I Never Told You, You Wouldn't Want To Know (Created From I Never Told You What I Do For A Living)

Stay out of the light

It’ll burn you if you don’t

Or the photograph that I gave you

I didn’t mean what I said when I gave it to you anyway

You can say a prayer if you need to
Not that I believe in that sort of thing anymore

Or just get in line and I'll grieve you

Just another name on a list

Can I meet you, alone

Face to face, hand in hand

Another night and I'll see you

From afar, you wouldn’t even know

Another night and I'll be you

Slip into your skin, between your bones

Some other way to continue

To put on a new mask,

To hide my face

People don’t need to know the real me

Another knife in my hands

Matching the one in my back

A stain that never comes off the sheets

Red becomes brown so fast

Clean me off

Even though I don’t know if I’ll ever be clean

I'm so dirty babe

But I’ve gotten used to the feeling

The kind of dirty where the water never cleans off the clothes

And soap does nothing to help

I keep a book of the names

Long and only growing

And those only go so far 'til you bury them

The graves shallower every time

So deep and down we go

Farther and farther with each name added

Touched by angels, though I fall out of grace

Pushed by my own hands

I did it all so maybe I'd live this every day

I don’t want to be alone down there

Another knife in my hands

Only one more, I keep saying

A stain that never comes off the sheets

Each hotel I leave more ruined than when I arrived

Clean me off

I don’t want to be dirty anymore

I'm so dirty babe

I did this all for you

It ain't the money and it sure as hell ain't just for the fame

Everything I did, all those people,

It's for the bodies I claim

I need them I swear

And those only go so far 'til you bury them

Graves growing shallower still

So deep and down we go

Will you join me down here?

Down

Farther down…

And down we go

I didn’t want to do this

And down we go

I had to do it

And down we go

Falling by my own hand

And we all fall down

Down and down and down

I tried

I tried so hard

I tried

It was all for you

And we'll all dance alone to the tune of your death

That’s what they said to me

We'll love again, we'll laugh again

The world free of me, finally

And it's better off this way

To be free from the bloodshed

And never again, and never again

No more knives left

They gave us two shots to the back of the head

First one to kill me, second just to be sure

And we're all dead now

I join the ones I killed

Well never again, and never again

No more second chances, not that I deserved them

They gave us two shots to the back of the head

Just to be safe, one more than needed

And we're all dead now

One less bad man in the world

Well I tried

I just wanted to see you again

One more night

One more blood soaked sheet

One more night

One more night to miss you

Well I'm laughin' out, cryin' out, laughin' out loud

I deserve everything I got

I tried, well I tried, well I tried

I’ll never see your face again

'Cause I tried, but I lied

I can’t do it anymore

I lied

I didn’t think it would be this hard

I tried

I really did

I tried

But some things weren’t meant to be

I tried, well

I guess it wasn’t worth it

And we'll love again, we'll laugh again

Even just in my mind

We'll cry again and we'll dance again

Just like we did at the end

And it's better off this way

Maybe we just weren’t good together

So much better off this way

I don’t know if I’ll ever really miss you anyway

I can't clean the blood off the sheets in my bed

And I don’t want to see it anymore

And never again, and never again

The last knife, the last hotel room

They gave us two shots to the back of the head

One is for me, one is for you

And we're all dead now