To Whom It Will Concern

A burst of love
A heart condensed
You've traded in your innocence
And lost your only true defence
And lost your only true defence
The silence hangs
I ask you why
The insult lingers in your eyes
A sharp selective stack of lies
Your answer comes as no surprise

So they told me about you with naked iron sounds
Told me with neon aches
And fingered their small change
Took coughing cigarettes and let drunken lips drown
Another heap of words in my frown
So strange

Strange
So strange
As ugly as the barbed knives of your name
Strange
So strange
As ugly as the barbed knives of your name

Once you emptied into all that was profound
And the licking disdain
Of the red cold
Was tethered to a closer ground
And we were two in one second
Two in one second
We were two in one second
We were two in one second
And we were two in one second
Sowing white grain

And then I felt you put the slugs inside my brain
And tell me that my God's last will is lost
Its bones falling as rain
Its bones falling as rain
That the pincers of this new love
Exist to stain
Just to stain
Just to stain

So slice open my skull
Prod
Push
Stick your carnivorous tongue
Inside
There are precious few pure places left
For my frantic
Frightened mind
To hide

Biting and howling in mock surprise
Always trying and trying and trying to prise
Your reality out
In a flurry of blood and sweat and doubt

As I try
Every day
Just to stay
Alive
As I try
Every day
Just to stay
Alive

Strange
So strange
As ugly as the barbed knives of your name
Strange
So strange
As ugly as the barbed knives of your name
Strange
So strange
As ugly as the barbed knives of your name
Strange
So strange
As ugly as the barbed knives of your name