Razorblade

Is there someone you can argue with

That will catch you if you fall?

Someone else that you can talk to

Is there a neighbour you can call?

'Cause there’s a cancer in our children

And we put it in their mouths

Poisoned all the waterways

And choked the air to death

Inside, there is a light

Don’t look the other way

Paradise beyond the paywall

People dying to get in

People outside stacking bodies

At the gates to get a glimpse

They heard it’s ultimate salvation

Without the troubles of the poor

Where not one question lingers

There’s an answer and a cure

There you were

Face wrapped around a cigarette

But you tell me nothing

Just like everybody else

And I know I’m not quite right

But I’m trying to do better

And not worry about anything

Just like everybody else

Who doesn’t talk like they know themselves

Don’t look the other way

When the dream of blinding joy you’d find

In the bedroom of the star

Fades with the colour from your cheeks

As he smiles like a scar

And his potency of promise

Dilute and void of pride

Convictions of the honest

Obscured, confused and undermined

There you were

Face wrapped around a cigarette

But you tell me nothing

Just like everybody else

And I know I’m not quite right

But I’m trying to do better

And not worry about anything

Just like everybody else

Who doesn’t talk like they know themselves

You could be my razorblade

Face wrapped around a cigarette

But you tell me nothing

You could be my razorblade

And I know I’m not quite right

But I worry about everything

You could be my razorblade

I was buried in bed

Resting my ears

But the ring was more than howlin’

And I couldn’t come to

I was stuck in a stupor

In a dream

In a flash of light

I was deaf!

It makes no sense

It makes no sense

It’s heaven sent

It makes no sense