It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole
Laurie Anderson

I used to use myself as a target
I used myself as a goal
I was digging myself so much,
I was digging me so much
I dug myself right into a hole

Now, in a hole it's so dark
You can't see a thing
It's easy to loose sight of your goals
It's not the bullet, not the bullet that kills you
It's the hole, it's the hole, it's the hole...

It's not the bullet it's the hole

Like a ventriloquist I can throw [in?] my voice
Long distance is the story of my life
In the words of the artist Joseph Boyce,
"If you get cut, you better bandage the knife"


Cause, in a hole it's so dark
You can't see a thing
It's easy to loose sight of your goals
It's not the bullet, not the bullet that kills, you know
It's the hole, it's the hole, it's the hole...

Like a hole, like a black hole in space
You disappeared and there's nothing to take your place
Now I'm sweating, I'm freezin, in this Jamaican sea breeze,
I remember you in my knees

I really feel like fallin'

It's not gravity that's getting me down
It's giving me those down and out lowdown blues
It's not the rain that's getting me wet,
It's the holes, the holes in my shoes!

It's not the bullet, It's the hole

Cause, in a hole it's so dark
You can't see a thing
It's easy to loose sight of your goals
It's not the bullet, not the bullet that kills, you know
It's the hole, it's the hole, it's the hole...

It's not the bullet...
It's the hole...


[thanks to Edward Jones for transcribing this]