Grey Matter
(Jewel Kilcher)

This Way


I hate you
I love you
Leave
Don't go away
I can't decide if I like your face
Or if I wish it would stray

You're a child but you're malicious
You're sweet but don't remember my name
Heads you win and tails I'm lost
Love equals pain

I am drifting without an anchor
Through you ambiguous region
A strange continent immune to all reason
And I'm flattered by your grey matter

Inside my skin, I feel your tongue
It's telling me I'm dirty and licking my bones
A scrape against silence, a knife across a plate
Makes the sound of need on hate

I am drifting without an anchor
Through you ambiguous region
A strange continent immune to all reason
And I'm flattered by your grey matter

And I do not understand
Why a woman can't just love a man

You're amusing, you're a real cool show
With you meat hooks and barbed wire carnival
You got gold dust in you pocket
You got moth holes in your soul
From too many false teeth and greasy flashbulbs

I am drifting without an anchor
Through you ambiguous region
A strange continent immune to all reason
And I'm flattered by your grey matter