Lyrics Mark Lanegan

Mark Lanegan

I Wouldn't Want To Say

I wouldn't want to say my friend

So I'm not saying anything

You say you'll fall, I'll fall lower

A love letter was what I meant

A bullet to the heart was sent

The way my body lay here bent

In the freezing exposure and frozen to colder

I wouldn't want to say

No, I wouldn't want to say

Get out while you can

Get out while you can

I will bring bad luck and misery to you, man

I'll paint this shadow across your land

While putting something graveyard dark

Straight into your hand

I wouldn't want to say

I wouldn't want to say

My heart is black as night

Black as night

Black as night

This barrel bomb in my brain ignites

A self-aimed incendiary device

Suddenly everything I ever had is on ice

All those who tried to help me scattered like mice

No, I wouldn't want to say

I wouldn't want to say

Who knows how many more years there will be

Before the end of this sad machine

No heirs to my disease

No one else to curse with this gene

Someone said it's designed for survival

The one I wildly ride

Swinging from death

From death to revival

Where I've been and what I've done

No, I wouldn't want to say

I wouldn't want to say

The implication I am guilty

Yet suffocation cannot kill me

There is this ladder I am climbing

In the darkness you can't find me

I wouldn't want to say

No, I wouldn't want to say

When I was young and untrue as could be

I begged like a child, come back to me

Come back to me, come back to me, come back

Baby, won't you please come back

No, no they ain't coming back

They got away however they could

Like snow melting in spring

Disappearing for good

Rapture or apocalypse

Actress or receptionist

Sanctified or crucified

I have always welcomed it

Yeah, I have always asked for it

I knew, I knew I had it coming

It's alright, it's alright

It's alright, it's alright

It's alright

I'm still hoping

I'm still open

Still open all night

Looking for that love that's right

What I loved, what I loved

What I loved, it's gone away

But I loved you

And I always loved you

How I loved you

I wouldn't want to say

No, I wouldn't want to say

I wouldn't, I wouldn't to say

I wouldn't to say

It's alright, it's alright

It's alright, it's alright

It's alright

I wouldn't want to say