Sharp Is The Knife

sharp is the knife
that cuts your skin and destroys your life
the blood you are bleeding
sharp is the knife

between the morning when you wake with dreams
and the night when you're been beaten back down
you spend the time in search of joy and laughter and other things never found
one more heartbreak leads to yet another
one more thrashing, one more disgrace
battered and beaten and blue, the tears mix with the blood on your face
when friends have turned back and walked away
dreams lie crumpled and crushed in the dirt
you've been kicked and kicked and kicked so many time one more kick doesn't hurt

that's when the knife
cuts your skin and destroys your life
you realize there is nothing
nothing but the knife

all the dreams we dream in our limited precious time
never realizing when it all runs out there will be nothing left behind
all ways something to acquire, always something we want to find
the smallest trinket is bright and glowing in the morning
that same trinket is grey and dull in the night
so go to bed with stupid dreams in your head, wishing for the dawns early light

deadly is the knife
shatters your dreams easy as it shorts you life
the mornings that you wake
at the edge of the knife

all the things you want, all the things you're gonna have
places you're gonna go, people who are gonna share your love
one day to realize there is no escaping the hawk for the dove
we all wanna share so much with the world
we all wanna give so much to our fellow man
then we all wanna cry so much where we realize there's no fucking way we can
youth is the clean clear spring from which all hope flows
age is the depth of wisdom of everything everyone knows
yet both offer no resistance to the razor sharp edge of the knife