Let Me Down

[Verse 1]

She's never alone because she's scared of what she might say to herself

Always drinking in the backroom of the bar where everyone turns in

A half-hearted grin

She won't be afraid as long as that prescription keeps on going through

And all the happy pills make her look like a cardboard cut out of someone

I used to learn from

But on the phone, she's telling everyone

That there was a blue sky she left behind

And there's a place that no one knows about away from integrity

She writes a book in her head that nobody will read

[Verse 2]

Whatever you say please don't talk about the time when she was young

Apparently that was a different person and so long ago, it's strange to me

There's no history

But there's a past and she's telling everyone

It must be a garden that wouldn't grow

With roots of shame, too sensitive to blame herself as we watch her drown

I can't save the queen without a kingdom or a crown

[Outro]

Somewhere in this lonely game of sympathy there is a selfish dream

That makes me sick

Standing on the high wire while you're on the ground, to you what is dangerous

Is safe and sound, you let me down