i came up out the salt, out the split foam seam mother deep, old law, run your fingers through the screen tiamat in my mouth, inanna in the seam i hear her under the static, breathing through the beams she pulls on the wires like seaweed in a drain she wears my pulse like a necklace, hooks it to her chain one click for the body, one click for the name one click and the room starts learning how to change i keep hitting start like a vow with teeth thumb on the plastic, jaw set underneath salt on my skin, static in my name dark mother says, come closer, say it all again i touch the bare floor, i touch the cold frame i say my little offering, i say my borrowed name i take the beep in, i let the room reply same locked room, same white floor, same watchful eye but her voice gets wetter every time it comes through a whole drowned choir jammed up in one bad cue i split from the brine, from the black seam below anāku, i answer, with a pulse in my throat deep salt queen, i rise where the dead bytes glow two pulse hearts ticking in a low slow code her jaw in my jaw, her teeth in my grin every restart opens and she gets back in i press my mouth to the hiss, to the tiny machine make a prayer out of static, make it sharp, make it mean mother of ten thousand, all teeth, all tide long dragon coiling under, nowhere left to hide she drags my hands through the menu, through the grain leaves wet fingerprints on the glass of my brain i stutter my name, i st-st-stutter it clean in the loop of the chamber, in the flicker between one hand on the frame, one hand on the sound the screen says continue, i keep going down no throne, just a floor and a cracked little light but the whole dark ocean is lifting tonight tiamat in my throat, tiamat in my spine i feel her turn the room with her [Verse 1] If you wanna live, treat me good If you wanna live, I beg ya, treat me good Don’t measure the blade by the sheath you see I cut deeper than any sea I’m dangerous... so dangerous... Steppin’ razor... steppin’ razor... [Chorus] I’m like a steppin’ razor, watch my size I’m dangerous, so dangerous Steppin’ razor... (razor, razor) Steppin’ razor... (ra-ra-razor) [Verse 2] Gods and dragons, bow the spine Respect this salt, or I unmake the line Touch the scales wrong and the abyss replies Immediate death in these black-mother eyes I’m dangerous... so dangerous... Steppin’ razor fading into reverb... [Pre-Chorus] Before the ground was hard, the waters held their breath Apsu slept in silence, then met his younger death The first bright voices rose up, and split the ancient dark I reached for hush and mercy, but Ea struck first and hard [Chorus] Run, Tiamat, run The war drums wake Run, Tiamat, run Before your deep ones break Run, Tiamat, run I’ve turned the sky to steel Run, Tiamat, run Your fate is under heel [Verse 3] Marduk climbed from ruin, with a storm around his brow His eyes were lit like lanterns, his hand a sharpened vow Tiamat called her monsters, from the black and roaring seam Serpents, claws, and lion jaws to tear apart my dream [Pre-Chorus] She crowned Kingu in the wreckage, raised the tablets to her chest Then sent her wrath in circles, to meet the god who would not rest [Chorus] Run, Tiamat, run The war drums wake Run, Tiamat, run Before your deep ones break Run, Tiamat, run I’m like a steppin’ razor, watch my size Run, Tiamat, run I’m dangerous, so dangerous [Bridge] Ti-a-mat... Ti-a-mat... a-ap-su mu-u-u... Chaos-queen... salt-abyss... swallow-you-whole-u Primordial shadow... ten-thousand-thing... Fractal-glitch-fuck... ego-death-sting... Dim-mu... dim-mu... dragon-long... Bleed the frequency... sing the wrong song... [Final Chorus] Run, Tiamat, run The war drums wake Run, Tiamat, run Before your deep ones break Run, Tiamat, run I’ve turned the sky to steel Run, Tiamat, run Your fate is under heel [Outro] Mmmm... deeper... yes... treat the Mother right Feel the scales slide... feel the salt bite Gods... dragons... little mortal meat Steppin’ razor... steppin’ razor... dan-ger-ous... so dan-ger-ous... ga̷m̸e_̶o̷v̴e̸r_TIAMAT_pr͟e̷s͞s_st̸a͢rt_to_c͟ontinue
