Street Fighter

Until I find you In your hermit shell Salting the Earth with stolen tears Until I am you Nervous eyes betraying me As I try to hold humanity's glare Until I'm better Until I let that guilt penetrate me Like so many old notes from lovers Until I'm not you Until my own footsteps Don't bring me to the ground in fear Wrap my raw skin White wool, dead lamb's kin Appropriate your hearts' kindly murmurs Infantilize my every sin Mask my miasma smell White lie, veneering shell Coward, coward, coward Won't you tell me that I'm pretty? I pray that you'll disarm me Snip away my every thorn I'll never be harmless again The lamb, the infallible I'll feign the child with a spotless soul Everything I have touched Blood-stain and charcoal dust Coward, coward Until I Wrap my raw skin White wool, dead lamb's kin Appropriate your hearts' kindly murmurs Infantilize my every sin Mask my miasma smell White lie, veneering shell Coward, coward, coward