Pretty Hair
Your mother helped you move
Made your transition smooth
Your community was there
The youthful faces, pretty hair
You were surrounded, by your peers
Then one day you saw it
You went home and tried to draw it
You couldn't get it quite right
Its luminescence was so strangely bright
Living in a fantasy
Of toxicity (toxic-ly)
You're rubbing up against the veneer of disease
You didn't know, you didn't ask you know that its easy
But you don't care you like it that way
Being taken by surprise
And narrowly narrowly narrowly
Avoiding your demise
A year later, early one morning
You woke up coughing you poor thing
Turned on the radio, but it wasn't active
There was a blackout, it was radioactive
So your mother came to get you
Because that's what mothers do
Left your neighborhood in pieces
Reduced to rubble and debris
Driving back to the suburbs in her SUV
Watched it on TV
In your fathers den of iniquity
And you changed the channel
When you saw your old friend
It was burning pretty hair was melting off your skin
Cabello Bonito
Tu madre te ayudó a mudarte
Hizo que tu transición fuera suave
Tu comunidad estuvo allí
Los rostros juveniles, cabello bonito
Estabas rodeado, por tus pares
Entonces un día lo viste
Fuiste a casa e intentaste dibujarlo
No podías lograrlo del todo bien
Su luminiscencia era tan extrañamente brillante
Viviendo en una fantasía
De toxicidad (tóxicamente)
Te estás frotando contra la capa de enfermedad
No sabías, no preguntaste, sabes que es fácil
Pero no te importa, te gusta así
Siendo tomado por sorpresa
Y estrechamente, estrechamente, estrechamente
Evitando tu desaparición
Un año después, temprano una mañana
Despertaste tosiendo, pobre cosa
Encendiste la radio, pero no estaba activa
Hubo un apagón, era radioactivo
Así que tu madre vino a buscarte
Porque eso es lo que hacen las madres
Dejó tu vecindario hecho pedazos
Reducido a escombros y escombros
Regresando a los suburbios en su SUV
Lo viste en la televisión
En el rincón de iniquidad de tu padre
Y cambiaste de canal
Cuando viste a tu viejo amigo
Estaba ardiendo, su cabello bonito se derretía de tu piel