Laura Stevenson
Rattle At Will
To the universe I'm wasting your time
Bending my veins in your face, how do I dare?
Out here in the thickening air

Clutch the body I'm given
Is there a way to live?
I'd die to know it
I'd die to feel, is this the fear?
Is this the fear?
Is this the fear?

When I believed you'd tell me
Never to need like I do
And the tallest crane in the skyline I was to you

And all that I could taste was your spit
And all your caution

Needn't be careful with me love
I'd say rattle at will, I've been drinking my milk
And like trembling leaves right before the big freeze
I was with you

Oh, the way it came in shakes like a clumsy rail
Smoking brakes and sparklers
All out of sorts just as it goes after the doors close
High up, to you I was once