Seething Fiona

I seem to you to seek a new disaster every day
You deem me due to clean my view and be at peace and lay
I mean to prove I mean to move in my own way, and say,
I've been getting along for long before you came into the play - Fiona Apple

Oh my darling
I am, I have sunk, I am
Oh so sullen
I swallowed my rampage
And tore at my own throat
instead of those more deserved
those who deserted
and those who just couldn't
tongue my murky and
dynamic tastes

my darling
oh my darling
I am Tidal, I am emerging
I am on the verge, I am When the Pawn Hits
pretty pucker, folderol, so damn far left to go
a fondling trigger
oh yes, I am this Extraordinary Machine

I move inside and insiduously
under skin, beneath pretense and suspicion
I am a seething Fiona
I am vinyl on skip
I am stain on lip
oh my darling
oh my darling

You are to be warned
I am not to be underestimated
Let's not pretend, placate
Calm, riding, solid, writhing
Let's face it
To you
I am the scariest thing
in this room

I look so pretty
I look so soft
I look so goddamn beautiful
But only when I'm getting you off

I can eviscerate and castrate and assassinate
I have speech that I can no longer swallow
My voice is darker, deeper
Smooth in its uneven candor
Are you afraid
that I will try to teach you a lesson?
Are you afraid
that I am meek and muffled?

Your knees are shaking
Your eyes cannot leave my face
My silly, stupid passtime of mine
It's just lust. It's just rust.

I walk the white picket
between civil and unclean hands
Bipolar, pendulum swing, chicken wing
Perhaps it is time to slap

Clap. Snap. Trapped.
I am crazy
She's crazy, this one says
People tell you all the time what they are
We so rarely
listen

Listen
Sick in the head
Waltzing, prancing
Only you can decide
if I am to be feared
Only you can strike me
Only you can kiss me
second-handly
on accidental Friday nights

Hummmmmmmmm
Hmmmmmmmmm
Hummmmmmmmm
Hmmmmmmmmmm

Everything's going to be just fiiiiiiiiiiine