September Lyrics

Assault in the first degree

Where are your hands? Are you looking at me?

Do I taste just like a key lime?

You'll get 12 years with flattery

Adolescence in abundance

All the soft and leaking parts

Kept immortal in your closet

Hoarding wet, still-beating hearts

Ley lines crack, poison ivy, hair trigger

Never know when you're sincere

(What do you see when you're here?)

If I ever go back, ursa minor, big dipper

Feel the storm in your inner ear

(Make sure the picture is clear)

Where there's Will, there's a way

To make the beasts beneath the bed pay

Eat your fill of easy prey

Let the scraps fall where they may

One of these days, when you feel safe

You'll see my face and turn around

And I will burn September down

Possession in the first degree

More like a ghost than an addict to me

Am I slick like fresh-cut shallots?

Foam and tears in the recipe

Blond hair, buzz cut, red Dodge Magnum

Pulled some cocaine from the dash

Etched a burden in my Atlas

Turned my best regrets to ash

Ley lines crack, poison ivy, hair trigger

Never know when you're sincere

(What do you see when you're here?)

If I ever go back, ursa minor, big dipper

Feel the storm in your inner ear

(Make sure the picture is clear)

Where there's Will, there's a way

To make the beasts beneath the bed pay

Eat your fill of easy prey

Let the scraps fall where they may

One of these days, when you feel safe

You'll see my face and turn around

And I will burn September down

Hidden cameras, you let me see the worst bits

So I'd wonder what you had on me

A little cigarette-smoking baby, was it worth it?

Go ahead and let the whole world see

Where there's Will, there's a way

To make the beasts beneath the bed pay

Eat your fill of easy prey

Let the scraps fall where they may

One of these days, when you feel safe

You'll see my face and turn around

And I will burn September down

A little blue bag with the bones of baby dolls

Hidden back behind your mirror

(What do you see when you're here?)

If I ever go back, ursa minor, big dipper

All the evidence will disappear

(Make sure the picture is clear)