Let the Blade Do the Work - Slow Club

Just another town that might never recover

Just another friend who’s gone and lost his mind

Just another sunset from the city trains

We ride it free to the end of the line

It’s just a, just another wasted attempt

Laying sideways in the harbor

While all the men are out at sea

You say you don’t want trouble

That you’ve left that life behind

But you’ve got trouble here with a capital «T»

It’s like this every time

You know it’s like this every time

It’s always like this every time

It’s always like this

It’s always like this

So looking out across the formless frontiers

I scream your name down five broken valleys

I paint a picture of a glass-hearted girl with

Promises too numerous to tally and

In the search light that’s been cheapening the midnight sky

I think of you and how you had that troubled start

But you never let it wash you away

To a town where you didn’t speak the language

And if it did you’d always know what to say, say

Let the blade do the work

Let the blade, let the blade do the work

Let the blade, let the blade do the work

Let the blade, let the blade do the work

For years now, all I’ve heard is «heave-ho»

We’ve got two good cars down on the beach row

And with a little bit of luck we assume

I’ll be going home

With no blood on my hands

I’ve got blood on my hands

So laying down beneath, a pregnant pause

And in the constant coverage of the wars

We never hear of what’s been learned

It’s just a thousand rocks left to un-turn

And in her monument she is sleeping in her clothes tonight

And waking up before the sun has a chance to rise

To write her mantra across the skies

It reads pick up the wrench if it’s a victimless crime

It’s like this every time

You know it’s like this every time

It’s always like this every time

It’s always like this

It’s always like this