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lyrics

we come out of surgery raving & wild
our hearts far from home
we howl like harpies & scream like a child
in that moment we’re known

we take the pills but we don’t understand them
you keep the gate
but when we divine them & start to demand them
you take them away

I lie alone in my hospital bed
I hang my memory above me in thread
I can’t understand how dampened & dead we once were

how can we remain here while you tell us who we are
it’s not right, it’s not right
we’re breaking out of here & we’re never coming back
tonight, tonight

we come down from the balcony, see you beside us
warped by the pain
we thought that it would help us & heal us & hide us
it just makes us strange

we sulk in the corner, praying to see her
feel her presence in us
if we abide ‘til we learn how to be her
wonder where she’ll bring us

I lie alone & I stare at the ceiling
trying to circumscribe all that I’m feeling
turn it to offerings we can make kneeling to her

we go about our days, we play & we pretend
but now we’re done, now we’re done
we’ve made our preparations & we’ve studied long enough
we’re as good as gone

you call this a body & cling to a name
& expect us to simply accept it
but learning our lives aren’t just pity & shame
at last we know how to reject it

we’ll keep our form for as long as it suits us
dispose when it loses its worth
we’ll sharpen our teeth on the pits of the fruit
that’ll one day grow over this earth

I’ve found myself where her wild winds blow
I’m losing myself in her luminous glow
how grand & how gorgeous to finally know what we are

we’re setting up a screen where our smile used to be
nothing behind it
we’re burying a secret at the bottom of our heart
come & find it

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from Sink / Swim, released July 24, 2019

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Cutting Room Floor is a queer, feminist, genre-bending punk 3-piece based in the northeastern united states. Also sometimes described as a psychic rock band from the underworld.

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