Gillian Grassie — Sweet Metallic lyrics

Lyrics

Fear tastes like rust sucked inside your mouth
A sweet metallic you can’t spit out
We just can’t plan for this kind of thing
But what were we expecting?
We can’t stay, can’t leave, can’t force the peace
We can’t make our gods do anything
Men stand like tall white stones
Lined in a thousand tidy rows
See, we dwell in a house of cedar
No fear here, no love either
But there’s a woman sitting there on a hard kitchen chair
Scared to death of the knock on her doorway
«Don't let him be gone; I can’t do this alone
We’ve got three kids, got a family»
What am I but a single girl?
Armed with just five senses in a senseless world
Everybody wants their answers
But getting the question right’s what really matters
You know this used to be our home
It wasn’t much but it was our own
And the waters kept on rising up
And no one came to save us
We heard «Bye Bye Blackbird»
From the edge of a stern
That was pulling away
We built ourselves on unity
And a land of opportunity
And shame, shame, shame
Fear tastes like rust sucked inside your mouth
A sweet metallic you can’t spit out