Elephant Lyrics

We were just porcelain horses on loop

Round the taxidermy of a god in a suit

A merry-go-round on the event horizon

Don't speak of the elephant corpse in the room

The gravity's stretching my walls and the truth

And the memories of everything I thought I knew

Everything reminds me of them

Everything reminds me of what I've been through

In paper mache, my heart splits in two

Every day was like happy birthday to you

The sweetness cascades to the floor

And I'm blamed for the mess, shown the door

It's a fruitless pursuit to replay this movie of thoughts

And regrets that that elephant never forgets

But everything reminds me of them

Everything reminds me of what I've been through

I am sleepwalking through most of my days

The groupthink machine is in an infinite maze

This elephant weighs on my back and the facts

Are a tattoo I cannot redact or erase

At the root of it, truth of it, we're all confused

It's a narrative that I know I ought to lose

But everything reminds me of them

Everything reminds me of what I've been through