Sick Talk - Wye Oak

Spit it out

I can see if you can say

You explain

Still your meaning floats away

Quiet fails

It is present in its space

Do you doubt

Other voices in your place

Is this sick talk

Building on your tongue until it spills off

Anyone who speaks can say the same truth

Even if the words that they have spared you

Scared you

Is this sick talk

Hovering around me, taking quick stock

Anyone who sees afraid to talk back

Anyway the answers are of no use

We are lost

Fits and starts

What’s the use in watching me

Take apart

One more endless happening

See me now

Terror at the ones and twos

Look again

Shameless, you are mine to lose

Is this — talk

Building on your tongue until it spills off

Anyone who speaks can say the same truth

Even if the words that they have spared you

Scared you

Is this sick talk

Hovering around me, taking quick stock

Anyone who sees afraid to talk back

Anyway the answers are of no use

We are lost