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One, two, three
 
Why are you hanging on?
So tight
To the rope that I'm hanging from
Off this island
This was an escape plan (This was an escape plan)
Carefully timed it
So let me go
And dive into the waves below
 
Who tends the orchards?
Who fixes up the gables?
Emotional torture
From the head of your high table
Who fetches the water?
From the rocky mountain spring
And walk back down again?
To feel your words and their sharp sting
And I'm getting fucking tired
 
The capillaries in my eyes are bursting
If our love died
Would that be the worst thing
For somebody I thought was my savior
You sure make me do a whole lotta labour
 
The calloused skin on my hands is cracking
If our love ends would that be a bad thing
And the silence haunts our bed chamber
You make me do too much labour
 
(You make me do too much labour)
 
Apologies from my tongue
And never yours
Busy lapping from a flowing cup
And stabbing me with your fork
I know you're a smart man (I know you're a smart man)
And weaponise the false incompetence
It's dominance under a guise
 
If we had a daughter
I'd watch and could not save her
The emotional torture
From the head of your high table
She'd do what you taught her
She'd meet the same cruel fate
So now I've gotta run
So I can undo this mistake
At least I've gotta try
 
The capillaries in my eyes are bursting
If our love died
Would that be the worst thing
For somebody I thought was my savior
You sure make me do a whole lotta labour
 
The calloused skin on my hands is cracking
If our love ends would that be a bad thing
And the silence haunts our bed chamber
You make me do too much labour
 
All day everyday
Therapist mother maid
Nymph then a virgin,
Nurse then a servant,
Just an appendage, live to attend him
So that he never lifts a finger
 
Twenty-four seven baby machine
So he can live out his picket fence dreams
It’s not an act of love
If you make her
You make me do too much labour
 
All day everyday
Therapist mother maid
Nymph then a virgin,
Nurse then a servant,
Just an appendage, live to attend him
So that he never lifts a finger
 
Twenty-four seven baby machine
So he can live out his picket fence dreams
It’s not an act of love
If you make her
You make me do too much labour
 
The capillaries in my eyes are bursting
(All day, every day: therapist, mother, maid)
If our love died, would that be the worst thing?
(Nymph then a virgin; Nurse than a servant)
For somebody I thought was my saviour
(Just an appendage, live to attend him)
You sure make me do a whole lot of labour
(So that he never lifts a finger)
The callous skin on my hands is cracking
(Twenty-four seven baby machine)
If our love ends, would that be a bad thing?
(So he can live out his picket fence dreams)
And the silence haunts our bed chamber
(It's not an act of love if you make her)
You make me do too much labour
 

 

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