[Intro]

Up the stairwell: chip-fat grey and London green with damp

Out on the fifth floor, where the wind grips your jaw

And holds you in its clamp

There's a red door, bordered by mottled glass

And inside

A lighted lamp

Pious lives here

Pious is tired but can't sleep, she twitches. Wired

She lies beside a sleeping body, a girl she barely knows

She met her in the pub

And it went the way it goes

The girl's name is Rose

But Pious is lovesick for her Thorn

She left her in the summer

And since then Pious can't get warm

She's carried her, stuck in her side, since the day that she was born

She dreamed of her and knew her shape

Long before she saw her form

Well, it's 4:18, and Pious

Has been staring at the blinds for hours

She tells herself it's all her fault

She doesn't love

She just devours

[Verse 1]

Can't sleep

So much to do

Tryna get closer to you

And you're so far away

Tryna get hold of what's true

And what's true isn't true when it's day

Tell me, how can I sleep?

Got so much to do

I'm trying to get closer to you

And you're so far away

All that I say and I do are things that you do and you say

How come I'm becoming the one that I'm running from, hunted by?

Slurring my words in the pub

Feeling nervous and overexcited

Arms round the waist of a girl who might make it alright for a night

Yeah, she tears me to pieces

Then I lie beside her, awake while she sleeps

And I feel much closer to you than I felt when you were still here

Spill beer till you reappear

[Hook]

I'm thinking of you

And the things you do to me

I'm thinking of you

And the things you do to me

[Verse 2]

Pain in my liver

OK

Shame. So much shame

Can't bear my frame

Can't bear your name

OK

Can't bear this game

Let's play

New rules

Old rituals

Guilt trip

Heartstrings snap

Want to, can't go back

Too much

Not enough

I can't get your claws out of my guts

[Hook]

I'm thinking of you

And the things you do to me

I'm thinking of you

And the things you do to me

[Verse 3]

This is my mind

GETOUTOFIT

You didn't want it

How come you're still hanging around in it?

This is my body LETGOOFIT

You didn't want it

How come you're still fucking controlling it?

This is my night. Get lost in it

This is my bridge. Stop crossing it

This is my face, stop smiling

This is my space

You been gone so long

How come I still find you hiding?

Fighting me

I'm fighting my darkest parts

I'm frightened

Nightmares

Tighten my hands round my own throat

'Cause you're the snake charmer and I'm the old rope

No hope

Just go now please, just leave

Still in the air that I breathe

I'm stranded

Arms outstretched for a body

Any body

Here's a body

But I wake up and I can't stand 'em

I feel so grubby

Don't want can't stop just love me

Breath like a cigarette stubbed in the gutter

Come close, no wait - don't touch me

Ugly

Push and pull phonecall beep beep looking through names for the one that feels most dangerous

I can't believe you're in love again

I can't open my heart to anybody but strangers

[Hook]

I'm thinking of you

And the things you do to me

I'm thinking of you

And the things you do to me

[Hook]

I'm thinking of you

And the things you do to me

I'm thinking of you

And the things you do to me