standing back-to-back I'll take ten steps and face if I'll make contact I'll go out in this way bite marks on the backs of my hands and blood dripping down to my palms the contract digging into my neck but it's still an interminable trawl I'll call you when I'm done, when I leave and maybe, I'll get to see your visage, I dote on with an inkling inside of me I came all this far sustained on a dream and a vow but all that I truly want is to cleanse my acerbic mouth can you grant me that? (hold your breath, count to nine, see how he's mangled the time) (hold your breath, count to nine, see how he's mangled the time) (hold your breath, count to nine, see how he's mangled the time) (hold your breath, count to nine, see how he's mangled the time) you're in the air tonight there's spirits in the air tonight if I dilute this song tonight I'll swallow my own tongue tonight I have given what I can but it seems that I'm no closer than I used to be if I'm left to die I'll recollect how I came crashing down

give me the pen and I'll show you why I need that sword in your hand if you'll take me in you'll hold my baggage, the grievances I dispense I never thought that I would get this far the weight is on my shoulders not to break your heart I know that if I stray from the start I'll be passing out and waking up inside of your car oh, I'm flying low I can't forget tearing down my world 'cause I'm not that girl, I'm not that girl oh, give into the tones the dissonance made me run too fast and now I can't go back anymore I'm alive in the front seat but I'm half-dead in the back I'll sacrifice my brain just to keep my future intact and I hope that what I've conjured will be useful from now on but I can't decide the next, cuz my hauteur's already gone I'm alive in the front seat but I'm dying in the back I'll confess all my faults if you find out just what I lack I know it's been long enough and I don't want to let you down so please don't run away just because I've forgotten how I let the dead skin fall if it accumulates, you'll come to me enthralled plucking wanton offerings on my guitar, yeah I know exactly who you are oh, what I'd give to be alone a little unsteady and a little uptight living for the chase with my shoes untied oh, to keep you close I shut my eyes, flush it away one way ticket to a twisted state Valerie hasn't been herself lately in the frigid air, she waits for her wings the rest of her life's waiting it ends tonight you'll learn to love a ghost you already do, you already do you'll learn to love a ghost you already do, you already do tell me what I lack, and I'll punish myself

laughing like a fool in the party no one will get close if I act like I'm tipsy don't wanna think my hands are a means to an end but it's all that will remain when I'm losing lowering my palms, pulling the strings cover my ears and let it infect and stun me I'm bound to broaden the gap and tuck my tail walking out, I feel the breeze, let it stir me (I fucking knew it) it didn't matter then, but it's still the same taken out into the city just to consternate body standing in the back, but my conscious flickers removed from the spotlight, they called me blood sipper thrown to the killing field and I'm fleeced for my gifts it's an empty path to reverence, but I'm stuck in the thicket told not to break the glass for fear of if I'll miss it but if that lock is broken, then you're all fucking complicit you're surrounded by people who would catch you if you fell the ring on my finger has given me Hell it's so hard to feel sorry for the way that they shatter, no matter how I tried to see and so I blister my fingers and I feign holding on how can I forget the lies dissolved on their tongues and I'm sorry my heart's not in the right place for everything I've given, just for a taste I remember what they said I don't believe a word of it take me to the watershed I can't fucking believe this shit I remember what they said I don't believe a word of it take me to the watershed Old Yeller, baby shoot me dead I remember what they said I don't believe a word of it take me to the watershed I can't fucking believe this shit I remember what they said I don't believe a word of it take me to the watershed Old Yeller, baby shoot me dead all I wanna do is dance, oh yeah and straddle this mess I've made I'm hoping this petal's toxin grants enough to absolve me for what has stayed oh, I'm starving, battering the door I'll keep the weight lodged on my tongue nature wants me, wants me as your toy tonguing envy, tonguing envy, dissolve my lungs

