I Never Told You What I Do for a Living

Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
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Singles
“I'm Not Okay (I Promise)” (2004) “Thank You for the Venom” (2004) “Helena” (2005) “The Ghost Of You” (2005)

Track Listing

“Helena” – 3:22 “Give 'Em Hell Kid” – 2:18 “To The End” – 3:01 “You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison” – 2:53 “I'm Not Okay (I Promise)” – 3:08 “The Ghost Of You” – 3:23 “The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You” – 3:37 “Interlude” – 0:57 “Thank You for the Venom” – 3:41 “Hang 'Em High” – 2:47 “It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Deathwish” – 3:30 “Cemetery Drive” – 3:08 “I Never Told You What I Do for a Living” – 3:51

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Story

The lyrics are saying how it is in hell for the MC "Another knife in my hands A stain that never comes off the sheets Clean me off I'm so dirty babe The kind of dirty where the water never cleans off the clothes" but even though he is in hell suffering he is reincarnated "And we'll love again, we'll laugh again We'll cry again and we'll dance again And it's better off this way So much better off this way" so saying that he'll do this stuff again is another way of say he is reincarnated.

Lyrics

Stay out of the light Or the photograph that I gave you You can say a prayer if you need to Or just get in line and I'll grieve you Can I meet you, alone Another night and I'll see you Another night and I'll be you Some other way to continue To hide my face

[Chorus:] Another knife in my hands A stain that never comes off the sheets Clean me off I'm so dirty babe The kind of dirty where the water never cleans off the clothes I keep a book of the names and those

Only go so far 'til you bury them So deep and down we go

Touched by angels, though I fall out of grace I did it all so maybe I'd live this every day

[Chorus:] Another knife in my hands A stain that never comes off the sheets Clean me off I'm so dirty babe It ain't the money and it sure as hell ain't just for the fame It's for the bodies I claim and lose

Only go so far 'til you bury them So deep and down we go

Down

And down we go And down we go And down we go And we all fall down

I tried I tried

And we'll all dance alone to the tune of your death We'll love again, we'll laugh again And it's better off this way

And never again, and never again They gave us two shots to the back of the head And we're all dead now.

Well never again, and never again They gave us two shots to the back of the head And we're all dead now.

Well I tried One more night One more night well I'm laughin' out, cryin' out, laughin' out loud I tried, well I tried, well I tried, 'Cause I tried, but I lied I lied

I tried I tried I tried, well

And we'll love again, we'll laugh again We'll cry again and we'll dance again And it's better off this way So much better off this way I can't clean the blood off the sheets in my bed

And never again, and never again They gave us two shots to the back of the head And we're all dead now