Flesh and Electricity

Each day I ride my bike to the hospital
Walk around, check vital signs
and pretend to be useful
Sometimes though I really don’t know
what I’m doing here

My father says it’s atonement
for my reckless years
Like the antagonist from that book
for that class that I once took
I’ve been desensitized to the human body

I could look at you naked
and all I’d see would be anatomy

You’re just bones and insecurity

flesh and electricity to me


Each night I try to find that feeling in my bed
the two dimensional happiness
When you live your life through a camera lens
People stick together and they pull themselves apart
Dehydration, separation like the chambers of my heart
Then the weight fell off like clothes
Never knowing where it goes
I’ve been desensitized to the human body

I could look at you naked
and all I’d see would be anatomy
You’re just bones and insecurity

flesh and electricity to me

Tearing labels off beer bottles in the living room
Feeling nothing, wanting nothing,

‘cause that part of me left with you
Now I plan my day around
the 8 and 12 medication rounds
There are no shocks or surprises 

no it’s nothing like that
I’ve been desensitized to the human body

I could look at you naked
and all I’d see would be anatomy
You’re just bones and insecurity

flesh and electricity like me