Daggers Drawn - The Cat Empire

Just beyond the velvet curtain

Of your dark and empty room

All the gutters run with silver

Underneath the light of the moon

I can see you there drawn and pacing

Hiding even from your precious son

All the prophecies they say the same thing

Beware of the perilous one

Don’t beg for mercy

What’s done is done

I’m gonna break this window

I’m gonna fire this gun

If you’re halfway human

Your heart’s a storm

Now face the morning

With daggers drawn

Bona Dea what’s this feeling

Nobody will say its name

I have tried all kinds of ancient healing

Still my heart is covered in clay

Well my sister pass that bottle

Well my brother pass that flame

Under the darkening mountain shadows

We will shout out into the rain

Don’t beg for mercy

What’s done is done

I’m gonna break this window

I’m gonna fire this gun

If you’re halfway human

Your heart’s a storm

Now face the morning

With daggers drawn

Do you remember those distant mornings

Nobody there knew my name

I used to call myself a kind of hunter

When you came to me covered in flames

Never questioned what I fight for

It was unchangeable, like the sun

We have always been the lonely nighthawks

Watching out for the perilous one

Don’t beg for mercy

What’s done is done

I’m gonna break that window

I’m gonna fire this gun

If you’re halfway human

Your heart’s a storm

Now face the morning

With daggers drawn

Don’t beg, don’t beg, don’t beg

If you’re halfway human

Your heart’s a storm

Now face the morning

With daggers drawn

Daggers drawn