Tell Me

I wanna be thin I wanna be lovely

To kill this appetite to which I'm chained

Everybody knows that being thin is good

From my heaviness I want to be redeemed

Tell me where to go and I will follow

Tell me what to do and I will do it

Tell me where to pray over and over

Tell me how to heal my shame

I married my love by the cathedral

560 years above the square

Everybody knows he was skinny when he died

'cause a chubby man cannot be crucified

Tell me where to go and I will follow

Tell me what to do and I will do it

Tell me where to pray over and over

Tell me how to heal my shame

Our shame

And all the while, your name has been

Glittering over the doorway in a gilded frame

A light of shining gold, inexorable ray

Come into our darkest hour and showing us all the way

And every day for ten years we're holding

Wires on our chests with the whirr of detectors rolling

Colors fade, I'm praying for my vision to stay, I'm

Tryin' to budge the line with these shrink wrapped razor blades

And the dogs are moon howling like they ever have

Meanwhile somehow we gotta cut one more kilogram

And I try to get below the needle

Oh but I can't quite and now we're just outside

The margin at the brittle edge

Back to the loving, gravity calling

Back to the world that holds our longing

We disappear