[Verse 1]

You cannot protect

That which you cannot control

I lit a candle for you

But somebody blew it out

He comes to me in my dreams

And tells me that he's alright

That he's just been hiding out

Somewhere there is no light

Oh yeah

That'd be nice

[Pre-Chorus 1]

And if you took it back

I wouldn't feel so uncertain

I wouldn't feel so uncertain

[Chorus 1]

That when your body hit the earth

It opened up and swallowed you

She kept you safe in her hot center

And always tucked you in at night

When you woke up nervous

She said, "Baby, you're inside of me

You're safe inside my orange womb

There's no reason to worry"

[Verse 2]

They bought him magnets

To form into different shapes

Small spheres of metal

Always carefully composed

[Pre-Chorus 2]

He's making hexagons

He's making perfect squares

He's making triangles

He's making cylinders

[Chorus 2]

And in the junkyard

A cult of robots screams

They give him orders

Like rabbits from his dreams

They're laying eggs now

And hatching fever spells

It heats him slowly

His blood is thinner now

[Outro]

Things slip sometimes

Things slip sometimes

Things slip sometimes