fill yourself up with drugs and alcohol
self mutilation starvation and apathy
you get a sense of indecency
i mask my sadness with exaustion
just hoping no one will tell me i'm wrong to do what i do
youre right that people like to have a sense of comfort
but why is that so bad
it makes it a little easier to get by
fake it until you make it
how do you say all these things
when you were so close to getting me thrown into rehab
you havent grasped how scared i am
you dont know how my body screams for just a little bit
a little bit will make you feel good
just a little and all your pain will go away
no more hallucinations
or being physically and emotionally empty
spiders haunt me in my bed
i wake up from not sleeping just to be out of breath
i scratch till it bleeds
im a fucking mess
footsteps and voices echo in my head
enough to make me jump
they tell me secret messages
that i never can understand
but i lie awake to hear their voices
i dont remeber the last time i slept
when i look in the mirror
i see nothing
sadness and anger
empty eyes
bloody nose
infected throat
bruised knuckles
cut up leg
scratched up back
yellowed eyes
pinpoint pupils
i am nothing
i saw lights that werent there
i stared into the woods waiting for them to shine again
they did again and again
but after a while they dimmed and i cried
i found myself reaching out for that bottle
but now its empty and i wonder why i even cared
maybe i need soemthing stronger
something a little stranger
its just that feeling of nothing
that made me feel at home
where do i belong other than with myself
and my new friends
they talk to me when i'm too frightened to move
i'm sweaty and angry and somehow i'm cold
i can feel my body eating away at my flesh
who knew you could get bruises from scratching too much
who knew you could pass out in the shower and your mom is too drunk to notice
or maybe its those pills she has all lined up in bottles in those secret places she thought id never find
well i did mom and i took a handful of each
but i didnt die
and you didnt notice
you never notice when i'm too fucked up to feel my fake happiness
maybe i was cutting myself the day you found the bloody towel in the bathroom
i was too fucked up to throw out the evidence
sorry about the vomit i was too lazy to clean up
i wonder if my friends noticed that i was too fucked up to move
when i sat in their car and threw up in their friends toilet while they were about to start packing a bowl
pot is pretty cool
but it doesnt let me escape myself like morphine
i love that feeling of blowing just another line
you know youre already pushing it but you want to get just a little higher
just a little more away from yourself than you already were
crush up another just in case youre too fucked up to do it when you need it
i remember when i beat myself up
i tried to hurt myself on the outside to kill the thing on the inside
but shes not going away
i hear her voice persistently
she wants me to come back to her
but another voice screams in pain and i feel something cutting off the circulation in my arms
oh wait thats me holding myself tighter and tighter
trying not to shake so much my house falls down
dont talk to me
why do you bother with me
theres nothing like that feeling
i want it back but i cant have it
maybe a joint will help my bones from shaking under my skin
it doesnt so i walk to the cries in my mind
and raindrops that know the way out
packing bowl after bowl
hoping i can escape myself for one minute
i want what i want, and i want it to get here faster
i want to learn how to take pictures
but not with a camera
with my mind of my dreams
i want to see them on canvas
i want to write my own story
i want to write my own ending
but whats this story about
if not an indulgent young disaster
i'm starting to love yager
i took the bottle out
then crunched the bag into a ball and threw it at the door
i know shes gona come in yelling at me soon
so i might as well get a little buzz before that happens
whoops the bottles gone and what happened to those xanex i had on my window sill
i have a pretty good idea but i'll pretend like i dont
i want to be as far away from myself as i can get
i remember when my mother looked at me as if she loved me
now she cant even look at me at all
she wont come near me or let me see into her eyes
she knows i'll smell the alcohol
she knows i'll see how dialted her pupils are
i remember having this nightmare all the time when i was a kid
i'd be dreaming that my parents were screaming real loud and stuff was getting thrown around
then some super loud crash in the dream would wake me up
i'd sit up in bed, look at my alarm clock, and tell myself it was just a dream
then i'd hear a crash downstairs and someone would yell
my parents could find a way into my head even if i was asleep
it was always hard to close my eyes again after that
i remember when my father threw this stupid thing i made at the wall and it shattered into a million pieces
it was one of those bottles you filled up with layers of different colored sand
guess who had to vacume it all up
your fragile young eight year old who thinks her parents are normal
do you remeber when i found those little vodka bottles in your car dad?
now i see those at my friends houses or in my nightmares
i'm headed straight for nothing
i'm headed straight towards everything i hate
all the things i never thought mattered
the things i never wanted to talk about
the things i never wanted to say
theyre all surfacing and i cant hide from them anymore
it hurts for me to play back everything in my head
like when i came home to see your car packed up to the top
with anything of yours you could find at the moment
i walked in and said daddy what are you doing
dont leave us
dont leave me
you looked at me and said i have to
with mom screaming at you in the background
but then she walked real fast after me to tell me to beg you
she wanted me to beg you to stay
but how i was i supposed to know what was going on
i never knew what you were fighting over
the only things i knew were what i heard, what i found, what i saw
when mom came in crying asking if she could sleep on my bottom bunk all those times for all those years
i bet she didnt think youd come in and yell at both of us
but she kept doing it
time after time after time
where is my sister i would think
doesnt she hear any of this
why cant she come get me and cover my eyes help me pretend it'll be ok
people act like theyre happy when theyre not because sometimes its too hard to remember the truth all the time
to have a constant reminder of what your life really is smeared across your face
in every expression, every word, every movement for everyone to see
thats how i learned so early to lie to everyone
to keep everything i knew hidden away deep inside of me
and put on a happy face and act like i didnt start hating myself when i was nine
remember when you used to scream at me till my nose bled onto my shirt
and i would just shake in a corner and hope youd stop yelling soon
and if you didnt stop id go downstairs and hide from you till you tipped your glass back a little farther and stopped caring about me
remember when dad was driving drunk and he fell asleep at the wheel
you said he was just tired as he stumbled around to the other side of the car
so you could drive the rest of the way home
or remember when he backed the car into me on easter
remember when you ripped up the christmas present i gave you
or when you didnt get me anything for my birthday because you wouldnt get over being mad for one day to make me feel special
remember how many fights you put me in the middle of
remember how many times you used me to take out your anger on
i tried to forget
i'm still trying to forget
i want to hold my breath for as long as it takes to forget
i want to stop breathing just long enough to know what it would be like to be totally still
being a second away from death
not really there--not really here