Uncle Pilot

Fingers Turned Into Fists - the doyouinverts (feat. Mathew Kumar)

(lyrics by Mathew Kumar)

I was born bleeding on a pub toilet floor
My father came in, took one look at me
And said this is all he’ll ever know

But as the clocks moved forward my fingers grew to fists
Fists like his, but I didn’t use them on her
I built them to wrap around joystick and hammer on buttons
Because my desperate blinkers had narrowed a route to blinking lights

The floors were sticky and the air was thick
Just like he said was all I’d ever know
But my coins could chime me new beginnings
And take me where he could never be

My fights? My fights were perfect, sweeping down, forward, up, fierce
My patterns? My patterns were flawless, cherries, apples, keys and crowns
I could burst bubbles and cast down rainbows like a passing breeze
I had power… I had power, and I was sure nothing could take that away from me, nothing

Nothing

I thought I could be free
I knew I could be free, as long as I had that escape
But clocks keep moving and lights blink out
And eventually, my fists had nowhere to go

There was nowhere to go.

Back bleeding on that pub bathroom floor
My father took one last look at me
And said this is all I’d ever know