to the bone - lyrics
once a year I pull my mattress into the sun every year I greet another headache like it's the first one nowadays I find my feelings torn up for fun I'm far too often staring down your slick little toy of a gun set myself on fire for the people that would watch me burn say I'll never cry, supply the bat, and now they're taking turns look you in the eye, try to explain, but boy you never learn counting back from five I hold my breath and feel my stomach churn tell me that you love me and I'm hanging onto every word tell me your so sorry like it's something that I've never heard guarantee the moon and stars--the promises get so absurd angels watching over me, they tell me I'll just end up hurt once a year I take some scissors straight to my head every year I contemplate shaving it all off instead nowadays I struggle just to get out of bed I'm far too often feeling like you filled me with bullets and lead stuck inside a little town that never wants to see me go yellow lights and drunken fights and skidding through the winters snow say you'll never leave me and I'll sit and stare and watch you go plant your secrets in her head I'm guessing now I'll never know tell me that you love me and I'm hanging onto every word tell me your so sorry like it's something that I've never heard guarantee the moon and stars--the promises get so absurd angels watching over me, they tell me I'll just end up hurt his hands are warm like somebody I know but his fists are tearing pieces from the base of my throat his eyes are like home--they turn me to stone and I'm trying not to work myself down to the bone his lips are warm like somebody I know but his mouth is breathing words hot enough to melt snow his smile's like gold as he tells me to go and I'm trying not to work myself down to the bone something that I've never heard and I'm hanging onto every word
