Bedsprings

Oh, don't keep me hidden safe under the off-white sheets
With a flask of Jack Daniels for the lack of heat
You can tell that doctor that all my scars are just maps to Texas
So now can you, can you ship me back there, why don't you get me undressed

So you can teach me how to sleep like you do
On your stomach with your buried face
Who wasn't born to be rescued?
Who wasn't born to be saved?
I hear cell phones ringing inside of me
I don't know how to stop
I feel buildings crumbling inside of me
But I don't know how to stop

But I've hired an army of pharmacists
To break myself into increments
Regimens and dosages
To make the holes easier to ignore
While I wait for every tumbler in your lock to agree
As they trace the notches of the skeleton key like a rosary
My pulse swells like a timpani

Oh, won't you teach me how to sing like you do?
My voice sounds like bedsprings
Won't you teach me how to sleep like you do?
I keep dreaming about drowning
And I taste poetry rotting inside of me
I don't know how to stop
I know there are widows wailing inside of me
But I don't know how to stop

Oh, then out come the wolves
Out come the teeth
I'm so jealous of you
Please don't be jealous of me
Oh, and then out come the wolves
Out come the teeth
I'm so jealous of you
Please don't say that you're jealous of me

Oh, won't you teach me how to weep like you do?
I don't wanna be an actor anymore
Won't you teach me how to love like you do?
I can't stand being the art school whore
I'm surrounded by wolves
Soon, I'll be surrounded by teeth
I'm so jealous of you
Please don't be jealous of me

Oh, won't you teach me how to pick all of your locks?
I don't know how to stop
Oh, won't you teach me how to pick all of your locks?
I don't know how to stop
I don't know how to pick all of your locks
So teach me how stop
I'll never know how to pick all of your locks
So teach me how to stop
Teach me how to stop
Teach me how