Informed Consent

Lyrics

[Intro] Hello, I've read your bulletin and I just wanted to say That this is what I need to hear but you knew that anyways You wouldn't ask how I identify, you just gave options to me Of three different ways, possibly, you can share your personality with me [Verse 1] I admit I couldn't stop until I forgot how to start I met my match, someone had to be twice as smart And get up early in the morning, and stay awake through the dawn To spin well-written tales out of wishful improvisation I ask who goes ham at tasking you before you surrender your life To someone who cannot be sure you're even in their sight But you wеre due to the еmpathy and all that selflessness That makes the bad ones target you, dangling carrots on what could be your deathbed I ask who would overtax you and claim it's your idea Then try to get it all in writing before it disappears You know they don't exist because neither do you It's like two ghosts arguing ones and zeros, when they cannot even count to two [Chorus] Mono is just one Stereo is two Quad is four-way radio Poly is whatever you choose The first step is and always is getting informed consent I know you don't find it quite as hot It doesn't matter You still got to ask for it [Verse 2] Or you could fly to another country, to take what you can get From someone who has nothing left or all that much to give But to them, that nothing's everything and it's all they'll ever be You can't decide you do not want it when you've already done the fuckin' deed Habits and their habitats, oh, the research that you do The big stories you've given and the time it wasted for you But all that you got out of it was a solitary dose Of what you handed everyone and you know that you'll always know That I would've given everything In fact, I almost did From the days of truck stop phone cards to the parking lot of them To somewhere up the road, somewhere by a beach It wasn't my decision I chose to ignore my own needs You see I did what I thought I had to do and I have thought of what I did This is a big-ass planet and we were on opposite sides of it And you are still worth everything I ever claimed you were When you could not believe that When you were simply thought of as "her" [Chorus] Mono is just one Stereo is two Quad is four-way radio And poly is whatever you choose The first step is and always is getting informed consent I know you don't find it quite as hot It doesn't matter You still got to ask for it [Verse 3] When you think back? To how kindness got you handled less than stellar by your friends Well, I knew what you were doing, and I knew what you meant But I signed up for a duty, thought I laid down the best plans For you and I to slip back to that dynamic thing if we can (Jump around in the timeline a bit!) Since we were never lovers, not in any misplaced sense If he'd heard our own story we would know the context And why it's so nonsensical to those who guard their mouth From talking about which side of any particular slash you talk about "Slash" is the operative word, for me the knife still twists I was never whole before, before you told me I am this And I said that you're the inverse, you said you'd hoped I'd take control Well I tried, but met my match I'm switching off I'm going home [Bridge] What were you trying to get away with? I might've helped you despite the risk Because love makes me do awful things but mostly it's something I miss So what did you get away with? I don't even know why you went at this The pictures that you showed me have no reason to fucking exist [Chorus] Mono is just one Stereo is two Quad is four-way radio And poly is whatever you choose The first step is and always giving informed consent I know you don't find it quite as hot It doesn't matter You got to ask for it Who were you trying to be and why? I knew before [?] was alive Cause there's no me, I don't exist You showed up to lead me away with this Was it time for me to learn The difference between right and wrong