Mercury Picnic

White heat Silver drip Mercury picnic On the lip Bright knife Soft fruit Something pretty Coming loose Peach split on the silver Sunlight on the blade Whole day looked harmless Till the metal touched the taste Warm grass under elbows Sweetness in the heat Laughter going thinner With the shine beneath the teeth Juice down the wristbone Chrome under the tongue Every little good thing Tasting slightly wrong No one stopped smiling No one left the spread The light got more beautiful The longer danger fed Slow gold Cold wire The body learns Its appetite Bright skin Sharp bloom Something in the daylight Starts to bruise Mercury picnic Silver in the sweet Whole room glowing Like it wants to be eaten Mercury picnic Sun on the bite Pleasure says stay While the blood says this isn't right Mercury picnic No shade, no cure Every little beautiful thing Feels a little too pure Taste it Taste it Mercury picnic Taste it Taste it Let the whole thing shine Cherries in the ashtray Wine on the white cloth Girls in liquid laughter Like they never heard of loss Flute line through the sunlight Bass under the air Everything too open To pretend there's nothing there I like my bright dangerous I like my nice too thin I like that split-second When the poison passes for skin Tip the tray a little Watch the silver run Some things only glitter When they're wrong enough to want Slow gold Cold wire The body learns Its appetite Bright skin Sharp bloom Something in the daylight Starts to bruise Mercury picnic Silver in the sweet Whole room glowing Like it wants to be eaten Mercury picnic Sun on the bite Pleasure says stay While the blood says this isn't right Mercury picnic No shade, no cure Every little beautiful thing Feels a little too pure No storm No dark Just noon And spark No warning No rot Just a perfect Little spot If you want the miracle Watch what it becomes The brightest thing at the table Was the first thing that went wrong The sunlight got metallic The fruit forgot the tree That’s what happens when the pretty thing Learns chemistry Flash Fruit Chrome Heat Flash Fruit Glass Teeth Hey Hey Mercury picnic Hey Hey Let the daylight leak Mercury picnic Silver in the sweet Whole room glowing Like it wants to be eaten Mercury picnic Sun on the bite Pleasure says stay While the blood says this isn't right Mercury picnic No shade, no cure Every little beautiful thing Feels a little too pure White heat Silver drip Mercury picnic On the lip