[Verse 1] You look like porcelain rain Small hands, quiet face They mistake your silence For a door they can shake They pull your braid like a joke They laugh when you don’t swing back But I saw the red in your eyes Like a storm behind cracked glass You stand there, still as a match In a room that smells like sugar and smoke One wrong hand, one wrong grin And the whole thing starts to choke [Pre-Chorus] And when the fruit sits bright You hide that little spark Your mouth turns sweet and still But I know what beats in the dark I see the glitch in your smile The shutter in your stare You act so easy to read But there’s thunder tucked in there [Chorus] It's nobody but my sister Don’t touch what you don’t know It's nobody but my sister She’s colder than your show If you make her cry You better run, you better go It's nobody but my sister And I know her shadow grows It starts soft, then it pulls low One look and the whole room folds No, she don’t need your pity She don’t need your hands in control [Verse 2] Fourteen days dry on the edge Still you never took me in You grew weak on the floor But you bit your thirst back in You stood between me and them When the older ones came near Soft voice, tiny frame Still the room went dead with fear I watched you hold yourself back Like a song stuck on the first note Like a blade in a pretty sleeve Like a secret under your coat [Pre-Chorus] And when that apple shines You turn your face away Fangs like a secret prayer You tuck them out of sight, okay You breathe in slow, you freeze Like you’re waiting for the cue But I know that quiet in you Is not the same as true [Chorus] It's nobody but my sister Don’t touch what you don’t know It's nobody but my sister She’s colder than your show If you make her cry You better run, you better go It's nobody but my sister And I know her shadow grows It starts soft, then it pulls low One look and the whole room folds No, she don’t need your pity She don’t need your hands in control [Bridge] That boy, he laughed too loud At the form he could not read Saw a monster in her skin Missed the child he did not see So hear me clear, little fool If she looks away, still leave What you call a toy to break Is a knife that sleeps beneath She’s not your bedtime story Not your joke, not your prize There’s a whole moon in her chest And it cuts right through your lies [Final Chorus] It's nobody but my sister Don’t touch what you don’t know It's nobody but my sister She’s colder than your show If you make her cry You better run, you better go It's nobody but my sister Yeah, I know what she’ll become It's nobody but my sister When the room goes dead and still She's a glitch in your sweet little mirror A hush with a hidden will If you make her cry Then the whole place learns to know It's nobody but my sister And I love her when she goes
