Pain Of Salvation - King Of Loss lyrics

[Limited Edition Digipack Track] Mother At my first breath Every paragraph was set As I inhaled the scent of debt Mother That first stolen air Taken as a legal sign On papers saying I'm not mine "We crown you, the King of Loss Better get on your feet Best be one of us Better get yourself on the list for success Dress up as a State investment Charm the press A breed from the seed Of only one short breath" Mother Hence we cry: Some of us are free to stand Most of us are bound to lie In those bloodstained beds No one can afford to pay The prices on their babies' heads I am the King of Loss! For every dear smile I feel I'm not one of us I have been waiting here In the line for success Dressed up as a state investment I charm the press Then tell me that life means more Than this vain thirst "One more governmental blade Now drawn from its private sheath Quite a bargain I'd say since either way You will live by the show of our teeth!" I hold up my head This was my life Now I'm with the dead So I lay my bare neck This is your call Dub a king or cut a wreck Mother Mother Is this all I am? Is this all I'll be? This is not enough Mother I wish that we could talk