Rope or Gillotine pt. 1

(what suits you best? would you prefer at bullet in the gut or a knife in the chest?) 

save your sould or go down with it 
or losose your sanity to pseudo-choice 
I will lay down in the shadows 
to save my skin form the sun 
swollen, red boiling into cancer 
but I crave the light 

every day I am asked to choose between rope and gillotine 

Take you heart out from your chest 
before its grabbed in violence 
what you can decide 
is not pain or no pain 
simply what pain to have