The Antlers - Atrophy lyrics

You've been living a while in the
Front of my skull making orders
You've been writing me rules
Shrinking maps and redrawing borders
I've been repeating your speeches
But the audience just doesn't follow
Because I'm leaving out words, punctuation
And it sounds pretty hollow
I've been living in bed because now
You tell me to sleep
I've been hiding my voice and my face
And you decide when I eat
In your dreams I'm a criminal, horrible
Sleeping around
While you're awake, I'm impossible
Constantly letting you down

Little porcelain figurines
Glass bullets you shoot at the wall
Threats of castration for crimes you imagine
When I miss your call
With the bite of the teeth of that ring
On my finger, I'm bound to your bedside
Your eulogy singer
I'd happily take all those bullets inside you
And put them inside of myself

Someone, oh anyone, tell me how to stop this
She's screaming, expiring
And I'm her only witness
I'm freezing, infected
And rigid in that room inside her
No one's gonna come as long as I
Lay still in bed beside her