emily from Psalms by Nymph
Tracklist
| 3. | emily | 4:49 |
Lyrics
emily i've been this erratic since seattle
i never liked oysters
and the bar-speak was obscene
they say every divorcée
learns to unclench in her own season
monterey darling
i dipped my heels in academia
behind the bolted hotel door
i pressed my palm to what was you
and pictured him grizzly
hippie-flipping and unhappy
and everything is in relation to you
don't you doubt it
everything
everything is in relation to you
i promise
everything
is that what our parents
were on about with donny osmond?
under the table:
clattering forks and infant wails
you will not see me
gambling resilience for pottage
and i'll take no loose change
he leers in memory
beautiful only in concept
beautiful only because i carved him out to be
his feet brushed mine, i budged away
he was all slobbery, not quite drunk, i felt no pinpricks
he did not last me
and now everything is in relation to you
don't you doubt it
everything
everything is in relation to you
i promise
everything
in that bed, that ghastly hotel red
i cried but not from ecstasy
whatever it was it's in my muscular history
i kissed him with all my teeth
i kowtowed to formalities
accommodating emily
my body withered, but I got clean
he looked so interesting once
we twisted into fish-knots, love:
a twisted dish-rag fisted up
on separate sofas black with mud
the car was small, i bought it used
the soap was green, crewneck was blue
and i fear no evil, fear no wound
everything's in relation to--
