Parenthetical Girls - The Weight She Fell Under lyrics

And when they pulled you from the tracks
Your body splayed and split
Your chest flushed bright as it was in life

When they pulled you from the tracks
Mindful of your separate halves
Your face relaxed lying flat upon your back

Your body blushed beneath
Such crushing weight
Stolen in your awkward stage
That you never would escape
The same stain that decorates
Your chest and face
With a scarlet mark of shame
When you’d stutter out of place

And when they pulled you from the tracks
Your eyes gone milky white strangely alive

Strange this would come at the same age
That your mother took his name
And labor pains
Would collapse her fragile frame

The city lights reflected off the bay
(And when they pulled you from the tracks)
From the streets where you were raised
(Your body splayed and split)
And taught your place
(Your chest flushed bright)
By those stifling younger days
(As it was in life)
Now that’s all been washed away
(When they pulled you from the tracks)
With the color from your face
(Mindful of your separate halves)
Tracks traced in paint (Your face relaxed)
From a woman raised to wait
(Lying flat upon your back)