Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital lyrics

The half backflip conception
State hospital birth the most threadbare
Tall story the country has ever heard
Brought home to breathe smoke in
The arms of her mother
The blunt kitchen knife who just
Lays in a submissive position
Beneath a national weight and the
Slow arc of a fist

Her heart beats like a breezeblock
Thrown down the stairs
Her blood is thicker than concrete
Forced to be brave she was born into a grave

And in the limp through
Years of bored schooling
She’s accustomed to hearing that she
Could never run far
A slipped disc in the spine of community
A bloody curse word in a pedestrian verse
Spirit's in graveyards and fingers
In car parks
She cries on the high street just to be heard
A screaming anchor for nothing in particular
At the foot of the fuck of it
Dragging her heels in the dirt

Her heart beats like a breezeblock
Thrown down the stairs
Her blood is thicker than concrete
Forced to be brave she was born into a grave

The cheek of youth flashed
Red and turned green
Now she lies on the pavement
She is helped to her feet
All thighs, hair and magpie handbags
Saturday’s uniform for the ‘fuck me’ parade
Brought home to keep warm in
The arms of a plumber
Ruddy and balding who just needs
A spine to dig into a chest for the head and
A hand for the holding

Her heart beats like a breezeblock
Thrown down the stairs
Her blood is thicker than concrete
Forced to be brave she was, she was

Her heart beats like a breezeblock
Thrown down the stairs
Her skin is thicker than concrete
Forced to be brave she was, she was
A broken elevator anthem held between floors
But, if blood is thicker than concrete
All is not lost

All is not lost all is not lost
All is not lost all is not lost