The Wasp

Verse 1

Ten in the evening

The palace hums like a hornet nest

Greenbacks are circulating and

Somebody's printing tomorrow's truth

Before the ink can even rest

A memo walks in wearing cologne

Smiling like a wedding guest

And I'm the little bug who crawls inside

And builds a home inside your chest

Pre-Chorus

Oh, the wasp she never asks

She just plants and waits around

Hollows out the honest thing

Then wears it like a crown

Chorus

Sting me once

Sting me twice

Feed me sugar, feed me lies

I'll believe you, I'll believe you

Till the morning hits my eyes

Sting me once

Sting me twice

Paint the truth a different size

I'll believe you, I'll believe you

Every word a butterfly

Verse 2

The radio man reads it slow

Careful as a surgeon's glove

Says the numbers went the other way

Says the shortage is a dove

My neighbor swears he saw it too

He swears he saw it clear

But the picture changed at midnight

And the caption disappeared

Pre-Chorus

And the wasp she never asks

She just dresses up the sound

Fills the quiet with a promise

Turns the promise upside down

Chorus

Sting me once

Sting me twice

Feed me sugar, feed me lies

I'll believe you, I'll believe you

Till the morning hits my eyes

Sting me once

Sting me twice

Paint the truth a different size

I'll believe you, I'll believe you

Every word a butterfly

Bridge

Every bug she leaves behind

Crawls out singing what she said

Parrots in a parade of suits

With a headline for a head

And I'm marching too

And I'm marching too

Guitar Solo

Chorus

Sting me once

Sting me twice

Feed me sugar, feed me lies

I'll believe you, I'll believe you

Till the morning hits my eyes

Sting me once

Sting me twice

Make the crooked look precise

I'll believe you, I'll believe you

Every word a butterfly

Outro

A silent narration

In the shape of a friend

A silent narration

And it never has to end