Virginia Wolf

I let the light sink inside my skin just so I can breathe again

Balancing the weight between creepy and obsessive

The world of the weight's on my back, backwards, wait

Words back me in a way, I need to be accepted

Everything is relative, the world is full of skeletons

Dancing to the rhythm to pretend that they're alive

But I don't got a bone to pick especially when they're broke and hit

The funny one, it's cumbersome to wonder why they try

A fifth in my right hand, quarters in my left

Until my half-life is a hole inside my chest

If I sit and listen with this individual diction

Is it indiscriminant or just a symptom of the sickness?

Or a metaphor of change?

To break a dollar, people write their letters for a chain

I'd rather write a chain letter, it's better for the pain

And the people in my life that always said I was insane

I'll throw a noose around the sun and be the pendulum

Tick-tock, tick-tock, I'll wait until the medics come

I'll be so high and so bright that if you want me back

You'll have to sit and watch the setting sun

Bring my body to the ground

Before they catch a breath they'll be calling it profound

Martyrdom for beauty's sake, decorates the landscape

As everybody's hands shake from quality they found

This is what it's like to taste the Heavens and dismiss the grace

Another year, another fake expression in a picture frame

Another birthday wish and still it didn't change

A lap around the sun never took me to a different place

But I have to keep floating

Until I meet Virginia Woolf trapped in sheep's clothing

I could be the stones in her pockets when we walk in

To the ocean and marvel at the coast until we sink

And as her lungs filled with water

She watched the sun spill across her

Until the mud filled her armor

Sea shells spelled "Our love still will conquer"

Nope, bubbles rose to the surface

Anchored down where the stones and the dirt live

Taste the ground that she chose to submerge in

"Oh, Vir-gin-ia Woolf, don't be ner-vous"

(No) With all the medicine, your head you said has driven you to go

And follow sadness, left for dead instead I'm diggin' up your bones

They're all intact and set up when I get to give 'em all a home

An artifact that's Heaven-sent, I get to visit on my own

I'm alone now on the go-round

That broke down slow when I pulled my soul out

For sold-out shows full of ghosts of old doubts

And profound hopes that I don't control now

I know, somebody come and set me free

From the sea of an undetected grief

Some things that you love aren't meant to be

Bleeding hearts run out of blood eventually

So we can call her my atonement

A message in a bottle that I wanted you to open

It's a poem, a sorrowful devotion

That I left for you at the bottom of the ocean

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