Waste Lyrics

I turn my head & I follow the sun

From the east at dawn, till the darkest of dusk

& I want to be still but I'll move every day

Till I bloom

I close my eyes & I see you in dreams

& I always wake up with blood on my hands

& there's blood on my sheets & I can't wash it off

Though I try

& if you heard me

Would you try to touch me

Would you tear my stem apart

Or wait until the spring?

So when you see me sinking under the soil

With the blue of the sky & the red of the sulfate

The songs that they sing as they rot & decay

Are the notes that I need when I'm shedding my skin

& when you see me buried under the dirt

Then I'll ask you to pray that my roots burrow deep

& I'll let the iodine run through my veins because

I wanna bloom like a sunflower laid over waste

I think of you as I lay supine

Like the deadest of nature, the stillest of life

& I ask that the next time you see me you reach

For my hand

& if you took me

In your arms & held me

Would you keep me there, or

Would you let me fall?

So when you see me sinking under the soil

With the blue of the sky & the red of the sulfate

The songs that they sing as they rot & decay

Are the notes that I need when I'm shedding my skin

& when you see me buried under the dirt

Then I'll ask you to pray that my roots burrow deep

& I'll let the iodine run through my veins because

I wanna bloom like a sunflower laid over waste