Shooting Star: Collateral Damage

Shooting Star: Collateral Damage 

 

Needle and thread, flesh and bone
Spit and sinew, heartbreak is home
Your suture lines sparkle like diamonds
Bright stars to light my confinement
“Stitch”, Collateral Damage, Track 7 (Chapter Two)


The bow is so old, its horsehair is glue 
Sent to the factory, just like me and like you 
So how come they stayed your execution? 
The audience roars its standing ovation
“Dust”, Collateral Damage, Track 9 (Chapter Four)  


I’ll be your mess, you be mine 
That was the deal that we had signed 
I brought a hazmat suit to clean up your waste 
Gas masks, gloves, to keep us safe 
But now I’m alone in an empty room 
Staring down immaculate doom
“Messy”, Collateral Damage, Track 2 (Chapter Six)

The clothes are packed off to Goodwill 
I said my good-byes up that hill 
The house is empty, the furniture sold 
Soon your smells will decay to mold 
Don’t know why I bother calling, aint’ nobody answering 
Don’t know why I bother singing, ain’t nobody listening 
“Disconnect”, Collateral Damage, Track 10 (Chapter Eight)


Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three 
She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me 
Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening 
Lick the blood that covers me 
She’s the last one standing 
“Roulette”, Collateral Damage, Track 11 (Chapter Ten)


There’s a piece of lead where my heart should beat 
Doctor said too dangerous to take out 
You’d better just leave it be 
Body grew back around it, a miracle, praise be 
Now, if only I could get through airport security 
“Bullet”, Collateral Damage, Track 12 (Chapter Twelve) 

The boogeyman sleeps on your side of the bed 
Whispers in my ear: “Better off dead.” 
Fills my dreams with sirens and lights of regret 
Kisses me gently when I wake up in a sweat 
“Boo!”, Collateral Damage, Track 3 (Chapter Fourteen)

You crossed the water, left me ashore 
It killed me enough, but you wanted more 
You blew up the bridge, a mad terrorist 
Waved from your side, threw me a kiss 
I started to follow but realized too late 
There was nothing but air underneath my feet 
“Bridge”, Collateral Damage, Track 4 (Chapter Sixteen)


Are you happy in your misery? 
Resting peaceful in desolation? 
It’s the final tie that binds us 
The sole source of my consolation 
“Blue”, Collateral Damage, Track 6 (Chapter Eighteen)

Someone wake me when it’s over 
When the evening silence softens golden 
Just lay me on a bed of clover 
Oh, I need help with this burden
“Hush”, Collateral Damage, Track 13 (Chapter Twenty)


First you inspect me 
Then you dissect me 
Then you reject me I wait for the day 
That you’ll resurrect me 
“Animate”, Collateral Damage, Track 1 (Chapter Twenty-Three)