Taxidermist Taxidermist

[Verse 1]
Dislocation, pushy persuasion
Ligament and bone, ligament and bone
Crystal structures, defects and blunders
Once turning all my mineral to stone, stone, stone

And so I reintroduce me to myself
"How do you do?" I say, "I've heard such lovely things about
Who you are and where you've been
But be in me again, yes back in me again"

[Chorus]
Will, oh will, oh wilderness, my wilderness
Dark and ambiguous, will you tangle me in?
Lie, oh lie, oh lioness, my lioness
Sharp and ambivalent, won't you lie on my skins?
Taxi, taxidermist, taxidermist, sopping-ripe intentionest, oh I am intent
On paying attention again to my own cracked compass
Steady-handed

[Verse 2]
Semantic satiation where I can say your name
Over and over till it means nothing
A deliberate extinction of everything I know
I was never meant to know, know about you

But you are a fawn with such secrets
And I have been fond and keen on your meekness
I've bled dry for your arms, and I've longed to
Gnaw on your neck, fawning over it

[Outro]
My love, oh my sweet love
Whom I am yet to unravel with
One night lie on my pulse, tap the beats of my heart out on your clavicle
One day we shall be enraptured, sweet enrapture
What anticipation and how masterful
You can show me I am here in this world
Tall and truly true
Meeting myself before I meet you