Killing For A Living

A sense of peace was falling on the universal night
 And it gave me a pause to reason why I live
 To never cease the calling of the consequential right
 And it gave me cause and reason why they give
 The first thing I remember was the shadow 'cross my heart
 And they matched the beauty hidden in their soul
 The next was 'cross the universe, as it came apart
 And the sum of the parts became whole
 Stalking and hunting, profession in blood
 Working the night to a throne
 Chalking an outline, experience must
 Invisible, never alone
 I can take you anywhere
 Take all that you give
 I can free you from despair
 Killing just to live
 Live to kill
 Kill to live
 Killing for a living, killing just to live
 I looked across the answers, though questions didn't exist
 And found that I was never alone
 We cut away the cancer and continued to resist
 But the outcome of the night remained unknown
 The next thing I remember were the years across my face
 And they matched only the beauty of scars
 The next was 'cross the universe into time and space
 And to know together, we'd have to go too far
 Bleeding a nation, casualty time
 Breaking the back of the core
 Promised salvation, a casual crime
 Feeding and fucking the whore
 Make my living on borrowed time
 I make the clock stand still
 Keep my hands 'round what is mine
 Living just to kill
 Live to kill
 Kill to live
 C'mon, now, kill a little kindness, give the worst of your best
 C'mon, now, and shake a little madness, put the dead to rest
 I can give you reasons, 2-5 to the bone
 They can give you all you ever wanted
 When you're far away from home
 C'mon, now, kill a little kindness, give the worst of your best
 C'mon, now, and shake a little madness, put the dead to rest
 So as the plot will thicken and time is not a friend
 The blessing comes but one in a life
 Across the crowded universe that hastens to an end
 Through memories of one time in a night
 And what will I remember through the by and by
 To have and hold and turn about the chill
 That this was not the pause to die
 But to live to kill