As the sun sets on battlefields
I hope you can save me
I hope you can save our wounded hearts

Distance makes my heart grow colder
Distance makes my heart grow older
Just enough to cut the air from your lungs

As the sun sets (we push and pull apart)
On battlefields (enough for this to end)
I hope you can save me (from ourselves)
I hope you can save us from ourselves

Denial in the arms of our saviours
And my heart is torn to pieces
Just enough to cut the air from your lungs

And paper cuts and bloody hands
In the middle they would meet


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Bend Your Arms to Look Like Wings Lyrics as written by Kris Roberts Darran Smith

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    I think the lyrics is as follow:

    As the sun sets On battlefields I hope you can save me I hope you can save our wounded hearts

    And distance (creation) Makes my heart (eternity) Go colder (enough for this to end) And distance (creation) Makes my heart (eternity) Seem older (for you) It's just enough to cut the air From your lungs (from your lungs)

    As the sun sets (we push and pull apart) On battlefields (enough for this to end) I hope you can save me (from our selves) I hope you can save us from ourselves

    Denial (forever) In the arms of (we're stuck in here) Of our saviours (enough for this to end) And my heart (fills up with) Is torn (into) Into pieces (for you) Its just enough to cut the air From your lungs (from your lungs)

    As the sun sets (we push and pull apart) On battlefields (enough for this to end) I hope you can save me (from our selves) I hope you can save us from ourselves

    With paper cuts And bloody hands In the middle, they would meet

    With paper cuts And bloody hands In the middle, they would meet

    (as the sun sets) (as the sun sets) (as the sun sets)

    I think this song is about a couple fighting, I love the part "With paper cuts, And bloody hands, In the middle, they would meet"

    MaxLanceron December 22, 2006   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    i was at a show like 2 years ago and before they started the song they said "this song is called 'bend your arms to look like a fucking unicorn'"..don't know what it means but they played this awesome song amazingly. simply amazing..

    yourbestxbeton December 05, 2006   Link
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    Whoever said that the beginning and end riffs make em wanna tear up...I am the same. Especially the end one..its something about the way it sounds that makes you know something is gone forever.

    ledgendaryxpersonon January 19, 2007   Link
  • 0
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    i really love this song..its about a tough breakup, which i know about all too well...the harmonies are great..these guys are awesome

    afipunk84on April 13, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    love this song (hence my username lol) tho it reminds me of someone which i dnt know whether is a gd or bad thing, tis complicated ...

    asthesunsetsxxon May 29, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    this song is the shit, best on the album.

    donniedarko28on May 31, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    this song is fucking awesome

    brandnew182on June 25, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    i love this song so badly! every bit of it is good, some songs parts can be dull or drag out, but this one just speaks to you all the way through

    xxx em xxx

    _emmie_on October 18, 2004   Link
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    I love this song so much. It totally reminds me of that phrase; 'Love is a battlefield'. Which may be where some of the idea for the lyrics of this song came too. I think this is pretty self explanatory. I love the line 'Just enough to cut the air from your lungs'

    Brilliant!!

    beni_ffafon October 23, 2004   Link
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    the song is a freggin work of art <3...juat the title speaks to you..'Bend Your Arms To Look Like Wings' ..so intellegent, i love it.

    droWning_lesSonsxxon November 24, 2004   Link

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