Soot from The Forest by Moonraker

Wipe off the soot
I want to fucking sparkle
But you’ll never see progress without signs of a struggle
If we start pushing our way to the engine room
And stop short in the bar car
We’ll still be warmer than the caboose

So I called and told you everything
But it didn’t change a fucking thing
Except I swam home and threw my concrete Nikes away
And went back to my tower where I stayed up for hours
Waiting for you to call and say
The things I knew you’d never say

Lace-up your skates and race me down to the lake
It’s been unseasonably cold in this hell hole
And I’ve got bruises on my face in the shape of your pillowcase
Stuffed with a thousand or so I fucking told you so’s

I’m sick of using all these ropes for blankets
While I sleep on the tracks of this train set
But if you opened the cabinet and told me I was real
I probably wouldn’t believe you
Probably wouldn’t know how to feel

Lace-up your skates and race me down to the lake
It’s been unreasonably cold in this hell hole
And I’ve got bruises on my face in the shape of your pillowcase
Stuffed with a thousand or so I fucking told you so’s

I’m a jacket made of magnets on a hard drive
I’m a corsage but when you pin me on there’s bees inside
And I’m a brushed steel reflection on an elevator door
Don’t really look like myself anymore
I don’t feel like anything anymore

But the only way out is through
The only way out is through

I want to fucking sparkle and feel less replaceable
I want to fucking sparkle and feel less replaceable

Lace-up your skates and race me down to the lake
It’s been unseasonably cold in this hell hole
And I’ve got bruises on my face in the shape of your pillowcase
Stuffed with bars of soap and all these cans of coke
Lace-up your skates and race me down to the lake
It’s been so fucking cold in this hell hole
And I’ve got bruises on my face in the shape of your pillowcase
Stuffed with bars of soap and all these grams of coke
I fucking told you so

• California punk
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