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ever after
secret
choke
give it up [i'll never grow up]
fifteen
hurt
untitled (11/15/02)
untitled (12/9/02)
untitled (12/16/02)
today, no tomorrow
ember
option two
hate my hinges
trash
hey coochie
untitled [8/19/02]
Ever After

Once upon a time
There was a little girl
Who,
When she put her hand to her heart,
Found she had nothing
But an empty space
Where another girl had once been
So she sawed off her hand.
She didnt want to feel.

Once upon a time
There was a little girl
Who,
When she tried to say "love"
Found no one who could listen.
So she tore out her larnyx
She had no use for words.

Once upon a time
There was a little girl
Who,
When she went to bed
Found the stories told by her parents
Were never to come true
And she cut off her head
So the tears would stop coming
Only to [never] find
That a pea was beneath her bed
And a prince outside her window
And any dream come true
Was sitting on a bench
In a garden
Where pumpkins grew nearby.

Secret

She says
Hey babe looking cute today
I love your smile
It matches my heart perfectly
I'll see you tomorrow
But that just seems too far away
So give me a hug and a kiss
I love you so much

She says
You know you make me crazy
I'm losing my head all of the time
I can never stop thinking about you
And how the things you said
Made my day so much better

She says
Will you love me the way I love you
Are all of the things you've said and done the truth?
I hope I hope
I'll give it all up
Even though I'm so scared
That you'll say no
I dont want to give it up
I'm risking my heart

She says
You know I'm losing my mind
For four more days
In sooo many ways
I hope you dont say no

Choke

i'm jealous of most everything about you
like all of the friends you have
and the relationships you form with them
like the way your hair falls into perfect place
even if it's a mess
like the way you control people
without them even knowing
like the way they look up to you
and admire you and love you
like the way that i'm jealous of you
and you'll never be of me
cos you barely know i exist
cos i would never dare give the impression
that i actually cared about your life
when in reality
[given the chance]
it could become an obsession.

Give It Up [I'll Never Grow Up]

Give me my two year old
So I can shove it far down
Give me my five
And my ten
Give me all the years you took and kept
I need them back forever
So I can throw them away
And stop looking at them
Everytime I see you

Give me my 16
Sweet 16
Give me my now
So I can live like you do.

Living my life past a quarter of four
Is most impossible
When I look at you.
But when I look away I'm lost.

Give me my two year old.

Fifteen
It’s not my style
But I think it could be
I might deny it
You’re the subject of envy

She would like me then
Because you’ve got her
But I could be you
Oh so much better

I could endure it
Easier than this
But when I think about it
I’d give up the kiss

Because no hour
Of any day
Would I ever, ever
Want to be like you

I want her love
And not your ways
I want to be
Everything you’re not.

You’ll never know
Just what she means
Until you spend fifteen...
You’ll never appreciate
What she means
And I just spent fifteen.

Hurt
There is a knife in my mouth
That cuts my tongue
Every time I try to speak

It slips into my throat
Every time I breathe
Or swallow

I don’t sing anymore
Cos there’s no song left for me
I gave them all to you

I don’t eat anymore
This emptiness that’s taking over
Is reserved for you

I do nothing, now
But sit and wait
For a day you might change your mind

Even though
I know
It’s not going to come

Untitled [11/15/02]
I could be hungry
Or tired
Or sick
Or both

I could be thirsty
For life
Or love
Or death

I could be none
Of those
Or all
Of anything

But all of those
And everything
Aren’t mine
For taking

I could be hungry
Or thirsty
There’s nothing to eat
Or drink
So it doesn’t matter.
Does it?

Untitled [12/9/02]
It’s five a.m. on Sunday morning;
I’m still awake from Friday night.
The sunrise sings a lullaby...
An hour dream that explains why.

I thought you loved me;
I thought you cared.
I thought you knew why I was there.

Dreams lie;
They don’t come true
Cos if they did
Then I’d be with you.

Untitled [12/16/02]
I think you know
I know you know
It kills
You say nothing

Send them to me
Messenger
Speak nothing of it
It kills me

Today, No Tomorrow
Write the whole day
‘Til the next one comes
It’s better I don’t sleep
I’ll remember everything
If I write all day
And through the night
Maybe nothing else will happen
Nothing new
Will the book be completed
Anytime soon
It’s better I don’t sleep
‘Til there’s nothing left to write
Will the book be completed
Anytime

Ember
I am shooting stars across the sky
To burn the apple of my eye
And I am clearing out the sleet and snow
To make you leave me, to let you go
And though I wish that I could be with you
I know it’s better to see this through
As I lay there in an empty bed
I thousand thoughts of you fill my head
So I put on my shoes, coat, scarf and gloves
And I go out to find new love
But I find you’re the best I’ve ever had
And then I realize, I am sad-
Pathetic little star up in the sky
The last ember of the apple of my eye.

Option Two
It stopped burning
The wind and rain
I stopped burning
Caused too much pain

I still have the candle
Silver holder stored away
I still have the candle
Saving for a better day

I’ve got a place
To store you away
Stopped burning ‘til
I think that it’s safe

Hate My Hinges
Push the pull door
It just doesn’t work
I want it to
But it just doesn’t work

Try as hard as you might
I’m so very sorry
Have I led you on?
I’m just so very lonely

I want you to get through
I want you to come in
Keep pushing the pull door
‘Til I’m off my hinges

Trash
Want to have the talent
Want to write
Want to sing
Wish I did
Wish I could

I am me
Nothing more

Here I am
There you are

Second flies by
And a minute
With a wish

Wasted.

Hey Coochie
Break me down
break me down into little pieces
till there’s nothing more of me
and nothing left to see
there’s nothing here now
so stop looking at me

Kick me down
kick me down into the dirt
till I don’t get back up again
and I don’t wanna fend
for myself or anyone else
so kick me down again

I’ll lie on the ground
Down in the dirt
I’ll look up your skirt
Cos it’s all I can do
When I’m broken down
I gotta look up to you

untitled [8/19/02]
you make me sick
you make me twitch
you make me wanna
hit you over the head
with a lead
pipe.