[Instrumental Intro]

[Spoken Verse 1]
I wake up in the dark
The sound of foxes mating reverberates around the inside of the quad of the complex of flats
In which we reside
Like shrieking demonic children
I can't take it anymore
So I rise
Out of my body, up off the bed, and into the shadowed hallway
I shiver, but I'm not cold
Not dramatic, not raining
I'm a spirit, come to haunt the dead

[Spoken Verse 2]
I leave my sleeping self back in there
And step through the closed front door onto the street
The orange glow makes monochrome of the cars hunched over on either side
As if ashamed to wait for their owners to return and slide a key into their ignitions
It's a nasty, wind blown night
But I throw back my head and smile

[Chorus]
Nothing says I love you like this thing
A carrot on a string (Who do you love?)
I've had waking sweats from fever dreams
Guess I'm feeling the sting (Who do you love?)

[Spoken Verse 3]
My gaze returns to Earth
And alights before me on a pulsing hole that has split the air open
Like a portal to another dimension
I approach it and climb in
Despite its colour and appearance, it's filthy
It leaves stains of grass and mud on my naked torso as I clamber through
It's like I'm returning to the womb

[Spoken Verse 4]
I emerge (Don't let me interrupt)
And I'm in the garden
(As long as they stop bothering us)
I can see the awesome minds of Bosch and Milton (As long as they stop bothering us)
Hollis, Coleridge
I see a deer pass me by and I break its neck (Don't let me interrupt)
Rip off its hind leg and take a bite (As long as they stop bothering us)
Through fur, sinew, and bone
[Chorus]
Nothing says I love you like this thing
A carrot on a string (Who do you love?)
I've had waking sweats from fever dreams
Guess I'm feeling the sting (Who do you love?)

[Spoken Bridge]
I do not love this place
We only save what we love
And I do not love this place

[Outro]
I lift the veil from the horizon
And see a future for us there
I believe you will be okay
I believe
It will all, everything
Soaring, soaring, breaking through clouds
Riding vapour trails all across the sky
I believe
You will be okay
You don't have to try
We will be okay
Everything