Cut Corners On Short Walks

(album: and everybody else smiled back - 2021)

The sour substances that make up my hind brain
Have slowly become stagnant and I have surely become insane
And the anger I feel in my veins
Has stopped pouring out of the hole in my face
And remains in my stained ribcage

Broken by 14 with no chance for absolution
'Cause they refused to open their minds' eye, and see we too were human
We were searching for joy with our pathetic conclusions
We started savoring apathy and all of our bruises

And the songs we sung when our minds were done
And our lungs bled, our tongues said, "We're done with the humdrum"
We used to be so pure, so fragile and raw
But now we set campfires in car parks and cut corners on short walks

Well, out of the flames we reclaimed our decay
And the world became a stage, complete chaotic, how we played
And cryptic visions of us disposing of ourselves, became
Sordid depictions of disposable wealth

And the songs we sung when our minds were done
And our lungs bled, our tongues said, "We're done with the humdrum"
We used to be so pure, so fragile and raw
But now we set campfires in car parks and cut corners on short walks

Then she laid me down whilst I was in a drunken stupor
And she took my hand and she forced me to use her
For things I desired not for
My friend was asleep on the floor
I would ask myself constantly "Am I remembering that right?"
A paralytic memory, hazy days of a night
Was I truly destroyed by an imperfect person?
Was I just co-opting the curses of coercion?
Well, after that event, my hair grew out, matted and frayed
Like a rope you'd have to cut bare to make usable again
But to assess my temperament, the contours of my skull
I shaved off all my hair and saw I still could be well

And the songs we sung when our minds were done
And our lungs bled, our tongues said, "We're done with the humdrum"
We used to be so pure, so fragile and raw
But now we set campfires in car parks and cut corners on short walks

The light in my eyes
Reignited with a vengeance
When I saw the sunrise
Around a campfire with my best friends
The light in my eyes
Reignited with a vengeance
When I saw the sunrise
Around the campfire with my best friends

And the songs we sung when our minds were done
And our lungs bled, our tongues said, "We're done with the humdrum"
We used to be so pure, so fragile and raw
But now we set campfires in car parks and cut corners on short walks