And yes I'm holdin' you, holdin' you, holdin' you Left you in all black But dear old Nicki Please call back You told me you'd come when I needed you But I'm standing here calling I cant see you But I am holding you, holding you, holding you to that Oh

And you are mine You left me speechless I remember how it all started Feeling warm 'til the summer was over And our little lives, it felt so big then We're only reaching stars And I am a big black sky And you said to me

Pray for war, pray for death, pray for hate Pray for all that you know All these years ain't nothing's changed Where have we gone, what have we done Where have we gone, nowhere left to run And you know Spiral of darkness, as the fools away Peace through

They were crying when their sons left Maybe you deserve to die God is wearing black He's gone so far to find no hope he's never coming back All young men must go He's come so far to find the truth he's never going home Welcome to the soldier side Where

Callous I've been stung by bees forfeited courage keeps me in need My soul simply won't bleed Coal blackened walls surround my scene hardened, And I need your soul in black, Trust you rape and left me to see my soul attacked it's innocence deaf And dumb

Take your string bikinis, your apple martinis Take what’s left there in the bank Take your flat iron and your curlers Your sparkling water and that damn perfume I never liked Take your black Mercedes all that stuff for ladies To me you’re just a total

Black pearl Mother come pick me up I feel I've lost all that I knew In this forest full of lies You're all that's ringing true Oh, by my world Forever my world Gather all that's left Place my fears up on this shelf

The ashes that fall one more time Mourn the past and all that once shined The stones that gather left forever damned The absence of what was and what one can't understand The undertow that drags as you lose another day The voice that brought you peace

We sail into the black We sail into the black And all those secrets, lost in your eyes And all those regrets, you hold inside And all those memories, left by design And all those mysteries, lost in your eyes, lost in your eyes And all those footsteps,

We don't give a rat's ass We're happy to be here and that you can see We're just all drunk Americans We just raise up our glass If you're a democrat or republican We ain't East, we ain't West We ain't left, we ain't right We ain't black, we ain't white