"If you think you can or can't...you're right."
~~~~~~~~~~
This is a song
No - a poem
No - a mashing of words
For those with open hearts
Open minds
Who do their best,
try,
Who can't help their happiness
And always end up
In the impossible tangle
Of trying to help
Those who are automatically
Attracted to the light
No - this is for those
Who I can't help
No - this is for me
We're drifting apart
Falling apart
Tearing apart
Ourselves
Each other
We're hanging on
No - dangling by our legs
No - only one of us
Is holding the other
If it's so easy for you to walk away
So easy for you to stop trying
Why are you on the couch crying?
How can I talk to you when things are flying?
Like careless words and remote controls
There's nothing I can do right
...so we just fight
I'm the strong one, you know that too
Looking back at what you've put me through
I love you, that much is true
But I hate what you've turned me into
When I walked out the front door
Your threw a table to the floor
Why would I want to talk to you more
What good would it be for?
My lips matched the red rose in my hair
Under my trench coat I was nearly bare
I tried my best to get you to stare
I put out everything to get you to care
But I walked in to find you sitting there
A blank look on your face watching a show
I don't think I've ever felt such a blow
I stood like a fool, not knowing where to go
You slouched deeper, pulled your hat down low
The only light in your eyes was the T.V. glow
I even recall that night when I cried
I curled up away from you, trying to hide
Telling you everything was truly alright
Silently begging you to hold me tight
But you fell asleep as I sobbed for so long
What you did next boy, I still feel is wrong
You woke up in anger, yelled in my face
Made me feel terrible, like I'm the disgrace
All I wanted was for you to care
But you turned it around, how is that fair?
No, I feel now I can't count on you at all
I am not your goddamn play thing
I am not your fucking doll
I know my strength
Will do me well
I know in time
I'll be able to tell
That the choices I've made
Were for the best
That life isn't easy
And this was a test
No - it's you I seem to worry about
You give up so easy
How can you walk out?
The fight in you is somehow gone
Was it ever even there at all?
How can I be with someone who
doesn't believe I'm worth the fall?
~~~~~~~~~~
This is a song
No - a poem
No - a mashing of words
For those with open hearts
Open minds
Who do their best,
try,
Who can't help their happiness
And always end up
In the impossible tangle
Of trying to help
Those who are automatically
Attracted to the light
No - this is for those
Who I can't help
No - this is for me
We're drifting apart
Falling apart
Tearing apart
Ourselves
Each other
We're hanging on
No - dangling by our legs
No - only one of us
Is holding the other
If it's so easy for you to walk away
So easy for you to stop trying
Why are you on the couch crying?
How can I talk to you when things are flying?
Like careless words and remote controls
There's nothing I can do right
...so we just fight
I'm the strong one, you know that too
Looking back at what you've put me through
I love you, that much is true
But I hate what you've turned me into
When I walked out the front door
Your threw a table to the floor
Why would I want to talk to you more
What good would it be for?
My lips matched the red rose in my hair
Under my trench coat I was nearly bare
I tried my best to get you to stare
I put out everything to get you to care
But I walked in to find you sitting there
A blank look on your face watching a show
I don't think I've ever felt such a blow
I stood like a fool, not knowing where to go
You slouched deeper, pulled your hat down low
The only light in your eyes was the T.V. glow
I even recall that night when I cried
I curled up away from you, trying to hide
Telling you everything was truly alright
Silently begging you to hold me tight
But you fell asleep as I sobbed for so long
What you did next boy, I still feel is wrong
You woke up in anger, yelled in my face
Made me feel terrible, like I'm the disgrace
All I wanted was for you to care
But you turned it around, how is that fair?
No, I feel now I can't count on you at all
I am not your goddamn play thing
I am not your fucking doll
I know my strength
Will do me well
I know in time
I'll be able to tell
That the choices I've made
Were for the best
That life isn't easy
And this was a test
No - it's you I seem to worry about
You give up so easy
How can you walk out?
The fight in you is somehow gone
Was it ever even there at all?
How can I be with someone who
doesn't believe I'm worth the fall?