I'm not so pretty now
They're filthy next to me
I'm staring at myself
in family therapy

I'm dying day by day
But no one cries for me
They'd rather slit their wrist
Than french kiss the elderly

Don't shoot
Don't shoot
Don't shoot
Don't shoot

On the day we broke you made the
On the day that we die
On the day we broke
You made the whole world

Stop it you're hurting me
Stop it you're hurting me
Stop it you're hurting me
Stop it

I'm sitting quietly
in gothic sympathy
I try to cut myself
But they won't watch me bleed

They do not understand
They are afraid of me
They'd rather shoot themselves
Than french kiss the elderly

Don't shoot
Don't shoot
Don't shoot
Don't shoot

On the day we broke you made the
On the day that we die
On the day we broke
You made the whole world

Stop it you're hurting me
Stop it you're hurting me
Stop it you're hurting me
Stop it

I'm sitting pretty now
with filthy next to me
I have two tumored hands
and a diseased body

Come on let's kill ourselves
Than french kiss the elderly
(Please don't hurt me
Don't don't hurt
Don't shoot)

On the day we broke you made the
On the day that we die
On the day we broke
You made the whole world

Stop it
No
Stop it you're hurting me
Stop it you're hurting me
Stop it
Don't
Don't you
Don't you fucking touch me
Don't touch me


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    sorry... and also when she says: "I have two tumored hands and a diseased body" i thinks shes exageratingher illness to sound worse than she is... shuts up

    CryingFromMyWriston May 22, 2005   Link

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