Otep - Baby's Breath lyrics

The soft sound of snow crunching
Underfoot gives me comfort
Her building is at the end of the block
She lives on the north
Side bottom floor middle
Apartment i see her 1, 2, 3, 4
5 steps wrong key lock clicks she drops her
Coat and scarf in the entry and kicks
Off those vixen shoes she shuffles to the
Kitchen and pours a glass of scotch
(I am inside) She lights
A cigarette and blows
The smoke over the match (She doesn't notice)

The gray smog rises from her
Lips like a cremation furnace
The simple elegance of this quiet
Moment is almost irresistible (But, I wait)

She slugs back the scotch
Finishes her smoke and ashes it in
The sink she unties her hair
And enters the hallway, past the childless
Bedroom with the empty crib
Past the altar coated in wax like
A wedding cake, and the tiny
Packages of meat, dead flowers
And baby's breath

She enters the bathroom
Where she undresses she sit's on the
Edge of the bath her naked
Body folded in half
Heavy tit's hanging like mushy
Stalactites over her lap
(Oh, precious) She closes her
Eyes and holds her
Head as if it might float away

For a moment, my thoughts drift again
This time to the hammer I am
Holding the handle is smooth as bone
The forged steel head is heavy
And I feel powerful she
Reaches for the faucet
And I snap back to the moment bubbles
Brim the edge of the tub her fingers check
The water temperature and I am ready

I move behind her she doesn't hear i swing
The hammer she doesn't see i crack her
Skull she's in the tub facedown i am drowning
Her, mashing her head to the bottom
Knifing the claw of the hammer into her
Spine and ribs over and over
And over and over and over and
Over and over and over and

Her body stops pretending to
Care and surrenders as
It is supposed to just to be sure, i press
Hard, keeping her head beneath the
Bloody water a few
Moments more her neck snaps, her nose breaks
And her face collapses against
The bottom of the
Tub i see my reflection in the mirror
And soapy foam has formed a half smile over
The black nylon mask I am wearing

I lean to her the water
Glistens like glass i hover
Over the surface, soft breath causing
Tiny quakes, and whisper
"I have done to you what
Nature has done to me"

She doesn't reply

I stand and turn off the light the room is
Dark and empty just like I am now