The Jaws of Life Album Lyrics by Pierce The Veil

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Death of an Executioner

Headlights on your back tonight
Kill the weight now we're fast and light
Please don't cool my war machine
Performance high and deafening
Blood dries on the sparkling lead paint
Kill the competition, I bleed your fuel I'm siphoning
The soul left out, I

Hold my breathe and drive
Staring at the sky
Luminous and bright
Running out of time

Blood red moonlight
Gaining 'til you're over me
Beautiful as everything is crumbling
The flames dance off your eyes

Cigarettes on a dark, bent highway
Follow you from a distance like
Demons in a death machine
I feel your stomach tightening
Power lines from above see nothing
So, tell the world what I want I'm gonna get
I pray for bones to break and mirrors to shatter, I

Hold my breathe and drive
Staring at the sky
Luminous and bright
Running out of time

Blood red moonlight
Gaining 'til you're over me
Beautiful as everything is crumbling
The flames dance off your eyes

(Blood red moon)
(Blood red moonlight)
(Blood red moon)

Blood red moonlight
Gaining 'til you're over me
Beautiful as everything is crumbling
The flames dance off your eyes

Blood red moonlight
Gaining 'til you're over me
Beautiful as everything is crumbling
The flames dance off your eyes, oh

Blood red moonlight

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Pass the Nirvana

(Yeah)

Sink until you're unimpaired
Slow motion like a rolling eye
We can hear you loud and clear
Suicide season is upon and high

Why you always saying, "Let the good times roll"?
Kick your mind open like a punk rock show
Uppercut bleeding to the soffit nose
If you didn't come home injured, would you say it was a good show?

'Cause every single f*cking day
I try to roll my eyes and breathe
One hit, now I'm off this shit

Give up, give up
Give up, give up
Give up, give up
I can't hear you
Through the tension
Through the tension
Through the tension, right now

(This is only a distraction)

Swing, batter up, let's play
Power until the target bleeds
This gun (this gun) will never turn on me
So, Paul Meany, will you drop that beat?

Why you always saying, "Let that shit go"?
Pennywise fashion on the sad skid row
A gentrified neighborhood of blood soaked homes
Draw the lines a little further
Now they're coming back to get you

'Cause every single f*cking day
I try to roll my eyes and breathe
One hit, now I'm off this shit

Give up, give up
Give up, give up
Give up, give up
I can't hear you
Through the tension
Through the tension
Through the tension, right now

Yo, I can't shine to save my life
But I'll feel through the dark without you
I set fires ablaze inside
And stepped into the light to blind you

Give up, give up
Give up, give up
Give up, give up
I can't hear you
Through the tension
Through the tension
Through the tension, right now

I can't hear you
I can't hear you
I can't hear you

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Even When I'm Not With You

I could run all night
I would never tire or slow
I could hold you tight
Tighter than that sold-out show

I believe in the slow ride, so I
Drag your heart through the sand and snow, I
Couldn't live by the old school rule, I
Binge-watched every episode, I

Oh, I've been wrong
Heart under the gun
Look how far we've come
Think I've finally won

Red lip'd Snow White (red lip'd Snow White)
Sipping beer through a straw real slow, I
Had a perfect high (high)
Lip-locked in a bathroom stall, I

I believe in the slow ride, so I
Drag your heart through the sand and snow, I
Inhale the future slow, I
Exhale the past, let go, I

Oh, I've been wrong
Heart under the gun
Look how far we've come
Think I've finally won (won, won, won)

Even when I'm not with you, I'm still with you
Even when I can't see you, I still feel you
Even when I can't touch you, I pretend to
Even when I'm not with you, I'm still with you
Even when I think I hate you, I still love you
Even when I can't kiss you, I still wait to
Even when I'm not with you, I'm still with you
Even when I'm not with you, I'm still with you (with you)

(Still with you)

Oh, I've been wrong
Heart under the gun
Look how far we've come
Think I've finally won

Oh, I've been wrong
Heart under the gun
Look how far we've come
Think I've finally won

It's good to know that I'm
The only one who can cut you further
What is love besides
Two souls trying to heal each other

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Emergency Contact

There's no greater vengeance
Than learning to enjoy again
Hope you get the message
Nobody's shatter-resistant (shit)

Therapy is tiring
But so is hiding how you feel
You can bring the villain in
And I can bring the sex appeal

