secrets of a salesman (better transcription)
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These baby secrets have grown into children
through dirty adolescence and now into manhood
I locked the basement door, broke off the skeleton key
but it made no difference still they travel with me
even though I killed them they'll haunt me and they'll help me
remember the lies in the shadows, practiced charades
my hands are an axe chopping at the roots
of the only family tree that could ever bear fruit
to cripple you to make sure that you never reproduce
another heart of lies, a house of haunted rooms
the arrow is thrown into your back nothing has ever been
so distant and weak
dreaded words whispered under her breath "your just like your father"
and your ocean is a drop of water your ocean is a drop of water
tightly woven wire mesh beneath the broken
salesman as he's rolling down the conveyer belt
the product is almost ready to be shipped out the door
out into the world to make a living
selling plastic faces to everyone who needs em
to forget the lies in the shadows, the practiced charades
the enemy will make sure the ties on straight
cause it's always best to make an impression of wealth
no matter how much hatred and debt is boiling beneath the surface
"I love you" spills like vomit from her lips
the arrow is thrown into your back nothing has ever been
so distant and weak
dreaded words whispered under her breath "your just like your father"
and your ocean is a drop of water your ocean is a drop of water
water
I locked the basement door, broke off the skeleton key
water
forget the lies in the shadows, don't forget me