Killing for a Living

A sense of peace was falling On the universal night And it gave me pause To reason why I live To never cease the calling Of a consequential right And it gave me cause and reason Why they give The first thing I remember Was the shadow across my heart And they matched the beauty Hidden in their soul The next was across the universe As I came apart And the sum of the parts Became whole Stalking and hunting Profession in blood Working the night to a throne Calking an outline, experience must Invisible, never alone I can take you anywhere Take all that you give I can free you from despair Killing just to live Killing for a living Living just to kill I looked across the answers Though questions don't exist And found that it was I never alone We cut away the cancer And continued to resist But the outcome of the night Remained unknown The next thing I remember Were the years across my face And they matched only The beauty of scars The next was across the universe Into time and space And to know together We have to go too far Bleeding a nation, casualty time Breaking the back of the core Promised salvation, a casual crime Feeding and fucking the whore Make my living on borrowed time Make your clock stand still Keep my hands round what is mine Living just to kill Kill to live, live to kill Kill to live, live to kill Come on now, a give little kindness Give worst of best Come on now Shake a little madness Put the dead to rest I can give you reasons Two-five to the bone They can give you All you ever wanted When you're far away from home Come on now, give a little kindness Give worst of best Come on now and Shake a little madness Put the dead to rest So as the plot will thicken And time is not a friend The blessing comes but one time in life Across the crowded universe That hastens to an end Through memories Of one time in a night And what will I remember Through the by and by? To have and hold and Turn about the chill That this was not the pause to die But to live to kill Stalking and hunting Profession in blood Working the night to a throne Calking an outline, experience must Invisible, never alone I can take you anywhere Killing just to live I can free what fights and tears Living just to kill I can take you anywhere Killing just to live I can free what fights and tears Living just to kill