Exoskeletons for Chirldren

Your home taught me to smile wide and show all of my teeth
Display anything vaguely sugary
Your home is a churning in the stomach
An unrest in the chest
Your home is straight out of Central Casting
There's a lot of space
A lot of space for mediocre white men
You were shopping in a picket fence
You say it's to defend ourselves
The family room is like a lion's mouth
I like what you did with the place
You really made it ours, you really made it ours
We live in a haunted house of mirrors
I pay good money for my room
I'd pay in blood for this wound
When I tiptoe through my own kitchen
The scary things are out in human costumes

Oh, let's build exoskeletons for children
Let them know we got their backs
Oh, let them know we got their noses
Let them know we got their pinkies till they crack
Oh, let's build exoskeletons for children
Let them know we got their backs
Oh, let them know we got their noses
Let them know we got their pinkies till they crack
Till they crack

So I'm building a brand new ruin
And what have you been doing there, dear?
I spent all summer on bloody knees
Taking pebbles from graves, tangled up impossibilities
Got the ringing in my ears engraved
Once you open your eyes it's hard to unsee
(The stains, stains, stains are everywhere)
It's hard to unsee
(The stains, stains, stains are everywhere)
It's hard to unsee
(The stains, stains, stains are everywhere)
There's significance in stabbing someone with a pencil
There's ignorance in every brick of the home
There's brilliance in the unsentimental
There's brilliance in the unsentimental
There's brilliance in the unsentimental
(We've been out here, we've been named ourselves)
There's brilliance in the unsentimental
(We've been out here, we've been named ourselves)
There's brilliance in the unsentimental
(We've been out here, we've been named ourselves)
There's brilliance in the unsentimental
(We've been out here, we've been named ourselves)
There's brilliance in the unsentimental
(We've been out here, we've been named ourselves)
There's brilliance in the unsentimental
(We've been out here, we've been named ourselves)
There's brilliance in the unsentimental
(We've been out here, we've been named ourselves)

Oh, let's build exoskeletons for children
Let them know we got their backs
Oh, let them know we got their noses
Let them know we got their pinkies till they crack
Oh, let's build exoskeletons for children
Let them know we got their backs
Oh, let them know we got their noses
Let them know we got their pinkies till they crack
Oh, let's build exoskeletons for children
Let them know we got their backs
Oh, let them know we got their noses
Let them know we got their pinkies till they crack
Oh, let's build exoskeletons for children
Let them know we got their backs
Oh, let them know we got their noses
Let them know we got their pinkies till they crack
Till they crack

Last year, I was an egyptologist and an astronomer
This year, I am a musician
And today in class I played some songs on the guitar