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 

Noone 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