Knife

You Are Correct

Fame and Failure · Hollywood Despair · Surreal Indie Rock

#INTRO

#VERSE
Balancing her heart on the blade of a knife
Bowls of orange sherbet drift out to sea
Wonders about the ghosts from her past life
Before she vanished into anonymity

#PRE-CHORUS
She stares blankly
Sitting by the ocean
Sand and surf
Strawberry in hand
Forks and spoons
Float in slow motion
Walks on water
Kisses dry land

#CHORUS
What the hell are you
Gonna do with your life?
Dancing on a dinner plate
Haunted by echoes of parent’s advice
Praying for an ocean wave
To wash the anguish from your eyes
Watermelon sliced in half
Waltzing on a knife

#INSTRUMENTAL
Knife, knife, sharp-blade knife
Waltzing on a knife

#VERSE
Living in L.A., in a stranger’s pool shack
Surviving on the puffs of a cigarette dream
Balancing her heart on the blade of a knife
Second guessing the price of anonymity

#PRE-CHORUS
She’s back at work
In Chef Le Santo’s kitchen
Slicing watermelon
Prepping strawberry purée
Fourteen place settings
Get forks and spoons in position
High-dollar Hollywood
Comes for lunch today

#CHORUS
What the hell are you
Gonna do with your life?
Dancing on a dinner plate
New friends turned out not so nice
Waiting for an ocean wave
To wash the nightmare from your eyes
Watermelon sliced in half
Waltzing on a knife

#INSTRUMENTAL
Knife, knife, sharp-blade knife
Waltzing on a knife
Knife, knife, sharp-blade knife
Waltzing on a knife

#BRIDGE
She looks down
Blood on her apron
Another nasty cut
Second time this week
Not yet an actor
Not even a waitress
Mumbles a curse
Bright dream grows bleak

#VERSE
Le Santo screams like the world’s on fire
A drop of her blood on the edge of a plate
Three bowls of sherbet for table thirteen
Her timing is off—a sin he hates

#PRE-CHORUS
Again, she stares blankly
Sits by the ocean
Ripe sweetness of fame
Tastes bitter and canned
Slices a strawberry
In seven short motions
Rolls with the tide
Knife still in her hand

#CHORUS
What the hell have you
Done with your life?
You let the dream
Extract its price
Bowls of orange sherbet drift out to sea
Forgive yourself for believing the lies
One more drop of blood in the ocean
Waltzing on a knife

#OUTRO
Knife, knife, sharp-blade knife
Waltzing on a knife
Knife, knife, sharp-blade knife
Waltzing on a knife

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