What Color Is Blood - Parquet Courts

What color is blood?

Still the same that it was?

Is it still good for what it does?

(Bleeding)

Cause I’ve been needing a new vein line

Going from my guts to my heart to my mind

What’s sharp as a knife, followed me all my life

Waits never rests, till it eats me alive?

Snarlin', darlin I don’t fear nothing

Gushin', I can hear myself leak

I’m roaming outside of the signal

Where it slips in and out

Charges apply, but your heart beats louder

Beyond the dominion of doubt

Excuse me as I slip on out

How is agency built in a life unfulfilled?

Tanned slow and low in the amines of guilt

Hung, stretched, beaten and dried like skin

Smooth, new, and shiny but so paper-thin

What tastes like betrayal, gazes naked and pale?

Sneaks into you like it got outta jail?

The blues creeping down you from your head to your tail

The kind that don’t let you sing along

I’m listening to a different station

Frequent on a different band

Slightly harder to find but with tuning and time

You won’t touch that dial again

Excuse me as I slip on out