How long, how long will I slide?
Separate my side, I don't
I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat it's all I ever..
I heard your voice through a photograph
I thought it up and brought up the past
Once you know you can never go back
I gotta take it on the other side..
Centuries are what it meant to me
A cemetery where I marry the sea
Stranger things could never change my mind
I gotta take it on the other side
Take it on the other side
Take it on, take it on..
How long, how long will I slide?
Separate my side, I don't
I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat it's all I ever..
Pour my life into a paper cup
The ashtray's full and I'm spillin' my guts
She wants to know am I still a slut
I've got to take it on the other side..
Scarlet starlet and she's in my bed
A candidate for a soul mate bled
Push the trigger and I pull the thread, I gotta take it on the other side
Take it on the other side
Take it on
Take it on..
How long, how long will I slide?
Separate my side, I don't
I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat it's all I ever..
Turn me on, take me for a hard ride
Burn me out, leave me on the other side
I yell and tell it that it's not my friend
I tear it down, I tear it down
And then it's born again..
How long, how long will I slide?
Separate my side, I don't
I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat it's all I ever
How long, I don't, I don't believe it's bad
Slit my throat it's all I ever...
When I sing about love and war
I don't really know what I'm saying
I've been in love and I've seen a lot of war
Seen a lot of people praying
They pray to Allah and they pray to the Lord
And mostly they pray about love and war...
Pray about love and war
Pray about love and war...
Seen a lot of young men go to war
And leave a lot of young brides waiting
I watch them try to explain it to their kids
Seen a lot of them failing
They tried to tell them and tried to explain
Why Daddy won't ever come home again...
Daddy won't ever come home
Daddy won't ever come home...
Said a lot of things that I can't take back
But I don't really know if I want to
In songs about love, I sang songs about war
Since the backstreets of Toronto
I sang for justice and I hit a bad chord
But I still try to sing about love and war...
The saddest thing in the whole wide world
Is to break the heart of your lover
I made a mistake and I did it again
And we struggle to recover
I sang in anger, hit another bad chord
But I still try to sing about love and war...
Sing about love and war
Sing about love and war
Love and war...
When I sing about love and war
I don't really know what I'm saying
I've been in love and I've seen a lot of war
Seen a lot of people praying
They pray to Allah and they pray to the Lord
And mostly they pray about love and war...
Pray about love and war
Pray about love and war
Love and war...
