Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors

Editors

Pull the blindfold down
So your eyes can't see
Now run as fast as you can
Through this field of trees

Say goodbye to everyone
You have ever known
You are not gonna see them
Ever again

[Chorus:]
I can't shake this feeling I've got
My dirty hands, have I been in the wars?
The saddest thing that I'd ever seen
Were smokers outside the hospital doors

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?

How can we wear our smiles
With our mouths wide shut
'Cause you stopped us from singin'

[Chorus]

Someone turn me around
Can I start this again?
Now someone turn us around
Can we start this again?

We've all been changed from what we were
Our broken parts left smashed off the floor

I can't believe you
If I can't hear you
I can't believe you
If I can't hear you

(We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor
We've all been changed
From what we were
Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor)

Someone turn me around
(We've all been changed
From what we were)
Can I start this again?
(Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor)
Now someone turn us around
(We've all been changed
from what we were)
Can we start this again?
(Our broken parts
Smashed off the floor)


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Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors Lyrics as written by Edward Owen Lay Christopher Dominic Urbanowicz

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    Yay I'm the second commentor! In what I suspect (or hope) will be a long line of comments! I'm really into this new song, and I have high hopes about the new album. I think this song is about irony, hence Smokers Outside The Hospital Doors, and looking back on your past with regret, but those are just hunches. I'd love to know the story behind the song.

    Crazeeon May 14, 2007   Link

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