Sage Francis - Mermaids are Seasluts lyrics

I am nothing but a shell of
The man I once was so you can put me to your
Ear and actually hear yesteryear's ocean
I was in shape then
A much better built body of water
With infinite waves and fathomless depths
Where you could have gone deep
Sea fishing for compliments
And caught plentiful schools
Of reassuring comments
Now all you get is the boot
You fell for the bait and got hooked
On what you thought I was
Now we're both struggling to win this
Tug of war of the worlds
Where we breathe the same air
It's just done differently
And I'm tryin to figure out ways to
Have comfortably survive outside your element
Compromising intelligence
I dabbled in watered down thoughts that
Filtered in from the main stream
I'm offering mind altering ideas that make
The most quiet natured brain scream
From exposure to the types of things
That won't necessarily make you happier
They'll just give you a
Greater range of emotions
And I can feel myself getting lured
Into deeper oceans of 'Fantasy Land'
Where people think they're as
Safe as cartoons
Simply because they speak in bubbles
A sanitized safe haven where you could face
Satan and have his faith straightened
His new goal would be to dethrone
Poseidon and have Neptune's place taken
They'd swashbuckle with their pitchforks
While Lucifer shit talks and rips
Forts of coral reef
For relief he'd be like "bitch walk"
From this oversized aquarium that daddy
Kept cleanly to unhealthy degrees
Writing suicide notes with invisible
Ink on transparencies
And posting them to the glass boundaries
That surround the seas of change
Strangely enough
While bringing back the real (reel)
I could sense intense resistance so I had no
Other choice but to cut the line
I'm not saying you're overly naive
I just think you should get into the habit
Of checking to see when strings are attached
Fortunate for you I'm
Compassionate enough to
Throw back what I catch
If it's underdeveloped and needs
Time to grow though I'm remorseful of the
Pain I've caused you
And I want to kiss your lips better
I sympathize with the sorrow
By stroking the scar
Of my own traumatic experience
With my excommunicated tongue
So I know exactly what you mean when you
Say it hurts too much to talk
I've been there I don't
Plan on returning cause
No matter how much of a distance I kept or
How long I waited for my wounds to heal
They'd re-open with the slightest flashback
So I sued time for malpractice
That bastard's a hack with a rusty
Scalpel and barbed-wire stitch thread
Instead of seeing things clearly
They're pitch red
And there's this glitch in my head
That's got me thinking contradictions
It said: "There are more fish in the sea
Whether you hear me not or you listen to me
Whether you listen to me or hear me not"
There are more microorganisms in my teardrop
But fear not
I'd never sink as low as to make my ears pop
And I imagine now you only want to
Swim with members of your own league
And you don't need me meddling
Sending sonar signals
High pitched notes are symbols
My voice is thrown far
But ripples are only caused
When you cast stones
But you shouldn't throw rocks if
You live in fragile fairytales

"This really means something to me I'll
Always treasure it as a token"
Guy: "No you won't
Cause this is for the girl who loves me
The girl who cares about me for who I am
Not what I look like
I just wanted you to know you'd be missing
You think I don't appreciate art
You think I don't understand fashion
You think I'm not "hip"
You think I'm pathetic
A nerd, a lard-ass, fatso
You think I'm shit
Well you're wrong, cause I'm champagne
And you're shit, until the day you die
You, not me, will always be shit"