Make You Suffer

Make You Suffer
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Album	Bleed Out
Released	August 19, 2022
Length	3:29
Previous Track	"First Blood"
Next Track	"Guys on Every Corner"

Make You Suffer is the seventh song on Bleed Out. It appears as the fifth song on the 2022 live album The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volume 5.

Lyrics[]

I'm going to rise up early every day
Overcome every obstacle in my way
Keep a secret chamber in my heart clean
Polish every surface to a brilliant sheen
Remain positive and stay on the grind
And banish every other thought from my mind 

I'm going to make you suffer
I'm going to make you suffer
Let your yes be yes, and let your no come from deep in your belly
I'm going to make you suffer  

There was a captain many years at sea
Living the life of the sailor, rugged and free
Nothing but the sky to sing him to sleep at night
Safe in the arms of the ocean - no land in sight
Out on the waves, you try to keep warm
Nobody here to sound the alarm 

I'm going to make you suffer
I'm going to make you suffer
The first in line will receive the full brunt of the blow
I'm going to make you suffer

Woke up from a dream whimpering like an infant
Over time people tell me their dreams grow distant
And they learn to love the lives they lead
No more hungry ghosts in the chimney to feed
You often hear stories like these
Someday I will see you on your knees

I'm going to make you suffer
I'm going to make you suffer
Say what you like, there won't be anybody listening 
I'm going to make you suffer

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

“I’m fond of ‘Make You Suffer’ because it's sort of pretty. There's a lot of songs whose message is the message of 'Make You Suffer,' but 'Make You Suffer' just goes ahead and says it outright. It's got a lovely little midtempo shuffle to it, it's got a nice melodic hook, and I think it's one of the meaner songs I've ever written. You know how the Zodiac Killer sent these greeting cards to the cops and you'd open it up and it would be this really threatening thing about how many schoolchildren he was going to shoot on a bus? There's something of a Mountain Goats song in there, like: 'Oh, this looks like a friendly thing, until I open it.'” via https://music.apple.com/us/album/bleed-out/1622211546

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Bleed Out
Track list: "Training Montage" • "Mark On You" • "Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome" • "Extraction Point" • "Bones Don't Rust" • "First Blood" • "Make You Suffer" • "Guys on Every Corner" • "Hostages" • "Need More Bandages" • "Incandescent Ruins" • "Bleed Out"

The Jordan Lake Sessions: Volume 5

Track list: "Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light" • "First Blood" • "Mark On You" • "Minnesota" • "Make You Suffer" • "Choked Out" • "Tidal Wave" • "Torch Song" • "Tulsa Imperative" • "The Water Song" • "The Window Song" • "Abandoned Flesh" • "We Do It Different on the West Coast" • "Guys on Every Corner" • "Training Montage" • "Extraction Point" • "Damn These Vampires" • "Wage Wars Get Rich Die Handsome" • "Bleed Out"

Make You Suffer

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Lyrics[]

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

Things Referenced in this Song[]

Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]

Videos of this Song[]

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Make You Suffer

Album	Bleed Out
Released	August 19, 2022
Length	3:29
Previous Track	"First Blood"
Next Track	"Guys on Every Corner"