Sage Francis - "Mermaids Are Sea Sluts" (spoken word piece performed on 90.3 WRIU) lyrics

I am nothing but a shell of the man i once was so you could put me to your ear and actually hear yester-year's ocean I was in shape then A much better built body Of water with infinite waves and fathomless depths where you could have gone deep-sea fishing for compliments and caught plentiful schools of rea**uring comments Now all you get is the boot You fell for the bait and got hooked on what you thought i was Now we're both struggling to win this tug of war of the worlds Where we breath the same air it's just done differently. And I'm trying to figure out ways to have comfortably survive outside your element Compromising intelligence I dabbled in watered-down thoughts that Filtered in from main-stream. I'm offering mind-altering ideas that make the most quiet nature brain Scream from exposure to the types of things that won't Necessarily make you happier They'll just give you a greater range of emotions And I can feel myself getting lured into deeper oceans of Fantasy lands Where people think they're as safe as cartoons Simply because they speak in bubbles. A sanitized safe-haven Where you could face Satan and Have his faith straightened. His new goal would be to dethrone Poseidon and Have Neptunes place taken. They'd swash-buckled with their pitchforks While Lucifer sh** talks and rips Thoughts of coral reefs For relief he'd be like "b**h, walk" From this oversize aquarium that daddy kept cleanly To unhealthy degrees Writing suicide notes with invisible ink On transparencies And posting them to the gla** boundaries that Surround the seas of change. Strangely enough, while bringing back the reel (!!!!!!!!) I could sense intense resistence So I had no other choice but to cut the line. I'm not saying you're overly naive I just think you should get into the habit of checking to see when strings are attached. Fortunate for you I'm compa**ionate enough To throw back what I catch If its underdeveloped And needs time to grow; though I'm remorseful of the pain I've caused you. And I want to kiss your lips better. I sympathise with the sorrow by Stroking the scar of my own traumatic experience with My excommunicated tongue. See I know exactly what you mean when you say It hurts to much to talk. I've been there. I don't plan on returning 'cause No matter how much of a distance I kept Or how long I waited for my wounds to heal They'd re-open with the slightest flash-back So I sued time for mal-practice That ba*tard's a hack with a Rusty scalpel and Barbed-wire stitched thread. Instead of seeing things clearly They're pitch red and there's this glitch in my head That's got me thinking contradictions It said: "There are more fish in the sea! Whether you hear me not, Or you listen to me. Whether you listen to me or Hear me not!" There are more micro-organisms in my teardrop. But fear not I'd never sink as low as to Make my ears pop. And I imagine now you only want to swim with members of your own league And don't need me Meddling Sending sonar signals High-pitched notes or symbols. My voice is thrown far but ripples are only caused when you cast stones But you shouldn't throw rocks If you live in fragile fairytales. This really means alot to me... Ill always treasure it..as a token. No you won't... This is for the girl who loves me, the girl who cares about me for who i am, not what I look like! I just wanted you to know what you'd be missing. You think I don't appreciate art, you think I don't understand fashion, you think I'm not hip, you think im pathetic, a nerd... a lard a**, a fatso. You think I'm sh**, but you're wrong, ''cause im champagne, and your sh**! Until the day you die, you, not me, will always be sh**! See when you put a shell to your ear It is not the sound of crashing waves you're hearing It's the amplified current of your bloodstream It was your self pulse that created that False human illusion of me. Your tireless heart pumping Out An ocean of lies And I foolishly tried Filling impossible shoes Resulting in my stumbleing As I fell into the trap of making a women my element Now I just can't get comfortable being out of you.