Everything Everything - Riot on the Ward

There’s a riot on the ward – I’m leaving
Fifty animals escaped their cages
I’d be lying if I did no damage
My combustion engine hands stroke

Your fishnet, so cavalier, my roundhead, my eyeball

But how many of us make a wave
Rifle hard in the canopy tonight
It’s the mightiest river I have known
Squalor seep from the ghost fellatio

Thought will kill you if it’s left untreated
And with that I leave the empty hangar
I’d be strung up if you spoke – their batons
Incomplete my decibel past

Your district, my red light beams, so minefield, my depth charge

Cos I wanna live without a sound
Casting out from the mouth of tireless ink
Turn to stone for another uttered drop
Fire my synapse with syllable intent

There’s a riot on the ward – I’m leaving
And with that I leave the empty hangar