Lyrics Mary Lambert

Mary Lambert

Ribcage

Living in the darkness

I wear it like a crown

Oh I've got tough skin

Ready for my bow

All I've got is two hands

I tied them in the middle

Ready for the red tape

Open up my ribcage

I offer souvenirs

A deaf tongue and blinded ears

Can you fill the shelves in here

Come in, come in

Everybody look around

Everybody look around

I don't know how to fill the space

The invitations on the page

Open up my ribcage

I want you want to want me like I'm all you got

Mama she see it but can't make me stop

Telling the truth it might mean you keep poking but that didn't hurt

That's my method of coping

Daughter sees him like that smoke in my lungs

What they project on me what I've become

Down on my knees, unsure what to say

No I never learned how to pray

Don't know know who I've been fooling but you've got me running in circles I'm ruined

Let you inside, opened up all my wounds

Taken my ribcage and ripped it in two

Everybody look around

Everybody look around

I don't know how to fill the space

The invitations on the page

Open up my ribcage

Tie it from my tendons

Watch how they stretch

Oh I've got the muscle

Lord I'm spent

Knocking down my sternum

Again, at a young age

Too much space between

Open up my ribcage

I offer souvenirs

A deaf tongue and blinded ears

Can you fill the shelves in here

Come in, come in

Everybody look around

Everybody look around

I don't know how to fill the space

The invitations on the page

Open up my ribcage

There's impenetrable silence inside of my head

There's nothing I can buy when I'm practically dead

I get so tired of writing everything I should have said

That maybe this time I'll put my pen down and just tell you instead

You see I opened up my ribcage and violins flew out

The organs softly played through my violin mouth

I got lights hotter than love hidden beneath my tongue

Written on my skin

Tells me your the one

Everybody look around

Everybody look around

I don't know how to fill the space

The invitations on the page

Open up my ribcage

Open up my ribcage

Open up my ribcage

Open up my ribcage