I've been up at this all night long
I've been drowning in my sleep
I've prayed for your safe place
And it's time for us to leave

Time is running
Is running on empty and the gas is running out
I've decided that tonight is the night that I
Let love aside
Full speed ahead this seems to be the place
I've seen this once before
Planned perfection sought in my dreams
Hoping this would take you home

My knuckles have turned to white
There's no turning back tonight
Kiss me one last time

Around this turn where
The cross will cast your shadow
The people will all gather
To remember such a day
Where the flames grew as high as trees
And the world stopped, it stopped
For you and me

My knuckles have turned white
There's no turning back tonight
Kiss me one last time
Shut your eyes
My knuckles have turned white
There's no turning back tonight
So hold on tight
Kiss me one last time
Shut your

I will now bring new meaning to the word alone
Endless nights of dreaming of life
And the days we should have spent here

Drowning in my sleep
I'm drowning in my sleep
Drowning in my sleep
I'm drowning in my sleep

Glass shatters and comes to a halt)
I thought we'd be there by now
I thought it would be so much quicker than this

Pain has never been so brilliant
I made sure you were buckled in
Now you can walk hand in hand
Hand in hand with him

My knuckles have turned white
There's no turning back tonight
Kiss me one last time (shut your eyes)
My knuckles have turned white
There's no turning back tonight (so hold on tight)
So hold on tight
Kiss me one last time
Shut your


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It's Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door Lyrics as written by Christopher Dudley Aaron Gillespie

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    Well, I would have to say that this song is about Christians taking things and totally distorting them, and twisting them all around. And this song is an example of that. The song is about this guy who realises how much God loves him, and realises that he could never love anyone as much as God loves him, and everybody else. So this fella gets so caught up in this, that he decides that he's going to kill his wife so she can be with God where she will get the love she deserves, cuz he feels he can't give her the love she needs and what not. So he takes her out for a car ride, and totals the car, killing himself and his wife. And that's basically it. It sounds like the guy was being kinda extreme or whatever, but Underoath was going for that, to get the point across, I believe.

    Now, some of you might be asking yourselves how I might know all the background to the song and everything, and the truth is that I just read all this in an interview with them. So I'm not so smart afterall. And I probably messed up explaining this somehow...But I tried as best I could remember.

    encased_in_flameson July 03, 2004   Link

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