Cadmium

Lyrics

i was walkin with my neck out 
some ways i wish i was 
was walkin with my neck out in some ways that i wish that i was 
out on the bevel of sound it sounds like everything else 
you'll know it when you hear it cuz u know the way my voice felt 
ignore my tone & everything i sing i sing for me 
ignore the phone on your bed it rings it rings it rings 
shirt collar ringin me out & my collar bone got all red 
& already severing prose i wrote so i sing instead 
i hold you put your neck out tell me the ways you wish you were 
keep your confidence sound, your hook my eye my spur 
so when i went to hang out, i hung behind your eyes 
but my eyes still flicker with doubt 
quickly o i cant decide 
i'm tapped out 
don't it always seem to go that 
you could hold it right in your hands collapsing & still not know 
(your hands' collapse & still not know) 

say what it is 
say how it is with everybody i know 
i've got no temper for that 
i send you this 
cadmium red, one for every layer i shed 
& i shed one layer for thisss 
say what it is 
it's so impossible 
but if i just say what it is 
it tends to sublimate away 
when i was looking to drop 
my life away 

more every year 
i shine light on edges i tried to unfeel 
but we've gotta do better than that 
some sortin out 
so i'll be sittin on the outskirts if you wanna talk about it 
things in there were just gettin so loud 

say what it is 
it's so impossible 
but i just say what it is 
it tends to sublimate away 
when i was looking to drop 
my life away
 

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