Melting Through the Plastic Phrase

The nape of your neck
Is folded
Under the security
Of a red velvet sky
You lie alone - listless
Everything quickly turns into
The void of your soul
Infecting my atmosphere
All that's here



Who do you think controls the oceans
Who do you think controls the night
Who do you think enjoys the painful
Who do you think destroys the light

Sink back you're never gonna need it
Fall back you're never gonna see
Leave this my only condensation
Melting through the plastic phrase

Remembrance
Of an old woman's tears
As they flow and cut
Through the sins
You produce
Screams
Shooting out of her head
Spinning she slips into sleep

Who do you think controls the oceans
Who do you think controls the night
Who do you think enjoys the painful
Who do you think destroys the light

Sink back you're never gonna need it
Fall back you're never gonna see
Leave this my only condensation
Melting through the plastic phrase

Under your silver sky
I know what keeps you here
The trolls in your garage
And the saints in your shower
Told me the truth of you

The caterpillar whispered
Sweetly into the wind:
"The dark one comes
when fires drip
and nothing burns
out your life"
I've heard it 10 million times

Sink back you're never gonna need it
Fall back you're never gonna see
Leave this my only contemplation
Melting through the plastic phrase

Don't fade into this
Don't bleed away
The poison's in your kiss
Only hate tastes like this
The poison's all I miss



Lyrics by Erin Knowles
© Soda Ash 1998

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