State Hospital Lyrics - Pedestrian Verse - Frightened Rabbit

The half back-flip conception, a state hospital birth 

The most threadbare tall story the country's ever heard 

Brought home to breathe smoke in arms of her mother with a blunt kitchen knife 

Who just lays in a submissive position 

beneath the national weight and the slow arc of a fist 

Her heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairs 

Her blood is thicker than concrete forced to be brave she was, born into a grave 

And in the limp three years of board schooling 

she's accustomed to hearing that she could never run far 

A slipped disc in the spine of community, 

a bloody curse word made pedestrian verse 

Spirits in graveyards and fingers in car parks 

She cries in the high street just to be heard 

A screaming anchor for nothing in particular 

at the foot of the fuck of it, and dragging her heels in the dirt 

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Her heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairs 

Her blood is thicker than concrete forced to be brave she was, born into a grave 

The cheek of youth flushed red and turned gray 

Now she lies on the pavement, she's helped to her feet, 

all thighs, hair, and magpie handbags 

Saturday's uniform for the fuck me parade 

Brought home to keep warm in the arms of a plumber ruddy and balding 

Who just needs a spine to dig into, a chest for the head, and a hand for the holding 

Her heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairs 

Her blood is thicker than concrete forced to be brave she was, she was 

Her heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairs 

Her skin is thicker than concrete forced to be brave she was, she was 

A broken elevator anthem held between floors 

But if blood is thicker than concrete, all of it is not lost 

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All is not lost 

All is not lost 

All is not lost 

All is not lost