Wake up breathe keep
You don't trade here You trade And Right now are thousands of forgotten people to remember you
Children are killed because they write an enemy's name backwards on the Young girls tie ribbons around their slender throats trying to keep heads on Chocolate boy walks to ice cream truck for vanilla cone is shot dead times This city its young
The angels all have now The aren't anyone you'd want to pray to No-one here has goals Get a job, get married, have The are Wake up breathe keep
No desire to get Become out The are up breathe Keep
woman who walks by is every woman you'll never have Beautiful, quick and poisonous as The city is full of women slim and Hoping there is room in some man's For
Women sort the dead bodies like bags of laundry with exhausted mama eye Sigh they are too dry for tears People in kitchens, clasp their hands, celebrating Something has tried to kill and failed men twitch too subdued to recognize apocalypse The are Wake up keep breathing The are Wake up breathe keep
You've driven these streets a thousand and all they offer is their exhaustion Your have your name now You exit the storm, go home alone and embrace the violence instead
The city has claimed all your blood and memory is cool and unusual punishment You go for years without another Never of the 'why?' You are so casual brutality Doctor says: this, it'll settle you down says: take this, it'll settle your system Doctor says: take this, it'll we'll the bill Doctor take this, it'll settle the score
The are up breathe keep breathing The are Wake up breathe keep
There's a voice on the loudspeaker and she speaks language need to stay It can disappear the wife walks in Here comes the interrogation room is the day you're gonna get caught
You're terrified of what you get delighted They want you
The sweet things don't stick around but the bullshit forever Please press dual-channeling for new friends or just new things to envy Who's the machine you run on?
Wish you had someone to speak code Wish you had to steal things for Wish you had someone to fuck you so you could go to sleep You just to die A bit
Ink and is making you faint in your pale pale shirt stolen from uptown stores Watch the girls in the twin sweater sets smoke, cough, up Teeth-scraped are a tell-tale sign
Get in the car Get in the car Get in the car and what you hear is a of impact around slowly and check your body for bruises There is no-one here to care of you
Open-mouthed, waiting for a candy and all you get is rain communion Between lap dances and laptops you see who fuck like they're boneless You're thirty eight and your job is telling fourteen year old boys what to think is Are you are
And this one is a And one is a flame And this one is a And that one is a match you put out in your when no-one was looking
And in your dreams your grandparents live And you throw your love the air like glitter swallowing stars, spitting up stardust
The are up breathe keep breathing The are Wake up breathe keep
Mothers their hands and say: I'm so at a loss Best friend says: I've come not to praise you, but to with my bare fucking hands Girl on the television you all work for me now says: come here, let me hit you just once Man on the street says: I can any woman kill herself in a year
So you drive dead body home at night And when you sleep the angels kisses are
Breaking into lust Grinding pearls into Breaking into lust Grinding pearls dust Breaking love into Grinding into dust
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