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Every Breath Is a Bomb Lyrics
(fake fake flowers) (fake funeral)
This room is a fluorescent tomb:
it's brazen bulbs mimic death's hyena croon.
He pulls on her wires,
she jerks to attention
she's animated again,
she's talking to a hypodermic reflection.
We've watched it all from the window ledge...
the nurses offer their condolences...
tongues flapping I can't make out your tone,
our hearts beat in slow motion.
If we make it to the final scene...(fake flowers!)
show me to the sapphire pit (fake tomb)
peel the candy crust off my body (fake flowers)
throw in the brittle skeleton...(fake tomb)
Because can you inject love's tender touch back into the gang bang?
Can you knit the stiletto back to the bloodstain?
Can you put the bite back in the beast you've broken, tied and tamed?
Can you crease the wrinkles back into the cracked and open brain?
So doctor won't you pull the fucking plug? Won't you cut the cord?
Because you can't put the life back into this hospital ward.
Now she's gonna make it out ok...
but she's shaking like a revolution...
and she stares at the fire all day...
mumbling to herself...
"every hole has a snake in it
every crotch is a Siamese gun
every ray of sunshine hides a cancerous chime
every breath is a bomb"
I'd like to wrap my arms around you like a flesh canopy.
I'd like to take your head, place it somewhere between my shoulders and neck,
but I'm afraid your brittle bones would break.
We can hear the black out orchestra singing...
Because can you inject love's tender touch back into the gang bang?
Can you knit the stiletto back to the bloodstain?
Can you put the bite back in the beast you've broken, tied and tamed?
Can you crease the wrinkles back into the cracked and open brain?
So doctor won't you pull the fucking plug? Won't you cut the cord?
Because you can't put the life back into this hospital ward.
This room is a fluorescent tomb:
it's brazen bulbs mimic death's hyena croon.
He pulls on her wires,
she jerks to attention
she's animated again,
she's talking to a hypodermic reflection.
We've watched it all from the window ledge...
the nurses offer their condolences...
tongues flapping I can't make out your tone,
our hearts beat in slow motion.
show me to the sapphire pit (fake tomb)
peel the candy crust off my body (fake flowers)
throw in the brittle skeleton...(fake tomb)
Can you knit the stiletto back to the bloodstain?
Can you put the bite back in the beast you've broken, tied and tamed?
Can you crease the wrinkles back into the cracked and open brain?
So doctor won't you pull the fucking plug? Won't you cut the cord?
Because you can't put the life back into this hospital ward.
but she's shaking like a revolution...
and she stares at the fire all day...
mumbling to herself...
"every hole has a snake in it
every crotch is a Siamese gun
every ray of sunshine hides a cancerous chime
every breath is a bomb"
I'd like to take your head, place it somewhere between my shoulders and neck,
but I'm afraid your brittle bones would break.
We can hear the black out orchestra singing...
Can you knit the stiletto back to the bloodstain?
Can you put the bite back in the beast you've broken, tied and tamed?
Can you crease the wrinkles back into the cracked and open brain?
So doctor won't you pull the fucking plug? Won't you cut the cord?
Because you can't put the life back into this hospital ward.
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This is my favorite Blood Brothers song... :)
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What does this song mean to you?
your mom
personally i think it's about dying. about being on the verge of death and everyone sugar coating it. i.e. "candy crust." a gang bang by definition is generally devoid of love, so by trying to add hope to this situation it's like adding love to a gang band or undoing a knife wound, etc. etc. so basically it's kind of a, "don't lie to me, i know she's dying" every breath is a bomb = i.e. with every breath she comes closer to death. imo.
johnny said this in an interview: 'Every Breath is a Bomb' is about Jordan's grandma's death, and kind of deals with modern medicine's fetish with keeping human beings alive after they are vegetables, or so fucked up that they aren't really living.”
The kinverted waltz format... wow... and I kind of hoped this song would have a deeper meaning... ah well.
I love the piano in this song, it adds a sort of old-black-and-white scarey movie thing. But it's obvious in the song that it is about a male loosing a female. In this case, Jordan loosing his grandma 'I'd like to take your head, place it somewhere between my shoulders and neck, but I'm afraid your brittle bones would break.' Brittle meaning as in old. My grandparents refer to their bowns being brittle a lot.
re-reading the lyrics after hearing the meaning, it makes a lot more sense and makes the song a lot better to me.
oh, it's so personal. that makes me appreciate it even more.
'she stares at the fire all day...mumbling to herself..." every hole has a snake in it...Every crotch is a siamese gun, every ray of sunshine hides a cancerous chime, every breath is a bomb." ' That makes me think she's afraid of the world.
An old person/vegetable on their deathbed, wondering what's the point in staying in the hospital if they're just going to die anyway, if they can't enjoy life anymore.