Time Bomb

The Dismemberment Plan

I, I am a Time Bomb

and I, I lay forgotten at the bottom of your heart

I'm fine, ticking away the hours till I blow your world apart.



well, I, I am a poison

and I, I am still coursing through your bloodstream like a ghost

like wine, gathering vintage till the day I hurt the most.



I, I am a land mine

and I, I lay under soil burned out by battles you thought you've won

I've got time, to wait for the footsteps of a memory that's on the run



yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah



Well I, I am a tar pit

and I, I swell like a living thing all at the slightest touch

a black grime, yeah

swallowing everything in a cold and timeless clutch



I, I am a trip wire

and I, I'm stretching across the road you're barreling down tonight

the thinnest twine

waiting to be released right behind your sight



I, I am a fault line

and I,I'm pulling apart the ground that lay beneath your newest seed

so fine

moving in inches now, crawling, cutting, cleaving like a knife



Well I

I am a Time Bomb

and I, I only live in the moment in which you die

it's not right

it's not what I wanted then, but you know and I know there's no going back



I, I am lost soul and I

I send out a sickened light, offering one to see, a cry for help, yeah

a warning to stay away, a burning, a blinding, a bleaching, a death mask white, yeah, yeah