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(Sullivan) 1990
In the white washed cancer ward with my hot blood running wild
I see the pain behind your eyes and the search for a reason
And the knowing and the fear of the passing season
Now please give me strength to cut and to keep our secret
Please give me strange to cut
Ch: That the things we love may remain here still
There is time to wait and there's a time to kill
I see your outstretched hand through the closing door
But it's a far better thing I do than I have done before
And so it seems that murder's not so hard - I've eaten flesh and blood each day
And if I believe the things I write through the passing season
Then with a rifle in my hand and with a thousand reasons
I'll wait, far above the crowd in the summer sunshine
And history changes now, forever
That the things we love may remain here still
There is time to wait and there's a time to kill
From the barren land come the seeds of war
So it's a far better thing that I do than I have done before
Published by Attack Attack Music/Warner Chappell Music Ltd
Album: History
- The Singles 85-91
Track 13
Release date:
March 1992
A collection put together by EMI - without
our cooperation - after we left the label (for the first time). This track was left over
from the Impurity sessions in 1990 and was added (along with Higher Wall) to make you buy
a whole load of songs you already had, all over again!
Later included in the Lost Songs comp.
CD1 Track 7
Release
date:
February 2002