Steps Ascending

Album: War All The Time (2003)
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  • Steps ascend to a loaded gun
    The scent of matches hangs in the air
    A lit on flickers out in a heart beat
    We don't want to see this,
    A flash of light that's letting go of an empty bullet case
    By the time it hits the ground he's out of reach
    (Let go, let go)

    Out reach
    (Let go, let go)
    Out reach
    (Let go, let go)
    out reach
    (let go, let go)
    Out reach
    (Let go, let go)
    (Out of reach)
    The wolves are closing in
    There's no room left to make amends
    Do you remember when we'd fly that kite so high?

    All the time we've wasted
    (Wasted)
    Spent fighting
    (Fighting)
    It's blood full of our regret
    All the time we've wasted
    (Wasted)
    Spent fighting
    (Fighting)
    It's blood and it's running down the stairs

    Freeze the frame
    To the gun shot and the hole it makes
    (A spinning bullet waits in the middle
    There's no way to stop it
    It will surely hit the mark)
    You can try to understand but i'm giving up
    Giving up
    Giving up
    They synapse fires, it's right on time, but i'm giving up
    Giving up
    (Giving up)
    Giving up
    Giving up
    Giving up
    This should always stay out of reach
    (Let go, let go)

    Out reach
    (Let go, let go)
    Out reach
    (Let go, let go)
    out reach
    (let go, let go)
    Out reach
    (Let go let go)
    The wolves are closing in
    There's no room left to make amends
    Do you remember when we'd fly that kite so high?

    All the time we've wasted
    (Wasted)
    Spent fighting
    (Fighting)
    It's blood full of our regret
    All the time we've wasted
    (Wasted)
    Spent fighting
    (Fighting)
    It's blood and it's running down the stairs

    I ran down the stairs and into the garden
    Put both my hands into the soil
    In the spring you will bloom
    Like her heart through the blouse in the back of the ambulance
    As it turned and turned in the streets
    (Out of reach, out of reach)

    Just one more turn, won't you come back to me?
    (Out of reach, out of reach)
    As it turned on its red lights
    (Out of reach, out of reach)
    You were turning into red roses
    Red roses
    Red roses
    Red roses
    But I'm not giving up Writer/s: GEOFFREY RICKLY, III, ROBERT KEELEY, STEVEN PEDULLA, THOMAS RULE, TIMOTHY PAYNE
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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