Submit to Skin

Strike a match and light the gas, you make some smoke
To try to mask your horrid past and your wounded soul
Your aftermath, a heart of glass, now cracked and cold
And it bleeds upon all that I try to give
In desperation, I try to save this, I'm left with nothing
Projecting patterns, the mirror shatters, your image, crumbling
A spark ignites when we fight or when we're fucking
I become blind and I submit to skin

Displace all my good intentions
Paint me as black as the walls
I'm left to rot in the questions
Pull me in then you withdraw
Break down my body and mind and soul
Display me upon your pedestal
From between your thighs, you take control
I'll let you play God, I'll be the null

Cause I'm a shell of a man and I don't love myself
You place me up on the edge, cage me in fear and contempt
And then you pull me back in, I start to spiral again
Just chain me to those sheets and do what you want to me
I'll be whatever you need, just promise you'll never leave

Is it love, is it lust
Maybe it's all the above
It's an addiction and
The hooks won't stop sinking in
I don't know how to love myself
So, I guess, for now, I'll just submit to skin