Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital Lyrics
The half back-flip conception, a state hospital birthThe most threadbare tall story the country's ever heardBrought home to breathe smoke in arms of her mother with a blunt kitchen knifeWho just lays in a submissive positionbeneath the national weight and the slow arc of a fistHer heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairsHer blood is thicker than concrete forced to be brave she was, born into a graveAnd in the limp three years of board schoolingshe's accustomed to hearing that she could never run farA slipped disc in the spine of community,a bloody curse word made pedestrian verseSpirits in graveyards and fingers in car parksShe cries in the high street just to be heardA screaming anchor for nothing in particularat the foot of the ***** of it, and dragging her heels in the dirtHer heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairsHer blood is thicker than concrete forced to be brave she was, born into a graveThe cheek of youth flushed red and turned grayNow she lies on the pavement, she's helped to her feet,all thighs, hair, and magpie handbagsSaturday's uniform for the ***** me paradeBrought home to keep warm in the arms of a plumber ruddy and baldingWho just needs a spine to dig into, a chest for the head, and a hand for the holdingHer heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairsHer blood is thicker than concrete forced to be brave she was, she wasHer heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairsHer skin is thicker than concrete forced to be brave she was, she wasA broken elevator anthem held between floorsBut if blood is thicker than concrete, all of it is not lostAll is not lostAll is not lostAll is not lostAll is not lost
