morphine

Verse 1

Floor lights

Polished and pearly

Counting out the rhythm of the rolling gurney

Waiting for the high to hold my hand

Cotton in my mouth

Sweet white sheets

Iron in the air that smells like surgery

Quiet in the hall

Tracing every pattern of the IV stand

Pre-Chorus

Clean silver lines

Steady pulses rise

Tell me I am safe inside the wires

Watching medicine flow

Fast then slow

Feed the chemical fires

Chorus

Oh the clinical magic of the room

Drip drip

The morphine starts to bloom

I love the weight of the lead vest

Holding my heart against my chest

Stitched and sound

Bound to the ground

Everything is holy in the hospital glow

Verse 2

Late rounds

Clipboard clicking

Oxygen humming while the clock is ticking

Charting out the map of my veins

Vials on the tray

Glass and ice

Plastic tubes are looking like a paradise

Paper gown wings

Taking away the sharper bits of pain

Pre-Chorus

Clean silver lines

Steady pulses rise

Tell me I am safe inside the wires

Watching medicine flow

Fast then slow

Feed the chemical fires

Chorus

Oh the clinical magic of the room

Drip drip

The morphine starts to bloom

I love the weight of the lead vest

Holding my heart against my chest

Stitched and sound

Bound to the ground

Everything is holy in the hospital glow

Bridge

Beep for the rhythm

Beep for the blood

I would live forever in this sterile flood

Tape on my skin

Needle goes in

Nothing else is real

Beneath the seal

I want the saline

I want the numbing

I can hear the machinery coming

Chorus

Oh the clinical magic of the room

Drip drip

The morphine starts to bloom

I love the weight of the lead vest

Holding my heart against my chest

Stitched and sound

Bound to the ground

Everything is holy in the hospital glow

Chorus

Oh the clinical magic of the room

Drip drip

The morphine starts to bloom

I love the weight of the lead vest

Holding my heart against my chest

Stitched and sound

Bound to the ground

Everything is holy in the hospital glow