I take your word like it was gospel
I'm so eager to please
Yeah I like it when
You talk to me
It feels so good inside your shadow
(it's the place I need to be)
Yeah I know I need to climb you
Like a tree
There is this place inside
Where all the good things die
Sometimes I feel like a whore
(sometimes I feel like a whore)
I hate the way I am around you
(I'm so nervous and weird)
Sometimes I feel like I'm
Breathing underwater
You treat me like I am on fire
Like I'm something to eat
You make me hate what I see
When I see me
Yeah I dream of the day
When I learn how to make you pay
Someday I'll teach you to beg
Someday, someday
Yes I live for the day
When I can hear you say
You make me feel like a whore
Yes I dream of the time
When I can make you mine
(maybe then I'll feel half alive, more
Alive, so alive)
There is this place inside
Where all the good things die
You make me feel like a whore

Here is the money that I owe you
So you can pay the bills
I will give you more
When I get paid again
I hate those people who love to tell you
Money is the root of all that kills
They have never been poor
They have never had the joy
Of a welfare christmas
I know we will never look back
You say you wake up crying
Yes and you don't know why
You get up and you go lay down
Inside my baby's room
I guess I'm doing ok
I moved in with the strangest guy
Can you believe
He actually thinks
That I am really alive
I will buy you a garden
Where your flowers can bloom
I will buy you a new car
Perfect shiny and new
I will buy you that big house
Way up in the west hills
I will buy you a new life
Yes I will
I know all about that other guy
The handsome man with athletic thighs
I know about the times before
With that obsessive little rich boy
They might make you think you're happy
Yeah maybe for a minute or two
They can't make you laugh
No they can't make you feel
The way that I do
Chorus
I know we can never look back
Will you please let me stay the night
No one will ever know
Chorus
I will buy you a new life

Well she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin that there
Was a little more to life
Somewhere else
After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to
Yeah, and if she had to die
Tryin' she had one little promise
She was gonna keep
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl
It was kind of cold that night
She stood alone on her balcony
She could see the cars roll by
Out on 441
Like waves crashin' in the beach
And for one desperate moment there
He crept back in her memory
God it's so painful
Something that's so close
And still so far out of reach
Oh yeah, all right
Take it easy baby
Make it last all night
She was an American girl

I will live
I will live
Maybe for a year or two
Maybe for a year
I will die
I will die
I can rest secure in that
I am goddamn sure that 
This thing ain't no accident
And I just can't believe that aids 
Is just some act of god
I will reach for you
I will reach my hand
No one will reach for me
No one will touch my skin
Yes I will accept
I will accept my pain
I don't deserve to die like this
No one deserves to die like this
Sometimes I get so mad 
I just want to break the world
 
I will not be denied
I will not be ignored
I am not invisible anymore
I will not be denied
I will not be ignored
I am real I won't go away
I am not invisible anymore
Sometimes I get so mad 
I just want to break the world

I close my eyes when I get too sad
I think thoughts that I know are bad
Close my eyes and I count to ten
I hope it's over when I open them
I want the things that I had before
Like a Star Wars poster on 
My bedroom door
I wish I could count to ten
Make everything be wonderful again
I hope my mom and I hope my dad
Will figure out why they get so mad
I hear them scream, 
I hear them fight
Say bad words that 
Make me wanna cry
Close my eyes when I go to bed
And I dream adventures 
That will make me smile
I feel better when I hear them say
Everything will be wonderful someday
Promises mean everything 
When you're little
And the world's so big
I just don't understand how,
You can smile with all those 
Tears in your eyes
Tell me everything is wonderful now
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh 
(repeated)
Please don't tell me 
Everything is wonderful now
Please don't tell me 
Everything is wonderful now
I go to school and I run & play
I tell the kids that it's all ok
I like to laugh so my 
Friends won't know
When the bell rings 
I just don't wanna go home
Go to my room and 
I close my eyes
I make believe that I have a new life
I don't believe you when you say
Everything will be wonderful someday
Promises mean everything 
When you're little
And the world is so big
I just don't understand how,
You can smile with all those 
Tears in your eyes
When you tell me 
Everything is wonderful now
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
I don't wanna hear you tell me 
Everything is wonderful now.
I don't wanna hear you say
That I will understand someday
No, no, no, no
I don't wanna hear you say
No, no, no, no
I don't wanna meet your friends
And I don't wanna start over again
I just wanna my life to be the same, 
Just like it used to be
Some days I hate everything
Some days I hate everything
Ever wanna live with me?
Please don't tell me 
Everything is wonderful now
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
na, na, na, na, na, na, nahhh
Please don't tell me 
Everything is wonderful now
Please don't tell me 
Everything is wonderful now
I don't wanna hear you tell me 
Everything is wonderful now
I don't wanna hear you tell me 
Everything is wonderful now
Please don't tell me 
Everything is wonderful now