the stars will remember you
she said
don't cry
i can't be what you would have me be
so i am this
this
and nothing else
they couldn't show me the face i wore
that last time so they showed me their hands
throwing them up into the air
good riddance
good bye
good times
always more where that came from but not here
not now
nobody likes to look at you when you have your best
frown on
where's the smile we can accept
where's the happiness
leaking out
you're so vain
you're so strange
you're never going to get out of anywhere
alive
not this time
and they like it
the way you can keep from squirming from screaming
from showing them a side they could never ever believe

see,
i was like you too once
and then i woke up
stood up
shook up all those careful realities
what is it you want from me and do disregard if i get
pissed
when you say

"Absolutely Nothing."

02/16/2004

Posted on 02/17/2004
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