I know you don't want to talk, but I just don't feel the same I've seen more suitcases on your bed than times I've seen your bed made Bad days and sad ways to reconnect I can live without you by my side, but I can't live next to you showing neglect I need a parental advisory sticker on my regrets I need internal revival with dinner to find my vest I need a maternal but fatherly figure to put a heart in my chest I need bare rental of bodily fixtures to somehow feel the rest I need poison in my lungs and in my heart I need a staple gun with one bullet left to pin my insecurities to the front of my chest I need forgiveness I need a miracle I need the miracle we call "forgiveness" I need a witness I didn't move back in my dad's house, he has space for a vacant body The lab's out and the results are down The first failure of a forsaken robbery stealing the currency we used to bring peace Please, pray for the living I'll handle the deceased When a swan song is a wrong call, block numbers and shock collars in a studio apartment by the locked cellars Where every word is poison but the poison tastes like honey and money is the exception to the words we cannot speak It's a breach of betrayal, a renewal of pain Stain after stain, cut the nerve to the membrane and escape through the release I need less of what I have and more of what I lack I need to forgive myself so I can have my friends back I need to move up, I need to move down The sound of my voice bouncing off the walls is always a letdown So I set down the nightgown and hear the rain pound The same sound on paved ground or bloodhounds making a runaround Making the sun go around, making gravity hold me down Demanding gravity's attention every time I feel down So cut the nerve to the membrane Chemically speaking, I pray to God when we can breathe in space So the brave souls in grave cold can meet someday And we can all escape I need God to look less like me and more like God I need to look less than me and more like God And stop making photocopies of the same sheet music and use it to reach a pulpit To each a steeple of gold, melt it down to a calf as I feel the pain in my calves Spitting on the face of a man hanging on a tree then begging on my knees to also bleed So the grays that took place in my pain won't feel so foreign even though it feels complete I need to stop breathing quickly so I can breathe in deep I need to wake up my heart but let my mind sleep I need poison in my lungs and my heart I need a staple gun with one bullet left to pin my insecurities to the front of my chest I need forgiveness I need a miracle I need a miracle we call "forgiveness" I need a witness I need sleep