Palimpsests

By Volcano!

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Wake up (9x)

Look where you are

It was a dream (4x)

It was a

It's so funny it's so funny it's so fun fun

Funny how far you are from where you've been

Spit up (9x)

Get out the taste of fermented speeches

Swallow it down, swallow it down

I know it burns

But when it burns it teaches

Seven o'clock, seven o'clock

Get up, get up

Move, shower and shave

The shell of skin like extra limbs

Tucked in, tucked in, hide every trace

In your pleated pants

Baby baby baby baby steps is all you can take

And awkwardly stumblе forward

Tip of the tongue, heatеd debate

Reflux, reflux

You can't stop it from comin' up

Words of the past taste like a meal

Simple ideals nutrition-less as soda

And so falsely filling

They kept you sharp up to a point when they started dulling

And with everything blurring

Your tired eyes still miss the clarity

Skin is a shell

Shape of a child crawled out half way and hit the frozen wind

And breathed deeply

Fossil of youth, blackening leaves

Dead weight, dead weight

Can't help but imagine

Just sever it, it'd be so easy

It's inefficient and naive

Lettin' leech and feed off you

But you keep it there hidden

And hopefully stumble forward with baby steps

When you swallow your words

You'll start speaking in tongues

It's both your will and theirs

That keeps filling your lungs

With the fumes that fuel illness and songs

You're a father and also a son

In a tower of steel

Or a bridge made of straws

Though the structure is real

And can act as a law

That exaggerates your deepest flaw

It could also be the shapes that you draw

The architect of small circles, maybe ten feet

Drawing little tattoos on the people you meet like those

Crazies who eat their placentas, you put your

Molted shell through an industrial juicer and you

Gulp it down, gulp it down, gulp it down

Gulp it down with some pride son

It's the vanilla pipe dream extract so bittersweet

With a mouthful of worms

There is protein enough

To last a few days

In the thickening rough

The surroundings that so hard to love

Are deceptively soft to your touch

If you conjure up a telekinetic burning heat

Your fingers a glowing neon pink

Your wilting eye and wincing wink

You get, get, you get learned when you get burned

Whether your pupils melt into black tears

And roll of your face or the structures incinerate

You'll see a new city

A new city, a new city a new city

When you swallow your words