Can we,
Can we kill each other quickly,
Quick enough so I won't feel it?
A shot of strobe light anesthesia and I'll be fine
'Cause I'm beginning to feel cold.

My hands are shaking from fear,
White from clutching my pride, red from cutting you
And blue from telling lies.

'Cause I'm sick of the stabbing, I'm sick of the breaking
I'm sick of the bleeding until we fall down.
Sick of this circle of death that we dance through again
And again, just lay me in the ground
Let's fall asleep together, hold me darling 'cause I'm scared,
And I can't do this alone.

But I need your heartbeat to haunt me, your cold lips to breathe,
A promise that tomorrow we'll wake up somewhere new.


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Kill Me Quickly Lyrics as written by Edward Carrington Breckenridge Dustin Michael Kensrue

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

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    stupiditiy shows his face again, lets go to a songmeanings site and but hurt when ppl help eachother figure out what a song means, Anywho- being a loyal fan of Edgar Allen Poe,(as my name shows,"masque of the red death" i am going towards the simple answer, its gotta be about a girl, the killing is the fights every relationship has, everything he is sick of could be the lies and the deciet. and at the end her love means so much to him, through thick and thin he needs her there to promise she'll be there when he wakes up, forgiven.

    TheRedDeathon May 09, 2002   Link

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