When the bite of the steel catches your face give it all your flesh to strip away Revealing all the scars you hide inside Your inner quarrels, your struggle to survive A crimson hand to choke your throat I'll stop your breath as long as it takes To end

Prescribed pills To offset the shakes To offset the pills You know you should take It a day at a time Or was it God who chokes In these situations, running late? The hospice is A relaxing weekend getaway

Choke, on a kiss, I thought I'd save my breath for you Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm hanging on you Give me some rope I'm coming loose, I'm pulling for you now Give me some rope I'm coming, out of my head, into the clear when you, go, I, go,

And I won't let you choke On the noose around your neck And I'll find strength in pain And I will change my ways I'll know my name as it's called again But I will hold on hope It's empty in the valley of your heart The sun, it rises slowly as you walk

I wish I stayed With that skipping rope, the trampoline, The crafty smoke that made us choke But we didn't give up hope It's just the simple ways of getting paid, The carelessness of running away You can fall if you want to! It's just a matter of how far

I'm falling to pieces I'm falling to pieces, yeah I'm falling to pieces yeah Oh it don't breakeven no I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing 'Cause I got time while she got freedom And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're OK (One

We hope that you choke, that you choke Breathe, keep breathing Wake, from your sleep The drying of your tears We're drying off your tears Today, we escape Pack and get dressed Before your father hears us

That you choke Keep breathing Such a chill We hope that you choke From your sleep The drying of

For this cements my beliefs I will not relent no no I will not choke on failure I am a mortal man Never suffer defeat, never falter Never live with defeat never falter This like the air that I breath But I'm not falling I'm not broken yet But I'll hold

Breakfast is cold, as cold as our bed I'm watching you choke down the words that you said I watch you devour, mistake me for bread Well boy, is you fed? Or are you misled? I gave you the messiest head You give me the messiest head Oh, you turnin' red