Leave me, something
Or let me out, I'm starving
Push me, pull me
Waiting for the start of

Things that I want, this happily ever after
You choke on your words, but you swallow them faster
I sleep on the couch while you're passed out in the back
Just want you to be my emergency contact

Balanced on a razor blade
Lick you like a battery
Your speakers can't handle the bass
But you look good under the LEDs

Leave me, something
Or let me out, I'm starving
Push me, pull me
Waiting for the start of

Things that I want, this happily ever after
You choke on your words, but you swallow them faster
I sleep on the couch while you're passed out in the back
Just want you to be my emergency contact

You're my angel
You're a f*cking angel
You're my angel
All mine
Mine
Mine, mine
Mine

Leave me, something
Oh, my god, I'm starving
Push me, pull me
Waiting for the start of

Things that I want, this happily ever after
You choke on your words, but you swallow them faster
I sleep on the couch while you're passed out in the back
Just want you to be my emergency contact

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Flawless Execution

Blink and I'll explode, I'm just the type
Perverted, lonely, that's defined
I'm not obsessed, far worse, I'm fine

Pain is unavoidable at times
But if it gets shit off your mind
I understand, that's kind of why
I'm here like you

Braced up, don't worry
I can be a freak
I'll scar you with my
Flawless execution every time

Shame (shame), I'm just a tiny parasite
But I won't eat you up alive
All of your tenderness, the flies, swarm 'round

Do you really crave a life? (It's not the hole in the man)
I mean didn't mean to burden you with love and my condition

Braced up, don't worry
I can be a freak
I'll scar you with my
Flawless execution every time

Horrified, swallowing your perfume, why?
While you save me
You and I are blood and wine

Braced up, don't worry
I can be a freak
I'll scar you with my
Flawless execution every time
Every time
Every time
Dead light

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The Jaws Of Life

Maybe I should go and buy a gun
Point it at the mirror, make me run
Now part of me has holes in it
And part of me is whole
We've only begun
(We're) screaming in the belly of your car
This energy is flying me to mars
A part of me is alien and part of me is ghost

Falling through holes

I can't decide
Maybe it's enough to get by for now
But I'm having the time of my life
Rotting in the sun, we're inside the jaws of life

Seasonal depression tortures you
(So heavy, I) don't mind it 'cause I like the flavor blue
(Dissolving apart) part of me is younger now
And part of me is old

Trying to hold (trying to)

I can't decide
Maybe it's enough to get by for now
But I'm having the time of my life
Rotting in the sun, we're inside the jaws of life

I live in the vacant and the dark
Spaces in between beats of your heart
Hiding in the places that you thought were empty

I'm having the time of my life
Rotting in the sun inside the jaws of life
Maybe it's enough to get by for now
But I'm having the time of my life (yeah)
Rotting in the sun, we're inside the jaws of life

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Damn the Man, Save the Empire

(Take 4679, part two, hour eight, hour eight)
(Yeah)

Heaven is a place hidden on your floor
I'm falling off the carpet edge and it's a long way down, down
I'll leave before the monuments of love, now I'm buried underneath them
So baby, when I hold the dagger we can all hang out, but probably not

No one likes this anyway, anyway, anyway
No one likes this anyway, anyway

So, tell me what I want
But only when I want
Tell me what I want to hear

(Now)
(Now)

You only see the dark side of my love (love)
A fetish for the afterlife, and dead-end microphones, sharp enough to cut
Now our lips are bleeding from the tires
But you don't see the difference between
The color of the dried blood in the rust, well so

Tell me what I want
But only when I want
Tell me what I want to hear
(Now)
Tell me what I want
Only when I want
Tell me what I want to hear

What if I told you I'm phasing out
And I'm not wearing any skin?

