Tom Odell – The Blood We Bleed Lyrics

Tom Odell – The Blood We Bleed Lyrics

The Blood We Bleed Lyrics By Tom Odell

I have a good quote for this: ‘How many scars did we justify just because we loved the person holding the knife?’ This is a song exploring our close relationships and how it is often those that we’re closest to that we hurt the most. It’s an exploration into inherited pain, like what someone does to you in a relationship, you might end up doing to someone else in another relationship. I think the same applies to what your parent might do to you, you might end up doing back to your parent or to your child. I’m interested in the implications of cross generations of what we do to one another and how it continues to echo through generations.

— via Apple Music

[Verse 1]
I walk back home
You’re all alone
The ivy’s grown
It’s Christmas eve
I brought some wine
It tastes like shite
But it provides
The spark we need

[Pre-Chorus]
Come on, let’s fight
Don’t be polite
You know the knife
That cuts me deep
You treat me tough
We call it love
But it’s your blood
I’m gonna bleed

[Chorus]
Emm-mm-mm

[Verse 2]
I draw a crowd
I sing so loud
To make you proud
But you don’t see
I show my flaws
The crowd applauds
But I’m not sure
It’s meant for me

[Pre-Chorus]
I have become
My father’s son
You always wanted
Me to be
I treat you tough
We call it love
But it’s my blood
You’re gonna bleed

[Chorus]
Emm-mm-mm

[Outro]
Now I’m all grown up
And I’m all tough
Is it your love that I still need?
‘Causе it’s your blood
It’s your blood
It’s your blood
That I still bleed