Nothing Dies Easy

I'm like a gambler in a velvet-curtained room

Half-light and shadow, nothing is moving

I'm playing but I know that I'm losing

Good money after bad

I fooled myself that her number was lucky

I stare at my phone, my phone stares back at me

I feel my fingers pushing down at the keys

Good faith after bad

And nothing dies easy, it holds on until the end

It takes all of your power to push the blade in

A last glow in the ashes, a last spark in the eye

Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell

Breaking another wild part of myself

Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell, breaking the will

Every sound you hear is the sound of

Something praying for more life to be given

For maybe just another precious second

And every junkie I've known trying to do straight time

Leaves a little piece of their soul behind

You can't shed your skin like you think you can, like I think I can

And nothing dies easy, it holds on until the end

It takes all of your power to push the blade in

The last glow in the ashes, a last spark in the eye

Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell

Breaking another bad part of myself

Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell, nothing dies easy

So a toast to the mercy killings

For all these cursed obsessions

For all the useless passions

For when I'm shot and gone

Because nothing dies easy, it holds on until the end

It takes all of your power to push the blade in

The last glow in the ashes, a last spark in the eye

Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell

Breaking another wild part of myself

Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell, breaking the will