The Blowtorch Is Applied To The Sugar Lyrics
Let me down easy
There's no reason to tease me
If you don't need me, please let me go
Time is dancing on my chest
And it's casting stones, it's casing parts
Each one of them antagonist
Playing with my dreams? Not anymore
And I'm trying to feed the wasp inside my mouth, it's dying
I'm not sure that it wants to live
Oh well
Hail the insane and deranged
It wasn't my embrace, it's yours
Now I'm trying to walk the straightest line
Now it's time
I wanted you forever and ever
Now it's never again, never
I wanted you forever and ever
And now it's never again, never
Oh, and how your hands used to shake
Tremble and threaten to break
If they weren't encased in mine
Telling you that it'll be just fine
I could've had it forever and ever
Now it's never again, never
I could've had it forever and ever
Now it's never again, never
And actually did, it's all around me
But I can't pick it up
'cause I gave you all what was left of my strength
Of my strength
Of my strength
Of my strength
Love's a many splendored thing, an often vendored thing
If love was just a movie about war, it's the surrender scene
You think you've got it figured out?
I didn't say that, I've got doubts
I said I've lost my faith in love
There's still a way to find it
How? I might've cared for it at first
But now I've buried it, my thirst is met in bars
And not the fake embrace of needy arms
That isn't true, I've seen your heart
You didn't see that it was charred?
There was a fire, that's a start
The fire's gone and now it's dark
Please turn on the lights
Please turn on the lights
I think I'm still fucked up
Time didn't heal me, oh god
I think I'm still fucked up
Time didn't heal me, oh
I think I'm still fucked up
Time didn't heal me, oh god
You were a fever dream
But you never broke or went away
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The band did a track by track walkthrough for Property of Zack where they discussed every song, including this one:
This song is most dear to me musically, it came out exactly as I had heard it in my head when I had demo’d it on my computer one night. I was afraid to present it to the band, because i didn’t want anything about it to change and for it to just be locked in a vault/mine forever. I’m very glad I didn’t though, it turned out to be some of my favorite performances from everyone in the band, and I’m pretty sure this is my favorite track on the record.
Sidenote: This is the only song (and probably the last) to feature drop A tuning. Disgustingly low.
Cory: Kurt and I came up with the concept for this over the phone after he had watched a movie called Candy and felt eerily similar to one of the characters, and as he described it to me, we realized we both had a whole hell of a lot in common, including some insane things we had both done and been through in our past. The back-and-forth dialogue near the end of the song was an effort to have optimism and cynicism talk to each other as friends.
- 6.Abbr.
- 7.The Blowtorch Is Applied To The Sugar
