Thursday - You Were the Cancer

You Were the Cancer by Thursday off their new album Common Existence.

Lyrics:
It's the sigh of a building falling down
It's the world spinning us around
It's the slip of the surgeon's knife
Darker crimes of common existence
It's a missile sleeping in the ground
It's a camera trying to photograph a sound
It's a case for the basic flaw
Ending a film in the coming attractions
It's a sound that's spinning out of control
It's a light at the edge of a black hole
Scream of an orchestra
Total collapse of an overreaction

In your blood there is a sad, sad song
Bleeding through your nervous system
It's killing you but it's bringing me along
You were the cancer in my life
You were the cancer all the time
You were the cancer
That's all you'll ever be

It's comfort in a bathtub full of ice
It's the promise of a peaceful afterlife
Or the string of a violin wound too tight
It's gasping for oxygen
It's the signal that's sent out over the air
At the speed of a thousand unheard prayers
Faith in the chemicals
A shot in the dark the size of a particle
It's blood from the neon sign
Shine a light away from your insides
Make a map of the balance
Watching life slip through your hands
They're not for shaking
They're not for praying
They're just for holding close
Everything you love that is fragile in a dream

See, you're coming down
No one knows where
See, you're coming down
Without a prayer

You were the cancer in my life
You were the cancer all the time
You were the cancer
That's all you'll ever be

Your blood is a sad, sad song
Bleeding through your nervous system
It's killing you but it's bringing me along

It's a sound that's spinning out of control
It's a light at the edge of a black hole
Scream of an orchestra
Total collapse of an overreaction

You were the cancer in my life
You were the cancer all the time
You were the cancer
That's all you'll ever be
You were the cancer in my life
You were the cancer all the time
You were the cancer
That's all you'll ever be

Category:

Music

Tags:

• You
• Were
• the
• Cancer
• Thursday
• Common
• Existence
• Post
• Hardcore
• Lyrics

[Elnejo86]

Masterpiece.

[Damniteve]

He was the cancer.

I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG <3

[raptorzysko]

I have chills always when I listen to this song!

[reillysbb11]

This song and Love has lead us astray would have to be my faves from the album. Times arrow is pretty sweet too. Kinda reminds me of Autumn leaves revisited.

[teardropluvsparamore]

this song is fuckin savage!!!

[tbsbass1220]

@RWhitman83 to each his own, but i feel like the songs themselves just got worse anyway. not horrible, i bought the new album and play it occasionally. but not as good as their old shit. there's bands that pull this sludgy digital sound off better

[RyanAndRyanPros]

"Darker crimes..of Common Existence..."

[ChaseFcknFlawless666]

This is the Cancer.

[FiendJesterChaos]

Perfect screams. Am I the only one who thinks his screams sound like Tomas Lindberg?

[RWhitman83]

@tbsbass1220 I love the distorted tone of their recordings. I like hearing something so loud and noisy and messy sometimes. If you listen to them enough, every other band starts to sound way too clean and overly digital. Just listen to Thursday's "The Love Song Writer", and then go listen to some awful song from Skillet like "Monster". I've really come to appreciate the messy tone. Especially if you put on some nice studio headphones and jam it in the dark.

[tbsbass1220]

@psychopomp88 and that is the reason i couldnt get into them