lungs like gallows

Singer:senses fail

i give blood to prove to myself that i can matter to somebody else. is what makes a man the dirt on his hands?

if so

don't put your faith in the desert sand

because the wind is always blowing. there are gallows deep inside my lungs

that's where i hung ambition. is it luck that's knocking right on my back door?

because i've been breaking mirrors since 1984. i walk under ladders

i spill salt on sores

and i open my umbrella even when i am indoors

so give me seven more. i give blood not for the cause but to slowly give up the person i was. holding my breath won't help

everything went to hell

so now i steal back pennies from the well because my wishes failed. i am screaming at my own shadow to stop living like a ghost. is it luck that's knocking right on my back door?

because i've been breaking mirrors since 1984. i walk under ladders

i spill salt on sores

and i open my umbrella even when i am indoors

so give me seven more. i don't need her; i'm not that desperate. come visit me in twenty years and maybe then

cause i'm not done screaming yet

you can call off the intervention

cause i don't need your attention. is it luck that's knocking right on my back door?

because i've been breaking mirrors since 1984. i walk under ladders

i spill salt on sores

and i open my umbrella even when i am indoors

so give me seven more. i don't need her; i'm not that desperate. i don't need her; i'm not that desperate.

Lyric Context: lungs like gallows - senses fail