nOISES fROM tHE bEDROOM

Around You

 

Around you

I s-s-stutter when I talk, stagger when I walk around you

I start to quiver and quake, shiver and shake around you

I got seventeen thumbs, I am struck down dumb around you

All of my senses conspire, I start to perspire around you

 

I am a snowman in the deep Sahara

Melting down and losing my cool

I’m Willy Loman played by Ben Gazzara

Fading fast and coming unspooled

 

I don’t know what to do, I got a lower IQ around you

My tongue gets tied, I go limp inside around you

I can’t stand up straight, I can’t concentrate around you

My mind it goes blank, I’m as dumb as a plank around you

 

I am a nomad in the mid-Atlantic

Drifting in a leaky canoe

My insecurities become gigantic

I sink whenever I’m around you

 

My mind gets soft and weak, I forget how to speak around you

I just can’t catch my breath, I’m gonna catch my death around you

 

I’m just empty skin, I’m a mannequin around you

I forget how to think, I can’t help but shrink around you

My boom it goes bust, my broom it won’t dust around you

I got no gravity, I’m just a cavity around you

 

I am a stranger from another planet

Choking on this atmosphere

My ego withers to a speck of granite

My confidence it disappears

 

My mind gets soft and weak, I forget how to speak around you

I just can’t catch my breath, I’m gonna catch my death around you