Sage Francis - Call Me Francois lyrics

"Today, my mother killed me"

If I'm alive by the time you find this
It's a miracle what else can be said
A vision quest with infrared
I'm at a dead end, I bled slow
From my chest, held my breath and did my
Mess and never let go i lived a good life
I never had half-compromise a thing
And if I couldn't write
I'd think of other ways
To optimize my living
No wife, no kids, no anchors
Hand over fist to withhold this
Info from the bankers
Don't know my neighbors
Didn't take a village to raise me
Small-town mentality types thinkin I'm crazy
I ain't as weird as they paint me
Off color, I'm more gutter, punk, and ritzy
More glitz and glamour than others
Motherfuckers left me lonely in
This designated corner
Had a couple walls that build upon
They made me a performer
Now shade me from the warmer weather
Save me from the slaughterhouse
That creeps between the pages where I
Try to hide my awful mouth
Speak discretely to the sheets that
Seem to be hollow
Punched a ladder full of holes
Just for my swollen feet to follow
Support me all you want
Don't let me drop a field of land
I'm not going to stop until
God is my ceilin fan
Spare the lamb, save me from my former-self
That creeps between the pages as the
Line across and locks my self
Now this is my box, these are my walls
This is when time stops and I'm
All that there ever was
And I'm all there ever is and I'm
All that there ever will be
A freeze frame pine box
Soliloquy call me FRANCOIS

Call Me Francois (call call call me francois)
(Call call call me francois)

Take what you can leave what you must
Because y'all comin with us
(motherfucker you comin with us)

Fill your bags with the rags that
You wear and their necessities
Along with the dog tags and family recipes
Rest in peace, if you arrest the pace
Movin haste
God-speed you black empress, get dressed
We're late she painted my head orange
Carved my face with her tongue
Emptied out my insides and lit
The candle behind my eyes
Had the strike of twelve to midnight
Winter queen
Left with my life rival in a white limousine
When he made her dress twirl
It looked like a mushroom cloud
Everybody ducked down except for me
That's my destiny
He used a broken condom as a corsage
I watched him push the rusty pin through
Her prom dress into her heart
Kill me already fill me with confetti
Crush me up and sprinkle me over
Their wedding and her pregnant belly
I wasn't ready to suppress these memories
Undress the mammaries
Forget the family, streamline the enemy
Design the penalty
Cruel and unusual, commit the felony
Unfit for prison duty no man's an Island
Except for Island man he's a ROCK STAR!
No man's an Island
Except for Island man he's a ROCK!