Stay What You Are

And I will flail under these lights that seep down from the bitter sky tonight And I will kick and beat my wrists together And feel an ocean breathing waves, feel them licking at my face. Ceilings don't exist and there are no floors beneath me. And I

As I'm talking my words slip to the floor And they crawl through your legs and slide under the back door Rendering me freakish and dazed Well here I am Don't know how to say this Only thing I know is awkward silence Your eyelids close when you're aro

You're two floors down getting high in the back room If I flooded out your house, do you think you'd make it out? Or would you burn up before the water filled your lungs? And at your funeral I will sing the requiem You're two floors down getting high

My gut is burning. Won't you find me some water? Hey, just forget it can you bring me gasoline And collect a couple forks, hold them three feet apart And wait for lightning to strike to burn me up? Cause I don't think that I've got the stomach to Sto