Learning

Perfume Genius Learning  Lyrics
1.Learning

No one will answer your prayers until you take off that dress
No one will hear all your crying until you take your last breath
But you will learn to mind me
And you will learn to survive me

No one will answer your prayers until you take off that dress
No one will hear all your crying until you take your last breath
But you will learn to mind me
And you will learn to survive me

Your father before you and your sister too, your husband blah
blah blah blah, you.


2.Lookout, Lookout

Mary, Mary-belle with an upper-case M
All your neighbors know what your mother sells
But you carved out a name; you carved out a name for yourself

Look out, look out
Look out, look out
Look out, look out
Look out, look out
Look out, look out
There are murders about

Guinea pig hair in a twisted mouth
Through a hole to the railway
And Brian's face down
Keep your wits
He will not be missed
He didn't have a family to begin with

Look out, look out
Look out, look out
Look out, look out
Look out, look out
Look out, look out
There are murders about


3.Mr. Peterson

My work came back from class
With notes attached
Of a place and time
Or how my body kept him up at night

He let me smoke weed in his truck
If I could convince him I loved him enough
Enough, enough, enough, enough

He made me a tape of Joy Division
He told there was a part of him missing
When I was sixteen
He jumped off a building

Mr Petersen
I know you were ready to go
I hope there's room for you up above
Or down below.


4.Gay Angels

Twenty days spent together
Marks healing on your hands
Remember, remember that
Perry
Twenty days add together
He took advantage
Remember when you used to laugh
Perry
Keep a pay cheque in your hands
We may never
See you again
Perry
Whatever gets left
Put your trust in them
We know we already have
Twenty days spent together
Marks healing on your hands


5.You Won't B Here

That was always
intended for you.
It doesn't matter
Who you answer to.
Your heart will break
Whatever you do.
But you won't b here
Tomorrow.

You might not get
What you were promised.
You might be hollow
Under all of the dust.
But you are hurting
Everyone you touch.
And they won't b here
Tomorrow.

They won't b here tomorrow.
They won't b here tomorrow.
They won't b here tomorrow.
They won't b here tomorrow.
They won't b here tomorrow.


6.Write To Your Brother

mary, you should write to your brother
every night until he recovers
and in the letter press a fresh flower
and bless it with a higher power

tell him mom treats you like a lover
that you have to hide all the mouthwash from her
and seal it with three closed mouth kisses
and write do not open 'til christmas


7.No Problem


8.When


9.Perry

Perry,
Twenty days spent together
Marks healing on your hands
Remember, remember that

Perry,
Twenty days add together
He took advantage
Remember, when you used to laugh

Perry,
Keep a pay cheque in your hands
We may never
See you again

Perry,
Whatever gets left
Put your trust in them
We know we already have


10.Never Did

It's all a part of his plan
It's all in his hands

But I never asked for it
But I never did

It's all a part of his plan
It's all in his hands

In the basement


11.Dreeem

I had this dream
And you were there
Swimming in some spring
You were bald and smiling
And swinging from the reeds
While they were whistling

My face melted away
You were there
You still knew my name
And you still held me exactly the same
(Where? Well?) Nothing had really changed
Except my face had melted away

If you were here right now
I wouldn't have to write it down
I would just sing (?)
And let you listen


12.Your Drum


13.Divine Faxes