The Anhedonia Epidemic - Light This City

When her body gave into that sickness again

She always knew it would

She didn’t want to say a thing

For fear that if he knew

He’d never risk getting even this close to her

Fever has made her shameless

She’s desperate to infect

And she’d kill to hear him moan

With misery

Burning sweet

Keeping her suffering company with his bowels

Twisted from that seductive disease

Some shit spreads with a secret contagion

And you’ll either be fascinated or repulsed by the velocity of defeat

Tell me doctor

Are we giving up

Yes I know it’s completely fucked

Show me a credible witness to the existence of a functional love

Or even just a functional fuck

Doctor are you giving up on me

Don’t you see it’s each other we need

You’re the sadist and it seems I just might be

A masochist

Neither one of us satisfied

Until I’m fucking writhing

And I overheard them say

Our guinea pigs are in for it

We’re straining day and night to find the origin of this mutant strain

Once microscopic

Now epidemic

Which crawled it’s way into her brain

She didn’t ask for it

But she is passing it to everybody she meets

And it might not be the most pleasurable thing

But this sensation can be so addicting

Tell me doctor are we giving up

Yes I know it’s completely fucked

Show me a credible witness to the existence of a functional love

Or even just a functional fuck

Doctor are you giving up on me

Don’t you see it’s each other we need

You’re the sadist and it seems I just might

He won’t surrender

His system guards

Against the potential agony

But he will never realize that

Consequently

He’s missing out on ecstasy

He won’t surrender

His system protects him against me

Well it wasn’t caused by amphetamines

But his dopamine levels are unquestionably depleting

And my favorite hypochondriac is starting to display symptoms of hysterical

paralysis

All the doctors can say is

There’s nothing physically amiss

Isn’t it ironic that I’m the sadist

But now it seems he just might be immune to what I inflict