IF I MUST

[Chorus]
If I must, (If I must)
Break bread with my blood
All the same when the oligarch
Drawin' his big iron quick like pig iron rusts
Broken, decayed and unstable
Stays as the only kind of bridge I trust
Always been afraid of the table
Civil 'til the dinner knife's in my gut
If I must, if I must

[Verse 1]
Crawled from the same depths of the ocean
Clenching our jaws 'round their necks
Claws embedded in the flesh of the boatsmen
Dead in the water when I fled from the others
I rejected the cover of the nest and exposed them
Limbs caught in nets and spear in my side
Leaking clear, crystalline
Resurrected or stolen?
Saw my body vanish from the tombs
Share the salt in the cabinet for wounds

[Chorus]
If I must, (If I must)
Break bread with my blood
All the same when the oligarch
Drawin' his big iron quick like pig iron rusts
Broken, decayed and unstable
Stays as the only kind of bridge I trust
Always been afraid of the table
Civil 'til the dinner knife's in my gut
If I must, if I must

[Verse 2]
Look into my eyes and the light's gone
I've been alone where I lie and the night's long
I'd blame the times but the zeitgeist's bygone
The vice got me
Bites 'til the plight's done
Baby
I'm one in a bundle of sticks through hades
Blood is abundant and licked wounds saved me
Tongue of brothers were cut from their mouths
There's love in this house

[Chorus]
If I must, (If I must)
Break bread with my blood
All the same when the oligarch
Drawin' his big iron quick like pig iron rusts
Broken, decayed and unstable
Stays as the only kind of bridge I trust
Always been afraid of the table
Civil 'til the dinner knife's in my gut

If I must, (If I must)
Break bread with my blood
All the same when the oligarch
Drawin' his big iron quick like pig iron rusts
Broken, decayed and unstable
Stays as the only kind of bridge I trust
Always been afraid of the table
Civil 'til the dinner knife's in my gut
If I must, if I must

[Outro]