Teflon

Call it a heartbeat click-track modem-blip slipstream V-chip trigger warning
Call it a layer a layer a layer a layer of distance
Call it a mystery, the hard code, the unprogrammable, the ether
Call it a level a level a level a level of remove

Everything hits more and less than it should
And maybe it's the Teflon in my blood

I can't feel a thing
I'm reaching out, I'm reaching

And in the side-impact airbag rear-cam warning signs and speed traps
It's all the same, all the same, all the same
You're like a gluten-free may-contain low-calorie guilty lapse
Your kisses taste like aspartame

Everything hits more and less than it should
And maybe it's the Teflon in my blood

I can't feel a thing
I'm reaching out, I'm reaching

In the dream I speed into the curve
The skeleton barrier in the headlights
Gun the car too fast to swerve
Plunge into the night
Try to find one last living nerve

I can't feel a thing
I'm reaching out, I'm reaching