RX

(Let's start over, sorry)

I'm incoherent, mumbling on this bathroom floor
Back and forth, I take myself through closing doors
Down five hundred tracks comes just one train
Silver spoon in my mouth helps me taste the amphetamine

Spiral pulls tighter, old lover spins around
Weaving me a knot in my stomach
The past as our binder, I watch her accept gifts from others
That I had been saving for her coming

Well, I was waiting for an angel
To tell me I was free to go
Enlightenment from a bottle or a spell
But the angel made me weaker
And the bottles were beneath her
I resolve to break these chains myself

Oh, strengthen my soul tonight
Thirty-seven dollars for thirty days of pills
Oh, deepen the wound tonight
Ten short lovely hours for just a little glimpse
Of the past
Of some bliss
Make it last
One more kiss
Of the past
Of some bliss
Orange capsule
Touch my lips

Even as the sun sets on that smile, you make it work
Through all the nasty crowds and fake composure, you make it work
With crutches from the pros and the pills too, you make it work
In the quiet night of made-up sanity, you make it work

Oh, strengthen my soul tonight
Thirty-seven dollars for thirty days of pills
Oh, deepen the wound tonight
Ten short lovely hours for just a little glimpse