A Perfectly Reasonable Collapse

I arrived with a smile and a neatly folded plan;

A polished little promise of the competent woman;

The room set out charming and

I said, I know;

While my pulse played percussion in a dangerous tempo;

Oh, I can hear the chandeliers;

I can feel the wallpaper blink;

Every compliment lands like a warning;

Dressed in silk, but it's still a ring;

Isn't it funny how the floor looks farther away;

I can still stay fine with a voice that betrays;

A holy unraveling in the proper light;

With a tasteful amount of terror tonight;

Yes, I'm a masterpiece, see the cracks in the glaze;

A perfect little spiral in a respectable haze;

I kept all the letters, the receipts and the knives;

Little souvenirs from my previous lives;

The P1, he smiles like he knows what

I mean;

While the brass makes a joke in a minor key scene;

Oh, I can hear the chandelier thinking;

I can feel the wallpaper blink;

That every promise lands with a third noun;

Soft as a prayer to the sea;

Is it funny how the floor looks;

Farther away;

How I can still be fine;

With a voice that betrays;

I'm only unraveling;

In the proper light;

With a taste for the noun;

Of terror tonight;

Yes, a masterpiece;

See the cracks in a blaze;

A perfect middle spiral;

In a respectable haze;

Well, clap if you like the performance;

I've learned to bow while I break;

I can laugh at the wreckage, that's the secret;

And call it a charming mistake;

The mirrors are not in agreement;

The strings make us sane of the pain;

So I will descend with good posture and never explain;

Isn't it funny how the floor looks farther away;

How I can still say;

A voice that betrays;

Oh, only around me in a proper light;

With a tasteful amount of terror tonight;

Yes, I'm a masterpiece;

See the cracks in the glaze;

A perfect little spiral;

In unexpectable haste;

So dim the house lights, jelly now;

I think I'm almost human somehow;

Take one last bow, then let me go;

I'm a punchline nobody should know;

Take one last bow;

They let me go,

I'm a punchline nobody should know;