He had a plan to kill you all along,
The evidence was hidden in this song,
I was a ghost,
I was there at the scene,
As the embers rise, my hands,
Smelled like gasoline,

So, the headlights murdered my thoughts,
I curse this taste that's on my tongue,
This taste will last until I rip it out,
No, I won't need these gloves,
Her bones are withered away, but your ghost will remain.

You're the only one that wore your seatbelt,
We're the only ones that cried,
Catastrophic accidents,
You're the only one that died.

So keep my casket closed,
Your heart beats under the floor,
It haunts me in my dreams,
and nothing's as it seems.

Hallelujah, woah,
So just believe in me,
I'll Never let you down,
This was a curse I can say,
As you lie in your grave

You're the only one that wore your seatbelt,
We're the only ones that cried,
Catastrophic accidents,
You're the only one that died.

So keep my casket closed,
Your heart beats under the floor,
It haunts me in my dreams,
and nothing's as it seems.

(But your ghost will remain, as you lie in your grave)
(But your ghost will remain, as you lie in your grave)

All the choices you've made
And the paths that I take
You're the only one that died
(The evidence was hidden in this song)

All the choices you've made
And the paths that I take
(We're the only ones that cried)
Irrelevant, I knew it all along

All the choices you've made
And the paths that I take
(It was never enough)
(It was never enough)
(It was never enough)
(Now was it?)

So keep my casket closed,
Your heart beats under the floor,
It haunts me in my dreams,
but nothing's as it seems,

So keep my casket closed,
Your heart beats under the floor,
It haunts me in my dreams,
but nothing's as it seems,

So keep my casket closed,
Your heart beats under the floor,
It haunts me in my dreams,
but nothing's as it seems,


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    Im not absolutley sure but if you look at the title. "When I Go Out I Want To Go Out On A Chariot Of Fire." When I Go Out? Keyword There "I". Aren't the lyrics about an ironic tradgedy of a chick in the car with him? Seems weird but what if it was like about Princess Di? Just throwing that out their. "He Had a Plan To kill You all along?" Or just a deliberate car accident in general. The taste on my tounge doesn't necssicairly mean that it was acohol. That could just be like a metaphor for guilt?

    lachlanmornardon July 18, 2009   Link

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