Lifeline Songtext
von King Rooster

I was born with a flare in the blackout
Heartbeat echo in an air raid sky
Every touch was a flare over foxholes
Every promise just a battle cry
You were the calm in a dead wire city
Halo shaking in the siren light
Hands like truce flags white and pretty
Raised between my wrongs and rights

You said love is a lifeline
Just hold on and breathe
But the lifeline snapped like
Barbed wire in my teeth


Every love I′ve known turns into a warzone
Roses on the table mines in the floor
You hold me like a prayer in a crumbling cathedral
But I only seem to worship when there's holy war
If heaven is your open arms
And hell is when you′re gone
Then darling pull me from the frontline
Or I'll drag you right along

We built peace from the bones of the summer
Hung our hopes on a fragile thread
Turned our scars into pale little rumors
Slept like saints in a sinner's bed
But the ghosts know the code to my ribcage
How to storm it when the lights go low
One wrong word and I′m back in the crossfire
Reloading every hurt I′ve ever known

You said love is a lifeline
Not a noose around your throat
But I'm cutting through the water
Like a stone that never floats


Every love I′ve known turns into a warzone
Soft spoken vows hard exit wounds
You kiss me like a lullaby before the slaughter
And I write our names in the smoke and fumes
If safety is your steady heart
And ruin is my song
Then darling step away from me
Before the sirens drag you on

I don't know how to love you
Without checking all the exits
Without counting every silence
Like it′s hostile like it's hexed
There′s a crater where my trust was
There's a bunker where I sleep
I keep mistaking your forgiveness
For a plan to finally leave

So if I reach for you at midnight
With gunshot in my veins
It's only ′cause I learned too young
That mercy feels like aim
Stay if you can stand it
Run if you know better
Love was my last lifeline
Now it′s just
Another letter to the dead I never sent

Every love I've known turns into a warzone
Even when you swear you′re not my enemy
You wrap your arms around my demolition heart
And still I hear the countdown underneath
If peace is just a fairy tale
They told us to go on
Then darling lay your weapons down
And watch me disappear at dawn

Love is a lifeline frayed and burning
Swinging over what I've done
You reach out like it can save me
But I keep pulling for the gun