For Katie Lyrics

Lyric discussion by freezingfire21 

Cover art for For Katie lyrics by Kimya Dawson

i think this song is about two sisters or maybe just two siblings and there was a lot of pain a lot of family drama where the children had to be the parent. The older child feels like he or she is at fault for not protecting the other one... and because of all of that past pain it still exsists within them that even when they sing they have no self confidence and they always fear the worse. i think in the end when kimya says "it's hard to sleep when the lullabys are songs you don't want to miss" it means that the fantasy is much better than the reality cause the reality sux