Sophie Hunter – Constitution State (Lyrics & Video)

Constitution State – Sophie Hunter Lyrics

I’m from a place where

Only death is sacred

Name everything

After the life taken

To make it

Every boulevard

Known by the trees

That it replaced with

Concrete and a Dairy Queen

The ragged slabs of pavement

Pass under a skateboard

We pass j’s in the basement

Passed out in his bedroom

Some parts of me didn’t make it

Guess that’s what I asked for

When I asked him to get faded

Guess that’s what I askеd for

I said God take me away pleasе

(Please, please, please, please)

So how you not gonna finish the job

I’m not Job

I got work tomorrow

I gotta go

I don’t own anything

But the bars in my pockets

In my notepads

I subject objects

To all my darkness

I’m every daughter finally

Turning into her mom

I’m every type of bullshit

Bitch you’d better get on

Really kill it for a living

Put the dead in a song

I guess I learned it from the best

I am where I’m from

I’m so morbid

It’s my culture to destroy

I once toured the graveyard

Underneath the city green

Said this town was

Full of ghosts and

I believed him

Wave hello they are

The only ones who see me

And I got a drive that

You can see from space

Just to make it in

This godless place

Just to stake out

Something for my name

Just to follow every

Pipe dream through and

Down the drain

Down the glass

It’s down the hatch

And I got a fear

That’s spreading

Like a stain

They all hate me

More than

They can name

Hate myself more

Do I win the game

Is this the prize

I get to ruin my very own life

Only death is sacred

State named after the

People taken to make it

Staking out my place

Truth is I’m a faker

Dancing by myself

Truth is I’m the one

Made it to the kingdom

At the center of it all

Made it to the tombs

At the center of the kingdom

Velvet-lined rooms

There were bones

On the wall

Sat in a circle and

Talked about freedom

Pro or against

I do not quite recall

So why the fuck

Can’t I hold a job

I was a gifted kid

Now I’m a stunted adult

I got a bong at the

Waterbed store on Whalley

Since nineteen I needed something daily

Since sixteen wanted to blow my brains out

Since God knows I needed something more than

What life could give

It’s too much for me to take

Run back the tapes

I’m so morbid

It’s my culture to destroy

I once toured the graveyard

Underneath the city green

Said this town was

Full of ghosts and

I believed him

Wave hello they are

The only ones who see me

Haunted theme park

In the middle of the city

Haunted house

I grew up inside the quiet of

The dark we couldn’t face

Funny how we take the shape of

All the things we try to bury

Look like you so much it’s scary

And I got a drive that

You can see from space

Just to make it out

This godless place

Just to stake out

Something for my name

Just to follow every

Pipe dream through and

Down the drain

Down the glass

It’s down the hatch

And I got a fear

That’s spreading

Like a stain

They all hate me

More than

They can name

Well I guess that

Life’s a losing game

I win the prize

I get to be for

The rest of my life