Jackie Boy lyrics

Oh if these walls could talk, I would talk right back

I would talk, I would talk 'til they fade to black

The Jack Daniels don't soothe me no more

Oh Jackie Boy, Jackie Boy, show me the door

Show me peace, show me grief, show me what it means

To live a life so sunk it's not worthy to breathe

It's too early to see, it's too late to retreat

So the ship sails on to its perfect defeat

And I try to stay aboard

But when it rains, it pours

I drink a bottle of the captains 'til I wash up on shore

Don't tell me how to live this life, I live this hell

I doubt the devil had an army until the angels fell

Now wake up

I’ll seek you out

Flay you alive

One more word and you won’t survive

And I’m not scared of your stolen power

I see right through you any hour

In such a place you either breathe or you suffocate

It's such a waste, don't you see what you've done to me, got

Holes in my heart like the holes in my liver

It seems the less she take is the more I give her

So, never the winner, forever the stranger

You hate me for what I was

Forget the good I do

A strange place where I keep my feelings

Call it Fort Knox with a see through ceiling

Cause where I stand I don't see the path, I see the past

I see the problems that await but I don't seem to act

So nothing's learned, no triumphant return

I never put out the fire, I just watch it all burn, thinking…

Felling any foe with my gaze

Steadily emerging with grace

It's time to say goodbye

There ain't no more hellos

I set it all on fire

That's how the story goes

Turn the page, let it fade, watch it decay

See the flame, let it rain, watch it be tamed

I see the bandage, I know that you know you damaged

I pray that you feel what I feel

And only hope that you panic

The message is in the bottle

The current will help deliver

There is no return to sender

Like everything that I give her

I can fill the flask up

But can't get past us

I'm in the storm, stayin' strong, but can't get back up

A sudden change, the wind, will spin his game we're in

But when there's nothing to hold, you'd rather sink then swim

Sing it

Eyes on fire

Your spine is ablaze

Felling any foe with my gaze

And just in time

In the right place

Steadily emerging with grace