Cold-Blooded Angels - Baroness

Cold-blooded angels in blankets of ash

Alone in the southern pines

There’s a place in the garden

Where nothing will grow

But I could stay forever

Where I lay every night on the forest’s floor

Asleep with both eyes open

'Cause I need that bitter hand

That struck me blind

To keep my eyes from closing

Pale as the rose or the shadow it throws

Over earth and sky

If the rocks in my pocket

Were cinder and stone

I’d owe it all to nothing

Wasted years on an empty road

Where flies buzz around my head

Now I miss the bitter hand

That cut me down

All the way to nothing

Wasted years on an empty road

Where flies buzz around my head

If the dust in my pocket

Was silver or gold

I’d spend it all on nothing

There’s something waiting at the door

I hear it breathing

I follow even though I’m sure

I should be leading

There’s something waiting at the door

I see it bleeding

Every time I ask for more

I can’t believe it

All I need was hanging 'round the door

I’m not sleeping anymore

'Cause I remember every single word

Every little thing I can’t forget

Cold-blooded angels

Stop staring at the sky

We all pay a terrible price

When we learn to fly

And if I could forget you

Oh, how hard I tried

Please, somebody tell me

How the hell did I survive?