How I Want To Die

Album: How I Want to Die: The Catman Chronicles 1 (2005)
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  • There's a boy who's crying in sheer dread
    I want to save him
    From the gun that's pointed 'gainst his head
    I want to save him

    There's a girl who's shivering in the cold
    I want to save her
    From the knife pressed hard against her throat
    I want to save her

    I'll take a bullet from a gun
    A knife wound in my chest
    That's how I want to die
    Just like a Catcher in the Rye

    Bullet from a gun
    Knife wound in my chest
    That's how I want to die
    Just like a Catcher in the Rye

    Don't want to wither away
    Feeling my body in decay
    When my time comes
    Let me go protecting God's little ones
    Let me go quickly in Glory and Grace

    There are kids who suffer everywhere
    I want to save them
    From the wounds that they can hardly bear
    I want to save them

    There's a boy who's crying in his sleep
    I want to save them
    From the angry man he could have been
    I want to save them

    I'll take a bullet from a gun
    A knife wound in my chest
    That's how I want to die
    Just like a Catcher in the Rye

    Bullet from a gun
    Knife wound in my chest
    That's how I want to die
    Just like a Catcher in the Rye
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  • Matthew from Milford, MaI don't like taking casualties, but sacrificing one's life for others certainly is the noblest way to go...
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