Acumen Nation: The Downshined

you harp like a screamer
you lie like the rest when you're in your sleep
you polish the dreamers
but you die like the rest when the cutter comes to creep

you wish for it fairer
but you collapse on me just as i relate
you forget i'm a stander
waiting for something to come and deliver me grace

just like a dirty movie
in which you want to rescue
the girl in the tailspin
even though she belongs there

scrape the gutters at the edge
cut like flowers in the alley
burn the lula divinia's ashes now
who's that lurking in the shadows
scrape the gutters at the edge
cut like flowers in the alley
burn the lula divinia's ashes now
who's that lurking in the shadows
begging to bleed

you made a believer
out of me when i most hated praise
you cost me the failure
that i prepped myself from a life in pain

you gutted the mother
complex in me as i shot from the gate
you scratched at my third gear
waiting for me to catch up and catch fire

just like a dirty movie
in which you want to rescue
the girl in the tailspin
even though she belongs there

i begged you for stronger
command as i sank down to my knees
but i couldn't be wronger
as i followed your hand to a much much darker place

scrape the gutters at the edge
cut like flowers in the alley
burn the lula divinia's ashes now
who's that lurking in the shadows
scrape the gutters at the edge
cut like flowers in the alley
burn the lula divinia's ashes now
who's that lurking in the shadows
begging to bleed
scrape the gutters at the edge
who's that lurking in the shadows
begging to bleed...
begging to bleed...
begging to bleed...
begging to bleed...

begging to bleed...
begging to bleed...
begging to bleed...
begging to bleed...
begging to bleed...
begging to bleed...