Razor Blades-The Boy Bathing

[ti:Razor Blades] [ar:The Boy Bathing] [al:A Fire To Make Preparations] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Razor Blades - The Boy Bathing [00:16.46]She shaves her legs so close and holds a razor to my throat [00:23.88] [00:25.57]It s the price of loving me she says as she dares me to breathe [00:32.27] [00:34.73]We met in our teens [00:36.78] [00:38.41]Seventeen was like a dream [00:40.64] [00:42.84]21 has come talking like we're drunk with our stomachs pumped [00:48.60] [00:50.75]And we won't sober up [00:53.60] [00:54.42]You say you want to turn me off like a switch from light to dark [01:01.02] [01:02.20]And you'll see memory some perfect picture gallery [01:08.85] [01:10.21]Your camera clicks [01:12.08] [01:12.67]And I'm in a frame like a lonely lion who's in a cage [01:19.60] [01:20.39]Looks through the bars like there's some mistake [01:24.50] [01:25.53]He's always making the same face [01:30.00] [01:30.73]That resembles me but it's clearly fake and at feeding time [01:37.63] [01:38.34]You bring my plate and I love the smell [01:42.87] [01:43.42]But I hate the taste cuz I did no work [01:47.86] [01:48.60]And there was no chase so I make an escape [01:55.29] [02:04.87]I've been known to disappear like the six months I left last year [02:11.17] [02:12.84]Thin as a ghost drove around the west coast till I eventually came home [02:22.48] [02:24.22]And you didn't even change I recall you looked the same [02:30.11] [02:31.34]And I was on my own I grew roots through the stone [02:35.77] [02:38.40]And I wonder what you did [02:40.88] [02:43.00]I grew sailor's eyes that possessed on the horizon [02:49.08] [02:49.98]The water and dry land [02:51.97] [02:52.67]The pier and then the island [02:56.19] [02:58.06]The house of brick the touch of sand [03:00.27] [03:00.87]Looking for a man with a looking glass [03:02.83] [03:04.99]A compass and a map [03:06.86] [03:08.01]So taking off the rope that you've tied on to your boat [03:14.51] [03:15.88]You could float in the sea or grow roots here like a tree [03:21.73] [03:24.03]But your mother can't or an acrobat [03:27.12] [03:28.29]You fall out of trees onto your back [03:30.86] [03:32.46]And some other guys are back [03:34.90] [03:35.65]And you give him a** until he gives you back [03:38.80] [03:40.95]And he always gives you back with a razor blade tilt to his neck [03:49.36] [03:49.97]And a tremble palm on a shaven leg [03:54.29] [03:55.01]Saying wind does blow and the trees do sway [03:59.33] [04:00.09]Tide pours like sweat from the inlet [04:04.18] [04:05.12]The bird will fly back to the nest [04:10.51]Her feather wings for you are spread [04:14.41] [04:15.51]This wounded lark with a ruffled breast [04:19.85] [04:20.54]Crestfallen boy can you accept