Demon Claws

[Verse 1] Well my name it doesn't matter, my name I couldn't tell The reason I am standing here is to tell you how I fell They say a straw can break the back of a camel fully grown I use a straw to pick my teeth and my back broke long ago [Verse 2] Once'd I had a family, once'd I had a wife I went one day to walk away, a stranger I did spy Stand there a long black snake coiled around his hand The sky crashed down upon us and mud rose from the sand [Verse 3] Before I fell into the dark, he opened up his jaw So black and cold I shivered, but in the milky hole I saw House and children, wife and me, a scene of peace and love Those rotting teeth upon us, came crushed us from above [Verse 4] I told this to a sailor, he told me just the same Twenty years at sea, when he returned, not one remained The fault was all his own, he said, "You cannot fight the years By staring at a photograph and fighting back the tears" [Verse 5] Now I have tried a thousand times to think about that day How I could find another route or find another way But time won't pause, the demon's claws will always bleed you dry You take time here, takes time from there, and you live it till you die You take time here, takes time from there, and you live it till you die You take time here, takes time from there, and you live it till you die