Oh the Spin

Look at that mirror it's a ghost in a portrait
What do you see? What do you see
What's underneath all that rippling fabric
Kid in a sheet, kid in a sheet

I read the muted TV headline
"A child found dead on a daycare bus
"A heart found dead in a momma's chest

Well little buddy's missing out on all this livin'
Gettin high, and takin' kitty walks when the light goes blue
No, billy boy's a stone! His body's all alone
And there's a dotted line imprint walkin' 'cross his face

He missed raking leaves from his grandpa's yard
Now the stillness in his breath, pumps my chest

Don't know what you think of me, and that's okay. You're probably wrong
I can quiet down when I'm on the ground
My thoughts bloom flowers for everyone I know
In my bouquet social parties
String lights strung across my memories like lemons in the trees
Lightin' up those shadow thoughts that cast me black

I checked my tag, "patron class," passing money up the chain
April comes, my money runs to paint the dust again

My mind flips the trees and they all sing for me
Till I try to talk and they leave in shreds through my teeth

What if I'm still who I was? What if I'm just not enough
What if I'm just never right? What if I'm just the deceitful type

I tore apart a blade of grass and played it like a scream
That glowing torch American dream that's dripping from her teeth
It's oil spills, and kitchen soap, it's honey sweet perfume
Holy water bleaching sin for the spin, oh the spin, the spin, the spin

Chlorine clashes with battery acid in 1964
When the motel man at the motor lodge got tangled up in thought
About what it means to keep the peace, 'tween his family and his god
Well it's all torn down for a Hilton now, with ravens in the floor

There's a kid inside a cage tonight where a switch turns off the sun
A bitch barking for open air, beggin' for the street
A huddled mass in a floodlight blast, oh it's LADY LIBERTY
And a thousand ghosts just holding their posts, haunting me

Well bucks get made when you're afraid so fuck your sanity
Just light your blood on fire here, just keep staring at the screen
There's a cave a hundred miles south with beasts that line the trees
Where all your devils melt to one in the fires of deceit

Just keep staring at the screen! Hey! Keep staring at the screen
Breakin' news! We're goin live! It's carving up the earth
With claws like iron gates makin' ribbons of the hills
Just killing time changing shape with flowers in their palms

NO! NO! NO! It's stalking north, it's coming for your peace
It'll take the shape of a childs face, draped in misery
What's underneath all that rippling fabric
Kid in a sheet. Kid in a sheet
What's underneath all that rippling fabric
Kid in a sheet. Kid in a sheet