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A Dagger Through The Heart Of St. Angeles
(album: Alexisonfire)
Plaid skirts that hide love
Walk in single file.
Ties that restrict blood... to the brain.
Passing notes in math class.
Freedom wear your scars of desire.
It´s a coming of age story.
Freedom wear your scars of desire.
Conflicting impulses.
Freedom wear your scars of desire.
Cuts seem to bend the sky.
Bend (bend) the (the) sky (sky).
I´ve read this book before.
Anxious eyes stare out of warped glass
Waiting for the 3 o´clock bell.
Trying hard to forget that cold October day,
When Love challenged Freedom to a fist fight.
Freedom looked victorious;
But no one was expecting the outcome on that baseball diamond...
When Love reached beneath her plaid jumper,
Pulled out a switch blade,
And drove it...
Directly through the heart of St. Angeles.
Go!
Any notion of self-government
Was left by Love bleeding
On the pitcher´s mound.
You´re
(So you say you´re scaring me)
Scaring me.
(And you won´t be there to catch me.)
And bleeding on the pitcher´s mound.
On the, on the...

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