What Makes Me Tick - JT Music

As I dust of all these cobwebs

I guess it’s been some time

Since I had my last polish

But I’ve still not lost my shine

We’ve only got one life to waste

So why not find more time to play?

Where did everyone go?

Uh oh

Are they hiding?

Should I seek 'em?

Why am I all alone?

Oh no

My heart has sprung a leak

It must because it was broke, now I’m sour

But the rain is good for the flowers

My petals fell and then I felt it click

What makes me tick

Thought you got off no trouble?

I’m ready to pop your bubble

'Cause I’m no toy, but boy, oh boy

How bad you had me played

I’m fixing to patch up myself

No sticking me back on my shelf

This lonely doll is going all Pinocchio insane

Gepetto’s chains have long enslaved me

I cut the strings from which you hanged me

Now your pretty puppet isn’t so ideal

'Cause all you’ve ever been enamored with

Was a girl who was perfectly inanimate

So I faked it 'till I could make it awfully real

Now you wonder where did all the love go?

Uh oh

Like I’m the one who lost it

If it was a puzzle, uh oh

You’ll never be the one to solve it

Don’t you keep this doll all locked up

Playing house just makes me sick

I’ve been wound up, broken down, but

That was how I found out just what makes me tick

You’d better tell me just how many are there of me?

Are you even keeping count?

'Cause you lied to me, said that I’m unique

And now you’ve sold me out

If it’s a game and I’m your toy

Let me play rough like the boys

What you made of?

Come and find out

When I take all your insides out

Forget plastic and silicone

They’re ineffective next to flesh and bone

But when affection’s manufactured

The byproduct is bloodthirst

That’s just what a sacrifice is

Remember that life is priceless

So pick up the knife, you know what to slice

Now no one has to wonder where did all the love go?

Uh oh

I guess I must’ve lost it

'Cause it can be cutthroat, uh oh

Especially when it’s unwanted

Don’t you keep this doll all locked up

Playing house just makes me sick

I’ve been wound up, broken down, but

That was how I found out just what makes me tick

Your touch was once so warm, it’s gotten colder

We don’t play anymore, is it just because we’re older?

You’ve starved me long enough, I’m hungry for a hug

Can’t stop my beating heart, not even if you pull the plug

Where did all the love go?

Uh oh

We rolled it up and tossed it

Wasn’t worth the trouble, uh oh

Not like I was surviving off it

When you keep this doll all locked up

Playing house just makes us sick

We’ve been wound up, broken down, but

That was how we found out just what makes us tick