scab carrion bird "Stop picking at that or it will never heal" 010603 ... silentbob marla singer is like the wound on the roof of your mouth that would go away if you could only stop tounging it. 010719 ... somniac and i just can't stop picking at it just can't stop and every time i do, it gets worse pushes it deeper and i wish it was gone i dream about resolution, reconciliation, forgiveness, the return of friendship but there is no way it can ever be fixed now just no way no way back i wish i could let it heal i'm scared i'll wear this scab forever 070520 ... birdmad "well the tiniest little dot caught my eye and it turned out to be a scab and i had this funny feeling like i just knew it was something bad i just couldn't leave it alone kept picking at that scab turns out it was a doorway trying to seal itself shut but i climbed through" excerpt from Nine Inch Nails "only" 070521 ... raze there was a girl i used to see on the school bus. i would have been about ten. she must have been a year or two younger than me. i never saw her in class. i never knew her name. what i remember are her hands. there were all these round red things on the back of her left hand. small berries, i thought. something you'd see in someone's garden. she would pick at them with the nails on her right hand until they bled, wounding them to keep them locked in a state of perpetual growth. she was always so calm. like it didn't hurt at all. 210930 what's it to you? who go blather from