[Verse 1]

Purse your lips until they’re white

Drag me kicking into night

Didn’t I want to be free

Or do I want to be right

Only you can deprogram

Only you can understand

And only you can take the blade

And cut it from my mouth

Cut it from my mouth!

[Pre-Chorus]

The dusty book on your end table

Taught you how to make a lethal

Fragmentary detonator

From common household thoughts

[Chorus]

You put a fistful of salt in my eyes

You put a fistful of salt

You put a fistful of salt in my eyes

This is what it was like

[Verse 2]

My thoughts

My eyes

My face

My skin

My heart

My bones

Are slowly

Becoming computerized

[Refrain]

Take the blade and cut it from my mouth