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Another song about shitty relationships
and also creepy dolls.
Cause, ya know, metaphors.

lyrics

When blinking feels like shards of glass
and every little eyelash
feels like rusty knives across my skin.

Now my lips are cracked and bleeding.
The anger stains my teeth.
These fissures line my mouth there's one for
every little lie.

My jaw is propped on hinges.
I'm a puppet for your sins,
I'm parroting these words but they were
never really mine.

Ventriloquist,
sealed with a kiss
I find it hard to reminisce.
When all my joints are rusted
drowning in the storms behind your eyes.

I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
Sick porcelain.

I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
Sick porcelain.

Your voice gets caught up in my throat.
I push it down I start to choked.
Spitting blood and splinters,
broken glass and hope.

My eyes are cold, my body's numb,
and this is your idea of fun.
Even when you cut the strings,
I have no strength to run.

The sadness lingers on my breath
but there are some things worse than death
like being trapped inside a memory
you haven't left yet.

Ventriloquist.
Things seem amiss.
I find it hard to just dismiss.
My paint is chipped and peeling
burning in the stars behind your eyes.

I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
Sick porcelain.

I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
Sick porcelain.

Inside this box it's hard to see
that there is so much I could be
in a time and place
there never was a you and me.

I'm not a mouthpiece for your guise,
a figurehead for your demise
ventriloquist you're fading,
rotting underneath a bed of flies.

I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
Sick porcelain.

I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
Sick porcelain.

I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
Sick porcelain.

I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
I'm sick, I'm sick, I'm sick.
Sick porcelain.

credits

from It's Not Who You Come With, It's Who Takes You Home, released April 1, 2020
The Mary Lous "Sick Porcelain"
music and lyrics by Razor De Rockefeller/The Mary Lous
Recorded and mixed by Subtle City Productions 2020

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The Mary Lous Brooklyn, New York

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