Parenthetical Girls - I Was the Dancer lyrics

Soiled, my jeans lie in heaps beneath me
Blood mars the sheets
And they stain so easily
Swollen wrists, knees
And you swelled inside me
And it took nine months to destroy my body

I was the dancer
My head filled with laughter
And then the disaster
You came sometime after

I was young then full of grace then
But oh, resentments
L o v e scratched your name into me
F a c e and it's traces of me
Curls round your cheeks, Christ
You looked just like me
When you took nine months to destroy my body

Now I’m your mother you tore me asunder
And years after labor it’s all I remember

I was young then full of grace then
But oh, resentments