I mulled over how I would die my stomach twisted, turned on dimes I drained my blood into a jar but the gods wouldn't barter at all even if they had to, they had to by some twist of fate I'm after an omen dust accrued with age because my friends have [tales/tails] and I can't seem to shake the ride I've been taken on I know you better than them it's altered all the time my friends, unsteady that said, I will take what is mine the tenor of this fandom it's of some worth to me your friends could kill me if their claws were sharp enough to bleed arrested in my salad days and though the sun has set, my stare's unabated the dichotomy of limbs gone missing in a snapshot so unworthy of pity but you'd like to, you'd like to by some twist of fate I'm after an omen dust accrued with age because your friends are typical in what they say "I was not born yesterday" go! tough luck, wanna waste my time you wanna break, going out of the limelight suck up, you can stay in line my friends, your friends, we’re not the same fucked up, how you take what’s mine call me an idiot, revel in your puny shrine my friends, you’re friends in different ways I’ll sit in wait for better days I hold your body in my mind you’re something I can’t lose this time I want you, I need you, more than I’ll ever admit to myself what’s true

the water's over my head I put my hands behind my back, turn to the wall and grin (not an overstatement) if our love is fated I can open up Pandora's box if you can break me in (pretend the schism's gaping) know I've lost the game I'm bound to made my everything about you I close my ears and hope my drivel is enough to be true you're faster than the others last words, ordained to stutter the offerings against my chest but you'll cut through what's under give me my life back, please don't try that stuck in my allegiant mind an execution, what to do with the sunken glance I last came to Jody I catch your gaze and I walk a little faster Jody I'm mortified that I'm the one you're after if I am by your side I may lay down my life I just can't fathom how it'd end blissfully, oh Jody my color's rosy, I think you see the pattern it's all a game that you made when the string runs thin, I commit to the bit, you walk away (the ends don't make good use of it) rising from the shallow waves throwing myself six feet under for a chance to vindicate (but you move on in spite of me) caught in tangles of desire throw love letters in the fire stuck in allure I hope I stop myself from drawing ire but it's worth naught in the end running towards the abyss air crashes from my lungs from my fleeting attempts to catch it though I avoid you like the plague you possess quite the eye for me if by another, I am stained I may lament the irony

I crashed my car when we commiserated the lights went dark when I flew on the pavement I keep my mouth shut, I can’t say I hate it ‘cause if I talk, I feel you salivating okey, you don’t want this I know you don’t the way you speak, I know how it’ll go (you tug my collar anyway) you don’t want this (you tug my collar anyway) I know you don’t (you tug my collar anyway) I know you don’t guess who? look at what you’ve done to me beat around the bush and see failing to reach through the screen guess who, guess who? look at what you’ve done to me beat around the bush and see loaded guns aimed at our feet guess who, fuck you hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway I doll myself up and the burden’s heavy it’s times like these where Dracula’s my envy to justify, think my defence is flimsy I’ve become all I hated, rouged in glimpsing okey, I think you want this and so do I the way you speak, I’ll hang on if I try (you tug my collar anyway) I think you want this (you tug my collar anyway) and so do I (you tug my collar anyway) and so do I guess who? look at what you’ve done to me beat around the bush and see failing to reach through the screen guess who, guess who? look at what you’ve done to me (please don’t say that you love me, ‘cause my love is for the few) beat around the bush and see (I danced around the subject when I found out that you knew) loaded guns aimed at our feet (denial over motion, you never thought it through) guess who, fuck you hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway (give me what I want, I’ll give it to you) hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway hot and bothered, you tug my collar anyway

you can call my bluff with the upper hand cuz it's never any good to play pretend take me by the hand and lead me down what will they even say about me now? I told another lie maybe I'll make it up to you if I just say it right yeah, at your discretion let my chimera end soon as I step on the hollow floor, I feel it bend if someone watches, don't get close, don't get closer if you move it might be over staring down the fall, I can't future-proof what's false bow my head, make my peace even if I feel aggrieved I'm jonesing to move on, I hope it ends and just because they're gone doesn't mean it's okey I don't know how to broach the mess I've made it's a foolish move to stay chained to the trick for each soul who adores, through the floor I'll slip you can call my bluff with the upper hand cuz it's never any good to play pretend take me by the hand and lead me down what will they even say about me now? I keep the presence on my back, I put on a front pray for the gift of clemency to not bottle it up I dirty my blood, wiping tears off the screen venerating divines, bound to be scarred and deceived I'm foraging for a smile even through a thousand miles throw my hands to my face, turn my back to a mistake to covet, or to dream homesick for cozened beliefs so show me how to live before I don't leading me to this foliage in the shade unsure if I should fight or run away I can see the anger well up on your face you tell me "if you concede, you won't feel any pain" and just because they're gone doesn't mean it's okey I don't know how to broach the mess I've made it's a foolish move to stay chained to the trick for each soul who adores, through the floor I'll slip doting on this life, so marred by wiles the foxes got to me, I sink, defiled caught in spinning webs of my own design "hide your mendacity, you reckless child

