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Mariana

by Black Earth Theory

on The Art of Discomfort (2020)

[Intro: Black Earth Theory]

(Nina be nice
Look at this Yomp, look at this Yomp
Oh Nina, hi
Yes I see you too)

(This one isn't gonna be easy
Sorry, sorry)

Oh, Mariana, Mariana, Mariana (bitch)
What have you reduced me to, a cross with no stigmata
What happens to a novel that rejects its very author
Oh God Mariana, I'm not Mariana
Go swim Mariana, let the sea hold no wonders
I'll sit here painting pictures of discomfort
In utero (butter)
Utter words another world unfurls
Go find it Mariana, I do not hold grudges

[Verse 1: Black Earth Theory]

I like it rough but I'm smooth like butter
I like me in pain, I like you in comfort
I'm confused cause
Every time she swoons I shudder
I'm consumed like
Even with a spoon I cut her
I like butterfly knives in my stomach
Getting gutted
I like palpable tension, let me cut it
I'll find the word
Kill a cigarette on my stomach
I like the burn
Don't smoke around me, I'll touch it
Can't fight the urge
I like to learn teach me the unknowable
Each person knows something they won't show to you
Tell me something painful in return I'll dote on you
I'll make your toes curl up so much they're opposable
Masochism isn't what you thought it is
I like pain, but it depends on who causes it
I can't cut, I get sick at the thought of it
Too much fire in hell to just water it
I like burning affirmations in my skin
It turns me on
But I heard that masturbation is a sin
So jerk me off
Only little time before death, la petite mort
Hurry on, death ain't heaven just because you worship god
Oh, Mariana without you winter's a sauna
Oh, Mariana without you I burn hotter
Oh oh, Mariana without you I'm still breathing
Oh God Mariana without you it's nirvana

[Bridge 1: Black Earth Theory]

Just beat on me
Eat off me
Sleep with me
Bleed me out
Speak in tongues to me
Fuck it, cheat on me
I've seen it all
Rape me if you want
Tape me to your wall
Fuck it, masturbate to me
Sticky fingers, rosy palms and all

(That sounds like the worst possible thing you could do)

[Hook 1: Black Earth Theory]

BDSM don't do it for me
Cutting my wrists don't do it for me
Punching my fists into walls like angry white boys who are mad at their moms won't do it for me

[Bridge 2: Black Earth Theory]

I'll feel comfortable in my body when pigs fly
From the cradle to the grave, but I dig mine
I feel like so much more than this body, my skin lies
Something's dying to spill out of me, in time

[Verse 2: Black Earth Theory]

I like it rough but I'm smooth like butter
I'm usually smooth with my words but with you I stutter
I really love to feel pain and with you I suffer
I already liked it rough, now it's two times rougher
I like me in pain, I'll give you my pleasure
I like me in rain, you take the blue sky weather
I, I, I think I've changed from a human into a specter
Or I think I've changed from a human into a texture
Or I think I've changed from a color into a spectrum
Yellow doesn't do it for me anymore, it's the reflection
Now I've gone and got ahead of myself, all ties severed
Now I think I've changed from your pain to my pleasure
But, how can I ever learn to crawl, crawling back
How can I ever learn to walk walking on eggshells and glass
How can I ever learn to talk when I'm taught to hold my tongue
Can you ever learn to love if your whole life you receive none
I dream of dropping the future at the feet of my son
If I never have one, become obsolete and die young
Shoot a blank in my temple, in there's a photo
Sabali yonkote, sabali kiye, ni kêra môgô
(Oh no)

[Bridge 3: Black Earth Theory]

I wash away a stain, it remains
Something in the way you refrain
Somehow the refrain sounds the same as the verse but the chorus got lost in the rain
(What a shame)

[Hook 2: Black Earth Theory]

BDSM don't do it for me
Cutting my wrists don't do it for me
Punching my fists into walls like angry white boys who are mad at their mom's won't do it for me

[Coda: Black Earth Theory]

How long can I carry this weight
I need something to replace you
So I'll marry this hate
I hate that you brought me to a place where I can hate
Go on, take a look at yourself what if I had done the same, Mariana
Mariana, Mariana, Mariana
If you can't handle this pain then you at least deserve the somber
Oh God Mariana, Mariana, Mariana
We're forever tied together
Let's bask in the trauma
Mariana

[Outro: Avery]

My nigga Cameron 6 foot 6
His body shaped like a Pixie Stick
That don't mean he can't steal your bitch, with his dick
He bout to shove it in her guts, jam it up and shit

(I need to know what time you're going to be at my mom's house to drop off my laptop. I've called fucking 5 times, can you please just let me know. Jesus Christ)