Gao The Arsonist Phantasm Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro]

[Chorus]
Had to wash the sludge off in the creek
Watch it pour out from my pores now and it reeks
Stumbled into love and dug a burrow with the freaks
Still I'd rather be a cut throat than be weak

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Chorus]
Had to wash the sludge off in the creek
Watch it pour out from my pores now and it reeks
Stumbled into love and dug a burrow with the freaks
Still I'd rather be a cut throat than be weak

[Post-Chorus]
I'd rather be a cut-throat than be weak
I'd rather be a cut-throat than be—

[Verse 1]
I thought I grasped it
I'm in a oilslick
Convinced it's written in my genes like a royalist
Built the spitting image of me free of the poison
Couldn't bare to look, I took the chisel and destroyed it
Helped me find a rhythm in the screams
I ignored it
It's just noise now
You should have left me
Next time have expiry in mind for the fresh meat
Already know I failed you
So n**** don't test me

[Verse 2]
"Please don't take this from me" was the prayer I liked most
Still drained my body like a parasite host Line in the ash pushed as far back as Fahrenheit goes
Hell is hot, but the power keeps paradise close
Yeah, chalkboard
There's not an errand I'd choke on
You observed me
Switched like photon
I'm the shift that the paradigm broke on
Where the f*ck did it go wrong?
Where the f*ck did it–
Huh

[Bridge]
Scar tissue translucent
It grew over thin as plastic
Discarded blood transfusion for petroleum extracted
The garden's only fruitless where the opium is planted
Torch that bitch to ashes
Torch that bitch to—

[Verse 3]
I said "I don't wanna die
I just wanna pause"
I promise I tried
Guess you found a lost cause
You watched me vomit my pride
I couldn't stomach the nausea, uh
Wasn't it obvious?

[Chorus]
Had to wash the sludge off in the creek (Creek, creek)
Watch it pour out from my pores now and it reeks
Stumbled into love and dug a burrow with the freaks
Still I'd rather be a cut throat than be weak

[Post-Chorus]
I'd rather be a cut-throat than be weak
I'd rather be a cut-throat than be—

[Instrumental Outro]