Those were the last words that she said to me I wouldn't listen I just drove away And now I'm lying here beside the road
All at one moment when the cold cuts in I'm sinking, still sinking And from the surface I see flashing lights Red and blue, blue and red Oh father won't you tell her that I said
Taste the apple of my eye's rotten core A taste we both deny but can't ignore The fruit was safe and ripe picked from the tree The snake's about to strike and I'll agree The darkness in the deep, the damage done The lights went out before when I was wrong