I begin with condolences like I usually do
I wrote this the other day
I could’ve practiced for this
Remembered something and it would’ve blown you away
But I got all caught up
I needed to title it sympathy
Even though I know you
You’ll change the title to pity
Think I’m crazy for looking down at this paper
You didn’t remember what you did?
All the times I saw you smilin’
All the people you used to be with?
You see it’s used to
And that turns to used you
They abused me
Broke me down, confused me
I don’t really know the true me
I wasn’t allowed
Trying to please you
My future… forever, in doubt
You slip to denial
How could they defile
The guy you know to be good guy
It’s been goin’ on for a while
Noise cancellin’ head phones
To tune it out every mornin’
If I was a human being like ‘em
Certainly they’d be all mounrnin’
I’m no scientist, but I got this theory
It starts with appearance
Half of ‘em already gone
The rest toss me, shoes at the clearance
Three sizes too small
So when obstacles get tall
You work harder to climb up
And it hurts more on the fall
Knowin’ what it’s like
They taught you years ago
I wasn’t present, in mind
To hear the show
I was never invited
Never asked on the team
Use your eyes to hear it
It is never what it seems
If my names on it
Then I fought for it
Then the price is whiplash
Look at what I got for it
A cold bed
And a lost dream
I cry for love
Cuz love is all I ever need
A love to what I do
A love to who I am
That’s not the love
You may think that makes a man
But it makes me
Not a product of society
When all you get lost in
Are the ideals of social propriety
Next time take a look at me
That’s what no one ever did
The way I talk and walk
The way I live
Now tell me I don’t need sympathy
When I never knew what it was
When I never asked for it
Cuz that whole time I asked for…
Love