Mercury Fetus Letra

nothing can cure what ails

This now deformed child-like mistake
and as the mercury sickens it more,
it's skin begins to ache.
This mercury fetus, this bizarre thing,
decreases until it's no more than a pencil shaving.

And once it is mistaken for one.
It lives the life of a fly whose wings there are none.
Now resting upon the center of a leaf of a twig,
it wonders what could have caused
these such misfortunes...