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    "Drawing Blood"genre: Goth Rock
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    I wrote this song for a goth-metal band I was playing drums for at the time. It's based on the Poppy Z. Brite book, Drawing Blood.
    Label: 401 Records
    Credits: Words and Music by Bret Walker

    Lyrics
    Returning home to the murder scene
    Chalk lines map the corners of my mind
    A nightmare blur of yellow tape and flashing lights
    I shudder still at what I've come home to find
    It was so many years ago, I was a child
    Still plaguing me is the question Why?
    Why was I made to live on all alone
    When my own family was allowed to die?

    Oh, Father, why hast thou forsaken me?
    You've left me all alone
    With nowhere to call my home
    In a silent song of steel you have betrayed me
    And you've crushed my mortal soul, damned for eternity

    I'm looking down upon my own hands now
    And I can see my father's legacy
    Every stroke of the pen belies the pain
    My father's madness left inside of me
    I am still wondering day after day
    As my hands draw like they were his,
    I wonder can they also draw the blood
    Of my childhood innocence

    Oh, Father, why hast thou forsaken me?
    You've left me all alone
    With nowhere to call my home
    In a silent song of steel you have betrayed me
    And you've crushed my mortal soul, damned for eternity

    I feel the blood corsing in my veins
    I feel the throb of my heart in my ears
    I feel the rage building inside me
    I feel the burden of these past ten years

    I hear the scream of silent solitude
    I hear his voice call out my name
    I hear them taunt me from beyond the grave
    I hear the patronizing blame

    Oh God, why must I bear this weight alone?
    Oh God, why was I left to live?
    Oh God, I have to know the answers
    What was I left on Earth to give?

    Returning home to my senses now
    The purpose of my life mapped out within my heart
    I found the path of my existence
    This is the end, and it's also the start
    My hands will work their devil's magic
    My life is mine to give, no life is mine to take
    My father's legacy has left me
    With phantom pain in daylight's wake

    Oh, Father, I have not forsaken thee
    I left you all alone
    With nowhere to call your home
    I feel my freedom stretching before me
    My soul has been reborn and I taste my destiny

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