Deathtraps

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The gallows and shallows and watery graves
All masked by the people they've saved
And we'll set fire to deathtraps everyday
But the captain's soul has been trapped by a gaze

A lass who's slapped shackles on our wrath
With passion and love for the insane
A life of solitude any talented man should choose
Over a life destined for pain
The captain has gone insane

His neck will hold strong while the others hang dead
His back has turned to leather for the things that he has said
He's been stretched and stretched to the end of his rouse
The wench it would take to tame the shrew
A loved one is bait for a torturous brigade
And time after time she'll have to be saved
The captain slumps as he falls into a rage
Many lifeless males at the end of his blade

Everywhere I look and everything I see
Everything I touch and everything I feel
Every time I see another broken thing
It’s all the words I’ve learned that I cannot repeat
All the uselessness I have found at all
For drug abuse and alcohol
[Everywhere]
Will keep me sane until I've played society's game
[Everywhere]
There's deathtraps, deathtraps, deathtraps everywhere

The captain it would seem would fall in love with a dream
I life of marriage is not quite what it seems
A slave is til the day he is killed
And our lady deathtraps, she's everywhere
[Deathtraps, Deathtraps, Deathtraps] Everywhere!
[Deathtraps, Deathtraps, Deathtraps] Everywhere!
[Deathtraps, Deathtraps, Deathtraps] Everywhere!
[Deathtraps, Deathtraps, Deathtraps!]

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from The Deadly Gallows, released April 11, 2009
Lyrics written by John Underwood
Music written by John Underwood and performed by The Deadly Gallows

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