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[Verse 1]

Acupuncture needle, new connections

Watch the water boil over

Sputter out and break the tension

I can shell another thirty

To deflect all my reflections

I can hollow out my chest

To make more room for brand new lessons

Dress a wound with sheepish clothes

My curls are faux and full of questions

But my teeth are gnashing

Woe is me, is woe my new collection

I can't bridge the gap between the me's

In past, future, and present

I don't want to find the reason

I rеject my adolescencе

[Refrain]

I can push it down

And make a big thing small

A small thing smaller

[Chorus]

But when it gives, it gives

It bends and buckles

And it waves white flags

With whiter knuckles

And it gets you bad, oh

And it gets you bad, oh

[Verse 2]

Dacey's swimming up to see the surface

She can breach or I can cave

Fall back to idly submissive

I'm afraid to speak of pain

Afraid to wind up in a circuit

Give me something I can't take

To test the limits of my purpose

[Refrain]

I can push it down

And make a big thing small

[Verse 3]

This is reminiscent, my perplexion

Stems from flowers pressed in books

Among my wall where dust collects

I'm not a sucker through and through

All bark, no bite, and all forgiving

'Til it's something I can't place

The in-between and the reliving

[Refrain]

I can push it down

And make a big thing small

[Chorus]

But when it gives, it gives

It bends and buckles

And it waves white flags

With whiter knuckles

And it gets you bad, oh

And it gets you bad, oh

But when it gives, it gives

Rages and ruptures

And it takes you back

To skipping supper

And it drives you mad, oh

And it drives you mad, oh

[Outro]

Acupuncture needles, new connections

I can fizzle out and break

Or I can change my depth perception