All this concern over these cards overturned
The cold light shows too much
Bruise-colored blood who's getting to rush


Smoke made it clear
Holding in the worst

Gives shape to the fear
As they sang along, the chorus and verse


The shake of the shame
But it hangs around your name
For the first time you're afraid

And you take what they left
Choke on their success
But you're nothing anyway


The way I mistook
How an overbite might look

Like a smile on the face of a girl
And the way she's hating the world


Strength in the arms
Pulling empty hall alarms
But nobody heard

In a room where they wait and rehearse

The shake of the shame

But it hangs around your name
For the first time you're afraid
And you take what they left

Choke on their success
But you're nothing anyway


It's getting too much
The bruise-colored blood was beginning to rush


The shake of the shame
But it hangs around your name
For the first time you're afraid

And you take what they left
Choke on their success
But you're nothing anyway