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Burn Something Dear

1996

OK, cast aside not needed
Plastic carcass grey
Waste without the future
Bleeding prayers again
Sacrifice my seventh year
To build on this skeleton frame
I never meant to ask of you
I never wanted to be thrown away
Enter my ghastly chasm
To drown myself in vain
The first cut, the last one
Draining pale away
I could hurt you
Breathe to hold you
Seems like never
Feels like vapor
I would require something less than patience
But something more than, more than needs[?]
The child inside is tearing out
What's left of the flesh
And she scares me
Back to my ghastly chasm
To drown myself in vain
The first cut, the last one
Draining pale away
How does it feel to be one of the chosen
How does it feel to be betrayed
In her case, so beautiful
So terrible, so strange
I said I loved you
And I never will again
Down to my ghastly chasm
To drown myself in vain
The first cut, the last one
Draining pale away
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You Shriek

You Shriek

About “First Cut” by You Shriek

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"First Cut" appears on "Burn Something Dear" in 1996.

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