Cowboy Junkies - Knives Lyrics

Cowboy Junkies Lyrics

"Knives"

Knives have been drawn
Blades thirsty and keen
Honed on the whetstone
Of anger and spleen

Knives have been drawn
Knives have been drawn

Trading her jewelry
And a length of her hair
Wondering what happened
To civility here

What I fear is pain and too much loss
What I hope will be too high a cost
Now I'm seeing that love in her eyes
She does not yet know hope is fear in disguise

Knives have been drawn
Knives have been drawn

Keep me harmless, keep me alone
Keep me lamenting, all that has gone
Shunned and sullen, injured and burned
He tends his wounds, he waits his turn

Knives have been drawn
Knives have been drawn

What I fear is pain and too much loss
What I hope will be too high a cost
Now I'm seeing that doubt in her eyes
She just now learnt that hope is fear in disguise

Knives have been drawn
Knives have been drawn

Blades thirsty and keen
Honed on the whetstone
Of anger and spleen
Knives have been drawn

(Knives have been drawn)
Knives have been drawn
Honed on the whetstone
Of anger and spleen
(Knives have been drawn)
Of anger and spleen
(Knives have been drawn)
Knives have been drawn
(Knives have been drawn)
Knives have been drawn
Knives have been drawn
Knives have been drawn
Knives have been drawn

Submit Corrections

Writer(s): Michael Edward Timmins, Alan Anton

album: "Such Ferocious Beauty" (2023)

Cowboy Junkies - Such Ferocious Beauty album cover

What I Lost

Flood

Hard To Build, Easy To Break

Mike Tyson (Here It Comes)

Throw A Match

Blue Skies

You May Also Like

Gillian Welch - "The Way It Goes" Becky Johnson bought the farm Put a needle in her arm That's the way that it goes That's the way And her brother laid her down In the cold Kentucky ground That's the way that it goes That's the way...

Aimee Mann - "You Could Make A Killing" There is nothing that competes with habit And I know it's neither deep nor tragic Simply that you have to have it So you can make a killing So you can make a killing So you can make a killing I...

Blind Melon - "Change" I don't feel the sun's coming out today It's staying in. It's gonna find another way. Yeah As I sit here in this misery I don't think I'll ever—no, Lord— See the sun from here And, oh, as I fade...

Van Morrison - "Into The Mystic" We were born before the wind Also younger than the sun Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and spirit...

Heather Nova - "Island" There are parts of me he'll never know, my wild horses and my river beds, and in my throat voices he'll never hear. He pulls at me like a cherry tree, and I can still move but I don't speak about...

"Knives" lyrics

Cowboy Junkies Lyrics