yesterday he said we were Adam and Eve,
which he stated like one could not be without the other
and then I know why he liked having her around..
...cause sometimes you wish I was more like your mother?

now stand against the wall and take the test i give you:
i just wanna know if you care for the way things were,
so your double-dare of the moment, baby: go on and
remember my name faster than you'd recall hers

sure a while is awhile and i know this, but then again
intensity is a triple-dose of blood to the skin
we're beyond those days Adam could chase all the girls
while Eve gets eternally damned for one sin

now i'm the next room over, bored and predicting
each recycled line you'll throw out to make her day
oh oh my place is taken, but it only hurts a little in that
i'm-slitting-my-wrist-pretending-it's-yours type of way

blood on the roses you placed in my hands last week and
maybe i'll watch it dry there and then send them back
except the one between my teeth when i dance free while they scream
run from the streets, you don't celebrate when you're under attack

but nothing feels like your razorblade lips on my neck
and how i tried to speak but my throat just spilled forth blood
and all that paradise taught me is that any good storm
can douse out it's own electricity with one adequate flood-

you never liked me, i'd prefer you admit it out loud
just say it: the structure of my mind really brings you down
and go on, tell me that fucking me was your substitute for love
cause i'm smart enough to know it's the reason you kept me around

now your final question and you best give me the truth
cause i know you like to think womankind came from your rib
but if a forbidden apple tree grew just where Eve passed you in hunger
and you knew the consequence, how quick would you be to give?

(2004)