Not Harmless - Laura Gibson

I came clean and there you went

Stitching up every single seam I split

You want to heal me, want to trace the scars

Gonna light a flame for all the unsaved girls

Black tie on the floor

Paper-thin dress on a desk chair

Cigarette breath, sugar-spun voice

You can pull me aside

Hold me like a wounded bird

Oh, but I am no prize

I am not harmless

We charmed the light into doing our work

But it was the dark we called beautiful

I’ll teach you to cry in a crowded room

Teach you how to talk until your teeth come loose

You can pull me aside

Hold me like a wounded bird

But I am no prize

I am not harmless

Tell me, tell me, tell me

Will it make you feel better now

If you tell me, tell me, tell me, tell me

Tell me I’m hysterical

Match wits, bury my will

Time will knock you off quick

Time will take you out

And I’ll be the thief you forgot to chase

The brambles sprung back in the hero’s face

You can pull me aside

Whisper my apologies

But I am no prize

I am not harmless