Among the Wildflowers

[Verse 1]
You were born on a leap year, fill in the gaps
Spinning gears, keep catching your cracks
Skipping teeth, keep calling you back
Telling stories pretending they’re fact
Let me go, too unstable to wane
Chewing wildflowers to numb the pain

[Chorus]
Cut the lines, you’ll be fine
But if you break when I break, will you carry me away?
Will you fall on your blade just to hear when I’m saying I can’t?

[Verse 2]
You came out, started bruising
Find it tough to admit when you're losing
Oh, what should I think?
Carefully crafted commercial disaster
They take what you’re after
To get what they want out of you

[Chorus]
Cut the lines, you’ll be fine
But if you break when I break, will you carry me away?
Will you fall on your blade just to hear when I’m saying I can’t?

[Outro]
Dissociate from touch, you’re tilting to pull
The others with you, posed Shakespearean skull
We see in different pictures
You play the imperial, stealing the power to waste away
You took the comfort from the lights in her soul
Projected map of the body: it's crass, abject, colonial
You passed; disease presented to you at birth
Held underwater, told to scream your self-worth
It wasn’t good enough
Entrust the secrets to the backs of your arms
Killing the self as to protect it from harm

[Interview with a Child]
"What would you do if someone hurt your best friend's feelings to the point where they become insane?"
"I would say something that made 'em stop, or I'd just text him and try to not let the bully touch them, or anything, just try to block 'em from doing that, then turn 'em in. If I got punched, it's okay because, it's not okay because, I was tryin' to get the other, other person safe, but I want them safe, 'cause I was only in the middle of it. But I was tryin' to... help somebody not get hurt."