Retrograde - Jemina Pearl

My hands smell like cheeseburgers and cigarettes

On the tips of my fingers I count my regrets

Trying to accept who I’ve become

Cause I’ve done things I would’ve never done

I hear the girl in the back of my mind

She says you know we’re the evil kind

You were born bad and that’s how you’ll stay

Why would you try to be any other way

She says

Go on, cut a little bit deeper

And see how far we can go

She’s always pushing me closer

To the point where I lost control

Feel it crawling underneath my skin

Itching to get in trouble all over again

Screaming so loud it’s hard not to listen

Think about the fun that we’ve been missing

You’ve come so far down this path

Now there’s no reason to turn back

It’s too late to clean up your act

So let’s keep going until we crash

She says

Go on, cut a little bit deeper

And see how far we can go

She’s always pushing me closer

To the point where I lost control

She says

Go on, cut a little bit deeper

And see how far we can go

She’s always pushing me closer

To the point where I lost control

She says let’s go to the edge

And let’s find out what it’s like to be dead

Cry in the shower, I’m starting to drown

Look in the mirror, I’m tripping down (?)

Oh where have you gone, my mercury?

Is it what true, what you said about me?

She says

Go on, cut a little bit deeper

And see how far we can go

She’s always pushing me closer

To the point where I lost control

She says

Go on, cut a little bit deeper

And see how far we can go

She’s always pushing me closer

To the point where I lost control

She says let’s go to the edge

And let’s find out what it’s like to be dead