Nothing was supposed to hurt like this.
Missing you was always one more kiss.
Now there's nothing that I can do.
One more nail in the coffin, and it's all for you.

Always were and always were a simple love story.
You were everything I ever hoped and dreamed.
Drown me in a pool of my blood.
It's getting harder just to breathe.

I'll suffocate you faster just so you can't see, so you can't see me sleep.
It's getting harder just to say the right things.
I've seen the angel's face, and I've heard her sing to me.
From my reflection on this razor

Blade, I've heard ten thousand dying screams,
And they're calling me. the day
Will break on this saddest day, so don't let me wake.
I've heard this all before, and I've seen this over and over again.

Don't let me wake.
Drown me in a pool of my blood.
It's getting harder just to breathe.
I'll suffocate you faster just so you can't see, so you can't see me sleep.

So you can't see me sleep.
The day will break on this saddest day, so don't let me wake.
I've heard this all before, and I've seen this over and over again.
Don't let me wake.

Nothing was supposed to hurt like this.
And missing you, was always one more kiss.
And now there's nothing that I can do.
There's just one more nail in the coffin.

There's just one more nail, and it's all for you.
I've seen the angel's face, and I've heard her sing to me.
From my reflection on this razor blade,
I've heard ten thousand dying screams,

And they're calling me.
The day will break on this saddest day, so don't let me wake.
I've heard this all before, and I've seen this over and over again.
Don't let me wake


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On Wings of Lead Lyrics as written by Brian Leppke Brandan Schieppati

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    To me this is about hard times and how they've happened before and that you're just to the point where you don't want to care anymore when you realize that it can get better in time...maybe that's just what I think because of my own personal feelings these days

    Ueleyon October 15, 2004   Link

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