Sage Francis Lyrics

Album: Unknown

Mermaids are Seasluts Lyrics

I am nothing but a shell of the man I once was

 So you can put me to your ear and actually hear yesteryear's ocean

 I was in shape then

 A much better built body of water with infinite waves and fathomless depths

 Where you could have deep sea fishing for compliments

 And caught plentiful schools of reassuring comments

 Now all you get is the boot

 You fell for the bait and got hooked on what you thought I was

 Now we're both struggling to win this tug of war of the worlds

 Where we breathe the same air, it's just done differently

 And I'm tryin to figure out ways to have comfortably survive outside your element

 Compromising intelligence

 I dabbled in watered down thoughts that filtered in from the main stream

 I'm offering mind altering ideas that make the most quiet natured brain scream

 from exposure to the types of things that won't necessarily make you happier

 They'll just give you a greater range of emotions

 And I can feel myself getting lured into deeper oceans of ??

 Where people think they're as safe as cartoons simply because they speak in bubbles

 A sanitized safe-haven where you could face Satan and have his faith straightened

 His new goal would be to dethrone Poseidon and have Neptune's place taken

 They'd swashbuckle with their pitchforks

 While Lucifer shit talks and rips forts of coral reef

 For relief they be like "bitch walk"

 From this oversized aquarium that daddy kept cleanly to unhealthy degrees

 Writing suicide notes with invisible ink on transparences

 And posting them to the glass boundaries that surround the seas of change

 Strangely enough, while bringing back the real

 I could sense intense resistance so I had no other choice but to cut the line

 I'm not saying you're overly naive

 I just think you should get into the habit of seeing when strings are attached

 Fortunate for you I'm compassionate enough to throw back what I catch

 If it's underdeveloped and needs time to grow

 Though I'm remorseful of the pain I've caused you

 And I want to kiss your lips better

 I sympathize with the sorrow by stroking the scar

 of my own traumatic experience with my excommunicated tongue

 Say I know exactly what you mean when you say it hurts too much to talk

 I've been there; I don't plan on returning cause

 No matter how much distance I kept or how long I waited for my wounds to heal

 They'd re-open with the slightest flashback

 So I sued time for malpractice

 That bastard's a hack with a rusty scalpel and barbed-wire stitch thread

 Instead of seeing things clearly, they're pitched red

 And there's this glitch in my head that's got me thinking contradictions, it said:

 "There are more fish in the sea

 Whether you hear me not or you listen to me

 Whether you listen to me or hear me not

 There are more microorganisms in my teardrop"

 But fear not, I'd never sink as low as to make my ears pop

 And I imagine now you only want to swim with members of your own league

 And you don't need me meddling, sending sonar signals

 High pitched notes are symbols, my voice has grown far

 But ripples are only caused when you cast stones

 But you shouldn't throw rocks if you live in fragile fairytales

 

 Girl: "This really means something to me; I'll always treasure it as a token"

 Guy: "No you won't, cause this is for the girl who loves me

 The girl who cares about me for who I am, not what I look like

 I just wanted you to know you'd be missing

 You think I don't appreciate art, you think I don't understand fashion

 You think I'm not "hip", you think I'm pathetic

 A nerd, a lard-ass, fatso, you think I'm shit

 Well you're wrong, cause I'm champagne

 And you're shit, until the day you die

 You, not me, will always be shit"