Nothing Dies Easy

I'm like a gambler in a velvet-curtained room
 Half-light and shadow, nothing is moving
 I'm playing but I know that I'm losing
 Good money after bad
 I fooled myself that her number was lucky
 I stare at my phone, my phone stares back at me
 I feel my fingers pushing down at the keys
 Good faith after bad
 And nothing dies easy, it holds on until the end
 It takes all of your power to push the blade in
 A last glow in the ashes, a last spark in the eye
 Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell
 Breaking another wild part of myself
 Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell, breaking the will
 Every sound you hear is the sound of
 Something praying for more life to be given
 For maybe just another precious second
 And every junkie I've known trying to do straight time
 Leaves a little piece of their soul behind
 You can't shed your skin like you think you can, like I think I can
 'Cause nothing dies easy, it holds on until the end
 It takes all of your power to push the blade in
 The last glow in the ashes, a last spark in the eye
 Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell
 Breaking another bad part of myself
 Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell, nothing dies easy
 So a toast to the mercy killings
 For all these cursed obsessions
 For all the useless passions
 For when I'm shot and gone
 Because nothing dies easy, it holds on until the end
 It takes all of your power to push the blade in
 The last glow in the ashes, a last spark in the eye
 Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell
 Breaking another wild part of myself
 Breaking the glamour, breaking the spell, breaking the will