[singer A] Pain keeps the ghosts away Let the hurt come out to play Pain keeps the ghosts away Let the hurt come out to play [melodic interlude] [singer B] An angel cries on the street corner tonight and only I can see her. Her tears shine bright, alight against backdrop falling snow, quietly she steps into crowd anonymous [singer A] Pain pain pain Is better than happiness When stilling numbness is the other choice Let it rain rain rain Let it stain the heart denied Because Pain.. Is better than happiness [transition] [singer B] How did they leave you? how did they leave you? How did they leave you like this? Pity the self-foresaken None can lead her from this path Wrestling her demons and losing Wrestling the nights reassurance That day is looming nigh [singer A] How fitting it had been to have such a reversal in his life. His bosom once swollen with joy How the void ached: hollow desperation, loss. Now he was poised on the brink of alcoholic numbing. [instrumental] [singer B] I see her pause to look up at the sky, avoiding glances penitent, she smiles for a second shattering pain, laughs for another, And then she cries again [singer A] Pain pain pain Is better than happiness When stilling numbness is the other choice Let it rain rain rain Let it stain the heart denied Because Pain.. Is better than happiness [transition] [singer B] How did they break you? how did they break you? How did they break you like this? Pity the self-foresaken No one led her on this path Wrestling her nightmare quandry Wrestling wanton righteousness [singer A] The patrons all ignored him. It felt good to be isolated among so many. He smiled. He looked over his shoulder and ordered another Johnny Walker Red. The feelings slid off his back, the weight removed by some divine, bacchanal force. [melodic interlude] [singer B] she turns a corner and blends away into the frozen faces in the storm another soul lost on the road another heart crushed with a careless touch another heart with no more love another fire goes cold tonight as the daylight fades with the winter wind. [singer A] PAIN Is better than happiness When stilling NUMBNESS is the other choice Let it RAIN Let it stain the heart denied Because Pain.. Is better than happiness
