Ribcage Lyrics - Heart On My Sleeve - Mary Lambert

Living in the darkness 

I wear it like a crown 

Oh I've got tough skin 

Ready for my bow 

All I've got is two hands 

I tied them in the middle 

Ready for the red tape 

To open up my ribcage 

I offer souvenirs 

A deaf tongue and blinded ears 

Can you fill the shelves in here 

Come in come in 

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Everybody look around 

Everybody look around 

I don't know how to fill the space 

The invitation's on the page 

Open up my ribcage 

Want you to want me like I'm all you got 

Mama see's seeing it but can't make me stop 

Telling the truth it might mean you get broken 

But letting it hurt that's my method of coping 

Doubt in season like that smoke in my lungs 

What they project on me what I've become 

Down on my knees unsure what to say 

No I never learned how to prey 

Don't know, know who I been fooling 

But you got me running in circles I'm ruined 

Let you inside opened up all my wounds 

Taking my ribcage and ripped it in two 

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Everybody look around 

Everybody look around 

I don't know how to fill the space 

The invitation's on the page 

Open up my ribcage 

Tie off all my tendons 

Watch how they stretch 

Oh I've got the muscle 

But lord, I'm spent 

Knocking down my sternum 

Began at a young age 

Too much space between 

Open up my ribcage 

I offer souvenirs 

A deaf tongue and blinded ears 

Can you fill the shelves in here 

Come in come in 

Everybody look around 

Everybody look around 

I don't know how to fill the space 

The invitation's on the page 

Open up my ribcage 

There's impenetrable silence inside of my head 

There's nothing I can buy when I'm practically dead 

I get so tired of writing everything I should have said 

That maybe this time I'll put my pen down and just tell you instead 

You see I opened up my ribcage and violins flew out 

The organs softly played through my violin mouth 

I got lights hotter than love hidden beneath my tongue 

Written on my skin 

It tells me your the one 

Everybody look around 

Everybody look around 

I don't know how to fill the space 

The invitation's on the page 

Open up my ribcage 

Open up my ribcage 

Open up my ribcage 

Open up my ribcage 

Open up my ribcage