I loved you in spite of the evidence
Because you told me that it was irrelevant
What does it matter that you can't even hear me?
I loved you when nothing made any sense
You led me to believe that chaos meant we were free
But I stood gagged and bound until I could see
It feels awfully nice to be needed
Even when things are all skewed and conceited
So easy to become so careless
When someone pretends to care
You told me you'd lead me and guide me and need me
And I wouldn't always like it- but love isn't always fair
No, love is give and take:
I give my all, you take the money and run
Love just feels so fake
Maybe it's just that this was one-sided
Half of me was ready to run, but I wouldn't let her
They warned me about this, but I knew better
But there I was, staring my fears and my dreams in the eye
It feels good to be scared, I'm not gonna lie
If you want my attention, you have it
But trust me, I'll wander around out of habit"
I catch you drinking
I catch myself thinking
There must be some link to some things from my past
I need someone to blame and I need someone fast
Because they're beginning to question me
They're starting to ask
Why I have to act like this
And how long I expect it to last
He takes me and shakes me and says that he'll make me
The happiest I could ever hope to be
He knew all about me
Told me
"We're happening with or without you
Really, right now, I'm beginning to doubt that you care at all
Come on sweetie, bow
Your past is right now
You're far too frail to know what to do here
You don't know how love works-
You're obviously new here
Just hand me the wheel and let me make the rules"
I was told things would run smoothly, if I could just be the fuel
The oil that keeps the rusty cogs turning in this weak clockwork heart of his
I'd keep going and going and seeing and knowing and still never learning just who I am in this
I'd say
"If you're wanting control, then just grab it
But I'll have to warn you, my skin splits out of habit
Do all you ant to stop it,
But you're wasting your energy on people like me"
"Quite the contrary, my darling" he'd tell me
I was the most worthy object he'd seen in minutes
"Those pins and those staples that hold you together-
They're so very beautiful
I'll add some tape here and there and we'll live off of needles
You'll be so happy with me always there
You say no one's ever loved you?
Let me show you what it's how"
And I've let him dilute every moment 'til now
Look darling, see what the child has become?
The helpless girl you adopted
The impressionable mind you molded and told lies to
Cried to
Tried to destroy
In the most romantic way she could imagine
"We'd be like Romeo and Juliet
They could write about us, too
I'd kill for you
I'd die for you
I'd sacrifice your life for you"
You almost had me there
But I'm not gonna live for you