Mama I'm Swollen

Album: Mama I'm Swollen (2009)
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  • I was alone
    I was at home
    Until the fabric was torn
    The cord was cut
    My orbit had begun

    I was a simple being
    I was simply being
    Until I caught my own reflection
    In a spoon

    I am the egg
    I am the spark
    The fire in the dark
    I am fertilized, fully actualized
    A loaded gun
    Born near the blood red sun
    Born near the blood red sun

    I am not ignorant
    I am intelligent
    I'm not an ape
    I am the way
    I am the truth

    I am religion
    I am politics
    I am a psychoanalyst
    I'm an inkblot shaped like Zeus

    I'm not an egg
    I'm a runny yolk
    Got no faith, I got no hope
    I'm the joke of all existence
    I am no one
    Burning beneath the blood red sun
    Just a burning beneath the blood red sun

    I am the body and the blood
    The earthquake and the flood
    I am the cancer born and growing in each and everyone
    To the beat of a blood red sun
    To the beat of a blood red sun Writer/s: Matthew Ryan Maginn, Ted James Stevens, Tim Kasher
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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