Anna Madorsky

Lyrics

Shoebox, open a blue box
Close it when it traps all of my wicked thoughts
My sweet little confection
I want to give you my adoration

Red and blue perfumed it with my reveries
Poets drown in pairs before we fall asleep
Extraordinary eddies put into a box
oh god take desire underneath its lock

I pull my feet up to push it down now
It just won’t shut up, under attack now
I had it beat up, hammer it down now
but human side up, I’m in the black now

Are you sure it's closed? Can you feel me close?

Follow the line of the story
Outline of chalk round my body
The butterfly of my imagination
is in shroud, must wait for excavation

Red and blue perfumed it with my reveries
Poets drown in pairs before we fall asleep
Extraordinary eddies put into a box
oh god take desire underneath its lock
I pull my feet up to push it down now
It just won’t shut up, under attack now
I had it beat up, hammer it down now
but human side up, I’m in the black now

In the hours before dawn, you’re safe with me
You can’t run me in circles, I’m underneath
I’m the grass down below, the wind in the trees
always one step ahead, footprints you cannot read
You’re too spent to connect and I am the dot
that will close in on you and tie it across
every bridge that you burn, every stitch you disrupt
every tapestry torn, I will build back up
Don’t hammer it down now
Are you sure it’s closed?