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I wrote this song after being convinced for months on end that something terrible was going to happen to me, whether it be a mugging or a stabbing or something even worse. I've gotten over that feeling for the most part since writing the song, but it still creeps up every now and again.

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I think I've got a little too much time on my hands
Because lately I can't stop thinking about what it'd be like if I were stabbed
I'd make the best of it I'm sure, so clearly it's
A case of just another brand new experience
That I don't want to have, so please, don't misunderstand what I write
This isn't an invitation to show me what it's like
To get stabbed (I wanna know) To get stabbed (I wanna know)
To get stabbed (I wanna know, but not that bad)

"You're shaking!" I know, I feel the blade hit
Next level psycho on some insane shit
The knife? Don't blame it, just take it
Less fight the better to control and tame it
I'll be dreaming of the night they up and got me
Making metal an installation of my body
Foreign object; reject - watch me
Shiver, bleed, rational thought stopping
You'd think I'd go rage, auto-pilot: Livid
But let me set the stage, this vision vivid
I don't know why I feel like this is my fate
But I feel like in this life I won't escape
No suspected reasons, not coming soon
Not that I can tell anyway, yet I feel doomed
I can't outrun it, the dogs are always faster
So I crumble and brace for a disaster

Get stabbed (I wanna know)
Get stabbed (I wanna know)
Get stabbed
I want to know, but not that bad [x4]

I've tempted fate, I've cashed in my luck
Wonder how much I've got left before my tickets up?
Danger was imminent, yet never craved
Walked the streets of Chicago in the night unscathed
I've tested limits of the human condition
To try and find the link that's missing
Curiosity's morbid, strangely the pain becomes appealing
And so I feel this urge is ironically part of the healing
[...] 'Cause at least it'll produce a feeling
I need to get out of my head
Cause the nightmares never leave me dead
They hang and twist me on a thread
These apparitions are so well fed
I don't want to get stabbed.

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from The Sky Is A Beautiful, Dangerous Thing, released January 10, 2017

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