Fangless - Sleater-Kinney

Sharp teeth in a broken jaw

Hungry, but I’ll hunger on

And the hours I waste

While I fake a grace

That no one will ever see

And I practice tests

And a usefulness

That I no longer need

Did you forget

we once saw you as a grand

A beast and a savior,

a mountain, a man

Grew from a speck to be worshipped and crowned

Now you’re flimsy and fangless

drooping and drowned

But I know that you made me

Sick for you like a rabid dog

And your lies rearranged me

Broke me down but I’m not undone

Clenched fist on a dangling arm

Fight’s over, but I’ll fight on

Where’s the evidence, the scars, the dents

That I was ever here?

I’ve been reassigned put back in line

With the other disappear

Did you forget

we once saw you as a grand

A beast and a savior,

a mountain, a man

Grew from a speck to be worshipped and crowned

Now you’re flimsy and fangless

drooping and drowned

But I know that you made me

Sick for you like a rabid dog

And your lies rearranged me

Broke me down but I’m not undone

But I know that you claim me

I give in, I’m your ragged doll

You were born in a shout

But you will die in a silent skull

Did you forget

we once saw you as a grand

A beast and a savior,

a mountain, a man

Grew from a speck to be worshipped and crowned

Now you’re flimsy and fangless

drooping and drowned

But I know that you made me

Sick for you like a rabid dog

And your lies rearranged me

Broke me down but I’m not undone