Let Me Down

She's never alone,

because she's scared of what she might say to herself

Always drinking in the backroom of the bar

where everyone turns in

A half-hearted grin

She won't be afraid

as long as that prescription keeps going through

And all the happy pills make her look like cardboard cut out of someone,

I use to learn from

But on the phone, she's telling everyone,

that there was a blue sky, she left behind

And there's a place that no one knows about,

Away from integrity

she writes a book in her head that nobody will read



Whatever you say,

please don't talk about the time when she was young

Apparently that was a different person and

so long ago it's strange to me,

there's no history

But there's a past

and she's telling everyone

It must be a garden,

that wouldn't grow

With roots of shame,

too sensitive to blame

to herself as we watch he drown,

I can't save the queen without a kingdom or a crown



Somewhere in this lonely game of sympathy

there is a selfish dream

That makes me sick

Standing on the high wire while you're on the ground

To you what is dangerous is safe and sound...

You let me down



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