I, I saw it laying laying on the pavement it had been desecrated and it was where I wanted to meet the spirit to set me free but I've been chased away (glass tile girl) it's tiles to me forgive me if the light gets in my eyes it's tiles to me I would kill this body for your time but how could that be what you do to make your presence known? it's not what I had hoped your candor has broken me but I'm enamoured all the same I concede to the reverie so I won't take the blame lest we forget, the cerement (glass tile girl) adorn your folly I hope this mortal coil won't phase you (I let the odds come for me) you know that it behooves me to leave soon (but staying just might save me) I hope this mortal coil won't phase you (the wings on my back, the gravel under my feet) (glass tile girl) (glass tile girl) if there's a hell, it's freezing over with every step I take I don't think you know the answer (glass tile girl) I don't think you know the answer (glass tile girl) I don't think you know the answer (give me a sign) I don't think you know the answer (give me a sign) give me a sign give me a sign give me a sign give me a sign, give me a sign give me a sign, give me a sign give me a sign, give me a sign give me a sign, give me a sign give me a sign, give me a sign

if you're as crazy as you say, then I'll play your little game 'cause that's what I've been looking for give my heart to you, I'll stay and embrace naïveté just come and pin me to the floor tie my hands and you'll confess, just how much you wanna test me your laughter is a sweetener and it sounds like a blade into my chest, anything to be your pest yeah, your laughter is a sweetener and it sounds like say that, say that, say that you love me say that, say that, say that you love I know that, know that, know that you need it tell me, tell me, tell me your secrets enamoured by what you've made me I think at length of how you could taste me (I want it) a hand to my face, languidly that blood of mine's all yours, if you can pin me (I fucking want it) slipping poison in my veins, going dark to dream of ways that you'll go after me again go and show me what you have, I'm starry-eyed and captivated don't need any friends recognize my fantasies by ending all that I need your moxie, I admire, and it sounds like our chemistry's in tow, and if anyone opposes you'll take your worship out on them, it sounds like take your worship out on them, it sounds like take your worship out on them, it sounds like take your worship out on them, it sounds like take your worship out on them, it sounds like take your worship out on them, it sounds like take your worship out on them, it sounds like take your worship out on them, it sounds like take your worship out on them, it sounds like will you still love me when you're drunk and I am small? your tongue's so pretty when it makes a wretched call I broke the jar you kept me in, I tried to crawl it's all I've learned, make me a bloodstain when I fall mix up your pheromones, make me your bloodstain mix up your pheromones, make me your bloodstain mix up your pheromones, make me your bloodstain mix up your pheromones, make me a bloodstain so touch my neck and strike a nerve I'll strike a match and touch the curb just love me until it's over spit it out, I'll make it another color you don't have to tell me twice

are we there yet, let the years fall return to see nothing change at all have I met you? I was scared that you would hurt me if I said you weren't real yet I see the cracks, I see the leaks losing count of all the times I wish that we could speak burrowed holes in my heart turn to portals take me to that world together, may we be immortal (take me to that world together, may we be immortal) look at me now sitting in the corner, spilling out my guts for you look at me now get me back in the car before I throw up I'm gonna meet my idol, my idol I'm gonna meet my idol, my idol I'm gonna meet my idol, my idol I'm gonna meet my idol, my idol on the cliff edge of remembrance I frolick with an aimless fiction tell my friends that I'm an icon all those characters and I talk like companions I will get hurt, be weakening but it's all to keep the serials intriguing become a sycophant to stay in the moment anything to be one of the girls in my program look at me now rising off my feet, inserting myself into the plot look at me now get me back in the car before I throw up your hand slipped into mine when I transformed into the beast once feared the real world wouldn't understand it but my tale is so revered and even if these episodes are lost to my mind's sands of time (I think you’re just like me, I think you act like me) the power cuts me like a knife, the skies can take my hands, I fly (I think you talk like me, I think you look like–) me i’ll be my idol craving another dimension crossing the line of reflection i feel the things that you feel though your eyes it seems so real look at me now cowering in fear, my guts have spooled out onto the curb look at me now and I've retched up the colours to the commons

bleed profusely at the drop of a pin how many battles do you think will let you in? smoking a pack a day to stay in touch how can you say that when your lungs are closing up? in a hotel in Denver trying to defend a promise given years ago on the side of the highway sauntering and hiding from you, just to make it known tore down the fences but I won't let you in you've no power over me now I'm not an alarmist for being afraid of you and if I am down there, I'll astound and revelate the few fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me oh no it's just a flagrant claw of what I want to be oh no, you're not mine the barrel's so familiar now you cock it back, and on tape I stare it down another day without seeing you around how can you be so distant yet so fucking loud? swerving 75 for the sake of the fight, no reason to trust sobriety ashes out in the rearview I'm sitting near you, fearing your plight's come back to me

