Time stops for no man The end awaits us all The seconds sing our eulogies We're trapped inside of The belly of the beast With nothing but our memories And they, too, fade And it's just like slowly pulling teeth Until your fingers bleed Ravenous and incomplete A hunger you can't feed The fault lines of life Begin' to separate And grace us with catastrophe We stare over the edge Into the vast and open space While the ground on which we stand Disappears And it's just like slowly pulling teeth Until your fingers bleed Ravenous and incomplete A hunger you can't feed And it's just like slowly pulling teeth Until your fingers bleed Ravenous and incomplete A hunger you can't feed I thought I was prepared That I was up to the task I said: I'll be okay And then my world collapsed Piece, by piece, by piece Like slowly pulling teeth Like slowly pulling teeth