Have I become
Bug under thumb
For your scented nails to grow by.
I need out of my shirts I think you'll find attractive.
On your hill perched so clandestine you rest
Like a second term president and I go
Destined to keep the crayon close
And guess until my name goes red,
At whose dead half daughters
Were denied your womb
On the down low.
At whose dead half sons
Come a lump in my throat
And man my fever with an army of frogs underskin

And I don't want to dance with your shadow no more
Or listen through an elephant's ear for your
Whispers into the other

My curse is the circuit that your fingers
Rehearse on me to quell my nerves
And my only one is for you to king me
With wavecrest
And not stethoscope,
With the core,
Not tentative as you were
Choosing soup cans
From the cupboard
For your gradeschool's
Thanksgiving food drive, no.

But I'm the only one
Pulling near clear from a melted crayon
Under the comforter some man
Cured your goosebumps with.
I'm sick and stuck on something you.
Everytime I see a honda civic
My heart just jumps right through.
I do it by your nail's light
But nothing comes, it's true.
And I'm caught in a pipe
To smoke my own limbs off.

And I don't want to dance with your shadow no more
Or listen through an elephant's ear for your
Whispers into the other.


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    From an interview :

    This was the only song written after we had split up. I stayed over her house one night ’cause I had locked myself out of my house. I was taking a piss and I found a fuckin’ used condom in the trash can. The absolute worst feeling you can have ever. Needless to say, I couldn’t sleep that night.

    KingJelleon July 20, 2006   Link
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    i think the chorus shows how she had already been gone for a while, in a sense.

    he doesn't want to dance with her shadow. he doesn't want to stay in love with just the thought of her, if she already seems to be gone.

    sexwheelson April 04, 2007   Link
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    dead half-daughters and dead half-sons = sperm

    equivalenceon June 15, 2009   Link
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    melted cryon means the the hot sex on the comforter melted it

    ComaLogicon February 19, 2010   Link
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    I wish they all could be California girls...

    havebeenfloatedon July 31, 2010   Link

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