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Cyanide Lyrics
Well let me bend your ear
Because I'm never really there
When shadows turns to light
And hope into despair
There was an only one
But the broody skies above
Brought down a shameful stain
And not a single drop of cleaning rain
Let me say
Oh oh well there's no place left to hide
Oh oh from the loneliness inside
The road to you is paved right through with bloody good intentions
And missin' you is like kissin'
Cyanide
Well in this world of things
One of them is lost
I've been it in my dreams
But not without a cost
Down a lonely street
It was our destiny to meet
Nobody asked you twice
We found purchase then with no requite - nothing nice
Oh oh well there's no place left to hide
Oh oh from the loneliness inside
The road to you is paved right through with bloody good intentions
And missin' you is like kissin'
Cyanide
Would you believe in something good that's so wrong
And have you worshiped our invention
I've paid my debt in coin and sweat with trifling hesitation
Because the road to you is paved with good intentions
Oh oh well there's no place left to hide
Oh oh from the loneliness inside
The road to you is paved right through with bloody good intentions
And missin' you is like kissin'
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
Because I'm never really there
When shadows turns to light
And hope into despair
But the broody skies above
Brought down a shameful stain
And not a single drop of cleaning rain
Oh oh well there's no place left to hide
Oh oh from the loneliness inside
The road to you is paved right through with bloody good intentions
And missin' you is like kissin'
One of them is lost
I've been it in my dreams
But not without a cost
It was our destiny to meet
Nobody asked you twice
We found purchase then with no requite - nothing nice
Oh oh from the loneliness inside
The road to you is paved right through with bloody good intentions
And missin' you is like kissin'
Cyanide
And have you worshiped our invention
I've paid my debt in coin and sweat with trifling hesitation
Because the road to you is paved with good intentions
Oh oh from the loneliness inside
The road to you is paved right through with bloody good intentions
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
Cyanide
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Ok I'm first =)
Cyanide is obviously a poison. Missing "you" is like poisoning yourself. But what or who is this "you", that he's refusing to miss? "Road to YOU (Hell) is paved with good intentions". He is refusing to help this "you" person, who's in his own Hell and got "loneliness inside", because a) "you" is "cyanide" (miserable, self-pitying) so if you try to help him, you both will be poisoned and b) "you" person has to overcome his "Hell" by himself. Otherwise because of all the "good intentions", "you" person will never manage to escape his personal Hell.
In the second verse lyrical hero is lookin for something "lost". And as I understand the "cyanide" character has it. I have no idea what it can be...
yeah, missing this person will only cause him harm.
yeah, missing this person will only cause him harm.
I think this song is written by Brett Gurewitz about leaving Bad Religion and more specifically Greg Gaffin. It seems Brett is airing out his regrets of leaving Bad Religion and talking about the hole in his life without Bad Religion and Greg as a song writer.