The Knife is Sharper ...
by Tom Joyce
Performed by Through with Blanks

Frontman: This song is dedicated to everyone affected by a suicide.

-- Begins like the chorus of Fury of the Storm 
by Dragonforce? ... just an idea of the way it is to be sung...
melodies/beat should be hazy, irregular, unique, give the feel 
of a flashback. --

voice 1:  What if she don't want you?
voice 1:  Or what if she don't need you? ...
voice 1:  Is the risk really worth 
voice 1:       the answer that you seek?
voice 1:  You thought your choice through 
voice 1:       thoroughly,
voice 1:  Concluded you must ... 

voice 2:  I ask you now to love me,
voice 2:  I ask you now to hold me,
voice 2:  I ask you just to tell me I'm alive.
voice 2:  And I want you to love me,
voice 2:  And I want you to hold me,
voice 2:  Forever don't let go 
voice 2:  I'll know then you're with me.
voice 2:  I give you every part of me.

-- Breakdown into very fast heavy metal/screamo-ish music, symbolizing 
a jump into the present, ... as opposed to the previous two stanzas, which 
were a flashback ... --

voice 2:  i pretended not to see it
voice 2:  your surreptitious fling.
voice 2:  but two or three more then
voice 2:  as good as sentenced our death.

voice 1:  without you i can't go on...

screamer: the knife is sharper than the phrase
screamer: and words no longer cope for me
screamer: the pain your amour made
screamer: a failure of the heart. (hold 'heart' long)

-- pause, slow down, bass only, then drums, then singing :) --

voice 2:  i lack the will to care 
voice 2:  about you any more
voice 2:  you're outta mind and 
voice 2:  heart and all my being
voice 2:  the pain you gave lasts 
voice 2:  forever unforgiven.

voice 1:  i'm better!...

-- fast again --

screamer: the knife is sharper than the phrase
screamer: now the time has come to 
screamer: face my only option
screamer: to ease the pain of you
screamer: in mirror pain myself.

-- pause, resume fast --

screamer: with a couple swipes and
screamer: it's over now
screamer: i slide limp onto the shower floor
screamer: blood and pain washed away quick
screamer: don't worry i don't feel your pain
screamer: over this newfound pain of lightheadedness
screamer: lack of blood, my heart now has no purpose
screamer: it wasnt me or my knife, it was you and your words...

-- (during the word "words" the bass drum and the bass 
simultaneously strike loud, and then all is silent...) --