the SOCIALLY ANXIOUS FLAMETHROWER Lyrics

Cut your iris

If those eyelids shut on me

Teardrops do not

Sprung only to freeze

My gaps scream out

But the emptiness sings sweet

I chewed on my heart

Ever since I saw the start, I

Swell on my own teeth

Nothing else fills me; I am my need

I am that I eat

With not another mouth to sell support

I've not another mouth to feed

Nobody taught me to swim the river where

Small sparks, last lights line up to drown

No steps to follow, I march through flames

Every step a trailblazer burned through the ground

Every step a trailblazer burned through the ground

Every step a trailblazer burned through the ground

Every step a trailblazer burned through the ground

Every step a trailblazer burned through the ground

Gasoline tightrope

With no net on which to fall

And every atlas I held with trust

Helped me

To withdraw

So I spit fire

I can't swallow my smoke

A flamethrower baby knows no light

But still can light bone

'Cause nobody taught me this life of autonomy

"Sink or swim," they said

Sticking lead to my feet

Nobody taught me this life of autonomy

"Sink or swim," they said

"But we'd rather see you dead"