No Skin

I ran away to escape myself
And the feeling of my skin
When you're self aware
And the air is still
It can get unsettling

So I wander
But could I stay
As soon as I turn up somewhere
I run away

And I fall in love
In every way
With angles and mathematics
In the sky and in a face

I used to buzz so hard
You could feel the ambition
It was seeping through my teeth
And it was seeking with my fingers
But it clawed too hard
It cut too deep
Everything it sought out
Kept on climbing out of reach

And now I'm worn
And I'm so tired
I'm weary and I'm wary of what I've lost to the fire
Well there are some days when I strike a match
And it stays lit a while
So I blow to make it bigger
But it it goes out with a smile

It snickers, "honey, don't you worry
You can rest your pretty head
You'll never burn as bright again
Till after you are dead"

Well don't let those ashes stay inside box
You can scatter me at all my favorite spots
That'll be the day that I've escaped myself
That'll be the day that I have settled down

That'll be the day I have escaped myself
No skin to hold me in
I will go somewhere else

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[Gee]

That'll be the day I've escaped myself
no skin to hold me in
to a place of calm where the dead are king
and self loathing ain't a sin