my mind is a fortress

my body is a trap

my instinct to strip you down

and lay you on your back

i never even mattered

i'll never get it back

my life is a fantasy

death is a fact

i don't need to warn you

i don't want to care

i don't want to own you

because you were never there

my famine tastes like decadence

like sin to a priest

your penance is my preference

i'm but a savage beast

TAKE MY EYES

TAKE THE SOUNDS

TAKE MY TOUNGE

AND TEAR IT OUT

TAKE THE ACHES

FROM MY BONES

LIFT THIS WEIGHT

AND TAKE ME HOME (TAKE ME HOME)

i tapped my nails on windows, i scratched on cellar doors

i've worked until the wanting seemed to seep from every pore

i've cupped my brow in tears between my cracked and slitted hands

i've cried long nights for those who never had the chance to dance

and then i left my hollow body

by the moon-soaked pond

no water still can wash me,

for now the moon is gone.

TAKE MY EYES

TAKE THE SOUNDS

TAKE MY TOUNGE

AND TEAR IT OUT

TAKE THE ACHES

FROM MY BONES

LIFT THIS WEIGHT

AND TAKE ME HOME (TAKE ME HOME)

let the water rush around my ivory colored tomb

let the flood of just-enough return me from the womb

let the blood spill over as i walk my last few steps

please wrap me in the covers,

of a night with no regrets.