Days Turn Blue to Gray

By Machine Head

On Through the Ashes of Empires

Released on October 31, 2003

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[Verse 1]

Oh thou have fathered

Son and daughter

Doth begat yet raised not bother

Paralyzed your children's lives

Wither vines of family ties


[Chorus]

Self-destruction

Make him function

Crayons and clay

Days turn blue to gray

Days turn blue to gray


[Verse 2]

Oh 17 when

Family begin

Drinking, fighting, heroin

Unquenchable addictions call

Responsible to none above all


[Chorus]

Self-destruction

Make's him function

Crayons and clay

Days turn blue to gray

Days turn blue to gray


[Post-Chorus]

Lest I taste

It's sweet grapes

Glass to tongue

Across it tips

Cross my lips

Swallow his soul


[Bridge]

Please

Won't you love me?

Please help me see

What did I do?

Did I hurt you?

And now that you're gone

Emptiness lives on

The guilt's all I feel

No closure

Father, motherfucker, no closure


[Outro]

The strings of my heart

You pulled on endlessly

This twine is severed

In tragedy

Father, mother, destroyer, destroyer

Your self-destruction

What made you feel alive

Your self-destruction

Of your children's lives