Oh fossils you lie there

And you pickled yourself with the liquor you drink

You learned to walk

But now your will it shrinks

Stand tall my love I call as you sink

Oh fossils turn your flesh to stone

You've incased these bones

In a body that will not grow

And these hands are prone to stray

To keep dark thoughts and fears at bay

And they'll creep upon a spine that is not yours

They long for new notes new notches chords

And I dripped salty water on your kitchen floor

It was meant as a gift

But it was taken sore

I thought the puddles pretty

As the glistened raw

But you've spent your whole life

Cleaning mess that was not yours

Oh fossils you lie there

And your family like lichen

Will cling to your skin

You made your stand

But now your will it shrinks

Stand tall my love they call as you sink

Oh fossils

Turned your flesh to stone

Now the sand that trinckes through your veins is moving slow

And I'll look a ghost in the eye each day

Till my head is stone and my pillow clay

And these hands were the first that would go astray

But you never used your own to make them stay

So when i dripped salty water

On your kitchen floor

And I thought you'd be thankful

But you took it sore

And you said these puddles princkle

Till my skin is raw

And I've spent my whole life cleaning mess

I won't clean yours