Say Anything, Pete Yorn - Skinny, Mean Man lyrics

I know you love how I make it all go away:
All the joy, all the pain
All the thoughts in your brain
For the price of your soul
I will hold your heart in my talons
For three summers straight you've been
My sweet arm candy
And no one will ever, ever
Take you away from me

I saw, I smelled what he did to you, girl
And, to be frank
The thought makes my innards curl
How he preyed on your ripe insecurities
The thorn in your side is alive
And it's killing me
Obscure records entombed in his
Room with mechanical lust
Diapered, desolate middle-aged doom
On your knees in his downtrodden
Shit-eating grin of a room
If only you'd meet me here soon

If only you'd start breathing
I'd court you exclusively with my shovel
I'm pounding earth 'til suddenly I see

You awake from the dirt and the grime
Stretch your fractured pretzel spine
Out to take your revenge for the crime
Filled with fire and finally mine

Paraded you around like a second place prize
Hair done up
Black holes painted on your eyes
Held a book burning in your back yard
While your parents observed
From their window, slightly scarred
And I've watched with my shovel in hand
I have faith in you, child
From his nightmares I've plucked a plan
Where that prick, to the world
Is revealed as a wicked man
This is a prayer from your biggest fan

If only you could see me
We'd dance like a heart attack
With a wail you let them know you're furious
You're back

You awake from the dirt and the grime
Stretch your fractured pretzel spine
Out to take your revenge for the crime
Filled with fire and finally mine
You awake from the grave that he dug
Pulsing, boiling, angry blood
Well aware that I'm falling in love
Filled with fire, I'm drinking

Gasoline to make it go faster, yeah
Gasoline will make it grow much faster
Gasoline to make it grow faster, yeah
Hey, hey escaped away, escaped away
Gasoline will make it grow much faster
Hey, escaped away

Faster faster
Faster faster
Faster faster
Faster faster
Faster faster
Faster faster
Faster faster
Faster