i aestheticised blood at a young age
when i would see it oozing from my knuckles
i would draw it with a spray brush in paint
coming from her eyes
i scraped my hands on brick on purpose
wanted to see them red
and i'd play until the metal cut my skin for me
and it'd come out and out and out and...
and there's blood pouring from the tips of my fingers
and i can't stop, won't stop
and the metal's in my blood and my blood is on the metal
and now everything tastes of iron
you see things before you can fully understand them
saw cut throats before i could understand that pain
i killed all my characters twice over
'cept for my baby i killed her thrice
i imagine my hands inside a ribcage
pulling everything out
my arms are bright red
and i don't know what i've done
i imagine my hands inside a ribcage
pulling everything out
and there's blood pouring from the tips of my fingers
and i can't stop, won't stop
and the metal's in my blood and my blood is on the metal
and now everything tastes of iron
and there's blood pouring from the tips of my fingers
and i can't stop, won't stop
and the metal's in my blood and my blood is on the metal
and now everything tastes of iron
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