away from something or somebody. probably something. like a problem or something. he's running away but it always finds him. "in the back room, in the suitcase." he just wants to cut the ribbon. my old gf was like this. always running from her problems. but hey, i could be wrong. I'm just happy that sparta write about something other than cliche emo stuff. i'm seeing em in a couple days. can't wait. thanx for listening

    catchthis22on July 21, 2002   Link
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    this is my favorite song! I saw them live and i completely fell in love! i cant wait until their cd comes out on August 13th. :) SPARTA!!

    beautifulon July 24, 2002   Link
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    i posted these lyrics, sparta is unbelievable

    anger7388on July 25, 2002   Link
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    i posted these lyrics, sparta is unbelievable

    anger7388on July 25, 2002   Link
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    yeah thanks for that. you have lyrics for of the room? i wanna see those

    catchthis22on July 26, 2002   Link
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    good song. but dont get used to these lyrics. they change in their new album called Wiretap Scars...

    Spartaon July 26, 2002   Link
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    i saw sparta a couple of days ago for my first time in houston,tx with dashboard and weezer. i missed the first one or two songs but it was a kickass show anyway. i didnt hear them play this song, but i guess i missed it. that blows:O\ anyway..sparta rocks! woo. heh..

    m_a_r_y_Oon August 05, 2002   Link
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    I luv dis song. This iz just one of my favorite songz ever. I wuz just listening to dis song last night b4 I went 2 bed. I think dis iz just 1 uv da gratest songz eva!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

    TheLinkManon August 07, 2002   Link
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    So as much as I like this song, I downloaded some more of their stuff until I get the cd. I found a song called "where is my mind" and I was wondering if anybody had the lyrics?? I know the first line is "with your feet on the air and your head on the ground.." but that's all.

    beautifulon August 13, 2002   Link

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