[Hook]
Hold your breath in the squalor
See who can hold it longer
No amount of rocks will stop the flood
You'll hold your breath 'til you cough up..

[Verse]
Swallow the anchor - spit out your teeth
Wallow in anger - swim in your grief
Dive in it, thrive in it, live there
Drown in your fucking despair
Paddle on, Padawon
Get mad at mom, get mad at "god"
Thumb through your catalog
of who to blame your battle on
You'd cattle prod your own kid for your next fix
Travel on to Babylon - then miss the exit
To blame the same dame
that gave you the directions
You smell of 12 shades of desperate
Simple and plain, your minimal shame
Almost brings me to physical pain
Your miserable claims of "prisoner"
Scream "visitor" with invisible chains
Your pitiful ways get the best of you
Yea, you buckled
Under knuckles whiter than your meth abuse
We can compare stares and amounts of air
While you bet I think less of you
Too bad you gotta love someone to care

[Hook]

[Verse]
You used to dunk me
By sucking me underneath by my sunken feet
Or just jump me
Hands on my shoulders looked comforting
I suffered with the thought that you had sunk me
But you just wanted company - lucky me
'cause you're as sad as it gets
Far be it from me to sink your battleship,
You sack of shit
Maybe if someone cracked a whip
You wouldn't be a fragile twit
Cracking under gavel hits
You're a savage cyst, a rabid tick
I thought you had that habit kicked
Instead, you licked your lips
And lit your pipe dreams with a candlestick
Too bad you can't keep that candle lit
Admire the campfires
And hold sapphire to brand the wick
In hopes to scale the rope - you won't
You sailed the moat, failed to float
And all that's left is to inhale the smoke

[Verse]
Can't draw breath with a sketchpad
Each moment missed
is a memory you'll never get back
Go ahead, test that theory
I'm leery of your lies
With my eyes wide open
Poking a stick in your side
Hoping for your demise
It's not too high a drop from a sunken ship
Too high a climb to rock bottom living under it
There it is. The second it hits you
You can hold your breath forever
And never take it with you
It's true. You're better off breathing
At least to forgive - if no other reason
Heart: spring-loaded with
wings folded in wax feathers
Still come up short in
contests of past measures
I never pegged her for a beggar
That'd ever accept the scepter
Serves me right for not
writing my characters better
And to think, I've always protected you
If I was you
I'd only breathe to fog my reflection too..