Keep Sweet

I let it die in a heat wave

I see a passage in my mind

Where crooked teeth and hungry eyes

Cannot latch onto me when I walk alone

But violent little pieces hide like honey bees inside their hive

Insidious, they rot alive and I know they follow me like a ghost

I always knew there was a reason

My innocence was a keepsake worn around my neck

Shake my head till I see straight

Make my mind so placid, so my body can go easy

You’ll never take that part of me, I felt it die in a heat wave

In a heat wave

Devour little pieces of my heart when you need them

I wanna tear it out now when it’s beating

I wanna watch it bleed out with no feeling

So I keep sweet to keep safe

Temperate in a heat wave

I wanna tear it out now when it’s beating

I wanna watch it bleed out with no feeling

So suddenly it feels like I woke from a dream

And everything that happened to me was a talisman I threw like a stone

You constantly infantilize, passionless in a passive life

Entitlement just to pull out every seam

Devour little pieces of my heart when you need them

I wanna tear it out now when it’s beating

I wanna watch it bleed out with no feeling

So I keep sweet to keep safe

Temperate in a heat wave

I wanna tear it out now when it’s beating

I wanna watch it bleed out with no feeling

I always knew there was a reason my innocence was a keepsake

You’ll never take that part of me, I felt it die in a heat wave

Devour little pieces of my heart when you need them

So I keep sweet to keep safe

Temperate in a heat wave

I wanna tear it out now when it’s beating

I wanna watch it bleed out with no feeling