Twelve Feet Tall

from Still People in Moving Images by Tori Fallis

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I'm coming in on high, profile kept on low
Watching all the classy ladies click the floor with their toes
They're twelve feet tall, there's glitter on the walls
Nobody's giving reasons not to have a ball

There's a scintillating lass who's throbbing to the brass
She's striking down the DJ as she's shaking that ass
I'm jolting red and blue, I feel it in my feet
I can't help but feel that something's wrong with me

I turn around and you grip me, grip me, grip me, no
You grip me, grip me, grip me, no

I try to break out, the pupils fall about
You've got a wicked grin that drowns out the crowd
What the hell is wrong with you? You're feeling lucky, too?
I feel like i've got a sudden case of the blues

A raisin in the sun, a catcher in a rye
I'm just babbling nonsense in an effort to cry
Before you drag me to the light and reach in for a bite
You shut the door closed and I can no longer fight

So you buy-buy a ticket to ride-ride
You'll leave me to die-die and get out of here
With the rise-rise of your empire-pire
You'll exercise-cise their greatest fear

As you grip me, grip me, grip me, no
As you grip me- AAAH! Grip me, grip me, oh no

I try to break away like currents between the waves
It's all I can think of in the heat of dismay
Your fingers take a glide from my spine to the crease
You shock me with a touch and I let out a scream- AAAH!

In the kitchen where he hides, his brother grabbed a knife
Stabbed him twice in the stomach and again in the eyes
That's exactly how I feel, being turned into a meal
Swallowed in one bite, and now, I know this is real

So you buy-buy a ticket to ride-ride
You'll leave me to die-die and get out of here
With the rise-rise of your empire-pire
You'll exercise-cise their greatest fear

In the back of their souls

Uuuh... Oouh... Ohhh... Uuhh... Uunh, yeah... Oooh! Yeah... Nuuh! ARGH!

So goodbye-bye to all past lies-lies
That exercise-cise a greater fear
I said goodbye-bye to all past tries-tries
To sterilize-lize a reason to hear

SO GOODBYE-BYE TO ALL PAST LIES-LIES
THAT EXERCISE-CISE A GREATER FEAR
I SAID GOODBYE-BYE TO ALL PAST TRIES-TRIES
TO STERILIZE-LIZE A REASON TO HEAR

IN THE BACK OF MY SOUL
IN THE BACK OF MY SOUL
IN THE BACK OF MY SOUL
IN THE BACK OF MY SOUL
IN THE BACK OF MY SOUL

MY SOUL!
MY SOUL!
MY SOUL!
MY SOUL!

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from Still People in Moving Images, released February 14, 2016

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