LESSONS

It crept up on me And it sat in my chair Asking me questions That I can't bear What if I'm actually Just too scared? What if I don't wake up From the nightmare? Never despair Still time to spare But they do not care about you Capital letters crossing the breast Are you learning your lesson? Did they get you too? I'm not making a fool out of you You just split open too soon I really have nothing left here to prove What do I have that's impressive to lose? So I pressure the wound Confessing the mood And undressing the bloom Get to blessing the crude Leave it on read Or I'm losing my cool Get out of my head And get back in the pool Yeah Get back in the pool Setting it off Setting it off Looking for adrenaline hush You never could touch me Not at all Pillows are plush The covers are warm What's the rush for us? Must we cut Through every little storm? Swim to the centre Eye of the mental If you can enter, my love Break off the handle, yeah I know I am meant for this You can keep me with a kiss You can leave me with a wish Only taking what I give Yeah Writing a cheque with my skin Who knows if I'll ever cash that shit in? But I cannot give in Shutting your eyes is a sin And I've been Taking advice that I don't believe in We invited them in Gave them water to drink And a quarter to think, yeah Every letter is ink At the point of a pin Better breathe in 'Cause the oxygen thin Lengthen your limbs Pressure within You must know that you cannot win So why do you swim? Why even dive in? When you could live Liminal, pivotal Living symbol, inimical Build a pinnacle Be indivisible, metaphysical Getting vividly radical F*ck another hand-to-hand Needed a hand to hold Community manifold Before we grow too old All of our beats slow Now we just keep low And punch in the same code Yeah, now we just keep low And punch in the same code