Flatline - Eliza Gilkyson

O' the exquisite agony of withdrawal it feels like some kind of voodoo curse

Push me full of pins baby or pull 'em out

I can’t even tell you which is worse

Why’d he have to tempt me

I told him all about my insufferable thirst

It started out all nice and friendly

It was moving fast forward and then got jammed into reverse

Default to the flatline captain

Head me into the wind don’t fill my sail

Default to the flatline captain

Take a chill pill and be still my beating heart be still

You could go up on the internet eliza but christ are you really that desperate

For a fix or a connection lady chatterly in the chatroom surrealistic cyber

bathroom

You can still come back with some kind of viral infection

You think thoughts don’t build highways move mountains burn bridges

You got another think coming

Still you keep traveling sideways and winding up in these ditches

While the dispassionate clock is continually running

Course my kids and my family my shrink and my friends all say take a break for

the sake of

Your overworked heart and mind give it a rest girl you’re stressed you’re so

depressed

You’re in a process it’s gonna take some time

Ah but this was different he was brilliant an exile-made me laugh

Besides it had been 7 months 13 days and a very long hour

But O.K.

pull up the drawbridge hand me my spinning wheel and my axe

I’ll go willingly to my cell up in the tower

Guess I’ll strap on the old iron belt wall off the secret garden hide away the

golden key

Put up roadblocks on my highways and padlocks on my heart

It’ll be complicated trying to get in touch with me

But somewhere out there in the wilderness prince androgynous

Is dragging his sorry ass around on the back of a worn down mule

Maybe by the time he gets here

He won’t be a prince anymore

And I won’t be such a fool such a fool

For love