Party Hat - Emily Rose

I’d like to get to know you better so I’m doling out the pleasure

It’s a trick to keep myself from getting better known

The heart gets so heavy it drops below the belly where I’m lullabied by

familiar tones

Here is a letter, a feather, a song, a stone

Take them to your home

Where security stole freedoms throne, or did freedom leave on her own?

I’d like to tell you where I’m going but that would mean knowing which train is

moving slow enough to take me on

The options are many yet none of them have any benefits for being riotous and

married to the song

I was wrong when I said I was ready to hold something steady

I was selling him a vision I created in my head

He took a look at my hands, they were tossing up confetti

Here in my room I blow balloons I pace for hours in my party hat

I dangle these memories, I spin around and swing the bat

Swing the bat, I swing the bat

I’ve gotta put another crease in the fantasy sheets, fill the pit with approval

it’s a daily task

The mind is a tiger you lay the meat beside her, if the bait won’t take try the

joint or the flask

Or just bask in this beautiful moment

All the delicate components

Surrender sounds easy, don’t it?

'Til something comes along makes you say

Oh shit, I’ve gotta own it

Here in my room I blow balloons I pace for hours in my party hat

I dangle these memories, I spin around and swing the bat

Swing the bat, I swing the bat

'Til they’re too scared to come back