How To Serve Man (Stripped)

Girlfriend: What are you thinking right now?
El: I would really prefer not to tell you whats going on in my head right now.
Girlfriend: I really wanna know. Im not gonna hold it against you. I promise. Im a big girl—I can handle it. Just tell me whats going on in your head...
['The Twilight Zone': Mr. Chambers, dont get on that ship! The rest of the book ' To Serve Man,' its... its a cookbook!]
That's not a hand it's a claw, and this is not a song its an exorcism of numbness,
We are not in my bedroom anymore, it's a prison camp that Ive been stuck in
This isn't skin, it's a scramble suit with a thousand mes rotating,
That's not your mouth, its a boredom generator powered by irritation,
We aren't a couple, were isolationists who tried to use the buddy system
And that wasn't ***, it was a competition for power that I'm clearly winning
But that's not victory, matter fact I think I'm better off forfeiting,
You go for de gold girl, I'm about to bounce out deadwoods hills for cleaner living
And I really do...
Hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want
This isn't Brooklyn, it's a colony of wayward bees without a queen
And we aren't people, more like Sims controlled by childish deities,
But see were alive now, and that's not time were wasting nah this is life
And youre so pretty, like the gleam off that blade when you slipped my ribs the shivy,
This ain't a breakup, I like to think of it as a...stay of execution,
And that's not the air I'm clearing, its the wispy trails of our cumulus pollution,
And that's not despair youre feeling, its the petulant reaction of a wounded child
And that's not the door I'm looking at, its an escape hatch to this zeppelin were inside
And I really do...
Hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want
Youre not a woman youre a piranha with cutlery for dentured up smile
And Im not a man, Im an incomplete punchline of a joke I don't understand,
Thats not your diary, its a cookbook and Im youre favorite chapter when youre bored
And that's not a love letter, its a recipe for the same slop you served before
This ain't an insult, its the clearest truth Ive ever had the misery to speak
But these aren't words, these are the terms of my surrender and defeat
But Im not sorry, beyond the sorry nature of existing with no plans,
Please don't touch me. Just wave goodbye with that claw that's not a hand.
Did I mention that I...
Hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want
(x3) Really do...
Hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want it to
I hope it all works out like you want
(x8) Really do...