Paralytic States

Album: Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014)
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  • She could hear them fucking through
    Those thin hotel walls
    She heard babies crying,
    She heard laughter, she heard sirens
    Red and blue lights flashing
    Through those cheap hotel drapes
    Blood spilled out on the porcelain
    The bath tub's over-flowing

    Paralytic states of dependency
    All waking life's just a living dream
    Agitated states of amazement
    Never quite the woman that she wanted to be
    Never quite the woman that she wanted to be

    Spread out faced down on those
    Stained cheap hotel sheets
    She spent the last years of her life
    Running from the boy she used to be
    Cut her face wide open
    Shaved the bone down thin
    Plumped her lips up exaggerated
    A fucked up kind of feminine

    Paralytic states of dependency
    All waking life's just a living dream
    Agitated states of amazement
    Never quite the woman that she wanted to be
    Never quite the woman that she wanted to be

    Night time at the hotel there was fighting in the hall
    Thin chain lock to keep the world out
    She held her breath till it was gone
    Standing naked in front of that hotel bathroom mirror
    In her dysphoria's reflection
    She still saw her mother's son

    Paralytic states of dependency
    All waking life's just a living dream
    Agitated states of amazement
    Never quite the woman that she wanted to be
    Never quite the woman that she wanted to be

    By the time the ball dropped it was already over
    By the time the ball dropped it was already over
    No resolutions for the new year beginning tomorrow Publisher: ROUGH TRADE PUBLISHING
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