this old dog I've had since 1 I tried to make young again but the process slips my mind the label on his back is frayed and thin his head is caved, what's white's now grey and I'm scared of how frail he is but he's the only one who's seemed to stick around I'm not afraid to die with him I'm not afraid to die with him when I come to die for them and I don't mind if you point the finger the ray is sharp enough to lance my heart you're sly enough, I fall for the jugular from all I've ascertained, the plastic's sharp my mother bemoans that I'm not the girl she's used to I wish that I could justify it but there is no excuse she dotes on what I write, but the truth is never hers the only thing longer than the poem is the dirge I've already written the dirge I've already written for her that girl with the hair pulled a knife on me (I felt you pierce) at least she did in my waking dream (my undue tears) the nightmare I had as I laid down to sleep (they're after you now) all of them, the phantoms gyring me, they loved me (run for your life) the only good liar is a dead one and you're on borrowed time I go around I go around I go around and around and around I go around I go around I go around and around and around I go around and around and around 6527, terrified of 18 that should've been the end of it, I falter at the seams I wrote some letters to my peers, afraid to tell them I've had it if I had known better, I'd have gone down with the traffic I'll go down with the traffic I'll go down with the traffic I go around I go around I go around and around and around I go around (and all you can do is pray) I go around (and all you can do is pray) I go around and around and around (that I may learn his name) I go around and around and around (the girls I know get to go around) I go around for I won't sit here and let my vision blacken I go around if I can rid the tension that you know that I'll fight back and go around I go around the canopy is growing, I can't see six feet ahead I step onto the serpentine and I'm already dead I know that my friend with horns wants to turn her back on me if others' presence stands in flashlights, it's too dark to see I'm alive in the front seat but I'm dying in the back I'll sacrifice my brain just to keep my future intact and the episodes I aired won't be of use to me from now I'll shut my eyes and try again but I've forgotten how the phantoms have arrived to take what's left of mine I didn't get it then, but I do now (and all you can do is pray) and it won't come back to me twilight's my memory the hours I wasted to come down (and all you can do is pray) and I'm not allowed to scream and I'm not allowed to scream so I wax the notes so you'll just dance along (and all you can do is pray) fated to a flatline if you see me on TV my story shatters, eraser dust, it's gone walk with me, walk with me, walk away from me change shape for me, I know you hated me walk with me, walk away from me change shape for me, I know you hated me (I go around) I know you hated me (I go around) I know you hated me (I go around and around and around) I know you hated me dress to the nines, lay my life down when I grace your shrine, I'll lose control now the wind immolates my world, you wrap me around of your own design, I know you'll be proud I know you'll be proud walk with me, walk with me, walk away from me change shape for me, I know you hate on me walk with me, walk away from me change shape for me, I know you hate on me all my love comes from the 101 if only I wasn't so afraid the battery runs dry and I fall numb and now it seems I've found the key to make it go away my god would never understand Grimes Canyon can't swallow me yet the breeze won't grab on to my hand forever, entombed in my debt

when I was eight years old, I had some kind of dream that I had a halo and I sprouted wings the divine captured my attention in wait but I'll never get the message, I'm afraid so won't you tell my story for me? because I won't let it escape me as this cell turns into a furnace from what I've learned, I wish I was perfect I can't believe you hated me, just for a moment I'll let it dissolve, I know you don't deserve this lost the plot and now I'd rather run away gods forbid I rid the mess and let decay stepped into your body, spitting a broken phrase yet the ache shows on my face, and by the wayside falls your name falls your name the grid can't handle me, they call X80* my head's a radio, fighting over the frequency glances run stale and now I know my fate is black and blue sharpen my keys, swear to the [----] it's all for you I told you that I wanted to end it you called me and now I'm restless I know that the answer lies before me it calls to me, baby just let me sink I made peace with 7K when the cherries spoiled I'm sure I'd be afraid if I believed in hell, now the picture fades and you'll find someone else tore from my back, the wings I had dreamt about the songs I sing don't make any sense now but they'll spell my tale when I'm in the ground and so I let the truth wash over me an Ophelian tragedy