I hate you, I love you
Leave, please don't go away
Can't decide if I like your face
Or if I wish it would stray

You're a child but you're malicious
You're sweet but don't remember my name
And heads you win and tails I'm lost
And love equals pain

I am drifting without an anchor
Through your ambigous region
A strange continent immune to all reason
And I'm flattered by your grey matter

Inside my skin, I feel your tongue
Telling me I'm dirty and licking my bones
A surge against silence, a knife across a plate
Makes the sound of need on hate

I am drifting without an anchor
Through your ambigous region
A strange continent immune to all reason
And I'm flattered by your grey matter
And I do not understand why a woman can't just love a man

You're amusing you're a real cool show
With your meat hooks and barbed wire carnival
You got mothholes in your pockets
You got bullets in your soul
From too many false teeth and greasy flash bulbs

I am drifting without an anchor
Through your ambigous region
A strange continent immune to all reason
And I'm flattered by your grey matter

I love you
I hate you


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Grey Matter (Bonus Track, Live) Lyrics as written by Jewel Kilcher

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    this song is so meaningful. it's all about the oxymorons of love and how easy it is to hate and love someone at the same time.

    becca0688on March 17, 2005   Link

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