Shock Corridor

Lyrics

[Verse 1] A life lifted off a news page A pictorial of you alone in your room Fighting off suicide furiously With the Astronettes bootleg and a bent-back spoon A bus tour through drab poverty I came over, and you offered me the guest room [Verse 2] A lie for a single pageview Courtesy of the-assailant-who-loves-you Advice for the heartsick clergyman 'Cause the bridegroom just ain't in the mood The snake in the grass and the ghost at the feast And the jack of all asses and thе last of the least All flown first-class to the tеam retreat The inventor of anger The perfecter of being distracted when someone is talking to you But just slightly Super-slightly And she said [Chorus 1] "I don't care who you are, don't care what you were You can't look away from the shock corridor I don't care who you are, don't care what you were Just try to look away from the shock corridor I don't care who you are, don't care what you were You can't look away from the shock corridor" (Shock corridor, shock corridor, shock corridor) [Verse 3] So punch the day in the face and charge through A haze of gorse, behind you, your own mother's living ghost Tears her hair out, it's freedom, don't you want it? Punch the day in the face and charge through A haze of gorse, behind you, your own mother's living ghost Tears her hair out, it's freedom, don't you want it? A light haze of rain dark-flecks the gray slate The actor can't escape from his cold oval Blazed-out hours rolling cold and sober [Chorus 1] I don't care who you are, don't care what you were You can't look away from the shock corridor (Shock corridor, shock corridor, shock corridor, shock corridor) [Verse 4] When there was nothing left to talk about We talked specifically about a white-hot penny plunging through the concrete and hissing into that buried river Or cutting into the earth's red-hot sobbing heart And I'm sorry I was a shit I didn't know I was doing it I'm not needed, and why would you really wanna hear my voice, even? 'Cause I'm the light from a star that deserved to implode And it did, six million years ago I'm the light from a star that deserved to implode And did, six million years ago (I don't care who you are, I don't care what you were) (You can't get away from the shock corridor) I'm the faded Orange Crush in the woods, when the kid who tossed it now's going through his third divorce [Verse 5] I used to lie back in my teenage bed and feel love Hot, busting love, just this surge of love This surge of love for everything, everything, everything I used to lie back in my teenage bed and feel love So much hot, busting love, just this surge of love This surge of love for everything, everything, everything Now I lie on my couch with my brains bashed out And my tools and my toys all lying around And I wish I could feel that way about really anything, anything, anything I lie on my couch with my brains bashed out And my tools and my toys all lying around And I wish I could feel that way about really anything, anything, anything, anything, anything, anything Yeah, but still she says [Chorus 2] "I don't care who you are, don't care what you were You can't get away from the shock corridor (Can't get away from the shock corridor) I don't care who you are, don't care what you were You can't get away from the shock corridor I don't care who you are, don't care what you were You can't get away from the shock corridor"