Every Time I Die

Gloom and How It Gets That Way

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Pull the car over you're frightening the kids. What did you promise us about grinning in the rear view mirror without your fake teeth in? Keep your glass eye glued on the end of the highway up ahead of us. The collision is always licking it's lips. You weren't supposed to open the door. Just keep the plane from drifting off course. We'll attend to the terrified first class convinced there's a hoof print on the bow. All hail the wounded heart contingent who've given us something more than faultlessness to sing about. Long live prosthetic live wires. The faulty mechanism of hope has disintegrated. Your captain nailed his feet to someone else's ship at the sight of me. Do what your mother tells you and put down the sheriff's horse. The choir on the black box rejoiced splendidly, singing hallelujah the king is dead. The king is dead.

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femmesofrussia On Aug 26, 2005

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by Pointofgravity

18y ago

The hoofprint convinces me to think that this song is about people around the 'accident' that was in this song, and how they belive that it was deliberate and not an accident. 'The faulty mechanism of hope has distinguished' seems to conform with this idea.

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by Chuck Norris Zombie

19y ago

From the beginning you'd think this song is just about transportation but the end I have no idea. Oh and the part about hoofprints on the bow is kinda referencing that episode of the Twilight Zone I do believe.