This Ain't No Place For Animals

The gasoline is mixing with the oxygen

In this carousel, the silence is so surreal

I've been misled through empty streets

To the heart that never beats of a body that I can't keep

We're blessed with these, these horrors for highways

This city turns no longer, content to just brush shoulders

Have we lost our touch?

A light goes on

We throw our blankets aside

It's been hours now and we still know nothing

The scars just don't heal the same, when we collide

I'd never say that we step to the other side

To keep us from brushing shoulders

But it's collisions we need to remind us that we're alive

I'd never say that you make me sick

But you're turning all the questions to cancers, whoa

Someone call in the emergency

And we'll peel back the dressings so we can see

The kind of things that the surgeons see

When the bloodwork won't give us the answers, whoa

They'll never tell us because they don't know what's killing us

My heart's at a million miles an hour

As we brace for the impact, it makes time standstill

Forcing momentum into a moment

So for a split second, I see your face

In between all the broken glass hanging like a mobile

This is a picture we'll never quite forget

The surgeons pick, they pick at my body

Their fingers dance, they dance all around me

Hold still while they pick at my body

They'll dance all around me

The surgeons pick, they pick at my body

Their fingers dance, they dance all around me

Hold still while they pick at my body

They'll dance all around me

Breathe your anesthetic words to slow us down

Tear back the skin to find, to chase a pulse back home

I'd never say that you make me sick

But you're turning all the questions to cancers, whoa

Someone call in the emergency

And we'll peel back the dressings so we can see

The kind of things that the surgeons see

When the bloodwork won't give us the answers, whoa

They'll never tell us because they don't know what's killing us