Jaws of Life

from South Oaks by South Oaks

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JAWS OF LIFE

I’m chugging like a freight train rolling
I’m doomed like a car stalled on the tracks
A whistle and a warning
Ensnarled in the wreckage around me
Like the flesh of some primitive beast
Trapped in the Jaws of... Life

I’m huffing like a man who’s running late
It’s faster if I pull around this gate
My choices are in question
And the consequences...

are glaring like two eyes crouched in the brush
with teeth salivating for their lunch
it’s me, it sees...
I think you’ll need

The Jaws of Life...
The Jaws of Life...
The Jaws of Life...
The Jaws of Life...

An epic battle of life and death
waged in a war nobody wins...

To escape has been my life
Now I have children and a wife
Counting on me
Caring for me

Keep pouring, I still feel the pain
Synapses fire in my brain

Deep in darkness, there’s a light
That beckons me to go inside... and die!

Still holding to the snake that eats me whole
Still trying to fill that empty hole... in me
Ensnarled in the wreckage around me
Like the flesh of some primitive beast
Trapped in the Jaws of... Life

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from South Oaks, track released February 12, 2013
Written and performed by South Oaks

Jim Burns - Vocals
Frank Fusco - Guitar
Kevin Purcell - Bass
Eric Hoffman - Drums

Engineered by Steve Johnson at My Low Studio, Bellmore, NY

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