Every Single Night

Every single night
 I endure the flight
 Of little wings of white-flamed
 Butterflies in my brain
 These ideas of mine
 Percolate the mind
 Trickle down the spine
 Swarm the belly, swelling to a blaze
 That's where the pain comes in
 Like a second skeleton
 Trying to fit beneath the skin
 I can't fit the feelings in
 Every single night's alight with my brain
 What'd I say to her?
 Why'd I say to her?
 What does she think of me?
 That I'm not what I ought to be
 That I'm what I try not to be
 It's got to be somebody else's fault
 I can't get caught
 If what I am is what I am, 'cause I does what I does
 Then brother, get back, 'cause my breast's gonna bust open
 The rib is the shell and the heart is the yolk
 I just made a meal for us both to choke on
 Every single night's a fight with my brain
 I just want to feel everything
 I just want to feel everything
 I just want to feel everything
 So I'm gonna try to be still now
 Gonna renounce the mill a little while and
 If we had a double-king-sized bed
 We could move in it and I'd soon forget
 That what I am is what I am 'cause I does what I does
 And maybe I'd relax, let my breast just bust open
 My heart's made of parts of all that surround me
 And that's why the devil just can't get around me
 Every single night's alright, every single night's a fight
 And every single fight's alright with my brain
 I just want to feel everything
 I just want to feel everything
 I just want to feel everything
 I just want to feel everything