Gymnopedie
Gymnopedie and rain
I was born on a windowsill at midnight,
Smoke flowering in my lungs and clawing at my lips
The word rises and rises and rises and then slips
And everything that I wanted
Everything that I wanted to say,
Was gone when the street light
Gave itself over to the day

Gymnopedie
Gymnopedie and rain and rust
I was born on the intersection of heroine and industrialism
Fingers gripping cold steel, heaving my body up and over the city
And we climb higher and higher and higher until the expansion looked pretty
And everything that I wanted
Everything that I wanted to be
Became trapped in the rafters
Trapped for an eternity

Gymnopedie
Gymnopedie and rain and rust and warmth
I was born head-bent and spine snapped beneath his roomate's bed
Indentations of a foreign language searing its history along my skin
And the glow spreads and spreads and spreads within
And everything that I wanted
Everything that I wanted to do
It all fell into place
When I fell into you