I've been living easy off the rats for practically all of my time here
And roughly enjoying my stay
Eating dust in corners they had lost and fled sinking ships
As my own mess of circumstance brought them dismay
[I can't live off fire alone]
And neither bread nor water nor the scratch of eight little lies
Could they ever sustain all my years

[I've found my blood is thin as red wine]
Sitting so calm, a smile for everyone
[So drown me out, I swear I won't die]
Hate-ridden parasites crumpling minds
[And me without a straw]

I'd love to sit and say I've done it all
I'd like more than four trifling seconds to stroll and deliver my speech
I'd love to dance away and sway a thousand men into knowing
I'd love if you'd pass me that t__le and seat
[I am my own downfall]
And, patiently, I sit and listen to the churning of a world so rife with mistake to make mine

[I've found my blood is thin as red wine]
Sitting so calm, a smile for everyone
[So drown me out, I swear I won't die]
Hate-ridden parasites crumpling minds
[And me without a straw]

[Recluse, fall back, diffuse, we won't float]

I drank from the hands that poured me poison
I fled sinking ships, my own transgression
I've come on my own to take your hand and
I will sink my own ship

[The word is patience, the word is now
You know that I could spit it out, a practiced declaration
You know that I could end it now, would that you witness our amalgamation]

I can't see two inches past my lashes
And I send the ranks with hesitation
Their disengaging gazes as they shuffle past in ordered motion
Capacity increasing as the white creeps in while screaming silence
Offshore the shadow rising [oh God I should have paid attention]

Now I've told everyone, I haven't said a thing
I've said it all, I haven't said a thing
And I've saved you for last, I haven't said a thing
I'll tell you later

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