song (lyrics)

i am petrified and ugly
a scaffold by a storm-played building
the paint cracked and grey

my bones are not enough
i need to be a paperweight
so light i'd billow
if you'd take your fat hands from my wrists

please let me go
i can't live anymore
i can't breathe anymore
my lungs are feathers
brittle bones can barely claw my name in sand

i am worthless and scarred
arms of raw chicken, purple and shredded
i'll be gone before they heal

emaciation no longer fills
i need to combust, my limbs
frozen in nitrogen and exploding
one last garish grin

please understand
i won't live anymore
i won't breathe anymore
my lungs are seawater
no platelets, no oxygen left to circulate

i will go
i have already gone
see you above, below
or see you never again


01/17/2007