I hope you leave a scar (leave a scar)
And we just get deeper
Heaven is a place we can't afford
Life goes on, and on, and the peace feels nice
Maybe I should find another ride 'cause

No one likes this anyway, anyway, anyway
No one likes this anyway, anyway

Tell me what I want
But only when I want
Tell me what I want to hear
Tell me what I want
And only when I want
Tell me what I want to hear

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Resilience

(And you guys are kings of this club)
(You get away with whatever you want)
(What are you bitching about?)
(Well, all I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these)
(As the best years of my life)
(Remind me to kill myself)

When the wild fire is over
Everything is gone
Incinerate my tires
While we racing through the wide open

See, I don't want anyone to think about it
Or how it all went wrong
Houston, there's a problem, someone sucked out all the sun

But I'm, better tonight
Don't waste that hand
Non-operational for anything else
Jealous of my resilience

When the royal crown is gone
And everything is ours (everything is ours)
We generate that kind of power
Reason for the Marvel Gods

See, I've been coming to the realization
That all you do is shine
Blacklight to my problems
Swallow dirt, you rotten swine

But I'm, better tonight
Don't waste that hand
Non-operational for anything else
Jealous of my resilience

And it's all (and it's all) that I've
Been running into spider webs at night
And it's all (and it's all) that I've
Keep running into spider webs
Running into spider webs at night

I'm better tonight
Don't waste that hand
Non-operational for anything else
Jealous of my resilience

My resilience
My resilience

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Irrational Fears (Interlude)

In the unlikely event if the aircraft having to make an emergency landing
You'll be told to take this protective the brace position
We hope you have a relaxed and enjoyable flight

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Shared Trauma

Am I still your excuse to go get high?
Flatline, who am I to stand record of time
If I go down in flames, then what's the point of even trying?

'Cause we share trauma and as we share trauma
It takes it to break it, whoa-oh-oh
We share trauma and nothing's ever gonna erase it
So face it

To you (to you)
I'm drawn across this universe (yeah, I am)
For you (for you)
I'm tempted from my dreams and curse
(In a) state of emergency
I'm afraid it's getting worse

'Cause we share trauma and as we share trauma
It takes it to break it, whoa-oh-oh
We share trauma and nothing's ever gonna erase it
So face it

I'm running on empty
Will you remind me?
For better or worse? Afraid
That all my rings and never-ending tragedies
Will bleed my heart empty
And scare you away?

'Cause we share trauma and as we share trauma
It takes it to break it, whoa-oh-oh
We share trauma and nothing's ever gonna erase it
So face it
Oh (oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh)

We share this
We share this
We share this

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So Far So Fake

So far, so far, so fake
I don't wanna answer the phone, rather watch it rain
Away, take me away
Before I begin to enjoy the metallic taste
(The world is twisted)

I know you wanna distance yourself from me
The head is only a dangerous dead weight
I'm cauterizing the veins you lacerate
In the end, you took it all away from me

Skin, flawless and thin
But your apologies are only selfish with vain intent
So what?
Just like brain freeze, you'll fade
Now there's a fire in the speakers
And blood on the master tapes
(The world is twisted)

I know you wanna distance yourself from me
The head is only a dangerous dead weight
I'm cauterizing the veins you lacerate
In the end, you took it all away from me

I keep it hundred in case you twist your blade
I cut you out because I don't think that I'm sick
Be still your heart, and do not resuscitate
In the end, you took it all away from me

These days I think are so strange
No cuts, no trust, name no names
Armless, we swim over flames
It's comin' around this time
It's comin' around this time

These days I think are so strange
No cuts, no trust, name no names
Armless, we swim over flames
It's comin' around this time
It's comin' around this time

I know you wanna distance yourself from me
The head is only a dangerous dead weight
I'm cauterizing the veins you lacerate
In the end, you took it all away from me

I keep it hundred in case you twist your blade
I cut you out because I don't think that I'm sick
Be still your heart, and do not resuscitate
In the end, you took it all away from me

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12 Fractures

Tell me, if I were to smile now
In the dead of the dark, would it even exist?
Or is it hard to tell you treat me like a cheap motel sometimes?
But nevertheless, I was prepared to die
When I think of your chest, f*ck your money
I fantasize about those nights you
Held me down and sewed your lips to mine

Now I miss the pain sometimes in this so-called life
There were shortcuts into heaven through your eyes

We emptied our wrists on the dotted line
Now I stay on my side of the city
A refugee, no MTV
Oh, well thank God for THC

And I, yeah, miss the pain sometimes in this so-called life
There were shortcuts into heaven through your eyes

Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

Now I
Yeah, I miss the pain sometimes
In this so-called life
There were shortcuts into heaven through your eyes

Am I the taste that you wanna dump?
Or am I the dust on your candy?
You wash me off, then spit me out
Once I lost taste inside your mouth