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white lines come anodyne
like a calm summer sea
but all these creatures they’ve been
haunting me
midnight by candlelight
just my heart in a spoon
all my insides they will
howl at the moon
the music begins; violins
the sad state we’re in
wears so thin
tattoo covers needle bruises
like i won’t ever know
long sleeve shirt sleeves
like it’s twenty below
glass eyes don’t recognize
like you can’t even see
you say these monsters
they’ve been watching me
there is no sin in my skin
the madness within
wears so thin
it’s done me in
like a calm summer sea
but all these creatures they’ve been
haunting me
midnight by candlelight
just my heart in a spoon
all my insides they will
howl at the moon
the music begins; violins
the sad state we’re in
wears so thin
like i won’t ever know
long sleeve shirt sleeves
like it’s twenty below
glass eyes don’t recognize
like you can’t even see
you say these monsters
they’ve been watching me
there is no sin in my skin
the madness within
wears so thin
it’s done me in
Song Info
Submitted by
allstarme On Aug 06, 2005
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This is such a good opener.
drugs perhaps. "white lines come anodyne" cocaine "tattoo covers needle bruises like i won’t ever know long sleeve shirt sleeves like it’s twenty below" could be about heroin.
glass eyes don’t recognize like you can’t even see drugs again
Yeah, this song is totally about drugs and its effects on emotions and perceptions of things. Cocaine and heroin, obviously..
Obviously about coke and heroine and the addictions of drugs 'Just my heart in a spoon', 'Tattoo covers needle bruises' and 'long sleeve shirt sleeves...' about heroine, smoking and injecting and hiding track lines.
'Glass eyes dont recognise' refering to glazed over look after taking.
Ultimately about the negative effects on the body and mind