Missed Connections

You are a leatherback baby turning corners
Spitting in alleyways, tripping over potholes
Duct tape band aids, thirsting for eyes
Collecting drool from lips, saving it in vials
Shallow and controlled breathing
Thirsting for love that chokes
That sets the entire sky ablaze only to swallow it
Reject it all up
High on adoration, shaking, blacking out mirrors
You are a leather back baby
Your majesty, highness, sire
Troubled royalty
All that glitters wanting all that hisses
All that it cannot accept
Craving it nonetheless, to be adored
I mean don't we all want to be adored?
Until we're adored
Then pressure points on temples
Veins pulsating on foreheads
Don't we all want to be adored?
Until we're adored

Zip love in denim pockets
Throw the jeans in the wash
Can't ask yet demands
Give me love on a silver platter
Don't you love me? I thought you loved me
Don't we all want to be adored?
Rattling bed frames, rattles alone in bed
You're a leatherback baby
What color is the line dividing art and worshipping?
Bow and arrow through the hearts of all courting
Just to see what color the blood is
Do we all bleed the same?
Don't we all want to be adored?

She's insane
Like, all she talks about is herself
And, I mean other things too
But like she's very just into herself
But I love it, I love that energy
And I think that that is like important
And I think that, you know, you should be very into yourself
And a lot of people can't take that
Because they can't do that for themselves

I think you liked me more when you were over me
When I was yearning for you, you wanted nothin to do with me
I fell back, I got over you
To get you out from up under me
You showed up at my door with a dozen roses
I had just moved on, you just figured out what my worth is
Well damn
Of course it hurts
You fine like good wine
Like gold that don't turn your neck green
Come to find out now you sayin I'm the one
I been the one all along
Well it's a new rhythm in my bed springs
Man, I knew this shit would happen

You make my head scream
And my eyes water
And my body shake
And my back ache
You got me running late
Oh now you attached like a running mate
Might've care for you
But that was yesterday
I ain't got the energy
I know my worth, I added the tax
Handed you the receipt and you threw it away
On top of it all It's so gray where we stay
It's poison in the rivers, It's been people dyin
It's demons talkin out they mouth
We don't know how long we got
I just know I'm happy now
But ooh you had me looking like a fuckin clown
Forgotten hand me down
I'm feelin like a shiny Grammy now
And I bet you wish you knew me now
I'm feelin fucking groovy wow
Suddenly you got time for me now
And you mad that you can't even see me like the middle child