Invalid Litter Dept.

Album: Relationship Of Command (2000)
Charted: 50
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  • Intravenously polite it was the walkie-talkies
    That had knocked the pins down
    As their shoes gripped the dirt floor
    In the silhouette of dying
    Dancing on the corpses' ashes
    Yeah, they had plans for him
    They has spun the last of the pimps
    Polyester, satin nailed jewelry lips
    While the guillotine just laughed again
    Dancing on the corpses' ashes
    And the paramedics fell into the wound
    Like a rehired scab at a barehanded plant
    An anesthetic penance beneath
    The hail of contraband
    Dancing on the corpses' ashes

    On my way, nails broke and fell
    Into the wishing well, wishing well, wishing well
    On my way, nails broke and fell
    Into the wishing well, wishing well, wishing well

    They had defected and been excommunicated
    And all the pulses were subverted
    And they made sure that the obituaries
    Showed pictures of smoke stacks
    Dancing on the corpses' ashes
    A vivid dissection that mocked
    The strut of vivisection
    A semiautomatic colony
    And a silencing that still walks the streets
    Dancing on the corpses' ashes
    In the company of wolves
    Was a stretcher made of cobblestone curfews
    The federales performed
    Their custodial customs quite well
    Dancing on the corpses' ashes

    On my way, nails broke and fell
    Into the wishing well, wishing well, wishing well
    On my way, nails broke and fell
    Into the wishing well, wishing well, wishing well
    On my way, nails broke and fell
    Into the wishing well, wishing well, wishing well
    On my way, nails broke and fell
    Into the wishing well, wishing well, wishing well

    Intravenously polite it was the walkie-talkies
    That had knocked the pins down
    As their shoes gripped the dirt floor
    In the silhouette of dying
    Dancing on the corpses' ashes
    Yeah, they had plans for him
    They has spun the last of the pimps
    Polyester, satin nailed jewelry lips
    While the guillotine just laughed again
    Dancing on the corpses' ashes
    And the paramedics fell into the wound
    Like a rehired scab at a barehanded plant
    An anesthetic penance beneath
    The hail of contraband
    Dancing on the corpses' ashes

    On my way, nails broke and fell
    Into the wishing well, wishing well, wishing well
    On my way, nails broke and fell
    Into the wishing well, wishing well, wishing well
    On my way, nails broke and fell
    Into the wishing well, wishing well, wishing well
    On my way

    Dancing on the corpses' ashes
    Dancing on the corpses' ashes

    Callous heels numbed in travel
    Endless maps made by their scalpels, scalpels
    Callous heels numbed in travel
    Endless maps made by their scalpels, scalpels Writer/s: Cedric Bixler, Jim Ward, Omar Rodriguez, Pablo Hinojos, Tony Hajjar
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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