Pedestal from Bongo Music by Ouch!

Spend hours at labour

Harvesting my mind

Send millions to labour

Brain matter they mine

Sent to process it

Into bricks it refines

Built a pedestal

Crushing weight on my spine


Shooting myself in the foot

By blowing out my brains

Replacing all but what’s left

Crushing under the weight

Gouge my eyes and in their stead

I'll shove the bloody portrait

Who really needs autonomy

When you can just live your head


Hands and knees

I cry and I bleed

At the base

Of the tower that's defining me

It syphens

Leaves no thoughts

But for the scourge

That I've put atop


Shooting myself in the foot

By blowing out my brains

Replacing all but what’s left

Crushing under the weight

Gouge my eyes and in their stead

I'll shove the bloody portrait

Who really needs autonomy

When you can just live your head


I promise

I know my worth

I promise I know

It's more than this

I promise

I'm trying to learn

But it feels safe

To call it here


Shooting myself in the foot

By blowing out my brains

Replacing all but what’s left

Crushing under the weight

Gouge my eyes and in their stead

I'll shove the bloody portrait

Who really needs autonomy

When you can just live your head

• Alternative
• alternative rock
• post-punk
• post-rock
• Nantwich