Criminal Lover

Lover You’re a criminal lover Up under the covers You preach it You’re tryna make me reach it Some clear state of mind That leaves my prejudice behind I said, well hell, I resign You know I thought we were fine But when you talk it’s white fire And I am burnt by the demon of desire Tryna tell me I’m fine But I’m a deaf, dumb and blind one I’m like some slick saline creature Grew legs, left my ocean to meet ya Foreign feature in the play Dance of living, night and day So roll up, one, two Get in line coz it’s quite a view And you can see the lions hack at her Whack, snack Attack her 'till she’s stew Don’t worry it’s nothing new Like a well rehearsed recipe Taste is based on chemistry Like everything, this energy Won’t last for eternity Coz it’s hurting me This siege for sleep The lack of self-belief And not knowing who I’m gonna be Although it’s right in front of me Hauling me and pulling me from chasing my dream My last face-lift was self-esteem but apparently I’m so stupidly Close mindedly dumb Probably because I was fifteen years old When I stopped sucking my thumb Can’t know shit about electrodes Or the way that things in gardens grow Especially stuck stuck stuck stuck on your inferiority road Release me Let me go This is my corner get your own I’m on the phone You’re up in my zone Why can’t you let me be alone Lover You're a criminal lover Up under the cover I see your face and I'm smothered By all the criminal nothings Oh, tell me, did you love her Maybe it was all play pretend Maybe it was all in my head I can’t go back now Can’t pretend All of your criminal nothings Are all just false promises It’s not gonna get better 'Till you want it to get better In the meantime, just admit it You’re liking the attention Don’t you think I know What you got going on Let’s step back a minute and Let's fast forward To twenty five years later When your mind is finally made up You're gonna fix this bitch of a problem But, shock horror, solution not changed, up We go, fighting against the current Tryna get back to that morning Where all your bullshit started Why didn’t you fix yourself then Could of helped yourself, don’t pretend That it was my fault for not supporting You in that web you got yourself caught in Coz I did it, I fought it And I know that you thought it The last resort it's a rest assured miss On the life that we’re born with You have a beginning, I wasn’t in it So stop blaming the past on the present I ain’t taking that man, no forget it Life destroys you only if you let it Lover You're a criminal lover Up under the covers I see your face and I'm smothered I'm peeking out through the shutters I grab your throat and scream You're a criminal lover Maybe it was all play pretend Maybe it was all in my head I can’t go back now Can’t pretend All of your criminal nothings Are all just false promises Maybe it was all play pretend Maybe it was all in my head I can’t go back now Can’t pretend All of your criminal nothings Are all just false promises Betrayal Conceived behind a veil Shadowy folks Conniving in the skins of the devils Oh, I’m rattled To see my hands are shackled Mouth is covered feet are tied And I bet you were so surprised To look down and find You’d sharpened your knife You open your mouth So wide All these words tumble out into the light These hands aren’t mine The puppet master jiggle me from behind And she got a hold of my mind And in time She’ll get you on her side Then you’ll find We were right, we were right Swallow that all Down you will fall Cold, cold on the floor in the middle of our little fight Do you know what I have to reply No, of course you don’t You can’t read my mind No matter how hard you sit there and you try Living in lies Lets the living here die Living in fights Lets the living here die Just coz there's two of you don’t make it right Not enough time to recoup in the night From the might of your bite When you bite for delight Be careful what you’re saying to me I’ll put it all over the radio Don’t you see I’ll see you on the big screen Bitch