The Figurehead

[Verse 1] Sharp and open, leave me alone And sleeping less every night As the days become heavier and weighted Waiting in the cold light A noise, a scream tears my clothes as the figurines tighten With spiders inside them And dust on the lips of a vision of Hell I laughed in the mirror for the first time in a year [Verse 2] A hundred other words blind me with your purity Like an old painted doll in the throes of dance I think about tomorrow, please let me sleep As I slip down the window, freshly squashed fly You mean nothing You mean nothing [Verse 3] I can lose myself in Chinese art and American girls All the time, lose me in the dark, please do it right Run into the night, I will lose myself tomorrow Crimson pain, my heart explodes My memory in a fire, and someone will listen At least for a short while [Bridge] (I can never say no) I can never say no to anyone but you [Verse 4] Too many secrets, too many lies Writhing with hatred Too many secrets, please make it good tonight But the same image haunts me, in sequence, in despair of time I will never be clean again I touched her eyes, pressed my stained face I will never be clean again [Outro] Touched her eyes, pressed my stained face I will never be clean again I will never be clean again I will never be clean again