Wicked Gravity Lyrics - Jim Carroll

The gravity here is just sick for revenge 

It's like my lungs are filled with chains . . . 

The sky seems so low, 

It hasn't moved this slow 

Since the virgins, since the virgins went dancing for the rain 

You know the stars in the night 

They're like the holes in the cave 

Like the ceiling of a bombed-out church 

But gravity blocks my screams 

It's like an enemy's dreams 

My guardians quit 

They quit before they started their search 

Refrain: 

I want a world without gravity 

It could be just what I need 

I'd watch the stars move close 

I'd watch the earth recede 

I wanna drift above the borders against my will 

I wanna sleep where the angels don't pass 

But now my lips are blue 

Gravity does it to you 

It's like they're pressed against a mirrored glass 

I want my will and capability to meet inside the region 

Where this gravity don't mean a thing 

It's where the angels break through . . . 

It's where they bring it to you 

It's where silence, silence can teach me to sing 

Repeat refrain 2 times 

I wanna lay beneath these sheets and never turn blue 

I wanna hold you, hold you tight but never touch 

I want some pure, pure white; hey, we can nod all night 

We can do it without thinking too much 

I want the dilettantes and parvenues to choke on my wrists 

They think the pearls I wear are pills 

I want their gravity to shatter . . . but it really doesn't matter 

I got something in my eye that kills! 

Repeat refrain 

Wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked gravity . . . 

Wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked gravity . . . 

Wicked, wicked, wicked, wicked.