What am I to you,
A pest,
An annoyance?
Something that's just in the way?
Well, here I am,
Can you see me now?
Did you ever care to wonder,
What I really am thinking?
Well let’s find out.
You really think I don't care?
All I have ever been taught was to hide emotion
Be strong,
And obey.
So what if it doesn't look like I remorse.
I hide it,
Why?
Nobody likes a cry baby.
You never really supported me unless it benefited you.
Well I stopped caring.
Oh, don't look at me like that.
You know what I'm talking about.
When I wanted to write
You said no.
When I still wrote,
You threw away my finished book
Before I could final draft it.
When I wanted to draw,
You said that it wasn't the right job for me,
You only kept one piece of my art,
And it wasn't even the important one.
I said I wanted to be a Crime Scene Investigator,
You said I'd be better off in an office.
Grandma said the same thing.
You're a lot like her, you know.
It's sad,
Some of the things you say,
Like I'm not even your daughter,
Just some unpaid employee,
Everything I do...
It'll never be good enough for you, will it?
Everything you take,
I feel hurt, too,
When I take things,
It's because you do the same.
Because I'm still like you,
Just hidden away by the pain I feel.
If you really wanted a man in the house,
Why'd you kick him out?
You're always out with some guy;
How am I suppose to trust you?
When you're always lying to me, too,
Making promises then forgetting them.
I'll never be good enough;
I'll never get to be your friend;
I'll never get to know who you are,
And you'll never know me.
I guess it's just how life works,
Isn't it.
I remember one thing,
You remember another;
I hide things,
Things you'll never know,
Because you'll never care to know.
Oh, don't worry, I'm not the all-time sinner,
That would be the spoiled child at the end of the hall.
She steals from you, too,
She destroys your stuff too,
So start looking in the other direction.
I tell more in a written format then in words,
Because I'm afraid of you.
A pest,
An annoyance?
Something that's just in the way?
Well, here I am,
Can you see me now?
Did you ever care to wonder,
What I really am thinking?
Well let’s find out.
You really think I don't care?
All I have ever been taught was to hide emotion
Be strong,
And obey.
So what if it doesn't look like I remorse.
I hide it,
Why?
Nobody likes a cry baby.
You never really supported me unless it benefited you.
Well I stopped caring.
Oh, don't look at me like that.
You know what I'm talking about.
When I wanted to write
You said no.
When I still wrote,
You threw away my finished book
Before I could final draft it.
When I wanted to draw,
You said that it wasn't the right job for me,
You only kept one piece of my art,
And it wasn't even the important one.
I said I wanted to be a Crime Scene Investigator,
You said I'd be better off in an office.
Grandma said the same thing.
You're a lot like her, you know.
It's sad,
Some of the things you say,
Like I'm not even your daughter,
Just some unpaid employee,
Everything I do...
It'll never be good enough for you, will it?
Everything you take,
I feel hurt, too,
When I take things,
It's because you do the same.
Because I'm still like you,
Just hidden away by the pain I feel.
If you really wanted a man in the house,
Why'd you kick him out?
You're always out with some guy;
How am I suppose to trust you?
When you're always lying to me, too,
Making promises then forgetting them.
I'll never be good enough;
I'll never get to be your friend;
I'll never get to know who you are,
And you'll never know me.
I guess it's just how life works,
Isn't it.
I remember one thing,
You remember another;
I hide things,
Things you'll never know,
Because you'll never care to know.
Oh, don't worry, I'm not the all-time sinner,
That would be the spoiled child at the end of the hall.
She steals from you, too,
She destroys your stuff too,
So start looking in the other direction.
I tell more in a written format then in words,
Because I'm afraid of you.
