Claws in Your Back

Claws in Your Back - Julien Baker

Written by：Julien Baker

Collecting the circles that tell us how old we are beneath our eyelids

Wearing a purple badge to prove what I did

Pump the vitals out of my wrist

I'm conducting an experiment on how it feels to die

Or stay alive

Try to stay calm nobody knows the violent partner you carry around

With claws in your back ripping your clothes

Listing your failures out loud

Its more than the skeleton next to my coat

The black that I held in the back of my throat

Follows you straight into the dark

The easy way out and the hardest part

When it won't leave me alone

I'm better off learning how to be living with demons

Mistaken for saints

If you keep it between us

I think they're the same

I think I can love the sickness you made

I take it all back I change my mind

I wanted to stay

I wanted to stay