Feed Me to the Sharks

Verse

I folded up my future in a motel Bible page

Left my name in the mirror, let it rust with the age

She cried on the porch with a rosary stare

But I’ve been dead inside too long to pretend I care

I ain’t chasing heaven, I ain’t running from hell

Just tired of living quiet with nothing to tell

There’s a fire in my chest that don’t sleep no more

And it’s dragging me barefoot straight out the door

Pre-chorus

I need a girl with a wild-eyed grin

Who ain’t scared of blood or the shape I’m in

Chorus

So come on, run with me, let’s vanish tonight

To an island where the moon cuts the ocean like a knife

We’ll live like tomorrow never learned our names

Bare hands, salt skin, gasoline veins

I’ll fish at dawn, dive till the light turns black

Sleep with the snakes, never watch my back

And if I die smiling in that deep blue dark

Just celebrate loud and feed me to the sharks

Verse

I don’t need permission, I don’t need a plan

I drive like the devil’s got my right hand

Middle finger high to the law and the line

To every scared little fool sayin’ adrenaline kills the mind

They don’t understand what it means to be free

They’re too damn busy being afraid to breathe

Life ain’t a classroom, it’s a loaded gun

You don’t learn a thing till you pull and run

Verse

She don’t flinch at the fire or the edge of the fall

Laughs at the danger, hears freedom call

Barefoot on coals with a matchstick smile

Says, “If you’re goin’ to hell, I’ll walk every mile”

She ain’t lookin’ for safe, she ain’t prayin’ for calm

She’ll bleed with me gladly, skin on skin, palm to palm

When the world burns down and the sirens start

She grabs my hand and says, “Let’s tear it apart”

Chorus

So come on, run with me, let’s burn this town

Let the asphalt scream when I pin it down

We’ll love like thieves with no alibis

Every kiss tastes better when you’re cheating time

I’ll fish at dawn, dive till the light turns black

Live hand in hand where the maps turn back

And if I die smiling in that deep blue dark

Just celebrate loud and feed me to the sharks

Bridge

I ain’t afraid of venom, teeth, or bone

I’m afraid of dying safe and alone

If my heart gives out in a sunburned roar

I’ll be richer than kings I never adored

Don’t dress me up, don’t pray me clean

Just laugh real hard at the life I lived mean

Chorus

So drink one more, let the tide pull me in

I gave up on dying the way I’d been

I chose the rush, the truth, the spark

A short bright life leaves a deeper mark

Throw my ashes where the wild things are

Where the sea don’t care who you think you are

If I pass smiling in that outlaw dark

Raise hell, raise waves, feed me to the sharks

Outro

Yeah… feed me to the sharks.