Drilled A Wire Through My Cheek - Blue October

I try to stay on top of you

To hold your body down

Your shaking seems to hinder

Every grasp that I have found

Moving every inch around you

To defuse your private bomb

I stretch myself surrounding

And protecting you from harm

I use a wallet for your mouth

So when you bite, you will not bleed

I drilled a wire through my cheek

And let it down and out my sleeve

And now you’re pulling out the best of me

Yeah, which never ever comes

This wire’s all that’s left of me

And it’s hooked within my gums, within my gums

So drill it, so drill it

So hard I feel it

(So drill it)

So drill it, so drill it

So hard I feel it

(So drill it)

As proof to show I’d bleed for this

I’d cut myself to shame

To get to know this masochist

Who’s stolen my first name

Pretending he’s a teacher

Holding all my weight at ease

But the teacher seems to split in two

Destroying both his knees

Now crawling, I position myself

Below your broken wings

I lift your feathered left arm

Where you hide your heart from me

I never noticed it was swollen

With the touch of brutal pain

I never knew a heart could live inside

The rust from all your rain, all your rain

So drill it, so drill it

So hard I feel it

(So drill it)

So drill it, so drill it

So hard I feel it

(So drill it)

I didn’t think to bring a washcloth or to rub away the dirt

Myself and I, we share this barely beating heart of hurt

And when the hurt comes, there’s an argument

A fight to save a smile

A small attack on human tears to dry them for a while

A dream we all should count on, yeah, a vision I believe

In where confidence is found attached to wires on our sleeve

And where loneliness is history told to pack his shit and leave

And where guidance is a fortune told to help in time of need

And where crying isn’t secret, it’s the art of how we grieve

And lessons are the key to every goal I will achieve, I will achieve

So drill it, so drill it

So hard I feel it

(So drill it)

So drill it, so drill it

So hard I feel it

(So drill it)

So drill it, so drill it

So hard

(So drill it)

So drill it, so drill it

So hard

(So drill it)

So hard

So hard