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Only Skin

from Better Roads EP by Alex(x) Reed

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Written August 2003, recorded April 2004 in Pittsburgh

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Only Skin

I watch you eat and I think about digestion (oh, you make me sick)
But I love you when you're silent and you're empty
I think about your stomach and intestines and it makes me want to die
Or at the very least to hollow out your body

For when there's nothing left inside you then there might be room for me
And I'll be only skin as well, a clear blue sky where my heart should be

I feel you move beneath me and I think about your blood
And of your mucous and cerebrospinal fluids
I taste your nakedness and know that every cell is bound to die
It's coded in your nuclei and written in your organs

But when there's nothing left inside you then there might be room for me
And I'll be only skin as well, a clear blue sky where my heart should be

You breathe a little slower as you're sinking into sleep
But I can only hear your liver as it rages
For the alcohol that made us laugh, with our constricted diaphragms
Just starves your brain, reminding me you're mortal

And when there's nothing left inside you then there might be room for me
And I'll be only skin as well, our hollowness will set us free
There would be nothing left inside this shell abandoned by a sea
That once reflected 'gainst the clearest blue sky where my heart should be

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from Better Roads EP, released April 23, 2004

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