Otep - I Remember lyrics
rate me<br>
Who's there?<br />
Who's there?<br />
<br />
And I remember<br />
Flashes of laughter<br />
And lunatics<br />
Lost in the asylum<br />
Seductive propaganda<br />
Scrolling across my mind <br />
Like guerilla cinema.<br />
<br />
Belts and wooden spoons<br />
Flies in the afterbirth<br />
Like shadows across my brain<br />
And crawling on linoleum kitchens<br />
Streaming death and corporate concienceness into my brain<br />
And cracked porclein sinks stuffed with<br />
Dirty dishes.<br />
<br />
The early morning anxiety of gradeschool<br />
Dark stockings to hide the bruises.<br />
Secret friends and festive holidays<br />
And everyone in their sunday best<br />
Pretending to like each other.<br />
<br />
For generations and generations of<br />
Sad mistakes.<br />
Stealing away in the dead of night to <br />
Escape the stiff jawed henchmen in the hungry trucks<br />
Of an angry slumlord miles and miles away.<br />
<br />
Impatient and understanding<br />
Waking on the side of the road<br />
Hissing radiator hoses cracked like<br />
Burned skin.<br />
Days so hot a nuclear holocaust would've felt like siberian blizzard.<br />
<br />
And I remember<br />
The first time I felt it alive inside me<br />
Turning the deadweight<br />
Moving within the folds of its winged embrace<br />
Opening and sliding those black feathers<br />
Inches at a time.<br />
Those feet<br />
Pushing and digging into the membrane<br />
Deep enough to cause pregnancy<br />
And I remember it going numb<br />
And listening to it hum<br />
And I feel it move in its mysteries<br />
Exploring me<br />
And I remember this<br />
And I know<br />
I never had a chance.<br />
There's never any escaping it.
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<i>[Thanks to James for these lyrics]</i><br>
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