An Introduction To The Album - The Hotelier

Open the curtains

Singing birds tell me tear the buildings down

You felt blessed to receive their pleasant sound

Things that break make you cringe inside yourself

There's a child counting stars in their time-out

In their time

In the corners of their frame they are encased

In the losing of a grain

Of themselves

Pushed against the ebb and flow

Wave good-bye and watch it go

Well show me the honest/proper way

To disarm predatory gaze

That's sucking dry and never say she and

You've been misused

Been rewired

You're short-circuiting now

Just remember when you'd call me to come

Take a deep breath and then jump

So fragile are bodies

So concave work in self-destructive ways

You shot from the hip and missed

Detaching from all of this

In physical pictures you remain

Spiral 'round yourself in figure-eight

I recoil at every new beginning

I searched for a way out

Don't we all

An existentialist recall

Turn in all dichotomies and truths that I gave

I felt wrong in many ways

It didn't heal

It just got harder everyday to be still

To be passing through the throes

In a daze

Feeling heavy

Feeling cold in my skin

In my hand-me-downs

I'm wearing everything thin

And the pills that you gave didn't do anything

I just slept for years on end

So if I call

Should I beg

Because I'm desperate here

A couple steps from the edge

I can't seem to burn bright enough

I'm cold and I'm left alone

We're all alone

Grab a hold

I know I said to not What the f**k do I know

I had a chance to construct something beautiful and I choked

I choked

I choked

I choked