Broke Wide Open Lyrics

Broke Wide Open lyrics

Just one quick glance was all that it took

Trapped in your stare of judgement

As we pass each other on the street

And I look into your robot eyes as you make your careful calculations

I choke on your perfume as you file me into lower class

The moment stretches as I hear the cries of everyone 

That you have stepped on so many throats

Bled dry to get to who you are today

A lifetime spent swinging the sharpest of knives 

Oh how I'd like to take it all away

One twitch of the finger one moment of heart felt compassion

Break you wide open 

Stare straight through your center

A lifetime spent with so little sweat

That nothing in you grew nothing but vanity and twisted wires

From a rusted heart that slightly resembles a cash register

Just one look that says it all

While you figure out just what I'm worth

And that's the best that you've got 

That and a thousand dollar handbag

How'd I like to wash it all away

There is a middle in you somewhere

Break it open

For the world to see one quick beautiful violent motion

A lifetime spent swinging the sharpest of knives 

And you wonder why I am so obsessed with guns…