The Antlers - Atrophy

You've been living awhile in the front of my skull, making orders.
You've been writing me rules, shrinking maps,
and redrawing borders.
I've been repeating your speeches, but the audience just doesn't follow.
Because I'm leaving out words, punctuations, and it sounds pretty hollow.

I've been living in bed because now you tell me to sleep.
I've been hiding my voice and my face and you decide when I eat.

In your dreams I'm a ciminal, horrible, sleeping around.
While you're awake I'm impossible, constanly letting you down.

Little porcelain figurines, glass bullets you shoot at the wall.
Threats of castration for crimes you imagine when I miss your call.
With the bite of the teeth of that ring on my finger,
I'm bound to your bedside, your eulogy singer.
I'd happily take all those bullets inside you and put them inside of myself.

"Someone, oh anyone. Tell me how to stop this.
She's screaming, expiring, and I'm her only witness.
I'm freezing, infected, and rigid in that room inside her.
No one's gonna come as long as I lay still in bed beside her."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• The Antlers
• Atrophy
• Hospice
• indie
• music

[katakotia3]

The Antlers never fail to give me that shivering feeling when I listen to their music. This piece has it all.

[jackantharia]

is this picture really moving? or it is because of tears?

[89961996]

I do not understand what the screeching thing is supposed to be...

[ahamburger111]

The coda at the end breaks my heart.

[izimoo100]

love the song, but damn the ending is annoying.

[wyndowliquor]

.Love.

[johnbkrasinskilover]

oh my god absolutely beautiful

that last part

oh my god

it's so sad

makes me cry every fucking time

[lamothegabe]

love....it's so perfect



[Meelk14877]

@Carlzmotion thats the best part, it sounds like a whisper and u have to listen even harder to this amazing song :)

[ZannaRainbowStarr]

@Carlzmotion thats part of the beauty of it :)

[wyndowliquor]

Beautiful. Simply beautiful.