"Torque" lyrics - KRISTIN HERSH

My lip gloss froze off
Outside the airport
On a hard bench
Beside a dingy Santa
I searched every face

What are you?
Animated soft tissue
Shifting neuropeptides
A social pyromaniac
A plate spinner

And it's smoky around you
I can hardly breathe

I watched your eyes go dark
I saw them look blank
I wasn't there
I saw it in pictures
After the fact

And it's smoky around you
I can hardly breathe