Bloodshot on the panicked eye
Too gone for resolution

Too late for the gallant try
Or to find his own solution

Pray save us or to buy the plan, vengeance is my name
Too deep for a drowning man too deep to call him sane

In the farthest place from you
Where blood drips through your hands

The action deafens every word
That runs your masterplan

[Higher go higer
Know you've paid for the best

Higher go higher
Can't pay in cash take a pound of your flesh]

Turned out where you're left to die
Turned into destruction

Set free where you only fly
To a promised resurrection

Pray save me or to find a way bathing in my blame
Tapped out but he has to pay vengeance is my name

In the closest place to you
Where water fills your hands

Your thirst is gone with every taste
That fuels your master plan

[Chorus]
Don't know who you're fucking with the best
All the competition laid to rest

Humble as you crawl out of your mess
One by one I count my pounds of flesh


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    Hello, great song, great churning groove, to me this sounds as if he is selling his soul to the devil for drugs " and all it costs is a for a pound of your flesh" in a losing cause. brilliant.

    RichardHarriison January 17, 2009   Link

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