Ketamine For Breakfast-Kate Tempest

[00:02.32]Now look here, in the house opposite [00:04.72]Black gate posts with a concrete frog squatting on top of it [00:07.92]Through the hallway [00:10.10]Ancient wallpaper [00:11.53]Nicotine gold [00:13.08]Up the stairs, rickety [00:14.65]Loaded with history [00:16.07]Here in the top flat [00:18.83]Flowers on the windowsill [00:20.22]Little breeze fluttering the petals as they stare out [00:23.32]At the city streets [00:26.39]Gemma is awake [00:28.67]What woke her? [00:30.00]Open eyes [00:30.93]Street lights float slowly through broken blinds [00:34.34]She watches [00:35.10]As the light plays across the tattered carpet [00:38.76]And she holds herself tight in the room's half darkness [00:41.23]It's cold [00:42.41]She wedges her hands underneath her armpits [00:46.11]It's 4:18 [00:49.08]And Gemma's thinking [00:52.39]Before I was a adult [00:54.35]I was a little wreck [00:55.86]Peddling whatever I could get my grubby mitts on [00:58.56]Ketamine for beakfast [00:59.86]Bad girls were drinking with [01:01.21]I gave 'em puppy dog eyes for the acid on their fingertips [01:03.66]Heads in the basement [01:05.49]Lips without faces [01:07.42]Getting faced in, half-baked in a bakery [01:08.91]Eating pastries [01:10.10]Desperate for a body who could save me [01:11.95]But I never really wondered what they gave me [01:14.76]Always wanted something else [01:16.23]Sweating in the door queue [01:17.29]Spittin' like a villain in the pantomime old shoes [01:19.80]Bad teeth [01:20.83]Drinking in the rain with my ghost [01:22.20]Sitting in the back of the class, comatose [01:24.39]Uh, feelings on my back in the dark [01:26.89]Hold me close [01:27.68]But you never held [01:28.69]I did some things I swore I'd never tell [01:30.66]'Til that night you tried to kill me [01:31.96]Run me down with your car in the snow [01:33.00]I didn't realize I thought you would go [01:35.58]Every day I live lives in the day I wake up in [01:38.47]My dreams are all screaming "Oh ****!" [01:40.18]But I'm fine now [01:41.29]Something remains its still pulling me [01:43.12]Yeah my future is bright but my past tryin' to ruin me [01:46.26]Tried to change it but I know [01:48.88]If you're good to me I will let you go [01:52.10]Tried to fight it but I'm sure [01:54.20]If you're bad to me I will like you more [01:57.36]I saw some things when I was young [01:58.96]That made me who I would become [01:59.80]I fill them with me everyday [02:01.03]'Cause if you try and run away [02:02.37]They run beside you place for place [02:03.96]Trip you up and drag your face [02:05.09]Freedom out of every waste [02:06.35]They chancing every bit of taste [02:07.61]Heart is sprayed up with the names of all my friends who lost their way [02:10.27]Doesn't change it all remains [02:11.81]It takes my strength and gives me shame [02:12.98]All I want is someone great [02:14.52]To make me everything I ain't [02:15.52]But the only ones for me [02:17.05]Are the ones that shouldn't be [02:18.31]Even though I'm doing good [02:19.74]I'm working hard, my work is strong [02:21.04]Might be fun just for a while to go back to where my hurt is from [02:23.57]Rinse myself through emptiness [02:25.11]and push my body close to anybody who can recognize the presence of my ghost [02:27.81]Tried to change it but I know [02:31.53]If you're good to me I will let you go [02:34.64]Tried to fight it but I'm sure [02:36.83]If you're bad to me I will like you more [02:39.62]Tried to change it but I know [02:42.05]If you're good to me I will let you go [02:45.02]Tried to fight it but I'm sure [02:47.36]If you're bad to me I will like you more