Turn On the Light

[Verse One] You run down the strip, down the strip right through me The rain on the windscreen, blistering a stop sign Turn in the rubies your mother did buy you Through this land I roar You make me bold like a whore, wish I'd never been born Got a good looking corpse hanging on to me tightly Bless this strip as it runs right through me Bless this strip as it runs right through me She fades to the background proof reads a story Kills all the characters and crosses out the heroine Kissing an American she told me she bought me Through this land I roar You make me bold like a whore, wish I'd never been born Got a good looking corpse hanging on to me tightly Bless this strip as it runs right through me Bless this strip as it runs right through me [Chorus] Love, turn on the light It's so dark in here, inside the life And I know what it's like To feel love, to know like your self [Verse Two] She dragged all the blood to the back of my brain Feel to the light, smoked on an elephant's tusk Punchdrunk, Bitten and bleeding, I became Tame, feeble in the heroine I wanna rush And I hear mutants screaming out Ride on the crest of waves and I'm Stuck as a joker's feeling Still hear demons breathing, and [Chorus] [Verse Three] The sun had dropped, I'm sweating in a carcass I've given up on me, I've given up on Marcus I'm carrying my casket, looking for the enemy I'm down on my knees, surrendering to Valerie And all I feel my head is racing I feel my shoulders bracing I know I'm sick to my bones and I Know can't get back home now and I [Chorus] [Verse Four] Take me far, from this sweet city stench Where friends all betray each other And I'm just another lover to a Take me far, from this sweet city stench Where friends all betray each other And I'm just another lover to a friend, to a friend To a friend, to a friend Oh take me far, oh take me far Oh take me far, oh take me far