Pulling Teeth

Time stops for no man

The end awaits us all

The seconds sing our eulogies

We're trapped inside of

The belly of the beast

With nothing but our memories

And they too fade

And it's just like slowly pulling teeth

Until your fingers bleed

Ravenous and incomplete

A hunger that you can't feed

The fault lines of life

Begin to separate

And grace us with catastrophe

We stare over the edge

Into the vast and open space

While the ground on which we stand

Disappears

And it's just like slowly pulling teeth

Until your fingers bleed

Ravenous and incomplete

A hunger that you can't feed

And it's just like slowly pulling teeth

Until your fingers bleed

Ravenous and incomplete

A hunger that you can't feed

I thought I was prepared

That I was up to the task

I said, "I'll be okay"

Then my world collapsed

Piece by piece by piece

Like slowly pulling teeth

Slowly pulling teeth