An Introduction to the Album

Open the curtains

Singing birds tell me, "Tear the buildings down"

You felt blessed to receive their pleasant sound

Things that break make you cringe inside yourself

There's a child counting stars in the time, out of their day

In the corners of their frame, they're encased

In the losing of a grain of themselves

Pushed against the ebb and flow

Wave goodbye and watch it go

Well, show me the honest, proper way, disarm predatory gaze

Sucking dry, never satiated

You've been misused, been rewired

You're short-circuiting now

Just remember, when you'd call me to come, take a deep breath and then jump

So fragile are bodies, so concave, work in self-destructive ways

You shot from the hip and missed

Detaching from all of this

In physical pictures, you remain, spiral 'round yourself in figure-eight

I recoil at every new beginning

I searched for a way out, don't we all?

Existentialist recall

Turn in all, all dichotomies and truths that I gave

I felt wrong in many ways

Didn't heal

Just got harder everyday to be still

To be passing through the throes

In a daze, feeling heavy, feeling cold in my skin, in my hand-me-downs

Wearing everything thin

And the pills that you gave didn't do anything

I just slept for years on end

Fuck!

Well, so if I call, should I beg?

'Cause I'm desperate here

Couple steps from the edge

I can't seem to burn bright enough

Cold and I'm left alone

We're all alone

Grab a hold

Know I said to not, what the fuck do I know?

I had a chance to construct something beautiful and I choked

I choked, I choked, I choked