Composition Lyrics

This is the way I crack all my bones

This is the place where a disc hit my nose

This is a knuckle swollen from cold

This is the bruise where I took in the blow

Here is my throat, smoother than yours

An apple that feels like a stone

And it bobs when you speak, I finger the node

And feel the word take course

And you'll never know the body you own

Until it starts to fight back

And when I've been held by hands fully grown

I'll know what I meant by that

Went off to school, I gained and I lost

And I got a sense of self

That I wrapped up in jeans all tight at the seams

And choking at the belt

And I loosed all my needs, it was anarchy

And it looked like anatomy class

All those organs and bones, a skeleton home

Built to be collapsed

And you'll never know the body you own

Until it starts to fade

And when I've been hollowed and turned into loam

I'll grow into a tree for someone else's shade