tried to bend your kneecaps and they shattered, tried to move your legs but they bolted your joints together, and the more you tried, the more you knew, this had been the way they’d built you, in the body of a ball jointed doll, you’re so fragile you can’t move at all
but i just want to touch you and i promise i won’t break you, if you would be my doll just for a day, then i would put you back into, back into your case
pieced your limbs together with chalk-ware skin, painted the cupid’s bow above your lips, you’re so beautiful but so delicate, the porcelain cracks up your back and neck, in the body of a ball jointed doll, you’re so fragile you can’t move at all
but i just want to touch you and i promise i won’t break you, if you would be my doll just for a day, then i would put you back into, back into your case
credits
from Curdled Milk,
track released June 29, 2012
written and composed by nicole dollanganger (nicole bell)
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