What Didn't Kill Me Just Got Stronger - A Lot Like Birds

This is my body at war!

No hesitation, this is entrapment entangling me

Where’s my attorney to defend or keep my mind from indulging?

I’ve failed!

And my nerves have lost their touch

My eyes can’t see so much and if my heart is the next to go

How my brain will scream and let my body know!

My tongue is drafting treaties that my stomach can’t hold

My throat’s been fed lies that it’s finding too hard to swallow

And my liver?

Oh god, how it knows that I’m poisoning it

So it grows and exposes it’s fangs.

And it’s good friends

The veins, feel exactly the same;

Abandoned, lost, clogged with smoke and ashamed

But as for the blame?

No, the blame’s not with me

It’s with you.

Is it true you’re less girl than disease?

If this is it, let’s make it a big one!

Let’s just seize until our blood starts dancing with fire and our bones explode

The marrow will drip slowly through whichever wounds are open

Taking my skin by surprise.

Oh, you’re wrong!

You think your body is so fucking strong

It’s not!

You’re just a flesh-wrapped present for a graveyard

With intestines ribboning around you as knots

Can’t you see I’m spitting out my taste?

You did the very same

And when we are through, will the worms even want us

Or will they take bites of our skin and decide we’d make terrible dirt?

To tell you the truth and be crushingly honest:

I know I’ve heard that bodies are temples but when temples sink into the ground

They lose all their worth.

Life’s a dance?

Well, death takes out the grace