Safety Pin Royalty

Verse 1

Ninety-ninth Street

Cold white heat

Searching for a ghost in the morning rain

Shaking off the terror in a chemical stain

One last ritual to ease the pressure

Nothing left for a hollow treasure

Pre-Chorus

Look into his eyes

The color starts to drain

Nobody heard his cries

The end of the chain

Chorus

He was a bad boy beauty with a broken face

Tied to a nightmare at a killing pace

Safety pin royalty

Traded all his loyalty

Falling out of time in a final fall

Nails on the ceiling

Head against the wall

Head against the wall

Verse 2

Twenty-one years

Mothers shed tears

Sirens howling through the Chelsea night

Washed away under a bathroom light

Copper handcuffs left behind

Sinking slow inside a twisted mind

Pre-Chorus

Look into his eyes

The color starts to drain

Nobody heard his cries

The end of the chain

Chorus

He was a bad boy beauty with a broken face

Tied to a nightmare at a killing pace

Safety pin royalty

Traded all his loyalty

Falling out of time in a final fall

Nails on the ceiling

Head against the wall

Head against the wall

Bridge

Never made it to the sun

Hero for the damaged ones

Dead on arrival

Lost the survival

Gone before the show began

Chorus

He was a bad boy beauty with a broken face

Tied to a nightmare at a killing pace

Safety pin royalty

Traded all his loyalty

Falling out of time in a final fall

Nails on the ceiling

Head against the wall

Head against the wall