Shut the fuck up

City girl with the pretty eyes
Sittin' pretty in her disguise
All alone and I don't know why
Looking good like she don't try
Sweet talking to paralyze
Wouldn't know she's a dirty dime

Story's changing, color's fading
You are nothing more than a thought

I'd never seen your eyes so red
Familiar stranger slips into my bed
I should have killed you when I had the chance
I should have killed you when I had the chance
To get off easy

Only pretty on the outside
Full of nails on the inside
I guess lust is blind
(I cannot feel)
Red nails and a butcher's knife
I don't care cause she's looking fine
She's a good way to die

I'd never seen your eyes so red
Familiar stranger slips into my bed
I should have killed you when I had the chance
I should have killed you when I had the chance
To get off easy

Next time I won't be so weak
I made it out alive
Next time I won't be so weak
I made it out alive
Next time I won't be so weak ('cause I)
I made it out alive (alive, alive)
Next time I won't be so weak

Story's changing, color's fading
You are nothing more than a thought

I'd never seen your eyes so red
Familiar stranger slips into my bed
I should have killed you when I had the chance
I should have killed you when I had the chance
To get off easy

(I thought all girls wanted fellas to take 'em to fancy places
And spend lots of money
Not this girl


Lyrics submitted by DanceGavinDance19, edited by selbydate16

Get Off Easy Lyrics as written by Ian Kirkpatrick Kyle Even

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    My Interpretation

    The way I see it, the singer is reflecting on a horrible destructive relationship he never should have been in. From the outside the girl is beautiful and perfect, but secretly she's hiding her true self (Story's changing, colors fading/You are nothing more than I thought.) Once he's deep in the relationship, he realizes he's dating a crazy women (i've never seen your eyes so red/Familiar stranger thrust into my bed), who is possibly suffering from borderline personality disorder or actually a psychopath or sociopath, and the only way out is to "kill" her (end the relationship as quickly and viciously as possible to make her hate him.) The lines "I should have killed you when i had the chance/ to get off easy" is his way of looking back and saying "I should have walked away the second I saw you so i never put myself in the position of having to destroy you to save myself.) The news in the beginning is, in my opinion, to just set the scene that one or both of them ended up being victims of the relationship since it says Victim no. 1 was found in the living room.

    Suggarhie11on August 21, 2016   Link

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