Synesthesia from Cannibal Animals by The Gustav Railway Band

Lyrics:

I don’t have synesthesia
Don’t kiss me like a corpse
Don’t tell my people lies
And imagine me warm
And pretend to kiss me better
Until I’m all cured
Like your little passion project
So pretty covered in sores

Don’t think of me starving
Or on some other level
I’m really just like you
But I stumble through it different
You don’t need to be afraid
I’m not a ghost, I’m not a frail
Frail star on a point in an arc
Far away from the ground
All I am is falling down

And sustaining myself on pareidolia
And fantasies where my lovers speak to me
I’m sustaining myself on pareidolia
And haphazard false apologies

I don’t have synesthesia
Or crippling addictions
Except to my pity
And my indulgences in health
But I implore you, if you love me
Don’t stand below, above me
Like I’m your pet satanist
With a poorly spelled performance

While I dance in the mirror
For someone that I can’t hear
Who sends letters from a distance
About their misguided fear
Who love me cause I’ll kill them
Who admire from a distance
The gun I’ll never own
But I can’t make connections anymore

I’m sustaining myself on pareidolia
And fantasies where my lovers speak to me
I’m sustaining myself on pareidolia
And haphazard false apologies

This ship is sinking but
You won’t come aboard to rescue anyone
Because you don’t want to ruin their excitement
This ship is sinking but
You won’t come aboard to rescue anyone
Because you don’t want to ruin their excitement

I’m not a tragic archetype
I have no genius to rest in
I don’t have synesthesia
But I can see myself disappearing

I’m sustaining myself on pareidolia
And fantasies where my lovers speak to me
I’m sustaining myself on pareidolia
And haphazard false apologies

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