Sunny Dancer and the Midnight Oil

[Verse 1: Bender]
Fast awake and agitated wonder drug bad mistake stomach sunk with candy cane fishing lures that lacerate
As I shake she hold me close but don't speak, I won't either
Eyelids weighed down with copper save my two cents for the boat-keeper
Shook me in and out of daydreams with her hands across my chest
Said don't worry it's peace these burgundy sheets will camouflage the mess
Climb between her saying that this gift's a Uzi baby whisper to me girl she told me God and Santa Claus were dead
Wrapped in silk two caterpillars one cocoon we're under now
But when the cycle's done there's just one butterfly that's coming out
It's the sickest kind of love, neither hungry for the truth and while I'm crippled by the drugs she's just a glutton for abuse
Reach the highest mountain, and after it erupts
She'd say I'm in her heart while cringing from the cancer in her gut She'd threaten exodus, I'll hold my throat in baritone until she barrel rolls across me giving off the sweetest pheromones
His periscope's collecting dust, the lens is fucking shattered
But there's a hundred answers as to why the surface doesn't matter
All survival skills depleted, got only time to kill
I make a path to the bathroom through expired pills and hydro bills
This third floor holy water ain't enough to ease my trembling
If I'ma write this story backwards then I need to reach an ending
Something golden turned to ugly from those bottled up emotions Mommy almost but her tummy wasn't strong enough to hold it

[Chorus: Bender]
I met her on the overpass, where I sat and wrote
She told me dirty jokes between the O's in her smoke
And thoughts of what we coulda had had got me on the ropes
You see regret's a bitch but pessimist or not she's just a ghost
I met her on the overpass, where I sat and wrote
She told me dirty jokes between the O's in her smoke
And thoughts of what we coulda had had got me on the ropes
You see regret's a bitch but pessimist or not she's just a ghost

[Verse 2: Bender]
And now I, need to decide to stay or leave her behind and say goodbye
I bit my tongue and felt a piece of me die
Can't give her up I'm weak and besides, I need her she's mine
Don't give a fuck 'bout what the doctors say they'll see she'll be fine
Now this is bugged, they wanna operate my baby's in hell
She said if God wants me he's gon' have to take me himself
Not even 20 years old, I guess you learn to be hard
When you got three generations worth of surgery scars
Spent a good part of her life on top a hospital bed
She said she'd rather die at home than in a oxygen tent
Thought her spirit left, seen her nearly dead, couldn't hear her breath
But this angel stood her ground where reapers fear to tread
Saw hours turn into days, days turn into weeks
Saw cancer go into remission, heard it purring in its sleep
My girl's been thirsty for some peace, things were going back to normal sort of
So that sickness was a dirty word we didn't speak
And soon enough, we went back to sleeping at night
Read our faces in between the lines for reasons to fight
I wasn't ready for, this situation so I spent my time, chasing the high she couldn't give me anymore
This love got the best of me, drunk off the chemistry
My gut rot eventually, these drugs cost me everything
I'd give my life to heal her but then again in a minute
I woulda stole her morphine if she only told me where she hid it