Phantom Limb Lyrics

Phantom Limb lyrics

The case of George Dedlow

Double amputee, one of 500,000

Civil War casualties

Suffered a phenomenon so bizarre

Even the doctors looked on from afar



How can you feel a leg that isn't even there?

From cold to burning heat

To pain beyond compare

Clinically known as phantomb limb

So hard to treat, prognosis dim



Brachial plexus avulsion

They told you cycles were dangerous

Nerves ripped from the spinal cord

You certainly need the Lord



But just like the feeling in your arm that is gone

You've severed communication with Him all along

Even though you know it's totally wrong

Spiritual death kicks off its swan song



Don't throw away the years He gives you

By hardening your heart within you

And if you cut off both your own legs

And you have sworn just to ignore Him

The phantom limb will start to haunt you

He wants to bring you back, revive you