The Projectionist - ThouShaltNot

Sing me like a lullaby

Read me like a book

You can steal me in an art fraud heist

Just tuck me underneath your coat

And if you want to load me on the reel

And blare a blinding light through me

I’ll be a silent film and you’ll play the organ

To go with the pictures I show

When can I feel my skin again

As more than between blood and air?

I am what you tell me I am

You make me an endless text, and

You are my projectionist

Give me like a war-time speech

And fight me like a war

Invade me like the Middle East

Just bounce me off the satellites

But the picture’s out of focus now

The blackout’s all over town

So make me now a candle, bright

And push me through the powerlines

But when can I feel my skin again

As more than between blood and air?

I am what you tell me I am

You make me an endless text, and

I am what you think of next, and

You are my projectionist

Shine a light through me so you can see

Sing me in a different key, well

I’m your diary, who’s reading who now?

And who’s in whose skin?

Turn on your TV, broadcast me

Everywhere I want to be

I lift up a rock and find me there

When can I feel my skin again

As more than between blood and air?

I am what you tell me I am

You make me an endless text, and

I am what you think of next, and

You make me an endless text, and

I am what you think of next, and

You make me an endless text, and

I am what you think of next

In the burning theater I am blessed

For you are my projectionist