I'm so depressed, I act like it's my birthday every day / I'm so obsessed with him but he avoids me like the plague / I cry a lot but I am so productive, it's an art / You know you're good when you can even do it / With a broken heart

I was waitin' in the garden / Contemplatin', beg your pardon / But there's a part of me that recognizes you / Do you feel it too?

She did it right there / Out on the deck / Put her canine teeth / In the side of my neck

Oh, the sparrow on the wing taught me to fight for you / And the opossum keeps her teeth sharper than I do / You can bury me where I make my last stand / At the Battle of Critterland

And I'm too perfect till I open my big mouth / I want to be me, is that not allowed / And I'm too clever and then I'm too fucking dumb / You hate it when I cry unless it's that time of the month / And I'm too perfect till I show you that I'm not / A thousand people I could be for you, and you hate the fucking lot

I wanna run against the world that's turning / I'd move so fast that I'd outpace the dawn / I wanna be gone

Cards on the table / Mine play out like fools in a fable, oh / It was sinking in / Slow is the quicksand / Poison blood from the wound of the pricked hand / Oh, still I dream of him

There was a litany of reasons why / We could've played for keeps this time / I know I'm just repeating myself / Put me back on my shelf / But first - Pull the string

And I'll tell you one thing, honey / I can take the upper hand and touch your body / Flip the script and leave you like a dumb house party / Or I might just love you 'til the end

So I leap from the gallows and I levitate down your street / Crash the party like a record scratch as I scream / "Who's afraid of little old me?" / I was tame, I was gentle 'til the circus life made me mean / "Don't you worry, folks, we took out all her teeth"

Yes, I'm haunted but I'm feeling just fine / All my girls got their lace and their crimes / And your cheating husband disappeared / Well, no one asks any questions here

Feel the breath inside your body / warm and free / If you want to close your eyes and / count to three / Know that you are perfect how you are / You don't need a halo or a harp

I hear you breathing, baby / Been chasing you all night / Think it'd be fun to see if you can make it through the night / And now you're screaming, baby / The calls are from inside / Are you the final girl? The one who makes it out alive

I'll deny you of salvation / I'll be the reason you repent / Kiss me like I'm a conviction / Beg for divinity in my breath

Some say they've seen her working, most just hear in the dead of night / It's a howling in the wind they say, like it's calling for a fight / She don't come just when you call her but she'll be there when there's need / ‘Cause she's there to hunt the devil down, yea she wants to see him bleed

and i'm right here / with all my friends / but you're sending me your new address / and i know we're done i know we're through / but god when i look at you

In the chaos and calm / Cut a slash cross your palm / Promise blood, it poisons your heart

Think I didn't see you? / There were flashing lights / At least I had the decency / To keep my nights out of sight / Only rumors 'bout my hips and thighs / And my whispered sighs

Just want someone to take me for coffee / Watch me, watch you, watching a movie / I can see you smelling my perfume / Med organizer, DBT binder / Dump my body where they'll never find her / Flowers on my corpse, let's watch them bloom

From chagrin I've been released / Paint me in a portrait sans / The fig leaves, fig leaves / And I will not be concerned / Or ignore the things I yearn / My hunger is the rule / I cannot overturn

Come my dear and drink while the water's still cold / I am naught but a scar upon your breastbone / So kiss me quick, steal every secret I keep / You can have anything that you want from me

The power that protects me is a circle made of salt / But when you come to get me I won't feel a thing at all / The vultures that surround me ride the thermals up on high / Yeah, ever since you found me I'm afraid that I might die

You're lying in the grass now / Your old familiar way / I see you slither past now / Trying to get away

You're standing there a face on your shame / With green jewels / If we make believe and I believe you / Who would be the fool

There's no such thing as time to kill, / nor time to throw away, / So once for the bright sky, / Twice for the pig sty, / Thrice for another day.

Beneath my breasts / There burns a fire / Of blood and flesh / Of sound and wire / It won't be quenched / 'Till I retire / From wretchedness / That dark desire

We believed / We'd catch the rainbow / Ride the wind / To the sun / And sail away

A healing touch, a naked breast, sage and skin of snake / No matter what the good you did, you'll wind up at the stake / She's a highway wreck but you can't look away / Might haunt you for days, and yet your eyes stay / On her sweet flesh right where shoulder meets wing / On the burnt grass everywhere she has been

Of the answers in my cigarette box / Yeah, the answer's in the second / before the other shoe drops / And if you're blind to that / I am fine with that

They will consume your sweet resistance / And they'll carry your heart in their teeth / But I am always feeding them / The ugliest parts of me / All of the words I've swallowed / All of the sharp things I've kept in my mouth / I am always bleeding out

