Fungus on My Heart

[Verse 1]
You came in soft as rain through a cracked-up door
Left a pale little garden where my ribs meet the floor
Now the roots lace tight round the beat in my chest
And every thought bends toward the place you rest

[Pre-Chorus]
I know what you’re doing, I still let it grow
Your name in the marrow, your shape in the spores

[Chorus]
There’s fungus growing on my heart
Soft white fingers pulling me apart
It takes my mind, but I call it love
I taste the rot and still want more of us
You hurt like a fever, you heal like a drug
I’m losing my head to the thing that I hug

[Verse 2]
The kitchen clock skips when you’re gone for a day
I count every stain where your shadow once lay
A sweet little bloom climbs the back of my tongue
I say I’m okay, but the words come out wrong

[Pre-Chorus]
I know what you’re doing, I still let it grow
Your name in the marrow, your shape in the spores

[Chorus]
There’s fungus growing on my heart
Soft white fingers pulling me apart
It takes my mind, but I call it love
I taste the rot and still want more of us
You hurt like a fever, you heal like a drug
I’m losing my head to the thing that I hug

[Bridge]
If I cut you out, would the beating come back?
Would I know my own face with the roots pulled slack?
You’re the ache and the answer, the wound and the balm
I hate how you hollow me out—and stay calm

[Final Chorus]
There’s fungus growing on my heart
Soft white fingers pulling me apart
It takes my mind, but I call it love
I taste the rot and still want more of us
You hurt like a fever, you heal like a drug
I’m losing my head to the thing that I hug

[Outro]
Still growing
Still yours
Still growing
Through the walls of my heart