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Engine severs lower legs
Feel my bruised heart beating
Spinal cord remains intact
Still sending and receiving
Laying back on shoulder blades
Cargo rushing past
Missing limbs beneath the cars
Twitching on the tracks
Click clack now handicapped
North am transcontinental
I remember as I bleed
Certain tales of bravery
A man who's legs were trapped beneath
A fallen evergreen tree
He decided he would chop them off above the knee
To sacrifice his shins and feet to set his torso free
The luxury of having been spared the hard part
You'd think would be enough for me to pull this off
But I'm left to bleed to death
Now all the man I've ever been
North am transcontinental
Feel my bruised heart beating
Spinal cord remains intact
Still sending and receiving
Laying back on shoulder blades
Cargo rushing past
Missing limbs beneath the cars
Twitching on the tracks
Click clack now handicapped
North am transcontinental
I remember as I bleed
Certain tales of bravery
A man who's legs were trapped beneath
A fallen evergreen tree
He decided he would chop them off above the knee
To sacrifice his shins and feet to set his torso free
The luxury of having been spared the hard part
You'd think would be enough for me to pull this off
But I'm left to bleed to death
Now all the man I've ever been
North am transcontinental
Lyrics submitted by sarahsavedlatin
Transcontinental Lyrics as written by David Shannon Bazan
Lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY
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I agree with the general sense of Envelopes' interpretation, but I think there is a religious metaphor in the sacrifice of one's body parts. The "certain tales of bravery" the narrator recalls are about Jesus sacrificing his own life to save the world. The narrator has been "spared the hard part" - he doesn't have to willingly sacrifice anything of his own. All he has to do is live by Jesus' message. But this proves hard for him to do, and he feels inadequate for failing at such a comparatively simple task.