Shrivelled Wings Lyrics & Chords By Blinded By Faith

We went to see you at the hospital
In your bed you were already skeletal
It was a matter of time before you died
Cancer was eating you from inside
So we decided to take you with us
So you could at least spend your last minutes
Away from these strangers in the cold
We can't leave a dog on the threshold

When your pain was unbearable
Like molten lead poured your innards
You took morphine to get some relief
Instantly falling in a coma like sleep
And I often wondered where you where then
In a no man's land? Not far from heaven
In a color dream where you could screw
All these women who didn't want you?

You where there, death without poetry
Grotesque and scandalous nudity
I wanted to weep but tears didn't come
My heart stood still like a frozen sun
I could only stare at your open eyes
Your mouth tensed with a silent cry
Your shoulder blades under the skin
Protruding like two shrivelled wings

In the knight you knocked on oblivion's door
I found you stiff on the bathroom floor
In a ring of clotted blood
A fist in the face, my first cadaver
So different from the other corpses I've seen
Liars in black suit, masquerade!
Perfectly prepared for the human parade
A fake prayer in the funeral comedy

You where there, death without poetry
Grotesque and scandalous nudity
I wanted to weep but tears didn't come
My heart stood still like a frozen sun
I could only stare at your open eyes
Your mouth tensed with a silent cry
Your shoulder blades under the skin
Protruding like two shrivelled wings