Merit - Omar Rodríguez-López

Blue teeth are

Glowing through my skin

My life is

Hanging from a thread

Allowing me to skin you

Alive, alive, alive

Allowing me to skin you

Alive, alive, with my bare hands

I look into your hazel eyes

As I believe you once were here

You speak no words or make a sound

When will you let me feel your voice

Allowing me to skin you

Alive, alive, alive

Allowing me to skin you

Alive, alive, with my bare hands

Your silence starts to weigh me down

As I begin to fossilize

If only for a second you would have stopped in bones

I could have driven you to a life of filth

You close the doors

If only I could have listened to your dark demand

You could have driven me to a life of hope

It’s all we have now

If you could have listened to me once more, my love

You could have let me speak to you again

Ahh, ahh, ahh, ahh

Ahh

I wake up from a vivid dream

So certain of felicity

Allowing me to skin you

Alive, alive, alive

Allowing me to skin you

Alive, alive