Time has changed the metaphor / Now, dust is not the origin of bone / Little girl, don't let them sell you any armor / All your ribs are still your own

Oh, the misery / Everybody wants to be my enemy / Spare the sympathy / Everybody wants to be / My enemy

You can leave it all behind / Skip a beat in the bloodline / And you've been hiding all your life, it's time / To skip a beat in the bloodline

No one's brave enough to take the fall right / But it's all your fault / Why you actin like it's alright

I'm writing a chapter on what to do after they dig you up / On what to do after you grew to hate what you used to love / That was the first time I knew / They were out for blood / And they would have your guts

You are the hammer, I am the nail / Building a house in the fire on the hill / There is a string that leads me to hope / I tied the noose, but you are the rope

So keep on doing what you damn well please / Play it off like it's all a tease / Wouldn't put it past someone like you / To strike a match then you light my fuse

My time, my wine, my spirit, my trust / Trying to find a part of me you didn't take up / Gave you too much but it wasn't enough / But I'll be all right / It's just a thousand cuts

Keep playing my heartstrings faster and faster / You can be just what I want, my true disaster

I got that bravado / Watch me scare you dead / Yeah you should've known / I'd never do what I'm told

Baby you're no good / 'Cause they warned me 'bout your type girl / I've been ducking left and right Baby you're no good / Think I fell for you, I fell for you / I fell for you

I need my golden crown of sorrow / My bloody sword to swing / My empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology / I am no mother, I am no bride, I am King

I would always fuck around and find out / You were always saying I would crash down someday / I would have to pass out on my friend's couch / We were up all night, so we slept all day

So smoke 'em if you got 'em / 'Cause it's going down / All I ever wanted was you / I'll never get to heaven / 'Cause I don't know how / Let's raise a glass or two / To all the things I've lost on you

The doctor asks me where it hurts / Born to fish, forced to work / Don't let 'em tell ya what your broken heart's worth / Fire ant on the sugar trail, tailfeathers on a nightengale / Arrowheads and bones is all you'll find

Can we erase our history / Is it as easy as this / Maybe in other realities / The road never took this twist

As the sun comes up shining down on the ten / I did too much living and I'm dying again / I guess I lost my head at the Holiday Inn / But my blood run red, my blood run red

And all went silent / Purples, violets / The kind of cursive quiet / One with the starry eyelids / A sweet unsweetened / An eve uneven

Your light never burns out / I don't wanna come down / Can't lose what we just found for nothing

Draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man / You did some bad things, but I'm the worst of them / Sometimes I wonder which one will be your last lie / They say looks can kill and I might try

We can plant a memory garden / Say a solemn prayer / Place a poppy in my hair / There's no morning glory / It was war it wasn't fair

If you would've blinked then I would've / Looked away at the first glance / If you tasted poison you could've / Spit me out at the first chance

I've had more of those bad dreams / You were ten feet in front of me / I went running but I couldn't catch / Just the shadow of your silhouette

What am I supposed to do, but sink my teeth in you? / I starve without you on my lips, I die without the taste of it

I've been under scrutiny (yeah, oh, yeah) / You handle it beautifully (yeah, oh, yeah) / All this shit is new to me (yeah, oh, yeah) / I feel the lavender haze creepin' up on me / Surreal, I'm damned if I do give a damn what people say

Make me evil, then I'm an angel instead / At least you'll sanctify me when I'm dead / Dream girl evil, dream girl evil

There's a shadow at the back door / Something's moving in the shed / She lights cigarettes like lanterns / For the darkness in my head

Why are you hanging on / So tight / To the rope that I'm hanging from / Off this island / This was an escape plan / Carefully timed it

Well I've got a growing, got a growing list / All the names that kill are the same to kiss / And if you look deadly... you'll make it

Start carving, Darling / I want to smell the dinner cooking / I want to feel the edges start to burn

Even when the cold comes crashing through / I'm putting all my bets on you / I hope they never understand us

We placed a gamble with our hands on our hearts / Made a blood-pact deal 'til death do us part / I knew his heart was mine / But his soul was sour inside

Bet I could still melt your world / Argumentative, antithetical dream girl

I have found no mercy in these old bourbon hills. / The wind has always been a part of my life / and I can feel it still.

Cold-blooded, as cruel as can be / Abuse her and you'll always need / Oh, to feel Mary's loving, to feel Mary's loving, little lamb

You do not dance everyday with the fear / Of living in headlights, the hunted, the deer

You were being kicked about / Backed up, teeth and claws are out / Covered in blood, covered in blood / Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow