Signed and sealed

Instrumental Intro

Verse

Pints and thick paper wraps helped me dodge the dull morning

Back when I spit at the sun without any warning

But the calendar won't stop clicking its sharp teeth at my neck

Now a silver sedan sits leaking on my gravel driveway wreck

Chorus

Give me my scheduled bliss on a dirty plastic platter

I love the safety I hate the safety

Thirty days to pretend my gray guts don't even matter

I am fine I am fine I am very fine

Verse

Got the mini-mes dressed in starched shirts for the lesson

Scrubbing the floor for a buck is their holy confession

Contracts in cabinets protecting our bones from the draft

While the lawyer signs checks and hides at the back of his raft

Chorus

Panic is pulsing beneath the manicured hedges today

Where did I put the leash

Where did I put my mind

They promise me the dirt won't taste like cheap metal decay

Wash it down wash it down

Bridge

Taxes paid in full

Lungs getting full

Lawnmower engine roar

Everything is such a bore

The grass is screaming underneath my polished leather boot

Verse

One day the nurse with the cold hands will change my white sheets

While I stare at the wall and forget how to use my two feet

Mable slab waiting for a name that I used to inhabit

Catching the silence like a dying gray long-eared rabbit

Chorus

Everything is settling into a permanent hole in the ground

Reserved for the man with the plan

Reserved for the shell of the ghost

Dig a little deeper until no more ticking can be found

Quiet now quiet now

It is done it is done

Outro

Just the mower in the distance

Just the pills for my resistance

Signed and sealed

Perfectly healed