Turn On The Light

Lyrics

[Verse 1] You run down the strip, down the strip right through me The rain on the windscreen, blistering a stop sign Turn in the rubies your mother did buy you Through this land I roar You make me bold like a whore, wish I'd never been born Got a good-looking corpse hanging on to me tightly Bless this strip as it runs right through me Bless this strip as it runs right through me [Verse 2] She fades to the background, proofreads a story Kills all the characters and crosses out the heroine Kissing an American she told me she bought me Through this land I roar She make me bold like a whore, wish I'd never been born Got a good-looking corpse hanging on to me tightly Bless this strip as it runs right through me Bless this strip as it runs right through me [Chorus] Love, turn on the light It's so dark in there, inside the life And I know what it's like To feel loved and to not like yourself [Verse 3] She dragged all the blood to the back of my brain Peel to the light, smoked on an elephant's tusk Punch-drunk, bitten and bleeding I became tame, feral in the herald, one of us And I hear mutants screaming out Ride on the crest of waves And I stopped as a joker's feeling And I still hear demons breathing, and [Chorus] Love, turn on the light It's so dark in there, inside the life And I know what it's like To feel loved and to not like yourself [Verse 4] The sun had dropped, I'm sweating in a carcass I've given up on me, I've given up on Marcus I'm carrying my casket, looking for the enemy I'm down on my knees, surrendering to Valerie And all I feel my head is racing I feel my shoulder's bracing I know I'm sick to my bones and I know can't get back home and [Chorus] Love, turn on the light It's so dark in there, inside the life And I know what it's like To feel loved and to not like yourself [Bridge] Take me far from this sweet city stench Where friends all betray each other And I'm just another lover to a Take me far from this sweet city stench Where friends all betray each other And I'm just another lover to a friend, to a friend To a friend, to a friend [Outro] Oh, take me far, oh, take me far Oh, take me far, oh, take me far