Lyrics

Needed To Bleed
Written by Ann Brodsky

It seemed like such a surface thing, so quick, so clean.
I only felt a little sting. Nothing bad, nothing mean, I only felt a little pain.
And so I kept on keeping on, here, there, then gone.
Until I could not miss the blood where I'd been from.

I must have needed to bleed. I must have needed to hurt.
I must have needed to need. I must have needed to need to bleed.

It wasn't just the scratch or wound or blood red ground.
It wasn't just that I had lost the only love I'd ever found.

How can blood go so bad so fast, so sad?
How can truth be so illusive? I must have needed to bleed.
I must have needed to need, to bleed.

Like underneath, below and hidden, dreams forbidden.
Dark and quiet winter dens hide life within.