[ti:State Hospital] [ar:Frightened Rabbit] [al:Pedestrian Verse （Deluxe Editi] [offset:0] [00:00.21]Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital [00:01.65]. [00:17.78]The half back-flip conception, a state hospital birth [00:26.40]The most threadbare tall story the country's ever heard [00:34.59]Brought home to breathe smoke in the arms of her mother [00:40.09]With a blunt kitchen knife [00:42.78]Who just lays in a submissive position [00:45.97]Beneath the national weight and the slow arc of a fist [00:50.97]. [00:52.21]Her heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairs [01:00.45]Her blood is thicker than concrete, forced to be brave she was [01:05.93]Born into a grave [01:08.81]. [01:24.46]And in the limp three years of board schooling [01:27.95]She's accustomed to hearing that she could never run far [01:32.76]A slipped disc in the spine of community [01:36.26]A bloody curse word made pedestrian verse [01:41.20]Spirits in graveyards and fingers in car parks [01:44.76]She cries in the high street just to be heard [01:49.37]A screaming anchor for nothing in particular [01:52.59]At the foot of the f*ck of it, and dragging her heels in the dirt [01:58.01]. [01:59.14]Her heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairs [02:05.87]Her blood is thicker than concrete, forced to be brave she was [02:12.51]Born into a grave [02:15.98]. [02:27.16]The cheek of youth flushed red and turned gray [02:30.49]Now she lies on the pavement, she's helped to her feet [02:35.70]All thighs, hair, and magpie handbags [02:39.01]Saturday's uniform for the f*ck me parade [02:43.89]Brought home to keep warm in the arms of a plumber [02:49.70]Who's ruddy and balding [02:52.26]Who just needs a spine to dig into [02:55.57]A chest for the head, and a hand for the holding [02:59.64]. [03:01.70]Her heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairs [03:09.95]Her blood is thicker than concrete, forced to be brave she was [03:16.01]She was [03:16.95]. [03:34.79]Her heart beats like a breeze block thrown down the stairs [03:43.19]Her skin is thicker than concrete, forced to be brave she was [03:49.38]She was [03:51.62]A broken elevator anthem held between floors [03:58.42]But if blood is thicker than concrete, all of it is not lost [04:05.48]All is not lost [04:09.73]All is not lost [04:13.73]All is not lost [04:22.30]All is not lost [04:24.42]. [04:25.17]