Eggshell lyrics

Song information

Artist: The Roches
Album: Holy Smokes

Lyrics

I live in an eggshell
Sometimes, if I'm careful, I can make a pinpoint
Through the shell
And see the light
I'm too big to fit through the hole, though
And that's my tough luck

Inside my eggshell I am secure
As long as I am careful not to move
But I have no control over what happens from the outside
I huddle there and worry that something I can not see
Will bump into me

And when it does!
You wouldn't believe what happens in an eggshell then!
I get scrambled
My brains run like bean soup into my veins, bursting them
And my blood spatters up against the wall
Worst of all
A little bit of me seeps through cracks
And trickles away forever

People who live in eggshells have only one alternative:
They can get hard boiled