Baby, I'm Not (A Werewolf)

Lyrics for Baby, I'm Not (A Werewolf)

I woke up panicked, short a ghost Water running in the bathroom sink I listed sideways from my bed And threw my body down the hall Forearm to ledge, I braced And smeared the steam to find my face Imagine my confusion and my horror As my body said to me, as if to another Baby, I'm not, hmm-mm Oh, baby, I'm not, hmm-mm Baby, I'm not a werewolf But I don't know about you But our words shared a carnivore sound Like we cut our meat with the side of our mouths Our words bent like knives Yet I remember nothing but horizon I remember nothing but horizon I ate miles and miles of the horizon Limping home through a stubbled field Missing half of my left hand Door ajar, abandoned car I bandaged it with a potato chip bag My thoughts drained out Through a ruby red sluice I could not read them Now, here before the mirror With the steam cleared away I see my flanks raw, bedazzled In a spray of rock salt haste Indescribable filth under my fingernails remaining I ate every story, I ate every myth And when I finished with the minotaur, I ate the Labyrinth I ate every story, I ate every myth And when I finished with the minotaur, I ate the Labyrinth So if I'm not, what have I done? "You dream too hard," says my reflection But baby, I'm not, hmm-mm Oh, baby, I'm not, hmm-mm Baby, I'm not