She needs just a body A few stanzas To fill in the gaps Where the ribs should expand But she has no breath For she needs no air To keep a heart pumping
Functioning on the smoke From a joint That glints in the moon light Strewn across the lawn In the night so clear That she's her own New York
Everything's overdrive Her daddy taught her how to inhale And steal her heart away In hopes that he could breathe again
And he stole her eyes With the waves washing over him The strands widening to form a pit The pupils of New York Is in the moon
You know the girl without a breath For she yells the longest and the loudest You know the girl without a breath