Alix Olson - Checking My Pulse lyrics

Your face crept Into that space Between my reflex and my resolve Kinda like the crevice you don’t notice Til it takes down the damn wall And now we are sitting in the window Your forehead is red-hot and touching my knee And I am checking my pulse Making sure it hasn’t quit on me And I’m sorry if you’re thinking that I knew What I was doing I guess what I do best is look like I am in control But tonight, tonight, I am a soft and untamed thing And I will wrap my breath around you til your exhale comes clean I am checking my pulse I am checking my pulse You are the buried penny at the bottom of the pool So I guess that makes me the fool diving deep for you I’ll stick you in my pocket All shiny, all precious, and all not mine A hidden, forbidden treasure Baby, you’re the worst kind Cause underneath the surface, all things loom larger So I’m searching for your edges To fish you up, ship you up out of the water And you are that sweet wish that she’s thrown I would have caught you in the air, girl, had I known And now the space between these bodies Surpa**es the sum of its parts So I am crawling in-between these moments Balancing words hoping I don’t get stuck And I was just thinking ‘distraction’ Now I’m thinking distraction’s a relative thing Cause I was casually splashing And now I’m a casualty slowly sinking Cause in hot water, my brain just kinda puckers up And I’m drowning jaws wide open now cause my mouth It just won’t seem to shut And you might just be a shiny thing But you are the shiny thing I am pursuing And when I said "you talk too much" It was cause there was stuff I’d rather you’d have been doing And then you take my breath I say "hey, I need that to get back to the top" "but we’re beautiful down here", you say "you know, girl The world won’t stop" And we are sitting in the window Your forehead is red-hot and touching my knee And I am checking my pulse Making sure it hasn’t quit on me I am just checking my pulse Making sure it hasn’t quit on me I am just checking my pulse Making sure she hasn’t quit on me Yet