Are you happy?
Or are you pretending?
How much will you swallow
Before your stomach bleeds?
The lump in my abdomen
Gets bigger every day
It's a kink in a garden hose
A clogged kitchen sink
Broken garbage disposal
Are you getting all tangled up inside the weeds?
That scale the home and constrict your blood
Like a large carnivorous snake?
(Pica, pica)
I wouldn't follow advice from the lesser-wise
(Python, python)
But i will swallow
You down to the shoes every time
In the weeds
Strangle me
In the weeds
Strangle me
Are you getting all tangled up
Inside the weeds?
Are you afraid of sinking in
Too deep to climb back out?
Went to bed with a stranger
Woke up five years later
The beat never stopped but you lost the count
How long until the drywall comes tumbling down in the rain?
How long until the sadness overwhelms our tiny reptile brains?
What is waiting for us
At the end of our numbered days
But maternity centers, custody hearings?
Nursing homes, marble graves?
Are you ready to settle down?
Already feeling tied down?
(Twist and turn in my sleep, strangle me while I eat
Why can't you free me?)
You can't climb back out
The clock keeps spinning 'round
The beat never slows down but you
You lost the count