Eggshell Lyrics - The Roches

i live in an eggshell 

sometimes, if i'm careful, i can make a pinpoint 

through the shell 

and see the light. 

i'm too big to fit through the hole, though, 

and that's my tough luck. 

inside my eggshell i am secure, 

as long as i am careful not to move. 

but i have no control over what happens from the outside. 

i huddle there and worry that something i can not see 

will bump into me 

and when it does! 

you wouldn't believe what happens in an eggshell then! 

i get scrambled. 

my brains run like bean soup into my veins, bursting them. 

and my blood spatters up against the wall 

worst of all. 

a little bit of me seeps through cracks 

and trickles away forever. 

people who live in eggshells have only one alternative: 

they can get hard boiled.