dusty screams, through doors and imaginary floors
"why can't you miss me?"
pistol pete removes the final breaths from her unkind and she is shaken
what does this mean in love or in peace?
with you lying next to me
so faithless serene
and she calls to him

let the waste cross the ancient trails to you
far out beneath the sorrow clouds
let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you
let them cry out through your rusted scars

alone he roams inside the ordinary catacombs of her waiting
with raven hands she steals and staggers towards her man
still scorned by his demon

because he's undone
become the language of
disaster and love, vengeance and dust
and she calls to him

let the waste cross the ancient trails to you
far out beneath the sorrow clouds
let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you
let them cry out through your rusted scars

dusty screams, through doors and imaginary scenes
of hurt and teardrop
as he holds her down, in the cold lonely winds
together again, her inside him
and she calls to him

let the waste cross the ancient trails to you
far out beneath the sorrow clouds
let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you
let them cry out through your rusted scars


Lyrics submitted by Ice, edited by Mellow_Harsher

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    It might be my mood right now...

    but I feel like it speaks about suicide. Dusty has been thinking about suicide for awhile - and she finally does it. She was thinking she would enjoy it but now that she's dying her beloved gun has forsaken her. She regrets it: "let the waste cross the ancient trails to you far out beneath the sorrow clouds let them taste the bitter lost mistake of you let them cry out through your rusted scars"

    i know what the actual meaning is - but it fits for me.

    anyways i love this song so much...please marry me billy crogan - you're a genius

    kellydorky10on October 21, 2008   Link

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