Grubby-Kate Tempest

[00:01.99]Up the stairwell [00:03.45]Chip fat grey, and London green with damp [00:06.78]Out on the fifth floor, where the wind grips your jaw [00:09.59]And holds you in its clamp [00:11.30]There's a red door, bordered by mottled glass [00:13.95]And inside, a lighted lamp [00:17.24]Pius live here [00:18.80]Pius is tired, but can't sleep, she twitches, wired [00:22.34]She lies beside a sleeping body, a girl she barely knows [00:26.85]She met her in the pub, and it went the way it goes, the girl's name is Rose [00:31.83]But Pius is lovesick for her Thorne [00:34.34]She left her in the Summer [00:36.08]And since then, Pius can't get warm [00:38.20]She's carried her stuck in her side since the day that she was born [00:41.98]She dreamed of her and knew her shape long before she saw her form [00:47.26]Well, it's 04:18 [00:49.35]And Pius has been staring at the blinds for hours [00:52.43]She tells herself it's all her fault [00:54.91]She doesn't love, she just devours [00:59.05]Can't sleep, so much to do [01:01.08]Tryna get closer to you, and you're so far away [01:03.39]Tryna get hold of what's true, and what's true isn't true when it's day [01:06.53]Tell me, how can I sleep? Got so much to do [01:08.85]I'm trying to get closer to you, and you're so far away [01:11.33]All that I say and I do are things that you do and you say [01:14.56]How come I'm becoming the one that I'm running from? [01:17.28]Hunted by, slurring my words in the pub, feeling nervous and overexcited [01:20.55]Arms 'round the waist of a girl who might make it alright for a night [01:23.79]Yeah, she takes me to places, then I lie beside of her, wake while she sleeps [01:27.20]And I feel much closer to you than I felt [01:29.50]When you were still here, spill beer till you reappear [01:32.02]I'm thinking of you [01:36.23]And the things you do to me [01:40.08]I'm thinking of you [01:44.09]And the things you do to me [01:49.65]Pain in my liver, okay, shame [01:51.75]So much shame, can't bear my frame, can't bear your name, okay [01:55.29]Can't bear this game, let's play, new rules, old rituals [01:58.55]Guilt trip, heartstrings snap, want to, can't go back, too much [02:01.81]Not enough, I can't get your claws out my gut [02:05.38]I'm thinking of you [02:09.33]And the things you do to me [02:13.52]I'm thinking of you [02:17.45]And the things you do to me [02:22.71]This is my mind, get out of it [02:24.92]You didn't want it, how come you're still hanging around in it? [02:26.96]This is my body, let go of it [02:28.98]You didn't want it, how come you're still ******* controlling it? [02:31.10]This is my night, get lost in it [02:33.00]This is my bridge, stop crossing it [02:34.44]This is my face, stop smiling [02:35.70]This is my space, you've been gone so long [02:37.63]How come I still find you hiding? [02:39.17]Fighting me, I'm fighting my darkest parts [02:41.64]I'm fighting nighatmres tied to my hands 'round my own throat [02:45.18]'Cause you're the snake charmer and I'm the old rope [02:47.34]No hope, just go, now, please just leave [02:49.41]Still in the air that I breathe, I'm stranded [02:51.85]Arms outstretched from my body, anybody [02:53.64]Here's a body, but I wake up and I can't stand them [02:55.64]I feel so grubby [02:57.47]Don't want, can't stop, just love me [02:59.40]Breath like a cigarette stubbed in the gutter [03:01.21]Come close, no, wait, don't touch me, I'm ugly [03:03.56]Pushing for a phonecall, beep beep [03:05.61]Looking through names for the one that feels most dangerous [03:07.70]I can't believe you're in love again [03:09.72]I can't open my heart to anybody but strangers [03:13.01]I鈥檓 thinking of you [03:16.57]And the things you do to me [03:20.69]I'm thinking of you [03:24.57]And the things you do to me [03:28.98]I'm thinking of you [03:33.16]And the things you do to me [03:36.77]I'm thinking of you [03:40.96]And the things you do to me