Darling you're all kinds of strange to me.
I see the future in memories
that circle and wind in shapes like
serpents constricting my tongue.
And maybe I'm just way too hard on myself
but you know that penance is beautiful and
mortification is food for my soul
my terrapin flesh. you escape like a dream
when i'm prostrate on the floor
beneath the altar trying to keep my eyes closed.
oh let it go

take me for being a child
cause i'm still that scared little boy with voices
suffer me for being a child
if bliss was in ignorance man i just don't wanna know

i watched as you took off your overcoat
and danced in the subway and mimicked the railroad cars
they lie by the Roanoke
and then i took a payment and bought up some real estate
cash on hand, paper bait
the lottery has put them to death
the lottery has put them to death
we're calling 'em back like fears made to movies
oh now i sit to be overthrown
the haunts of my visions
the cold sweats from all that war
oh let it go

take me for being a child
cause i'm still that scared little boy with voices
suffer me for being a child
if bliss was in ignorance man i just don't wanna know

you know the best songs
they come in six eight time
they come in easy rhyme
you know the best songs
they come to me all the time
they come in six eight time
oh you know the best songs
they come in easy rhyme
they come to me all the time

take me for being a child
cause i'm still that scared little boy with voices
suffer me for being a child
if bliss was in ignorance man i just don't wanna know