Can't you feel the pain Can you feel the pain? Can't you feel the pain? Your throat, I take grasp Then your eyes roll back Your racing through my veins Your heart stops beating Like orgasms I guess your life is dead

I'll wipe my shirtsleeves Under your eyes When salted tears won't dry These hearts will be flooded tonight And I'll hold on to the words you spoke of Anchored down in the throat, love And I'm captain of this sinking boat now With just one armband to

I would do anything I'll give my heart and soul to see you free again If you could see the hope I've always seen in you Pray for life or bleed to death The words die in my throat And there is nothing I can do From a child to a monster And now a child

'Cause I'm a man on a wire, on a wire I'm just a man on a wire, oh My heart is in my throat I'm counting on high hopes to get me over you And I've got my eyes closed As long as the wind blows I'm counting on high hopes to get me over you, you I'm a man