Oh Father (08)

[Verse] a sugar-spun lie watch the embers fly see the sharp red nail But I find the veil She’s at it again Knowing she can’t win Dragging me to hell I will live to tell [Chorus] With barbed wire thread They messed with my head Talons for the night Sàpping me my light. He built that hearth, he stoked the cruelest flame And turned his face, and never spoke my name. Oh father oh father Oh What have you done Oh father oh father He was your only son Oh father what was he to you Oh father you know what you do It's going to haunt you It is you know it's true (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) [Verse] a venomous bloom suffocating tomb. spiders, weaving traps in their heartless gaps. stranger, pale and thin chaos deep within. hear my whispered plea broken, at their knee. [Chorus] With barbed wire thread They messed with my head Talons for the night Sàpping me my light. He built that hearth, he stoked the cruelest flame And turned his face, and never spoke my name. Oh father oh father Oh What have you done Oh father oh father He was your only son Oh father what was he to you Oh father you know what you do It's going to haunt you It is you know it's true? (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) [Bridge] The clock ticks slow, a pendulum of dread (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) Each second bleeds, the story left unsaid. (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) The pumpkin waits, a rotting, hollow dream (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) No fairy god will save, no rescuing gleam. (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) Just the echo of their voices, sharp and cold (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) The madness whispered was never to grow old. (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) [Chorus] With barbed wire thread They messed with my head Talons for the night Sàpping me my light. He built that hearth, he stoked the cruelest flame And turned his face, and never spoke my name. Oh father oh father Oh What have you done Oh father oh father He was your only son Oh father what was he to you Oh father you know what you do It's going to haunt you It is you know it's true? (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) [Outro] Dust and ashes are swirling in the air (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) A clock lay broken scattered on the floor (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) A silent scream, a whispered, dark prayer. (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) He escaped their madness forevermore (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc) (tic-toc-tic-toc-tic-toc)