Piratess

[Verse 1]

Who wrote those lines on the wall?

Let's retrace where they scrawled ancient characters

It's 2:00 and your sister's slip, it falls

And the afternoon crawls across the room and tackles her

[Chorus 1]

I don't think that you would sink that ship that's only passing through

'Cause I don't believe that you might be a murderess

But I saw inside each small, dark eye as it was turning blue

All the strength inside to do just what the captain says and hang the rest

[Verse 2]

And moved by the rhyme in the psalm

We agreed that it was wrong and to believe in it

Ooh, swooned the wall all night long

But a lie's a lie, no matter what guy's breath's in it

[Chorus 2]

I don't know that I would go that far down some dark avenue

With a whispering crew of shadows all protecting it

But I saw inside each small white lie as it was turning true

The ability to do all things expected of it

[Chorus 3]

I don't think that you would sink that ship that's only passing through

'Cause I don't believe that you might be a piratess

Did you hide inside each small white lie, before you turned it true

The ability to do all things the captain says?

[Outro]

Oh, murderess in the wilderness, with your victims all around you

Their combined love forms a pool your knife's reflected in

And now I'm ready, too, with my throat to you, on this mountain, by this moon

And what I want the most to do is prove that I'm not like them