This is Fine
Mandibles

Your words may hurt, but I know you didn’t mean it
We need to talk, but I know it’s inconvenient
I can wait, cause I’d throw you off your game if
I said the things that I’m really not okay with

When we’re alone, you’re all I ever needed
When we’re at home, there’s nothing in between us
I hold you closer cause your plaintive eyes are calling
You say you love me, but your silence is appalling

This is fine, I tell myself

This is fine but that’s not final
This is finally a talk I’m having in my mind
This is fine but the design’ll show its weakness
Eventually the bleakness will align
(this is fine, this is fine….)

I’m keeping calm, while my mind is full of screaming
I carry on, though these motions have no meaning
Somethings changed, beyond all recognition
And what remains becomes an imposition

This is fine, I tell myself

This is fine but that’s not final
This is finally a talk I’m having in my mind
This is fine but the design’ll show its weakness
Eventually the bleakness will align
(this is fine, this is fine….)

You call me controlling but make me take charge
You say that you’re happy but keep up your guard
To love you is easy but fills me with scars
And I think I’m slowly breaking

This is fine, I tell myself

This is fine but that’s not final
This is finally a talk I’m having in my mind
This is fine but the design’ll show its weakness
Eventually the bleakness will align
(this is fine, this is fine….)