Toothpick

I wish our skin would meet A sting I wish would bleed Like toothpicks sliding under fingernails Don't you need a breath of air? 'Cause you're biting at my head Like starving great whites feeding in the deep end And I wish I was just as strong As I make myself out to be I'm twisting my words to appear like This doesn't burn 'em Staring at the sun, papercuts are in my eyes Shrinking our worth, mixing fiction With crime like a substance I'm addicted to Diving into the salt tides I took you like a thief A pinch that doesn't leave It's like ice cubes grinding at your front teeth And I miss you while you talk It's a comforting sense of shock Feels like silver caught inside a toaster And I wish I was just as strong As I make myself out to be I'm twisting my words to appear like This doesn't burn 'em Staring at the sun, papercuts are in my eyes Shrinking our worth, mixing fiction With crime like a substance I'm addicted to Diving into the salt tides (Diving into the salt tides) A fever that I'll never break 'Cause I keep pushing pills away Just to see my body shake Expensive red wine I hate the taste And how the slightest spoon will stain I drink with you anyway 'Cause I know that I'm not As strong as I make myself out to be I'm twisting my words to appear like This doesn't burn 'em Staring at the sun, papercuts are in my eyes Shrinking our worth, mixing fiction With crime like a substance I'm addicted to Diving into the salt tides I'm twisting my words to appear like This doesn't burn 'em Staring at the sun, papercuts are in my eyes Shrinking our worth, mixing fiction With crime like a substance I'm addicted to Diving into the salt tides I wish I was just as strong As I make myself out to be