you don't trade money here you trade information and skin right now there are thousands of forgotten people trying to remember you
children are killed because they write an enemy's name backwards on the wall young girls tie ribbons around their slender throats trying to keep their heads on chocolate boy walks to icecream truck for vanilla cone is shot dead three times this city kills its young
the angels all have guns now the angels aren't anyone you'd wanna pray to no-one here has goals like: get a job, get married, have kids the ambitions are wake up breathe keep breathing
no desire to get rich become famous move out the ambitions are wake up breathe keep breathing
every woman who walks by is every woman you'll never have beautiful, quick and poisonous as mercury the city is full of women slim and busy hoping there is room in some man's life for them
women sort through the dead bodies like bags of laundry with exhausted mama eye sigh because they are too dry for tears people huddle in kitchens, clasp their hands, celebrating something has tried to kill them and failed nightclub men twitch too subdued to recognize apocalypse the ambitions are wake up breathe keep breathing the ambitions are wake up breathe keep breathing
you've driven these streets a thousand times and all they offer is their exhaustion your nightmares have your name now you exit the glitter storm, go home alone and embrace the violence instead
the city has claimed all your blood and memory this is cool and unusual punishment you go for years without touching another never think of the 'why?' you are so casual about brutality doctor says: take this, it'll settle you down doctor says: take this, it'll settle your system doctor says: take this, it'll we'll settle the bill doctor says: take this, it'll settle the score
the ambitions are wake up breathe keep breathing the ambitions are wake up breathe keep breathing
there's a voice on the loudspeaker and she speaks your language doesn't need to stay it can disappear when the wife walks in here comes the interrogation room scene today is the day you're gonna get caught
you're terrified of what you crave don't get delighted they want you scared
the sweet things don't stick around but the bullshit lasts forever please press pound you're dual-channeling for new friends or just new things to envy who's running the machine you run on?
wish you had someone to speak code with wish you had someone to steal things for wish you had someone to fuck you so you could finally go to sleep you just wanna die a little bit
ink and paint is making you faint in your pale pale shirt stolen from uptown stores watch the girls in the twin sweater sets smoke, cough, throw up teeth-scraped knuckles are a tell-tale sign
get in the car get in the car get in the car and what you hear is a sound of impact turn around slowly and check your body for bruises there is no-one here to take care of you
open-mouthed, waiting for a candy kiss and all you get is rain communion between lapdances and laptops you see girls who fuck like they're boneless you're 38 and your job is telling 14 year old boys what to think is cool are you laughing? they are
and this one is a fire and that one is a flame and this one is a spark and that one is a match you put out in your mouth when no-one was looking
and in your dreams your grandparents live forever and you throw your love into the air like glitter swallowing stars, spitting up stardust
the ambitions are wake up breathe keep breathing the ambitions are wa