To the vampire who just won’t let go To the violent one who now disowns To the drunk whose fists will wander To the one who just will stand there As you bleed into your despair And your fingers yearn to reach that phone…. But you can’t, so you live it, and live it alone Who can be surprised We weren’t always smiling We weren’t always wise Who would be shocked We’ve fucked up our lives Just like they did To the father slamming against the wall To the mother who won’t ever call To the one who calls you names so much And makes you fear to be touched Until you say enough’s enough Stand on a cliff and wait to fall These are the ones who break us all To the one you’ll love until you break To the one who will just take and take To the one whose love makes you defiled And makes you parent instead of child And you fear what report was just filed And you wish you weren’t your parents’ mistake…. For they deserve better and it’s all for their sake We have just fled Now we will be free We’ll cut that flower Right at the stem You’ll wake up you And I’ll wake up me We won’t ever awaken And find ourselves them To the one who makes you hide in a closet To the one you makes you say, “Don’t lose it!” And, “Oh, my God—I think I lost it!” She who never read you Green Eggs and Ham And made you say, “Son of Sam, I am.” And the father who would never stop it And whose number you crumple when it goes in your pocket And no one’s surprised That we now love But we still despise No one is shocked We’ve fucked up our lives To not be like them We will not be like them