Tortoise

If you read about it

Then it really doesn’t matter

All I ever wanna do is keep you set in stone

Playing by the book

I know the tricks that get you stuck

If you gone dig up any bones

Then it’s murder she wrote

But she don’t write me

I been on the cusp of giving in

Everything I got

It’ll never be enough

And I know that I can keep you

In my grasp

I been slipping with no falling

Moving like a tortoise

With really sure footing

Corpses

Pile round my feet

And they clawing

I know that they all had what you once wanted

What is it you want from me

I got animosity

Looking at the shattered men

Looming around the corner piece

Many times I run away

I don’t even need the pain

Painting a picture with neon stripes

Hope I spot the way

Dark space

Where I been lurking when I can’t hide a play

Hard place

Rock that been keeping me where the sun grey

Locked gaze

I ain’t been keeping up on a bad day

Good days

I been sauntering like a headcase

Scaring me to death

When I stay

At the coldest

Spatula gonna flip me over

Grill me on the shoulder

Roasting me like

Quartered meat

That’s why I stay afloat love

Every time you call the coroner

So you can slow rub

If you read about it

Then it really doesn’t matter

All I ever wanna do is keep you set in stone

Playing by the book

I know the tricks that get you stuck

If you gone dig up any bones

Then it’s murder she wrote

But she don’t write me

I been on the cusp of giving in

Everything I got

It’ll never be enough

And I know that I can keep you

In my grasp

I’m

Moving in between all these enemy lines

Feeding into propaganda that want me lie

Buttering soul cause I never know

Where the profit will hide

Running with all of my prospects

Finding another one cross hatched

Why do you hurt every one

That come around you

You ain’t defenseless

Talking me outta my senses

Gotta rebound with no back slip

If I did then I’d be drowning

Gotta make a deal with myself in this