You Wanted A Dog Lyrics - Singles - Eleanor Shore

You have a worm inside your chest 

It's been ten months don't tell your friends 

They drink and laugh and like to think the best 

It's called a parasite it's free 

So you're getting what you paid for 

If you can't sell it back you know there's always bleach 

The blue man opens windows to the ground 

I watched his seed spread pumpkin rash like doubt 

And all the showerheads are looking down 

For god's sake won't you please just turn around 

Another day spent in a Kleenex 

Suffocating babies with soggy minds and eyes that look like mine 

And savage is the sweating instinct to smother 

Thirsty like a flash of light that stabs my eyes and milks the blood for likes 

Say he's good, he's god, 

He's passionate you'll see 

Oh my protégé my angel boy you'll be 

But my passions just a shaking bush at night 

Behind a school with mashed potato mouths and thighs 

And my truth is just the costume for the class 

That is worn and sweat through stepped on then put back 

That's fine I know you never really asked for this 

But darling you did eat the fish and even my taste it made you sick 

Just like the candy hearts you fed me on that night out in the cold 

You read from fortune cookie notes 

But every separate path you spoke of leads to the same hole 

And words are just the costumes 

Used to disguise embarrassed fools mine are empty and confused 

You tore them off when I tried them on you 

And everything I've ever done has led me to this dusty stage screaming out your name through disguises that are cheap and far too big 

So you hang your head 

Find a friend you're both embarrassed by the sound 

Cover your mouth with your hands and you laugh 

I stabbed you in my arm so that you could keep me warm 

You never had to impress you knew I'd poke you in again 

For every whispered promise there are two bathroom secrets 

For every touch that made a song there are two holes in my skin