Undrowned - Everything Everything

First boy, I think you should know

If you try hard then you might get a part as a

Doe-eyed, impressionist mime

Bare as the lives of the footballer’s wives that surround you

Their diamonds aloft

A system of pistons, arachnid and blistered

A billboard, a murder of crows

While princes fly drones that can see through your bones

And the wind stops, the temperature drops

And harpies melt through you like horses to glue

I believe you, but not what you say

To close in around 'til you’re scorched and undrowned

They devour you, and totter in heels

And who wants the Falklands?

And who wants the Balkans?

I love you, just like a bank

There’s so much to talk about that we don’t talk about, boy

Trust in me, I fell

She said, it fills me with dread

The people in Parliament don’t know that half of it

Please son, it’s only a sport

The fate of a ball don’t enthrall me at all

So relax here, go through it again

Who have you seen knows what all of it means?

I fell down, down

Then I, saw a billionaire

With all his innards nailed

To the walls, to the walls, to the west

Don’t fear it now, but don’t stop asking

Hey man, you’re probably right

It’s not a galaxy made for a guy like me

Birdless, the edge of the world

The edge of my memory some kind of energy

Burned up, and frittered away

Bile in the gutters and gout for a god

But I’m lawful, I kept my head down

I turned a blind eye and I played my cards right

I’m in debt, man, I waited too long

I bought all the right things, I thought all the right things

I’m lonely, I dunno myself

I thought there was something, I’m waiting for something

Oh down, down

Don’t leave, don’t leave, don’t leave

(To the walls, to the walls, to the west)

Don’t leave, don’t let me down