Your body is a promise that I can’t keep But let me in anyway We’ll become whole again in showers of confetti We’ll fit together like branches instead of puzzle pieces I will not trap you in my arms, but you can rest here
My body is a book in a foreign language Sweetie, you have so much to learn But I am bilingual, so we’ll take it one page at a time
Here, it’s like there’s too much gravity We’re going to condense into the black hole of each other, entirely by accident But you can’t hold me down In space, there is no direction and this could be endless
It was strange and sickly sweet to feel infinite But there you were, standing between two mirrors, stretching on forever I tried to understand, but we moved in slow motion The walls collapsed inward, and we didn’t even notice
So deconstruct my body, just to make it whole again Be a sculptor, mind like a palace Heart unbuttoning Fall like clothing to the shower floor
You have been singing for your entire life So teach me to listen Teach me fo fall apart in perfect harmony
I keep hearing that God is a woman They say it like an argument, as if I need to be convinced that I can transcend my body As if I had been taught that I was confined by long hair and barbie dolls As if I ran away from boys on the playground They tried, and they failed
This time, I’m going to save you Because she took the boots off of her chest and put them on She took his hands out of her hair and cast them off And she is like an atom bomb But you, are sacred
If I hadn’t fallen in love with you, I would have been the first girl to kiss a boy in kindergarten
My hair was like a river draped over your shoulder You kissed me so that I wouldn’t drown in it But I sank deeper Because love fell halfheartedly like a dress ruined in a rainstorm
If you wanted this to be a love story, I’m sorry, but you’ve started at the end
I performed this quite poorly last night but that’s okay because next time it will be better.