Strange Maneuvers - Lady Lamb

A man holds a Bible above his head

His blood rushes down with a shit-eating grin

He’s only hoping to be noticed

The teenagers buy berries on the corner

The juices drop down their middle fingers

They’re just lookin' to be looked over

Well, I’m passin' by the cathedral doors

It’s gorgeous inside whether or not you’re reborn

Wadin' in the wings, wild thoughts are everything

The mind is thinking of itself, how stunning?

The ripeness is rotting, the roughness is softening

Time is making strange maneuvers

A spectacle so theatrical

Person is fucking hisself over and over

How incessant, how unnerving

The shimmer of the heavens we are cursing

I don’t wanna be afraid of myself anymore

I don’t wanna be afraid of myself anymore

I don’t wanna be afraid of myself anymore

I don’t wanna be afraid of myself anymore

After wading all day in my kiddie pool brain

My last stitch is a ticket to a matinee

But my attention span is too broke to play

I can’t stop replaying my mistakes over and over

And over, and over, and over

Wadin' in the wings, wild thoughts are everything

The mind is thinking of itself, how stunning?

The ripeness is rotting, the roughness is softening

Time is making strange maneuvers

How incessant, how unnerving

The shimmer of the heavens we are cursing

I don’t wanna be afraid of myself anymore

I don’t wanna be afraid of myself anymore

I don’t wanna be afraid of myself anymore

I don’t wanna be afraid of myself anymore

(Thank you)

Kurt called in the early morning

Just to remind me I’m already alright

Last night he read me a long list of words

To occupy my mind

And it worked, Kurty-bear

You bathe my brain like a baby sink

Please stay with yourself the way you stayed with me

I know of the vibrant pain

When the pitch of your crying is

Vibrating your vein

Like an already-taught string being tightened

But your mind is thinking of itself

Honey, isn’t that something else?