Bricks - Jenny Owen Youngs

There’s bricks in the yard

Falling where they flew

I’m sure mom and dad

Won’t give a sitch for one or two

Building no hagards that travels left to rest

Building is better but breaking is easy and I dont know which to trust

I think there must be something wrong with me

Like the path that goes unwatched among the very finest edge

My eyes are all wide and my stomach distends

And I’ll do whatver you say

I’ll say whatever you want

If you just put that away

If you just perish that thought

Why can’t we be a normal family?

And I’ll count my footsteps across the garden stones

The faintest love glides six above cement and rust and bones

And I’ll gather my eggshells softly I guess till I have enough to fill up the

nest you’re on

Draw up the blue prints but I’ll never use them

Now I’ve only ever offered you myself and you always say it’s not enough

Pray for your paralysis while I’m, while I’m coating for your touch

And I’ll do whatver you say

And I will say whatever you want

If you just put that away

If you just perish that thought

Oh, you talk about violence like it doesn’t exist

As a fire is a womb

And a womb is a fist

And I’ll bend with for thee

When your tongue comes unglued

But I’ll seize up inside

If your mouth says it’s true

Don’t you wanna be a normal family?

A normal family

I’m a steel wall

I don’t want to see anything at all

I’m a steel wall

I don’t need to feel anything at all

I don’t want to see anything, and I don’t need to feel anything

I don’t want to know anything at all