Verse 1 I have been embarrassed by the body by the weight of it the need of it the way it bleeds without consulting me the way it hungers without permission the way it keeps on keeping on I have been trying to live above it in the cleaner territory of the mind But the body sends its reports regardless the body will not be left behind Pre-chorus I am meat I am myth I am the animal and the story of the animal both at once both at once Chorus Meat and myth I am meat and myth the body and the meaning of the body Meat and myth I am meat and myth I have been ashamed of both for too long Verse 2 The flesh has its own intelligence older than language older than shame It knows which rooms feel wrong before I do It knows the name I haven't said by the way my jaw tightens around it I have called it malfunction I have called it weakness I have called it too much for long enough Pre-chorus I am meat I am myth I am the animal and the story of the animal both at once both at once Chorus Meat and myth I am meat and myth the body and the meaning of the body Meat and myth I am meat and myth I have been ashamed of both for too long Bridge (low, ritualistic, almost chanted) Bless the body that kept me Bless the weight that stayed Bless the hunger that wouldn't be explained away Bless the wound that wept when I told it not to weep Bless the animal in me that refused to sleep Outro (bass drone alone — slow fade)
