Do you breathe the name
Of your savior
In your hour of need
And taste the blame,
If the flavor should remind you of greed
Of implication, insinuation and ill will
Till you cannot lie still
In all this turmoil
Before red cape and foil
Come closing in for a kill

Come feed the rain
'cause I'm thirsty for your love,
Dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah feed the rain
'cause without your love
My life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust

It's all a game
Avoiding failure
When true colors will bleed
All in the name of misbehavior
And the things we don't need

I lust for after no disaster can touch,
Touch us anymore
And more than ever
I hope to never fall,
Where enough is not the same it was before

Come feed the rain
'Cause I'm thirsty for your love,
Dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah feed the rain
'Cause without your love
My life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust

Yeah feed the rain
'Cause I'm thirsty for your love,
Dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah feed the rain
'Cause without your love
My life ain't nothing but this carnival of rust

Don't walk away, don't walk away,
Ooh when the world is burning
Don't walk away, don't walk away,
Ooh when the heart is yearning
Don't walk away, don't walk away,
Ooh when the world is burning
Don't walk away, don't walk away,
Ooh when the heart is yearning


Lyrics submitted by bugoff, edited by Progfan_r, eddyfy, vikram3392, Zansky

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    think i messed up on red cape and foil. foil is more likely a reference to dueling/fencing. red cape still makes me think of a superman type of "other man" in that grass-is-greener context whereby closing in for a kill seems more applicable in how he and this other man are battling this duel for her. ya... and savior is definitely not a kind of religious savior. it seems like a direct metaphor to this other man in a song of indirectness and insinuation.

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